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1. Just Because I Carry It Well by thegingerbatch (WendyBird) for WheelsOfFire

   Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   22 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker
   • Dennis Whitaker
   • Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
   • Trinity Santos
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Closeted dennis
   • Angst
   • Suicidal Ideation
   • Age Difference
   • Unethical choices
   • But isn’t that the whole point
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • just weed
   • Liberal abuse of em dashes because they’re sexy
   • And because none of these people know how to say what they mean

   Summary

   Being good at details means he's pretty good at making sure none of his own details spill out into the open, even while he's cataloguing everyone else's.

   And that sense he can't shut off, that thing that lives under his skin and watches and watches and watches? It is always tuned in to whatever frequency Robby is on.

   He doesn't mean to notice. He absorbs the awareness, epidermis to dermis to bloodstream, the constriction that makes the hair stand up on the back of his neck.

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   Trinity throws a going-away party for Robby. Dennis puts together all the pieces of Robby he can’t stop noticing. Some bad decisions are made, for (hot) self-actualization reasons. Only the last chapter will be explicit.

   Language:

   English

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   9,002

   Chapters:

   3/3

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