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“Hey. Hey, I don’t have long. I have to go back to Florida. Something’s wrong. I don’t know what, but something about a key… or… I don’t know. But, I won’t have time to see you before I go. I love you. I’ll call you when I get there, okay?”

“Yeah. Yeah, they do that now.” Carol shook her head before rolling her eyes and wrapping an arm around his torso and unceremoniously pulling him up and onto his feet. “Whatever. We’ll decide what we do after we leave. Which we’re doing now.”

”—-Ow.“ He sucks in a sharp breath between his teeth and drapes his arm over her shoulders. "Fine, fuck, that is unpleasant. They’re not putting me under. I’ll – I can stay awake. You are going to talk to me.” His entire body feels like it’s moving through water. It’s heavy and slow, and even talking takes too much effort. “I fucking missed you, you know that?”