App-iom of Choice(s)

she/her, 29 | hi i downloaded choices and want to scream into the void about bryce lahela. sideblog to my already cringey main blog.

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Masterlist

Thought it was time to make a masterlist! Sorted by series.

Open Heart (MC: Darcy Allen)

Baby Fever  Darcy Allen loses track of her patient’s baby in the hospital. When she finds him with Bryce, it awakens some feelings that she isn’t quite prepared for. (MC x Bryce)

The Gold Medalist  An Olympic gold medalist patient makes Darcy Allen think about her not-quite-a-relationship with Bryce. (MC x Bryce)

Sleeping Beauty  Bryce accidentally wakes up Darcy as he leaves in the morning. (MC x Bryce)

The Great Escape  It’s Zaid and Ines’s last day at Edenbrook…or is it? (Zaid x Ines)

with true love’s kiss, the spell shall break  The unshakable Bryce Lahela is nervous as he prepares for Kyra’s surgery. (MC x Bryce)

the sunflower and the sun Ethan Ramsey finds senior resident Darcy Allen struggling to make a decision about her future. (MC x Bryce, but Bryce isn’t here; MC x Ethan one-sided.)

the water and the rock   After a long day, Darcy tells Bryce what she’s decided to do after her residency. (MC x Bryce) (TW: brief description of drowning in first paragraph)

the question and the answer Darcy’s response and Bryce’s proposal, in that order. (MC x Bryce)

More Than Friends   (Soulmate AU.) In a world where the rich can afford to commission Tattoo Artists (those trained in the use of the needles and the special ink which can tattoo the first name of the client’s soulmate on their skin), not much is different for the doctors of Edenbrook. The diagnostics team’s latest celebrity patient is Tattoo artist Mary Beth Porter, who’s made it her life’s mission to bring Tattoos to people of all socioeconomic statuses, introduce soulmates, and to film the ensuing drama for her hit reality TV show, What’s In a Name? As the doctors search for the cause of her symptoms, they grapple with their own complicated relationships with the soulmate system. (MC x Bryce)

You’re Invited  Bryce invites his internal medicine friends to a housewarming/unpacking party. There is a slight miscommunication. (MC x Bryce)

a hazardous material That “I care about you” scene from Book 2 Chapter 11. (MC x Bryce)

Trick-or-Treat Bryce and a pretty surgical intern dress up as Prince Charming and Cinderella for the pediatric Halloween festival, and Darcy is jealous. (MC x Bryce)

A Delicata Procedure  Bryce and his favorite assistant perform a complicated procedure on Halloween. 

Bryce Lahela’s Greatest Hits  During Keiki’s stay with her brother, he annoys her with his singing. (Plus a marginally-related MC x Bryce bonus scene.)

Hopeful Hearts and Second Chances  Rewrite of the gala chapter (Chapter 17: Hopeful Hearts), but pushed to the spring, frame as kind of a Book 2 finale, and some non-canon compliant surprises. Darcy deals with trauma from the maitotoxin incident as she tries to save the hospital and work through her insecurities about her not-quite-a-relationship with Bryce. (MC x Bryce)

Snowfall  Darcy fights a losing battle against her feelings as she and Bryce enjoy Bryce’s first snowfall. (MC x Bryce)

Untitled Book 3 AU Teaser Thing: Picks up after Hopeful Heart and Second Chances, as an alternate Book 3 where Bryce’s parents buy the hospital and Darcy and Bryce are official. (MC x Bryce)

Attack of the BloomBots: Bryce and Darcy seek refuge from a (vague) robot apocalypse. (MC x Bryce)

“Did you forget anything?”:  Bryce brings Darcy to the airport. (So much angst) (MC x Bryce)

SERIES: Hand-Me-Downs:  (Enemies/Rivals-to-Lovers AU) Second-year surgical residents Darcy Allen and Bryce Lahela didn’t come to Edenbrook to make friends, and certainly not with each other. But when the path to greatness requires teamwork, they are forced to work together—and to cast aside the personal baggage keeping them apart. (MC x Bryce) 

On AO3!

Part 1: Under My Skin

Part 2: Truth or Consequences

Part 3: A Mother’s Sacrifice 

Part 4: It’s a Switch Flipped

Part 5: Mission Inoperable

Part 6: Building a Mystery, Tearing it Down

Part 7: You Might Be the Same as Me

Part 8: The Winner Takes it All

Part 9: I’m Slipping Under

Part 10: That Gold Mine Changed You

Part 11: I Learned to Count on You As My Own Fingers

Part 12: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Part 13: Meant to Be

Epilogue

Meet My MC: 

Unfiltered: Some thoughts about Darcy’s family and her relationship with Bryce.

Requests

First time they were speechless vs. last time they were speechless (MC x Bryce)

First “I love you” vs. last “I love you” (MC x Bryce) (TW: pregnancy complications) 

Matching Christmas sweaters/crawling into SO’s bed (MC x Bryce) 

Being immensely proud when little one takes their first steps alone (MC x Bryce)

Mother of the Year (MC: Melissa Day; daughter: Kathleen Day)

when you wish upon a star  You and your daughter have a conversation about space. 

The Nanny Affair (MC: Mercy Williams)

chemistry  You quit and have a conversation with Sam about what love is. (anti-Sam, sorry)

Requests

First lie vs. last lie (MC x Sam) (again pretty anti-Sam, oof) 

[probablybadrpgideas]

This is in no way RPG related but I just heard someone call a doctor "you hippocratic oaf" and I needed to share that

[appiomofchoice]

Hand-Me-Downs: Part 1

Oh man oh man I hyped this up too much 

I have been threatening to write an enemies-to-lovers AU for Bryce and Darcy for awhile, so this is it—the first part of ~10! (I was going to wait until I had finished drafting all parts, but to be honest, I am too impatient to sit on it that long lol.) I will try to post weekly-ish, but…no promises. 

Series Synopsis: (Enemies/Rivals-to-Lovers AU) Second-year surgical residents Darcy Allen and Bryce Lahela didn’t come to Edenbrook to make friends, and certainly not with each other. But when the path to greatness requires teamwork, they are forced to work together—and to cast aside the personal baggage keeping them apart.

Part 1 Synopsis: When Bryce is late for his hemicorporectomy, the tables turn in his ongoing competition with Darcy.

Word count: 1651 words

Rating: 16+ to be safe

Tagging: @lucy-268 @mvalentine @seriouslybadchoices @anotherbeingsworld @choicesficwriterscreations @openheartfanfics

(Let me know if you’d like to be tagged, for MC x Bryce in general or just for this series!)

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Part 1: Under My Skin

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Bryce Lahela strutted out of the skills lab, a buoy of confidence in a sea of disappointed residents. His technique had been flawless, his hands had been fast, and as a result, he was going to take the lead on a hemicorporectomy. Him. A second-year surgical resident, one of only two who’d even been allowed in the room, due to their exceptional promise.

“Hey, Allen,” he called as he saw the other second-year resident leave the room. He smirked to see her scowl back at him. “You’re not going to congratulate me?”

“You managed to cut a dummy in half,” she answered icily. “Congrats, Lahela.”

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[appiomofchoice]

It's been centuries since I posted this...but I just realized I can finally post my painstakingly-curated playlist for this series without doxing myself.

[nickwiseman]

that's right. bryce lahela in 2024 🙂‍↕️

here's near incoherent comic thumbs about mal's overprotective family too. we're really back in it

[appiomofchoice]

ok i'm pretty confident that my open heart brainworms are dead forever and i am procrastinating. so here's what the Book 3 au would have been (now that I'm...pretty confident I will never write it)

Chapter one is just this:

Picks up from this: an alternate version of that fundraising gala, where instead of what actually happens (I don't remember), Bryce's mother shows up and buys the hospital, and Bryce and Darcy officialize their relationship.

A few months later, the hospital reopens after extensive renovations. Bryce and Darcy return to work, still super in love.

Chapter Two:

Bryce is haunted by the spectre of his parents, both in the special treatment he's suddenly getting from attendings and his mother literally showing up outside of one of his surgeries. (He dodges her, of course.)

Meanwhile, the diagnostic team has a new case, a VIP patient. The catch is that they (except for Ethan) aren't allowed to know who it is.

Bryce and Darcy vent about their days and agree to intern-style shenanigans: they'll investigate what Bryce's parents are up to.

To distract Bryce's parents long enough for him to meaningfully investigate, Darcy agrees to a coffee meeting with them. They ask her pretty invasive questions about Mrs. Martinez and the maitotoxin incident; did she tell her parents (no) and why not? Meanwhile, Bryce breaks into their office and takes pictures of "evidence," not that there's anything actually incriminating.

Later, Darcy and the diagnostic team are brainstorming; Ethan shoots down all of their ideas without even running any tests, for reasons he can't explain. He also blames her spending time on her "investigation" with Bryce for why she hasn't found anything useful yet; she shoots back that he has to fill June's spot on the team. She also has reason to believe that Tobias is the most likely candidate for it, so she makes some kind of hint-hint nudge-nudge speech about forgiveness and putting the past in the past. (“I’ll think about it,” he promises. Or is it a threat?)

Chapter Three:

A few weeks later, the VIP patient is getting worse, the diagnostic team is nowhere close to fixing it, Ethan has become more of a nightmare, and Darcy is starting to feel like she doesn't deserve to be there. (Like, alive at all. It's the survivor's guilt.)

At lunch, they discuss a research fellowship in Belgium which Naveen is accepting applications for. Darcy isn't really interested in it (which concerns Bryce a little).

Bryce makes some progress, or so he thinks. He believes his parents are striking up some shady deals with Big Pharma, directing money into research areas without understanding the science.

Meanwhile, Darcy is struggling. She's taking longer routes to avoid walking by the room where she was poisoned. She runs into Rafael, who seems perfectly fine, recovered. She feels crazy. But she can't stay to talk because she's being paged to the diagnostic office...

...where Landry is waiting, along with the rest of the team. He's the one who got June's spot.

Chapter Four:

Bryce and Darcy drive up to Connecticut to visit Keiki. She doesn't think their parents are up to anything fishy; people can change if you let them.

Darcy and Landry work together to find the diagnosis. And they actually make a good team when they put the past aside. They figure it out! Hooray! It's Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease...which has no cure. Landry is happy and celebrating; for him, it's all about the answers, it's never been about the patients, and he hasn't changed. Darcy tells Ethan that they figured it out, but she has to know who it is; she figures that the reason they can't know is that it's someone close to them. But she can't lose more people. She has to know.

Before Darcy can go home, she's paged back to the office; to her surprise, the Lahelas are there. She's expecting a lecture about how the team isn't working fast enough. Instead, it's revealed that Bryce's father is the VIP patient. And she can't tell Bryce.

I think the rest is even less planned so I'll leave it like that as now and maybe follow up later. But. Yeah.

[appiomofchoice]

After a short time jump (slightly less structured):

Darcy throws herself into finding a cure, working under Harper and June (please imagine what a powerful teamup that would be). On top of her work with the diagnostic team, her patients, her much-neglected plans for the future, and her much-neglected boyfriend (from whom she's keeping this huge secret). Bryce is worried about her because she's not sleeping and something is clearly wrong (and he's worried that it's because of him, somehow). She's kind of losing it, trying to keep this secret from Bryce and failing to find a cure.

And then her family shows up. Because Bryce, worried out of his mind and not sure what to do, reached out to them. They didn't know about the maitotoxin, and at first she's a little upset, but she understands that it was a lot to put on him as her main emotional support. So she agrees to go to therapy, agrees to talk to her family, and...tells Bryce that his father doesn't have long to live, and that he should get his sister from school.

Another little time skip. A funeral in Hawaii; Bryce doesn't want her there, which breaks her heart a little, but she understands. (Keiki is also upset that she didn't tell them.) But later Bryce shows up at her apartment and clarifies that he's not upset with her, he's upset that his parents put her through this and tried to ruin the best thing in his life. He loves her. They can't change that.

Mrs. Lahela still owns the hospital. She isn't going to go after Darcy's license for breaching confidentiality, as a favor to Bryce; but she can't have Darcy working there after her residency. The diagnostic team position goes to Landry.

But Naveen and Ethan have quietly nominated Darcy for that fellowship in Belgium. When she gets it, Bryce encourages her to take it, because he sees how traumatized she is in this hospital, he sees how stuck she is in Boston.

And the bittersweet ending would be that she takes it and they go their separate ways...

But the last lines in my Google Doc brainstorm: Okay what if Bryce applies for a hotshot fellowship thing? Like he'd finish his residency at this hospital instead, maybe in London or Spain or somewhere, near Darcy. "You're not the only hotshot, Darcy. Not to steal your thunder or anything." Stole her thunder and lightning and rain, left her with sunshine.

Anyway. That's what I was thinking :)

[appiomofchoice]

ok i'm pretty confident that my open heart brainworms are dead forever and i am procrastinating. so here's what the Book 3 au would have been (now that I'm...pretty confident I will never write it)

Chapter one is just this:

Picks up from this: an alternate version of that fundraising gala, where instead of what actually happens (I don't remember), Bryce's mother shows up and buys the hospital, and Bryce and Darcy officialize their relationship.

A few months later, the hospital reopens after extensive renovations. Bryce and Darcy return to work, still super in love.

Chapter Two:

Bryce is haunted by the spectre of his parents, both in the special treatment he's suddenly getting from attendings and his mother literally showing up outside of one of his surgeries. (He dodges her, of course.)

Meanwhile, the diagnostic team has a new case, a VIP patient. The catch is that they (except for Ethan) aren't allowed to know who it is.

Bryce and Darcy vent about their days and agree to intern-style shenanigans: they'll investigate what Bryce's parents are up to.

To distract Bryce's parents long enough for him to meaningfully investigate, Darcy agrees to a coffee meeting with them. They ask her pretty invasive questions about Mrs. Martinez and the maitotoxin incident; did she tell her parents (no) and why not? Meanwhile, Bryce breaks into their office and takes pictures of "evidence," not that there's anything actually incriminating.

Later, Darcy and the diagnostic team are brainstorming; Ethan shoots down all of their ideas without even running any tests, for reasons he can't explain. He also blames her spending time on her "investigation" with Bryce for why she hasn't found anything useful yet; she shoots back that he has to fill June's spot on the team. She also has reason to believe that Tobias is the most likely candidate for it, so she makes some kind of hint-hint nudge-nudge speech about forgiveness and putting the past in the past. (“I’ll think about it,” he promises. Or is it a threat?)

Chapter Three:

A few weeks later, the VIP patient is getting worse, the diagnostic team is nowhere close to fixing it, Ethan has become more of a nightmare, and Darcy is starting to feel like she doesn't deserve to be there. (Like, alive at all. It's the survivor's guilt.)

At lunch, they discuss a research fellowship in Belgium which Naveen is accepting applications for. Darcy isn't really interested in it (which concerns Bryce a little).

Bryce makes some progress, or so he thinks. He believes his parents are striking up some shady deals with Big Pharma, directing money into research areas without understanding the science.

Meanwhile, Darcy is struggling. She's taking longer routes to avoid walking by the room where she was poisoned. She runs into Rafael, who seems perfectly fine, recovered. She feels crazy. But she can't stay to talk because she's being paged to the diagnostic office...

...where Landry is waiting, along with the rest of the team. He's the one who got June's spot.

Chapter Four:

Bryce and Darcy drive up to Connecticut to visit Keiki. She doesn't think their parents are up to anything fishy; people can change if you let them.

Darcy and Landry work together to find the diagnosis. And they actually make a good team when they put the past aside. They figure it out! Hooray! It's Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease...which has no cure. Landry is happy and celebrating; for him, it's all about the answers, it's never been about the patients, and he hasn't changed. Darcy tells Ethan that they figured it out, but she has to know who it is; she figures that the reason they can't know is that it's someone close to them. But she can't lose more people. She has to know.

Before Darcy can go home, she's paged back to the office; to her surprise, the Lahelas are there. She's expecting a lecture about how the team isn't working fast enough. Instead, it's revealed that Bryce's father is the VIP patient. And she can't tell Bryce.

I think the rest is even less planned so I'll leave it like that as now and maybe follow up later. But. Yeah.

[gutsfics]

IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE ETHAN????????????

also like not to mention that its CLEARLY ai

[yelenabelovagf-deactivated20250]

choicenators rb this with a book that’s mostly disliked but YOU personally enjoy it this is our time to admit to the fun stupid books we like i’ll go first i’m a cursed heart, hot shot and slow burn apologist idc they’re fun and silly

[the-unconquered-queen]

Which book that is widely disliked* on Choices Tumblr your favorite?

The Nanny Affair

Baby Bump

My Two First Loves

Untameable

Witness

Surrender

Another widely disliked book (which one?)

I don't like the widely disliked books either

Voting ended onJan 22, 2024

*Baby, I'm talking LOATHED. SHIT TALKED. You feel like an island just for digging this book. We are not talking books that received lots of criticism but also lots of hype or books that the fandom was just sort of indifferent about

[appiomofchoice]

it's been so long since i've been interested in choices. i opened up the playlist for my book 3 au and am pretty sure i'll never write it. but maybe one day soon i'll post a little outline of what i had in mind.

[a-zzurra-deactivated20180518]

the reason i don’t go to the doctor anymore is because i went once and the medical intern was super young and super hot so naturally i got nervous, and when he measured my heart rate he said ‘hmm it’s…faster than average’ and then he smirked. cos he knew. cos i’m not subtle. cos i’m a dumb motherfucker. anyway imagine your OTP

[brightpinkpeppercorn]

The Blades MC can hook up with all five LIs in Riverbend, huh? Blades fam, we are winning today!

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[tinylittletrain]

Open Heart Valentines

i wanted to give a little love to some of my favs for the holiday so i made a collection of little cards for everyone to share!

please feel free to download and send these to your friends, choices mutuals, etc. for valentines! (reposts are allowed with credit)

im so excited to have this project done!! i wanted to post this early so everyone has time to see/download what they want

[appiomofchoice]

Hand-Me-Downs: Part 1

Oh man oh man I hyped this up too much 

I have been threatening to write an enemies-to-lovers AU for Bryce and Darcy for awhile, so this is it—the first part of ~10! (I was going to wait until I had finished drafting all parts, but to be honest, I am too impatient to sit on it that long lol.) I will try to post weekly-ish, but…no promises. 

Series Synopsis: (Enemies/Rivals-to-Lovers AU) Second-year surgical residents Darcy Allen and Bryce Lahela didn’t come to Edenbrook to make friends, and certainly not with each other. But when the path to greatness requires teamwork, they are forced to work together—and to cast aside the personal baggage keeping them apart.

Part 1 Synopsis: When Bryce is late for his hemicorporectomy, the tables turn in his ongoing competition with Darcy.

Word count: 1651 words

Rating: 16+ to be safe

Tagging: @lucy-268 @mvalentine @seriouslybadchoices @anotherbeingsworld @choicesficwriterscreations @openheartfanfics

(Let me know if you’d like to be tagged, for MC x Bryce in general or just for this series!)

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Part 1: Under My Skin

~

Bryce Lahela strutted out of the skills lab, a buoy of confidence in a sea of disappointed residents. His technique had been flawless, his hands had been fast, and as a result, he was going to take the lead on a hemicorporectomy. Him. A second-year surgical resident, one of only two who’d even been allowed in the room, due to their exceptional promise.

“Hey, Allen,” he called as he saw the other second-year resident leave the room. He smirked to see her scowl back at him. “You’re not going to congratulate me?”

“You managed to cut a dummy in half,” she answered icily. “Congrats, Lahela.”

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[tinylittletrain]

Letters to Santa from the holiday prompt list please! :)

ooh i could so see sienna having the group do something like this!! she has all of them make little letters about things they want (material and otherwise). its cheesy but she convinces them all to do it

bryce and jensen would share theirs with each other but bryce says it's not fair because he can't read jensens (his handwriting is bad alright). jensen reads some of it to him and they talk about it before attempting to go to sleep for the night. instead they stay up discussing the holidays growing up and jensen talks about how he never made a letter for santa or had big celebrations. bryce talks about the hectic and busy time it was for him, and how his parents stuck around for christmas but were so focused on work and Other things that they'd barely be with him and keiki otherwise. they have a silent sort of agreement to make the holidays a better experience for the other before going to sleep

they give the letters to sienna the next morning and she takes them all and sends them off :)

[tinylittletrain]

who in your pairing(s) is the one who can wrap presents like a pro and who's the one who can follow a video step by step and still end up with a disaster?