Rockstar!Rodrick x Nurse!reader
A/N: I'm not a nurse so it may be a bit inacurate (I tried my best tho!)
Having night shifts wasn't all that bad as other nurses described, most accidents happen during the daylight for some reason
All of the night shifts you'd had so far were calm and pretty uninteresting, allowing you to take a small nap here and there when you weren't needed
It wasn't even past midnight yet when a patient was rushed in with a relatively huge crowd of teenage boys and adult men as well tailing behind
Doctors were giving out orders at you and your fellow nurses while other hospital staff tried shoving the fanboys (?) out
Once you cought a glimpse of your patient you nearly dropped the sterilized objects in your hands
It was Rodrick Heffley, the drummer of your current hyperfixation! Granted he looked a bit better while awake and not covered in blood but it was still him!
But most importantly he was your patient so you quickly snapped into a professional mode
You inserted a cannula as required, while trying real hard to not let your fingers linger on his warm skin for too long, and he was rushed to operation room
You haven't seen him until the end of your shift
He woke up conviniently as you were passing by his room, so as a good nurse you came by to explain what happened to him
Concussion and an open fracture of both of his left forearm bones
Since he was still recovering from anesthetics from the surgery he was blabbing absolute nonsense left and right, you were used to patients being high as a kite so most of his words weren't even that amusing to you anymore
But when he asked if you were an angel and started begging you to not take him yet, you didn't know whether to laugh or blush
"Stop lying, you are an angel! My mom used to drag us every damn sunday to church and I have eyes! I saw them! On the walls, in the windows! And in you too! Please let me stay Miss angel, my band... they won't find anyone better than me!"
It took you solid ten minutes to convince him you're a human too and he finally calmed down afterwards
You wanted to explain some other procedures and inform him about his future in the hospital but poor guy was so drugged you decided to just sit there and spend time with him, god knows you'll never have an opportunity like that again
You even tried to sneak a hand hold disguised as a comforting gesture but in the end you chickened out, not wanting to be one of the creepy obsessed fans. His hand looked really tempting though...
Eventually both of you got too sleepy, you from staying up all night and him from trashtalking his youngest brother, so reluctantly you bid him your goodbye
"Back to heaven, eh?" He slurred with a tired smirk
"No, back home. It was nice talking to you. Get well soon," you said and ran away faster than he could notice your violent blush. Even though you knew he wouldn't probably remember it nor you anyways
As fate would have it, your next shift was also a night one
The first thing you did was check on which wing of the hospital you're 'in charge' of (all your nurse friends have devided the hospital for easier existence during night shifts) and delightfully, yours was the same one Rodrick was hospitalized at
"Please be still there, please," you prayed on your way there, even though it felt wrong. You always wished all your patients the quickest recovery ever and the smallest amount of time spent in a hospital, not because you didn't like your patients, you simply saw how they hated being in there
You had to try real hard to keep your face from breaking out into the wildest smile upon seeing Rodrick exactly where you left him last night
He was awake and lucid, staring at you from across the room and that's when you realized you can't ogle him like when he was high or unconscious
"Good evening, my name is Y/n and I'll be the nurse taking care of you tonight. If you need anything all you have to do is push that button and I'll be here. Alright?" You said in your friendliest way. Maybe if you played your cards right you'll befriend him in the end. Wouldn't be the first time you turned a patient into a friend, even though all your other patient-friends were kids and this is an adult man...
Rodrick said nothing, he just stared at you with those big almost black eyes. With that innocent, almost sort of lost, expression he reminded you of a wounded puppy, very cute 😊
"Are you feeling alright mister Heffley? Do you feel any pain?" You quickly walked up to him, prepared to take his pulse
He blinked couple of times, as if his brain was rebooting. And then he said: "so you're real?"
"I am. Were you experiencing halluciations throughout the day?" You flirted with the thought of calling in a doctor. Hallucinations weren't part of the syptoms of concussion and you were starting to worry
Rodrick waved his healthy hand around. "No, no, I meant... last night... I thought I had a dream about an angel..."
"That may happen after an anesthetic," you quickly talked over him. The longer you were hearing him comparing you to angels the worse your inner fangirl was to control. "Well, if you don't need anything, excuse me," it was probably unprofessional to bail on a patient like that but you were in a serious need of a very strong bitter coffee to bring you to reality
Before the damn machine could even make you one Rodrick was already abusing the red button
Back in his room he just pouted at you
"Leaving me in my pain all alone? Kinda rude..."
"You're not the only patient I have, there's this little girl and-"
"So you're not even my private nurse? That's just wonderful, what is fame good for if you can't even have a pretty nurse all to yourself," he sat back, pouting
An idea got born in your mind, though he might not like it
"Fame? Are you famous mister Heffley?"
Oh how you wish you hald your phone out, his confused and almost offended face was priceless!
"Have you never heard of us?" You shook your head. "Löded Diper?" Head shake. "We're on our second tour around the states! You must've seen at least one bilboard!" Head shake. "Really not even one song?" Head shake. "You sure? The kids use some of them for memes, maybe you've heard us but you don't know it yet."
In the end his desperation was too funny and you broke out in a chuckle, explaining to him that yes, you do know his band, yes, you have heard their songs and unfortunately couldn't go to their concert because of the night shift. Looking back you've wasted two hours crying and begging other nurses to swap places so you could go and see Löded Diper. Now you were teasing with your favourite member. Funny how fate works
Rodrick instantly changed from stressed out young adult into a layed back rockstar. "Knew you were full of it. I mean you have the aura of someone who's our fan. Was way too obvious"
"Oh yeah? What gave me away?"
He shrugged, though only with one shoulder, his other arm was in a cast
"You're pretty, prettier than the nurses I saw during the day. Pretty girls like you are basically what we have as a fanbase. You'd fit right in," he grinned confidently
Though his words were flattering, you noticed another amunition for your little teasing and faked jealousy
"Pretty girls huh? Your fangirls must've swarmed this place during the day, huh?" He enthusiastically nodded, keeping his chin high. "I bet those card on your table are from them too, right?" Nod again, though a slower one.
You picked up one of the four folded 'Get well soon' cards and held it out for him to read.
"Never knew your fangirls had such unique names like Bill, Drew and Mackie. Hmm, that's funny, they sound like-"
Rodrick grabbed the card from you and threw it in the corner
So he lied about the fangirl crowds, why though?
"Can we not talk about it?" He mumbled with his back turned towards you, probably too embarassed to face you after being caught in a lie
You nodded and asked if he'd like to talk about something else
His silence told you he didn't want to talk about anything anymore. Not with you at least
'Way to go Y/n, a perfect plan! Tease him beyond belief and embarrass him for not having any fangirls stopping by! That's just brilliant! He'll definitely take liking to you now!' Was all you could think as you made way to another patient needing your assistance
Once that was done you finally returned to your now cold cup of coffee
The cup wasn't even half way empty when Rodrick asked for attwntion via the red button again
"Can someone else take him?" You asked, not really feeling like being with him in the same room again
"Your wing, your patient."
This time he complained about the pain in his arm
"You've suffered an open fracture of both ulna and radius. Injuries like that tend to hurt. I can give you some pain numbing medicine if it's too unbearable"
He nodded and begged, obviously exaggarating the pain and giving you a little show, to which you rolled your eyes and went to get your equipment
Now in sterile gloves you've injected the mildest painkiller into his veins and he visibly relaxed back into the pillow
"We must keep you here for longer than we intended," you giggled pulling your gloves off
Rodrick went pale and stared at you with panic filled eyes
"No one has ever reacted to a painkiller this fast," you explained
Rodrick looked away in shame. "Maybe my body's just sensitive."
Your duty and some bits of embarassement from before were pulling you away and to the next patient that needed you but for some reason you pulled up a chair and sat down next to his bed
"How did that happen?" You ask after a long pause
"Isn't that like a doctor secret?"
"Doctor patient confidentiality. I'm currently your caretaker so I should know about anything relating to your injuries."
He mulled it over a bit, then sighed and under a threat of banning you from all their future concerets if you tell anyone finally spilled the secret
The night before the concert him and the rest of the band went to relax into a bar, the radio randomly started playing one of their songs, the drunks in the bar went a little wild, Rodrick tried crowd surfing but the crowd apparently didn't get the message and parted before him like the sea before Moses
Any other person would probably laugh or tease him for such a fail but you can only imagine how rough of a fall it must've been for him to suffer an injury like that
He also appreciated you not making fun of him too much for that
One of the nurses dropped by and called for you
"I already told you I'm sometimes needed elsewhere."
"Fine. As long as you come back here, you're forgiven."
You rolled your eyes and went back to work
Usually you wasted your breaks by scrolling through the very few edits of Rodrick but now your breaks were full of chatting with him and you couldn't be happier
You talked about bunch of stuff, mostly music, but other things too
"What was the most gross injury you've ever seen?"
"You don't have the stomach for that."
"Pff, I'm a strong man! Nothing will throw me off!"
Whispering in his ear you described the injury in detail and had to stop halfway though to give him a bucket
It wasn't always you teasing him. He did that to you plenty. Not only calling you pretty or an angel, he expanded it into shameless flirting
"You know, since you're taking such a nice care of me, I could give you a backstage pass or two." "When my arm gets better I could give you private drumming lessons." "Your legs look tired, you can rest them on mine."
You always had a teasing remark to sent his way whenever his flirtations became too much. Even though you liked him you still didn't know him as a person. What if he was like this to all his fangirls? You didn't want to be another broken heart in his trophy room
Due to the concussion he was required to stay in hospital for couple more days, unfortunately your next two days were day shifts and those don't operate like night ones
More cases, busier schedual, you feared you won't even have time to go and say as much as hi to him
It took another day to have a night shift
First thing you did was run to Rodrick's room
Thankfully he was still there, unfortunatelly for you he was deeply asleep. No private chit chat for you tonight
After tending to some patients you sat behind desk, waiting for something for you to do, when one of the head nurses nudged you
"You know it's forbidden to form relationships with patients on my watch, right?"
You looked up from your phone (a Rodrick thirst trap edit shamelessly playing on it) confused
The head nurse pointed at Rodrick's room. "When you didn't show up last night he even refused to talk to anyone. Then Mary told me he forced himself to stay awake the whole day and only asked for the 'angelic nurse'," you cringed, "and now he finally passed out. Next time don't mess with patient's head this badly. He needs sleep. The two of you can make out once he's discharged."
You spent the rest of your shift avoiding her in embarassment
The next night someone tapped you on your shoulder while you waited for your coffee at the coffee machine and you nearly jumped out of your skin
First he gave you the biggest puppy eyes you've ever seen on a grown man for disappearing on him for couple days
Second he awkwardly nudged your shoulder with his like a shy teenager, telling you he's glad his gossip buddy's back
He tailed after you the rest of your shift
Occassionaly he tapped his white cast with his fingers, the black nail polish slightly chipped off on some places
"Nobody signed it?" You asked
He shrugged and explained how his band mates were super busy with the concert and all, plus looking for a back up drummer while he recovered, you could see the slight pain and loneliness in his eyes
You pulled out your pen and signed it at the very corner, easy to hide. You contemplated drawing a heart next to 'get well soon' but decided to doodle couple stars around it instead
He promptly shoved the cast back into your hands and asked you to doodle all around it if you'd like
You heard some whispers and snickering from other nurses as you doodled on Rodrick's cast but his chattering helped you ignore them
His family turned out to be wilder than he told in interviews
His younger brother is living off of his much more successful best friend and his youngest just got out of jail and is moving back to live with their parents
Based off of the tales from his childhood he seemed like the most normal one from his whole family
When you doodled on the palm part he moved his fingers to touch any part of your arm
"You should go to sleep Rodrick."
Five minutes later he was snoring on your shoulder (which you secretely took a selfie of)
The next night was his last one at the hospital
No one visited him during his stay, no fans, no family members (though from his stories his mom was always too concerned for either of his brothers and his dad was too distant) not even his band mates which made you pity him
You wanted to spend as much time with him as you could but a little girl got hospitalized during the day and no one knew how to comfort her, leaving the poor kid to be a 'night shift's problem'
You read her a book, played with her, but she only kept asking for her mommy
Rodrick eventually found you and as soon as he showed up the little girl calmed down
He goofed around with her and she giggled while trying to get closer to him. While she was distracted Rodrick leaned in and whispered: "Go take a break, I got this."
When you came back with a cup of coffee you found the little girl soundly asleep leaning on Rodrick (you didn't know you could be this jealous of a little girl until tonight... but hey, that's the Rodrick effect)
"Thank you for helping me with her," you told him as you laaed the little girl into the bed.
You saw how he wanted to ask you for something but hesitated for a while. Eventually he told you his request: he needed help shaving
"I'll look like a careless hobo 😭"
He had a very light stubble, it wasn't nearly as dramatic as he made it out to be
But are you going to let a chance to shamelessly touch his face slip from you? Hell no
Somehow you got your hand on a shaving cream and a razor
You've never shaved anyone, let alone a rockstar you've been crushing on for the last couple of weeks, but he couldn't do it himself with his injured hand and he needed your help
You braced yourself against his shoulder with one hand while the other slowly glided with razor against his cheek
Sometimes he closed his eyes like a content cat, especially when you angled his face with your other hand, but most of the time his dark eyes were focused on your face
Once he was finally shaved he ran his fingers against his now smooth cheeks
"Isn't it a thousand times better now?"
He reached out to take your hand and let your fingers touch his cheek as well
Your thumb brushed against his cheekbones and you had to admit it did feel a bit nicer, even though visually you couldn't see that much of a difference
Once you realized how close your faces were, you snatched your hand back from his cheek and he giggled at how much he made you flustered (which earned him a light hearted smack)
Nearing the end of your shift he desperatelly wanted to stay awake with you, he even stole couple sips from your coffee
"Just go to sleep, you need it."
"I'm getting out tomorrow, I won't get to say goodbye to you if I go to sleep now."
Eventually he stayed up until the sun rose, which marked the end of your shift
You spent like five minutes gathering your courage to ask him for a goodbye hug only for him to hug your first
"I hate hospitals, thanks for keeping me company."
Neither of you wanted to pull away, he was taller than you and being hugged by him felt heavenly
The whole hospital began waking up and the two of you were forced to part
Before you fully pulled away he quickly pecked your cheek and you froze
"I owe you. Maybe a private concert once I recover?"
You blinked yourself back to reality. "Y-yeah, maybe."
You were so thrown out of balance it was several hours later you realized you didn't even give him his number or any other way to contact you
"Well, there goes my chance at getting close to him..."
Before you started feeling bad for yourself even more your phone dinged. A follow request on your instagram from an empty account
A few minutes after you hit 'accept' you got a DM: "hey my pretty nurse, it's rodrick. you there?"
Even though you've been up the whole night and were incredibly tired, you were too excited to really fall asleep
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