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From a WIP so knew it doesn't have a name yet, the MC, Crow, has just retired from cage fighting, and he's not handling it well. 

“You do know the definition of retirement, right?”

Rolling his eyes, Crow resisted the urge to flip Neil off. The only thing that stopped him was that the guy knew about a hundred and fifty painful and unique ways to break, dislocate, or mangle a finger.

“I know the definition of retirement.”

“And yet, you’ve conveniently found some reason to drop by every day this week.”

Rubbing the back of his neck, Crow searched for the words to explain that not knowing what was next was slowly driving him insane. Waking up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, because in his dreams, Chuck had tipped the microphone his way, asked the question and the world literally fuckin’ froze while waiting for him to answer, was driving him out of his god damned mind.

“I think I’ve made a colossal mistake,” Crow admitted, and holy shit, he could breath again. He could exhale without feeling like a rhino was sitting on his chest.

“Thank you! It’s about time you figured that out. I’ll pencil you back into the training rotation and get on the phone with FWF so they can find an opponent for you.”

“Thanks, but, that’s not the mistake I was talking about.”