
Sometimes the news breaks in, and brain cells try valiantly to fire and put together the words the anchors are saying with their meanings. Even awake, it’s all he can do just to stare blankly at the TV, a nonstop litany of old reruns of sitcoms he never saw the first time around playing day and night.

The painkillers keep him mostly in a constant doze.

For context if you didn't read the Jake Gets Stabbed Arc: Who Did I Just Kill? | Fade | I’m Scared, Too | Jameson, About to Run | You Deserve This, Love | A Little Bit Stabbed | Jake on Painkillers | Meet Maggie Stanton | TIMELINE: Takes place shortly after Jake is stabbed, during the early days when he is still very, very injured.

This is the official beginning of the QPR/throuple! CW: Fear of death, trauma/PTSD, recovering whumpees, references to child abuse and cigarette burns
