Tag: Pairing: Jack Abbot/Michael “Robby” Robinavitch

“I want to be alone, Jack,” Robby said, short and sharp and pissy.

Fucking great. Apparently in the 45 minutes since Jack had last seen him, Robby had gone from devastation to anger. This would be fun.

“It’s nice to want things,” he drawled, deliberately light. “I wanted to walk out of Iraq on my own two feet, but hey. No plan survives contact with the enemy and all that.”

Robby turned then, looking at him over the top of the couch, face drawn, eyes dark in the low lights. “Yeah? You my enemy?”

Jack scoffed at the thought, setting the plastic bag on the bench inside the door, dropping his backpack to the floor, and then sitting down to take off the prosthetic. “Nah, man. Just a friend.”

Friend, he internally mocked. In a sense it was true, but it was also wildly insufficient.

Source: Bring Me to Life, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, episode tag to the season 1 finale. This is pure perfection. I’ve been thinking about Abbot following Robby home at the end – this version is full of feels and hotness, my favourite combo!

“Would it help to know I’m out here because it reminds me that I want to be alive?”

“I can think of other things for that,” Robby shot back, a little challenging.

“What, jumping out of planes? Did that, not impressed. Drugs? Not interested, even if it wouldn’t fuck with my license. Sex? You want to talk about the market for a traumatized, widowed, workaholic vet who’s down a leg? It’ll be a short conversation.”

“You’d be surprised,” Robby said, low, but the note of heat in it got Jack’s attention, finally had him turning back to look at Robby.

Source: The Call of the Void, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own

Adult. The first time Robby finds Abbot on the roof, he offers him an… alternative way to feel alive. Delicious!

“Do you feel it?” Robby asks, direct, and there isn’t alcohol on his breath, which Jack finds surprising. “There is something between us, something I’ve never had with anyone else. I know your footsteps, Doctor Abbot,” he whispers.

“Step, singular,” Jack says, as panic rises in his chest. Robby looks exhausted, wrecked, but God, Jack wishes he was right. Jack has nursed a very manly, very appropriate, but very real crush for a long time, and he’s never got over it. He does watch him. He’s always watched him. “Look, Robby, Michael, Mike,” he starts, because maybe Robby’s just stuck in work-mode, he needs to remember who he is.

Source: nothing good happens after 2AM – Chapter 1, by cicak – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, warning for suicidal thoughts, i.e. Robby’s mental breakdown. This covers the next 15 hours, and it’s gorgeous, and painful, and most of all full of so much love for these two beautiful, broken men.

Robby hadn’t come back to himself fully yet, still half-gone, so Jack leaned his forehead against Robby’s and murmured, “We’re okay, man.”

Robby took another breath, but it was shaking, different somehow. The hand at his neck moved up, cupping his jaw, some kind of energy flaring. Robby turned his head toward Jack, breathing against his jaw, a bright bloom of heat that shot straight through him, Jack’s heart suddenly racing. Robby pulled back slightly to look at him, thumb running over his cheek, a new glint in his eyes. The moment held, tension stretching between them, transforming into something Jack recognized: that aching, pulse-pounding moment before a kiss. Sound roared in his ears as that realization landed: Robby wanted to kiss him. And Jack wanted him to.

What the fuck.

Source: The Unexamined Life – Chapter 1, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, post-season 1. Jack gets injured, Robby freaks out – things change. This is simply delicious, an amazing Abbot POV as he works through his first time being attracted to a man. To Robby.

“Robby, you gotta get going, man,” he says, clapping him on the back once he reaches him. “Time to hand over.”

Robby glances up at the board with a worried frown.

“Maybe I should stay,” he says. “It’s been a rough shift so far—Whitaker lost his first patient earlier—and we have a few complicated cases pending.”

Jack meets Dana’s eyes over his shoulder, and Dana shakes her head slightly. So, yes, a rough shift, but nothing out of the ordinary for the Pitt.

Just Robby being Robby.

“You absolutely should not stay,” Jack tells him. “You shouldn’t have been working this shift in the first place, man. Now, I know you don’t want to let Jake down, and I know you’re not insinuating I can’t handle a few complicated cases.”

Robby looks down, then, meets Jack’s eyes. He looks even more tired than in the morning, looks like he’s done a double and not half a shift, and Jack refuses to let it get worse.

“It’ll be okay, Mike,” he says softly. “Trust me.”

Source: maybe sorrow was the thing – Chapter 1, by alasse – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Teen. What if Robby had ended up going to Pittfest with Jake after all? This is such a great canon-divergence and an even greater Abbot POV.