Aftercare - 1: Transgress
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pairing: jack abbot x fem!reader
synopsis: getting sexually involved with an attending wasn't a big deal, it was all in good fun-good fun that was contained to a very specific place, and that place wasn't the hospital. when working, you two were simply individuals who worked at the same place. but, should you cross that line, what would happen? (characters included/mentioned: j.shen, m.diaz, & p.ellis)
cw/s: explicit content w/plot (18+), implied age gap (but nothing creepy. reader is an adult. both parties consent), implied & descriptions of vulvar/vaginal anatomy, implied consent, slight manhandling/possessiveness, jealousy play, condescension, subtle brat taming, fingering (reader receiving, no described physical barriers), injuries (patients), care of injuries (patients), allergic reaction (patient), descriptions of blood draw (tourniquet, needles), potential medical inaccuracies.
a/n: set during s2 (2026), just not the same day (july 4th). no use of y/n, y/l/n, y/n/n, but terms like 'vampire' and "bloodsucker' are used. absolutely zero use of ai to write/edit. searching the pitt set floor plan is recommended if you'd like (extremely helpful with visualizing paths characters take and the layout of the rooms). reblogs are always welcome and appreciated! very nervous yet excited to be publishing a new type of fic. this is my first time writing and introducing smut into my writing, i hope you enjoy;) and as always, thank you. indulge.
Jack was a playful man at heart, but when it came to sex? That could fade away real quick.
"You pissed me off tonight. Why should I lay down?" You retorted. If you didn't know the sun was beginning to rise on the way to his place after your shift, you would've thought it was night right now.
Jack's blackout curtains made the room nice and dark. Intimate.
He smirked at your argument, smug as ever and you wanted to slap and kiss it off of him all at once. "You need a reminder on how I can make you feel?"
You held your breath as his hands snaked down your waist, rounding your back before gripping your ass. Everything about him was firm, solid. He leaned in, ghosting his lips over yours before he spoke.
"Because I'll oblige. Lay down."
You held his eyes, unwavering in your fight. One that you didn't want to win in the first place.
"Oh." He cooed, cocking his head. "We're playing that game now, are we?"
"I'm not playing a game. That's all you, Jack."
He grinned, almost in awe at your attempts to throw him off. He wasn't buying what you were selling, not one bit. “Lay down."
You shook your head and his hands moved to cup your face, gentle yet firm. Not rough but not exactly coddling, either.
He hummed in amusement, hiking your legs around his hips as he laid you down on his bed. The second your back hit the mattress, you began to giggle.
Giggles turned into breathy moans as Jack kissed and nipped at your neck.
"Don't be like that." His voice was nearly a purr.
"Like what?" Your eyes fluttered shut as you spoke.
"I don't know, you tell me."
You smirked. "I'm not being bad."
He spoke against your neck. "Mm, maybe not bad, but not good, either. You're being a brat."
"In the name of the game." Your smirk widened.
"Thought we weren't playing a game?"
"We aren't, you are. I'm just pushing your buttons. You're an easy man to rile up, Abbot-"
Your playful insult was cut short as his hand slid beneath your pants, settling over your underwear.
At your silence, he tutted. "I didn't tell you to stop."
"Go on, keep telling me about myself." He kissed your neck, fingers simply resting where you wanted him most. "You can do that, right? I think you can.”
Swallowing, you did as he said. "You're easy to antagonize, to get going-"
Yet again, you were cut off by him. This time, his fingers no longer hovered. They made teasing circles over you. You moaned.
"Now or later?" He huffed out a small laugh. "Keep talking, or I stop."
"Ah-ah, don't start complaining now. You accused me of playing a game, now I actually am. What's your move tonight, hm? Continue being defiant or...?"
He lifted his head, meeting your eyes. "Giving up so soon?"
You shook your head, lazily. "This little game you're playing calls for you to touch me when I talk about you. So, get to it, because I have a lot to say."
He almost looked proud, but he tried to hide it. He took his lower lip between his teeth as you began.
"You doubting my ability to find the veins of that patient earlier really pissed me off," You sucked in a breath as you spoke, Jack meeting your clit with more force this time.
"Yeah? Why's that?" He began to kiss at your neck again between words.
"Because you doubted me. I am best at finding the tricky veins, everyone knows it. They call for me specifically anytime other phlebs can't do it, and if you guys had it your way? I'd be the only one working."
"I know, I'm so sorry, baby." His voice was full of tantalizing mockery.
"Oh, fuck off. You doubted me in front of Shen-"
"Quit it." He interrupted, hand stopping its movements as his head rose from the crook of your neck to meet your eyes.
"What? Don't like the truth?"
"No, I can handle that. But I don't want to hear another man's name come out of your mouth when you're soaked because of me, do you understand?"
His little fit of possessiveness just handed you a perfect card to play.
"Hm, but his name is so relevant. He hasn't doubted me, he actually told me he knew I had it in me—that handling blood is in my blood."
Jack said your name with warning.
"And any time he had something to say about my performance? He told me in private. Such a gentleman."
"We're both gonna be pissed off now, stop."
You sat up, supporting the movement with your forearms behind you against the mattress. "Give me something else to talk about then."
He shook his head in disbelief, hand retreating as he rose to his knees in a manner that was mindful of his prosthetic. Moving off the bed, he rounded to the end, standing as he took your calves into his hands—which nearly disappeared into his grip. He began slowly pulling your lower half towards him and the second you were close enough, his hot hands found your hips, beginning to play with the waistband of your pants.
"Is this supposed to work? Because so far, I'm not impressed." You feigned indifference.
He didn't speak, working them down, then snaking them off.
His eyes focused on your clothed cunt, a hunger slicing through his gaze. Tonguing his cheek, he moved his eyes to meet yours as he looked down upon you, one of his hands atop your abdomen applying the faintest amount of pressure while the other traced your thighs. You played an unfair card, one that wasn't allowed, so now the weight of the situation was all yours to carry. He made sure of it.
"Uh-oh, looks like someone's bothered." You challenged him, hoping he would take your brattiness and turn it into his domineering solution.
"You're mean tonight." His voice was low as he spoke, cocking his head. "Are you asking for me to be mean back?"
"I told you, you pissed me off tonight-"
Your words ceased, courtesy of the gasp that escaped your lips. His fingers didn't dance over you anymore, they slipped past your underwear and inside of you. Two thick, hooked fingers that were glued to your most sensitive and reactive internal part.
"Keep talking about him."
Your brows etched together, suddenly breathy.
"Talk about Shen." He ordered, free hand applying more pressure on your lower abdomen.
Through breathy moans, you did just that. "He's laidback, calm and collected. He trusts my abilities, apparently more than you do, and- fuck, Jack."
"That ended fast, didn't it?" He leaned forward, fingers not leaving you as his other hand dragged up your torso and to your face, covering the majority of your lower jaw as his grip sank into the plush of your cheeks. Again, not rough but firm. He wanted to ensure you were looking right at him. "See whose name comes out when you feel good?"
You nodded the best you could, given both his internal and external grips distracted you.
The following night, you entered the ER with an increased air of confidence, ready for whatever the night would throw your way. Biting back a smirk as you saw Jack and John talking amongst themselves, you brushed right between them.
"Well, hello to you too." John spoke nonchalantly as he bit at the straw of his coffee.
"Nothing personal, Shen, I'm just ready to start."
"Okay Dracula, eagerness looks good on you. Hoping for some chaos?"
"Safe chaos, of course. Wouldn't wish any ailment or injury on anyone for a hit of adrenaline." You got enough from playing cat and mouse with Jack, anyways.
John raised a hand and you gave him a high-five. "Alright, let's get this party started, then. Got a mandible fracture coming in, ETA's five minutes but that was three ago." He informed as he walked off.
"Alright, heard. You know the drill, call me if you need me." You replied.
Not once since the second you walked in here have you looked Jack in the eyes or spoke to him, and that's because you often didn't speak much beyond anything to do with patients or the ED. You'd only been messing around with one another here and there for almost a month now, and in that month you learned how rule-oriented Jack could be, when he wanted to be. The moment you two kissed for the first time, he began to lay down the laws of the arrangement, a new variable every time he stripped a new piece of clothing from you. Maybe it's the veteran in him, but you didn't mind.
When you walked into PTMC, anything you two did together was left outside. You were no longer people who had sex together, you were colleagues. Not friends, colleagues.
Same applied for when you left work and walked into his house, anything you two did at work was left in the hospital. Last night, you broke the second part of that rule for the first time. It was bound to happen at some point. Did you have minor anxieties about what that meant for your casual escapades? Certainly, but, the first part remained intact. You brought work to bed, not bed to work, and you wouldn't start now. So, no thinking about it. Not here. All that would be on your mind was patients, patients, patients. That conversation would have to happen later, once your shifts were over.
Turning to leave, you were met with Jack's eyes on you. So intent, so obvious. Clearing your throat, you walked past him, stride faltering as you felt his hand brush against yours. You were always focused on keeping a safe distance between the two of you when at work, only close when vital like during an intense moment in a trauma room when you worked at an emergency blood draw was while he relentlessly worked to keep the patient stable. So, you knew for a fact he had to have reached out slightly to touch you.
Resuming your stride, you glanced back at him over your shoulder. His lips had the faintest grin on them, a grin that showed itself more in the creases around his eyes than the ones around his lips.
What was the point of that? Not that you didn’t like it, because you did, but you were curious.
John, Mateo, and Parker enter a trauma room with a seven year old girl. Mateo immediately began performing CPR while Parker bagged her.
"Can't you just shock her?"
"Unfortunately, not when a patient doesn't have a pulse. That's only in the movies." Mateo informed the mother, not wavering in his performance.
"So then what can you do?"
"On top of him doing CPR, we administer three-hundred micrograms of epinephrine, given her age." John answered, doing just that.
"I-I would've done that at home, but we can't afford it." The mother continued to cry.
Mateo looked at her. "What's your name, ma'am?"
"Marilyn. Marilyn Yacavone. And that's my girl, Briar."
"Okay, Miss Yacavone, we will send you home with some EpiPens, alright?" Parker reassured her and the woman nods, grateful.
"Hold compressions." John instructed, eyes glued to the monitor for stats. No improvement. "Resume compressions."
"Oh, my God, my poor girl."
"We're doing the best we can, I assure you." John did some reassurance of his own before checking the patient's airway, clicking his pen light on and peering down as Parker backed away, taking the BVM with her. The girl was still continuing to swell up, which wasn't good. Putting his pen away, Parker stepped in and resumed bagging her.
Jack passed by, having just finished up with the mandible fracture patient. He quickly began retracing his steps and entered the room. "What do we have here?"
Parker looked up from the BVM. "Anaphylaxis caused by eating a Reese's cup. Peanut allergy."
"No response to first dose of epinephrine, airway still swelling." John added.
"When and how much was the first dose?" Jack asked, snapping on gloves.
"About a minute or two ago, three hundred micrograms." John answered.
Parker moved away, taking the BVM with her yet again. Jack clicked on his own pen light, looking into the patient's mouth.
"Hand me a sixty mm OPA, please."
John moved fast, retrieving one and handing it to him. Jack immediately began inserting it into the girl's mouth, stopping once it advanced properly before turning his attention to Mateo, whose head began to bob with exhaustion. "Okay, swap with Ellis and call for her."
"Alright." Mateo responded, only moving once Parker was ready to replace him.
Sighing in relief, he exited the room, intent set on you. Jack didn't need to get specific, nobody ever really had to. Nine times out of ten, they meant you.
"She's on her way." Mateo announced as he reentered the room a couple minutes later.
Nodding in acknowledgment of Mateo's words, Jack continued to communicate with Parker and John.
"I'm going to hold compressions in exactly one minute, and if she's still asystole, we're administering another three hundred of epi."
"Aye, aye, Captain." John interjected as he grabbed the second EpiPen in preparation, should it be necessary.
Marilyn had gone quiet at this point, tucked away in a corner with a tissue help up to her mouth as she watched in subtle horror. Moving away from the gurney as Mateo took over bagging, Parker walked over to her.
"We're doing our best, we still have the second dose to administer and we may not even have to do that. We're not out of options, okay?" She gave Marilyn a small smile of reassurance before meeting the bedside again, just in time.
Jack held compressions, and there was still no pulse. He looked to John, giving him the go ahead.
"Second round of epi going in now." He poked the pen into her thigh.
Everyone's gaze went to the monitor, and after thirty seconds that felt like forever, there it was. Her pulse. Weak, but present.
Parker put her stethoscope on, checking the girl's breath sounds. "Still a minor wheeze, but otherwise good. Should we remove the airway now so she's not uncomfortable or?"
As she asked, you entered the room, walking to the patients bedside with a tiny bin of supplies in hand.
"I see we got a pulse back, that's great." You said, eyes fluttering up to Jack.
He swallowed, throat bobbing as he took you in. You and those damn wine-red scrubs, a sight for sore eyes. And the fact that you were looking up at him just then reminded him of other...circumstances.
Parker shifted, peering at Jack. If nobody was going to answer her about the airway, she wasn't going to sit and wait in a room full of people who were capable of removing it as well. "You still need me here?"
"No, we're all good here. Good work."
"About that airway, I vote removal, but what do I know." John interjected.
"Knock yourself out." Jack patted him on the shoulders. glancing over at you just as you began to speak.
"Hey, can we wait until after I draw her blood to remove the OPA, please? I don't want her waking up already afraid, the needle won't help." You plea, palpating both of the girl's arms for vein visibility.
"Fine by me, won't hurt to wait a minute more." John shrugged. "But then it's on you, too busy out there to wait."
Jack waved him off. "I got it."
"Can we steal Mateo, too? It's hectic out there."
"Yes, Ellis, you can steal Mateo. Things are...taken care of in here."
At Jack's words, the three excused themselves.
"Thanks for the confidence." You mumble to him, eyes finding the woman in the corner. "Is this mom?"
Marilyn nodded, coming over.
"Hi," you introduced yourself. "I'm a phlebotomist, solely here to draw your daughter's blood for confirmation on the trigger of the allergic reaction and basic labs to ensure everything else is good. Do I have your consent?"
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever helps."
"Perfect. Does she have any allergies to latex, alcohol, or any kind of adhesives that you know of?"
"No, she doesn't. Just peanuts."
Once she finished answering, you began to respond to her as you turned to face the little girl. "If you'd like to stand by, I can walk you through the process.”
She nodded and you moved to the girls right arm, bumping into Jack. His hands moved to your waist, stabilizing you before quickly removing them as if you were hot to the touch.
"Watch your mouth." He joked, backing up. "I was in your way, actually, so don't be sorry."
Feeling your cheeks heat up at his playful demand, you returned your focus to the mom, trying to ignore the way his words went right down to your core.
"She has better visibility on this side, just at first glance, which is good. I'm going to start by applying a tourniquet to help those veins become more visible and raised so I can perform the draw."
She moved closer, nose in the air as she peered over your shoulder where Jack once was.
"And as you can see, we got some volunteers." You joked as her veins began to rise. "Now, I'm cleansing the site with an alcohol wipe, letting it dry before I begin the draw."
As it dried, you put the wipe away and grabbed the needle, working at opening the packaging and putting it together once out.
"I'm going to take three tubes, first one being a waste tube to ensure no air, second one red and third one gold. Both for the purposes I told you about, so no need to worry." Beginning to insert the needle, blood began to return as you stabilized it. At the sight, you grabbed the waste tube and popped it on the bottom, setting it on the bed and allowing it to fill as you released the tourniquet with your free hand.
"Now, I'm taking the gold one." you added, removing the waste tube and replacing it with the gold before repeating the same process with the red. Once finished, you hovered gauze over the needle but made sure not to press down on it during removal. The second the needle was free, you popped the safety on it with one hand while the other held pressure on the draw site.
"Doctor Abbot, would you mind throwing this in sharps? Or hold pressure on her arm while I do it, either works for me."
He'd been so enamored by watching you work that you addressing him caused the slightest flinch as he was brought back to reality. "Yeah, of course."
He took the needle and tubing attachment from you, disposing of it. You bit back a smirk, something so gentle in the way he moved.
Moving back to the job at hand, you turned to the mom. "Okay, she's stopped bleeding so now I'm going to leave the gauze and use this Coban wrap as an adhesive to keep the site protected."
He stood by the sharps bin, watching you wrap her arm as you told her mother about what to expect, offering to get a snack in for the girl for when she woke.
"That'd be nice, thank you."
"No problem at all." You smiled, keeping in mind to communicate the request with one of the nurses.
Grabbing your bin, you exited, but not without a small glance at Jack.
Snapping his gloves off as he exited the trauma room, having finished up with the anaphylactic patient, he looked up and saw you exiting six. You were constantly bouncing from room to room, performing draws with the grace of a swan. It was cute.
Your eyes immediately worked to find his voice, and there he was, walking over to the hub. As you approached, meeting him in the middle, he glanced at you for a brief moment and then you were at his side, neck craned up to look at the trackboard.
"You're acting different." you spoke quietly.
He bit back a grin. "Me? No way."
"I'm not saying it in a bad way, it's just...different.
He pursed his lips, showing indifference. "After our little conversation this morning, I got some things to consider."
You looked at him, but he quickly corrected it.
"Eyes on the trackboard, don't be obvious."
Averting your gaze, you felt yet another jolt shoot down to your core.
"Work and home life? Separate."
"Yes, I know." You agree, "Blurring the lines could compromise focus."
"A talk here and there wouldn't hurt. Won't be anything obvious, just subliminal, if that. I'm a doctor before anything when I'm here, I wouldn't suggest anything interactive. Just maybe less zombie-like. Y'know, friends. And if we find it does compromise focus, we'll just go back to our usual scheduled programming."
"You make it sound like the morning news."
He shrugged, lazily. "Happens around the same time."
"Dick." you muttered, beginning to walk off. "Seems like you're the one who struggles with behaving. I'm off to do 'bloodsucker' things, bye."
"Yeah, bye." He said. "See you later." He added in a mumble to himself.
"See who later?" Parker entered the hub, meeting his side.
"My sanity, hopefully. Need me in six?" He gestured to the room.
"How'd you know?" She grinned, voice thick with sarcasm.
"It's almost like that's what I'm here for."