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You have three new messages. First message, from 4:12 AM.
Hey Samira, I’m gonna just keep calling until I’ve spoken to you or you show up in the Pitt, but uh… you gotta come get your boy. He’s f-fine, just a little concussion, it may or may not be my fault—I didn’t start the fight, but I sure didn’t de-escalate it, you know? Anyway, Abbot saved my ass from getting murked in Chairs and uh. It’s not great. Love you, bye!
Second message, from 4:18 AM.
Hey Samira, he’s specifically asked me to stop calling you, but I’m more afraid of you than I’m afraid of him, because you’ll be disappointed in me and that’s worse—
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Jack Abbot takes a punch. It's not what hurts the most.
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Jack lived it before he ever wrote it down.
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- Part 2 of we sleep in separate rooms
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In the quiet hours of morning, Jack and Robby find each other again.
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- Part 4 of The ache for home lives in all of us
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They were supposed to be just coworkers.
Then it was rivalry, a constant ache, sharp as a thorn in one's side.
Then it was comfort.
Then it was something else entirely.
They never meant to let it matter.
It started as friction, turned into comfort, and ended up somewhere between need and regret.
Some things stay lodged deeper than they should.Series
- Part 1 of The ache for home lives in all of us
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They aren’t his family, not in the traditional sense. But the idea that they might be, that they could be, unsettles him more than he wants to admit. It’s the same quiet dread that hit him when Collins said he had helped raise Amy. He doesn’t know why exactly. Maybe because imagining them as a family implies imagining him and Jack as something. And that’s just absurd, right?
Or: Robby has been a quiet constant in the lives of Abbot and his daughter, filling a space that was never clearly named. As they drift into their fifties, he begins to recognize that his feelings for Jack may have deepened into something real and perhaps impossible. Now he’s left wondering if this almost-family could ever truly be his.