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    “I care about this conversation very much.” Samira tells him awkwardly, speaking low so no one else overhears them. Jack nods, like he expected as much. “But I’m catastrophizing this in my head already, so maybe you should leave and end it here and we’ll pick it back up when we’re not at work.”

    Samira can see the laugh Jack suppresses at her admission. The amusement he’s sourcing from her right now isn’t cruel or belittling, he’s just— he likes her, he likes her quirks and neuroses, he likes when she tells him to get lost while they’re at work, he likes when she’s honest with him about what she’s thinking and what she needs from him.

    She makes him happy, if she can believe it, by just being herself.

    “I look forward to when we’re not at work, Dr. Mohan.” Jack tells her with a barely there smirk, taking a step back from her and composing himself to leave her side.

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    18 May 2026

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    Samira loves Jack Abbot, but she doesn't tell him.

    Not because she doesn't feel it, but because she knows, or at least is convinced, that he doesn't love her the same way.
    They've been together for months, but there's an absence that weighs more heavily on Samira than she admits: in all that time, Jack Abbot has never told her he loves her.

    And she learns to live with it. Or pretends to learn. She prefers having a part of him to having nothing at all.

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    11 May 2026

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    “It’s weird, not having Robby here,” Mel is saying, dragging Samira back into the conversation between the residents. “And Dr Al-Hashimi hasn't shown up either.” That is strange, Samira thinks absently. Dr Bryan is back from semi-retirement to cover as attending, but the absence is noticeable. “I'm sure we can figure out how to be good teachers, but it’s a little harder when you don't have your mentor to help."

    “I don’t know,” Samira mutters before she can stop herself, still staring at Dr Abbot’s letter on her screen. “Just do the opposite of whatever Robby would do.”

    It’s only in the expanding silence afterward that Samira realizes she has said that it out loud.

     

    In the wreckage left after the 4th of July shift, Samira starts gathering the shattered pieces of her life. The question now is in what order does she want to put them together.

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    11 May 2026

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    Samira didn’t go out.

    She worked around 60 hours a week, came home and slept, or sat on her futon reading journals until the words swam and her eyes burned. JAMA. NEJM. Anything that kept her mind occupied long enough to feel useful.
    She told herself that it was enough.

    Lately, it hadn’t been.

    Her mind had developed an annoying habit of drifting, usually when she was trying to focus on something important.

    A line from a paper would blur, and she’d catch herself thinking about Jack. His gravelly voice, talking her through a procedure. The way he told her she’d done well, like it wasn’t just routine praise.

    It made no sense to her. She tried to frame it as admiration. But it lingered, unhelpful and intrusive, like a symptom she couldn’t quite name.

    So when Trinity texted drinks? followed by far too many emojis, Samira said yes before she could overthink it.

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    07 May 2026

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    Samira has a five-year plan: finish her residency, complete a fellowship, and continue her research into racial disparities in the ER. She wants to become the kind of doctor who wouldn’t miss the warning signs of a heart attack in a man like her father.

    Samira and Jack have been seeing each other for almost a year, which is to say, they sleep together, know everything about one another, have keys to each other’s places, cook for each other, and Samira owns more of Jack’s clothes than her own.

    But they’re not in a relationship. Samira refuses to be the resident who fell in love with an attending, and she won’t let anything distract her from her work.

    There are no labels. It’s casual, it’s fun, it’s easy.

    Right?

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    01 May 2026