"I've broken a few hearts in my times, but we've all done that, so I'm nothing special in that regard. I'm a boring heartbreaker, at that, because I've never abandoned one woman for another. I never dated or married more than one woman at a time. I didn't break hearts into pieces overnight. I broke them slowly and carefully. I didn't set any land speed records running out the door. Piece by piece, I disappeared. And I've been disappearing ever since." ~Sherman Alexie ("What You Pawn I Will Redeem")

A/N: Written for The Sky is the Limit. I actually had trouble getting inspired by a prompt this long, so I focused this story mostly on the second half, about disappearing.