The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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Two lines. Two little lines were enough to send him reeling. Robby knew what those two little lines meant. Positive.
When Robby falls ill, he makes the decision to protect the ones he loves - no matter the cost.
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- Part 1 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"Robby knew he couldn’t wait. If he stayed in here any longer, then he’d never make it out to get help. On legs that no longer wanted to hold his weight, Robby stumbled out of the room. His pace was slow, agonizingly so, as he made his way back toward central. Back toward Jack."
Robby's just trying to leave at the end of his shift. When his attempts to help a resident backfire, Robby is left to suffer the consequences.
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- Part 2 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"'Hey, Robby! Look at me.' Jack instructed firmly, taking Robby’s hands in his own. 'Squeeze my hands, Rob, right and left.'
Panic, sharp and hot, shot through him and Abbot flew through the rest of the neuro exam. One pupil looked wrong now—larger, sluggish. Robby’s gaze drifted, unfocused."A freak accident on Robby's day off has severe consequences
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- Part 3 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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'"Okay,” he said out loud, because hearing his own voice helped. 'Okay. That’s… fine.'
It wasn’t fine. He knew it wasn’t. But the words did the thing words sometimes do: they built a bridge across panic.
He needed to get to the ED.
He needed to get to Jack."Robby injured himself on the way to work.
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- Part 4 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"Jack didn’t mean to hide it. That was the thing—he hadn’t woken up thinking I’ll ignore this. He’d woken up thinking I’ll deal with it after shift, which had turned into after dinner, which had turned into tomorrow, which had turned into three days of low-grade fever and a dull, insistent ache he told himself was just overuse."
Abbot neglects his own health and Robby picks up the pieces.
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- Part 5 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"It happened fast, like violence often does—one second the space is tense, the next second it’s physical.
Frank stumbled back as the man grabbed at his collar. Robby moved on instinct. He stepped in, hard, grabbing the man’s wrist and yanking it away from Frank. The man’s eyes went cold. And then—because humans are unpredictable and rage doesn’t follow clean scripts—he grabbed the first thing he could. The metal IV pole."A confrontation in the Pitt turns violent and Robby is forced to make an awful decision - protect himself or protect Langdon.
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- Part 6 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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“I keep getting that… warning feeling,” Robby said eventually.
Jack stiffened almost imperceptibly.
“Auras?” he asked.
Robby nodded. “Like something’s about to happen. Like the room shifts just a little.”
Jack reached for Robby’s hand. “How long?”
“Couple days,” Robby admitted. “I didn’t want to freak you out.”
Jack turned to him fully now.
“You don’t protect me from this,” Jack said gently. “You let me help.”
Robby smiled weakly. “I know.”Robby's epilepsy returns.
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- Part 7 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"Another explosion followed—louder, closer—and this time Robby heard it: a sharp inhale, cut off halfway.
Robby moved fast but quietly, years of ED instincts translating easily to home.
He found Jack crouched by the far wall of the living room, prosthetic discarded nearby, back pressed hard to the bookshelf like he was trying to make himself smaller. His hands were clenched at his sides, fingers white, eyes unfocused and wild.
The window flashed bright with another burst of light.
Jack flinched violently.
Robby’s chest ached."New Year's Eve brings back memories that Jack wishes he could just forget.
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- Part 8 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"Robby’s throat stopped hurting on Tuesday. That should have been the end of it."
A simple infection suddenly turns deadly.
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- Part 9 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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Jack learned early that pain was negotiable.
It was something you could talk down, compartmentalize, postpone. Pain could be acknowledged later, when there was time. When other people were safe. When the noise stopped.
Phantom limb pain was different.Series
- Part 10 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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And there—where the roof met the edge—was Robby.
The events of the last several years come crashing down on Robby.
Please note warnings for discussions of suicidal ideation.
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- Part 11 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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Robby recovers from appendicitis, but recovery is anything but linear.
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- Part 12 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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Jack's plan to ignore the headache that's taken up residence in his skull backfires spectacularly.
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- Part 13 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"The car jerked violently to the right as something slammed into the passenger side with a force that turned metal into paper. Jack’s hands wrenched on the wheel instinctively—too little, too late."
A car accident on the way home from work leaves Jack and Robby adrift in the wake of its devastation.
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- Part 14 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"Frank felt the impact before he heard it—like being punched by fire. His body lurched backward, breath ripped from his lungs as pain detonated in his abdomen and chest.
He hit the wall hard and slid to the floor.
The man screamed.
'Oh my God. Oh my God. I didn’t— I didn’t mean—'"Langdon's attempts to help a struggling patient have devastating consequences.
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- Part 15 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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The scissors bit into fabric. And then something popped. Not loud. Just a soft, almost delicate pff — like tearing open a sugar packet. A fine white powder burst upward.
Straight into Robby’s face.Series
- Part 16 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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Jack lay there for a moment, staring up at the concrete ceiling, heart pounding. The air felt too cold. Too thin. His hands trembled as he pressed them against the floor, instinctively trying to push himself up.
His leg screamed in protest.
Not the prosthetic side—the other one.
The good one.Series
- Part 17 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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Robby reaches the end of his rope and Jack is there to reach out a hand.
Please note warnings for discussions of suicide.
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- Part 18 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"He’d checked the forecast—chance of afternoon storms, nothing definitive. Robby had lived long enough to know that “chance” wasn’t certainty. He kept going anyway."
Robby goes hiking on his day off to clear his head. Mother Nature has other plans.
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- Part 19 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot
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"Jack realizes something is wrong when the walls start breathing."
Abbot is exposed to a hallucinogen on shift. It's going to be a long night...
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- Part 20 of The Pitt, The Pain, The Plot