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It hits him, then, like anaphylaxis is contagious: his chest feels tight, his breath frozen. He’s mad at Jack for getting so exposed. He’s mad at the patient for bringing in the allergen in the first place. He’s terrified, seeing Jack sweat, hearing Javadi read “90 over 70,” and even as Jack’s breathing begins to slow, and even as his systolic starts climbing, Robby is scared stiff.
Jack mumbles something around the mouthpiece of the nebulizer.
“No,” Robby snaps. “Shut up and breathe.”
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Jack stares at him. “I feel like you’ve skipped a few lines of script, brother. Why are you booking a hotel?”
“You said your friend is coming over,” Robby reminds him. “Look – I got it. Message received. I don’t mind crashing somewhere else for a few nights if it spares you telling all your army buddies that you’re dating a dude.”
Or: When Jack invites an old veteran friend to stay with them, it turns out Robby's vague worries about homophobia are only the tip of the iceberg.
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Robby bows his head. He says, "If you are going to be there with me, in the waiting room, or, hell, sitting on the couch beside me, I feel like I need to justify who you are to me."
"It's the therapist's job to mind their business until you make your business theirs," Jack says.
"I thought it was the therapist's job to get all up in my business?"
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Mike Robinavitch braves his first therapy session. Jack Abbot is his emotional support animal.
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"You don’t have to come," Jack repeated, before grabbing Robby's bag out of his hand and slinging it into the trunk next to his own. "This is new, and they’re a lot, and it’s not even your holiday.”
Or, Jack invites Robby to his mom's for Christmas.
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“I had a shift.” Robby says, having unclipped the badge with Abbot on it, and passing it to his friend.
It feels strangely transactional, and like it has the potential of a promise – you take that ID, and I take mine, and we place them back where they were last shift, and nothing changes, nothing happened.