I just read your Andrew with reader who is a student doctor and get this. Reader and Andrew are husband and wife and it's her first day at the Pitt so why is there a man who looks exactly like her husband ( and they are not related ) ..
Seeing double
tags: andrew "pope" cody x ms4!reader, implied age-gap relationship (late 20s reader/early 40s andrew), jack abbot is there and confused, even more confused reader, quiet and awkward andrew, stare-y reader, medical inaccuracies, the pitt chaos, robby robinavitch (always), season 1 the pitt, pittfest, reader's nickname is slugger (explained in fic), 18+ MDNI
notes: thank you @nocturnalrosey for requesting! I hope I did this piece just how you wanted it to go! I love getting to add pieces to my doppleganger collection so keep the requests coming! if you'd like to join my permanent master list, please comment here! enjoy!
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To say you were nervous for your first day at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center was an understatement. As you waited for your shift to start, you couldnāt stop rocking on your heels with your hands held behind your back, fingers twisting at your wedding ring, as you waited near the nursesā station promptly at 6:55 am.Ā
The ED bustled around the small, eager and probably equally nervous group that you were a part of. To your left, a brunette woman and a blond man held similar poses while a raven-haired, dark-skinned girl took the place next to your right, looking almost too young to be there. The urge to introduce yourself to the other three was swiftly put on hold when a rather tall, sad-looking man, probably your new attending, Dr. Robby, approached while talking to what you would call already-veteran doctors.Ā
āAlright folks, listen up,ā Robby announced before stopping. āAs you can see, we have some new faces this morning. Starting with second-year resident Doctor Melissa King, fresh from the V.A.āĀ
The happy-looking blond woman next to him smiled and slightly waved her hands. āEverybody calls me Mel. Iām super happy to be here.āĀ
He nodded sat her before looking at your group. āAnd one new intern, three med students.ā
You pursed your lips, waiting for him to start the introductions, but apparently it seemed like he had other ideas. He crossed his arms and continued to stare expectantly.Ā
āThis is where you introduce yourselves.āĀ
Again, none of you spoke until the brunette to your left spoke up. āTrinity Santos. Intern.āĀ
The raven-haired girl went next. āVictoria Javadi, M.S. Three.āĀ
Then the blond. āDennis Whitaker, M.S. Four.āĀ
And that left you to finish out the group, finger still spinning your ring with nervousness. āY/n Cody. Also M.S. Four.āĀ
A redheaded woman with a fringe leaned over to a brunet male. āWould you look at that rock,ā she whispered, but her voice carried enough that you were able to hear it.Ā
You bashfully put your hands behind your back again. It wasnāt like you werenāt proud to be married, but the unwanted attention had you shrinking into yourself. Thankfully though, their eyes shifted away from you when a bleach blond older woman joined the group. Robby gestured toward her.Ā
āFor you new people, this is the most important person youāre going to meet today. Dana is our Charge Nurse; she is the ring linger of this circus. Do what she says, when she says it. Now, as you can see, the house is always packed.āĀ
Your eyes drifted from the attending to look around. However, because of the motion, you werenāt able to get a good look at the person who spoke next.Ā
āThe ER is the gift that keeps on giving.āĀ
Robbyās voice filled your ears again. āMost of our department is clogged up with boarders. Those are the admitted patients waiting for a room upstairs, sometimes for days. Beds are a precious commodity, so be quick and efficient with your workups. Half of your cases will be discharged from chairs. And while we treat the sicker patients back here, keep an eye on the waiting room to be sure no oneās about to die out there.ā He turned to Dana. āReady to rock and roll?āĀ
Dana smiled. āTo quote Wu-Tang,Ā Bring the mother fuckinā ruckus.āĀ
Robby turned to the residents, and you finally turned your eyes back to him.Ā
āSenior residents got sign outs?ā he asked.Ā
Two of themāthe brunet man and a dark-skinned womanānodded, their hands both holding tablets.Ā
āAlright, letās do this,ā Robby said before turning away, already moving further into the department.Ā
He quickly began to integrate your group into their daily routine. First stop was an exhausted-looking mother holding an even louder and exhausted-sounding baby. You kept quiet while they worked, wanting to more take in everything instead of jumping the gun and calling the wrong diagnoses. After Dana walked away to get some Nair for the babyās hair tourniquet, Robby continued on, each of you following him like a lost duckling.Ā
After the small moments of calm in the morning, the following hours ascended into madness. The first traumas had been a woman whoād been pushed down onto subway tracks and ended up with a degloved foot. The second adjacent trauma had been the man whoād tried to save her life.Ā
During the procedure to reset the womanās foot, you were unfortunate enough to be closest to Victoria, who had been looking sick since the wrapping came off. Not wanting her to hit the ground, you stepped into her freefall and stuck your arms under hers, keeping her semi-upright while she became dead weight.Ā
Trinity looked over with a smirk. āMed students are playing dominos.āĀ
āJust didnāt want her to hit her head,ā you grunted, easing her down until she was flat on the ground. āThatād be too much paperwork that I absolutely do not want to deal with on the first day.āĀ
An echo of āpreachā followed your statement.Ā
āYouāre certainly a good catch, slugger,ā Trinity quipped. āEver think about playing for the Pirates? Iāve heard their outfield has been struggling this season.āĀ
You shook your head and flashed her a sarcastic smile. āSadly, I think my hand eye coordination is better for catching my peers instead of balls flying at 90 miles an hour. And I really donāt think my husband would been too keen on me switching careers this fast after one day.āĀ
You knew she wanted to say something back, maybe ask a question or throw another snarky remark, but you were quickly called away to help another resident.Ā
By noon, your brain was quickly getting overwhelmed with the sheer number of patients in the halls and the number still waiting to be seen. Thankfully, charting gave you a small moment to catch your breath, the tying quickly getting your mind off the panic thatād been building for a small while. While you sat there, you wished your phone would buzz even though you knew you wouldnāt.Ā
Andrew was out for the day, and that normally meant you wouldnāt see him until you got home after shift. But that was fine; you really didnāt need any distractions on your first day, mind too focused on making a good enough impression that they might consider you for residency after you graduated.Ā
The thought had you sighing, which somehow caught the attention of Dana just behind you.Ā
āWhy the loud sigh, hun?ā she asked, coming into your line of sight. āShift treating you that bad already?āĀ
You winced, smile slightly slanted as you met her gray eyes. āIt is bad Iām already ready for it to be over?āĀ
She smiled sympathetically. āWelcome to emergency medicine. This is how itāll probably be for the rest of your time here.āĀ
āShould have gone into cosmetology then,ā you joked. āMaybe the assholes there would be different than the assholes here.āĀ
āHa!ā Dana barked, hand coming down gently on your shoulder. āI like you, kid.ā She turned back towards her board. āSo, whatās your story. Why you here?ā Her accented twang sounded lovely in your ears, comforting you in a way.Ā
āMy husband, actually. We needed a fresh start; Pittsburg seemed like a good enough place to do so. We just moved from California.āĀ
She cocked her head. āBeaches not enticing enough for you to stay?āĀ
āIām more of a mountains girl,ā you responded. āPlus, I didnāt pick here. My first thought would have been Kentucky. But the gloom here was enough to satiate me.ā
āWell, weāre glad to have you here. The Pitt canāt be a teaching hospital without people to teach.āĀ
You folded your hands on the desk. āIām excited to learn.āĀ
Apparently, that had her handing you a tablet. āThen Room 4 is all yours, slugger.āĀ
A groan rumbled your chest as you stood. āDid Santos already blab about that?āĀ
āNews travels fast everywhere, but it travels even faster in a hospital.ā She tuned back towards her board. āBetter get to your patients. Robbyās available for when you need him or find Samira; sheās probably looking for someone to help.āĀ
You looked down at the tablet. āThank you, Dana.āĀ
āDonāt mention it, hun. Itās my job.āĀ
Your eyes trailed the tablet as you left the hub in search for your new attending or one of the senior residents. Thankfully, it didnāt take long for you to find Samira, the tablet still clutched to your front.Ā
āDr. Mohan?ā you asked as you walked up to her. āDana handed me the chart for Room 4, and I was wondering if I could tag along with you for it?āĀ
āSamira is just fine.ā Her deep brown eyes gleamed, matching her shining smile. āBut sure! Mrs. Thompson is one of our regulars,ā she began while walking in the direction of the room. āHer husband died a couple of months ago, and she has a history of OCD and hypochondria.āĀ
You hummed. āSo for her, do you normally listen and bring her down?āĀ
āWe at least try to. Sometimes weāll give her plain saline but say itās a medication so she believes sheās getting treatment.āĀ
āIsnāt that lying though?ā you asked with pinched brows.Ā
Samira, in return, gave you an understanding look. āThatās just sometimes the best thing for her when she gets stuck inside her head.ā She gave one knock on the door before entering with a large gin. āHi, Mrs. Thompson. Iām Dr. Mohon, and we have one of our med students here if youāre comfortable with that.āĀ
Mrs. Thompson was exactly how you imagined her: graying hair, wide and scared eyes that roamed the room, and nervous hands that rested on her skirted lap. You stayed next to the door just in case she asked for you to step out.Ā
āNo, thatās fine,ā she answered, looking right at you.Ā
āThank you, maāam,ā you answered before pulling the privacy curtain shut.Ā
You stayed close to Samira as she sat down on the edge of the bed. While she talked to Mrs. Thompson, you let your eyes roam while staying alert to any questions. However, once your eyes landed on the small side table, you noticed how the instruments werenāt that straight. Another thing you noticed was how Mrs. Thompson kept glancing towards them as well, and the twitch of her finger had you guessing that she too wanted to straighten them. Without saying anything, you shuffled quietly over and rearranged them from shortest to largest, also making sure that they were evenly spaced out while staying as straight as possible. When they were to your liking, you stepped back behind Samira in time to see Mrs. Thomspon take a large inhale, her shoulders relaxing just a bit more as she went over why she was in today.Ā
It wasnāt until you left the room that Samira put a hand on your shoulder.Ā
āWhat was with the instruments?ā she asked. ā
You took another glance back at the room. āYou said Mrs. Thompson has a history of OCD, and she kept looking over at them. Her fingers would twitch each time she did. I thought Iād just go ahead and put them in order, thinking she might be able to focus more on what you were saying instead of overthinking about them.āĀ
Samira cocked her head. āOh; I didnāt think about that. Great catch then.āĀ
āWhat did Slugger catch this time?ā Trinity asked as she walked right up to the two of you, hands deep in her pockets, a wide smirk on her face. āDid your patient fall over this time?āĀ Ā
āOur patient was showing non-verbal signs of an OCD tick,ā you replied. āI just wanted to make her more comfortable.āĀ
āHowād you even know to look for stuff like that? Did you take a specific course in school?ā Trinity asked.Ā
You shook your head. āNot really. Uh, my husband has OCD, and if you live with someone for long enough, you pick up on the little things.āĀ
Samira handed the tablet back to you. āLike I said, good catch. That was actually the smoothest conversation Iāve had with Mrs. Thompson before.āĀ
āGlad I could help,ā you said. āShould I give this back to Dana since sheāll be discharged soon?āĀ
āThatād be great. Iāll find you when I get my next patient.āĀ
āCommon, Slugger. Letās see if thereās any other fun patients to grab,ā Trinity said while taking your wrist. āMaybe the next one you can show of your catching skills again.āĀ
āHa, ha.āĀ
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The one rule you should have paid more attention to was that if everything seemed to go well in the ER, it wouldnāt stay that way for much longer. With only one hour left of your shift, Robby announced a Code Triage alter, and your stomach sunk so deep you feared itād disappear into your feet.Ā
āOkay, everybody listen up,ā Robby yelled over the growing panic. āThere is an active shooter at Pittfest. As the nearest trauma center, we are going to be getting the majority of the victims. We donāt know yet how many we are getting, but we are instituting hospital-wide emergency protocols. We need to move every patient out of here. They either go home, they go upstairs, or they go to Family Medicine. Call you loved ones now if you need to. I can guarantee your cell service will soon be overwhelmed. Eat something. Stay hydrated. Use the bathroom while thereās time and meet back here for a full briefing in five minutes.āĀ
With that, you quickly turned away, hand already digging for your phone. Your heart clenched at the screen that indicated you still hadnāt received any notification from Andrew, but that didnāt stop you from pulling up his contact and pushing the call button. When his voicemail answered instead, you closed your eyes and sighed sadly.Ā
āHey, Andy. Um, listen, Iāll probably be home late tonight unless you want to come pick me up. Thereās a shooter at that festival, and pretty much all hellās about to break loose. If you try to call back, I probably wonāt be able to answer. Just know I love you, and Iāll be home as soon as I can.āĀ
You ended the call there, hoping and wishing the cell service would hold enough for it to go through. Your hands were already slightly shaking as you put your phone back into your pocket, also sliding off your rings so they wouldnāt get lost. However, the moment you looked up, you froze completely.Ā
Because, for some odd reason, Andrew was currently talking to your attending like theyād known each other for years. You wanted to go up to him right then and there, but your feet kept you from doing so. Honestly, after a few moments, you were glad as it gave you enough time to figure out that, no, that man wasnāt Andrew at all. While they shared the same hazel eyes and muscular build, this manās curls were salt-and-peppered where Andrewās was still holding onto bits and parts of auburn. You also didnāt realize how long you were staring, brain desperately trying to separate Andrew and whoever this man was.Ā
Across the way, Jack could feel a pair of eyes on him, and one quick look had him finding your wide and confused eyes.
āBrother, you hiring med students with staring problems now?ā he asked with furrowed brows.Ā
Robby turned around and also caught your surprised look. āCody,ā he called out, breaking you from staring at his friend. āEverything okay?āĀ
You shook your head. āSorry, Dr. Robby. I'm just trying to figure out if my husband has a twin he never knew about,ā you nervously laughed, eyes finding the man's ID tag. āI didn't mean to stare for so long, Dr. Abbot.āĀ
Jack waved a dismissive hand. "No trouble. You were just looking at me like you'd seen a ghost. And last I checked, I haven't died just yet."
That earned a small snort from your nose. "Thank goodness for that, yeah? However, I think if I see you and my husband in the same room, I might explode."
He smirked widely. "Well, we don't need that happening."
āOkay, party people, our first ambulance in on its way in, so letās get moving,ā Dana announced while walking right between the three of you. āCody, go help Whitaker with the disaster bins.ā
āOn it.ā You paused. āAgain, sorry for staring, Dr. Abbot.ā Without waiting for an answer, you turned away and began searching for your fellow M.S. 4, leaving the two attendings by themselves.Ā
āSo, do you think her husband really looks like me?ā Jack questioned after a short moment while his eyes followed where you were walking away.Ā
āWouldnāt be the weirdest thing weāve seen, brother.āĀ
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By now, you were sweating more than a sinner in the middle of a Southern Baptist choir special. Blood dripped off your arms, your front, and onto your shoes. Everywhere you stepped squished with the thick liquid, and you knew youād still smell the iron scent hours after youād gone home. Thankfully, though, the worst was over, and like Dana announced, the Pitt would be opening back up soon to take in regular patients.Ā
Trinity shoulder nudged you slightly while you leaned on an empty gurney. āThat was fucking exhausting.āĀ
āI canāt wait to get in my bed,ā you replied with a groan.Ā
āWith your husband that looks just like Dr. Abbot, right?ā she teased.Ā
āFucking fast traveling news.ā You pushed yourself up, back protesting at the sudden change. āHey, I need to go change, and I don't know if he's coming to pick me up or not. In the event that he does, if you happen to see him, can you let him know I'll be back soon?āĀ
Trinity smiled and nodded. āOh, I definitely will!ā
"Thank you, Santos," you replied, hand coming up to cover a yawn as you walked away in the direction of the locker rooms.
Trinity turned and ripped the smock off and pushed in down into the nearest bin.Ā Around her, the ED gave a large sigh of relief, and everyone slowed down for the first time in hours. As she waited by the nursesā station, she watched a few regular patients start to trickle in, but one in particular caught her attention.
The man was tall and rocked a head of auburn curls that were just starting to gray near his ears. His hazel eyes were narrowed as he looked out of place in his civilian clothes in a sea of scrubs and gowns. Trinity noted the amount of freckles that spanned across his face, and for one tiny moment, she saw a vision of Jack Abbot in his face. Not even a breath later, it clicked that the man was probably one who put that rock on your finger.
Her lips stretched into a smile, and she itched to walk up to him and ask if he was your husband. However, Samira, still in the adrenaline rush with a wide eyes, hastily walked up to him. Trinity didn't even think she knew that the man she was approaching was not the night shift attending she'd been stealing glances at between blood transfusions and saving lives.
"Dr. Abbot!" Trinity heard her all but yell right in the guy's face, voice a little too stretched. "I was hoping I'd catch you. I have a patient who's about to go up to the OR, but I need an attending's sign off on it first."
As she rattled off, Trinity watched the man looked at her with the most confused expression sheād ever seen someone have. His eyes had widened just a fraction, but that didn't stop him from looking around every so often like he was desperate to find someone who wasn't in the room. His mouth parted in an attempt to say something, but Samira, bless her heart, wasn't even looking at him. Her eyes stayed glued to the tablet in her hands.
āOh, this is absolute gold,ā Trinity muttered before turning to the charge nurse. āHey, Dana. Look at this.āĀ
Danaās attention moved from her board over to where the man was standing awkwardly while Samira continued to talk at him. āDid Abbot dye his hair?āĀ
āNot that I know of,ā Jack responded, suddenly appearing at the nurses' station, brows pinched at Dana's question. āWhen would I have had time to dye my hair?āĀ
The sound of his voice must have caught Samira, because in the next moment, she looked up at the man like a dear caught in headlights. Horrified, she turned her head and met Jack's confused gaze that had moved from her and to the man she had been talking to.
For once in his life, Jack didnāt know whether to start laughing or run away. Because staring right back at him was a man that looked like him in pictures from 10 years ago. His brain struggled to comprehend until he remembered what you had said earlier before the chaos of the casualty.
"Oh."
By now, the commotion had drawn eyes from everywhere, and everyone who looked over wondered if they were truly seeing double.Ā
The man, who did look exactly like a younger Jack Abbot, walked quietly over to the station and stopped right in front of Jack, chest puffing slightly even if both of them were the same height. His hazel eyes scanned behind Jack's shoulder before he met hazel hues that mirrored his own.
āIām looking for my wife,ā Andrew finally gruffed, hands curling into fists by his side, and obviously not liking the number of eyes that were on him. āShe works here.āĀ
Trinity stepped into his line of sight. āYou must be Mr. Cody; damn, I was not expecting this. Slugger wanted me to let you know that she's changing, but she should be out soon.āĀ
His brows somehow furrowed deeper, and the corners of his mouth tugged downwards in a matching frown. āSlugger?āĀ
āYour wife has an affinity for catching people. Baseball might be her actual calling.āĀ
āTrinity, I told you that I have no want to switch careers, thank you very little," you announced after you walked out of the hallway. Your eyes gleamed when they landed on a very, uncomfortable-looking Andrew and equally confused coworkers. "Hi, baby."
Andrew looked over and down at you. āHi.āĀ
āYou didn't have to come pick me up,ā you said.Ā "I didn't mind driving home."
āWanted to,ā he muttered while taking your hand into his.Ā "Knew you'd be tired."
You warmly smiled up at him. "Well, I'm glad you're here then." Your face turned as you looked over at the small crowd that had gathered; their jaws wide open. "I guess I should explain. Everyone, this is my husband, Andrew. Andrew, these are my coworkers." You gestured towards Jack. "And I guess this is your secret twin." Ā
Andrew stayed silent for a second too long. āHi.ā He offered nothing more than a fleeting moment of eye contact with each of them before turning to you with what people could only call puppy-dog eyes. āReady to go?āĀ
āYeah. Let's go home.ā But before Andrew could tug you away, you quickly waved at everyone. āSee yāall in twelve hours!āĀ
They all stayed silent as Andrew led you out of the ER with you babbling the entire way while he seemed to not say anything, just looking happy to be the center of your attention after a long day.Ā
Finally, Jack broke the silence. āI should probably call my mom and see if I had a twin she gave up and never told me.āĀ
Robby patted him on the shoulder. āYou do that, brother.āĀ
Abbot was standing by the desk, or the PITT as Robby named it, currently standing next to the said man as he discuss on the patients. There was a pump alarm that started to go off, making his ears twitch on top of his head. All of a sudden, a big fuzzy ear slaps him in the face.
"Oh my god, Brother, sorry! They have a mind of their own..." Robby flushed, backing up a little as his ears swivel towards the noise around them. He looked at Jack with his doe eyes, a frown on his face, and his brows furrowed. Jack looked at him with an amused smirk, letting out a raspy chuckle.
"Just tell your ears there to give me a heads up next time they wanna back hand me".
ROBBY: My obvi answer a deer. For species, idk, I would say a mule-deer :).
ABBOTT: Northwestern wolf.
WHITTAKER: Great Pyrenees. They are good livestock dogs and protectors, hence why they remind me of denny.
SANTOS: Leopard Cat. Small, pretty, and highly adaptable.
EVANS: Cheetah. They are known to be remarkable mothers to their cubs.
MOHAN: Meerkat. They are highly social and like strong community bonds, as well as being loyal.
KING: American Fuzzy Lop Bunny.
JAVADI: Raven. They are smart af.
MCKAY: Red Fox.
LANGDON: Stoat.
Hear me the fuck out. Noah Wyle is ADHD and it bleeds through with his stimming. That man is physically incapable of standing still. Rocking, shifting, drumming...
And Robby does it all. Plus that boy thrives in the chaos of a trauma room. The more hectic, the more his brain gets the happy pats and quiets down. It's where his anxiety is forced to take a backseat. Where his depression is told to shut the fuck up. All the negative voices are pushed behind a line because the dopamine is dopamining and there's so much going on that there's no room for the other fuckery his brain is trying to drag to the front.
Gimme a Robby on Vyvanse who doesn't feel the hunger at all during the day but is ravenous once the meds wear off and he's home.
A Robby who is on a high enough dose that he's on his fucking A Game but still stims because it doesn't fix everything and he's getting dysregulated the more his mental health declines so the stimming is increasing.
Gimme a Robby who forgets to take his meds one day and the ED gets to see the full goblin that he is just ping ponging so over the place because no matter what he's still brilliant, he just can't focus on one thing at a time right now but as soon as a trauma comes in he can LOCK THE FUCK IN.
A Robby with hyperfixations.
A Robby who talks Jack's ear off about said hyperfixations. But once they're done he never mentions them again.
He'll eat the same thing for every single meal for three months in a row and then all of a sudden be repulsed by it.
A Robby with such horrible Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria that Dana often has to step in and redirect his brain and it doesn't always work.
A Robby that can't ever seem to get paperwork in on time.
A Robby that's always early because he's so terrified of being late because of his time blindness that he arrives for his shift at 6am and ends up sitting in the park panicking still that he'll miss it (he never does. Dana or Jesse usually grab him).
A Robby that has always been a reader because THAT holds his attention as long as he is interested in the book but it will literally CONSUME him to the point that he'll read the whole thing in one night and needs Jack to physically take it out of his hands and tell him to go to bed.
A Robby that knows just enough about so many topics. Has doom boxes filled with abandoned hobbies. Impulse control with money. A Robby that, when he gets into a topic, won't shut up, but is so self-conscious about it that he's become a master of masks.
Forgetting his meds is like ripping that mask off and he doesn't know what to do with himself.
please take a moment to reflect on jās upbringing. think about the fact that his mother was a traumatized drug addict, who spent years being abused by her family (who heād met a few times as a kid, and has since heard many horror stories about). she then continues that cycle and traumatizes you horribly. like, think about how bad it mustāve been all those years that he wasnāt even shocked when his mother died.
then imagine youāre 17 and your mother just died, and suddenly a bunch of mentally unstable criminals, your grandmother being one of them, ātake you inā. they then decide that you too will become a mentally unstable criminal, in the name of family (even tho you donāt know these fucking people). in your fucked up, traumatized, adolescent brain, these people are at least part of, if not the reason your mother is dead. so naturally youāre pissed as fuck. then over the course of like, three years, theyāve used and abused you, pulled you in every direction, put you in unfathomable situations, and everyone just expects you to⦠be cool with it?
like cāmon. obviously j is NOT innocent by any means, but everyone is so hard on him and 99% of the time itās just because theyāre so far up popes ass they canāt see anything else. i also see people say ābut he betrayed family!ā
are we watching the same show? jās story literally starts with betrayal. smurf throwing julia (her own fucking daughter) out while she was pregnant. every single one of those boys has betrayed family at one point or another. craig literally fucked jās 17yo girlfriend. that family didnāt give a fuck about j until smurf brought him home, and even after that they only treated him like family for their own gain or because they felt they had to.
also you donāt owe family shit, so thereās that.
John is robby, but he just goes by a different name now that he left Chicago. But hear me out, at county, they used to call him Bambi and shit bc of his big brown eyes, fluffy hair, and how he always tripping. But, ever since he left, he hasnt been called it in a long time. Sooo, what if Peter and Doug were visiting where robby works for a case or smth and they get surprised.
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Ā Ā Robby, or Carter, will always miss county. He misses the chaos and stress, the way it was always something. Of course, the PITT isn't much different but, in a sense, it is. He has Dennis, Jack, Dana, Heather, and all the others. In a way, they were family. But, back at county, they'd always be in a special place in his heart, no matter what went down in that place. He grew as a doctor there and some of his very best skills were learned from his mentors there and carried him. He misses what he used to be, the hope and empathy he had, they way he used to easily smile and bring light into a room. With his other names he has collected, his favorite was Bambi; Ross gave that one to him and it stuck, even Peter called him that occasionally when he wasn't annoyed with him. In a way, he was like a fawn; bright eyed, sweet, and clumsy.
Ā He sighed as he was at the hub, charting while Jack and Dana conversed. "Why are you here during the day, Jack? I thought you were a vampire and thrived in the darkness" Robby huffed out with amusement. "Well, Michael, I am doing a 24hr shift today. I thought you'd want to see more of me, ya know?" Jack rasped out, clapping him roughly on the back. Dana shook her head, a smirk on her face as she was looking around the ER. "You two are like children..". Both men laughed at her comment, all 3 of them in their own little world.
"Bambi?"
Ā Robby instantly looked up, turning around and finding two of his lost family. He knew he missed that name, but to truly hear it again felt like he finally came home. He looked over at Benton first, he noticed he had more Grey hairs forming but he looked good; still, he was getting older. His eyes trailed off to Ross, hair completely grey; he was still handsome and charming, that dick. Robby smiled, his rabbit teeth peaking out as he got up. "Dr.Benton and Dr.Ross, crazy seeing you here". He rounded the desk and approached them. Benton smiled, hugging him first. He tucked Robby's head under his chin, cradling the back of his head while kissing his crown lightly. He then hugged Ross, getting his hair ruffled.
"Look at our Bambi, all grown up" Doug smirked, wiping a fake tear while Robby rolled his eyes. "I don't think I look like bambi anymore, guys" Using his hands to showcase himself. He knew he was getting older and didn't have his boyish charm anymore.
"Carter, or Robby as you go by now, hate to break it to you kid. You'll always be Bambi in our eyes. You maybe be a big cheese now, but I sure as hell remember you as clumsy student," Benton stated, giving his little head tilt and stare.
Jack and Dana stared at the interaction, looking at each other in between. The three finally looked at them, Robby looking the happiest hes been in years. "Dr.Abbott, Dana, this is Dr.Benton and Dr.Ross. I used to work with them at county back in Chicago".
"Nice to meet you, what brings you here?" Jack greeted, while Dana offered them a friendly nod and smile.
"Well, I have a surgical case that I was invited to oversee and Ross also has a case and conference here, so we decided to come together. Though, we didn't come expecting to see Robby here" Peter answered. He put a hand on Robby's shoulder, giving him a squeeze in affection.
"Why do you guys call him Bambi?" Dana questioned.