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“Please,” Matt says, and the tension is back in his shoulders. He flexes his fingers, closes his eyes and takes a deep breath, and none of it helps. “It’s just been a bad day, and I — I don’t know, Claire — I just.” He tries to find words, and fails, and says instead, far more brusquely than he would like: “I need something to do. Just something simple, anything, but you have to tell me.”
“Like what?” Claire says. “Do my backlog of dishes? Get all the laundry off that one chair in my room? Hang up my scrubs?” She sounds more confused than incredulous now. “I know your thing is being cryptic, but this is taking that to a whole new level.” Her heartbeat is picking up a little, though, so she has to be picking up on what he’s asking for, at least a little, and Matt shrugs.
“I was hoping for something a little more authoritative,” he admits, voice dropping.