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"I’ to die, that’s what"

"I can’t accept that There has to be so they can do Let me make some calls"

She shook her head "They’ve all been ht But it’s ti?"

"Four months Six if I’ a doc at Sloan Kettering It’s all over the place His words"

Six o by? "Jesus, Liz--"

"Don’t say it Don’t say you’re sorry, because I’m not" She squeezed "

"I need you to help Jonas I’m sure you’ve heard the stories They’re all true He’s in South Aoose chase He can’t accept any of this He still thinks he can save me"

"What can I do?"

"Just talk to him He trusts you Not just as a scientist but as his friend Do you kno much he still talks about you? He follows your every move He probably knohat you ate for breakfast this "

"That makes no sense He should hate me"

"Why would he hate you?"

Even then, I couldn’t say the words She was dying, and I couldn’t tell her

"Leaving the way I did Never telling him why"

"Oh, he knohy Or thinks he does"

I was shocked "What did you tell hiood for us"

"That’s insane And it wasn’t the reason"

"I knoasn’t, Tim"

A silence passed I sippedto their trains, riding into the winter dark

"We were a couple of good soldiers, you and I," Liz said She gave a brittle sured out that part"