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  1. Public Bookmark 28

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    This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. He’d planned it all out, hadn’t he? Practiced in front of the cracked mirror in his new single bedroom apartment. Forced his unused voice past straining vocal cords. Again, again. Until he could seem like a passable version of his former confident, if not snarky, self.

    This pathetic, shaking man clutching the cold seat of a toilet in the PTMC staff bathroom had never met that person.

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    Or: I put all the angst tropes in a blender, smash Langdon into a wall, and force feed him the smoothie.

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    23 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 40

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    Looking back, there had been signs.

    But Frank lived with pain every day. His back flared without warning, sometimes sharp enough to steal his breath, sometimes a constant ache that wore him down hour by hour. Stress clung to him just as stubbornly. Long shifts, too little sleep, and the effort of holding himself together left him short tempered and restless in ways he barely recognized.

    The headaches came and went. He blamed them on stress and withdrawal. The mood swings followed, sudden spikes of fear or anger that flared and faded without explanation.

    None of it felt unusual anymore.

    So when something else brushed the edges of his awareness, when a patient’s distress hit a little too hard or lingered a little too long, he did not think much of it.

    This was life and he did not know it any other way.

    Or: In the aftermath of Pittfest, Frank awakens as a Guide at the worst possible moment.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    There are cops in the ED when Dennis arrives for his shift.

    Not necessarily unusual, sure, but he could've done without the unwelcome news that there's a knife-wielding maniac on the loose in their immediate vicinity.

    Figures this would happen on a Monday.

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    Dennis gets stabbed

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    14 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 18

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    No matter how many years go by, or decades lived—and there would be many, for someone of her kind—Trinity knew she would still remember this moment. This sight, forever burned into her eyelids and entrenched into her soul.

    A supermoon at its zenith—massive and red like Ares’ wrath—hanging high above them, bathing the whole world in its scarlet light. Early Autumn wind, still humid from summer sun, bringing with them the sounds of an overactive city. The perpetual stench of disinfectant clinging to her skin.

    And Frank Langdon in his last moments.

     

    At 2330 hours on September 21st, as the supermoon reached its peak, Frank Langdon leaped off of PTMC’s rooftop.

    No signs, no warning. He clocked in that morning for day shift, and was gone by midnight.

    This is what remains.

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    13 Feb 2026

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    So, really, it was live with Robby or hang out in an empty house trying not to relapse. Living with Robby seemed more interesting.

    (Langdon moves in with Robby after rehab. Feelings and hijinks ensue.)

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    09 Feb 2026