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What Peter should say is exactly what he’s thinking—no, it's different because I feel responsible for what happens to you and seeing you hurt scared the living daylights out of me.
What he says instead tastes like bile, spilling out of him like toxic waste. “Listen, like I said, I’m not the one who got beaten half-to-death by a lowlife with a ring fetish.”
The spring of regret is instantaneous.
Carter stares at him, expression frozen but far from empty. Deathly still water over tumultuous undercurrents. He bites the inside of his cheek, pulling the corners of his mouth under tight control as he nods slowly, considering. “Well," he says at last, voice bitter and hollow, "I’m sorry I ruined your evening by trying to save a girl’s life.”
Or, the Ugandan clinic AU no one asked for.
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Signal after signal rings through and she's about to give up when he finally accepts the call.
There's a weird shuffling noise in her ear.
“Huckleberry, where the hell are you?” she says
For a few seconds there's only silence and her stomach twists unpleasantly. She presses her hand to her other ear to try to cancel out the noise around her.
“Trinity…I don't feel good…help…”
Her grip around the phone tightens and she looks at Dana and Robby and her heart picks up speed.
His voice is hoarse and weak and he seems out of it.
“Where are you? What's going on?” she asks.
“Really…tired…something's…wrong…”
He coughs into the phone for several long seconds.
“Trin’ty?...pl’se help…”
The words are slurry and he struggles to get the words out, his breaths rapid in her ear.
“Where are you? Talk to me! Huckleberry? Tell me where you are.” she says frantically.
There's nothing but silence in her ear.
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Or it takes seven weeks until Dennis can't keep up his secret anymore.
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- Part 3 of Dennis Whitaker's secret
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“Come on, kid,” someone says, rubbing his sternum with bruising fingers. Dennis desperately tries to swat the hands away, the bone already sensitive from the weight of the patient from just moments ago. “Open your eyes, Whitaker, come on. Look at me. Open your eyes.”
He twitches, his limbs flexing in odd and tight angles as he tries to expel the memory of the pain. He tries to speak, not to answer the question but to ask for help, help, anyone, anyone at all, his mom or one his brothers or the youth pastor who gives him bandages when no one is looking, just, God, please, please—
The best Dennis can manage is a deep gurgle from his throat.
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When he gets seriously injured after an altercation with a patient, Dennis is forced to reveal parts of himself he would rather keep hidden.
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Jack sometimes wonders if he's cursed. At 49, he's an amputee and a widower. He has PTSD and takes antidepressants. A lot of his life has been shit.
And now, to top it all off, he has cancer.
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- Part 1 of Dr. Jack Abbot, whumpee
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no glory in love by a_alene
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, The Penguin (US TV 2024)
08 Mar 2025
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Carefully, Dick lifts his hands up to his neck and taps at the hollow of his throat. It takes Jason a second to process, but Dick knows it the moment he does. Jason's never been able to keep his emotions to himself. They're written all over his paling face, in the way he presses his lips together and swallows, hard.
"He did do this to you," Dick says, and he's surprised, somehow, by how emotionless he sounds. "Didn't he?"
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About six months ago, Bruce Wayne slit Jason Todd's throat. It was an accident. Jason came back.
None of that matters.
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