[Hollywood U Masterlist] || [Red Carpet Diaries Masterlist] || [Baby Hunt Masterlist]
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Characters: Alex, Thomas Hunt, Ethan Ramsey, Ellie Shephard (OH: MC)
Notes: Victory @choicesmarchchallenge
This takes place in my Hollywood U AU… Alex and Hunt are engaged and planning their wedding. Ethan is an old friend who just is struggling to keep a professional relationship with the newest member of his diagnostics team
*** This is set after OH2 Chapter 5. ***
Catch up on Love and Scotch
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“Oh. My. God!” Alex practically screamed. “Thomas!!! Get in here! NOW!”
“Alex! What’s wrong?” Hunt quickly moved to her side, his hand caressing her shoulder. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?… You look fine… You are fine.” He exhaled. “Why did I just run in here?”
“Ethan made a Pictagram page!” Alex’s face could barely contain her glee.
Hunt grumbled. “Firstly, that doesn’t sound like Ethan, are you sure it’s not a fake account. They’re bound to show up now that he has gone viral. And secondly, can you try not to give me a heart attack if you’re not in peril?”
“I can try, but, you know how I get when I’m excited!” Alex held out her hand, inviting him to sit next to her on the couch. She curled into him immediately. “And to the other part, I know it’s not fake because the first post says, “Ellie made me do it.” Now, do we think a fake account would know about her?”
“That does seem improbable,” Hunt acknowledged.
“Exactly!” Alex grinned. “And guess who is his only friend?”
“Do you actually want me to guess or is this rhetorical?” Hunt asked.
She didn’t bother answering him as she continued. “It’s Ellie!”
“I don’t suppose you can just let him have this?” Hunt questioned reaching for her phone.
“It’s like you don’t know me at all.” Alex nudged him. “Do you know what this means?”
“I’m sure you’re going to tell me,” Hunt sighed.
“Ethan’s so whipped!” Alex bit her lip as she opened a video call to Ethan.
“Hello, Alex,” Ethan answered. “Am I now to expect weekly check-ups as to my relational status? It is the same. As I explained, I cannot let anything happen.”
“Of course!” Alex nodded in agreement, biting back the smirk growing on her lips. “I should let you go, just one quick question. Ethan…Do you have a Pictagram account?”
“What? No. Well, technically yes, but only out of necessity,” Ethan explained apprehensively. “I needed to log on to access a patient’s account for research.”
“Right, of course,” Alex patronized him. “That makes a lot of sense. I should have known it was something like that.”
“I’m glad I could clear that up for you,” Ethan breathed easier.
“I don’t suppose Ellie was there when you set it up?” Alex pried. “Because, according to Gwyneth’s Pictagram stories, Ellie was already friends with her and could have logged into her own account, saving you the trouble of creating your own.”
“I didn’t… I hadn’t…” Ethan stuttered.
“Two clever doctors like yourselves should have figured that one out, but alas here you are with a Pictagram page that, might I add, is still active despite the fact that your patient has left the hospital… And that photo!” Alex fanned herself dramatically. “Damn, Ethan!”
“Leave it alone!” Ethan’s eyes widened, having forgotten about that photo.
“What photo?” Hunt interrupted.
Alex smirked, pulling it back up on her phone.
“Hey, I didn’t post the photo of the nice doctor basically in his underwear, his beautiful girlfriend did that! Can I help it if my mind thought that the two of you should model together? No, I can not,” Alex insisted. “But I still choose you.” She kissed his cheek softly.
“She’s not my girlfriend.” Ethan vehemently replied.
“Sure sure,” Alex nodded. “Did she convince you to post that photo?”
“Yes, but she said that was the kind of photo people on this app post,” Ethan defended.
“It is, but I was not aware that the great Ethan Ramsey did as everyone else. But I digress, did you let her post the message “Ellie made me do it” like you are a couple of teenagers,” Alex pressed, her voice filling with confidence.
“Social media is not my forte. Ellie was there, I let her choose what to post to hurry the process along. It meant nothing,” Ethan argued. “I just wanted to get to the medicine.”
“Why is she your only friend?” Alex questioned.
“Because I have no need for the app,” Ethan insisted.
“But you needed her as your friend?” Alex countered.
“No, but it made her happy,” Ethan replied.
“And her happiness matters to you?” Alex didn’t need him to reply to know the answer. “Do you look at her posts?”
“What?…. No,” Ethan fumbled.
“Oh, Ethan. You’re already together and you don’t even realize it, you clueless idiot. You belong to her now whether you’re ready to admit it or not. She has claimed you as hers.”
“That’s not true! I explained to her how we can’t be together. She understood. We are both professionals,” Ethan asserted.
“That doesn’t matter now.” Alex beamed. “You love her!”
“Not another word,” Ethan grumbled.
“Clearly you haven’t learned yet,” Hunt chuckled. He wondered if he had sounded like this when Alex started making her case for him. “You’re not winning that one.”
“You. Love. Her. There’s no going back now,” Alex explained. “She’s got you wra–… where’d he go?”
“I think he hung up on you,” Hunt grinned.
“How rude!” Alex turned into Hunt, her fingers tracing his jaw. “I’m not wrong, am I?”
“You ask that now? After you berated the man like you were a prosecuting attorney?” Hunt chuckled.
“Sweetheart, she’s not you and Ethan’s not me,” Hunt offered.
“But, do you think I’m wrong?” Alex repeated. “He does love her. I’m not making that up?”
“No, you’re not wrong,” Hunt admitted, wrapping his arms around her. “He’s in love with her. And I know from experience that love only gives you so long to deny it before it reminds you why you need it.”
“I’m counting this as a victory,” Alex smiled.
*This got longer than I expected so there is a part two with more Hunt/Ethan interactions
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