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Dom picked up one of the beers, opened it, and didn't drink. He just held it, feeling the cold seep into his palm. "Vin. Listen to me. The last time you fought, you came back to the locker room and you couldn't remember my name. You looked at me—your own brother—and you asked who I was. I held up your kids' photo. You didn't know them either. That was three years ago. You've had three more fights since then. That's not a career. That's a cry for help."

Dom picked up both beers and walked back toward the stairs. At the top step, he stopped but didn't turn around.

"Turn it off, Vin."

Dom set the beer down, untouched. "If you do this—if you get in that ring—I'm done. I mean it. No more driving you to the hospital. No more lying to your wife about where you are. No more watching you drown in a bucket of your own blood."

Vinnie stood up. The basement was cramped, full of old punching bags and yellowed news clippings. He walked to the heavy bag in the corner—the same one from their father's garage, still scarred with the initials he'd carved as a teenager. He touched it gently, almost reverently.

The basement stairs creaked. His younger brother, Dominic—Dom—descended with two beers and a face that had long ago traded worry for exhaustion.

End.