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Aaron wanted to visit, but between the farm and keeping his mother’s nerves in check, he wasn’t able to. He rang the hospital, but the staff simply told him that Robert didn’t want to take any calls. That sent him into free fall, plagued by memories of denied visits and divorce papers. He was being cut off. Robert was leaving him all over again.
But then, two weeks later, he got a text.
'They’re discharging me tomorrow. Can you come and get me?'
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Robert falls apart.
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- Part 7 of robert week 2026
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trust these words, my heart is true (love let me be your refuge) by aelric
Fandoms: Emmerdale (TV 1972)
25 Apr 2026
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Robert’s shoulders sank.
‘Then what do we do?’
‘We still get married,’ Aaron said, stepping forward and taking Robert’s hands in his. ‘We just don’t have a wedding.’or;
Robert and Aaron get married for the third (and hopefully final) time.
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- Part 6 of robert week 2026
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‘Okay. Do you want to tell me what happened?’
Robert opens his mouth, digs deep within himself to find what dark crevice his voice is hiding in.
‘Nothing.’
He sounds hoarse. Like he hasn’t spoken in days.
‘It doesn’t seem like nothing.’
‘It’s hard to explain.’
‘Can you try?’
Robert steels himself.
‘I can try.’or;
Robert returns from his honeymoon - without Kev.
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- Part 5 of robert week 2026
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'Pardon me,' Seb says, lifting his eyes from his dad's hands to his face. 'Please can you say that again?'
His dad makes a tiny choking noise, somewhere between a laugh and a sob. The other man places a hand on his arm and gives Seb an encouraging smile. Something about that smile settles the nervousness in his chest a little, and he does his best to smile back.
'I have something for you,' his dad says. 'Is that okay?’
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Seb finally meets his dad.
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- Part 4 of robert week 2026
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Forty.
Older than his dad had been when he was born. Almost as old as his mother was when she died. Twice as old as Liv ever got to be.
And what does he have to show for any of that?
A farm he gained through morally bankrupt means. A son he abandoned. A body marred by scarring and a brain so broken it takes everything he has not to fall apart every waking moment of the day.
And Aaron.or;
Robert turns forty.
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- Part 3 of robert week 2026
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Aaron didn’t believe in god, but he understood what worship was. It felt like worship when he got his mouth on Robert’s cock, reverence in the way he touched Robert’s body, salvation in the intimacy they had shared for so long now.
It wasn’t prayer, no, but it was as close to prayer as Aaron would ever get.
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09 Apr 2026
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my demons are begging me to open up my mouth by wafflesofdoom
Fandoms: Emmerdale (TV 1972)
27 Oct 2025
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Robert had started letting a switch flip in his mind, when the bullying, the torment would begin - it had been the only way he’d known to cope, at the beginning.
The switch kept flipping, though, and Robert kept letting it – when Kev would touch him, hold him, whisper all kinds of sweet nothings to him in that frenzied, gruff way he tended to, Robert would find his brain slipping into that blissful nothing, his body present, but his mind somewhere else entirely.
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28 Oct 2025
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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.”
Kev finds out about Robert and Aaron. Aaron and Vic go to Whitby to save the day.
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05 Oct 2025
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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.
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21 Sep 2025
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Paddy has known Robert Sugden for a long time. He’d hated Robert for a not insignificant chunk of those years, had softened to Robert by the end.
Paddy was worried about Robert now, sitting across the table from Robert in HMP Hotten.
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11 Sep 2025