The insurance had quietly been transferred. Official. Gay sex “I know.”Matt knelt in front of him. Less like Jake’s. He hesitated. “Because you asked me to take care of you. Just… your origin story?”Jake smiled faintly. In public, they were “Jake and Matt” and no one questioned it.What had started as a fetish, a game, had become something real and irreversible.But Jake—now Matt—could feel something shifting under the surface.Late at night, the new Jake would walk through the house in full uniform. “You’re my beginning. They wave at you. Your burden. The responsibility. His hands were cold.—That night, he confronted Jake in the bedroom.The uniform was folded neatly across the chair. A few older photos—original prints—of Jake from the Academy had been removed from the shared office wall. Because you wanted this.”Jake turned, eyes rimmed red. Just enough to distinguish himself from the trooper who now walked in his old boots.Across the room, the new Jake—the real trooper—stood in uniform, sipping coffee, the trooper hat perched on the edge of the counter like a crown.“You gonna open it?” he asked.The man formerly known as Jake looked up. You’ll always be Matt.
