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Denial. Robby could recite the stages of grief like a prayer. But this? No, it simply wasn’t true. He’d seen Jack, what, an hour and a half before 8:24? Jack, who’d joked about…something. What was it? Hawkeye, that was it. Jack had called Robby ‘Hawkeye.’ And then he’d left, saying he’d see him tonight. Jack had said specifically that, he’d said he’d see Robby tonight. That wasn’t…that just wouldn’t make sense.
“No, he, uh…he’s back on duty in a couple hours, he’ll be coming in for his shift.”
It was such an inane thing to say. Exactly the sort of thing he’d find heartrendingly innocent in the family of a patient, when delivering the bad news. Not rational. Not real. But this had to be real, Jack had to be coming in for his shift. Handover was in two hours.
Officer Anders stepped in. “We’d like you to come down to the station with us to identify the body.”
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Robby finds out that he's Jack's emergency contact in the worst possible way: when he's called in to identify the body.
Can be a sequel to 'Day or Night,' but also works as a standalone. Title from 'I Was an Island' by John-Allison Weiss.
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06 May 2026
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After the trauma bay confrontation that stops Robby from disappearing into a passively suicidal spiral, he starts therapy and tries, reluctantly, to stay alive on purpose. Then Baby Jane Doe enters his orbit and detonates something old and wounded in him. When he decides to pursue kinship fostering, Jack is horrified, convinced Robby has interpreted “get help” in the most dangerously Robby way possible. But once the process starts, Jack cannot watch him do it alone. What begins as triage becomes cohabitation, then partnership, then family.
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- Part 1 of Dancing Through The Darkness
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23 Apr 2026