. "You don't talk about Abigail in this much." Benoit Blanc held up Jud's written story. "But she's the first one you look at in a room and you're the first one she moved towards." "Abby has nothing to do with this. She's a- She's been through a lot, with her father and the Monsignor." Jud reasoned. "I don't wanna drag her into anything else." The Detective laughed at him. "From where I'm sitting, she's in it either way." ~~~ IN WHICH, after her father's death, Abigail Calder remains tethered to a church that taught her obedience as love and suffering as devotion. Trapped between grief and expectation, she struggles to separate her faith from the man who shaped it, and from the Monsignor determined to keep her small. The arrival of Father Jud, a priest with a violent past and an unexpected gentleness, unsettles everything. Where the church demands endurance, Jud offers breath. Where others speak in certainty, he listens. What begins as guidance becomes a quiet act of rebellion: learning to stand, to feel, and to believe that faith does not require disappearance. ~~~ jud duplenticy x reader (PLATONIC) (wake up dead man) ~~~ STARTED: jan 1, 2026 COMPLETED: march 20, 2026 ~~~ #1 in wakeupdeadman (09/03) #1 in hotpriest (09/03)