robron through the years: the fic masterlist
part seven — 2025 continued | 2020-2025 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
here and now by @kellykadesperate
[“in an event of emergency, victoria has said she would like albie to be in the guardianship of you.” daisy looks between aaron and robert. her eyes don’t settle on either one of them for some odd reason. “who?” aaron blurts out. “um. both of you.” daisy says. or, a sort of life as we know it au. multi-chapter. 57k.]
snowflakes in my stomach when we’re kissing by @irinaboginya
[aaron dingle has kissed robert sugden five times. yes, he has counted. no, that’s not pathetic. he wasn’t in love with him the first time, eighteen years old and staying with his friend’s older brother in london. he wasn’t in love with him the second time either. oneshot. 2.3k.]
operation: woo robert sugden by @softlass27
[it’s over. john is gone for good, aaron lived to tell the tale, and now he's doing his best to get on with his life and learn how to trust himself again. this mostly consists of moving into a houseshare with his best friend and figuring out how to date his ex-husband. oneshot. 25k.]
good days only serve as relief again by @capseycartwright
[robert couldn’t tell you exactly when he stopped talking. he could tell you why he did, though - two charges of attempted murder, a stint in prison, and the fact no one believed it wasn't him. selective mutism, was what the prison doctor diagnosed, after a few sessions where robert had sat there, silent, unable to bring himself to say anything. it can be a result of trauma – PTSD, the doctor had suggested. the only cure was time, and therapy. or, in the aftermath of john, robert stops speaking. aaron helps. oneshot. 15k.]
hallow sinking fast by @madroxed
[aaron’s dead. robert’s been lonely for most of his life. a deep well that threatens to drown him regardless of touch and kiss and talk, threatens always to pull him under like he deserves. aaron was the stopper from the moment robert kissed him — a breathing tube, a blanket, a goddamn skyscraper beneath his feet — taking that vast ache and filling it piece by piece. every smile, every lingering look, every i love you.
robert’s been lonely but it’s not the same as being alone. he’s alone now. aron’s dead. oneshot. 1.5k.]
i’ll find a new pace to be from by @donotpercievemebaby
[robert sugden walks out of prison for the second time with nothing but a thin jacket and the urge to keep moving. his plan is simple: hire a car, drive to bristol, and finally see his son again. what he doesn’t plan on is aaron dingle, fresh out of a coma and his second marriage, wangling his way into the passenger seat.
five hours of road between yorkshire and bristol, a car with no radio, and everything they’ve lost sat right between them — maybe it’s the worst idea in the world. maybe it's a way forward. multi-chapter. 25k.]
no one’s ever had me (not like you) by @softlass27
[aaron glances over at robert. “you wanna tell them or should i?” “oh my god.” mack brings a hand to his chest, eyes wide. “you’re pregnant.”
matty bursts out laughing. aaron takes a deep breath and pinches the bridge of his nose, hearing robert snort beside him. “close,” he says, resting a hand on aaron’s thigh. “we’re engaged, actually.” mack and matty both gape at them for a moment, before simultaneously dropping to sit on the ground opposite them and immediately talking over each other.
or, a wedding 3.0 fic where aaron and robert decide there's no need for another dingle do, actually. oneshot. 8.4k.]
good, bad and undecided by @robrondale
[“who’s there?” he dares to ask, hating how small his voice sounds. “robert, it’s me, mate. it’s mack.” robert frowns. “am i in london?” mack lets out a sound that’s somewhere between a laugh and a sob, strangled like he’s holding himself back from breaking down. “no, mate. we’re in your brother’s secret underground hellhole.” oneshot. 10k.]
oh, i don’t like to be by the seaside by @capseycartwright
[aaron felt like the human manifestation of a migraine. vic looked as though she understood. “right – so robert is alone, in whitby, with a mentally unstable gangster that’s got a jealous streak about a mile wide, who now knows his husband is cheating on him, and robert has no idea how much danger he’s in?” vic winced. “that’s about it, yeah.”
or, kev finds out about robert and aaron. aaron and vic go to whitby to save the day. oneshot. 6.2k.]
every look, every touch, i’m lost in you by @escapingreality51
[aaron says "just mates" but how does he handle being mates with robert sugden? or, ex-husbands with benefits. oneshot. 3.1k.]
truth hurts by @irinaboginya
[“you should have told me sooner-” aaron starts, and robert can’t let it lie. “when?” he asks, incredulously. “when you were telling me to leave you alone so you could marry my brother? or when you were telling me to leave you alone so you wouldn’t cheat on my brother? or when you were telling me to leave you alone so you wouldn’t cheat on my brother, again? or when you were telling me to leave you alone because i was right about my brother?”
“that’s not fair,” aaron says, but he’s looking down at his feet now. or, robert tells aaron about kev. oneshot. 2.3k.]
when the flames burst down the morning news by @capseycartwright
[aaron felt sleep tugging at his consciousness, his body still aching. he needed to fight, he needed to stay awake – he needed to get john out of his hospital room, so he could tell his mum everything. aaron wakes up in hospital after his husband throws them both off a cliff - and he remembers everything. oneshot. 4.6k.]
stay and forgive by @robrondale
[“robert was arrested,” paddy finally cracks. he holds aaron’s gaze for a second before flitting it away, finding a sudden fascination with his shoes. aaron absorbs the information, replays it thrice in his head, assumes the drugs they’re pumping him with in here are even stronger than john’s secret stash because he knows he didn’t hear that right. “you what?” calm, dangerously so. oneshot. 2.8k.]
home is not a place, but a promise by @ultrabananaquan
[aaron swallows hard, biting his lower lip. everything between them – every word, every shared look, every breath – has a history. it's too much right now. aaron called robert, needed to see him, wanted to see him, but it feels like there's a gulf between them, and aaron doesn't know how to bridge the gap—two marriages, kids, a divorce, a new husband, and now a murderer between them. this – them – feels too big for aaron, feels like too much.
“maybe this was a mistake.” aaron croaks out finally, after a long silence. “why?” robert challenges, that haughty tone in his voice. It's familiar, yet ill-placed on this soft, well-worn version of robert. aaron finds himself charmed by it. oneshot. 3.7k.]
first day by @robron-til-the-end-of-time
[how do you have your first date with a man you married twice? aaron wants to find out. oneshot. 3.6k.]
we forgot about tomorrow by @bartonmatty
[after one week of being mates, everything is fine. after two weeks of being mates, aaron finds out about kev. after three weeks of being mates, it all falls apart. robert and aaron have an affair again. oneshot. 3.2k.]
your hope, your love, everything that you need by @memorieswarm
[aaron and robert reunite on monday 18th august 2025 for an afternoon of living in the moment. oneshot. 1.7k.]
in the tempest of a moment by @mellaithwen
[robert waits until he hears the front door slam closed and kev's definitely gone before he lets himself collapse. or, in the aftermath of the 27th november episode, aaron and liam look after an injured robert, and get an insight into the depths of robert’s traum. oneshot. 2.5k.]
buried in broken dreams by @snarfettelove
[things come to a head between aaron and kev…inevitably, robert is caught in the middle. multi-chapter. 4.9k.]
grow around the blooming heather by @capseycartwright
[aaron was sure he’d feel the loss of the life they’d once shared for the rest of his life - but aaron was tired of carrying that grief alone. the only person in the world who intimately understood what it had been like to lose that life was robert himself, because he’d lost it too. or, aaron and robert go to scotland, fall in love a little more, and heal together - mostly in that order. oneshot. 9.5k.]
lock me down tonight by @madroxed
[it’s not a conscious thing. like, aaron didn’t wake up one day and think yeah, i’ll be weird about this. doesn’t actually remember when it started being a thing at all — (except…there was a time years ago when he’d had robert over the back of the sofa, finally alone after a long day of liv’s tantrums and seb refusing to nap, house a mess and smears of baby food over both their clothes, that the thought had maybe crossed his mind for a second, unformed and confusing and easily pushed aside) — just that it’s there now and he can’t shake it, feels hot and bothered at stupid moments, tongue too big for his mouth. oneshot. 1.9k.]
flinch by @iwillsendapostcard
[aaron sees robert and kev together and has a totally normal reaction about it. oneshot. 1.3k.]
it wasn’t your fault by @robrondale
[“have you been experiencing any other symptoms of anxiety?” doctors could probably quote their entire pamphlets on the condition from the inside of robert’s brain — restlessness, racing heartbeat, the uncontrollable thoughts in his head that keep him up at night; he’s ticking all the boxes. a therapist’s field day. his own worst nightmare. “one or two, i suppose,” he agrees. oneshot. 4.4k.]
but we’ll wake up in the same bed, always and evermore by @escapingreality51
[robert can't sleep and aaron takes him away so they can get some rest, so robert can relax. he takes them to edinburgh, but robert still can't sleep. oneshot. 3.3k.]
your love is tied true and blue by @enchantedsugden
[“you brought me here.” robert breathes out, and when aaron looks at him he looks confused “course. robert, i thought – i couldn’t wake you. I was so scared.” aaron remembers how his anger towards kev, the need to kill him, dissipated the second he was holding robert in his arms, pleading with him to wake up. or, robert wakes up in hospital with aaron by his side. oneshot. 4.6k.]
feel love before it’s gone / it kicks like a sleep twitch by @softlofty
[robert sugden is a ghost of himself. aaron worries that the brief moments of robert dozing off in public he keeps seeing are the only sleep he's getting at the moment. problem: it's not aaron’s place to care anymore. not that that's ever been able to stop him before. oneshot. 5.1k.]
lost ‘til you’re found by @robronaissance
[the 5 times aaron, robert & mack’s friendship confused the village of emmerdale and the one time it made complete sense. oneshot. 4.8k.]
now i only see daylight by @capseycartwright
[aaron had been sure he would never get to have this again, have robert curled up next to him in bed, the rest of the world waiting outside of their bedroom door, and aaron’s universe reduced down to this; the cold brush of the tip of robert’s nose against his own as he leaned in to kiss him, robert barely awake but gorgeously responsive as he kissed aaron back. oneshot. 2k.]
in vino veritas by @nooneelsecomesclose17
[aaron and robert are getting married and aaron's worried robert’s not telling him something. oneshot. 3.1k.]
we only have a couple of minutes by @kellykadesperate
[aaron and robert's december weeks away. oneshot. 9.9k.]
through the years, we all will be together by @irinaboginya
[“aaron… i’m working on christmas day. at the farm, i told moria this morning that i’d cover it so she could have some family time.” robert’s eyes are tracking his face as aaron takes this in. “but, why would you do that? we’ve got plans?”
“well, no, you’ve got plans.” robert insists, brow furrowing, and aaron's confusion must show on his face because he continues, “your mum, mandy, mackenzie, i wasn’t invited to any of that, you were.” aaron thinks back over the day, and okay, maybe none of them had explicitly said that robert was invited, but “well, it was implied!” oneshot. 4.8k.]
i mean, camaraderie by @kevbert
[he bites the inside of his cheek to stop himself. he’s trying to create a certain vibe for tonight. a certain experience. so he keeps his eyes forward on the road, pointing the driver to the correct side street as he lets his left hand rest on aaron’s tight. squeezes until he hears aaron breath in. runs his hand slowly up the inside of his leg. “ah here’s fine mate ta” he tells the cabby and taps aaron’s knee twice before he opens his own door to get out.
aaron’s eyebrows are heavy on his eyes as he falls in line next to him. wears his frustration openly on his face. hands on his jacket pockets as he looks around at all the 20-somethings already partway to drunk. “you know we could have done this at home right.” his frown deepens when a girl almost stumbles into him. “what?” the fake innocence in his voice is probably ruined by the grin on his face “dance?” aaron rolls his eyes at him as the line moves forward but doesn’t complain anymore until they are inside. oneshot. 2.8k.]
streetlights in the dark blue by @you-whot
[aaron went through life alone because of robert’s mistakes. and so, robert owes it to him to listen. even though he’s five years and six months late, even if it might mean nothing in the end, even if his chest feels hollow all over. or, robert is released from prison. as he makes his way back to the village, he listens to all the voice messages aaron left him over the years. multi-chapter. 10k.]
my beloved ghost and me by @aelric
[aaron looks up and finds robert still staring at the toy in his hands. his expression is stern, but his eyes are soft, like he can’t decide whether to throw the tiny sheep out of the window or cradle it to his chest. or; robert buys a present he can't give. oneshot. 1.2k.]
all play by @icouldhyperfixatehim
[aaron keeps turning up while robert's working at the farm, and that is A-Okay by him. oneshot. 1.5k.]
wish the wind by @thefancyspin
[the coastal town means everything is so cold, the fire burning day and night and their clothes layered up so much they both look like the michelin man. despite it, they pass the time easily, with food and booze and TV and sex, with board games and cards and more food and more sex. it’s an ideal life, and robert can see a future in it - their future, away from emmerdale and all its ghosts. oneshot. 3.5k.]
hold your hand ‘til the end of time by @morganaspendragonss
[it’s a tuesday when chas corners him in the cafe, almost a full week after john got carted off by the police. “i’m not interested, chas,” he says brusquely, abandoning his half-drunk coffee as he stands and reaches to grab his laptop. before he can get a hand on it, though, chas has latched onto his wrist, the tips of her nails biting into his skin. He looks down and raises his eyebrows and she lets him go, chastened for once. “i’m not here to have a go,” she says quietly. “i’m here about aaron.” oneshot. 2.2k.]
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