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JAMES OGILVIE .ᐟ
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07. his music taste is mainly classic & indie rock. this includes the smiths, the cure, the strokes, the kinks, and the psychedelic furs. if he wants something sadder, cigarettes after sex. but his guilty pleasure is 2000s throwback music, because nostalgia is his kryptonite.
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dependent on frozen foods, takeout, or free meals that the hospital’s food programs have (also helps with cost). as a consequence his fridge is always bare, with groceries that typically don’t mix and match. he just tries to cook something small and quick to get back to studying.
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@mraclesblssings anything at all. he wouldn’t want to know what would happen if he didn’t make his dad get him things. )
maybe he’s just busy. i’m busy too, so.
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@mraclesblssings ( his lips press into a thin line )
kinda, yeah. sometimes. tends to be short and sweet, you know?
( a quick phone call and a hang-up after. and the birthday cake and balloons that he himself had to coordinate the last few years. it’s forced, but better then not getting
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just had to stand and let a patient hit my arm 24 times. birthday beatings are an interesting loophole *🤨
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@mraclesblssings ( he’s doing that ‘i’m still waking up stare’. the kind where his puffy eyes are dulled and his expression is flat. he sniffles tiredly. there’s drool on his chin, shirt, and table. )
‘nnie?
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gently lifting his head. he drooled all over the break room’s table in his sleep.
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/ me staying up till 3 doing laundry only to drool all over my pillowcases i just woke up hytrdikbczzd
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giving it a hard ‘flick’ before it ignites to life. a small flame sits near his thumb. he gently guides it over, holding it out, prompting him to line the end of the cigarette over it. or maybe the ends of two cigarettes.
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if he really cared much for joy, that’d alarm him. all it does is make his brows shoot up in surprise. damn.
he accepts the lighter, shoulders dropping slightly in relief, “so it won’t look bad if i ask for a cigarette?”
he cups his hand around the top of the lighter,
🪽་༘ ┈ 𝑫𝐑͟. 𝑾𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑𓈒@hucklempathy
he never usually got this way —— but he’d had an unexpected call from his mother, and that dragged forward a whole lot of stuff he didn’t even know how to process. he hesitates, tries to still his shaking, but it was no use. …
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why would you come to the hospital for a ******** just pop a damn advil.
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/ try to stay awake challenge because i did laundry at 2am im beating ogilvie up as a stress reliever
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me,” is all he says, holding a hand out. or at least, it’s all he says for a moment.
“have you seen any of the other med students smoking?”
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he blinks, trying to fully assess the situation. somebody like him withered down to shaking and unable to work a lighter? he silently turns his head to stare ahead, trying to give him a tiny sense of privacy while in his space.
but he can’t help it — “if you pass it over to
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fist closes around his lighter for a second, his student is correct —— and he absolutely hates that he is. ignores the words, focuses on the second question instead. “yeah— s’okay, though. i’ll.. you shouldn’t have to.” he could try …
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