"Don't worry, he's just my cousin..."

[likefatherlikeson]

Who: Justin Campbell and Shea Lancaster
What: W the very actual F
Where: Sydney, Australia
When: Some time after this

Justin was feeling more than a little whacked out now they had medicated him more. Despite doing his best to hold up and avoid them adding more psych drugs to his regime, the trauma had proven too powerful against him and he ended up suicidal again. He knew he needed to be medicated and why he couldn’t fight it but that didn’t make feeling heavily stoned — and not in a good way — any easier. Benzos really weren’t his friend.

Fearing his dad might drink himself into an early grave and witnessing Sash have a seizure had him cycling back to guilt and shame. If he didn’t exist, neither thing would be happening and they would be safer and better off. Everyone would be better off without him in the picture. As soon as that thought was back at the forefront of his mind, it fed into urges to hurt himself, and ways he could just end it all, even restrained in a hospital bed. That’s when he begged them to see his Uncle Alec, one person he trusted who also had the skill to help him how he needed it. He couldn’t try to relay all the mess in his head to yet another psychiatrist. He was too weak. Even when in peak physical health, therapy took its toll on him.

( He was watching one of the nurses draw his blood using a butterfly needle without really taking in what he was seeing... )

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"Dear brother, I knew we haven't talked in awhile."

[emergencydoc]

Who: Peyton Kingston and Tori Kingston
What: Brotherly Heart-to-Heart/Interrogations
Where: Peyton and Tori's apartment, NYC
When: In the wake of Justin and Sasha's accident

Peyton was on autopilot leaning against the wall while he sorted through his keys to find the right one for his apartment, trying to fight off another yawn. Days like today, he really questioned why he wanted to be a doctor. Then again, he could never have anticipated his emergency medicine residency would be during a global pandemic or that he would win the residency at a hospital like Mount Sinai. He was only human. The days where he had been worked into the ground and every inch of him ached, he wished even just in passing that he had an easier calling. It was only ever temporary until he could catch up on sleep and start the process all over again.

These last few months had been harder than ever, though. Not only had he still been trying to work through his delayed grief of Andi’s death and how she chose to go but he caught covid twice, one of which was the horrific delta variant that left him near bedridden for three weeks. The fatigue from ‘long covid’ was out of this world and he was struggling more than ever when was on the on-call rota. Coffee or Red Bull barely touched it. He finally unlocked his door and shuffled inside, trying to shrug his backpack off his shoulder and shuck his thick coat at the same time.

“Hey, you’re home!” Tori came out of the kitchen where he had been waiting for the kettle to boil. “Can we talk?”

( Peyton jumped, dropping his bag and keys... )

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"Any fool can make a baby, but it takes a man, to raise a child."

[headingforsomething]

Who: Reecy Chester-Wilson and Kyan Wilson
What: Maybe baby...
Where: Chester-Wilson home, NYC
When: Happening while Justin and Sash are in hospital in Sydney

Normally, Reecy would be all over Kyan when he got back from his early morning run and training session at the gym with Sawyer. He had this delicious raw sexiness to him when he was sweaty and pumped with adrenaline and she liked to take advantage of that. Of course, she liked the mornings they got to sleep in together on their days off and could snuggle as long as they like. She wished it was one of those mornings.

Being winter, she wasn’t treated to the delicious view of her husband in shorts and a tank top. Instead, it was sweatpants and a hoodie but he still looked as inviting as any other day. She was sitting in their bed wearing his winter robe, the covers pulled up around her. “Ky? Can you come here for a sec, gorgeous?” she called out to him before he headed into the shower. It was too tempting to follow him in there and she needed to talk to him first.

( Kyan had been heading up the hall quietly to rinse his water bottle out, assuming Reecy was still sleep... )

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