18 Bookmarks by Sybyl15
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“I’m- I can’t convince myself to commit to a longer stay,” Robby admits, frustrated by it. “It’d be better for actually getting somewhere with antidepressants, I know, but I feel like once I take away the work and the bike and everything else I do… there’s a clock on how long I can be naked like that. When it runs out, if I’m not back on the right side, I’ll get stuck as nothing, forever.” Robby drops his face into his hand. “Why does this sound like The Little Mermaid?” he moans.
“Is this the kind of place where they throw a black bag over your head and smash your SIM card, or can I still talk to you?” Jack asks.
~After a scare on his road trip, Robby does two weeks of inpatient care in Wisconsin... and you'll never guess who he uses his phone time on~
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14 Jun 2026
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"You... you took home Baby Jane Doe?"
Together, Robby and Jack grasp a new chance at family.
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30 May 2026
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Esther looked at him steadily for a long moment, and then took her glasses off. "And you think this isn't a therapy question, Michael?"
(After the Fourth of July, Robby grapples with making a new path forward, with Jack at his side.)
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06 May 2026
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“The Joshua Carter Center has a dedicated branch for fertility and reproductive science, with particular focus on high-risk populations and geriatric pregnancies. In fact — and you may not know this — it’s one of the highest rated fertility treatment centers in the country, with one of the highest success rates. Even in medical circles, it’s known as a bit of a Hail Mary option, and a referral here is, generally, for those patients who have hit the end of the road everywhere else.”
“And you’re…looking to refer someone in particular? Because I —”
“Yes,” she says. “Me.”
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Twelve years after she left without telling him, Anna Del Amico returns to Chicago and John Carter's life. Both of them are eager to catch up, but neither of them are prepared to admit that happily ever after hasn't come as easily as they'd once hoped. After hearing about the loss of Joshua, and feeling the desperation of her own failed attempts at having a child, Anna asks Carter to be her sperm donor.
This, he thinks, is a terrible idea...and yet...when has he ever let that stop him?
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04 Apr 2026
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Thanks to a tip-off from Santos, Langdon begins to suspect that Robby doesn’t plan on coming back from his sabbatical. He’s determined to save him, even though Robby appears to want nothing to do with him.
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30 Mar 2026
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About two weeks after Pittfest, Robby started to vividly imagine killing himself in the ER.
During Robby’s psych hold, Jack started to daydream about fighting him.When confronted with the depths of misery, each man has their own unhealthy way to cope - but they can't outrun reality forever. For Robby, that ends with a 72-hour psych hold. For Jack, that ends with a reunion with his best friend and a complete loss for what to do next.
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29 Mar 2026
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Samira looks at Robby and sees a father figure. Robby looks at her and sees himself. Jack Abbot sees them both so clearly.
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She can hear her college roommate’s voice in her head. “That sounds like a textbook case of daddy issues.” Which isn’t entirely wrong. Like many young women with unresolved father-shaped wounds, she has a tendency to imprint onto older men.
It would be less weird if Samira wanted to fuck Robby.
What she wants is so much worse.
And yet it feels just as inappropriate to imagine. He’s her boss. Her abandonment issues and aching loneliness should be checked at the door when she walks into work because she’s twenty-seven years old and this is a fucking emergency room.
And yet. It doesn’t stop her from wanting.
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25 Mar 2026
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While Ilya was in the CT, Trinity had found a video of him getting checked. As gruesome a scene as it was, what stuck with her was the way Hollander had hovered. Cliff Marleau, a former teammate of Ilya’s from the Raiders, was unsurprisingly the first to his side after decking the Tampa defenseman, but Hollander was hot on his heels. She assumed that their allegiance for the sake of All-Stars would allow for some visible concern. Hollander was more than concerned.
Trinity Santos is deeply bitter about missing the Pittsburgh-hosted MLH All-Stars Game until Ilya Rozanov is checked hard enough to land on PTMC's doorstep. In treating her longtime idol, she catches on to hockey's best kept secret.
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- Part 1 of love among the ruins
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14 Mar 2026
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I love you, thank you, I forgive you, please forgive me by Quagswagging
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
08 Mar 2026
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The dread was clinging to him now, heartbeat quickening. He couldn’t stop Robby from leaving. He couldn’t chain a grown man to a chair as much as he wanted to.
But he could buy time.
He could create a moment to stop the trip, or at least postpone it.
Jack wasn't proud of the plan that popped up in his head.
It was stupid.
It was destructive.
It could lose him a friendship.
But it could save a life.
Or, Jack isn't about to let Robby go on that damn sabbatical
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10 Mar 2026
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Frank Langdon's years in the ER. as observed by Jack Abbot
or: Jack watches Frank as he grows up, burns down, and claws his way back. but it is not his circus and not his monkey. he isn't involved at all. except he really is.
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14 Feb 2026
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Being a doctor meant being haunted.
This was the first thing Robby learned in his residency.
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A study of the five great losses in Robby's life and how they led to the one great gain.Series
- Part 1 of Lessons We Learn
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14 Feb 2026
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"Cleo…I want John to come stay with us once he's cleared to go home."
For a moment, the world stops. Cleo can't speak.
It takes her ten seconds to find her voice. "Peter….what?"
"I want him to stay with us while he recovers, and I want to be his primary caregiver. "
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John Carter comes to stay with the Bentons after his kidney transplant so Peter can be his caregiver. Cleo has her reservations, but learns there's more to John Carter than she remembers.
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04 Feb 2026
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Darnell nodded, glancing over Robby like he was trying to place him in the hierarchy of important to ignorable and it could go either way. "What's this?"
"MSF FNG," Jack shot back. Whatever that meant, he sounded amused.
Darnell scoffed and looked to Robby, expression going decidedly unimpressed. "Oh, yeah? You here to find yourself? Have an adventure? Do something hard?" he asked, each question more mocking than the last.
And there was that question again, like it was haunting Robby. He stifled his instinct to bite back and kept it simple: "I'm here to help."
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19 Jan 2026
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"Robby felt like an asshole even before he hit the call button.
Abbott had been crowing about his impending vacation days for weeks now. A reprieve from the madness he called it. Jack had even taken to pointing out the fire extinguishers scattered around the Pitt during handoff- just in case the place caught fire without him. So Robby knew it was shitty to call, shitty to put this- his crap on him-
But Jack had made him promise.
And he was trying, trying to be better. Trying to lead by example, trying not to end up on that damn rooftop- or at least trying to stay on the right side of the railing.
So he hit the fucking button."
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30 Dec 2025
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Admitting to suicidal feelings is a headache. They'll want him to get help and maybe take a break from his job to recover. Getting help requires filling out a lot of paperwork. Consent to treatment forms. Contacting HR. Figuring out his PTO. Fighting insurance to please just cover this. Looking for a program he likes, unless, of course, he gets involuntarily committed, which is exponentially more paperwork, and then everyone will know how contemptible this all is. Working is easy. Robby is good at what he does.
Set a little before S1 of The Pitt, Robby contemplates existence and meaning on the hospital roof where nobody is coming to save him.
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14 Dec 2025
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According to Wikipedia, a midlife crisis is “a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45 to 65 years old.” In Michael’s case, this includes a lot of hard conversations, reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, accidentally adopting his neighbor’s German Shepherd, and buying a secondhand motorcycle for some reason.
Hey, no one said that managing PTSD and emotional repression was ever easy.
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27 Sep 2025
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“Sorry if I woke you,” Robby says.
Jack shrugs. “Middle of the day in my time zone.” He waits a beat, and then asks, “You want to talk?”
“No.”
“You want a drink?”
“You'd allow that?”
“No,” Jack says. “Just lets me gauge how concerned I should be.”
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1x15 episode tag.
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- Part 4 of The Pitt Episode Tags
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25 Sep 2025
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Be kind to yourself, Cassie says in his head, soft and gentle. But Frank can’t. There is no world in which he can be kind to a version of himself that hurts Robby, especially sober. He’s supposed to be better now; he’s spent ten months clawing his way back inch by inch to being a person instead of a loose collection of hurts and cravings and spikes that pierced anyone nearby. But it seems that the version of himself that can connect with Robby, see eye-to-eye with him, talk to him without feeling like a gut punch, died the day of Pittfest last year.
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Three conversations between Langdon and Robby, after Langdon's return.
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24 Sep 2025