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    Robby would make sure to not come back from his sabbatical, it felt inevitable. It was... was it? At least until something seeped through the wall he had built around himself, something new, something nice.
    Was there a person worth coming back to? Robby wasn't so certain, but he would find out soon.

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    24 Mar 2026

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    Dr. Robert “Robby” Hale has always been the calm at the center of the storm — the kind of doctor who keeps his composure no matter how chaotic the hospital gets. But after years of sleepless nights, caffeine-fueled shifts, and the quiet erosion of his own spirit, he begins to break down.

    He begs for release.

    Then Dennis arrives — a soft-spoken, eager young man with short blond hair, baby-blue eyes, and a past he keeps carefully hidden. He’s bright. He’s bright and a little too kind for his own good.

    Maybe this is why he keeps rotating around a certain doctor with the sad smile and pained eyes? Maybe…

    Robby quickly learns that Dennis has nowhere else to go, finding him one night sleeping in a patient’s room. Reluctantly, Robby takes him in, offering him a place to stay until he gets back on his feet.

    What begins as an act of kindness turns into a quiet companionship neither of them expected…

    For the best…or for the worst.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    Loud beeps from his phone startled Ilya, and he slowed down, reaching for the device he’d put on the bar between his legs. Jane. He smiled to himself when he saw the notifications, and, checking Marlowe was absorbed in his own fitness, opened it quickly, smiling in anticipation of Shane's words.

    The smile was wiped off his face almost instantly.

    The blood drained from his face, and Ilya felt like the bottom had just fallen out of his world.

    *****

    Maybe he was naive, but Ilya always thought he had time. Time with Shane. Time to tell him what he truly meant to him.

    That, somehow, one way or another, Shane would always be there.

    But a text message late one night threatens to destroy the future that Ilya has spent the time carefully constructing in his mind.

    Maybe Shane wasn't always going to be there. That Shane would be cruelly snatched away from him before he had a chance to be honest.

    That he would be left behind. Alone.

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    10 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    Dennis is down bad for his attending physician - a man who's 30 years his senior, and very much not interested in having anything personal to do with his young resident.

    ...Or is he?

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    “Anyway, I’ll owe you lunch to make up for you not having clean scrubs to wear. I’m sure my old hoodie isn’t very comfortable.”

    Dennis swallowed his response of “Actually, it’s the most comfortable thing I’ve ever worn. Also, it smells of you. Also, I like that.” and simply nodded in silent agreement. He was concerned that opening his mouth to protest would just end in him begging Robby to kiss him, right here, right now, while his large, warm hands ran up Dennis’ bare skin under the hoodie. Robby’s hoodie. The thought made him lightheaded.

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    04 Feb 2026

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    One night — that's all it takes for everything to change, for them to slip past the point of no return. When Angel comes home from a particularly hard time at the studio, Husk's care fans the flames of that which they've been trying to ignore.

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    07 Dec 2025