wrigs

yes, he was hungry. he’d been having to ration strictly this week. the food pantry on campus hadn’t had its thanksgiving pity bump.

but he was starving for air. he’d been wearing this binder too long, and he felt like he couldn’t get a full breath. suffocating on his own had become his normal.

he was starving for touch. it had been so long since he’d been hugged. robby had been touching his neck and shoulders, but going up to the eighth floor every night after his shifts seemed to wash those away, even if he hadn’t had a real shower in who knows how long. (dennis remembered. it was last thursday when he snuck in behind someone at the campus gym. that had been five days ago.)

dennis couldn’t afford tape. he couldn’t afford a nicer binder. he couldn’t even afford fucking food that wasn’t charity. dennis was starving.

then robby found him.

he just…appeared. appeared in the doorway of the dilapidated wing and took dennis’s burdens as his own. opened his home to this stray with an incomprehensible past.

and dennis was no longer hungry. robby fed him. and just kept feeding him. he made dennis’s dinners and packed his lunches and had him drink a gross meal replacement drink for breakfast when he said real food made him nauseous that early.

dennis didn’t even know men like robby knew what transtape was, but it was there one day at the foot of his bed. (dennis had a bed now! with sheets that were clean!) robby had put it on a subscription. dennis always had some. his ribs didn’t feel like they were poking his lungs anymore.

and he touched dennis. not in a bad, dirty way. in a way that made dennis feel warm and held. he let dennis lean on him when he was tired and brought dennis into his chest when he’d had a hard day.

dennis gets flirted with by a bunch of lesbians (to which he awkwardly responds “oh i’m not…”), and the whole time trinity is like “wtf, i’m right here??”. it isn’t until a young trans person comes up to trinity and asks about her transition that they realize what’s happening. then they’re both like,

“ohhhhhhh, we’re stupid”

♡✧˚ 𝘋𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘹 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳

𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘺: 𝘈 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯.

𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘵. 2 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦

denwhitaker

♫ 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘥𝘦, 𝘉𝘫ö𝘳𝘯 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘧𝘴 - 𝘏𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘖𝘯 𝘈 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨

we can finally stop dodging spoilers

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medicalmuse: Finally!!!

c.mckayy: how was it? harrison has been begging to go

⤷ denwhitaker: it was really good ⤷ medicalmuse: He'll love it!

flangdon_: Mel and I saw it last week. Best thing I've seen in a while

⤷ mel.king: I was just really happy to watch something other than Elf...

samiram: i don't know how you guys handle a 12 hour shift and still go see a movie after

⤷ denwhitaker: monster and sheer willpower

trintos: you should've told me that's what you were seeing so i could've 3rd wheeled

⤷ medicalmuse: We both know den would've been our third wheel 💕 ⤷ denwhitaker: i'd rather not 3rd wheel my girlfriend and my best friend... ⤷ yoyogarcia: i got this whitaker- ⤷ yoyogarcia: trin i'll take you after next shift ⤷ trintos: ❤️

medicalmuse

♫ 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦 - 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵

I'm never bowling with Den ever again-

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denwhitaker: i tried to help you

⤷ medicalmuse: And then you laughed at me when I got a gutter ball- ⤷ jackabbot: that's cold whitaker

trintos: no cause how tf is he THAT good?

⤷ denwhitaker: there's not much to do in broken bow but the next town over had a bowling alley

j.tori: Oooooh we should do a day shift bowling night!

⤷ utahdiaz: excluding the night shift now? ⤷ j.tori: No! It's just the schedules ⤷ c.mckayy: we'll plan it when you've got the night off

nursejesse: never expected whitaker to be a bowler..we should play together sometime

⤷ denwhitaker: i'd be down for some real competition ⤷ medicalmuse: Rude!! ⤷ nursejesse: you're on!

SMAU Summary: When Dennis Whitaker leaves the small town of Broken Bow, he leaves behind a lot more than just his family and some farm animals. He leaves behind his childhood best friend, perhaps the only person that's ever really known him. Can he start over completely in Pittsburgh or will there always be something just in the rearview that he can't ignore?

Dennis Whitaker x f!reader

Childhood best friends to lovers central, told through a series of instagram posts, text messages, and the occasional old fashioned writing.

Chapters:

Prologue - here

Chapter 1 - here

Chapter 2 - here

Chapter 3 - here

Chapter 4 - coming soon…

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"Drink, mutt."

"Daddy... touch me..."