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I've missed you.

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the softness and gentleness of the first kiss by robert, as if to say i'm here now

then the urgency in the second one when they realise they're both here and can have this again even for a moment 😭

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anyway definitely not thinking about how they end up upstairs. do they start taking their kit off on the sofa and decide to move upstairs? does aaron get up and pull robert to his feet or is it robert who drags aaron up the narrow staircase? do they stop halfway up to snog? does robert get lost in the feeling of aaron's hands on him again? does aaron forget there's a world outside to interrupt them?

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that little resigned look on aaron's face after he's told robert he missed him though? like, yes, he turns away for a second. but he hears robert shuffling around next to him and he knows exactly what's about to happen. and he's just resigned to the fact. because it's been inevitable anyway. it's what he himself has been saying the whole time. they've been inevitable. so it might as well happen now instead of weeks or months down the line. god.

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asdfgfhjskaldifileksjsæødk so true

I am just supposed to wake up and be normal now?!

me to @escapingreality51 this morning: what a lovely ep, i feel so peaceful waiting all weekend for monday after that ep

ed press office:

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I go to bed at a reasonable hour because my doctor tells me i need to rest and then i wake up to the kiss being released?! madness

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The Sugden Brothers or as I like to call them

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the glass menagerie//emmerdale

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Aaron “happily married” Dingle looking fondly at the love of his life Robert Sugden

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Emmerdale | 15.08.25

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after today, I hope john dies painfully of dysentery

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am curious about the make up of the emmerdale fandom in general atm so, if you follow ed or any of the ships

pls reblog for more answers

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“Now’s your chance to run.” + robron please?

"now's your chance to run"

Aaron can't find him. They were supposed to meet at the scrapyard -- Vinny's out for the day and Aaron, well, Aaron hasn't been able to forget how alive he feels under Robert's hands, his mouth, his tongue -- but Robert never showed. No text, no call, nothing. It isn't like him.

Ever since he showed up, it's been a push and pull between them. For Aaron, it's been more rug-pulled-out-from-under-him and he hasn't been able to think straight. Now, it's been a few months of finding time in his busy schedule to meet Robert and get dangerously close to the precipice he's so terrified of jumping off.

'Vic, you heard from Robert?' he asks when he finds her at the Hide.

She lifts an eyebrow at him. 'No, why?'

He makes his best immitation of indifference -- a shrug and a frown -- and gives her a square look. 'He said he'd give me a hand with a motor at the scrapyard, Vinny's out.'

'Right,' Vic says. 'Haven't seen him since yesterday...'

Oh. Jealousy, ugly and hateful, snakes its way through his veins. That's why he hasn't seen him all day. Aaron's fist clenches in the pocket of his jacket and he bites his lower lip.

'Tell him I'm looking for him, yeah?'

'Alright,' she says with an odd look on her face.

Aaron wanders home with a sour taste in his mouth, and finds the flat empty.

The text comes in later; Robert's name flashes on his screen and Aaron feels a surge of nervousness, of anticipation.

Meet me at the cricket pavillion.

The punctuation doesn't feel like Robert and it's the first notion that something's off. Aaron gets up and grabs his jacket, rushing out of the front door and towards the cricket pavillion.

He finds him tied up, on his knees.

There's a bruise blossoming on his cheek, and dust in his hair. He looks wrecked, hair matted and thick with sweat and his eyes are sunken, as if he hasn't slept. He's been placed there, for Aaron to find, and it tugs at something deep within him, seeing Robert hurt and in pain.

If he was eveer in doubt that he loved Robert, it fades away.

'Robert,' Aaron say as he scrambles towards him, kneels in front of him. 'Robert, what's going on?'

'No,' Robert whispers, his voice hoarse. 'No, Aaron --'

'Who did this --?'

'Please, Aaron. Go. It's not safe for you.'

'I don't care,' Aaron says, moving around to claw at the rope tied around Robert's wrists. 'I'm getting you out.'

'Aaron, I love you, please. Now's your chance to run!' Robert's begging and it makes Aaron freeze. Robert's terrified, and Aaron can't understand, doesn't understand.

'Who did this to you?' Aaron asks, hands frozen on the knot. It's complicated and Aaron can't get a finger underneath the rope to loosen it and free him.

'Aaron --'

'Glad you could make it,' John says, stepping out of the shadows and Aaron's stomach drops.

John, his husband, looks different than when Aaron left him this morning. The dark brown eyes that Aaron always saw such warmth in look cold, moving between Robert and Aaron. He's got both hands behind his back and he's watching them from the doorway to the bathroom, his head tilted to one side.

'Untie him,' Aaron says calmly. This is John, he's a reasonable man, surely he'll do the right thing...

John just smiles, and there's a glint in his eye that Aaron's never seen before.

'You know I never thought you were stupid enough to go back to him,' John says, taking a step forward. Aaron clenches his jaw and stays beside Robert, one hand on Robert's shoulder.

'Aaron,' Robert whispers, 'just go...'

'Aaron's not going anywhere now,' John says. He moves his hands in front of his body and in his left, there's a needle. 'We're going to sort this out, now.'

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very valid of that one mag to call robron fans "rabid" I do feel like I have been infected with a virus that causes madness