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Robby used to think, sometimes, that Jack was a punishment.
Not a punishment in a cosmic sense of things; Robby doesn't believe in that kind of debt because he's not a Buddhist and certainly not a believer in divine retribution. But there's a weird logic to it that he can't shake off: every relationship Robby has ever had ended the same way. You're too distant, you're too closed off, you never let me in. He sees that now, in the harsh light of retrospect, and nods: Yeah. I’m difficult. But I am what I am, right?
And then comes Jack.
In this AU, Jack Abbott has never been in the army. He killed a man in his early 20s and spent 6 years in jail. Afterward, he became a nurse. Med school in mid-thirties, graduated at forty-two, residency at forty-six, attending at fifty. He still carries the baggage, though. Robby tries to suport him, but in all the honesty, it's blind leading the blind.
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