you know you don't gotta pretend

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• let the reason come by tallochar

  Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  02 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Jack Abbot & Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Jack Abbot & John Shen (The Pitt)
  • Jack Abbot (The Pitt)
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • John Shen (The Pitt)
  • Original Characters
  • Pre-Slash
  • mention of workplace power differentials as a stressor on friendship
  • Jack Abbot is Down Bad (The Pitt)
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch is Down Bad
  • John Shen has all of the Night Shift's chill
  • set the same night as the end of the show
  • The Pitt S01E15 coda
  • self-deprecating language
  • Mental Health Issues
  • and taking steps to address them

  Summary

  Robby and Jack, in the aftermath of the day they've had.

  Series

  • Part 1 of you know you don't gotta pretend

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,944

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  26

  Kudos:

  165

  Bookmarks:

  12

  Hits:

  1,708

• boys' working on empty by tallochar

  Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  14 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Jack Abbot & Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Jack Abbot (The Pitt)
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Original Characters
  • Jack Abbot is Down Bad (The Pitt)
  • Jack Abbot Needs a Hug (The Pitt)
  • Widowed Jack Abbot (The Pitt)
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch is Down Bad
  • Jack is a disaster bisexual who does not know he is a bisexual yet
  • they are incredibly married for two people not in an actual relationship (yet)
  • Here There Be OCs
  • because people do not live in vacuums
  • Jack's struggles in the wake of the second roof conversation
  • feelings are complicated and layered and not necessarily logical
  • paperwork and admin duties
  • I think about those way too much
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch Needs a Hug
  • Jewish Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • and at least he knows that he is
  • Bisexual Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch Needs Therapy
  • Past Heather Collins/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Robby believes the Jack/Robby is unrequited
  • Robby is not a reliable narrator
  • both of them are
  • unreliable narrators

  Summary

  Jack and Robby, after Pittfest and before seeing each other again (for more than a handover).

  Series

  • Part 2 of you know you don't gotta pretend

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,937

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

  21

  Kudos:

  166

  Bookmarks:

  9

  Hits:

  2,535

• you live and you learn by tallochar

  Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  24 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Jack Abbot & Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Jack Abbot/Jack Abbot's Wife (The Pitt)
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Jack Abbot (The Pitt)
  • The Pitt (TV) Ensemble
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Ray Caldwell (OC)
  • Jewish Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch is Down Bad
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch Needs a Hug
  • Bisexual Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch Needs Therapy
  • Tired Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • we are not isolated islands we are archipelagos
  • Queerplatonic Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
  • (for now) - Freeform

  Summary

  Monday, the 8th of September, early morning.

  Robby has some overdue realizations

  Series

  • Part 3 of you know you don't gotta pretend

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,632

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  6

  Kudos:

  62

  Bookmarks:

  5

  Hits:

  844