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JJ couldn’t put it off anymore. She told herself she’d been busy, but she was always busy, and she could always make time for something so important. She kept finding something else she had to do instead.
It was time to see Harlan.
He’d arrived hours ago, but she was afraid to see him. There, she’d admitted it. She hadn’t seen him since… well, since he’d stopped by this very hospital to see Iris, before he and Adam fled the authorities. Before he and Adam saved Aaron Schofield, and Harlan was nearly killed in the process.
JJ pushed his door open, but didn’t turn on the light. Late afternoon sun filtered through the partially open blinds. Harlan’s body was still, the way she’d seen patients be still before, patients who would never leave the hospital under their own power. She walked
