dennis has diabetes
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Something’s wrong with Dennis.
It starts small, just little things that Robby hardly registers at first. It’s a busy day, it’s been a busy week, so when it vaguely ticks that Dennis is a little quieter than usual during rounds, fumbling his notes, missing cues he normally catches, he doesn’t actually think twice about it.
Nor how when Robby asks him a question about a patient’s chart, and Dennis blinks like he’s been startled awake.
It’s only when Robby looks, really looks, that he notices that something is… off.Actually off.
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- Part 1 of dennis has diabetes
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Today has been busy, and Dennis has been rushed off of his feet.
He did eat, but he didn’t have time to finish his lunch, and he’s been so busy that he hasn’t had the chance to go back yet.
He’s halfway through updating a patient’s chart when the words on the screen blur, not fully disappearing but smearing together in a way that makes no sense. He blinks, hard, frowns, leans closer, but letters swim stubbornly out of focus.
That’s… weird.
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Dennis wakes up already on edge, like his skin doesn’t fit right. For a brief moment, he’s confused, and a little dazed, because he doesn’t actually recognise where he’s woken up.
He’s in a big room, airy and light, in bed that’s at least twice the size of his own.
There’s art on the walls, and pictures — a little blurry, which is odd —, and an assortment of objects and possessions which decidedly don’t belong to him.
Including a pair of crutches?
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It’s three o’clock in the morning.
At least, according to the glowing red sign on the wall.
03:21, specifically.
The Pitt is… okay right now.
From the handover Robby gave, the day had been beyond chaotic, but clearly the worst of it has blown over, leaving an ER that is surprisingly… peaceful.
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It’s an awful day.
It’s one of those shifts that feels like there isn’t a second to breathe. It’s back to back with trauma calls, cardiac arrests, patients deteriorating left right and centre.
They have four patients awaiting ICU before 8 o’clock.
Dennis hasn’t had time to eat or pee or drink or do literally anything other than run from room to room treating patients, and Robby won’t touch him, and he feels a little bit like he’s going insane.
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Dennis dips his head, cradling Robby’s face as he tenderly brings their mouths together.
It’s so different from earlier, not impulsive and volatile, but soft, tender.
Robby’s beard tickles a bit, as it scrubs against Dennis’ chin and cheeks. He likes it, likes it a lot. He’s imagined this beard a lot, against his skin, his face, in his hands, between his legs, fuck.
He drags his thumbs through the hair there as Robby opens his mouth beneath Dennis. Robby’s lips are cracked, a little dry, a little chapped, and Dennis knows it’s because the man never drinks any fucking water, no matter how much he and Jack try and force it into him.
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Dennis Whitaker has been dating Jack Abbot and Michael Robinavitch for a week.
Only a week, but also somehow already a whole week.
He doesn’t think he’s imagined the change, he knows he hasn’t, but it still catches him off guard sometimes, how easily most things have settled into place now that the three of them have stopped pretending there wasn’t something real between them.
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Dennis wakes up sweating, half of the covers thrown off of him, his side pressed uncomfortably against the heat of Trinity in her double bed. The room is dark and too hot and a little musty, and neither of them did more than strip off down to their underwear so he just generally feels… grim.
There’s a pounding behind his eyes, and his stomach is churning, and his teeth feel fuzzy, and his mouth feels dry and cottony and also fucking disgusting in a way that tells him immediately and with absolute certainty that drinking was a mistake.
Or at least — drinking as much as they did was a mistake.
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Dennis spends his Sunday drifting in and out of sleep, doing everything in his power to rest up before his night shift.
He dozes on and off, curtains half-drawn, the city noise muffled and distant. Every time he wakes, there’s that brief, disorienting moment where he reaches for his phone expecting a good-morning text that isn’t there yet.
It’s hard, without a warm body to accompany him, and it’s harder knowing that he’ll be going to work and neither of his partners will be there.
And Dana won’t be either.
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Robby gets the door open and Dennis doesn’t even try to play it cool.
He drops his bag just inside the entryway and throws himself forward, arms going around Robby first as he reaches a hand out to grab at Jack, clumsy and wholehearted and more than a little desperate. He presses his face into Robby’s shoulder, breathing him in as deeply as he can, desperate to coat himself in their scents. In them.
“Oh,” Jack says softly, arms coming around him without hesitation. “We missed you too, sweetheart.”
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The one downside of dating two middle aged men is there is a little bit of a time difference when it comes to arousal, neither of them quite able to keep up with him. It’s like anything the two of them do have Dennis straining against his boxers, but he’s learnt (even with his limited experience) that it takes just a little bit more to get the two going.
Well.
Robby more than Jack.
Jack’s just filthy in general, he has no qualms about indulging himself fully, but just like in everything else in life, Robby’s a little more restrained.
Dennis will be changing that.
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From the moment the sensor deploys, Dennis has a nasty feeling that something is wrong.
He activates it once it’s secure, watching the app whir as the countdown begins.
It’s his first time trying this brand, given that his stupid insurance apparently has decided they’ll no longer cover the tax on the brand he’d gotten fucking used to. It’s not like it’s that big a price gap, given that Jack and Robby still insist on paying, but it’s enough that it frustrated Dennis enough that he refused to discuss it and had very pointedly decided to try the ones his insurance would cover.
He regrets that now.
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Dennis wakes up with a sore throat.
It’s not really sore, so much as sort of prickly, like the way his throat burns after throwing up.
He chalks it up to acid reflux or something, maybe a little too much coffee, or eating too late before bed, and for the first day he thinks nothing of it.
Sure maybe he feels like he’s running a little high most of the day, and his monitor backs that suspicion up, but it’s not enough to be concerning and it’s not enough to be worth mentioning to his partners.
He’s fine, obviously.
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The air in their room is cool, but Dennis still winds two warm arms around Robby’s neck, ignoring the way it makes him shiver, nose tucking into his collar as he clings onto him a little longer than necessary.
Robby indulges him though, gently running a hand through Dennis’ hair before he finally pulls away.
“I’ll see you later sweetheart,” he whispers, then, as he pulls back, “Behave.”
The latter part is directed at Jack, who snorts.
“No promises.”
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Work is exhausting, and Dennis almost falls asleep in the car on the drive home, jerking himself awake as they pull up outside the house.
Jack’s enjoying his first day off in a week or so when they walk in, feet up, sprawled in front of the TV.
Dennis wastes no time in joining him, curling up with his head in Jack’s lap as he feigns interest in whatever show he’s watching.
It’s obvious how truly drained he is, eyes a little glassy, and it’s only a matter of minutes before his breathing has evened out, lashes resting still against flushed cheeks, dead to the world.
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There’s no reason for them to be in a conference room really, given that this meeting is just for three people.
It’s too big, too cold, and it smells like burnt coffee and dry erase markers and the general sort of stale mustiness of the non-clinical rooms.
Robby would be lying if he said he was in a good mood. Actually, his jaw has been clenched so hard that his teeth hurt since the very minute Gloria opened her mouth.
He hasn’t read anything on any of the slides she’s been showing them, titled as they are with something sort of soul-sucking like ‘Optimising PMTC’s Emergency Department Flow Under Fiscal Constraints’.
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Coming off a night shift is hard.
The transition from night to day sucks, coming home at daylight, waking up to the fading lights, the exhaustion that seems to permeate every fibre of Dennis’ being?
He hates it.
So much.
He hates trying to play catch-up with his circadian rhythm, hates trying to sleep as little as possible so he can reinstate himself into a daytime routine, it just sucks so much.
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When Robby blinks awake, the room is dark, but the slits of light intruding from the gaps in the curtains are brighter than they were the last time he woke.
It doesn’t feel like much time has passed since then, disturbed then by Jack’s return home after his shift. He hadn’t stayed awake for too long though, just welcomed the kiss pressed to the side of his mouth and let Jack collapse down onto the empty side of the bed, before he’d sunk back into the warmth of Dennis curled up into his side, and the satisfaction that both of his partner (his husband and their boyfriend) were safe home and sleeping.
It’s Dennis who’s awake now, who’s woken him as he gingerly tries to detangle himself from Robby’s embrace, blonde curls ruffled as he blinks blearily up at him.
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In the few months that Dennis has been living almost full time in the Abbot-Robinavitch household, he’s managed to spend most of his time wearing clothes that do not belong to him.
Which is not an issue, not in the slightest, because there’s something deeply satisfying to both men to see their partner dressed in their clothes, whether that’s draped in one of Robby’s T-shirts, the fabric loose as the collar slips towards his shoulders, or in Jack’s sweatpants with the waistband all bunched up and the legs rolled, it’s something that both of them like.
A lot.
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Aligning their schedules so that they manage to get a day off as a three seems to be a near-impossible task.
For as much as Robby and Jack go to scheduling time and time again, the very valid point of the fact that having neither of them on means the Pitt is left without an ED attending, which means the hospital has to either pull someone in from another department, or go without.
It’s the same argument they’ve been making since they became attendings, so it’s not like any part of this argument is new, it’s just additionally frustrating now trying to work a third person into the mix.
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