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“You should You know that, right?” I cautiously co he didn’t find it too weird

“I can’t be around pills,” he said hoarsely “Last ti a bottle of Klonopin”

He didn’t need to tell one down the toilet instead of somewhere else

He should still take soh, and I wanted to see his face for this

I nudged hiently and brushed away some tears from his cheeks with my thumbs He looked absolutely heartbroken, and it tore at me

“I need you to tap into that shrink brain of yours,” I murmured “What would you recommend to a patient in your situation?”

“No opioids or benzodiazepines,” he rasped

“All right I get that” And I did I knehy they were popular on the streets I kneho sold theest suppliers were I had some myself, hidden in my bedroom

“I sleep too arettes on the table and sparked one up “I don’t sleep well, but I sleep a lot I’ued”

“Okay So so…I don’t know, is there an antidepressant that doesn’t make you drowsy?”

He shrugged slightly and scrubbed a hand over his jaw He’d shaved last week, but it was growing back “I suppose I would suggest bupropion for the depression and… I actually took a sedative in Dublin last year when I couldn’t sleep, but it helped with anxiety too Problem is, it’s not approved in the US”

“That’s not what I call a probleet it for you,” I said “Are you kiddin’, Shan? Have you forgotten e are?”

He mustered a little smirk “I think it’s available in Canada too I’ll ask Viv for the name I don’t remember it at the moment” He spoke of his sister, which reet the antidepressants for him If he’d cut ties with his own contacts, that was Either way, I didn’t see hiet a prescription

I could get him all kinds of shit—Xanax, Valius he wanted to stay away from

Antidepressants had no street value

“All right, there we go,” I said “You get whatever meds you need, and I’lltime Deal?”

He exhaled soood to me, boy At some point, you have to reiver”

I shrugged and stole a smoke from his pack “Some other day, ood news or whatever I was supposed to call it Just spit it out Fuck Yeah, I had to do it quick Before I chickened out again Funny how fast the nerves forut “By the way, uh…” I cleared ree to your terms”