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“Merry Christmas,” Robert hummed, accepting the kiss Aaron pressed to his waiting mouth. “I can’t believe it’s Christmas Day and I’m waking up with you.”
Aaron’s expression was soft, as he replied. “It feels like a dream sometimes,” he admitted, and it did, it really did.
or - a series of missing moments from Robert's first Christmas out of prison.
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27 Dec 2025
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I can't seem to let myself leave you (but I can't breathe anymore) by emilia_kaisa
Fandoms: Emmerdale (TV 1972)
26 Dec 2025
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Aaron doesn't register the first symptom.
Or he does, but he doesn’t think much of it, his mind foggy with pleasure, his forehead pressed against the wall, nails scraping the raw timber. There’s just the slightest itchiness in the back of his throat, surely caused by the cold winter air and strained shouts Aaron has been trying to swallow down unsuccessfully, his voice echoing in a freezing space of the barn.aka
It's 2015. Katie is alive, Robert is getting married, and Aaron is quietly dying.
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26 Dec 2025
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aaron and robert's december weeks away
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18 Dec 2025
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"Here lies the physical evidence of their time spent apart. Presents wrapped and unsent. Unreciprocated. Proof, maybe, of Aaron longing for him in absentia.
He tears away the wrapping paper. Purple, pink and orange stripes, topped with an aggressively bright blue. The ugliest bobble hat he’s ever seen."Robert's looking for Christmas ornaments in Aaron’s attic when he finds a box with his own name on it. Thinking it might be some of his old stuff, he opens it and finds six wrapped gifts in it— one for each year he was gone.
12 Days of Christmasdale. Day 1: Christmas Presents
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"But Aaron went through life alone because of Robert’s mistakes. And so, Robert owes it to him to listen. Even though he’s five years and six months late, even if it might mean nothing in the end, even if his chest feels hollow all over."
Robert is released from prison. As he makes his way back to the village, he listens to all the voice messages Aaron left him over the years.
Or: They're both perpetually in motion, moving towards each other.
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29 Nov 2025