Havn’t watched Spiderverse since it came out like 3 years ago (11/10 movie btw, no notes, actually the sickest shit I’ve ever seen in my life) but I randomly woke up yesterday and was like “oh my god, he turns PINK whenever he’s around Miles. That’s gay as hell”
Jack Abbot who, when Dennis ends up on night shift rotation, can’t stop looming over the kid. Hands clenched in these tight fists. Always making intense harsh eye contact with him. Says his name as this strained, gravelly, Whitaker, that half sounds like a threat.
Doesn’t say too much. A curt, fine, or, keep it up, maybe even a half bitten off, looks good, thrown his way after he finishes difficult procedures.
Anyway, Dennis is pretty sure he’s kind of getting bullied by his night shift attending.
Meanwhile, Shen and Parker are flashing Jack big thumbs up from behind Dennis’s back like Abbot's attempts at flirting are actually working.
Based on this old post that I had to do hella digging to find: post
autistic abbot but like he's always fidgeting and never knows where to put his hands, so it's great when he starts seeing dennis because, at least when he's home, he can just let his hands wander over his boyfriend's body when he gets antsy.
except that he gets so used to that that he forgets that he really shouldn't be doing it in front of other people. so when robby comes over on a night that jack has off to do a star wars rewatch party, jack drags dennis into his lap without even thinking about it. running his hands up under the hoodie dennis is wearing and squeezing his waist. toys with the waistband of his sweats. all while carrying a conversation with a robby that is suspiciously quiet.
dennis is just kind of frozen and has no idea what to do and is focusing all of his brain power on oh god please don't get a boner in front of your boss
Abbot (as we already know) is a HUGE flirt. Dude flirts with everyone. Literally anyone, anywhere, it does not matter, he will flirt with them.
Which of course makes Whitaker's secret little crush on him even more humiliating, watching him flirt with literally everyone… well, everyone except Dennis.
No, he barely even bothers acknowledging Dennis, at most says his name in passing to direct him to a case. He can barely even look Dennis in the eyes, and when Dennis does catch Jack looking at him, it’s to find the attending glaring at him from across the hub.
And Dennis is half convinced Jack hates him with how he clams up whenever they end up in the same orbit as each other. The man barely manages to string together more than two words to make jilted small talk.
So yeah, Dennis wonders if it’s a one sided rivalry over Robby warming up to Dennis so fast. If Jack feels like Dennis is somehow getting in the way of their friendship.
And he hates it, because he just… doesn’t understand what he did to make Jack dislike him so much. Jack gets along so easily with everyone else, fuck he flirts with anyone with a pulse.
Of course what Whitaker doesn’t know is that Abbot has a MASSIVE fucking crush on him, and he literally cannot make his brain work around the boy. Like Jack’s brain just goes on an endless loop babbling about how pretty and talented Dennis is whenever he gets within five feet of the suntanned farm boy.
He can’t help trying to avoid Dennis at all costs, he can’t take the chance that he might accidentally kill someone because his brain got stuck staring at how one of Dennis’s curls caught the light and suddenly made him look like a literal angel.
He can’t function if he’s reduced to a puddle of hormones and yearning. So he does his best to avoid the problem.
It all comes to a head when Dennis starts his night shift rotation, and Jack’s avoidance only get’s worse and more pronounced. Because somehow, more exposure to the kid only ratchets up his desire. Jack literally has to run from him at one point to save himself the embarrassment of getting hard mid trauma.
So Dennis corners Jack in the stairwell one day. Demanding Jack explain what the fuck his problem is, because Dennis is a good fucking doctor and he doesn’t deserve to have his attending treating him like he’s a pariah.
And Jack, like a deer in headlights, just stares at how pretty Dennis is when he’s angry. Bright blue eyes shining with frustration, forearm muscles flexed and looking deliciously thick as he rudely pokes Jack in the shoulder for his lack of a response.
It’s only when Dennis huffs and turns to storm off, assuming this is all a lost cause, that Jack reaches out to snag his wrist and pull him back.
The element of surprise on his side, pulling a stumbling Dennis right into his chest, where he slots their mouths together like he’s been wanting to do since he first laid eyes on the kid.
A sweet little noise of shock startled out of Dennis before he melts into the kiss.
Suddenly a lot of things make more sense in Dennis’s mind. Because maybe, when real feelings are involved, Jack isn’t actually so great at being the suave flirt everyone thinks he is.