I keep thinking about this stupid ass idea. I think maybe it’s because I’ve seen so much Robby hate but also I’ve seen so much mean!Robby and idk maybe I just like making characters suffer when I can also relate.
But the song Devil Doesn’t Bargain by Alec Benjamin
I keep picturing Dennis and Robby, and at first it’s so good and Dennis is so fucking happy. But very quickly it starts to go south. Robby’s got his seven week itch and effectively ghosts him the first time pretends nothing ever happened at work. And Dennis confronts him and they make up and “get back together” but it’s only a couple more weeks before Robby’s eye is wandering again, he’s looking for something newer and exciting and he’s depressed and bitey and mean. They get into a huge argument pretty publicly and Dennis confesses he’s in love with Robby, and Robby gives him something like “well that’s your fucking problem not mine”.
On again off again, back and forth for a while until Dennis requests a change to night shift cause he thinks maybe they just see too much of one another and maybe they just need a little more space to separate what is and isn’t going on.
And Jack takes a notice. He’s not unfamiliar with Whitaker. The kid is sweet. But something about him is just so fundamentally different. And of course he knows Robby’s been fucking this kid. They’re best friends after all. But it sits in jacks stomach and twists up in knots because that used to be him and Robby.
He used to be the one in bed with robby when it was convenient for the older man, the one thinking he could change him, settle him, making him softer around the edges, make him happy, make him stay. And hell even now from time to time when robby can’t find anyone else to sink his teeth into he’ll show up to jacks in the night and be gone by morning.
Jack can see how it’s deteriorating Dennis. And this kid doesn’t deserve that. He’s too good for Robby anyway. He deserves something real and stable and anything but the asshole head of emergency medicine.
He goes as far as to question Trinity about what the fuck has been going on and she unloads on Jack about how much this bullshit with Robby has been fucking with Huck and how she can’t stand it. She’s even suggested he maybe reapply for a residency somewhere else as much as it would kill her to lose him, just so he could be free of whatever the fuck this is.
Jack does what he thinks is the morally right thing and talks to Dennis about it. If the kid wants to stay on nights he’ll gladly have him. But Dennis needs to know that this is how Robby is. It’s how he’s always been. And there’s no hope in changing him. He pleads with Dennis to just let everything with Robby go. Block his number if he has to. Keep the man from sinking his claws back in.
“I can’t.” Dennis cries, and Jack hugs him. “I love him… I love him so fucking much it’s killing me.”
“I know kid. I know…” Jack replies, his own voice shaking slightly. “Me too.”
But the devil doesn’t bargain.
