Aftershocks

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[Takes place in the early evening the day this happened.]

"Oh look, it's Shoeless Joe." The light tone of his voice did nothing to lessen the concerned look on his face as Christian entered the living room and found his lover curled up on the sofa. The day's reports, the relevant one of which he'd just finished reading as he came up the garden path, were still dangling from Christian's fingers and he dropped them on the side table, the priority message about Johnny's incident on campus uppermost. Sliding into the seat beside his lover, Christian unbuttoned his jacket, loosened his tie and then slid an arm in behind his partner's shoulders, pulling him close. "Okay?" he asked softly.

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