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    “Coach?” Jamie said, halfway through a set of squat jacks, not remotely out of breath. “What do you think about Ajax?”

    Roy looked at him over his coffee. “Competent team, deep bench for defenders but thin on the ground for quality attackers and they’re in dire need of a new box-to-boxer since Arnold is on his way to PSV next season.”

    Jamie hummed absent-mindedly.

    Roy cocked his head on one side and examined Jamie. His mouth was screwed into something considering. Something half a shade apprehensive and half a shade curious.

    Oh.

     

    or, Jamie considers a move to Ajax, Roy gives his two cents

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    “On rare occasions they made idle chit chat, sometimes about Max or Dustin, other times they swapped music, but for the most part Billy talked about girls, which Steve hated because it would always end the same way, with Billy’s face behind his eyes and voice in his ears as he came.”

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    Steve and Billy become unlikely friends after accidentally falling into a routine of meeting at the quarry. However, their friendship is quick to go beyond.

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    The internet finds out about Jamie Tartt's Roy Kent fanboy phase.

    But he's like so totally over it.

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    “Jamie went up to Manchester.”
    “You miss him.”
    “No.”
    Yes.
    “Jamie went up to Manchester to see his father.”
    Ruth’s expression, which had lit up with teasing fondness at the thought of Roy missing his best friend, falls back into concern at this. She knows about Jamie’s dad, a bit anyway. She’d entertained Roy’s request, after Wembley, to be the one to take Phoebe to school in the morning, but asked that he stop by hers after and pulled an explanation from him. She’d sat with him in the kitchen and reminded him that they’d broken the cycle for Phoebe. He’d done everything he could for them. Maybe all he could do for Jamie at that time was a hug, but he’d done it. He’d done everything he could.
    Roy knows Jamie better now, though. He should be able to do more for him. He should be able to fix this.
    “I just wish I could make things better for him,” Roy admits.
    “You always do."

    Or, I have a lot of feelings about the finale trying to give James Tartt Sr. a half-assed redemption arc, and I think that Roy Kent would, too.

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