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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.
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Darnell nodded, glancing over Robby like he was trying to place him in the hierarchy of important to ignorable and it could go either way. "What's this?"
"MSF FNG," Jack shot back. Whatever that meant, he sounded amused.
Darnell scoffed and looked to Robby, expression going decidedly unimpressed. "Oh, yeah? You here to find yourself? Have an adventure? Do something hard?" he asked, each question more mocking than the last.
And there was that question again, like it was haunting Robby. He stifled his instinct to bite back and kept it simple: "I'm here to help."
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Five Times Jack Almost Proposed (and One Time He Finally Did)
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- Part 5 of The ache for home lives in all of us