#emmerdale fanfiction

[gilithan]

Literally One Scene

It's Christmas, and Aaron Dingle is in the Mill, surrounded by family.

Except, the family is one he barely recognises. An uncle he isn't even sure he likes or trusts, and his family with issues that rival Aaron's own. The guy his Mum is seeing, he's fine I suppose, but not they're not exactly close. And then there's John. His guy. Mr Sugden.

Just not the one he thought he would be with.

Aaron excused himself from the table for a moment as the meal began to finish, taking his drink to pretend to study the tree. Even the setting called back memories. This was the home he had made. Except now it wasn't his, he was a guest.

"Y'alright?" Chas spoke from behind him

He jumped slightly, so lost in thought he'd not realised she had joined him. "Yeah, 'course," He replied with a scoff

"Convincing," Chas wrapped an arm around his and smiled. But it was bittersweet, like this whole day felt. "Christmas is an odd time. The older I get the more it gets... complicated"

"What'dya mean?"

"Well, I'm here, with my son. With my brothers, my new man, my son's new man, but..." Her smile fell, "Jenny, Grace, my Mum, Zach... so many people who I would love to share this day with aren't here."

Aaron nodded, but didn't look her in the eye. "Look, Mum, I really don't want to"-

"Sorry! Sorry, I didn't mean to... we don't have to have this big long chat I just wanted to..." She grabbed his hand, "I just wanted to let you know, that I know how hard this might be. Despite all the happiness, I know... you miss him, miss the life you built. And I wanted to make sure you knew that it's okay to miss that."

Aaron stared back for a moment, then nodded and blinked the few stray tears away. She hugged him, and he whispered "Thanks, Mum" in her ear.

"Merry Christmas, son," She smiled again.

[roysreader]

My top fanfics of 2023 (so far)

I published or updated 60 works on AO3 this year, a lot of them are snippets but still, my most productive writing year yet.

2023 was the year of Succession so most of my top picks will be for that show but there are a couple of outliers marked with an *.

In no particular order, here are my top seven fics that I wrote or completed this year:

I’m Just Ken (And I’m Enough) (Succession/Barbie crossover)

And I’m Watching the Cruisers Below (Gerri Kellman backstory)

And Breathe Me (Succession/Six Feet Under crossover)

Complicated Airflow (A history of Kendall’s stutter)

My Empire of Dirt (Logan Roy backstory)

Poison & Wine (Missing RomanGerri scenes)

*The Curse of Home Farm (Emmerdale, 1920s AU, co-written with MissGeorgieTate)

Also in no particular order, here are my top seven completed fics that I read this year (I’ve kept it to those published this year):

*Out of Touch (The Bill, great insight into Mickey Webb post-attack)

you love blood too much (but not like i do) (A deep dive into the chaos that is Roman Roy)

the birthday party (the perfect post-finale fix-it, bonus Roman and Shiv are twins)

i bite at the hand that feeds me (flashback to a Roman and Logan incident)

aeneas, and a whimper (stunning Shiv character study)

An Oral History of Waystar Studios Feature Animation (made me laugh a lot)

art imitates life (I’m not usually into RPF but this is very clever)

[afstory1988]

New fic, started this a while ago, so It's set behind the show.

[escapingreality51]

into touch

robert takes a night to relax

Friday evening. Robert stared at the news and nursed a beer. A feature piece on Aaron’s Dingle’s career on repeat as the main story of the sports coverage. Robert let out a slow breath and then took a long sip of the beer, hoping it would dull whatever coursed through him. Inevitably, the coverage mentioned Robert himself. The warnings for foul-mouthing the refs, though it was a while since he’d done that. The bad reputation. The woman in the bathroom. The scandal. The heartbroken ex-fiancée. Robert clenched his fist. 

chapter 2 to be found here

[renamusing]

also, i know aaron's next targets will be billy and kim, but it's clear the show is building towards a big moment with chas (probably around xmas i'd say?) and maybe maybe after aaron reconciles with her and finally breaks down, chas will try to help him by either 1) try to reach robert behind his back or 2) ask aaron if he wants to try and go see him. then the plotwist will be aaron and chas calling/reaching the prison and finding out robert isnt there anymore, he is out.

[cue emmerdale theme song]

[yeah-sure-amanda]

Robron Fanfiction Update - Committed Mystery Series

Missing: A Committed Mystery Story Update

So...one of the things I've decided to do recently is start taking care of myself. Meaning, don't wallow in work drama/sadness. Don't fall onto the couch into a stupor. Do something. Exercise. Eat well. Talk nicely to myself. Read. Write. Writing is the important part for this update.

I have been waiting to finally sit down and write that big novel I have felt was always inside of me. However, I know I have some loose ends. So, I am diving back into the Committed Mystery pool and I"m going to finish this story out, and do one more mini story to truly wrap everything up.

I'm going to take this as a way to get my writing brain back. Work has taken a lot of creativity away from me and hell...I want it back. So, I've decided to start writing one of my favorite ships once more.

So, I have to admit. I had this story all plotted out in one of my many notebooks. HOWEVER, that notebook is gone now. So, I have to start with what I left off with. I re-read the Missing chapters and my god...I was going all out. (LOL). Not only do I have the main mystery but...I put in four...FOUR... side-quest storylines. All great and what I planned for them are still up in my little lizard brain. HOWEVER...there is one in there...I don't know where the hell it came from?!? Past Amanda was doing the most. Let's put it that way.

Damn past Amanda. Damn. Don't worry, my lizard brain read the one line and went....'Oh...I can make this work!'

So, I am going to plot out the rest of the story and I'm going to start writing everyday after work (instead of eating my feelings) I will write them. I won't stop until I have an end to this story and the next one to wrap things up.

I know...I doubt anyone cares or even knows my stories but I can't leave things unfinished. So...I'm coming back and I'm doing this for myself at the end of the day (though...comments are always welcome...I enjoy the support and love lol).

So....yeah. Here I go. Back to Emmerdale. Back to Robert. Back to Aaron. Back to Robron.

Wish me luck! <3

[justherebecausemackenzieboyd]

The drive home from Hell

-Robron fanfic

Summary: after a chaotic day at the water park the drive home proves to be a challenge for Aaron and his passengers aren’t exactly helping

(Au emmerdale)

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“I want McDonald’s” the red headed 5 year old screamed from the back of the car.

Aaron was losing the plot at this point.

“No seb I told you if you where hungry you should have eaten your hotdog!” The Dingle replied plainly.

Seb pouted his lip angrily kicking the back of his youngest dads seat in disapproval.

Aaron sighs ignoring him and continued to just focus on driving. Okay so maybe today hadn’t exactly gone to plan. I mean Getting lost on the way there,Robert falling off the water slide raft,Seb losing his shoes and Mackenzie getting badly sunburned because, He quote ‘didn’t need suncream because he already looked to hot to be burned’. Well he was certainly paying for it now.

“Ouch why do you have leather seats all they do is rub on your fragile skin!” The brunette complained rubbing his sore arm dramatically.

“We’ll next time maybe don’t be a child and listen to me!” Robert scolded Turing around with a slight smile on his face.

Aaron rolled his eyes,finding it amusing his Husband was lecturing his best friend like he was a teenager. “You know Mackenzie Roberts right we warned you this might happen” He said rather to cheerfully.

Mackenzie huffed in annoyance.

“We’ll I’m not taking advice from somebody who can’t sit properly on a rubber ring” He snapped back.

“I thought you where supposed to sit sideways!” Robert argued back angrily the street lamps outside making the bruise on his head very noticeable.

“Not on a four person waterslide you’re not!”

“Oh yeah well at least I don’t look like a walking corpse!” Robert snarked back electing a silent response from the Scotsman.

“I want McDonald’s!” Seb suddenly said again trying to get back to his point of needing fast food.

“No seb!” Aaron said again more sternly this time. The response being the usual another kick to his backseat. “Sebastian Sugden-Dingle you do that again you’re going to bed early!” the Child stopped for a moment letting what his father had said just sink in.

Yeah not going to work because he had gone straight back to kicking the backseat. “ I want McDonald’s!” he screamed again accidentally kicking Mackenzies knee instead of Aaron’s seat. The Scotsman yelped in pain as it made contact with his burned skin,despite having jeans on it still hurt his raw skin through the thin fabric.

“Ouch god dammit Aaron just let him have some McDonald’s!” He shouted clutching his leg desperately as if it was about to fall off.

“Oye don’t yell at my husband!” Robert snapped reaching from the passenger seat to snack his arm,electing another dramatic scream from the Scotsman.

“What the hell sugden!” he yelled.

“Well maybe don’t be a rude Winey brat!”

Aaron was ready to drive into a wall.

“We’ll I’d rather be a winey brat than an uncoordinated blonde!”

Am I dead Aaron thought.

“We’ll at least my skin isn’t half on the floor!”

Maybe I’m in hell?

“I want McDonald’s!”

the breaks on the car suddenly slammed. Causing everyone to jolt forward.Aaron turned his head to face all of them. Their was a chill in the air Robert and Mackenzie awkwardly looked at each other. Seb had stopped his screaming and stared straight into his youngest fathers eyes. The anger seething out of Aaron was very uncomfortable for all them.

“If I continued to hear you two bickering so help me. I will throw you so far out that window their won’t be a planet near enough for your to land on! Seb if you continue to kick my seat I will be putting you to bed so early you’ll never see the dark again! now we’re going to drive home nicely and I don’t want to hear anything for the rest of the drive home! do you understand?”

Seb went silent and Mackenzie and Robert just sat completely still.

“I SAID DO YOU UNDERSTAND!”

they all nodded not daring to speak a word.

Aaron smiled .“good now that’s cleared up let’s get moving.” He chimed Turing the radio on.

An hour later seb had started playing on his tablet while Mackenzie sat looking out the window, and Robert was happily listening to the radio. He reached out to hold his husbands hand smiling at him as he quietly fell asleep.

Finally Aaron thought I got through to them.

“Hey Aaron?” Mackenzie suddenly spoke.

“Yeah?” He replied quietly.

“could we go to burgerking?”

Nevermind…

————-

I wrote this in December and forgot about it and decided to post it after finding it in my drafts

[bibibibuckleykinard]

Omg can’t believe it’s been 5 years

28 Fics In February

Completed!

F-R-I-E-N-D-S?

A Football Team

Shouldn’t

Just One Night

Hit and Run 

What Are Husbands For

Sister’s in the Title

No, You Can Stick with Mr. Sugden-Dingle

Handsome Hanson 🐾 

Somewhere Only We Know 

Fire at the Mill 

Family

That Just Got Really Weird

Old Man

Passed 

Nana & Granddad

In Sickness

Confession

Mint Chocolate Chip

Runaways

Fit Mechanic

Guilty Mind

In-Laws

Brother of the Bride

Relapse

(Un)Lucky Men

It’s Definitely… Something

Closer

[lanawinterscigarettes]

Emoji anons descriptions!! (these were approved beforehand by each anon, thats why some haven't been added yet. credits to star anon for giving me the idea in the first place 🫶)

Honorary mention to me, Aeron, as the blog's host - avid writer who lives, eats, and sleeps for tumblr fanfiction who's involved in way too many fandoms to keep track of

Star anon - clara oswalds gf, way too obsessed with missyclara and can be found in the village of emmerdale

Sparkle anon - big homosexual who's in love with many woman (blair waldorf among them) and has no regrets

Ufo anon - amy and rorys secret gf and martha jones’ biggest fan

Bunny anon: can't choose between the gossip girl women so they just ask for polyam fics all the time

[gyoung1906]

Documentation of my comphet throughout the years 🧍‍♀️

Okay so I thought it’d be funny to talk abt my most intense male fixation eras as a lesbian (idk i’m just shitposting into the void again) judge me all u want (it is probably needed) but i need ppl to understand the real me 🙏

IT CROPPED HALF HIS FACE OUT but i just realised if you aren’t british ur gonna have no idea who he is anyone (he’s lachlan white from emmerdale) omg this was an ERA everyone around me thought i was going insane (i was) but like they just didn’t get it he slayed so hard at a level that will never be reached (literally) also tom atkinson on sex education was like a full circle moment for me omg but anyways i was like 11-12 here these were literally my formative years this changed me FOREVER don’t judge he slayed omg

THIS okay so u can’t even blame me for this one it’s just correct. yes he’s like walking masculinity stereotype BUT he also had depth and was interesting 😌 the fanfics were SO GOOD this is when i really got into fanfiction and accidentally read smut where someone get pregnant in the hunger games 🧍‍♀️i read this one fic that was like x reader AND THEY STRAIGHT UP BOTH DIED but anyways. i read fanfics abt literally everyone thg character (read abt women and convinced myself i was still straight lmfao) but he was the stand out for me. i recently revisited this era and the fics ppl write on ao3 r INSANE omg like what is wrong with u ppl ( i say this lovingly but also wtf )

OMGOMGOMG BEST ERA OF MY LIFE u actually don’t understand u just had to be there. a solid percentage of my brain even to this day is made up of this man. this is like the stupidest thing ever but when i was like 14 i would just mirror his personality (and tone down the arsehole part obvs) so that i could get more talkative AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED nobody in the whole world will ever understand how much he means to me (i don’t rly understand it myself tbh) and ik ppl literally fuckinf despise him but i will not tolerate the dandy mott slander bc he is literally part of my core identity atp i revisit him every few months just to fully reconnect with my inner being. did anyone read Companion? that shit was crazy also i wrote a fic abt him on wattpad and people actually READ IT so anyways best era of my life it truly never got better i rly hit me peak (i had 0 friends) the few friends i had literally told me i talked abt him too much and it made them like me less 💀

this was arguably my most chill era like yea i was pretty obsessive but with marvel it’s so normalised to be so intense abt everything i kinda just fit right in. there’s too much professor fanfiction r u ppl okay 🧍‍♀️ also more actor fanfiction than i have ever seen for any other man in my LIFE but the capitalism went hard during this era the fluff was so good. arguably my most comforting era? idk i can’t rly explain that one

okay so these two r kinda completely different but also (for obvious reasons) the exact same. gotham was my most openly gay era and for that i will forever be grateful HOWEVER the kristen kringle haters were doing WAY TOO MUCH like she’s already dead why u doing her like that constantly (u will see this sentiment echoed later abt someone else hmmm i wonder who) but yea and then YES i was a paul dano lesbian (literally wasn’t out as lesbian at this point lmao) honestly this is probably the era my friends hated the most they would either awkwardly pretend to agree/care abt the shit i was saying or straight up tell me i was delusional 💀 my friends even now still call it my worst era but i LOVED IT kinda solidified my position at the bottom of the hellish secondary school hierarchy but i still had a good time. the paul dani riddler fanfics r next level tho the way ppl would just post STALKER fics constantly with like zero warnings and it was never labelled as yandere 🧍‍♀️i also got in an argument with a writer on wattpad bc they made the riddler and the oc have like a 6 year age gap and they met when she was 10 and he was like 16 💀 other than that good vibes all round

tbh this era was pretty brief i can’t fully explain what happened here like the vibes were immaculate but also insane WHY IS THERE SM YANDERE FANFIC peter parker is so nice but then in fanfics it’s like 👹 but i rly like spider-man HOWEVER this then led me to my final destination on the comphet journey…

omg were finally at the final stop the peak of comphet ( i came out as lesbian within this era ) arguably not my finest hour bc i swore i would never watch criminal minds bc the number of seasons is WAY TOO MUCH but here we are i watched it bc i read too much fanfic abt this man. i have lots of criticism for the fandom but he in himself is acc a rly good character. this was supposed to be like my ethical era but he’s acc killed like a bunch of ppl and thomas gibson is MESSY (don’t cancel me pls i say that lovingly 🫶) the haley hotchner misogyny nearly killed me off i don’t think i’ve ever been so miserable in a fandom and the fanfics kinda take feminism back a few hundred years but pretty good besides that

anyways there is my brainrot i hope the two (at most) ppl who will read this enjoyed 🫶 LETS GO LESBIANS LETS GO im gonna say i posted this in honour of international lesbian day even tho that was several days ago

[radprinceland]

So I thought I'd introduce myself on here

Hi, I'm Chloe from the UK. I'm 18 and autistic and my favorite Fandoms are Derry Girls, Emmerdale and Marvel

Ny favorite characters from each are:

Emmerdale

1. Charity Dingle

2. Aaron Dingle

3. Debbie Dingle

4. Robert Sugden

5. Cain Dingle

Derry girls

1. Michelle Mallon

2. Orla McCool

3. Clare Devlin

4. Sister Michael

Marvel

1. Tony Stark

2. Wanda Maximoff

3. Loki Laufeyson

I sometimes write fanfiction and that's me :)

[roysreader]

I loved Once upon a poolside!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 105

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 426,498

3. What fandoms do you write for? Mainly Succession lately

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Poison & Wine (Missing RomanGerri scenes)

Perfect Little Punching Bag (Roman Whump collection)

Maybe One of These Days You Can Let the Light In (RomanGerri wedding fic)

He Attends, Blind (post-finale KenRome fix-it)

The Eldest Boy (Kendall-centric, honestly surprised this is in the top 5)

5. Do you respond to comments? Yes I usually try to

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angistest ending? And Breathe Me

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Unbirthday or the above wedding fic

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not so far

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind? Only very mild smut, I think it’s one of the hardest things to write

10. Do you write crossovers? Yes, I love them

11. Gave you ever had a fiction stolen? Not that I know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes, a few Emmerdale fics

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? I’m a multi-shipper, RomanGerri are my current favourite

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Most of my fics are up to date

16. What are your writing strengths? I’ve been told I can cram a lot of emotion into short snippets

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Writing long-form

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I would have to rely on Google translate

19. First Fandom you write for? Silk, purely because it was a tiny fandom and almost nobody else was writing

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written? I can’t choose

Tagging anyone else who wants to do this :)

20 author questions

tagged by the lovely @badcatholichusband

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 11

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 153,683

3. What fandoms do you write for? Succession

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

This is not therapy — Roman chooses to go see Dr. Kellman on his own, which she identifies as one of his “strengths.”

Once upon a poolside — She knows by the knock that it’s him. That, and she was half expecting him to come crawling to her, a glutton for punishment. What she’s not expecting is to see him already punished: the blood on his shirt, the tear in his suit, the bruise already forming around his left eye. Not again, Logan, she thinks, only to remember that they’d entombed him that afternoon. Just another hurt-comfort fix-it fic immediately following S4E9.

Soft like silk — roman/gerri with twice the silk blouses (my magnum opus)

I know a place — season three of succession but it's Shiv who's weird about Gerri

Something unholy —something about “in costume” put the image of Roman in a priest’s collar in my head and I can’t get it out. A silly, sick, sexy, and heartwarming romp. In response to: Roman/Gerri autumn date. Takes place in a simpler time (season 2). I am going straight to hell.

5. Do you respond to comments? Not really but I would like to start because I love comments and am so grateful to everyone who reads my fic!!

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angistest ending? Honestly I’m not sure how White Ferrari will end, but I’m thinking it will probably be that one. As for existing fics, probably Once upon a poolside, but it’s not even that angsty. I’m all about hurt/comfort on a micro and macro level.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Soft like silk or maybe This is not therapy.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Only one time and it wasn’t even really hate but someone was like “Gerri’s too mean” and I was just like “uh-huh.” because that’s how I like her.

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind? I pretty much ONLY write smut lol. The kinky kind??

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Yes I love them. Honestly my Hacks one I think is the craziest. One day I’ll finish that. And my Veep.

11. Gave you ever had a fiction stolen? No! But Soft like silk has inspired some stuff and honestly that counts for like a billion kudos

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? no

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? no but I would! hmu!!

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? oh god this is so hard — I really am just absolutely obsessed with bisexual icon Gerri Kellman and will pair her with anybody (even her husband Baird!) but Shiv/Gerri I think

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Meditations in an emergency. I am going to finish I know a place one day but there’s just a lot of pressure (from myself) to make it good (plus I have to rewatch the end of S3 to put myself back in that place/time.

16. What are your writing strengths? kink/smut, dialogue, accuracy to the source material, character complexity (according to my wife who betas everything)

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Self indulgent background on the Kellman family, commas

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? my French isn’t good enough

19. First Fandom you write for? Sherlock (I used to write Irene Adler/Kate the maid, so that’s telling of a number of things)

20. Favorite fic you’ve ver written? probably This is not therapy because I’m a therapist in real life and it was fun to just disregard literally every single element of what that’s actually like and have fun with the idea of Gerri being Roman’s therapist

tagging anybody who wants to do this including my IRL wife @thegables and romangerri folks like @catherineflowers29

[politedemon]

also just a truly humiliating amount of emmerdale fanfiction

[beautifulhigh]

15 and 42 xoxo MJ/kiwiana-writes

15. What’s your favorite time to write?

When I have free time! I did two hours at work yesterday (in the office no less) because my work computer was doing a compulsory upgrade and so I had to sit there for two hours to prompt stuff and accept stuff intermittently. So I took my tablet into work and I wrote. On company time.

Mostly however, I tend to write of an evening or later on because I am much more of a night owl than anything else.

42. What’s your favorite title that you’ve come up with?

I like themes when it comes to my titles. For FirstPrince I'm using quotes (like the boys signed off their emails with); for Tarlos it's lines from poetry. When I wrote in the Emmerdale fandom for Robron they were all one word titles and I had a grand plan to write a fic for each letter of the alphabet.

But I love "In the burned house I am eating breakfast" because when I read the poem I knew it fitted the story I was writing, but then it also inspired a scene where the family were eating breakfast...

In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am.

And so the scene where the family were eating breakfast together was born, but the house was not there and the breakfast was not there, but there he was... (I'm just all round super proud of that fic.)

Anyway. I have the day off and I only have a few chores to do and then I want to be creative so please, send me more asks because I love talking about writing as it makes me want to do more!

Fanfiction writing asks

[ottoline-otter]

embarrassing that I keep going off to do tasks at work and accidentally leaving my laptop open so now my co-worker definitely knows I read emmerdale fanfiction on ao3

[steddieonmywaywardson]

Untitled - Post Prison Robron

Here’s a snippet from a post-prison Robron I’m working on (when I should be working on my two other WIPs....whoops!) “Aaron,” Robert’s voice filters into his thoughts. His husband sounds exhausted. As exhausted as any parent who was raising two teenage boys. When had it all become so hard? They’re always so tired these days….

“Yeah Rob?” 

“Will’s locked himself in his room,” Robert says with a sigh. He sighs all the time these days. Even when he’s not exasperated. They always seem to slip out. Aaron wonders if Robert even notices any more. “And I’m about to deck Seb,” 

With one absent father for most of their young lives, the boys often struggle to relate to Robert. All they’d known was Aaron’s way of doing things, Aaron’s expectations. Robert is a puzzle piece they’re still struggling to connect to. 

“What’s going on?” Aaron asks. His own voice sounds dull and hoarse. He’s never exactly been a talker but in the past few months, he’s spoken even less. All of his thoughts, his feelings and his conversations seem to happen in his own head these days. 

“No clue,” Robert shrugs. “Seb’s winding Will up about something as usual and Will’s taking it to heart,” he waves a hand. “You sort it out. You’re better at dealing with this shit that I am anyway,” 

Robert wasn’t always this way. When he was first released he’d thrown himself into fatherhood full time. His days were focused on building a relationship with his two sons. He went to every single parents evening and extra curricular event. He was there on the front lines at all of Seb’s football games, cheering the team on and taking them all out for a pizza afterwards. He went to every single school production that Will was involved in, whether he was the lead role of a background character with two lines. Something changed over time and Aaron has a horrible feeling that it’s all to do with him. 

Somewhere along the line he’d done something wrong. In the brief period that they were all together before Robert got sent down, his husband was a fully fledged family man. Until Aaron did something. There was no other explanation for it. Why else would Robert Sugden-Dingle, self confessed family man, become so withdrawn and act as though he couldn’t stand his own kids and husband?

“Well?” Robert says, irritated. Aaron realizes that he’s drifted off again. It’s happening more and more these days. He’s sure that if he mentioned it to his counselor she’d be able to tell him why but he’s reluctant to admit that, after being stable for so long, he’s starting to fall apart again just like his marriage.  “Just deal with them ok? I’m sick of it,” 

Robert turns on his heel, ready to stalk out of the room and away from the situation which is happening more often these days. And even though Aaron knows any protestation will start a fight, he does it anyway. After all, at least if they’re fighting, they’re talking right? He’s getting sick of the silent nights that seem to stretch out endlessly. 

“Sick of being their father?” Aaron says coolly. Robert freezes in the doorway but doesn’t turn around. “This is what we signed up for Rob. Two kids. All that stuff we went through trying to find a surrogate so I could have Will. All the shit with the Whites. They’re our children Robert,”

If Robert’s hurt or angered by Aaron’s reply, he doesn’t show it. His shoulders are still set and he still doesn’t turn around. 

“I’ll go make dinner,” 

Aaron stares after his husband, torn between anger and tears. It’s a sad state of affairs when he realises that he wouldn’t be completely surprised if, one day soon, Robert turns and keeps walking. Out of the door. Out of their lives. He threatened as much during their last argument. 

Robert may have been released from prison but it seems that the two of them have turned their home into one.