Sorry to hear you’re going through it with bad in-laws, friend
I was wondering what the good doctors of The Institute like to do on coffee breaks? (And just how hot is the gossip tea?)
HAHAHA
there’s always different testing, routine work, lab shifts and meetings going on, so everyone’s busy at various points of the day… but i always kind of imagined there were break rooms throughout the facilities and anyone nearby can stop in for drinks or to use a microwave.
i can only imagine that occasionally it’s just jack and keats in the break room closest to the nursery laughing about the Antics, meanwhile ivan walks in for a Sit Down Break because they just finished a surgery in a different ward and they’re Drenched in blood
“… Hey, Ivan.”
“Shit. Did not see you.”
“No, it’s fine! That’s… not your blood, is it? Because if it is-“
“No. Someone else’s. Need to shower.”
Jack slowly let go of the breath he was holding, nodding.
“Do… You need any help-?”
Keats reached over and punched his arm, grinning.
“Wow, Kagawa.”
“I’m just offering! I’m pregnant, not useless. You didn’t even call me for your strike team.”
Ivan stood and strode across the room, standing before Jack and gripping his hand gently. With an unreadable expression, they swiped a ruby thumb over his knuckles.
“I do not need you to bathe me, as interesting as that sounds. Team is fine without you, and you need the rest.”
Jack flushed at the strange comment and the feeling of the blood on his fingers, completely fixated on Ivan’s ruined gloves before Keats’ giggled and snapped him out of it.
“R-right… Thank you, I - Sorry I suggested giving you a shower, I-“
“We will shower together some other time. До свидания.”
Ivan left the room as quietly as they had come, leaving Jack staring at his stained knuckles and Keats barely holding back a laugh.
