Hi Mae! Coming in to request Whitaker x reader! She was off the last year on a doctorâs without borderâs trip and her first shift back as a doctor she comes in doing cpr on a patient that coded in the ambulance bay? Also everyone has a nickname so can hers be Siren? Cause sheâs a baddie
Dennis Whitaker x Readerâáą. .áąââËâĄ
holy shit I'm so sorry this took almost a month. I've had terrible writers block. Imma try to get back into the groove, and maybe make a part two cus this was cutie.
Summary: simple fluff, meet-cute I think? <3 kinda shy Dennis whitaker, Santos langdon robby and Dana appearance. not proofread!! I'm sorry.
After being away from the pitt for a year, you were nervous to return, which you would never admit. You had already envisioned yourself walking in there like it was any other day, like you had never left. Same confidence, same understanding of the space. But as you walked into the department, you stuttered, fidgeting with your hands and avoiding eye contact. You stood in front of your locker trying to build the courage to just go in there, nothing to worry about. No one forgot who you were, you would all still get along, it would be a good day. You take a deep breath and close your locker, freezing for a second before pushing yourself backwards to just go for it, unfortunately colliding your entire back with someone.Â
âWoah, carefulâŠShit, hey Siren I didnât even realise that was you.â You turn to see Dana, grabbing your shoulder to steady you, giving her usual big smile.Â
âHi Dana, sorry about that.â You awkwardly laugh. Never in your life have you felt awkward around dana, even on your first day you basically followed her around, eventually giving her the nickname âmama bearâ which everyone came to use. She was a welcoming presence for everyone in the pitt, but today you just felt so out of place.Â
âNervous to be back?â Dana asks, guiding you out the doors, throwing you into action. You mumble some kind of response, taking in the busy emergency room. There are familiar faces, but also some new ones. You see Robby talking with Abbot at the nurses station, and decided in that moment to âlock inâ. Robby was someone you looked up to, and you didnât want him seeing you nervous. You also knew heâd hover the rest of the day, something he did if he noticed anything slightly off about you.Â
Robby and Abbot gave you a warm welcome, Abbot giving you a side hug before heading home, and then Robby had you follow him to a trauma room. Robby always threw you onto difficult cases, so when you walked into the trauma room that was filled with doctors and nurses, all surrounding the one patient you werenât all that surprised, just ready to get right into it.Â
Things seem to fall together just right, your presence fitting just how it always did. The situation seemed to ease a bit once you got in there.Â
You stand in front of the board, taking all the names and complaints in. As you try to decide between taking an easy or difficult case, Dana calls you over,Â
âSiren, we have an anaphylaxis en route, can you get outside and wait for that ambulance?âÂ
Walking backwards towards the doors to the ambulance bay, you call out to dana,Â
âWe know anything else?âÂ
âNope.â She tells you, shrugging her shoulders.Â
You get outside, appreciating the nice weather and hope it's a simple case. Surely they've administered Epi, and there wasnât much else that needed done here. But with a lack of information you had to be prepared for whatever they had.Â
Sure enough, the patient was unstable the whole trip to the Pitt, and so you helped rush them into a trauma room, counting out compressions as you went. A couple nurses and other doctors followed you and the paramedics into the room, getting information from said paramedics before they left. You hand off compressions to the doctor next to you, a new, soft face. You hold your eyes for just a moment, making sure this new person had it under control, but he took over immediately, focusing on cpr.Â
Robby comes into the room, asking you for the run down. You take a step back, expecting him to take over the oxygenation, but he just nods at you and backs away, leaving it all to you. You figured as much from Robby, he always pushed you forward. You had no choice but to intubate the patient, which the doctor you didnât recognise stepped in immediately to help.Â
Thankfully everything went smoothly, and as you headed out of the trauma room your eyes seemed to follow the new doctor, the one with curly hair and soft eyes. You debated approaching him, but decided it would be better to give it some time. You make your way to the nurses station, hoping to catch Dana. Caught up in your thoughts when you felt a tap on your shoulder.Â
âHey uh, good work in there.â The new face says, tapping his knuckles with unsteady eye contact.
âOh, thanks, you did great too.â Your voice seems to trail off, train of thought leaving you. This wasnât normal, not for you. You had never been the person to be awkward with a man, you seemed to have an endless supply of confidence, at least on the outside. It was why the department had given you the nickname Siren. You were put together, poised, even something about your voice and eyes seemed to fit into the nickname, according to your coworkers. It was a flattering nickname, so of course you went along with it, even though inside you didnât feel anything like that. But unfortunately the version of you people typically perceived faltered with this new guy.Â
âThank you..Iâm Dennis by the way, Whitaker, uh Dennis Whitaker.â He smiled, his unfortunate stuttering making you ease up, you weren't the only one being weirdly awkward. You tell him your actual name, mention how youâve worked here awhile but it's your first day back after a year away helping with doctors without borders.Â
You ease into a conversation, learning about how long dennis has worked at the pitt, when Langdon passes by,
âGood job with that intubation, siren!âÂ
âYouâre so kind, er ken!â You yell back, familiarity washing over, you had missed the back and forth with everybody.Â
âHey, why does everyone call you siren?â Dennis asks, voice lowering so just you hear, not wanting to expose how out of the loop he really is.Â
âOh, uh itâs just my nickname around here, weâve all kind of given them to each other.â Youâve never really had to explain the name, everyone just kinda got it. You werenât particularly keen on explaining why people said it.Â
âBecauseâŠYou like to swim?âÂ
âWhat? No, itâs just, itâs stupidâŠâ You feel your face getting hot, suddenly hating everyone for giving you such a vain nickname.Â
âWhatâs it mean then?â There was sincerity in Dennis's eyes, he wasn't trying to mock you, he genuinely didnât get it, and wanted let in. He brought his face in closer, which tuned out the rest of the er, just so you were more comfortable letting him in on this stupid inside joke, an inside joke that you never thought too much into.Â
âItâs just like, Iâm usually really confident, that kinda thing.âÂ
âOh, itâs cause you're pretty.â Dennis blurts out, more focused on the fact he figured it out then on what he just said, out loud.Â
âWoah there, huckleberry, professional setting?â Santos says, appearing seemingly out of nowhere, giving Dennis a (kinda) friendly punch in the shoulder.Â
âWhat? No, I was just-âÂ
âI don't care, can you go help Ogilvie in south 18?â Santos yells to Dennis, disappearing into another room.Â
âDid she just call you âhuckleberryâ? You say, biting back a laugh as Dennis's face gets even more red.
âN-no!â He says, eyes darting around, praying the situation doesn't escalate further, the rest of the er catching him so embarrassed.Â
âShe definitely did!â You say, covering your mouth to not giggle in his poor face.Â
âOk, please stop, please,â He says, laughing into you as he tries to shush you, leaning in to whisper, âstop ohmygodâ which just makes you laugh harder.Â
  âCan you two please get to work?â Robby appears, arms crossed as he tries to look intimidating.