you loved him, didn't you?

In an effort to address Emmerdale's dangerously low literacy levels, the Emmerdale Village Library will be providing recommendations for stories about our beloved village.

For some reason almost all of them seem to be in the queer romance genre, but we persevere!

At the present time the librarian wishes to advise the patrons that the recommendations will follow the schedule as set out below:

Mega Mondays (10k+ words)

TBD Tuesdays

Wip Wednesdays (Fics that are currently in progress)

Throwback Thursdays (Pre 2019 fics)

Fix-it Fridays (Codas, episode fix-its etc)

Smut Saturdays (Self explanatory)

Short Fic Sundays (<5k words)

emmerdale. aaron dingle/robert sugden. aaron dingle/john sugden. 6.7k.

rating: teen. cw: homophobia, biphobia, internalised homophobia.

my very late submission for the 'forgot my invitation event'. 🫣 my prompts were - andy sugden, jealousy, and 'what were you thinking?'

“John?” Andy asks and he sounds confused now. A small voice in the back of Robert’s head tells him that he’s said too much, that he should stop, but the anger and alcohol in his blood drowns the sound out in his ears and he flexes his fists against at his side. “Robert I know John’s a prick, but tryin’ to mess with his relationship the day before his weddin’ is low even for you.” “He thinks he’s the golden boy don’t he?” He snaps back rhetorically, doesn’t expect or want an answer to that question. “And them all in there keep on tellin’ him that. How Dad’d’ve been proud of him. But the truth is he’d’ve just been another disappointment too.” And it’s spilling out of him now, like vomit and bile, sloshing in his stomach and threatening to splatter across the pavement and both his and Andy’s shoes. “Dad’ll be turnin’ in his grave tomorrow, a son of his marryin’ another bloke. He’d be ashamed.”