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through a fractured existence by the_RiftWalker
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Jan 2025
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“No,” he snaps. He’s so tired and in so much pain but he will not let this go. “Say what you must, Jayce. Spit it out.”
They’re both immovable objects against each other’s force of will, but Viktor has had anger in his blood for days without an outlet and he wants a fight he can win. He’ll take Jayce head on, and do it gladly. Jayce, meanwhile, has always bowed to Viktor when it mattered and almost nothing could matter more than this.
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or: Viktor's condition is worsening and he must go to Zaun for surgery.
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let's talk about chemistry cause I'm dying to melt through to the heart of {his} molecules by the_RiftWalker
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
08 Jun 2024
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“Don’t let me go.” In his head it sounds like a plea, but he thinks it comes out as something more frantic, and therefore with more of a bite than he’d want; a stray dog refusing to give up a bone with a scrap of meat still left on it.
“Easy, easy,” Jayce soothes, then quickly- “I won’t. Don’t worry. Just breathe.”
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there's something caught in your teeth (a smile bigger than Andromeda) by the_RiftWalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2024
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Over Tommy’s shoulder: that’s how he first really laid eyes on Eddie Munson. The other boy was on the floor, propped up on one elbow. He was decked out in a pair of dark jeans that seemed to be more holes than denim and a faded black t-shirt, and he had a hand up over his nose. There was blood on the lower half of his face and a few tendrils of long curly hair were stuck to where there was blood already on his lips. It was October of ‘83, coincidentally around the time when he realised Nancy Wheeler had her eyes on him as much as he had his eyes on her. But Munson's eyes were wide and dark as pitch and Steve had a half moment of /Wow/ - like the same /wow/ as when he saw Nancy cheering for him at last week’s basketball game, a breathless feeling that caught in his chest - before the moment passed.
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Ice Under My Skin (Be The Warmth That Melts It) by the_RiftWalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Aug 2023
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“Stevie,” Eddie says softly. “You’re sick.”
“No m’not.”
“You have a fever, I’m pretty sure.”
“Fevers make you warm. I feel like I’ve stepped into Scoop’s walk-in.”---
Or: A self-indulgent sickfic
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Everyone aboard the Uhuru gets a yearly checkup - it's one of the few things that Dref is insistent upon. Nodoze goes to his and awaits one particular question that is a favourite of the doctor's: “How have you been sleeping?”
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“For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Romans 8:13).
Dennis wears the coverings of his youth: traditional black undershirt that covers him from neck to wrists and gloves that he only takes off in the safety of his own home. He wants to be touched. Doesn't know how to ask.
Robby has long-since given up on finding his soulmate - if he even has one. At fifty-two, he's tired of waiting. Tired of wanting. Tired of hoping.
Then: the shift from hell (and that's saying something after Pittfest), a hole in a glove, and a record-breaking number of scrubs changes.
We might get a happy ending, after all.
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30 Oct 2025
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“You’re my attending.”
“That’s not a no.”
“It should be.”
“Is it?”
Dennis Whitaker is damn cold in the too hot ER and there's a familiar jacket on the chair across from him. If only he knew who it belonged to before he put it on.
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29 Oct 2025
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“I don’t know how to treat him. It’s cruel to be nice, but it’s worse to be outright mean to him.’
“You are outright mean to him.” Dana scoffed. A glare came her way. “You’re mean to everyone.”
“That’s not true.”
“And you’re nice. You’re a good mentor. You’re good at what you do. You’re treating him right–equally. Somewhat.” Dana said, moving through the motions of teasing and assuring Robby that he wasn’t the worst person in the world.
“Somewhat?” Robby crossed his arms.
“You’re just…” Dana grabbed both of his shoulders as if to make an example out of him, “Touchy.”
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TLDR; Dana calls Robby out on his bullshit, and Robby is forced to confront both Dennis' feelings and his own. (Tags to be added!)
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27 Oct 2025
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Dennis Whitaker’s had one of those days... the kind that starts with a caffeine shortage and ends with him drinking his feelings in a bar he swore he’d never visit alone. He’s tired of being the department’s punchline, tired of feeling invisible, and definitely tired of thinking about his impossibly calm, too handsome attending. A few drinks and one way too honest confession later, he discovers that rock bottom apparently comes with a familiar pair of hands ready to catch him before he hits the ground.
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17 Oct 2025
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Dennis’s three brothers come for a visit and get invited to join the ER crew for an after-work midnight hang out. His brothers, upon hearing embarrassing anecdotes about Whittaker’s shifts, decide to share some stories of their own- if only they were actually embarrassing, and not getting Doctor Robby hot under the collar.
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Dennis is apparently the best bull-rider back home, Robby watches a video and learns some things about himself.- Language:
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