comingaback

BODY HEAT - HUCKLEROBBY FF - BY COMINGABACK - INFECTION AU - 153,050 WRDS

CHAPTERS 1 - 15 LIVE ON AO3!!!

CONTENT WARNING: THIS FIC CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, GORE, MEDICAL TRAUMA REALISM, BODY HORROR, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, DEATH, MORAL INJURY, PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, REALISTIC SURVIVAL SITUATIONS, WINTER WEATHER HAZARDS, DISCUSSIONS OF FAITH, MENTIONS OF HOMOPHOBIA, SUICIDAL IDEATION, AND MATURE ADULT THEMES THROUGHOUT.

SLOW BURN, MUTUAL PINING, HURT/COMFORT, EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCE, FOUND FAMILY, LONG FIC.

Life doesn’t stop when everything changes. It begins with overcrowded waiting rooms, failing systems, unanswered questions, and people insisting everything is under control.

When a violent infectious outbreak shatters PTMC and the U.S. Dr. Michael Robinavitch and Dennis Whitaker are forced into an environment that is changing faster than anyone can understand. As hospitals fail, cities unravel, and winter closes in, survival becomes less about saving lives and more about enduring the impossible choices left behind because of it.

(@jinxmine feel more than welcomed to share your thoughts as well!!)

obviously love a good stalking au, especially when it involves dennis as the one being the pervert.

omg, spin the bottle and/or seven minutes in heaven, friends locking them in a closet together as forced proximity.

arguing but secretly turned on by it.

the classic "we can't be together" trope. god mixing with a hurt/comfort of openly willing/wanting to be with the other x still deeply in the closet pairing.

homosexual cowboys... do i need to say more?

instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that they aren't actually dating.

a slow, wholesome nursing home au, if it means rabbot can stay by each other's sides 24/7 as peepaws.

i absolutely adore found family such as whitsantos!!! including a platonic, destined person

what about the fallback marriage pact where, towards the end of med school jack and robby made a pact that if neither of them were in a committed relationship or married by the time they reached their ten-year, they'd get together.

almost completely forgot about age reversal! with med school rabbot absolutely loosing it over older senior attending dennis whitaker.

so here are my favorite tropes!

god, you know i'm a sucker for a slow antagonizing burn. // i'm going to be honest… i love both tropes of fake dating and secret dating!! // i know this technically doesn't have to be best friends to lovers, but! i do love a very good highschool sweethearts who grows apart and then come back when they are older and changed people. that is why rabbot has my heart!!!! // you're telling me i'm supposed to act completely normal when there's only one bed sharing happening, especially mixing it with a slow burn god!! forced proximity. // ALRIGHT!!! BRING ME ALL THE HURT/COMFORT/TRAGEDY/SOUL-CRUSHING ANGST!!!! // i am someone who heavily only reads slice of life, modern au fics and/or write them. i really enjoy knowing that it could authentically happen irl and doesn't seem overly played up. // mutual pining turning into domestic bliss // do you guys even have to ask me this one… both.. moving on… // i will say i do like when things are "canon compliant," but headcanons are what make a fic worth it! // oneshots have always been my favorite! but with me currently writing my first long fic, i've grown favorable to both! // i feel like we haven't seen proper middle-age romance fics until rabbot and we NEED MORE OF THEM!! // isolated together fits perfectly with forced proximity trope def! because eventually that tension will break…hehe // GIVE ME BOTH ROOMMATES AND/OR NEIGHBORS PLATONIC AND ROMANTIC!!! // this isn't really genderbent but i do enjoy seeing trans representation in fics if that means both of them are t4t, t4c, etc. // ANGST! ANGST! ANGST! // so apocalypse, you say. have you by any chance heard of certain fic called… bodyheat, hucklerobby, forced closeness, slowburn, and its on ao3.. yes, please. but also just wholesome mundane things that fics can do make me so happy!! // as much as i love my heartbroken into a million pieces just to feel something, at the end of the day i truly adore happy endings.

when she takes him to his first parade/festival in pittsburgh it was definitely an overwhelming experience but so affirming for him. obviously victoria, cassie, mel, dana, emma, and rabbot (basically everyone) comes as a group or together.