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"There has to be something you want to come back for. Something you can’t die without doing.”
Robby’s gaze roamed across Dennis's face, tracing the planes and sharp angles of his features like he was trying to commit them to memory. He already had a long time ago. The horrible, aching knot in his chest dedicated to Dennis was a piece of Robby that he tried, time and time again, to rip out. Always to no avail.
If he had anything to come back for, it’d be this one thing.
"Marry me," Robby said.
Robby, about to head out for his sabbatical and never return, thinks to hell with it—nothing matters except for the very real, very inappropriate feelings he's been harboring for his first-year resident. So he proposes. And before he can take it back, Whitaker says yes.
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- Part 1 of to have and to hold
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15 Apr 2026
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“I heard Dana telling Princess,” Shen continued, pulling out the chair next to Dennis and lowering his voice even more, “that she overheard Jack telling Robby they needed to buy cheese for the mouse.”
“...What?”
“Yeah,” Shen nodded, completely serious. “So I’m guessing they’ve got a mouse problem. Honestly, it tracks. Old buildings, you know? I mean, I’ve got traps if they need them.”
No one here knew that Dennis was in a relationship with them.
And they definitely didn’t know that Jack’s nickname for him was Little Mouse… or sometimes just Mouse.
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OR; Dennis, Jack and Robby are in a secret relationship, rumors starts spreading about Jack and Robby having mouse problems while Mouse is Jack's nickname for Dennis.Bookmarked by JudyBP
15 Apr 2026
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Dennis hasn’t spoken to his parents or brothers in years—not since they made it clear that being gay meant he wasn’t welcome in the family anymore. The only person who ever stayed was Grandma Whitaker.
When she calls and asks Dennis and his boyfriend of three years, Robby to come to Nebraska for her 80th birthday, Dennis can’t say no.
They go early, and two days of peace with Grandma turns into a storm when the rest of the family arrives for the party and finds Dennis already there, hand‑in‑hand with a man.
But Dennis isn’t the same scared kid they pushed out. And Robby? He’s not letting anyone hurt the man he loves.Bookmarked by JudyBP
14 Apr 2026
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Robby and Whitaker don’t call it anything.
It’s just there -
in looks that last too long, in touches that shouldn’t matter, in the way neither of them can quite stay away.Until Park starts getting too close.
And suddenly, Robby does something he definitely shouldn’t -
he gives Whitaker his chain.With Robby’s sabbatical getting closer, there’s a deadline neither of them wants to acknowledge.
One last shift.
One last chance to pretend this is nothing or to admit that it isn’t.Bookmarked by JudyBP
10 Apr 2026
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Dennis Whitaker had a daughter at nineteen.
A few years later, he’s exhausted, and simply doing his best.Working long hours, raising his five-year-old daughter alone, and constantly being judged for both, he’s learned to keep his head down and endure. But when an ER visit puts him and his daughter, Billie, under the scrutiny of Dr. Robinavitch, everything he’s tried to hold together begins to crack.
Robby sees what others don’t, or maybe he just doesn’t know what he’s looking at yet.
Amid quiet assumptions, unspoken guilt, and the fragile reality of a life built too early, something unexpected begins to take root between them.
In a world where Dennis was never meant to be a father, and Robby was never meant to get involved, this is the story of everything that happens anyway.
(AU. Timeline & setting details in author’s notes)
Bookmarked by JudyBP
10 Apr 2026