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1. Restore to Me (the Joy) by GeodeImbolc

   Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   09 Sep 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Brendon "The Shark" Park/Dennis Whitaker
   • Original Characters
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Autistic Brendon "The Shark" Park
   • Avoidant Attachemnt Styles
   • Therapy
   • Original Child Characters
   • Divorce
   • difficult families
   • Dennis Whitaker is TOP DOG in this house
   • Vers Dennis whitaker
   • Vers Brendon Park
   • Gay Panic
   • Midlife Crisis
   • Impossibly Perfect Dennis Whitaker
   • Temper your expectations for real life this is fanfiction
   • I do what I want
   • Sometimes babygirl is a 42 year old divorced doctor
   • Touch-Starved
   • Dennis Whitaker is the dad who stepped up
   • Minor SMAU moments
   • Author doesn't know how family court works
   • Canon up to season 2
   • Post season 2 the pitt
   • Home Renovations
   • Proof you can bottom and still be Daddy
   • walk him like a dog
   • Grown Men Crying
   • The Way God Intended
   • You can't talk to me like that my hot younger boyfriend told me I'm pretty
   • Running this show on caffeine TikTok and VIBES BAYBEEE
   • Please don't hurt him
   • Co-Parenting
   • Infidelity (not from main characters)
   • Generational Trauma
   • Healing
   • Happy Ending
   • Brendon Park Centric
   • Sugar Daddy activities attempted

   Summary

   “Maybe I just wanna see your pretty face, Shark,” the younger man grinned. “But seriously, you’ve been…well, frankly, more of an asshole than usual lately. I don’t remember you acting like that when I was up in surgery. Strict, yeah. And you don’t pull punches. But I’ve never known you to punch down either. I don’t know man, not my business…But” He looked over his shoulder towards the waiting ED. “Change of pace might do you some good. Or you’ll hate it and I’ll be right there for you to cuss me out. Win-win.”
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   In which Brendon Park learns that love is not transactional.

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   English

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