Maybe you like me too?
Just cutie patootie Dennis. fluff short story. It was a quick little write just a cute idea. Word count: 2667 that wasn’t planned . Disclaimer: headache, migraines, medicines. Usual hospital stuff. I don’t think there is any disclaimers though. barley proofread so idk. Enjoy!
Today was like every average day at the pitt. It was complicated. People yelling literally everyone, it made your ears ring all the time. You had a pounding headache, maybe even a migraine all the time but you were used to it.
“Hey kid you don’t look too well” Dana came up to you at the nurses station giving you a pat on the back. You were sitting there with your head in your hands.
“Yeah yeah I’m fine.”
“You sure kiddo I can’t get you an ibuprofen or a panadol if it’s those nasty headaches,” you give a little nod still not looking up and she squeezes your shoulder and walks off going to get the medication. So much was on your mind right now rent, student loans, what to eat when you get home, work, rent, finding time to do things you like, rent. And you know it’s hard living in a crappy apartment alone in a weird part of the city. You didn’t like to admit it but it was scary walking home all alone at night. A few minutes later Dana’s back with a little cup of water and ibuprofen she gives you a pat of the head and walks back to her desk. You gulp that shit immediately. Almost like music to your ears Santos walking up to,
“Dude you won’t believe that trauma just now” she takes a breath. She probably ran over here to tell you.
“It was craaazy-“ she looks at you again. Your gulping down water now you hadn’t realised how dry your throat was.
“Are you good?”
“Yeah I’m fine I’m fine just the lights are too bright and whatever your case sounds great” you slide your hands down your face resting them in the desk you're sitting looking up at her now. Dennis comes over looking just as giddy as her.
“You will not believe the case we just did,” you give him a look. “Oh she already told you” he gave out a little sigh still standing next to Santos leaning on the desk on his elbow. You can’t help but notice his bicep bulge from the sleeves of his scrubs. You knew he was strong since he was a farm boy and all the work he does to help any but still it surprised you. And come on you’ve liked Dennis for a long time but you never told anyone not even your bestie santos you just couldn’t. You know she lived with him and she would accidentally let it slip. But oh let a girl dream. You scratch the back of your neck slipping back to reality.
“Oh I meant to ask, can I sleep over at your guy's place? I'm so bored of being home alone and not having anyone to talk to.” You look up and Santos and Dennis give them puppy eyes.
Heat starts creeping up Dennis neck and he puts his other hand on the back of his head,
“Uhh I’m fine with it but you know no one cares for my opinion” he says the tips of his ears turning red. They turn red when he’s flustered, or embarrassed, or mad or literally any emotion he shows.
“Sure it’ll be so fun like a sleepover” Santos smiles.
“Oh my gosh yay I was hoping you guys would say yeah or I would have to ask like everyone” you say you eyes wide and hopeful a big smile flashing across your face. Dude if he reacted how he wanted he would have grabbed your face and kissed you. You were so beautiful and cute like a little bunny.
“Okay so after my shift I’ll run home and get my like pjs and then I’ll come to your house sounds good?” Santos nods and almost on cue they both get binged on their pagers. They both turn around and start heading to south 6,
“Oh and thanks a lot Trin and Mousey!” You say a bit louder so they can hear while walking off. He looks at his feet while walking, smiling to himself how he loved that nickname. When they know they're out of your view, Santos gives Dennis’s nudge to the shoulder.
“Could you be any more obvious, gosh.” His nose starts to turn red. “What do you mean I wasn’t obvious at all” he says stumbling over his words. “Yeah right all flustered and what not” “what no shut up” she grins and turns a different way leaving him standing in the corridor before he makes his way to where he’s going.
A few hours later after shift ends. You 3 meet up outside the hospital. You split up though since you have to go get your clothes at home. The drive isn’t long until you listen to Rhiana since for some reason she makes you feel braver. You walk up to your apartment fiddled with the keys in your hand to unlock the door. When you get inside you get grated with the sound of a leak coming from your bathroom. Whatever you can’t be asked, you're too excited. A sleepover with your bestie and the opportunity to see Dennis at home all comfortable and cute. You go to your room trying to pick out something cute. Luck isn’t in your hand most of it’s dirty laundry that you still haven’t gotten round to so all you could find is a set of tiny shorts that are basically underwear and a slightly baggy t-shirt. Welp, nothing in your stupid apartment went the way you wanted. You took a deep breath in. Everything will be fine. You quickly fix your hair in the mirror, get some toiletries, and run back into your car. Excitement bursting through your eyes. You click the location santos sent to your guys group. It takes you around 10 minutes to get there but you make a few wrong turns since you're too excited and aren’t focused enough. When you finally get there you knock on their door and you get greeted by santos.
“Welcome to our humble abode” she laughs and lets you in.
“So I can have a shower right? I forgot I knew I was just at home but you know actually I didn't even know I was so overstimulated.” You giggle and turn your head looking down the hallway and you see Dennis walk out the bathroom with a towel around his waist. Water droplets all over his body and his hair still soaked. When he hears your voice and turns your way his face turns red so fast you didn’t even know that was possible he ran straight to his room shutting it fast. Santos laughs.
“Well showers free now I suppose I keep telling him not to walk around you know just in a towel since someone will walk in eventually. Well at least he learned a lesson. Oh and make yourself at home.” Your face still tinted red on the apples of your cheeks. He was so built and hot, but at work he was so cute and looked skinny as hell. Definition of sleeper build. You let out a laugh and you and trinity laughed for a bit. Then you walk down the hallway to the same bathroom Dennis was just in. When you get in and close the door the room is still steamy and hot, the mirror covered with a thick layer of fog. You turn around and lock the door making sure to hear the click. We don't need any incidents now do we. You take off all your clothes and get in the shower.
Dennis in his room his still flustered. He should’ve listened to Trin, but he always did that at the farm and it was never embarrassing not at least like that. He quickly put his pajamas on a grey shirt and some flannel pants that have hints of blue. Almost the same shade as his eyes. When he walks out down the hall past the bathroom hearing the water run and over to the living room near trinity. She opens her mouth to speak but he beats her to it.
“You didn’t tell me she was gonna be arriving then.”
“Well how was I supposed to know dingus and I told you this would eventually happen, it's karma for not listening to me earlier.” He sits down on a stool in front of the island and she’s on the other side leaning on the counter on her elbows.
“Well on the plus side she totally went red. Like I swear she started blushing and didn’t say anything as if processing you or whatever so who knows maybe she digs you too.” Dennis’s eyes widened even more than usual. Before the conversation could go on any longer you step out the bathroom the light of the bathroom brightening up the hallway steam seeping out. Then you step out holding your bag. Dennis looks at you, you're in the shortest shorts he’s ever seen. If you bent over to pick something up he would see the bottom of your ass. He should stop thinking of you like you're his colleague and you're just staying over nothing more but. He’s always been a little perverted, not at a weird bad scale. Something he developed while growing up on the farm his older brothers always had playboy magazines and sometimes just sometimes he had a look at them too.
In between all his thoughts he hadn’t realised you walked over and were sitting on the stool right next to him. Your elbow was on the island and you leaned your face in your hand. Your long hair falling down your shoulder and hair sticking to your still wet face. It was a little red since you just washed it with cold water making your nose a bright red colour.
“So what do we do first?” You look at Trinity and Dennis.
“We could watch a movie. Uhhh make dinner or order out, play board games?” “Hmm, can we watch a movie?” You look up at both of them.
“Yeah sure I don’t mind,” Dennis says, giving you a small nod. You guys walk over to the coach plopping on it. Trinity sat on the right edge Dennis on the left leaving you in the middle. Trinity already had the tv on scrolling through Netflix’s movies. You kept shuffling around trying to get comfortable every time you moved your hand grazed against Dennis’s hip. He tried not to think anything of it but boy it was hard. You ended up flipping upside down so your legs hung off the back of the couch and your head was half on the cushion and hanging off your hair was dangling the ends slightly touching the floor.
“Took get comfortable a little to seriously hmm no just kidding it’s fine anyways what should we watch” you both turn your head to look at her you kinda have to turn and look up but when Dennis turned to look at her your short ruffled up a bit since you were upside down and he could see your lace underwear and he could feel his face turning red but he just tried to ignore it.
“Hmm how about we just watch stranger things we could rewatch season 4 since season 5 is coming out soon” you say looking at the screen but it was hard to read the titles of any of the films since you were upside down.
“Yeah I’m good with that” trinity already started searching for stranger things on the tv. Dennis hadn’t said anything since he was trying to not look at you at all or at anyone trying to calm his face down. She puts on season 4 episode 1 of stranger things and everything seems to quiet Dow the only sound being the tv and the hum of the refrigerator in the kitchen. Trinity looked over at Dennis who wasn’t even watching, just trying not to look at you. After 3 hours you guys were halfway through the 3rd episode. Everyone has shuffled around the sofa to get more comfortable. You're no longer upside down but now lying on Dennis’s lap with your legs on Trinity’s lap. His literally last straw he could feel the heat radiating from you onto his thighs through his flannel pants. He could feel your breathing, your chest raising and falling with each breath. Fuck it was so hard to concentrate. Trinity was giggling to herself and you were completely flustered too. Both are oblivious to each other's obsession over each other. You could feel Dennis trying not to move so you would be comfortable. You could feel his breath, you felt his hand sometimes stroke your hair. He was so so cute. Trinity was so fed up since it was obvious that you both liked each other even if you never told her that.
“Um I’m gonna go to the bathroom” she says, standing up a smirk on her face. She turns around going to the bathroom immediately texting Garcia that is gonna finally happen. The room was just like it was before, just a lot more awkward. You could feel it in the air since it was just the two of you. You're lying on his lap. Now that it’s just the two of you you actually realise how this must look to him. You lie there trying to not move at all or breathe so you don’t disturb him.
“Y/n?” You shift your head to look up at him. Looking into his soft blue eyes the tv light shining on his face, his cute little smile and big eyes looking down at you.
“Yeah?” “Well um you know actually it doesn't matter” he thinks about all the things Trinity said that you probably liked him to and now was such a great moment since you were literally all his right now. Lying in his lap. Your heart falters hoping it would’ve something else moving to shift your head so you're looking at the tv.
“Wait I remember” you move again so you're looking at him you notice his ears turning red.
“This is gonna be really weird but I kinda really like you…” his face starts turning red his hand starts playing with the sleeve of his shirt,
“your so pretty and really smart and you work so hard at the hospital and your always nice to everyone even when you’ve been working for god knows how long and you give lollipops to little kids and make elder people feel included and let them tell you their long stories,” you watch as he rambles on a small smile forming on your mouth but he hasn’t realised since he’s been rambling.
“I like you too like a lot” you say breaking his trail of speech” “oh it’s okay then I guess we can just be frie- wait did you just say you do you like me too” you smile the one were your eyes crease, a full face smile Dennis would say the one he adores. His smile grows to the one you rarely see, the big bright smile.
He loves the way your eyelashes flutter every time you blink. He leans down and you lean up. Your lips reach a small kiss he speaks against your mouth.
“Fuck I love you, I’ve dreamed about this since I first met you” you giggle he feels your smile against his mouth.
“Ew you guys are gross” you both run your heads to look at santos. Dennis’s face turns red again,
“How long were you watching?!” “Long enough to know I was right boooyah I will be making some money tomorrow princess and perlah are going down.” She walks over giddy and all sitting next to you on the couch. You giggle looking at Dennis’s frustrated face. You lean in and kiss his cheek and then roll back to watch the tv.
“I love you too.”
