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    "Robby’s just a little… skittish, you know?” McKay said, nodding slightly, affirming the unimpeachable truth she spoke.

    Jack blinked. “What do you mean?”

    She glanced into the patient's room, then back at Jack, a quick burst of skepticism crossing her face. “Look at him,” she urged gently. “He looks like he wants to run through the wall Looney-Tunes style just to escape a hand on his arm.”

    A revealing chat with McKay brings up some unexpected questions for Jack regarding Robby's apparent aversion to touch. Being of a scientific mind, he can't abide by his previous oversight. Naturally the only course of action is to embark on a rigorous, methodical investigation into the matter. For the sake of curiosity, obviously. No other reason.

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    Yes, Mrs. Titus Danforth is beautiful. Lesser women pay thousands to have their faces sliced open or scalps burned with bleach to look a fraction as lovely as she does. He reminds her of this when they're alone and he can take his time admiring her. Watches from the edge of the bed as she brushes her silken blonde hair or goes through her skin care routine at the vanity. Even without the Devil's favor, being Mr. Le Bail's best girl, she doesn't have to go under the knife and shed blood for beauty. But she pays in other ways.

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    Dennis Whitaker has hated storms for as long as he can remember. From under a pile of rubble with a long shard of 2x4 piercing through his side, he thinks about the massive “I told you so” he’s going to say to his therapist if he somehow lives through the night.

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    Dennis is injured in the field while facing one of his worst fears, and Robby has to deal with the reality that he has feelings for Dennis, that Dennis might not recover, and that it's his fault that Dennis was in the field in the first place.

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    After Robby invites Dennis to stay at his house while he's on sabbatical, Dennis wonders what he meant when he said 'if I don't come back'. He brings it up to Dr. Abbot, who is immediately concerned.

    Cue Whitaker going home with Robby, tasked with the mission to keep him there until Abbot is able to come to the rescue.

    Things… escalate.

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    The defining truth of his life is, people leave.

    He was a naive boy who wanted to believe in something larger than him, so every fucked up thing that happened to him meant something. So that every person who left, walked away, had some higher purpose elsewhere.

    He knows now, the reality. That he's just easy to walk away from. That people don't stay for him.

    Until Whitaker.

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