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The fluorescent lights flickered, unnatural and ominous, and Hopper wondered if maybe he’d stopped breathing too. Maybe I’m dead, he mused. Maybe I’ve finally lost my mind. Time itself seemed to stand still. Then slowly, oh so slowly, the person before him turned, and there was no way he could pretend his daughter was safe in Hawkins now.
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In which Hopper is finally reunited with his daughter.
Title taken from 'The Gate' by Caroline Polachek
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With PTMC short-staffed, Jack has worked himself to the bone. Samira tests a theory that she can get Jack to take care of himself if he thinks he's taking care of her.
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They eat with the faint murmur of the ED as a soundtrack. She pulls apart small pieces of her egg and cheese english muffin. Abbot wolfs down the burrito and studies the remains of the wrapper, as though his own hunger has surprised him.
Her lips twitch with sympathetic amusement. How oblivious he’s been to his own needs. There’s a strange delight too, in finding Ellis was right. He’ll listen to her. He’ll give in, if it’s her. The thrill down her spine is electric. She wants to know how far she can push this. Exactly how close she can get before he says no or sees through her. How good would he be to himself if she asked it of him? Will he let her love him in this transitive way? Care for yourself because you care about me and I care about you.
Well. Samira Mohan is nothing if not data-driven.
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13 Jul 2026
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Jack Abbot is eighteen years old when he gives up on having a soulmate.
Samira Mohan never imagines that she’ll have a soulmate.
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12 Jul 2026
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Samira Mohan was not standing in the Hub by 7:15. Instead, by 7:45 Jack had left her three missed calls and two voicemails. Normally that sort of behavior would label him as an overbearing boss, but it was January and the city was vicious and cold and the roads were slick and Samira was late for work and Jack–
Well, Jack Abbot was many things but he was most definitely not a hopeless romantic. Any sentimentality on the idea surrounding love and soulmates had been lost on him when his wife died ten years ago. When Jane died, so did the part of him that believed in love after loss. After all, he had seen people remarry. Had known that the idea of such a thing was possible and genuine and–
And Jack Abbot was convinced he would never love again.
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Samira Mohan is late for work. She's never late. Jack Abbot is aware of this and spends his shift responding to a massive pileup MCI while trying to not spiral about Samira's sudden radio silence. But then the paramedics bring in a patient and Jack's world stops spinning.
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20 Jun 2026
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Jack isn’t sure when he first learned about box breathing, but he’s used the concept plenty of times since.
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13 Jun 2026
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They meet at shift change, a slow bleed of information where their worlds overlap. Over the years of Samira’s residency, they share many moments, big and small, until mutual understanding grows into dangerous intimacy that threatens Jack and Samira's personal and professional lives.
A slow burn fic that goes month to month tracking the highs and lows of Jack and Samira's relationship.
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17 May 2026