chef!emery x food blogger! samira au— strangers to lovers and a comedy of errors
samira mohan, grad school student who's moonlighting as a food blogger/influencer for extra money and also because she likes food (duh), is doing a masters in microbiology
emery walsh, chef at a trendy restaurant, hates the fact that the place she's worked for 10+ years is now being called 'trendy', went to culinary school in paris
the comedy of errors being emery is told by one of ther severs there's a 'food influencer' at a table and emery has had one too many influencers think they can get their meal for free so she decides to hand deliver it to the table (for some fucking reason) and looks like the most miserable person alive
shocked to find said 'food influencer' is the most gorgeous woman alive and is flirting with her whilst simultaneously picking out intricate parts of the dish she likes
samira, meanwhile, is confused why a chef has watched her take bites of her pasta and is even more confused when she gets a free plate of tiramisu 'on the house'
emery wrote her number on the napkin — samira didn't see
most jaded chef in the world is CRUSHED — immediately assumes samira was trying to comp a desert
increased vendetta against food influencers
meanwhile samira is RAVINGG about this place to the whole internet
samira runs into emery at a bar a few days later and is very thrown by the cold shoulder
something something comedy of errors they get their shit together eventually
prettiest princess in the world x prettiest jaded chef in the world
i have a crashtos au in the drafts too... if anybody is interested... and also as a STEM girl myself i feel like samira would really love learning about algae but that's a separate bit of propaganda i'll leave for another time
thinking about emery walsh being widowed. she wasn’t always as cold as she is now, but it was a part of her that died with her wife. It’s why she’s so hard on Abbott when he tries his superhero tactics, her wife died because a doctor thought he’d try some miraculous technique to try and save her. Maybe she would’ve died if he followed protocol anyway, but Emery can’t be mad at the teenager whose car spun out in a snowstorm into her wife’s, so she’s going to be mad at him instead. She devotes her life into saving other people’s partners in the or while mourning the fact that she knows she’ll never have that again, her one chance is over. Until she meets a resident with a smile that feels like the sun, and maybe she starts to thaw, just a little bit, for her
1. healed backwards by divineauthor | santos character study
You never meant to become a doctor.
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Trinity Santos, on her day off.
2. Plain to See (Plainsman) by lislemons | whitaker character study
Dennis is homesick for a home he doesn't miss. After a bad day that leaves him with a broken nose, he has a bit of a breakdown about his home. Robby finds him, and Dennis does what he knows best, and quotes bible verses as he cries about it.
(Or how Dennis ended up in Pittsburgh, a thousand miles from home and why he doesn't want to go back.)
3. Nothing Else I Could Do by darlingsdarling | mohabbot
Abbot is vibrating, and she feels it. Feels it resonating between her ribs. His hands are clasped around a near-empty glass. “I didn’t know you were dating an anesthesiologist.”
Is she vibrating, too?
“He’s great.” Samira doesn’t know if it’s for her or Abbot, but she says it. Thomas is great. He checks every box.
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Mohabbot across five New Year's Eves. Right person, wrong time--or whatever it is they say.
4. lipstick lover by HotelRaleigh | mohan/ellis
"You nervous?" Dr. Ellis' voice jerks her from her musings, that signature smirk working its way onto her face. Samira swallows at the way it tugs the corner of her lips up, the way her perfect, white teeth gleam in the dim lights.
"No." Samira says, sitting up straight. "Why would I be nervous, Dr. Ellis?"
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or, Samira Mohan makes a proposition. Parker Ellis accepts.
5. how lucky are we by kcrlfs | mohan/abbot/robby
“Sometimes I talk to Robby, and I understand him more than I understand myself,” Samira said.
She felt Jack nod. “That doesn’t surprise me,” he said, his voice muffled against her shirt.
“And then sometimes I don’t.”
“That doesn’t surprise me either.” Samira could tell he was smiling. “You two are a lot alike.”
“Is that why you’re with me?” she asked.
Samira Mohan is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet. For the upcoming winter ballet, they will be dancing Swan Lake, as led by their director, Emery Walsh. Samira vies for the lead, only Emery has one issue—she can't dance the Black Swan. She's too tight, too innocent. Emery wants to loosen her up.
6. i am something (i have been something) by softersoftests | mohan/walsh ballet au
In the professional sense, of course.
7. baby take my thoughts and carve the others out by nucodiangelo | mohabbot
“Robby force you to take a break?” he asks when she’s close enough to not have to yell.
“Yeah.”
“Me too,” he huffs. “Like he’s my superior or something. Asshole.”
Samira laughs, bending down to put her coffee down, balancing her sandwich on the lid, and then leans her forearms on the railing, far enough away to still be able to look at the side of his face, but close enough that she feels a little more confident she’ll be able to do something if he… Well. “Should you be sitting over there?” she asks, staring at the slight slope of his nose, the shadow of his eyelashes across on the top of his freckled cheekbone.
“Probably not,” he answers in a casual tone. “At least I’m sitting.”
That doesn’t comfort her very much, but she figures there’s no point in fighting him on it, so she turns and sits down with her back against the warm metal, mirroring him. “You want half of my sandwich?” she offers, twisting her upper body to hold it out to him.
8. finished praying for your downfall by darlingsdarling | mohabbot
“Jack,” he’s gray now. He wasn’t gray when they met but now his auburn brown hair has faded to almost entirely silver. She imagines it would suit him if there wasn’t so much blood in it. “to what do I owe the displeasure?”
Maybe it’s a mean thing to say when he’s actively being loaded out of an ambulance, but Samira really cannot bring herself to care. He’s upright and breathing, so in the grand scheme of things, the situation can’t be that bad. And you’re allowed to be rude to your ex-husband—it’s one of the big perks of getting divorced before you graduate med school. It’s the participation prize of a failed marriage.
“Hey there, gorgeous.”
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Samira's ex rolls into PTMC and brings a lot of baggage with him.
9. Dennis Whitaker can't catch a break by hilarycantdraw | santos & whitaker
If Dennis had to start dying in front of anyone, Trinity Santos would be one of his top choices because he knew she would do practically anything to keep him alive. Sure, a lot of those things were probably crazy and would earn her a lecture from Robby or Abbott or whoever was the attending when they inevitably arrived at the Pitt, but at least Dennis would live to tell the tale.
Dennis pictured his airway closing and Trinity performing a crike on him on the floor of their apartment with the sharp little paring knife she used for slicing fruit. It’s exactly the kind of insane thing she’d manage to pull off.
Since it was after seven, Abbott would probably be in charge of the ER and when they arrived he’d probably say something like, “Doctor Santos, you know that interns aren’t supposed to perform unassisted crikes. But that was super cool.” Or he’d probably never say super cool but Dennis was too out of it to conjure a good Abbott impression and that seemed close enough to the lecture Trinity’d received after the REBOA incident.
i just went on an instagram stalk of the actress who plays emery walsh and ig she’s jewish! (which makes sense since i’ve seen so many fics of her and robby being siblings) but her husband is indian and they had the cutest mixed desi and jewish wedding. so now i’m picturing emery and samira’s wedding and it’s adorable
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current brainrots are garsantos, mentos, and mohanwalsh from the pitt, but wouldn't be opposed to writing anything the pitt yuri AND whitaker+ the girlies 🙂↕️
