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Party Time
Two weeks later
My appointment for my final checkup to ensure I was healed after my last hospital stay was today. I wasn't really feeling like going but knew I needed the letter to be able to go back to work and actually be allowed to do anything so I toughed it out and got ready. I thought that I would be going alone but turns out that Jack had taken off the morning to be able to join me.
After the dreaded check-up, I got the letter that I was fit to return to active duty and didn't want to waste another second sitting at home so I asked Jack to take me with him to the office when he returned for the day. I could see that he wanted to argue but I had the doctor's clearance so there was nothing he could raise as his defense why I could not go back to work.
As soon as we arrived at the office I went to my desk to see if there was not something that I could throw myself into to try and get rid of the boredom that has set in with me having
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