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The first thing he sees when he lifts up the first piece of paper is his own name. Robert, written in Aaron’s handwriting. His heart rate instantly picks up, very confused over the fact that he seems to be holding a letter in his hand. Aaron wasn’t a letter person, and why he’d be writing to Robert, he can’t really wrap his head around.
He shouldn’t read it. While the letter may be addressed to him, it was never sent and is obviously hidden away at the bottom of a box in the corner of a cupboard, not meant to ever be read by anyone.
But Robert is only human.
12 days of Christmasdale: a Christmas Eve miracle
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- Part 4 of snow is falling as carolers sing
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They hadn’t talked a lot about Seb since getting back together. Aaron had tried asking Robert about him, if he wanted to make contact again, but Robert would quickly change the subject, seemingly not very keen on the thought at all. Aaron understood it to some degree, since Robert was still struggling with just getting through the day and the idea of bringing a kid into that must feel overwhelming.
But Aaron is practically aching with longing at this point. When he isn’t occupying himself with looking after Robert or working overtime to not let the guilt over everything to do with John consume him, all he thinks about is Seb. What Seb was like now, what he looks like, if he ever thinks about his Daddy Aaron and Daddy Robert. If he hates them. Hates him.
12 days of Christmasdale: a big Christmas declaration
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- Part 3 of snow is falling as carolers sing
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the snow is so cold, but our love can be bold by thequeenvic
Fandoms: Emmerdale (TV 1972)
20 Dec 2025
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Vic keeps trying to tell herself that that’s all it is. That it’s all sex and nothing else, the two of them looking for any drop of comfort wherever they can, and some days it’s easy to believe. Some days, they have a quickie in one of the barns and go back to work as if nothing’s happened, their old dynamic firmly in place. But other days, Matty stays late into the night, and once he finally leaves, there’s a knot in Vic’s chest that won’t come undone for several days.
12 days of Christmasdale: Christmas at the farm
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- Part 2 of snow is falling as carolers sing
- Part 2 of suddenly, life has new meaning
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Robert smiles at the memory. For their first and only Christmas together in the downstairs flat, when they’d had both Seb and Liv and everything was perfect, they’d opened the presents sitting at the foot of the tree. They’d bathed in a sea of wrapping paper and boxes - Robert hadn’t had a lot of self control when it came to gifts - while watching Seb play with his new toys and Liv show off the pricey boots she’d been begging for for months.
Now, there’s only a handful of presents under the tree. It looks a little bare, and Robert’s heart aches a little as they sit down, but quickly shakes himself out of it; today is a happy day, and he’ll make sure it stays that way.
12 days of Christmasdale: Christmas gifts
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- Part 1 of snow is falling as carolers sing
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It’s over. It had taken a while, but it’s over. The police had found Mackenzie, and both he and Aaron are recovering in hospital. They’ve still got a long road left to go, but they’re alive, which is the most important thing. No one really knew where John had gone off to, but with the amount of police presence in the village and the surrounding areas in the days after the whole thing went down, everyone assumed he had done a runner and was probably somewhere on the continent by now.
Typical, Robert thinks. John had always been a slimy one, just slippery enough to not get caught, so it doesn’t really surprise him that his brother had avoided police capture. But he comforts himself with the fact that he would never have to lay eyes on John ever again, and is perfectly fine with forgetting he’d ever existed to begin with. He already had a complicated relationship with one brother, he didn’t need another one.
After the gorge debacle, Robert is ready to move on from everything related to his so-called brother and pull the tatters of his life back together. Unfortunately, things have never been that simple.
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“I’m going to visit Brody. He was a mate. As close as you can get to a mate inside, anyway.”
“Right… any particular reason why you’ve decided you need to see this Brody right now, when your crazy ex is literally gunning for us?”
“It won’t take long. I just – Kev lied about so much, right?” Robert rubs a hand against his forehead agitatedly. “About the money, about him dying. All I can think about is what else he’s lied about over the years. Everything he’s ever said to me keeps going round and round in my mind, I need to know what was true and what wasn’t. Brody was close to Kev before I even got to Hotten, so if anyone can give me answers it’s him.”
(or, robert finds out about the self-stabbing.)
12 Days of Christmasdale Day 1: Christmas Gifts
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"Robert’s skin is worn and dry, pale from years of minimal sun exposure. There is a new scar, pale and ragged, underneath his left eye, and a pale bruise sits on his jaw, almost healed. There are new lines etched into his face, and Aaron doesn’t think that’s fair. They were supposed to do this together, growing older, and now Robert’s gone and done it without him."
Aaron is added to one Robert Sugden's visitor list in August 2025. He's completely and utterly over Robert. He is. So, of course he keeps visiting him.
12 Days of Christmasdale - Day 12: A Christmas Eve Miracle
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Robert’s been in a coma for a week. Actually, 6 days, 14 hours and just under 20 minutes.
Aaron has barely taken his eyes off of him the whole time, taking up residence in the uncomfortable visitor’s chair by the bedside in the hospital room. He’s only left the room a few times, to shower and occasionally to eat. He would have been kicked out many times by now but Liam had pulled some strings with a hospital administrator he used to work with so he’s allowed to stay.
So he sits, and stares, and cries. And seethes.
Christmasdale day 12: A Christmas Eve Miracle
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Five unexpected moments of support Robert gets from his fellow villagers at The Hide's Christmas party - and one expected one.
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- Part 8 of hear those sleigh bells jingling
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21 Dec 2025
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It had been Moira’s idea to do a Secret Santa on the farm. It had been a hard year - and their first working together, the Barton’s and the Sugden’s, she’d explained, holding out a mug with tiny slips of paper folded inside, and so Secret Santa was a chance to do something nice for each other, get to know each other.
Robert of a few years ago would have thought it all to be terribly naff. Robert of now - well, he was a different person than he used to be.
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