AceWithSomeMace



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    When his phone rang loud in the stillness, waking Jack from the sleep of the dead he'd perfected in war zones half a world away, he sat straight up in bed and knew: something was wrong.

    His phone announced it was Dana—and it was 0721—which shot a little thrum of worry through him as he answered. "What happened?" he asked, no preamble. She wouldn't wake him if shit hadn't gone sideways.

    "Robby hasn't come in yet and he's not answering his phone," she said, voice grim. "He's never missed a shift without calling." She spoke quietly, probably standing in the middle of the ED, trying to keep up a brave face for everyone else. As much as she could, anyway. People tended to notice when the fucking chief attending didn't show up to work.

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    Jack looked from the intern picture to Robby again, rubbing a tired hand over his eyes. "Jesus, this is like a recipe." He gestured between the picture and Robby, young and old. "It's like twink plus seasoning equals daddy. Fuck," he said, a kind of helpless note to it. Then he walked out, like he hadn't just dropped a bomb on Robby's head.

    What did that mean?

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    When Brendon Park is bullied into getting a roommate by his therapist, he's not expecting much.

    He thinks he'll hate it. He thinks he'll be returning to his therapist next month with an empty apartment and a vindictive I told you so on the tip of his lips.

    Then he meets Emma Nolan, a newly registered nurse set to start at PTMC in a few weeks, and his entire world flips on its axis.

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    There was no reason for him to intervene. They didn’t know each other. Not in any meaningful way. A brief exchange in a stairwell did not justify involvement. She might not even remember him. From her perspective, he would be a stranger—a large, older man in a car pulling up unprompted in the dark, in the rain. There were variables there he couldn’t control. Unknowns in how she would react, how she would interpret it.

    He didn’t like unknowns.

    He also didn’t like the image of her standing there, soaked through, waiting in the rain.

    The irritation came quickly—not at her, but at the situation. At himself.

    “Fuck,” he said under his breath.

    He signaled left.

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    Or, the one where an orthopedic surgeon who hates unpredictability becomes obsessed with the one variable he can’t control.

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    She's wiping at her face with her hands. It's futile. He pulls up outside her building, and she's already reaching for the door handle with her dripping hand. She leaves behind a shiny wet spot. He turns off the car and reaches for his door as well.

    Emma stares at him as he rounds the hood of his car toward her. “I'm—”

    He doesn't know what she planned to say. Just pulls her close. Use my fucking shirt, he thinks, cupping the back of her head. Christ, he's lost it. But he's already here. So he presses her face to his chest so her tears soak into cotton. He'll wash it when he gets home. They were his tears anyway. He caused them, and he always cleans up his own messes.

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    Brendon Park adds a new routine to his day.

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