8 Works by ghostofithaca
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There are 126 days during which Robby leaves Pittsburgh on his sabbatical.
There are 2,555 days of Jack and Robby that came before it.
And somehow, in the leaving, they learn how to stay.
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A collection of soft days, sweet nothings and smaller things—Jack and Robby, as they happen.
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And so the words come—not as a question, not even as a considered response, but as the only possible interruption to the trajectory he can feel, with terrible certainty, unfolding before him.
“Please don’t go.”
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Robby has spent years filing his feelings for Jack away under safer guises— friendship, companionship, collegial affection— because those nomenclatures demanded nothing of him, required no explanation, threatened no irreversible shift in the careful architecture of their relationship, both inside and out of the hospital.
The term he kept coming back to, though, was brother.
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And that was the whole, Robby-sized problem of it: that Jack would let him have anything, really, if he asked nicely enough.
(Or: How Jack gets that bruise on his shoulder)
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Robby and Jack, seven years of friendship, two years of whatever the hell this is, five acts of service and one act of asking.
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Robby sighed, and shook his head, hands scrubbing at his beard. “A wiser man would say that we’re using casual intimacy to hide from the emotional turmoil we should be working out in therapy,” Robby called out as Jack walked out the door.
The other man barked out a laugh. "Yeah, and when you find him, tell him I said hi."
(Or: Robby can't sleep, Jack decides to help. It goes exactly as well as you'd expect.)
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The morning of the first day of Robby's sabbatical.