[Los Angeles was way too fast paced to tolerate gaps in attendance unless you were freelance like Richie. Even then, he'd postponed dates for too long and couldn't get away with it another time. It would be a deal-breaker, for his manager, for his ongoing success. Even with the probono work he was doing to combat hate crimes in certain areas for certain venues, there are only so many days off a stand-up comic can take before he becomes irrelevant.]
I'll call you every night, morning, and break and I'll keep my phone charged so you can get me if you need to.
[It fucking destroyed him to have to leave Eddie, but it was only a week of travel and then one red-eye back home. They could pick up their life after that and collapse back into the old routine. Even though he'd entertained the idea of melatonin and meditation before sleep, what they'd been through beneath Derry didn't really qualify as a normal post-traumatic stress situation. There was no forgetting it, not now after losing Stan and almost losing each other, not ever.]
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[Los Angeles was way too fast paced to tolerate gaps in attendance unless you were freelance like Richie. Even then, he'd postponed dates for too long and couldn't get away with it another time. It would be a deal-breaker, for his manager, for his ongoing success. Even with the probono work he was doing to combat hate crimes in certain areas for certain venues, there are only so many days off a stand-up comic can take before he becomes irrelevant.]
I'll call you every night, morning, and break and I'll keep my phone charged so you can get me if you need to.
[It fucking destroyed him to have to leave Eddie, but it was only a week of travel and then one red-eye back home. They could pick up their life after that and collapse back into the old routine. Even though he'd entertained the idea of melatonin and meditation before sleep, what they'd been through beneath Derry didn't really qualify as a normal post-traumatic stress situation. There was no forgetting it, not now after losing Stan and almost losing each other, not ever.]