Okay, an example.

Chasing Fraser, by damned_colonial (for the genderfuck challenge)

This is another way to put it into the present, to show both that fighting-by-your-side mutual heroism, but also the wistfulness that comes of knowing that to act on your love requires the giving up of everything you believe about yourself, and everything your society believes about you, and hoping against hope that the one you love is willing to make that same sacrifice.