Too Sweet 3/? (RobbyxOFC)
Robby had just fallen asleep when his phone went off. Groaning, he rolled over, grabbing the phone off his nightstand, unplugging it at the same time.
“Robby,” he said sleepily.
“Robby, it’s Abbot. One of your residents is here,” came the voice over the phone.
“And…?”
“She’s here as a patient,” Abbot clarified, and Robby sat up straight.
“Who?”
He stormed into the waiting room, waving at the shift attendant to let him into the Pitt. Robby walked directly to the nurse’s station, where Abbot stood waiting for him.
“Where is she?” Robby asked immediately. Abbot pointed to trauma one, and didn’t get a word in before Robby stormed over to the room, barging in.
The nurses and Dr. Ellis jumped at the sudden intrusion.
“What are her stats?” Robby demanded, pulling on a trauma gown.
“140/80, she’s systolic,” Ellis responded.
“What happened?”
“She came in on her own, beat to crap, said a guy stole her purse,” one of the nurse’s answered, while wiping blood away from Everly’s face.
“She’s got a fractured orbital bone and nasal bone, contusion to the back of the head so probable concussion, breathing is fine,” Ellis continued.
“Robby?” Everly asked, her voice weak and confused due to the drugs she was given. “What are you doing here?”
“Abbot called me. How do you feel?” Robby got up beside the bed, taking one of her hands in his two.
“Sleepy…”
“That’s the morphine, sweetheart. It’s gonna help make you feel better.”
“Guy sucker punched me…stole my purse…”
“It’s okay, you’re safe here. What happened to your shoes?” he asked, noticing her bare feet. They were dirty like she’d walked on them, and they even had some slight abrasions.
“Took them off…” Everly’s eyes closed then, as the morphine took her down. Robby held her hand anyway, while Ellis and the nurse’s worked on popping her nose back into place and cleaning her up. She was moved to a room to wait for a head CT, and Robby went with her.
Abbot came in shortly after, to check on Robby. “How we doing in here?”
“She’s good, unconscious, waiting for CT. Bleeding stopped from her nose.”
“And what about you?”
“Me? I’m fine,” Robby dismissed the question.
“Robby, we both know that isn’t true. You don’t come running into the hospital in the middle of the night for just anyone,” Abbot explained, coming to stand next to the other man.
“You said she was here, and my heart just…stopped. I thought the worst of the worst. The reality isn’t any better.”
Abbot put his hand on Robby’s shoulder, looking down at Everly. “She looks so different, without a smile on her face.”
Robby nodded, watching Everly. “She’ll have her smile back soon.”
Everly woke up later that day, having had her CT that came back fine. When she woke up, she was alone, so she felt at her face, feeling the gauze and bandage that was on her nose. It had obviously been broken, and she winced when she put the smallest amount of pressure on it.
She sat up as the door opened, and Robby entered the room.
“You’re awake,” he exclaimed, and Everly nodded, which hurt her head so she stopped.
“How long was I out?”
“A few hours, maybe five or six. We were a little worried with that concussion, but you roused a couple times when we tried to wake you, so we let you rest,” Robby explained, shining his pen light into her eyes and asking her to follow it. She did, and Robby seemed satisfied.
“How do you feel?”
“Sore. My head and face hurt.”
“That’s gonna be a bit before they stop, I’ll get you some more morphine.”
“No, I’m okay for now. It’s not too bad yet,” Everly countered, and Robby seemed like he was going to argue, but decided against it.
“You know, you can’t be your own doctor,” he said, sitting on the edge of her bed.
“Why would I need to, when I’ve got the best doctor in the building?” Everly flirted, smiling, and that made Robby smile.
“It’s good to see you smile again, we were all lost without it.”
“What are you even doing here? It’s like 4am, you should still be sleeping,” Everly protested, realizing that Robby was working a night shift for some reason. She didn’t remember having this conversation earlier.
Robby rubbed the back of his neck, seemingly nervous to answer. “Abbot called me. Told me you were here.”
“Okay…?”
Robby sighed, taking Everly’s hand in his two. “I was worried. Very worried. I didn’t really give him time to give me details, I just rushed over.”
“But why?” Everly asked, curious. Robby gave her a look, and she smiled back at him.
“Because it was you. Because I…god i’m too old for this, because I care about you.”
Everly smiled brighter, and squeezed Robby’s hands. “You do?”
Robby nodded, lifting her hand to kiss it gently. “I do. A lot. And I was scared shitless when he said your name.”
“I care about you too,” Everly whispered, and Robby smiled down at her.
“Well that makes an old man feel a lot better,” he joked, and Everly removed her hand to smack him with it lightly.
“You aren’t an old man, just a man of distinguished age.”
“Distinguished huh?”
“Mhmm…” Everly was feeling sleepy again, and her eyes started to close again.
“Go to sleep, sweetheart. I’ll be here when you wake up,” Robby declared, and Everly fell into a deep sleep.
It was a couple weeks later, and Robby was finally letting Everly come back to work. Her nose was still bandaged, but it had been healing well, and the sick black eyes she had gotten were almost gone.
Everly smiled as she walked through the double doors into the Pitt itself. It felt like coming home. She was excited to see everyone again, especially Robby, who, after their confessions, had mostly disappeared from her life. He answered her texts when he got the chance to, mostly telling her she couldn’t come back to work yet, until finally one day he agreed to let her.
She wasn’t sure what had pulled Robby away all of a sudden, but she was determined to find out. First stop, Dana.
“Dana!” she exclaimed, rushing over to hug the charge nurse who held her arms open for Everly.
“Oh my sweet girl, I’m so glad you’re back!”
“Me too! Staying home was starting to kill me, it was so boring.” Dana let her go, and took a look at her face, happy to see it healing.
“Dana, I have a question.”
“Shoot, kid.”
“Has Robby…been acting differently?”
“Nope, same grump as always,” Dana replied, and Everly’s face fell slightly. “Why? That doesn’t seem like the answer you wanted.”
“No…well, okay, you can’t tell anyone this,” Everly whispered, and Dana leaned in to listen. “Robby confessed he has feelings for me, when I was still here after the attack, but then as soon as I went home he’s been basically ignoring me, other than checking how I’m feeling. It’s like he went from hot to cold.”
Dana looked over to where Robby had just walked into the Pitt, and she nodded towards him so Everly knew he was there.
“Robby’s been alone a long time, ever since he and Janey broke up when Jake was ten. It’s gonna be hard for him to let someone in; he’s used to being alone. He likes being alone. So, just, let him know you aren’t going anywhere. He’ll open up.”
Everly nodded, and smiled as Robby walked over when he noticed her.
“How do you feel? Any headache? Dizziness?” He asked immediately, and Everly shook her head.
“No, I feel fine. Ready to get back to work!” Her cheeriness was only slightly fake, as she still felt pain in her face anytime she moved her nose accidentally. She was mostly ready to go.
“Right, well, take it easy anyway, and rest often if necessary.”
Everly nodded, and before she could say anything else, Robby walked off to assist Collins with a trauma. Everly looked at Dana, who shrugged, before reiterating, “Alone, remember it. Just gotta break through his walls.”
Everly decided then and there, she was gonna do everything she could think of to break down those walls of his, and get him to admit that his care for her went deeper than he seemed to want to admit. Just as she decided on this plan of action, Langdon walked into her line of sight, and she perked up.
“Langdon! I need your help!”
