au where gatsby Doesn’t Die™ and instead realizes that he’s too good for daisy and that the true love he’d seen in his dreams he already had with nick carraway, who moves into his big empty house and it becomes a lot less empty somehow when they’re together and no one ever bothers them because gatsby doesn’t throw big ass parties all the time anymore. also daisy leaves her trash husband tom and elopes to a beach house with her lesbian lover, jordan baker, who teaches her how to be a lot less of an empty person. after a year or so nick and gatsby and daisy and jordan go on cute couples vacations together and tom is left to die alone.