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A unplanned road trip strands Robert and Chad in the desert after the Firebird breaks down miles from anywhere. With night closing in Robert begins to realize Chad isn't afraid of being stranded.
───☄─·✵·─☄───Nyctophobia — fear of the dark. Of spaces where nothing can be seen and every sound feels wrong. Fear sharp enough to make the fire spark, and the lingering dread of accidentally hurting someone just trying to get close.
───☄─·✵·─☄───The first sign was the sound.
A hitch in the V8's rumble. Small, barely there. Robert felt it through the bench seat before he heard it, a vibration that didn't match the road. The engine caught briefly and Chad checked the dash and nothing flagged, the gauges holding steady.
It came through the whole car, a tremor that started under the hood and traveled backward through the frame, rattling the rearview mirror and buzzing through the bench seat into Robert's spine. The engine note dropped and caught and dropped again, and the RPM needle twitched with it.
The Firebird shuddered harder and the engine coughed, flat and mechanical, and the speedometer began to slide, eighty down to seventy-five down to seventy.
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- Part 1 of Close to Catastrophe
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08 Jul 2026
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The one where Chad’s car breaks down in the middle of the desert.
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Roberts mental and physical health are hanging on by a thread after everything that's happened to him. He doesn’t have the luxury of stopping, the Z-Team still need their dispatcher, and with the Mech working again he's back out there every night trying his best to uphold the family legacy.
Robert keeps pushing himself like he always has. He's just not sure how much longer his body will let him.
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26 Jun 2026
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The one where Robert is forced to take leave after getting jumped and strangled in an alleyway. Chad takes care of him
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Father's Day means very different things to them. Chad won't let Bob Bob be a miserable sack of shit today of all days, not on his watch.
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25 Jun 2026
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The one where Chad takes Robert to his father’s grave on Father’s Day. They get ice cream after
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Hanahaki: An extremely rare disease born from unrequited love. This disease has no known cure, it has only been documented a small number of times. The disease manifests itself in the form of flower petals in the lungs, which the infected have been recorded to cough up over time. The infected has an estimated three months to live before they succumb to the disease and lose their life. The working theory is that the only cure is for the unrequited to reciprocate, though it seems unlikely that something so simple would work.
Of course, because a terminal illness is exactly what Robert needs on top of everything else.
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- Part 2 of Fangirl Lunar's Mechabae fics
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25 Jun 2026
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The one where Hanahaki is so rare that it’s considered terminal
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Flambert Prison Mates AU
Robert is trying to investigate a criminal organization while also trying not to stare at his cellmate's hair, Flambae is slowly becoming weirdly protective of the "feral little shit" he's rooming with, and approximately seven hundred desserts changing hands. It's fine. Everything's fine. Robert is definitely not catching feelings for a man who would absolutely incinerate him if he knew the truth. Definitely not.
(Spoiler: He is. He so, so is.)
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Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
24 Jun 2026
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An au where Chad and Robert meet in prison. The phoenix program and Shroud are very different in this one
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This is a series of interconnected fics set in a post-canon universe where Robert and Flambae are easing their way slowly—and a little awkwardly—into an actual relationship.
The fics are in chronological order, not necessarily in publishing order, but you can read them either way! At some point maybe I'll string all of them together with some transitional scenes and make an actual full-length fic, but for now they're just shortfics!
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A call comes in and Robert makes the call that he's the best suited to handle it. He wouldn't entrust just anyone with saving Flambae's beloved niece, not when he couldn't trust other heroes to give the same level he would to keep her, and all the other kids, safe.
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23 Jun 2026
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Robert gets severely injured saving Flambae’s niece from a school shooting.
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Chad loves Robert. But he wishes he knew why Robert thought so little of himself. Why Robert fought so hard for attention Chad would freely give him.
He unfortunately gets the answer when he meets a whole slew of Robert's exes.
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21 Jun 2026
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Will you hold my heart like you hold my soul? by Windrivver
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
16 Jun 2026
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AU where Flambae is a demon and gets accidentally summoned by Robert while he is on a mission as Mecha Man
Aka Flambae is a horny bitch and Robert catches feelings along the way. Beef is just happy to receive more scratches and bellyrubs.
Inspired by TheArtCourt drawings of Demon Flambae on bluesky
(To specify, their original design of demon Flambae. All dynamics and fanart the artist has portrayed in their works are their ideas and NOT a reflection of this fanfic.)Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
16 Jun 2026
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Robert accidentally completes a pact with demon Flambae
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"Ok, so the reason why you're here too," Chad began, quickly looking back and forth between the bullpen and Alice.
"Was wondering when you'd explain why I'm here," Alice replied, amusement evident in her tone.
"Well I'm about to explain."
"Bitch, hurry up then."
"Psh, whatever. So, I'm in the locker room getting ready. And Sonar like, snaps his fingers in front of my face."
"He don't know he's got a target on him yet?"
"No, I'm gonna make it look like an accident. Anyways, he didn't even fucking recognize me. Said it was cause of the beard."
"And you want to see if our little dispatcher recognizes you, yeah?"
"Exactly!"
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13 Jun 2026
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The one where chad comes back from a vacation with a beard and pulls a Clark Kent on Robert
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“I lied to her,” Robert blurted. “To Blazer— Mandy now I suppose. She asked me if I felt better after killing him. I told her I didn’t but—I think I do.”
Coupé and Punch Up shared a look that Robert only saw half of. He did not want to turn to see what expression Punch Up had to be wearing.
“I shouldn’t, right? Feel good about it— or better or…”
“Figured you always planned on killing him. You know, avenge your father and all that.” Colm said. Casually, as if they were discussing the weather.
Or maybe it was carefully, as if he could see the way he was fractured along the edges. Robert could hear a knife chopping something and then stew being stirred.Or alternatively: Robert killed Shroud and went home after a day shift, a light round of torture, an all-nighter emergency shift, and a fight against the man who killed his father in a fucked up mech. Coupé and Punch Up go to make sure he's as alright as he can be. Spoiler alert: He is not. They will fix that.
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Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
12 Jun 2026
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Colm and Janell help Robert through the aftermath of killing Shroud
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09 Jun 2026
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Earlier that week he had received an envelope. Official looking. Bright read letters on the front of “FINAL NOTICE”. Stern wording. It was not the first time he had received such envelopes. It was, however, the first time it had been sent to his workplace rather than his mailbox at his apartment. Maybe because it was so crammed full that it couldn’t hold anymore. He couldn’t exactly have late payment notices if he had nothing to pay for. He paid his far-too expensive-for-the-amount-of-drafts rent on time thank you very much.
A brief, impolite summary of the letter would be “Get your shit out or we will fine you and sell off everything inside”. It was a tempting offer save for the fine.Or Alternatively: Robert is condemned to spend his Saturday cleaning out a long abandoned storage unit he didn’t even know existed. Punch-Up and Coupé volunteer to help! Surely there will be nothing important in this storage unit.
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Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
06 Jun 2026
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Colm and Janelle help Robert clean out his dad’s storage unit. They find his mom’s boxes as well.
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02 Jun 2026
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Several months after Invisigal disappeared with Shroud's mask, Robert is falling apart. He can't taste, can't feel, can't stop his off-the-books investigation into underground surgeons removing failed Red Ring implants. Every back-alley beating, every late-night break-in is just him chasing pain to cut through the numbness. To feel alive again.
The Z team are starting to notice, and they have their own plans to help Robert.
Flambae's got an alternative therapy in mind. Therapy that involves heat, control, and getting his dispatcher out of his system once and for all.
A story about choosing to live and finding heat in all the wrong (right) places.
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- English
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- 147,481
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- 24/?
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01 Jun 2026
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Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
29 May 2026
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After Shroud's defeat, things have pretty much settled down for the Z-Team.
The problem is, when you're finally out of survival-mode, you start noticing things.
Robert just so happens to start noticing Flambae.
Now, if only his teammate would stop filling his nights with forgettable hook-ups with weird religious dirty talk......Robert has a terrible feeling about the whole thing.
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- Part 1 of Fire and Metal
Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
29 May 2026
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The on with Rapture an the cult after Flambae
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Supernatural creatures keep trying to lure away Robert because he’s like catnip to them, which is funny until it’s not. What does Malevola have to do to keep others from snatching away their dispatcher?
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Kinda 5 times someone tried to steal Robert, and one time they used that to their advantage (and then still had to prevent someone from taking him home)Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
28 May 2026
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The one where Robert’s scent has supernatural creatures trying to steal him away
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Flustering A Stone Wall
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Z-Team's dispatcher has been described, both by them and others, as a 'perpetually dead inside motherfucker'. He never seems to get bashful, or worked up, at any of their goddamn flirtations.Maybe they've just been going about it the wrong way
[Or: different times Z-Team has accidentally flustered Robert through displays of care]- Language:
- English
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- 13,293
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- 6/6
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Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
27 May 2026
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These is pretty much 6 times the Z-Team made Robert blush
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“Employees should be aware that if they enter into a personal relationship with a subordinate employee, a conflict of interest may exist.”
Robert knows the policy.
He also knows he shouldn’t be thinking about Flambae’s hands, his stare, or the way heat seems to follow him through SDN’s halls.
Unfortunately for Robert, Flambae has never been good at respecting boundaries.
Or pretending he doesn’t want what he wants.
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Flambae better stop staring at Robert because he can't handle it.
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- Part 1 of Mechabae
Bookmarked by Self_Possessed_Ghost
26 May 2026
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This is the one where Flambae keeps controlling the heat around Robert to help with his joints