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In Case You Needed To Know by Idontcare552
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV), Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
28 Aug 2026
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Summary
Ted Lasso didn’t leave Richmond with a bang; he left with a quiet slip of the door and a flight back to Kansas. But in his wake, the silence in the Greyhounds' locker room feels less like peace and more like a heavy, suffocating fog. For Roy Kent, that silence is a physical weight. He’s the manager now, wearing the whistle Ted left behind, yet he’s haunted by the ghost of the conversations they never quite finished.
Then, a box arrives for Roy.
Thirteen recordings. Thirteen quiet confessions.
These aren't apologies and they aren't goodbyes. They are the words Ted didn't have the heart to say to Roy's face—and the answers to every question Roy was too proud to ask. Now, Roy has to listen to the man who left, or spend the rest of his life wondering if silence was ever really enough.