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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    “I just can’t- I fucking can’t believe this! How long have you been a cop?” 

    Jean’s insides bristle. He was asked to transfer to the 41st - not even asked, actually, asked implies there was a choice. This wasn’t a choice. Not that he would have refused at the time - the 41st is the place where anyone who wants to be anybody goes, at least while they are young and stupid enough to crave a hero’s death. 

    No, Jean was told to pack his things. That *someone* at the 41st pulled some strings and wanted him. Jean doesn’t know who, Jean doesn’t ask those kinds of questions. He’s starting to consider that it was a lie. Maybe his precinct traded him in in exchange for someone from here. And he’s the sloppy seconds no one wants. That would track.

    And it sure feels that way too, watching Sergeant Du Bois rub at his forehead shaking his head, his cigarette wasting away between his fingers. One thing is clear - if anybody at the 41st didn’t pick Jean, it’s Harrier Du Bois, who looks two seconds away from kicking a trashcan and throwing a fit about it. 

    “Two years, sir.” 

    Harrier closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and leaves the room without telling Jean to come with. 
     

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    08 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    It’s spring, it’s Jean’s first time leading the task force, and Harry swings an arm around him. The paperwork is nearly done and elation is still fresh on everybody’s face. He ruffles Jean’s crow black hair and announces to the bullpen day’s over boys, we’re doing dinner, drinks and strippers, gotta make this one one to remember. 

    Jean doesn’t usually enjoy joining such nights - he prefers drinking in the dark quiet of a worn out dive with regular bathroom pitstops for lines - but today is a special day. He leans his shoulder into Harry’s chest and knocks his head against his, laughing . Sure, he hears himself say, do your fucking worse, Du Bois. Harry winks. Thought you’d never ask. 

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    06 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    "God. Everyone over thirty has a Dora, Harry, some person or event that fucks us over completely. The difference is the rest of us move on with our lives, and you didn’t."
    "You don’t talk like you’ve moved on.”
    “Fuck you.”
    “I just mean you talk like you’re going to be depressed forever.”
    “Seven years,” says Jean, fighting the urge to ash his cigarette in Harry’s fucking eyes, “is a pretty goddamn long time.”

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    05 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    Milicia Gorki-Berdyayeva is a true believer in the RCM, no matter what strange things are happening with Harry Du Bois and the intolerably slapdash Major Crimes Unit. But when her own captain starts keeping secrets she'll have to decide where her loyalties lie.

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    03 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    After all the abuse, all the hurt, this is what hits Jean the most. The past tense. The kindness in retrospect. The honesty that is no use to him now. It elicits a deeper ache in him than the harshness used to.

    "Good for you," Jean spits. "You got the best of everything and it never was enough."

    "You were," Harry says, wringing his hands in his lap. "I'm sorry if I didn't love you right. But you were."

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    in which Jean grapples with Harry's newfound sobriety, and the leftovers of their love

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    30 Nov 2025