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It had been one of those days - the kind that scraped you down to the cartilage and called it a good save. He’d woken up with the ghost of a dream under his skin, hours before his shift even started; one of those ones where he had to just lie there to remind himself the world was still spinning. Part of him had been tempted to call Jack. He would have picked up. Taken his shift - or better, offered to come over. Then they’d do that thing where Jack would put on some shitty Spaghetti Western and keep running commentary going until Robby felt like a person again.
Instead, he’d gotten up, gone through the motions, and into work.
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Robby doesn't know how to keep going - he knows it's more than just exhaustion. He also doesn't know how to let himself love Jack. Lucky for him, Jack knows how to do both.
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10 Nov 2025
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Robby thinks his mattress is perfectly fine. Jack begs to differ.
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31 Oct 2025
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Robby won't buy nice things just for himself. Jack to the rescue. Lovely.
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Jack finds himself sleeping in Robby's bed.
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15 Oct 2025
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Great piece of Jack struggling with his PTSD. Sharp and evocative.
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if i’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know i’ve survived by streetlegals
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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“You know,” Jack says. “It wasn’t your fault. Any of it.”
Robby is sure that there are many things that happened today, a thousand days ago, that he can’t help but bear some blame for. He lets his breath pass through his teeth. “Whatever happened to your Catholic guilt, huh?”
“It got blown to pieces with my leg,” Jack says. “Besides,” he says—and it’s this morning on the roof again, the sun coming up. “This is about your guilt, misplaced as it is.” His gaze sinks to some far-off place. “Not mine."
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Following Pittfest, Jack follows Robby home.
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13 Oct 2025
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Incredible world-weary Robby voice. Great portrait of both him and Jack.
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After a chance encounter, Robby finds out that he's got a half-brother he never knew about—an emergency physician from Chicago called John Carter.
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- Part 1 of Brotherhood
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08 Oct 2025
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When Jack met Robby.
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04 Oct 2025
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Yom Kippur fell on a Thursday, not quite a month after what was arguably the third-worst day of Robby's life.
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02 Oct 2025
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“How worried do I need to be right now, Robby?” Jack asks.
Robby says, “About me, or for yourself?”
Then he smiles, still humourless, and Jack sees his teeth.
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30 Sep 2025
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Jack started coughing in September. In Pittsburgh, that meant nothing in particular.
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27 Sep 2025
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Incredible medicine and military, pinnacle of the trope!
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everything is...
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23 Sep 2025
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I don't need a parachute, baby, if I've got you.
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12 Sep 2025
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He's nothing like the stereotypical yoga teacher Jack has been imagining. He looks more like a guy you'd see heading up a running club, middle-aged and tall and broad-shouldered, bearded but not in a hippie kind of way, and it's only when he says, "Welcome to class. You're new, right? I'm Robby. Any injuries I need to know about before we get started?" that Jack realizes he's the instructor.
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24 Aug 2025
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The first time Jack meets Michael Robinavitch, he's at PTMC for an attending interview in what turns out is pretty terrible circumstances, because the Chief Attending—and Robinavitch's mentor—just died. Jack doesn't know it, but his life is about to change irrevocably.
Or, five times they learn to count on each other, and one time they finally figure out what it means that they do.
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28 Jul 2025
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Pitch-perfect Jack and Robby, who meet after covid and yet somehow have known each other forever. My heart.
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Lifting himself just enough to be heard, Robby shook his head. “It’s not like that, Jack. No evidence needed.”
“It sure as hell looks like it’s like that,” Jack said, his anger bleeding through despite his best effort to keep himself in check.
Robby looked directly at Jack for the first time since Jack had arrived. His eyes held a mix of shame and pain, and Jack was furious at the thought that somehow Robby thought he had to excuse the person who’d done this to him. But before Jack could say as much, Robby rocked him to his core by saying, “I asked for this.”
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02 Jul 2025
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“Still not in the mood for talking, Jack.”
“No?” Jack stares at Robby for a long, steady beat with sharp, analytical eyes. “Okay.” He nods. “So we’re not talking.”
So they don’t.
Immediately post-season 1. In which Abbot helps Robby the best way he knows how: fingerbanging him into the mattress.
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28 Jun 2025
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you gotta lend a hand, wherever you can by Saturn for Cristinuke, sublightsleeper
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
14 May 2025
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“You could what?” Robby asked, turning toward Jack.
In for a penny, Jack thought, and buckled up for Robby’s response when he answered, “Do your exam.”
“You? Now?” Robby’s eyebrows lifted. “Here?”
Jack had been thinking tomorrow at the hospital before his shift, but now that Robby mentioned it— “Why not?” he shrugged. “I’ve got the basics at home. I can write down your stats and transcribe them when I get in tomorrow night.”
Robby is required to get a physical. Jack offers to help
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26 Jun 2025
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“So how’s it feel to hit the big 5-0, brother?”
It's Robby's birthday and Jack Abbot is going to fuck that old man.
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The night before his very first shift as an MS3 in PTMC, Robby meets a guy at a bar and goes home with him—it's perfect, but it's definitely just a one-night stand, especially when he bumps into the guy in the hospital the next morning: Jack Abbot, MS4, who doesn't even seem to remember Robby. Many, many years later, the Pitt Christmas after-party is at the same seedy bar, and it turns out Jack did remember, after all.
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16 May 2025
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Stunning Robby piece, taking us through a history you can *feel*. Devastating, in the best way.
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It’s the spring of ‘97 when Michael Robinavitch is dragged into a gay bar for the very first time.
When he meets Jack Abbot there, the two of them are on the cusp of radically different futures: Robby is about to begin his residency, and Jack is days away from shipping out to the army. They know better than to get attached - know the timing is wrong, the goodbye inevitable - but something tender takes root anyway. Through every deployment, Jack thinks of Robby more than he ought to; through every failed relationship, Robby wonders about what might've been.
Years later, when their paths cross again at PTMH, the past resurfaces — and though they’re older, more jaded, and scarred in different ways, they find themselves pulled towards everything they left unfinished.
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14 May 2025
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A gorgeous, haunting, lyrical, towering *work of art*. Holy shit.
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in a world called catastrophe (my native tongue is blasphemy) by alasse
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
22 Apr 2025
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Robby gets some therapy homework. It’s a lot harder to get through it than he would’ve thought, but he gets there in the end—and, perhaps not surprisingly, Jack Abbot ends up being the answer.
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22 Apr 2025
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Robby *struggling* at therapy. Excellent Robby voice, solid medicine, love it