“I saw you had it propped up in your photo earlier. It’s not just your ACL now, is it?” “No. I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis after my third surgery. I’ve just come back from the hospital, where they told me it’s also in my hips.” “Fuck, Cas, I…” He trails off. “Fuck. I don’t know what to say to any of that. The fact you’ve had three surgeries or that you’ve got arthritis. Like, you’re thirty-nine. You’re not old.” I chuckle under my breath, trying not to think too hard about the way he slipped and used his old pet name for me so easily. The times that three-letter word would spill from his
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