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Jack and Robby share a look. "Dennis," Robby starts. "We've been talking this morning and - you're welcome to stay as long as you like."
Dennis blinks. "That's - that's really kind of you, but I shouldn't impose. I can be out of here by the end of the week."
"Do you actually have anywhere to go?" Jack asks, more sharply than he intended.
Dennis hesitates, then shakes his head, eyes fixed on the table. "No, sir."
Jack's face softens. "Listen, kid, I'm not a Corporal anymore - you can just call me Jack off-shift, alright?" Jack waits until Dennis nods to continue. "As for staying here, you're not imposing, okay. Robby and I are offering."
Dennis sucks in a breath. "I don't - I don't understand why, though."
"Why?" Robby repeats. "Because you're in a tough spot, and we can help."
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Or, Dennis comes to Pittsburgh homeless and disowned by his family. Little by little, he finds a place he can call home again.
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Somebody need me too much
Somebody know me too well
Somebody pull me up short and put me through hell
And give me support for being alive
Make me alive. //
Somebody crowd me with love
Somebody force me to care
Somebody make me come through
I'll always be there
As frightened as you, to help us survive
Being alive
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"Let me see your hands," Robby holds out his own, palms up, and Dennis accepts defeat. His hands look pale and small compared to Robby's. Dennis suppresses a gasp at how warm Robby is, calloused fingers grasping his delicate wrists and turning them.
It's easy to see what caught Robby's eye. Dennis' cuticles are a mess.
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After moving in with Robby, Dennis develops some body-focused repetitive behaviors. Sequel to "and finally the tables are starting to turn"Series
- Part 2 of qpr hucklerobby
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On his way down from the roof, Robby finds someone on the 8th Floor, and learns how lacking resources for the unhoused can be.
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- Part 1 of qpr hucklerobby
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oh - my - god - keep - me from going lunatic by rolandtowen
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Nov 2025
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The Soldier stutters forward, placing its metal hand upon the bedsheets. "Permission to speak," it croaks.
"Granted." The handler holds its gaze.
"What...what is my mission?"
The handler considers for a moment, then: "Effective immediately, your mission is to obtain optimal levels of hydration, caloric intake, and sleep for at least seven continuous days. Understood?"
The Soldier nods. This is a test of its self-sufficiency. Its new owners want to know what it functions like at peak performance. Furthermore, the Soldier suspects that its owners want it to acclimate to these luxuries.
So they can take them all away again.
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After the fall of SHIELD, the Avengers bring a shivering, starving Winter Soldier to the Tower. This is the story of the recovery of Bucky Barnes.Series
- Part 1 of boots 'verse
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boots 'verse by rolandtowen
Fandom Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Nov 2025
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the slow recovery of bucky barnes, inspired by rudyard kipling's "boots" poem.
OMGKMFGL is the main work here and can be read alone. The Daily Logs contains a more detailed look at Bucky's thought process during the events of OMG.
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X-Men & Disability by rolandtowen
Fandom X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)
31 Oct 2024
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Exploring disability within the X-men universe, both canon and headcanons.
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Genosha Fics by rolandtowen
Fandom X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
18 Nov 2024
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Snapshots of Zuko and Sokka falling in love and changing the world after the war.
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With a resounding thud, Dennis’s backpack hit the hallway floor. He toed off his shoes and let his jacket simply fall to the floor. Any other day, Dennis would’ve hung his jacket and bag up, put his shoes on the rack, and returned his keys to the bowl. Today, though, he just wanted everything off of him. Now.
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Dennis works himself into overstimulation, on the brink of a full meltdown when he returns home from work. Jack is there to help him. To be his safety net.
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When Dennis moves in with Robby and Jack, they give him a gift that truly celebrates his age regression. Dennis is overwhelmingly glad and unbelievably appreciative. This doesn't stop him from longing for a certain soft relic from his past—despite the agony attached to it.
I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.
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01 May 2026
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“Come home,” Dennis says, like he even has any right to ask it.
“Why?” Robby’s voice cracks through the phone speaker. It sounds so tiny. So soft. So far away. “What's going on?”
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Or, Robby gets a call that cuts his sabbatical short.
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Dennis Whitaker has lived a life full of religious speculation, pain, and chronic depression/anxiety. Growing up the youngest of four in Broken Bow, Nebraska led him into early childhood trauma. In a town that could be dated back to the late 1800's, and hardly had even changed since then, there wasn’t much room for Dennis to become anything other than what his parents wanted him to be, a rancher, just like the rest of his brothers, and his father. When the opportunity to study Theology in college arises, Dennis agrees. A year into his studies, Dennis changes his major to medicine without anyone knowing. When his family receives a letter in the mail stating that Dennis changed his major, he is given two choices. Drop out and accept his godforsaken fate in Nebraska, or leave indefinitely. Choosing the latter, Dennis finds himself homeless while studying medicine. He doesn't let this deter him, and later makes it to his residency at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Now entering his fourth year as a med student, he’s entering his emergency medicine rotation, where he meets his new superiors, Michael Robinavitch, and Jack Abbot.
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Jack puts his baby daughter up for adoption at nineteen years old. He leaves her a note.
Dennis loves that note: the proof that he was always wanted.