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“You were young once,” Samira says, inserts the knife — “Did you ever find someone?” — and twists it.
She expects Robby to deflect, to reassure her that she’s not like him, that she won’t end up miserable and alone at her best friend’s, her ex-whatever’s, second wedding. Instead, he laughs and says, “You got me there.”
(Samira and Robby, at Jack's wedding)
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16 Aug 2025
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They aren’t his family, not in the traditional sense. But the idea that they might be, that they could be, unsettles him more than he wants to admit. It’s the same quiet dread that hit him when Collins said he had helped raise Amy. He doesn’t know why exactly. Maybe because imagining them as a family implies imagining him and Jack as something. And that’s just absurd, right?
Or: Robby has been a quiet constant in the lives of Abbot and his daughter, filling a space that was never clearly named. As they drift into their fifties, he begins to recognize that his feelings for Jack may have deepened into something real and perhaps impossible. Now he’s left wondering if this almost-family could ever truly be his.
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15 Aug 2025
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Robby follows him as Jack starts working on the coffee, taking a seat at the peninsula that divides the kitchen from the rest of the apartment.
“You still like it burned or have you gotten better taste since last time?” he teases, throwing a quick glance at Robby, who makes a face at him.
They don’t do this often, crashing at each others’ places. Jack honestly can’t remember when exactly that last time was. Close to a year, he thinks, a Pirates game with a rain delay that then went into extra innings. It’s not that they don’t hang out when their schedules allow for it, it’s just that there’s always been more of a distance in their relationship outside work, like somehow the halls (and roof) of PTMC allow for more vulnerability than the halls of their own homes.
“At this point I'll take whatever you give me and I'll like it,” Robby says, definitely with a grimace this time.
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OR, five times Jack comes home to Robby unexpectedly at his place, plus one.Bookmarked by howaboutcanada
15 Aug 2025
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it tugs up the white tee underneath, shows a wedge of stomach, hair and warm skin that gets hidden just as quickly as robby brings the hem back down. dennis feels dizzy.
“here,” robby says, holding the shirt out to him. dennis shakes his head.
“oh, no, I couldn't, it's okay–”
“whitaker” he says, attending voice in full play, “take it.”
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extremely inappropriate workplace conduct
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- Part 3 of sensations of sex and surgery
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08 Aug 2025
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Jack looked from the intern picture to Robby again, rubbing a tired hand over his eyes. "Jesus, this is like a recipe." He gestured between the picture and Robby, young and old. "It's like twink plus seasoning equals daddy. Fuck," he said, a kind of helpless note to it. Then he walked out, like he hadn't just dropped a bomb on Robby's head.
What did that mean?
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07 Aug 2025