Gotham Med AU
An answer to the replies I got from @gosuckmydickgrayson @chomumo
If DC says Med Student Damian isn't interesting enough for a comic, I give you my pitch for a Doctor Damian Run.
Damian Wayne starts his internship as the youngest in his class. He is dual specialising in trauma surgery and paediatrics and everyone looks at the famous Wayne heir and assumes that he bought his way through med school. Got his rich father to pay for him to graduate early.
There are rumours and comments before Damian even puts on his scrubs. The few who knew him in med school sneer and gossip about how he was at the top of the class, no matter the subject. Those who don't know him know of him through Brucie Wayne's reputation and imagine a party boy just like his father.
Even his attending doesn't expect much, Gotham is a hectic place, especially for those who have to deal with the aftermath of its violence and chaos. Gotham General Hospital has the worst retention rate of any Hospital in the country.
Those who stay, stay because they care and because someone needs to. The veteran doctor and nurses look more akin to battle medics then medical professionals in a supposedly privileged country.
The interns not only learn how to take care of their patients but also how to survive. There are classes on deescalation, self-defense and emergency evacuation, and preparedness classes all staff must complete alongside their board exams to be licensed to work in this city.
Gothamites are the best equipped first responders in the world. Nurses and Residents place bets on how long it'll take the interns to drop out and how many will still be there by the time the internship ends.
Everyone who heard about Damian Wayne becoming a doctor expects him to crumble under the pressure. For a sheltered rich boy to falter once the reality of practising medicine in the most crime riddled city in the world sets in.
They do not get what they expected. Doctor Damian Wayne starts his internship like someone who has done this for years.
He follows orders, can stay up 24 hours or longer without complaint, does not flinch at any of the horrific things they see as they help with surgeries, and the emergency room, which is almost permanently understaffed.
He keeps quiet but is polite and professional in the face of surgical interns posturing. He is easily the most competent and quickly earns recognition from the higher-ups.
Damian has a steady hand and is courteous to patients, especially children who almost universally adore him, much to the youngest Waynes confusion.
During the extra classes Damian completes them without bating an eye and after he recognises a particularly rare parasite in a patient one day, the diagnostic department keeps trying to poach him.
The first time the hospital is attacked by rogues Dr Wayne save 3 lives and disables a bomb, claiming his father insisted he learn how to be ready for all situations.
The youngest Wayne becomes the Gotham Med Darling.
It earns him respect and envy, and jealous people have an unfortunate habit of becoming cruel.
Those who whisper and spread rumours of nepotism and preferential treatment are shut up when they can't even insert a line correctly or shut down by nurses who have a soft spot for the boy that reminds them of their sons.
They try to exclude Damian or find fault in his actions, but it's like he knows their every move.
Point out he is making a big leap with a diagnosis? well damn Dr. Wayne was right!
Try to take his patient away from him? Guess who got in early and just so happened to finish the surgery before they died.
Accuse him of buying his way through life? They boy performs seemingly impossible medical feats that no billionaire parent could buy them.
Try to suggest he is sleeping with someone to get the best cases? His boyfriend brings him lunch and coffee every day, and the two are so sickeningly sweet that no one believes a word of the slander.
Accuse him of cockiness or not caring? It's revealed that he volunteers at Leslie Thompkins free clinic in his spare time, donates his entire salary, and the first time he lost a patient on the table needed to call his brother because it shook him so badly.
Eventually, they stop trying, either quitting the program after the third Jokerized victim they struggle to treat or they use Damian Wayne as inspiration to better themselves for their patients.
That does not mean Doctor Damian Wayne isn't weird, though.
Dangerous impossible situations seem to follow him, be it vigilantes requesting him by name while actively bleeding out or the sheer number of villains that kidnap him.
He attracts trouble. Always involved in odd, rare medical mysteries. He even helped the GCPD track a new drug once and saved a victim of human trafficking after she appeared in the ER with an ear infection.
He deduces who is dangerous or how to help those who are desperate.
He 4 engaged after his partner gets caught up in a hostage situation and adopts a baby girls left in the NICU. He gets married on a random Tuesday in Vegas, annoying many of the staff that wanted to attend his wedding.
Performs surgery during blackouts, invasions, and attacks. Takes down goons, aliens, and on one memorable occasion Killer Croc. He dissappears at random but is always there as soon as a code is called. No one ever sees him running, though.
It's is all pretty tame by Gotham standards, Batman regularly buys them lunch and coffee after mass attacks.
Damian Wayne saves lives and causes chaos while doing it.
Gotham Med embraces him as one of their own.
