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"Shit," the other said, staring at the arued about that the entire ti the injured brother to a sled, preparing to take hian the descent, the uninjured brother stayed alongside so that the two of them could continue to yell at each other

"And don’t think I’ve forgotten that you owe me fifty bucks," the injured one yelled from flat on his back "I won our last two bets and you’ve never paid up! Cheapskate!"

"I don’t owe you shit! You stole ood anyway!"

And so it went on

When they got to the bottom, they loaded the injured brother directly into an aht broke out when the uninjured one wanted to make the ride with his brother and the EMTs refused to take hi up their patient

The ambulance drove off and the uninjured brother stared after it, suddenly silent and looking deflated He lifted his head to Hud, eyes shiny and ht? They won’t let him die?"

"They won’t let hiet back to work

But the guy grabbed Hud’s arm "You swear it?"

Hud looked into his devastated face and was propelled back to another tio this had been the Cocky Hotheaded idiots "I swear it," Hud said

"I can’t be without hione, the adrenaline draining

Yeah, Hud got that too Once, he and Jacob had been like a pair of porcupine siblings, constantly needling each other but unable to be apart either

How quickly they’d gotten okay with that Except Hud had never gotten okay with it, not really Every single fucking day he missed Jacob, like he’d uy suddenly said

"How did you get here?" Hud asked

"My brother drove his new truck I crashed his last one, so I’m not supposed to drive this one He said he’d kill me if I did"

Hud shook his head and pointed to the shuttle’s pickup spot "Every twenty minutes a bus co tihtful "Maybe I should hot wire his truck… you know, since it’s an eency situation and all"

Nor his life All the Kincaids were Family was family Play was play Work ork And while he was most definitely affected by what he did on the job, and occasionally also moved by the people he helped, for the most part he didn’t allow any of it to stick to hiive the next day

But these guys were brothers They’d fought, and one had gotten hurt

There were too many similarities between them and himself and Jacob for hiuy "You can do what you want, but I’ and hard One of these days you’re going to pull a stunt that he can’t get over or forgive, and he’ll leave you Do you understand uy blinked "Okay, jeez"