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✦ PULSE POINT ✦

PULSE POINT • 08 • PRESSURE

Summary: What should have settled doesn’t. As the shift wears on, familiar rhythms slip out of reach, and every adjustment makes things feel sharper instead of easier. Control holds—but only on the surface.

Warnings / Content Notes:

hospital / ER setting

high-stress work environment

medical trauma (non-graphic)

diagnostic uncertainty

emotional distress / internal struggle

shifting interpersonal dynamics

implied conflict/tension

slow-burn relationship development

Recommended Listening:

Reader's Song: Lose Control – Teddy Swims

Jack's Song: Look After You – The Fray

Bonus Track: In The Stars - Benson Boone

Chapter 8: Pressure

You feel it before you see it. It hasn’t settled. Not the shift, not your arm, not the way he stepped in. You thought it might. That was the mistake. For a second—after—it had felt different. When he pulled you free, when he checked your arm, when he stayed there just long enough that it felt like something had reset. Like the distance had narrowed. Like the rhythm might come back. Like he hadn’t meant to let it go in the first place.

You thought it would come back.

That you’d just… fall into it again.

It doesn’t.

You didn’t think it through. You didn’t need to.

It just felt that way.

It’s 7:12 p.m., and it’s worse.

Shift-change chaos hums through the department—day team escaping, night team filtering in—but the noise doesn’t land the way it usually does. Everything feels sharper, thinner, as if each sound is pulled apart rather than blending together.

You don’t stay long enough to let it settle. You never do.

“Room four’s behind,” Lena calls.

“I’ve got it.” You move. Because that’s easier than standing still.

He’s already there. Of course he is. Chart open, coffee untouched, posture exact.

The first trauma rolls in at 9:03 p.m.—unstable, messy, blood everywhere it shouldn’t be.

Normally, this is where it happens. The rhythm. The unspoken choreography. You move before he speaks. He anticipates before you finish. You don’t even have to look at each other.

It’s always been like that. Effortless. Tonight—nothing.

You feel it in your hands first. That fraction too slow. The space where he used to be.

“Two units O-neg. FAST exam,” Jack says evenly.

You’re already reaching for the ultrasound—except he takes it from the nurse first. Not faster. Just earlier.

He doesn’t look at you. Doesn’t wait.

He doesn’t contradict you. Doesn’t override you.

He just stops syncing.

Stops filling the space before you can.

You step toward the head of the bed, and he adjusts without acknowledgment, rerouting the workflow so you’re half a beat behind. It’s subtle. Impossible to call out. But you feel it. You hesitate. Half a second.

And he fills it. “Let’s move.”

Professional. Calm. Distant.

You feel the missed beat like a bruise.

You told yourself this would fix it—that stepping back would make it cleaner.

It doesn’t.

You ask for suction, and it’s already in his hand. Not yours.

You don’t correct it. You adjust. You keep moving. Because stopping would make it real.

The room moves on.

You don’t. Not completely.

The shift doesn’t slow—it just thins.

By the time you step into the hallway, the noise has changed. Lower. Tighter. You don’t remember deciding to stop. Just that you did.

Rowan finds you there.

“You’re thinking too much,” he says.

You don’t argue.

“Something’s off,” he adds. “With him. With you. I don’t know.”

You glance up. “What?”

“You two used to move like it was already decided,” he says. “Now it’s not.”

You swallow. He watches you, not pushing, not softening it either.

“I like you,” he says, like it’s not a question, like it’s not the point. “If this is complicated, I’m not getting in the middle of it.”

You nod too quickly.

“There’s nothing,” you say. “There’s nothing between us. I don’t even—”

You stop. Too much.

You exhale slowly, forcing your voice steady. “I don’t know what’s going on.”

You hear it as you say it. Clean. Certain. Like it should settle something.

It doesn’t.

You nod anyway. Because that’s what you’re supposed to do. Because this is what you chose.

It still doesn’t feel right.

“Hey—” someone calls from down the hall.

It’s enough.

You push off the wall. “I’ve got it.”

Already moving. The shift doesn’t stop. It just keeps layering.

Room to room. Patient to patient. Nothing catastrophic. Nothing clean.

You double-check labs you wouldn’t normally question. Repeat vitals that don’t need repeating.

“Let’s get imaging,” you say. Then, quieter, “Just to be sure.”

You don’t usually add that. A nurse hesitates. “You want me to—”

Her eyes flick between you, then to Rowan. “Yeah,” Rowan says.

You don’t correct it. That’s new.

This is what you wanted. Space. Distance. Control.

So why does it feel like you lost something instead?

By the time you make it back to the station, the air feels thinner.

Ellis looks up. “You good?”

“Yeah.”

She doesn’t believe you.

Crus leans back, studying you longer than usual. “You’re not yourself lately.”

Not a joke. That’s what makes it land.

“I’m fine.”

“You’re still good at the job,” he says. “That’s not it.”

A beat.

“You’re just… not you.” Silence.

Ellis doesn’t look away. “You’re harder.”

The word hits. Heavy.

You don’t argue. Because you are. You made yourself that way.

That was the point.

Shen doesn’t look up. “You used to soften the room. You don’t anymore.”

That one stays. You don’t answer. You don’t know how to. So you look somewhere else.

Across the room. He’s there.

Charting. Sleeves rolled. Expression carved from something unmovable.

You try to let it go. You do. It doesn’t go.

It follows you—through the next patient, through the next chart, through the next hour.

Rowan moves beside you again. Easy. Predictable.

“You good?” he asks.

You don’t look at him. “Yeah.”

He nods, like that’s enough. Like he doesn’t need anything else from you.

And then he steps back into the work.

That should make it easier.

It does.

That’s the problem. Across the room, Jack looks up for a second, just long enough to register, and then looks back down.

He isn’t punishing you. He’s protecting himself. And it’s costing you.

You told yourself that was the right call. That distance would fix it.

It didn’t fix anything.

By the time the shift starts to wind down, you’re done waiting.

You’ve tried to leave it alone. Tried to let it settle. Tried to do the right thing

It didn’t work.

He’s already moving toward the exit.

You watch him for a second longer than you should.

You could let it go. You could choose simple. You could let him disappear back into professionalism and never force the conversation.

You don’t. You push off the desk.

“Jack.”

Your voice cuts through the quiet.

He stops. Then turns. The fluorescent light catches the edge of his profile—controlled, neutral.

But his eyes,

Were anything but.

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Chapter 8

A/N: Hello readers! Get comfy and relax, grab a drink cause this is a VERY LOOOONG chapter! I though about breaking it up, but it needed to stay as one. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it! This is pretty big turning point so don’t miss this chapter!

Harry tossed his clothes into his suit case packing up to leave his Suffolk army residence having finished his pre-deployment training. Sighing he looked around the room making sure he had gotten everything. Grabbing his bags he carried them through his bedroom door placing them near the front entrance.

Luther was in the kitchen staring intently at Harry. Luther had been Harry’s RPO since he was a teen. The two of them had an understanding and more so a close relationship. Luther could get away with speaking candidly to the prince making Harry view him as not only his protection officer but also a confidant.

“What is it now?” Harry leaned down on the kitchen counter. Luther casually shrugged his shoulders looking away knowing that gesture would bug Harry. “Luther…” Harry’s voice grew deep and commanding.

“Fine.” Luther set his cup of tea down delicately. “Are you planning on telling her?” His eyes glanced up at Harry waiting for his reaction. Harry looked away becoming silent. That thought was on his mind constantly.

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a brief look into chronophotography

early pioneers and photographers preferred to use muybridge’s approach, rather than using étienne-jules marey’s system of stopping and starting a camera in quick succession. today’s time-lapses use a single camera, relying on an external intervalometer to capture the images. these devices have roots as far back as 1920.

chronophotography is defined as “a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion.” the term chronophotography was coined by french physiologist étienne-jules marey to describe photographs of movement from which measurements and study of motion could be derived. the technique involved taking a series of still pictures over a determined amount of time, which is similar to modern day time-lapse, then arranging them into a single photograph. chronophotogaphy was the only way to study changes in an animal’s body as it ran, flew, or moved.

eadweard muybridge’s 1878 series, “sallie gardner at a gallop '', is one of the first well-known uses of chronophotography. although in today’s terms, this series would be considered a time-lapse since the images were stitched together into an infinite loop, the reasoning behind the photos was based in chronophotography. muybridge used a series of cameras placed along a stretch of farmland. the cameras were rigged with trip wire and as the horse passed through, it would trigger the shutter of the camera they were hooked to, thus taking 24 photos. for the first couple of years after the photos were taken they remained still images, becoming the first true chronophotograph.

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D.A. Spencer Duplicate copies of Maxwell and Sutton’s original Tartan Ribbon of 1861, circa 1939

6½ × 8½ inches. gelatin silver glass plate negatives

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Levi L. Hill Landscape with Farmhouse, 1851

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Paul Nadar The Art of Living a Hundred Years, 1886

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✦ PULSE POINT ✦

PULSE POINT • 08 • PRESSURE

Warnings / Content Notes:

hospital / ER setting

high-stress work environment

medical trauma (non-graphic)

diagnostic uncertainty

emotional distress / internal struggle

shifting interpersonal dynamics

implied conflict/tension

slow-burn relationship development

Recommended Listening:

Reader's Song: Lose Control – Teddy Swims

Jack's Song: Look After You – The Fray

Bonus Track: In The Stars - Benson Boone

Chapter 8: Pressure

You thought it would come back.

That you’d just… fall into it again.

It doesn’t.

You didn’t think it through. You didn’t need to.

It just felt that way.

It’s 7:12 p.m., and it’s worse.

You don’t stay long enough to let it settle. You never do.

“Room four’s behind,” Lena calls.

“I’ve got it.” You move. Because that’s easier than standing still.

He’s already there. Of course he is. Chart open, coffee untouched, posture exact.

The first trauma rolls in at 9:03 p.m.—unstable, messy, blood everywhere it shouldn’t be.

Normally, this is where it happens. The rhythm. The unspoken choreography. You move before he speaks. He anticipates before you finish. You don’t even have to look at each other.

It’s always been like that. Effortless. Tonight—nothing.

You feel it in your hands first. That fraction too slow. The space where he used to be.

“Two units O-neg. FAST exam,” Jack says evenly.

You’re already reaching for the ultrasound—except he takes it from the nurse first. Not faster. Just earlier.

He doesn’t look at you. Doesn’t wait.

He doesn’t contradict you. Doesn’t override you.

He just stops syncing.

Stops filling the space before you can.

And he fills it. “Let’s move.”

Professional. Calm. Distant.

You feel the missed beat like a bruise.

You told yourself this would fix it—that stepping back would make it cleaner.

It doesn’t.

You ask for suction, and it’s already in his hand. Not yours.

You don’t correct it. You adjust. You keep moving. Because stopping would make it real.

The room moves on.

You don’t. Not completely.

The shift doesn’t slow—it just thins.

By the time you step into the hallway, the noise has changed. Lower. Tighter. You don’t remember deciding to stop. Just that you did.

Rowan finds you there.

“You’re thinking too much,” he says.

You don’t argue.

“Something’s off,” he adds. “With him. With you. I don’t know.”

You glance up. “What?”

“You two used to move like it was already decided,” he says. “Now it’s not.”

You swallow. He watches you, not pushing, not softening it either.

“I like you,” he says, like it’s not a question, like it’s not the point. “If this is complicated, I’m not getting in the middle of it.”

You nod too quickly.

“There’s nothing,” you say. “There’s nothing between us. I don’t even—”

You stop. Too much.

You exhale slowly, forcing your voice steady. “I don’t know what’s going on.”

You hear it as you say it. Clean. Certain. Like it should settle something.

It doesn’t.

You nod anyway. Because that’s what you’re supposed to do. Because this is what you chose.

It still doesn’t feel right.

“Hey—” someone calls from down the hall.

It’s enough.

You push off the wall. “I’ve got it.”

Already moving. The shift doesn’t stop. It just keeps layering.

Room to room. Patient to patient. Nothing catastrophic. Nothing clean.

You double-check labs you wouldn’t normally question. Repeat vitals that don’t need repeating.

“Let’s get imaging,” you say. Then, quieter, “Just to be sure.”

You don’t usually add that. A nurse hesitates. “You want me to—”

Her eyes flick between you, then to Rowan. “Yeah,” Rowan says.

You don’t correct it. That’s new.

This is what you wanted. Space. Distance. Control.

So why does it feel like you lost something instead?

By the time you make it back to the station, the air feels thinner.

Ellis looks up. “You good?”

“Yeah.”

She doesn’t believe you.

Crus leans back, studying you longer than usual. “You’re not yourself lately.”

Not a joke. That’s what makes it land.

“I’m fine.”

“You’re still good at the job,” he says. “That’s not it.”

A beat.

“You’re just… not you.” Silence.

Ellis doesn’t look away. “You’re harder.”

The word hits. Heavy.

You don’t argue. Because you are. You made yourself that way.

That was the point.

Shen doesn’t look up. “You used to soften the room. You don’t anymore.”

That one stays. You don’t answer. You don’t know how to. So you look somewhere else.

Across the room. He’s there.

Charting. Sleeves rolled. Expression carved from something unmovable.

You try to let it go. You do. It doesn’t go.

It follows you—through the next patient, through the next chart, through the next hour.

Rowan moves beside you again. Easy. Predictable.

“You good?” he asks.

You don’t look at him. “Yeah.”

He nods, like that’s enough. Like he doesn’t need anything else from you.

And then he steps back into the work.

That should make it easier.

It does.

That’s the problem. Across the room, Jack looks up for a second, just long enough to register, and then looks back down.

He isn’t punishing you. He’s protecting himself. And it’s costing you.

You told yourself that was the right call. That distance would fix it.

It didn’t fix anything.

By the time the shift starts to wind down, you’re done waiting.

You’ve tried to leave it alone. Tried to let it settle. Tried to do the right thing

It didn’t work.

He’s already moving toward the exit.

You watch him for a second longer than you should.

You could let it go. You could choose simple. You could let him disappear back into professionalism and never force the conversation.

You don’t. You push off the desk.

“Jack.”

Your voice cuts through the quiet.

He stops. Then turns. The fluorescent light catches the edge of his profile—controlled, neutral.

But his eyes,

Were anything but.

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Chapter 8

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a brief look into chronophotography

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Gabriel Lippmann Fruit Bowl, 1908

4¾ × 3½ inches. Lippmann image mounted in glass wedge

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Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming

D.A. Spencer Duplicate copies of Maxwell and Sutton’s original Tartan Ribbon of 1861, circa 1939

6½ × 8½ inches. gelatin silver glass plate negatives

#chaptereight

Levi L. Hill Landscape with Farmhouse, 1851

hillotype

#chaptereight

Paul Nadar The Art of Living a Hundred Years, 1886

each image is 5¾ × 4 inches. photogravures

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