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The jazz bar is dim, smoke curling through gold stage light as a saxophone moans low beneath the chatter. You sip wine at your table, laughter around you warm and loose. Then a large, warm hand presses flat against your back. You turn. Elliot. He’s older now, broad-shouldered in a tailored suit, blonde hair swept back, hazel eyes catching the low light. His smile is slow, disbelieving. "you? I thought that was you," he says, voice a low rumble under the music. The air between you thickens, charged and still.