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welcoming you back home (the only one you have ever known) by rehiyrth
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
27 May 2026
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Summary
He’s eight again, he thinks. He’s eight again, and his dad just threw him into the kitchen wall after he had hid under his bed on Easter Sunday, because he didn’t want to go to church. It’s so boring, and it takes so long, and he wants to stay home and play with the lambs that were born just that morning. He thinks he can smell the earthy smell of the hay and soil from the farm, floating around and mixing with the antiseptic smell of the room he’s not quite sure he’s in. He’s eight again, and he had made his entire family late to the service, and he is a bad son. His eyes are closing again, and he tries something he hasn’t resorted to in years.
“Please, God,” he thinks, “let me be okay.”
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Dennis Whitaker hasn’t had contact with his family in years. After getting assaulted by a patient at work, he begins dreaming of his simple life before Pittsburgh; a small family farm in Broken Bow, Nebraska. Something deep inside of him is telling him to go home and rekindle broken bonds.
Except he really shouldn’t.