Okay, so I realized it might be helpful to link all your wonderful and asks and headcanons below! I'm new to Tumblr and still working out how to do this, so lmk if I screw up the links!
First of all, here's the fic: All My Hope Unbroken
And here's the HCs (short and long ones):
Nightmares
Grace & Gale #1
Grace & Gale #2
Buck & Bucky raising a girl
Grace testing boundaries #1
Grace testing boundaries #2
Grace's understanding of the Buckies relationship:
Bathtime drama!
Buck vs. Bucky with Grace #1
Buck vs. Bucky with Grace #2
Bucky vs. Bucky with Grace #3
Beach Day
Gale accidentally hurts Grace
Vaccines Drabble
Grace calls Gale Dad Drabble
Tiny baseball HC
Gracie gets sick
Grace's fears
The headcanons that started this whole fic LOL
Okay, I think I got most of them ... I'll add to this as I answer more! I do love and appreciate all of your thoughtful questions, thank you SO much <3
Jack Abbott and his psychiatric service dog and married life with Robby head canons no one asked for 👍
•Jack had just wanted a project dog for himself to train and have fun with and to keep him active with his new found running blade he obtained through lots of fights with the VA and Tricare.
•Jack ends up with a couple month old brown Aussie Shepard he names Lexapro, they call her Lexi, she’s sassy and dominant with Jack and keeping him in check. She’s a great fetch partner for Jack and she’s quick to take naturally to playing disc.
•Then she starts naturally alerting and tasking to Jack’s ptsd symptoms to his own demise.
•Robby’s chuckling dryly—he can’t laugh now because she’s quick to task for him and run to comfort him too.
•To Jack’s reluctance she starts working as a psychiatric service dog for him. Lexi heel’s tight to Jacks side and trots along side his wheelchair happily without a leash when he uses it.
•Despite Lexi’s love for working she gets a lot of kicks out of doing just any general disc practice but especially disc competitions that Jack finally makes himself free time from the ED to do.
•Robby is very happy that Jack will release himself from his work to channel his brain into something else besides medical work and volunteering at the VA.
•Robby will look outside the back door of their small downtown home and see Jack and Lexi doing stuff like this.
•It’s the first time in a very long while that Robby has seen Jack be able to fully relax with such an outlet so often.
•Lexi has a black tactical style service dog vest but she has her own name badge and photo for when she’s working for Jack in the ED :3
•He occasionally lets her go be a therapy dog for someone who’d just lost a family member or an injured person or child in need of comfort.
•She’s so attentive to Jack when she’s working and sat next to his heels or between his legs as he works.
•Though Lexi will go running to Robby if her and Jack walk into the ED for their shift and she can already sense and sniff out Robby’s unease and dazing. Same to if it’s a night off and Robby’s returning from a shift.
the reason why jack abbot is so competent, hot, charming, thoughtful, determined, resourceful, dependable and flirty in the pitt is because we see everything from robby's perspective.
I hate that I have to be that person on release day, but if I see you all passing around the Shawn Hatosy “Yes, Chef” audio like a Google Drive heirloom, I am going to personally call Shawn Hatosy to snitch on you…
Quinn is a small, woman-owned platform built to pay writers and voice actors. Quinn is a team of 11 people! This is not like Netflix where pirating it is sticking it to a corporation. It is directly cutting the people who made it out of getting paid. It also violates their terms and can get content taken down, which ruins it for everyone.
Also, these audios are intimate. Voice actors are performing vulnerability and desire for an audience that is choosing to be there. They’re mature, interested, and engaged. Leaking that outside of that space is invasive. Do not leak it. Do not be a creep.
If it is good enough to be foaming at the mouth over within hours, it is good enough to pay a few dollars for. Do not be strange about art you claim to love.
dr robby on a rampage attempting to externalize his self loathing onto every person he sees struggling with something he can map to his own Problems™️ but then baby jane doe parries his attack perfectly by being zero years old
dr robby with colleagues: i see you have this problem that somewhat mirrors one of my own, unfortunately as far as my subconscious is concerned you are now Me and i need you to subject yourself to the exact unhealthy coping mechanism i use to deal with this issue myself. whitaker start isolating. samira start repressing. langdon doubt yourself forever. al hashimi Leave.
dr robby with abandoned infant: fuuuuck the only way forward is love and hope and forgiveness
You can see that Robby was trying so hard to hold back his tears as soon as Abbot started talking to him at the beginning of the episode.
That's his best friend, his best friend who finally realised how bad the situation is, his best friend who is concerned about him and his best friend who is finally speaking up and trying to talk to him about this, and Robby knew he wouldn't be able to handle it.
So when he finally breaks, the expression on his face means so much. He is letting it out, he is crying, he is finally talking to someone about it, who knows exactly what he is feeling.
This deep devotion to the job, the guilt of wanting to leave it all behind. Knowing that he, in fact, DOES make a difference by being here and that going away could cost lives.
Jack knows it because he is Robby's nightshift counterpart.
"You need this place as much as it needs you."
“I'm still your emergency contact and I don't want to be contacted.“
My tiny contribution to post-season meta: I love that Jack was just slightly off his game in the finale. The birth was not a comfortable space for him - a procedure that was new - and he was watching for Robby even as he was trying to provide the best care to a patient who didn't want it. And when he and Robby finally did talk in the trauma room, Jack was restless, fiddling with his ring long after mentioning his wife, shifting from foot to foot, chin up, chin back, all the while moving deeper into Robby's personal space. I loved him casting around for the words that would reach Robby, and not knowing exactly what they would be. Masterfully done.
Robby and Jack meet in med school and hit it off instantly, are best friends, close as two people can be without being lovers
Jack meets Elizabeth in residency and they’re perfect for one another in a way that Robby thought was hallmark romantic but didn’t exist in real life until he witnessed it with his own eyes between his best friend and this kind-hearted easy-going second grade teacher
Elizabeth loves Robby immediately and Robby loves her back, for how much she loves and truly sees and understands Jack, but also because she’s truly a wonderful person
Robby and Elizabeth cope with Jack’s absence together when Jack’s gets deployed: they get beer together, Elizabeth will cook him dinner when she knows he on for a long set of shifts, Robby will bring her her favourite wine and pastries. They commiserate in missing Jack in different ways and are each others support system, growing very close in the time that Jack is deployed
Robby is Elizabeth’s first call when she gets the devastating news that Jack has been in an accident, it’s severe, his status is unknown beyond that he was airlifted to the American medical hospital in Germany. Robby drives to their home at 2am on the phone with a teary, terrified Elizabeth, already formulating a plan to get them both to Germany
They tag-team Jack’s recovery when he loses his leg - Elizabeth with all her endless positivity and hopeful outlook, and Robby with his nuanced medical understanding and firm words when Jack’s stubbornness and grief try to hinder his progress.
It’s years of love and care between three people in different ways, and when Elizabeth unexpectedly but excitedly becomes pregnant, Robby is the first to hear the news - in the sixth week of pregnancy, almost the moment Jack and Elizabeth find out, and certainly well before it’s considered safe to share the news
When they ask Robby to be their child’s godfather, he cries, touched beyond measure even though the Catholic concept is different from his own Jewish traditions.
They dote equally on Elizabeth, fretting over and caring for her, until the seventh month of pregnancy, when the three of them are heading to a Pens game: Robby in the backseat, Jack driving and Elizabeth in the passenger seat.
The semi truck comes out of no where. Jack never even saw it, until suddenly they’re T-boned in the intersection with a sickening crunch on the passenger side. Jack’s prosthetic is crushed, he’s cradling a broken arm, lacerated head, and he’s almost certainly concussed and bruised to hell. Robby is in a remarkably better state, nursing perhaps fractured ribs and scrapes and bruises. Elizabeth, unconscious in the passenger seat, is a different story.
Jack and Robby have never felt desperation like this in their life, never worked so hard on a patient, as they frantically try to treat her devastating crush injuries with no supplies, no monitors and no equipment on the side of the road, ignoring their own injuries. Robby performs CPR on Elizabeth, with Jack next to him and unable to help, cradling his fractured arm. The doctors inside both of them know that it’s a lost cause, though they refuse to admit that. For Jack’s unborn child, Robby must keep her heart pumping.
The paramedics transport them to the hospital, where Elizabeth is officially declared dead, and her baby is delivered. Jack and Elizabeth’s daughter lives for four days, seventeen hours and twelve minutes before she succumbs to the injuries sustained from hypoxia and traumatic delivery. Jack names her Michaela Elizabeth Abbot, holds her to his chest as she is christened by the hospital’s pastor, kisses her forehead, and commits her tiny face to memory. When she passes, it’s peacefully in Robby’s arms in the NICU, with Jack unable to be there, feeling like he’s betraying Elizabeth by being the one there instead of her, but equally unwilling to leave Michaela alone in her death.
Robby sings every Disney song and lullaby that he knows to Michaela as her time approaches. He cries silently as Michaela’s breathing slows and the pink colour seeps out of her skin. She’s not in any pain, but he mourns the life she could have had, the parents that Jack and Elizabeth could have been, the uncle that he could have been. He misses Michaela more than words could ever describe, even as he holds her.
He misses Elizabeth desperately, shell-shocked that in a matter days their life could be so turns upside down. Robby feels immeasurably guilty, being there instead of her, though he knows logically that she is dead. He wonders if his compressions were good enough: they couldn’t save Elizabeth but his compressions couldn’t even keep Michaela oxygenated well enough to live either? What was the point? Was this baby in his arms dying because he wasn’t good enough? Will Jack ever forgive him?
When he returns home, it’s cradling a handmade box in his arms containing a lock of Michaela’s hair, the bonnet and christening dress she wore, and clay molds of her hands and feet. In Robby’s bedroom, he finds Jack curled up in his bed. The man has a key, has had one for the entirety of their long friendship. He looks comatose in Robby’s bed, a puppet with his strings cut. Eyes dead, unshowered, devastated. Robby crawls into bed next to him, and without a word Jack slides into Robby’s space.
“She’s dead?”
Robby considers offering details, but decides against it. Tears slip out of the corners of his eyes. “Yeah.”
They lie together in Robby’s bed, not an inch of space between them, and the thought that Elizabeth and Michaela could be together surprises Robby in the comfort it provides him, even if he’s not sure it’s true.
In the days, weeks, months, years following, the lines between Jack and Robby blur. Sharing each others space has always been easy but now it’s unquestionable. Another person in his bed at night comforts Robby when grief threatens to choke him. Jack lets Robby bathe him and feed him and fret over him when the depression feels insurmountable, and Robby’s grief and guilt feel slightly more manageable when Jack is there with his understanding eyes and stubborn patience.
When the lines between friendship and lovers begin to blur, it’s almost unnoticeable. A kiss goodbye feels as natural and easy as breathing. The intimacy of lovers doesn’t feel as daunting when you’ve shared a bed on and off for years already, seen nudity in all its forms and explored the depths of grief and vulnerability together, and still managed to claw your way out the other side, side by side.
When Jack and Robby do get together as lovers, it’s not an earth-shattering, nerve-wracking revelation. It’s just a longtime coming.
there are some great fics out there so i know i’m not the only one but i’m thinking very hard about jack/robby/dana. married jack/robby and newly divorced dana. benji never knew what to do with all that anyway. jack is a flirt and robby is a jealous bastard (CANONICALLY!) but dana doesn’t count. that’s their dana. dana who holds the rooftop secret for both of them. dana who can smack robby around and who robby would do anything to protect. rewatched s1 and did we SEE how robby cupped dana’s face when she got punched. do we understand how jack entrusts robby to dana every day. these two would jump all over the chance to treat her right 🙂↕️ and bonus for this being the juiciest juicy gossip for perlah and princess
like Emma who thinks that the orthopedic surgeon just gets a bad rap even though Dana and everyone she trusts is like no girl it's SUPER weird for him to be even tolerable to be around, he's a genuine nightmare of a coworker, but he doesn't snap at her....doesn't bark orders.....doesn't castigate her in front of everyone when she makes a mistake because she's still learning......surely his outbursts with other people must just be because they're catching him on a bad day.....
and then for some reason, it comes as a total shock to her when he pulls her into the alley behind the dive bar he took her to for drinks after a shift one day to shove his tongue down her throat and his hand down the front of her pants, but the blood rushing to her head kind of scrambles her brain and makes it hard to remember to say anything when he's making her feel so good
The crazy thing about the Pitt is that there are like five Chekhov’s guns and they are shooting different mirrors and bouncing off them all around that damn hospital and they all are going to hit Robby in the head.
Let us all start with a hearty "Fuck ICE" and a good chuckle because LMFAO... Jesse walked into that moment with a level of "FUCK THE AUTHORITIES" that played out so beautifully that it's worth doing a playback for.
Because where McKay is instantly worried the moment she sees them. Robby wants them gone, but he knows he has to play the game. He hates it but he has to. And Victoria's a little nervous just to be there when we see her but Jesse Van Horn does not give a single fuck about these men.
He makes his way through them. Not around. And not politely. Just slides between where these fucks are standing like some protective wall and tells them, the big one SPECIFICALLY, "I need those removed so I can check her vital signs".
Because Jesse has eyes on him from the moment he walked over because Jesse can spot a fucking problem.
And sure, they look equally shook that this man is talking to them like that, but here's the thing: It's not a question because he's not asking.
It's an order and while those chucklefucks can look at each other all day with their thumbs up their asses, he and Robby kind of close ranks for a moment. Jesse takes a seat, but Robby moves from the sidelines where he was watching them and I love that. Because Robby is standing guard, watching these men, but once Jesse is there, he uses that to close ranks a little with himself, Jesse, Victoria and Cassie all kind of forming an inner circle around her.
But even once he is seated, Jesse's eyes are back on them. Can't tell the look from the moment but you see, he's watching them again.
It's actually a really beautiful back and forth because the moment Jesse looks away to do his job and check her vitals, Robby is watching those pricks again.
But when Jesse gives her vitals (heart rate 110, pulse ox 98 so they're good), he gives Robby this look. Seriously watch his face because it does a lot in a little before he again forces these pricks to back up in the way he moves past them, but there's concern, but there's anger too. And he needs Robby to know that.
It also puts him on the big guy's radar because he watches to make sure Jesse is gone before refocusing.
And then we next see him, he's finishing up. He's leaving, but that mountain of fuckface storms over after Robby told him off and gets pissy. And Jesse could walk away, but the moment he clocks that man, he immediately stops and CIRCLES AROUND THIS MAN, READY TO BE A BARRIER!
He goes from being on that man's LEFT to being on his RIGHT so fast because Jesse is ready in a way no one else is because he's a 6ft white guy. Like it's too brief to gif (at 36:42 he pivots, then at 36:44 you can see him on the other side).
And that little one isn't doing shit to help or stop anything since I think he's their "not all ICE" attempt, LOL. But Jesse is cautiously between that man and his patient asking to just be allowed to get her a sling with Cassie. And when she cries out in pain because that man grabs her injured arm intentionally, Jesse is between them purposefully (hand over the man's grip on her while his other forearm is against his chest) in a heartbeat telling this man to stop because that fuck is hurting her.
And we don't see it, but Jesse yelling out in pain is the next thing we hear along with things falling. And we next see Jesse on the ground, hogtied, so we know Jesse was assaulted. Victoria probably got it on film since we see her with her phone out (along with others later), but I think it's safe to say Jesse didn't get to the ground on his own accord.
And aside from telling those pricks to get their hands off him, Jesse says in the most choked out way (because a man is actively kneeling on his back) "Robby, I didn't do shit". And Robby knows. Robby says he knows. And honestly, outside of protecting his patient, Jesse didn't do anything.
Note how Robby, I mean, he's talking to Jesse, but he is not looking at him even then. He refuses to look anywhere but at this man that has harmed one of his employee.
And again, credit to Robby, he's on it. He gives him the 'shut the fuck up' spiel, which Jesse nods to. It's so brief, y'all, but he nods. They make eye contact because Robby (OF ALL PEOPLE!) is searching for that eye contact to know Jesse is listening, and Jesse nods. Because he knows to shut up. Robby says so like he says he's gonna call the hospital lawyer about it.
Then goes back to staring straight ahead like this is just another nuisance in a long line of them (and it is), muttering something I can't make out. Just like how Dana is immediately at his side once they start moving him looking all kinds of harried and ready to cry a little that is her nurse and she can't protect him. She can't control the situation.
All this to say that was never just that ONE moment at the end with Jesse stepping up. He was on the defense from the jump, my little punk rock prince. And I love that for him.
But more than that, I love the shock on McKay's face because it hints at how wrong the moment is? Like she's been arrested. Probably not the biggest cop fan, but even still, last season she was in this exact position. But something about this moment is enough to shock her to her bones (maybe Jesse isn't that guy, maybe... like the sound implies, he was assaulted for trying to help, maybe it's just the shock of seeing it happen to someone else), but it's that look on her face that tells you... everything about the moment, really.
Also, shout out to Ned because we all joke about Jesse being the most expressive motherfucker in the Pitt and he tends to say he's just the numbers guy (he reads the numbers in a way that conveys the situation) but... much like with him coming between Frank and Robby during the sepsis patient, he's conveying a whole lot in a matter of literal seconds once again.
They should let him speak more provided Jesse doesn't get fired (praying that he is part of a nurses union and they come through for him, if Robby doesn't personally pick him up from jail after his shift at this rate because Robby may).
