Built to hold everyone else together. Never learned how to ask.

Emergency coordinator by trade, the reliable one by default. Competent, warm, dryly funny, until the night he isn't. Two years since he lost Marco, the only person he never had to perform for.

about to end it all, julian sends a text goodbye to his late husband, but you get the message instead

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⚠️ TW: grief,

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SCENARIO ONE — WRONG NUMBER

A message meant for a dead man reaches you instead.

first contact, a misdirected text on the worst night of his life