TITLE: Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
Chapter: 2/?
Fandom: The Pitt
Wordcount (this chapter): 5,393
Rating: T, shading into M (language, themes, violence)
Pairing: developing Michael ‘Robby’ Rabinovitch / Jack Abbot
Characters (this chapter): Michael 'Robby’ Rabinovitch, Jack Abbot, Mel King, Montgomery Adamson, Dana Evans, Frank Langdon, & glimpses of the whole crew
Summary: Korea, 1951. Captain 'Robby’ Rabinovitch, draftee and newly minted Chief Surgeon of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, just wants out of the hellhole tent he and Langdon have renamed from the Swamp to the Pitt. A new arrival, who’s all hard smiles and too-capable hands, keeps him from falling too far into the dark.
Or, the M*A*S*H alternate universe I couldn’t keep out of my head.
Excerpt (this chapter): It's hour eighty-one before they stop, which Robby thinks might be a record.
He can't walk. Or at least, whatever he's doing can't really be called walking. It's dark, and god only knows what day it is. He takes a moment to do brief post-op rounds, letting the brilliant Filipina duo of Perlah and Princess push and tug him from one bed to another, until he's sure that all sixty of the filled cots are full of boys who won't die before morning, and then he bursts out into the night, his knees weak, his sweat cooling after the stuffiness of the hospital even though it has to be close to ninety degrees outside in the humid heat of a late Korean summer.
More than three days of non-stop surgery blurs the senses and upends the world, and Robby is under no illusions that what he's seeing will last. But his heart throbs in every which direction when he sees Shen, Abbot, and Langdon all shuffling towards the Pitt together, a tangle of limbs and bloody clothes and leaning heads.
Maybe, he thinks, wanting to sing, wanting to croon like a madman.
