aForegoneConclusion
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Dick and Nix get in and out of their own way.
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01 Jan 2025
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Lewis looks up from the contract, raising a brow, then stumbles up from the sofa when he sees Dick standing in the doorway. It’s not so odd, in itself, but Dick is in his skivvies and blinking into space, like he’s not quite sure why he’s even standing up.
“Hey, there,” Lewis says, reaching out and touching at a clammy shoulder with a wince. “You look peaky – you feel okay?”
“Nix is gone.”
“You found him, who else – ?” Lewis pauses, lifting slightly on his toes to better peer up at Dick’s face, into his half-open, glassy eyes, and falling back flat on his feet when he realizes Dick must still be asleep. He’s never seen him sleepwalk, or talk, but… it’s not necessarily impossible. “Hey, you need to go back to bed… I think.”
“Taylor sent Nix to Varsity.”
“What a bastard,” Lewis says, wry, as he gently pushes Dick up the stairs.
“The plane exploded,” Dick says, his voice tightening, lifting some from the bland drone.
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Nix is a cosmology researcher at the University of Chicago, plumbing the secrets of the universe, but his time is running out. As the end of his grant approaches, he knows it's time to head back to New Jersey, to the family job awaiting him there, to his wife and his increasingly unhappy marriage. But everything and everyone he loves — the research that gives him purpose, the students he's grown unexpectedly fond of, his colleagues, in the form of Ron and especially his best friend Dick — are in Chicago. Are his career and the life he's carved for himself in Chicago worth destroying his family's expectations?
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Nixon and Winters in bed after the war.
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They don’t kiss much, or barely ever. Nix will initiate a kiss when his blood’s running hot and he’s close to coming in Dick’s fist and that, for whatever reason, makes him feel soft and needy like a swooning girl. They kissed once after Nix was struck down by a bullet, and once to celebrate VE-Day. They kissed in a foxhole, desperately, amidst exploding trees.
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