Accidental Reveal
Pairing: Dennis Whitaker x gn! Reader
Summary: No one being aware that Whitaker is married until his partner is brought in after a car accident and he freezes when called over to help on the trauma
Warning: Medical inaccuracies, mentions of blood, possibly ooc characters, reader called Mx. because it's a gender neutral version of Mr./Mrs., not proof read
Word count:2809
A/n: Hello, Thank you to everyone who showed interest when i posted my idea a few days ago. I really liked this idea and I'm glad other people seem interested. Anyways enjoy and remember to hydrate or diedrate.
You and Dennis had gotten married shortly before leaving your hometown of Broken Bow. It wasn't anything expensive or fancy, just you two and both of your guys' parents at the court house. Since Dennis was going to med school you both figured it'd be best to hold off on a big wedding until he had gotten established as a doctor and your were stable in your career.
As a sort of congratulations gift for getting a student doctor position at PTMC, you gave Dennis a simple silver chain for him to put his wedding ring on while he works. He had expressed a few times that he didn't want to risk losing it at work, so you figured it was a great idea. He, of course, agreed and started using it on his first day.
An unexpected effect of the gift however was that none of his coworkers were aware that he was married. Sure they had all heard him talk about you, but they just assumed you were a roommate or friend. And sweet, sweet Dennis didn't even think to tell them that he was married. It never seemed important to work and no one ever asked.
It wasn't until shortly after he reached the first year mark of his residency that he thought it was time to introduce his coworkers to his spouse. You had both talked about it and decided that with both of your careers being stable, and with the money you had slowly been saving up it was time to start planning a real wedding. Not that you didn't think your court house wedding was real, but you both wanted a decent sized wedding where more than just your parents could attend. And a big part of the conversation was about inviting Dennis' coworkers since they were some of his closest friends and had become like a second family to him.
But before he just randomly invited his friends to his second wedding, he wanted them to actually meet the person who stole his heart years ago in Broken Bow. So the plan was you would be joining him when he went for the day shift's monthly hang out away form the hospital. He was mostly prepared for the questions that would come from the sudden news but it was worth it. Bring the two most important parts of his life together was worth the teasing he was going to receive from Trinity for weeks after.
The get together was planned for the next weekend most of the day shift had off. It was rare but it was fast approaching, and Dennis could barley focus on charting thinking about what was going to happen.
He was pulled from his thoughts when Trinity slide across the counter of the Nurse's station. "What you thinking about Huckleberry?" She asked in her usual teasing tone.
"Uh, nothing. Just can't wait for this weekend." He said closing out the patient chart he had barely managed to finish while lost in thought.
Trinity nodded along. "What's so special about this weekend? It's just the normal hangout." She said, before a smile spread across her face. "Wait are you finally going to introduce us to your elusive roommate?" She had that smile she got when presented with an interesting case, like there was a new mystery to solve, except this time it was just Whitaker's alleged roommate.
Dennis rolled his eyes slightly at you being referred to as his 'roommate' bit didn't say anything about it yet. "Yeah, actually. Their my closest friend and I think they'll really like you guys." It wasn't entirely a lie. You were his closet friend, having grown up together before eventually falling in love.
"Oh, that's cool." Trinity said hiding her smirk. She's had assumptions for a while that his roommate was more than that, but before she could prod for more information she was interrupted by paramedics rushing into the ER.
"Santos, Whitaker." Doctor Robby called the two Residents as he approached the paramedics. "What do we got?" He asked, not noticing how Dennis froze mid step only a few feet from the moving gurney.
"Y/n Whitaker, 26 year old, restrained driver, auto vs. auto. They were awake and alert when we got scene, but lost consciousness on the way. Bp 90/60, satting at 98 on 2 liters, multiple lacerations to face and arms, possible tib-fib fracture on left side." The medic said as they moved into Trauma 1.
It wasn't until they started to transfer the patient from the gurney, that anyone realized what the medic had said.
"Wait, did you just say Whitaker?" Trinity asked the medic, thinking she misheard him.
The medic just nodded before leaving with his partner. Connecting the dots, she, and the rest of the staff in the trauma room, looked to where Dennis was last seen standing. Sure enough he was frozen in place, eyes focused on the unconscious patient, making no move to enter the room.
Nodding to Langdon, who had joined the group trusting him to take over, Robby moved to speak with Dennis. "Dennis, do you know them?" He asked nodding in the direction of the trauma bay.
Blinking quickly as if being awoken form a trance, Dennis nodded. "Uh yeah. They're my partner." He answered, pulling the chain tucked in his shirt out to fidget with his wedding ring. "We've been together since high school, and they've been my number one supporter since I decided to become a doctor." He started to ramble, not noticing the slightly surprised look that Robby and Dana shared over the young residents shoulder.
"Okay well then, I can't let you in there. Langdon and Santos will take great care of them, you just sit here or in the break room and take a breather. Okay?" Robby said placing a gentle hand on Dennis' shoulder. Sure he had more questions, but figured now wasn't the best time to press.
Dennis just nodded, still in shock from seeing you wheeled into the ER. With out much thought to it he chose to sit at the Nurse's station where he had a clear line of site to where his coworkers were making sure you were stable.
"Keep an eye on him. I'll pick up his cases, he's done for the day." Robby said to Dana as he headed to check on the rest of his residents.
The charge nurse nodded, going about her shift as usual but keeping a close eye on the fidgety doctor.
It wasn't long before Trinity and Langdon made their way out of the trauma room. Langdon stopped to tell Dana that you had been sent up to CT and X-ray. Trinity on the other hand made a B-line for Dennis.
"So you're married?" Trinity asked placing herself directly in front of Dennis to block his view of the trauma room. "Why didn't you say anything? I thought we were friends."
Dennis blinked. "How are they? Are they stable?" He began asking, completely ignoring Trinity's questions. When she didn't respond fast enough he stood up and approached Langdon. "Please tell me how they're doing." He asked the senior resident in a way that sounded more like a demand than anything.
"They're gonna be okay. They likely have a mild concussion and broken leg, with hand full of minor cuts and bruises." Langdon replied with a rare gentle smile. "They just went up for a head CT and X-ray to rule out anything else. Then we'll get them a room down here where they can rest and wait for either a room upstairs or discharge depending on the results." He explained knowing that even though he was also a doctor, Dennis probably need some reassurance that everything would be okay.
The young resident nodded. "Okay thank you." He said quietly.
"Since it's going to be a minute until they get back from their tests, spill Huckleberry." Trinity said, once again trying to get answers from her friend.
Sighing Dennis nodded, before sitting back down at the Nurse's station where a group of his coworkers had gathered. "Me and Y/n have been married since before we left Broken Bow. I never told anyone because none of you asked, and it wasn't important." He explained as he finally took his necklace off and moved his ring to his left hand, where it sat anytime he wasn't at work. "I was actually going to introduce them to y'all this weekend." He said looking towards his coworkers.
"Wait so why tell us now, if it was important enough to tell us before?" Victoria asked, having joined the group of medical workers currently surrounding Dennis.
"Ha, uh funny story actually. We decided that we're finally ready to hold a big ceremony, since our wedding back home was just at the local court house. And we wanted to invite everyone here." Dennis explained with a shrug, earning a few awes from a couple of the nurses. "It's be weird to invite y'all to a wedding if you had no clue who the other person was." He finished, spinning his ring on finger.
It was clear that everyone had questions, but now wasn't the right time so before questions could start flying, Dana spoke up. "Alright back to work all of you. Leave the poor kid alone, I'm sure he'll be happy to answer questions when you guys aren't saving lives." She said shooing the nurses and med students who had gathered for the story. "Whitaker, Y/n will be back down soon you can meet them in central 9. Langdon will stop by when the results come back." The older woman said point Dennis to the room they were sending you.
Only a few minutes after he had sat down in one of the uncomfortable chairs, you were brought in by couple nurses. He immediately jumped up to check on you, sighing in relief when he noticed you had woken up since you where brought in by the EMTs.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" He asked gently, reaching to hold your hand in his.
"Your friends hooked me up with the good drugs, I'm doing great." You said trying to get a laugh out of him. "But seriously I'm okay, Dennis."
Dennis couldn't help but chuckle slightly at your attempt to be silly even though you were in hospital bed. "Good. I was worried about you." He said trying to keep it simple, but he cracked seeing the knowing look in your eye. "Okay, I was super worried about you. When you came in you were unconscious and there was a lot of blood from this cut on your head." He said brushing his thumb under the now closed cut, that seemed so much bigger an hour ago.
"I know I'm a doctor and that head wounds bleed more, but my rational brain shut off I froze and couldn't help you when you needed me." Dennis rambled. "I was so out of it that Dr. Robby benched me for the day." He said pulling a chair over to sit close to you.
Squeezing his hand you smiled again. "Hey, it's okay to be worried. I'd be terrified if I was in your shoes. But I'm awake and doing fine. Your friends took great care of me, and now I can confidently say they better be at our wedding." You said earning a gentle laugh from your husband.
Before He could respond, there was a gentle knock at the door followed by Langdon walking in. "Hello, It's good to see you're awake. I'm Dr. Langdon, Whitaker has probably mentioned me before." He introduced with half joking smile, trying to keep the mood light. "Anyways, you got pretty luck this time Mx. Whitaker. As we suspected just a mild concussion and a clean break of your left tibia. We'll get your leg in a cast to help it heal but you shouldn't need surgery as long as you stay off it and use the crutches. And the concussion should heal with lots of rest." He explained while charting the plan for your care.
"You'll need some help at home, but lucky for you it seems one of the Pitt's finest will be available." Langdon said as he closed the computer. "I will be back shortly to cast your leg and then you should be good to go."
You and Dennis thanked his coworker as he left the two of you alone once again. "Wait I just realized something." You said after silence had fallen over the space. Dennis looked to you and tilted his head confused. "How are we supposed to get home? The car was totaled." You said looking super serious.
"I'm sure we can call an Uber. What I'm worried about is how I'm supposed to help you out at home if I have to work." Dennis said trying to figure out how he's supposed to work and take care of you.
Before he could think to hard about it, there was another knock at the door. "Hello, I'm Doctor Robinavitch, but everyone calls me Dr. Robby. I just wanted to talk to Dennis really quick." He said looking to your husband. Dennis moved to stand up, but Robby raised hi hand stopping the younger man. "It's nothing bad. I just wanted you to know that we have everything covered here so you can take the next two weeks to help Y/n around the house and recover. They should be your top priority right now."
"I uh. Thank you Dr. Robby. I greatly appreciate that." Dennis said slightly stunned at how he didn't even have to ask for the time off it was just given.
Robby nodded. "It's no problem. It was nice meeting you Y/n, get well soon." He said before turning to leave.
As Robby exited the room Langdon, two nurses and Trinity walked in.
"What are you doing here?" Dennis asked rolling his eyes at Trinity, knowing she was probably there to make jokes and not actually help with your care.
Trinity just smiled. "I'm here to meet my friend's spouse that he failed to mention, Huckleberry. Anyways, I'm Trinity Santos. Did you really marry this Huckleberry or are you just roommates?" She said turning her attention to you.
"Yes I really did marry Dennis." You said with a smile, having heard about how she has a habit of picking on Dennis in friendly almost sibling like manner. "We were actually hoping you want to be part of the wedding party for our do over big ceremony, if you're interested?" You asked, as Langdon started applying the cast to your leg.
"Wait really? Huckleberry, You want me to actually be a part of your wedding?" She asked, turning to Dennis, who just nodded and shrugged. "Yeah, Okay I'm cool with that." Trinity said trying to act like she wasn't super honored to be invited an important part of such a big occasion.
You all talked for a few minutes about how your plan for your re-do wedding would have to be postponed a little longer since you won't be able to work and will have to pull from savings, but that Trinity would defiantly be part of it. It wasn't long until Langdon said he was done applying your cast and that you were good to go.
Dennis ran to his locker and grabbed his change of street clothes he had, thanking whatever higher power that you wore the same size clothes, before helping you change out of the hospital gown you had been put in. After getting you dressed and ordering an uber, You and Dennis sat at the Nurse's station while you waited. Dennis spending the time trying to make sure that it was 100% okay that he takes two weeks off of work, and you meeting the rest of his coworkers as the passed by between patients.
Once the uber arrived and took you home, Dennis couldn't help but sigh in relief as he collapsed next to you on your shared bed.
"That was one hell of day." He said turning to look at you. "Seriously, I'm glad you're okay, I don't know what I would have done with out you."
You chuckled shimming across the bed to get closer to him. "Probably cry." You said leaning your head on his shoulder. "But you don't have to worry about that. I'm fine now and in few months we'll be able to finally have our big wedding."
"Yeah. you're right." He said placing a gentle kiss to your head. Sure, the day hadn't gone how he expected but when does it ever when you work in the ER. And hey now he doesn't have to worry about introducing you to his coworkers since they all met you through out the day.
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