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    “What the hell happened?”

    “What happened, Michael,” Jack answers, hard, as if Robby can’t see the broken-open expression on his face, “is you got yourself hit by about five thousand pounds of steel and dropped out on me—”

    “Shit,” Robby curses. “Jack— I’m sorry. You okay?”

    Jack laughs without much humor in it. “Are you— Are you kidding me? Seriously? Your heart stopped on my table, you’re asking if I’m fucking okay?”

    “Yeah, I am,” Robby says, because if it’d been Jack without a pulse on his table, he knows he would not be anywhere near okay.

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    26 Feb 2026

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    “Sir, calm down,” the cop outside the hospital instructs, more firmly this time. “We haven’t identified them yet. When we do, we’ll notify their family. You can’t do anything for them now.”

    He hadn’t even thought he’d be seen as a doctor trying to help. All he feels like is a desperate, hollow thing that needs to know— needs to know— whether the dead, horrible thing that lays so close to him— and yet so far from him— is— was— Robby—

    —Mike—

    “No,” he shoves out of his mouth, shaking his head, forcibly rejecting this with every cell in his body. “N— No. No, nope, no, not him. It’s not— It’s not—”

    or: someone takes their own life jumping off the hospital roof. jack and robby each have their own misunderstandings.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    “Jack dragged a hand down his face as he looked at the board. He was exhausted. He’d spiked a fever hours ago, and it hadn’t gotten any better. He had a headache so bad he was half-convinced someone was trying to kill him. His throat hurt like a bitch, and in general, he felt about two minutes away from collapsing. And he had five more hours left on his shift.”

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    Abbot gets sick and calls Robby in

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    24 Feb 2026

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    “He was crying, he realized. Silent tears streaming down his face. He felt them on his cheeks, and for a moment, they were cutting through mud and dirt and blood, leaving clear streaks. But then he was back, and they were just tears. Nothing more.

    He caught snippets of conversation from Dana. She was on the phone with someone.”

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    Jack has the worst flashback he’s had in years. And Robby is called in.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    "The 4th of July, historically, was not the best night for Jack Abbot. It was a night he preferred to spend at home, blinds drawn and noise-cancelling headphones on. He'd tried to take a night shift on it before, and it had ended with him curled up and sobbing in a corner while Bridget called Robby to take him home. Not his proudest moment.

    But it had been 4 years since that experience, and much longer since he'd lost his leg. He could handle it this time. He didn't have much of a choice, anyway. Shen had broken his wrist, and Jack was not about to ask him to work like that. Robby had had a rough week, and the last thing he needed was another shift. Jack could handle this."

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    Jack takes the night shift on the 4th of July. It doesn't end well.

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    24 Feb 2026