Summary: You had taken your break after that embarrassingly awkward introduction to Robby in Part 1. This day is turning out to be quite the rollercoaster ride for you. Emotions are running high. One case will arrive, that will test both you and Robby. Will you both ever call truce or jeopardize both your sanity and those of others around you? Who will make their move and will people figure out your shared history?
Author’s note: This is the second part to my series, apologies for the delay. Work and hay fever had gotten the best of me. They aren’t many medical jargons and there might be some medical situations that aren’t correct so please bear with them. I have taken references from THE PITT SEASON 1&2(well obviously!) also form this amazing series “THIS IS GOING TO HURT”-y’all should definitely watch it if you get the time!
Part 3 is definitely the smut all of you have been waiting for. Thank you so much for all the likes on the previous part! It truly means the world to me. Hope you like this part as well. Let me know your thoughts in the comments and feel free to reblog.
Trigger Warning: Signs of ED, DV, assault, passing out, blood, age gap(reader in their mid 20s), cussing. Reader’s discretion is required.
Read : PART 1 ! Part 3 will be out soon!!!
It was getting way too busy, way too quickly, like a gruesome marathon one after the other! Which was amazing for you as Robby wasn’t really coming in contact with you. You mostly tag teamed it with Langdon and then interns on and off, while trying to chart in the middle whenever you could.
Post rehab Langdon was better than pre, that’s what everyone said. You were professional enough not to get caught in Santos and Langdon’s crossfire, but if he did revert to his old shenanigans with Santos, you would go out for vengeance in you own sweet way, even though you knew Santos was fully capable of handling it on her own.
In all of this commotion, your overbearing mum was constantly buzzing your phone, honestly you were on the brink of snapping at her. You got yourself together and texted her.
I’m doing good, how are you doing?
FYI, busy down here will talk to you once I get the chance.
Please STOP texting me, for now.
Love You!
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Finally the thing that you were dreading the most happened - you were going to tag along with ROBBY.
You couldn’t really keep avoiding him forever, honestly that would be short changing your own education.
It was a cord prolapse case! All of you had to move quickly as you could literally see the cord with the arm of the baby hanging out of the patient.
Sometimes cases like this and more makes you wonder whether you would ever want an offspring? Whether motherhood was really for you?
Anyways getting your focus back to the case, the solution was just a very quick crash c-section which you aced, obviously under guidance, that impressed Robby enough to smile at you with a sense of acknowledgment.
“Nice work out there!” Robby said while walking beside you to central bay with that signature smirk and him running his hand on his nape, while he looked at you as he slouched to appear less taller, so as not to intimidate your 5’3 petite curvy frame, but he still looked like a tall glass of wine that would quench you parched soul.
“T-Thank you, Dr Robinavitch!” you said while looking down, so that he doesn’t see the evident blush that was flushed all over your cheeks.
“Dr Robby is just fine! Robinavitch is too much”, he nudgingly said while trying to catch you look at him.
“Ha! Yes Dr Robby”, you finally looked at him and damn, looking at him made you wanna sink in you bed. He looked so hot in that new haircut and that bod.
Luckily! Your poker face game was on point - it helped a lot! but this man was making you quiver in all the right places at the wrong time and location.
“Hey! By the way, sorry for not have a proper conversation with you earlier”, Robby said pulling out his glasses and looking at his computer. Robby continued, “I was baffled honestly and have never been in anything like this before.”
“Same here, never have done this either, I thought… I would never cross your path after that night but that wasn’t meant to be!” You nervously told him while fidgeting with the pen that he had next to him.
“I’m sorry we got off on the wrong foo…”, as you were saying, a loud voice startled you.
“Why did you start off wrong?” A strong, confident and commanding voice interjected you. She was the epitome of “boss bitch”, wearing a burgundy power suit with that perfectly blown out hair as she walked towards you in that banger heels!
“Who’s that?”, McKay asked.
“That’s the new CEO”, Robby replied while greeting her.
“I’m here to see my daughter, apparently I have gotten a very blunt text from her.” She said as she moved towards Robby while you moved away.
“Oh! Your daughter? Is she a patient here?” Robby was literally confused.
“You were talking to her Dr Robby.” she said.
The central bay had McKay, Robby and Santos looking at you dumbfounded and Dana was enjoying every little moment of the whole fiasco that was being played out.
“Sorry for that, I’m fine and need to get back to another case.” You looked at Robby and then your mum, well the CEO while you dreaded saying that.
“Uh, I see. Well! I’ll not keep you away from your case Bambi”, she says while walking towards you and embracing you in a half ass hug with a kiss on your cheek.
At that moment you want to just drown yourself in shame. Guess the cat was finally out of the bag.!
“Anyways, I’ll meet you tomorrow for brunch right? I’ll be in my ivory micro managing tower like Robby says if you would like to talk.”, she said while walking away.
“Cool-Thanks!”, you said embrassingly, while you tried to look at everyone around you.
“Who knew Casper was a Bambi”, Santos chuckled at you as the both of you walked together.
“What the fuck, Dana! You knew? First Javadi and now (insert YOUR NAME)”, Robby said laughing in despair.
“Couldn’t wait to see your face when this happened! Can’t a woman have some fun?” Dana chuckled as she got busy on her computer.
“What have I gotten myself into!” Robby sighed as he looked at you perplexed while you walked away.
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Mel, Santos and you went on to a case that would truly become a roller coaster of emotions for you.
A 30 something woman covered in pashmina shawl that’s completely bloody, comes in with a laceration on her hand with her overbearing and controlling husband. They looked pretty well to do. You weren’t being snobby, just observing them. Mel was talking to the husband and while Santos filled out the chart you were close enough to the patient and you could see the splotchy concealer that she had put on in mere seconds before she could be brought here.
You gestured to Mel that something was wrong and Mel second that thought as Santos was still with them in 11, Mel and you stepped out.
“It’s more than her hand, she black and blue all on her face and neck”, you worryingly said.
“Yeah, we need to separate the husband and get her to talk…” Mel said in agreement.
“Dr King, Dr Langdon wants you trauma 1 it’s urgent!”, a breathless panicky intern said while running towards Mel.
“Oh-okay, I’ll be there in a minute, Santos and you can handle this! Let me know if she speaks or if there’s anything…I mean anything you both need”, Mel quickly rushed to trauma 1.
“How do we get on with this Bambi?”, Santos was worried yet she said it with a weird tone to break the tension.
You were taken aback by the use of your pet name but there were more pressing issues at that time.
“Maybe take her for an X-ray? So we can separate the husband and talk to her?” You reply with a doubtful, worrying tone.
“That’s a start there maybe, and call Kiara then?” She said.
“Yeah let’s get on with it.” You reply with an urgency in your voice.
There’s absolutely nothing you can do to make the man leave his wife’s side. Santos was on the brink of smacking him right to the ground and you were on the verge of an outburst.
Both of you had spent a huge chunk of your time on this case.
Robby has been eyeing you like a hawk. He’s already on his second round and both of you are getting nowhere with the patient.
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You returned to central bay, just to get someone senior to break through this.
“What’s happening with your patient?”, a husky voice almost startles you.
“Oh, yeah. Hand lacerations with probable fracture, headed to X-ray now with Dr Santos.” You replied.
“That’s it? and both of you have been spending all your time on that?”, Robby was slowly losing his temper while he asked you.
“It’s more than that, we think it’s a DV case, unfortunately we aren’t getting anywhere with the patient nor is the husband leaving her side.” You tell him worried.
“Have you spoken to Kiara about it?”, Robby almost standing close to you to understand what is going on with your delayed response to next steps with the patient’s care. It almost felt a tad bit intimidating.
“No, not yet. We thought we could first talk to the patient alone and then get in Kiara.” You were afraid at your stupidity and your pace while you answered Robby.
Robby was slowly on the brink of snapping when a lapse of judgment let you blurt out, “We’ve got this Mike…”
Oh boy! did you play this absolutely wrong? How could this slip out your mouth.? Was it just the acknowledgement that Robby gave you earlier made you lose your mind or was it just that Robby was feeling less like a stranger and you were slowly seeing “Mike” that you knew once that night.
“Don’t fucking call me that.”, Robby said while grinding his teeth.
“I’m really sorry Dr Robby, I really didn’t mean that…” as you were apologizing Robby snapped loudly, “Get the fuck back to picking up more patients. This isn’t your bougie private hospital, where you can take your sweet time on a hunch and spend your whole day on a single patient.
If you can’t do it let someone else do it. Your MOTHER isn’t giving us indispensable resources that we can fuck around.”
Dana, Perlah, Princess were visibly shocked and so were the people around.
Somehow Robby ended up being way meaner than he was before the sabbatical.
He didn’t have to go that low. Was he venting out his regret of knowing you outside the Pitt and he couldn’t come to terms with the fact that you would be working together or was it you calling him Mike that triggered it?
You felt the tears well up in your big almond eyes, which you couldn’t hide even if you wanted to.
You wanted to scream at Robby but you couldn’t he was your attending and the Chief, all you could do was walk away.
“Understood, Dr Robby! Dana could you please tell Kiara to come to trauma 11 once she’s available?” You felt your voice crack as you said this to Dana.
“Yes absolutely”, Dana said worried.
“Are you okay kid, do you need a break or anything.” She whispered as she laid her arm on your shoulder and walked with you few steps, moving you away from Robby actively.
You nodded no, “I’ll be fine! Thank you Dana!”
You walked away quickly while wiping your tears as you tried to stop them rolling down your cheeks.
“What the heck man, get yourself together. I’ve been noticing! You been riding her all day long. Take a break if she’s getting under your skin, well… actually get off your high horse. I’m starting to think you are the problem. She’s been the best R2 she can ever be and you’re snapping off like a hangry kid the whole day.” Dana bashed the living lights out of Robby in the corner near the crash cart.
“I’m sorry I know it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have snapped like that at her.”, Robby with one hand on his nape and the other on his hip said, while agreeing with Dana without putting up a fight.
Robby sprinted to the ambulance bay to get some fresh air.
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“What the heck Bambi, the minute I leave you alone, you create chaos?” Santos whispers to you.
“I’m sorry, I just…”, you replied completely exhausted.
“Hey, chill are you okay?” Santos asks you with concern.
“No! I’m not but let’s not worry about that, are we getting anywhere with the patient?” You said as you moved Santos concern from yourself to the patient.
“Not really, we need Kiara badly!”, Santos sighed.
Both of you found your window, when the guy went for a coffee run and you slowly went up to the patient and started speaking with her.
At first there was absolutely nothing you could get out of her, she was scared and confused that this was happening to her.
Then out of the blue something snapped in her, you couldn’t really comprehend it!
Finally she was trying to break out of her misery and she told you both everything that had happened, how the man of her dreams was just the demon of her nightmares in disguise.
Unfortunately Santos had to step out for her other patient, that was tough but you carried on.
As you were immersed deep into the whole conversation, a loud thud came in out of nowhwere and you knew the worst had just began.
The man literally choked you as you were about to walk away to get help.
“Stop snooping around and get back to your fucking job that our money pays you to do, so we can get the fuck out of this hell hole.” He whispered while tightening his arm around your neck.
When he finished he finally let go of you, almost like he shoved you into the wall.
You couldn’t really go out for help nor could you stay in. You were trying to buy some time and the husband just lashed out, yanking his wife, to get up and leave.
You took your chance and screamed out for Ahmad.
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Next thing you knew, was you were on the floor with Robby, Al and Dana hovering over you.
Ahmad cuffing the husband with Santos next to him, almost about to sucker punch the guy and Kiara consoling the scared and crying patient.
You were ushered into another trauma room so that you could be examined.
You could feel your left cheek throb and bleed, it wasn’t something major but this was the first time you had experience anything like this and it kinda shook you to your core.
For a moment all you could hear was this ringing in your ears and you could see the chaos unfold in front of you.
Robby was examining you while Al was trying to get the whole picture.
Robby was visibly upset by this whole ordeal. He wanted to smack the daylight out of the guy, but in this moment all he wanted, was to be with you and care for you, though for obvious reasons both you and him could agree that, too much of his concern for you would be bad.
Robby was trying his best to treat you like any other resident, God forbid if they found themselves land in this unfortunate situation no more no less.
You too were replying only when you were being spoken to and nothing more.
When Robby said he could handle it from now on, people around you slowly dispersed.
“Rest up, I’ll be back. We need to talk!”, Al worryingly said as she walked away and you nodded at her in agreement.
This left you and Robby alone with each other for some time.
As he caressed his fingers slowly to examine the cut in your cheek bone Robby said, “I’m so sorry this happened to you.”
“Robby…Stop it’s not your fault…”, you said in a mellow tone.
“Nah, it’s my fault I should have done more to take care of you.”
You replied almost pissed, “Thank you for the concern but I don’t need the special treatment. All of us need to feel safe here.”
“I-I get it, I’m sorry for earlier as well, I shouldn’t have snapped. I’ve never been in that situation before.” Robby sighed.
“Me too, Dr Robinavitch! I apologise for addressing you too personally I couldn’t help it, it just slipped out of my stupid mouth, but the reprimand after that was uncalled for.” Boy, were you pissed.
“I completely hear you! We really do need to talk.” Robby said with that face, that almost melted your mind and soul away, but your damn emotions were getting the best of you, it’s like the pent up anger, that your overbearing mother started, Robby talking to you the way he did and this attack crescendoed. The next thing that came out of your mouth made sense, but you could have been teeny tiny nicer while delivering it.
“I say this with all due respect.
Did I know you would be my attending, I would have never, ever in a million years would have crossed that boundary. You were unaware of it, so was I, that night was a mistake!
I would never do anything to jeopardize both our careers. You are my attending and I’m your resident and let’s make this clear, I’m not going anywhere, both you and I need to accept it and move on!”
As you said this with a cracking voice, you never did think that night was a “mistake”, on the contrary it was probably one of the best night that you could ever have.
Your only regret was it couldn’t last forever and it never happened again.
Robby just listened before he said, “It wasn’t a…” when you saw your mum rush to you, while keeping her composure as she didn’t want to look unprofessional.
You hated that she came, but you couldn’t help it, she was your mother after all, you couldn’t imagine how worried she would have been if someone attack their child.
Sometimes, things would have been better if you weren’t working in the same place as her.
“I’ll give you two some privacy.” Robby said unwillingly as he stood up to leave.
“It’s fine Dr Robby, this will be quick and I need to get back to my patients quickly. We are in the middle of my examination mum.” You said, while you move your eyes away from Robby to you mother.
Your mother was pissed but she let it slide, only this time around.
You told your mother what had happened and you were okay, Ahmad and Santos knew all the details as you passed out.
You would be filling up the incident report once all of this is done and when you find the time.
You could see Robby just fixated on you. In that moment all you wanted, was to have the ability to read that man’s mind. Alas that was impossible!
“Please, Come home tonight!” Your mother almost pleaded.
“Thanks mum, I’ll be fine! Santos will definitely wanna crash today at my place after all of this.
Could we do brunch instead tomorrow, like you said earlier?”, you said while smiling even if it meant that you cheek was numb and you couldn’t really but you wanted to assure you mum that you were okay.
“Uh-fine, but I’ll be checking in on you, so don’t get pissed if I spam you.” Your mum hugged you as she said while kissing you on your forehead.
“Yes mum!”, you replied.
“Thank you Dr Robinavitch for taking care of her and don’t keep her up too late.” She said while she shook his hand. You were stunned as your dirty mind went to innuendo.
“And one more thing, for the love of God hire more staff and security”, you said loudly.
You rocked, while your mum was shocked as both Gloria and her made it feel like pleading to deaf ears when it came to talking about hiring more staff and security.
Robby and you chuckled as this was some sort of relief in this situation.
Robby continued with his exam. All you did was embrace this moment and just look at him. After he was finished, he stood up and took off his glove.
“Rest up for a while and join us back.” Robby said while he slouched as he ran his finger over your cut, to your lips and finally to your chin. It felt like he wanted to do that for a while.
“O-okay.” You said as you gulped while you stared into his brown eyes and out of breath.
Robby smiled and left, leaving you all alone wondering what just happened and trying to get your breath back.
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You were sitting in the central bay, close to Dana so she could keep an eye on you under Robby’s specific instructions.
Everyone was checking in on you as they could find the time, even the surgeons did as they came down to the Pitt.
Dr Shamsi was checking in on you and hugging you by her side as she spoke to Al about the incident.
Honestly that was bound to happen as she was your Godmother but it was getting a bit too much of spotlight on you. Victoria seeing this made a straight beeline to the opposite direction to avoid her mother, but Eileen caught up with her.
Word travels fast in the Pitt.
“How you feeling Nepo baby? I need the deets later, some of us have shifts to finish.”, that was Garcia’s way on checking in on you, as she walked away to Trauma 1 while Santos came and sat next to you looking pissed.
“Yeah will do!”, you replied as you gestured OKAY at Garcia.
Santos and Garcia were going through a rough patch after the whole conversation about Garcia wanting to just have a good fuck and nothing more to do with the emotional stuff.
Santos was either chilling with Mel, Javadi, Whitaker and you whenever she could or she would crash at your place to spend time with you, rather than being alone at her place when Whitaker was at Amy’s.
She seemed sad when Whitaker started spending more time with Amy nowadays. She compensated for that by being extremely, borderline sarcastic.
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Finally both you and Al headed to the family room to finally talk.
Al- “How are you doing?”
You- “I’m fine Dr Al. Thank you for asking, means a lot.”
Al- “Please that’s my job, I’m glad you’re fine. Have you filled out the incident form?”
You- “Yup, already done that! Spoke to Kiara, lawyers and the police, they’ve have taken my statement and are ready to press charges.
Apart from all of this how’s Mrs Brown.?”
Al- “Mrs Brown - Claire has been shifted upstairs for observation. She has spoken to Kiara and we are completing all the formalities and treating her. She’s in capable hands.”
You- “That’s good to hear. If it’s fine, I would like to meet her before I leave for the day.
Oh - and I almost forgot! I spoke to Dr Caleb and we’ll have another session next week or so.”
Al- “I’m impressed you been on top of everything. Still if there’s anything or you want to talk about anything I’m all ears!”
You- “Thank you Dr Al!”
Al- “So as we’ve gotten this sorted, let’s talk about the elephant in the room - What was that with Dr Robby, he shouldn’t have behaved the way he did earlier before the incident.”
You- “U-uh that was completely my fault, I wanted to tread carefully with Claire, but it was leading to nowhere and radiation was busy - they were taking their time to take her up so I ended up spending more time with her than picking up patients, or calling Kiara and get things moving. It was unprofessional on my part, I’ll be extremely cautious next time around and I would like to apologise to you for that as well.”
Al- “You don’t need to apologize for caring about your patients. The way Dr Robby gave you his opinion was uncalled for.”
You- “Dr Al, Dr Robby apologised and agreed it was uncalled for. With all due respect, today was overwhelming for Dr Robby and at that moment after a hard case it just cracked. We had a conversation about it some time back.”
Al- “Oh! Y-yeah he did apologize for it? I still don’t agree with the way he teaches, but I guess, he’s not going to change anytime soon.”
You- “Before we go, there’s one thing I would like to ask you.”
Al- “Yes, go on.”
You- “I really want to see few patients before I leave. I know Dr Whitaker and Dr Mel have taken up my patients, but I’m done with people checking on me and giving me the special treatment, I’m feeling uncomfortable with that.”
Al- “Absoultely! But don’t push it. Wrap it up soon and head home! Get some rest.”
You- “Roger that!”
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You picked up more patients -small cases, nothing serious and completed your charting. All you had to do was meet Claire and head home.
As you were packing your stuff you made small conversations with people around you.
“Hey! Can I crash at your place today?”, Vic asked completely exhausted, while emerging out of nowhere.
“Definitely! You don’t need to ask me. You can crash any time you want.” You said enthusiastically.
“Thanks, I really don’t want to listen to my mother or your mother telling me to select surgery because what happened with you today! I love her and I know she cares for me but I need a break from that broken record conversation, plus I have a day off tomorrow and really want to sleep the whole day.” Vic sighed in relief.
“I know I have been a part of that conversation, My mum and Eileen are disappointed in me, that I’m in ER. I just told my mum I’ll not be in ER forever I know what I’m doing. I’m a grown woman, so I asked her politely to please back off.” You were proud of yourself while you said that.
“Yaasss queen! clock your mom.” Vic chuckled.
“I skipped my mum’s invite to come home today, I too wanna sleep in tomorrow! By the way my brother is definitely coming tomorrow after the conversation we had on the phone when my mum filled him in.” You said as you packed your bags.
“That’s cool! It’s been a while since I met him.” Vic beamed.
“What’s cool?” Santos emerged out of nowhere.
“Victoria is crashing at my place today.” You said.
“Let’s gooooo Crash, Girls night in! BTW I’m off duty tomorrow.”, Santos beamed.
“Damn! I wasn’t expecting that.” You said
“Ain’t leaving you alone Bambi, I figured I had few holidays left might as well cash in one tomorrow.” Santos looked at you while she said it.
You were feeling really grateful for being around people who were there for you!
“I just have to meet my patient and I’ll meet you guys out front.?” You asked them.
“Done! Crash let’s go. Bambi we are waiting for you!”
“Y-yeah,c-come quickly!”, Victoria neverously laughed as you made your way upstairs while leaving her with Santos.
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As you were making your way to the elevator after meeting Claire, you spotted Robby! Your heart was pounding out of your chest, given what had taken place earlier.
“Going up or down?”, you asked as you stood beside him.
“Hey! Down. What about you?”, Robby with his hands in his pockets smiled and asked.
“Down as well!”, You said as you felt the cut in you cheeks.
“I’m sorry for snapping earlier, you didn’t really deserve it.” Robby was really sorry and ashamed that he vented out on you.
“Dr Robby! Please I’m sorry too, I was rude to you in the trauma room. Can we just have a truce? Water under the bridge. I know today was overwhelming for the both of us, we never thought we would cross paths again, especially in the Pitt.” You said as you cracked your neck.
Robby saw that and choose to ignore it. You knew, you did that on purpose so that he could see it.
“Done, Truce! So how’s that cheek of yours?” Robby said as he ushered you to get in the elevator while keeping his hand on your back.
You like it. It almost made you smile and you replied, “I think it’s fine and thank you for taking care of it.”
“That my job, you know. I’m a doctor you see.” Robby was being sassy while pressing the button. You laughed as that dimple on your left cheek deepened and you quickly turned the other way as that pain in your cheeks almost killed you.
Composing yourself you asked, while you subconsciously biting your lip - “So when are you heading home.”
“Probably in a while, just need to take care of some stuff, what about you?” Robby asked as he scratched his beard.
“Right now”, you said as the elevator open to the Pitt.
“Okay. Hey! You did good today, in spite of whatever happened.
Can’t wait to see what more you have in store.” Robby said while wanting to hug you, but resorted to give you a fist bump instead.
“Likewise”, you one upped him as you fist bumped him.
Robby just got played and laughed a big laugh.
“What’s up my man”, Abbot said while he hugged Robby.
“There’s that cheek everyone one is talking about.” Abbot teasing you.
“Ha-ha-ha, yeah right.” You said sarcastically.
“So when you joining the dark side?” Abbot prodded as he slouched over the desk.
“Ask me next week, Dr Abbot!”, you said as you took your bag to leave.
“It’s cool, take your time! I’ll be here for eternity, right Robby?”, Abbot chuckled.
Robby laughed as he nodded his head at Abbot’s humorous trash talk.
“Good night Dr Robby. Good night Dr Abbot.” You said as you were leaving.
Both of then in unison wished you and that’s that!
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Victoria had literally “crashed” after dinner. Poor thing was exhausted today to the bone.
You were weird that way. The more you were exhausted, the difficult it was for you to sleep.
So Santos and you did the next best thing that you both knew, watch Love is Blind - the Brazilian one as that was the most unhinged version, hands down! while you both ate from a tub of Hagen-Daas.
Santos was kinda of keeping an eye and checking in on you as she didn’t want you to eat your feelings after today’s shift - that had tested you in every way possible, but you were good for now.
Then all of a sudden out of nowhere you phone buzzed. Santos was lying on a pillow on your lap while, you crossed your leg on your couch. You reached out for your phone.
When you saw the message, that moment you counted your blessing even though you were really the agnostic kind.
Thank God for Santos was not on the opposite side of the couch.
Thank God for Santos was half asleep and wasn’t really attentive and Thank God for that giant ass hoodie that you were wearing so you could chew in on that drawstring and hide your face while you anticipated what would happen next.
It was ROBBY who was texting you and checking in on you.
R: “Hey this is Robby! Hope I’m not disturbing you.”
Y: “Hey Dr Robby thank you for checking in on me. How’s your night going so far?”
R: “So far it’s just been surfing through, making up my mind on what to watch in bed. What about you?”
(Holy shit was Robby giving you hints.? LIP BITE!!! Or are you just overthinking it.?)
Y: “I’m watching Love is Blind while eating ice cream with a Non-REMed(deep sleeper)Santos on my lap.
(Fuck, Fuck, Fuck that was Borderline TMI!!!!!)
R: “LOL.
(Was Robby embarrassed at your stupidity? Or were you going completely crazy and ready to shoot you shot and embarrass yourself even more.)
Y: “You can totally say no if you want to. Do you want to watch Love is Blind together? It makes up for quite the drama and cringe.”
(What have you just done! He’s your attending for Christ Sake. This is bad, this is really bad. You stuff your face with ice cream as you wait for his reply, glued to your phone, where seconds feel like long minutes. You can see Robby typing, then pausing, then typing.
God this man is killing you slowly. If Santos wakes up and finds you texting your chief attending, boy were you doomed.)
R: “YES! Which season and version are we watching tonight?”
Oh no!!!
What just happened. Robby is making his move, and with every move you are melting. Why isn’t your brain stopping it? Why is he doing this? Why are you enjoying it?
Are you falling for the one, who could break your heart???
Summary: You’ve been working at PTMC for a month now. You’re Dr Al-Hashimi’s golden R2! While you had your ups and downs. A magical night that you had a while back would finally catch up with you turning this day to the hardest shift ever, when a new face for you but a familiar face to them would arrive early from their sabbatical.
Author’s note: I’m thinking of making it a series. I’ve left out the medical stuff as I got carried away with setting the backdrop of the series, for which I sincerely apologize. I’ll make them short next time. Hope you liked reading it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments and feel free to reblog.
Al-Hashimi, Dana, McKay and Santos are featured heavily in this.
Trigger Warning: Signs of ED, panic attacks, age gap(reader in their mid 20s), cussing. Reader’s discretion is required.
Read Part 2 . Out now!!!
It’s was crisp winter Friday morning as you walk to work. You are a R2 at the ED of PTMC and you love it.
The highs and the lows, the chaos and the calm. It’s a chilly day in spite of the sun shinning bright in the sky, you love this weather maybe it’s the juxtapose of the cold and warm feeling or you were wired like that. While blasting your ears with “Highway to Hell”, you were really giddy and thinking about your workplace. You thought it was the weather that lifted your spirits, it dawned you then it was also the fact you had your day off after pulling a few day and night shifts in your first month.
You couldn’t help but think the “Night Crawlers” were less chaotic than the day shifts who you were a part off! Though you were dark and mysterious, a good girl ready to join the dark side, you were hardly any trouble. Maybe it’s the pressure of not screwing up and the unrealistic expectations your mum laid on your shoulder made you resilient, responsible and fucking good at your job but you felt like an imposter even though you know that you loved your job and were pretty good at it.
Dr Al-Hashimi was your attending and she had become your mentor sub-consciously. You would be lying to yourself if you denied that you didn’t have a crush on that calm boss bitch. She was an ocean of knowledge, empathy and professionalism that you want to impress and soak up like a sponge.
You were quickly adopted by Dr Santos, Dr Whitaker and Dr Mel on your first shift like a big eye puppy that was lost but was somehow keeping it together. You never understood why people were scared of Santos, she’s the epitome of looks like it can kill you, but is a cinnamon roll.
Dr Langdon was your bro dude at this point which Santos didn’t seem to like but couldn’t care less as she wanted to steer far away from Langdon as much as possible and Langdon did the same. Santos would always switch her cases with you when Langdon was involved, it worked well for both of them but you didn’t know how long they could keep up with these shenanigans. Anyways he was happy to take your help and work with Mel.
Dr McKay was someone who you hadn’t interacted the most but made it a mission to assist her on cases more often, Dr Javadi was basically family(your mum and Dr Shamsi are besties, let’s unpack that later).
The nurses as usual were dope as fuck and you like them and had a good rapport.
Night shift was amazing as well, you mean this is what you could do in a month.
Your ADHD brain could only keep up with you this far as you reach your workplace, in a good mood and with radical optimism, which Dana clocked in a mile away while you walked greeting everyone on you way to the central Bay Area.
“Someone’s feisty today”, she said as she checked out your boxer braids. “Good morning Dana! You too”, you were scared but you shot your shot anyways.
“I am, Robby’s back!”, she said excitedly while checking her computer.
You were so caught up in your own world that you lowkey didn’t realize that the Chief Attending was back and you were basically working in his Pitt. He was early, like 72hrs early, I guess that was Robby.
He was even early to the shift, maybe it was because he was catching up with Gloria about how his ED worked in his absence and more departmental stuff. As you were looking at your phone and reading the overbearing and instructive texts your mum was sending you, while nodding to Dana telling, “ Kid! You haven’t meet Robby yet, so whenever he’s down at the ED meet him. He might come later as he’s busy today with Gloria in meetings and getting debriefs. I know you’re one of the best residents but try and make a good impression!”.
You understood what Dana had to tell but Robby was a myth to you. You couldn’t seem to comprehend the sheer magnitude of Robby’s presence, maybe you were new or it was the lack of IRL interaction that you were void of that made him just your chief attending Dr Michael Robby Robinavitch, whom you want to impress because he was the boss.
Dana was a mama bear through and through, she would fiercely protect you at the same time wouldn’t give 2 fucks to rip into you if you were wrong. “These Gen-Zs can’t seem to get their heads out of their phones”, she said angry and pissed while being whisked by Princess to triage. “S-sorry Dana! I heard you loud and clear! Will let you know when I meet Dr Robbinavitch”, you frantically said while you turned your phone to silent and unpacking the essentials from your bag as you prepared to head to the locker and log in.
While you were logging in, you heard a calm slurping voice over your shoulder, “ Sup! You coming or not?” You were scared the shit out and turn around to see it was Dr Shen, the nonchalant, calm and collective night shift attending that you vibed with. You could definitely learn a thing or two from the king of unbothered energy himself on how not suppressing your emotions and later express your pent up emotions in an unhealthy way like your therapist warned you. “S-shit,s-sorry you scared me there! Coming now!”, you said and Shen started laughing and walking with you. He offered you coffee and you took a sip. Damn! That man’s coffee looks strong but it was not as strong as you like it. It was way sugary for a gal that doesn’t take her coffee with sugar, but you were grateful for the offer.
You saw the gang with Dr Al and Dr Ellis, who you had gone out drinking with a few times now. You looked up to her, that quintessential out of fucks to give energy and the way she worked on the cases was something you wanted to master one day.
“Woah! is it me or the entire day shift woke up on the right side of the bed? Everyone’s happy! I guess we’re still waiting to meet Robby.”, As soon as Shen blurted this out every one in unison side eyed him. Mel just shouted, “YOU JINXED IT” and then slouched in dejection.
Al and Ellis stared him down, so did you and Santos. “S-Sorry!”, Shen said and we got right down to the handover.
You were finally going to assist McKay today and you both were going to start with triage. McKay hadn’t been to the triage for a while now and you were more than happy to tag along. Before you could begin, Dr Al took you to the side. “ How are we doing today? You good?”, she asked. It was Al’s way of checking in with her residents but today was your lucky day. “I’m good Dr Al, thank you for asking”, you smiled and said.
She continued, “Well I guess you didn’t get the chance to meet Dr Robinavitch yet!”, you panicked for no reason and thought you just gave the impression to you attending and your chief attending that you showed up late “N-no not yet, sorry I missed him…”
Al stopped you right there and assured you, “Hey it’s fine! He showed up early. He’s going to be slumped today. I haven’t met him yet. The night shift met him and a few day shift while coming on their way. I guess we’ll meet him in a while. I’ll call you when he comes.” You could clearly see the poker face she was putting up. Al and Robby were not on good terms since their disagreement before he left but were cordially professional. Santos was the one who spilled the tea on them, when she finally met her match in you. She had no idea looking at you that you’re the OG of spilling tea. You did it very discreetly and your incognito ways made it hard for people to think that you were the incarnation of Pheme (Greek Goddess of gossip lmao). That’s what got you both to break the ice and kinda be thick as thieves.
You didn’t want to overstep or be prejudiced against Robby by hearsay but you didn’t give a damn and asked Al, “W-will you be okay?”. Al smiled and took a sigh, “Yes! I’ll be okay!”.
“Now get going to triage”, she smirked and commanded and you sprinted to triage.
It was calm and slow, almost like the calm before a storm but you erased that thought completely as you didn’t want to jinx it. McKay was a total zen baddie! You both were seeing patients and in between striking up small conversations. “Hey, I’m glad we could finally work together!”, she smiled and said, you quickly responded “Me too!”, she continued, “so a month down, how do you feel working in the Pitt?”. You while playing with your braids replied, “it’s been great so far, both the ebbs and flows of day and night shifts.” She laughed, “Yeah I can understand, hang in there, R2 can be difficult. Do let me know if you need my help I’m all ears”. you felt nice that someone was checking in on you and not dumping their expectation and preconceived notions on you. “Yes ma’am will do and thank you for that”, you said.
While you were going to move on to your next patients, Perlah out of nowhere appeared and asked the both of you, “once you’re done with your current patient Dr Al has asked you to come to the central bay. Dr Robby wants to meet you!”, she said that while specifically pointing at you. “O-okay Perlah, will do. T-thanks”, you stuttered.
McKay sensing the panic in your voice teasingly said, “Oh yeah! You haven’t met Robby yet. You nervous?” She asked.
“Y-yeah a tad bit”, you faked your broken smile and replied.
“Robby’s chill. Can he be a jerk sometimes-100% but he’s nice, whatever I learnt, I did it from him, plus you’re Dr Al’s golden R2, everyone knows that. Just be your self and learn as much as you can from him whenever you can.” Reassuring you while she hugged you sideways and you lifted your head that was fixated on the floor and with a red face thanked her.
The time came to finally meet your chief attending, you were walking with Mackay taking big steps, as soon as you could see the Bay Area from far you slowed down and you don’t know why. Robby was slouching over Dana’s desk while she was sitting and Al standing next to her putting a hand over her hips and faking her smile, she was cordial with Robby. They soon had to work things out else it would be a problem when two attending on the day shift aren’t getting along.
Thinking about it you sighed “What a nightmare.” You were shocked at yourself for saying that and thank your counting stars that you didn’t blurt it out loud or while McKay was around. McKay was ecstatic to met Robby and she was glad he was back from his sabbatical, who wouldn’t be to meet their sort of mentor. As it was less of a crowd around Robby, you figured the remaining gang had already met him and started seeing their patients.
When Dana stood up to check something while talking to Donnie, Robby straightened himself. Damn, that man was tall as hell, he was taller for you as you were only 5’3 while he was close to 6’1. Robby was in between buff and chiseled and you liked it which made it easy for you guessed he had been working out as he looked, well let’s put it this way shall we, “Well Defined”. He was broad too, it was like he could engulf you completely while he spooned you. Looking at his big arms you started to wonder, how it would feel to be choked by him. You weren’t into too muscular guys nor were you into too fluffy guys, he was just the kinda guy you liked.
You couldn’t stop the butterflies in your stomach and maybe the shivers chilling down your whole body.
This thought was quickly shattered and you were yanked into reality when Al waved at you and signaling you to come quick.
You half waved at her confused and embarrassed about getting turned on by your chief attending’s figure while he was turned away from you.
You were so embarrassed and shocked by you own stupidity in this situation, you just kept your head down and tried to think about something or anything other than Robby.
You came close to Al towards Robby’s left.
“Dr Robinavitch, there’s someone I would like you to meet!” Robby turned and when he did, your red face turned pale in an instant. It felt like someone had taken your soul away and you wanted to run and hide under the biggest quilt in the world you could ever find. You were holding on to your dear life, Al’s voice was almost inaudible to you, you managed to pull yourself and shake his hand, that big fucking hand and introduce yourself. It was fake it until you make it. You could fly or fight.
Robby was extremely good with his poker face as he was smiling at the same time, while masking his utter shock by looking at either Dana or Al.
“ Heard a lot about you, hope you deliver. Looking forward to working with you”, he said titling his head and with that smile that creates those cute wrinkles around his eyes, the ones that could just melt you.
“Will not disappoint you Dr Robinavitch”, you say with those dark big eyes pale skin of yours, letting go of his hand while looking into his deep eyes.
He excuses himself and walks away as he has another meeting to attend.
You see him sprint away with his head down and his hand landing on his nape and just wondering to what just happened.
“Jeez kid, you look like you saw the devil”, Dana says with a laugh while looking at Robby and then at you.
“U-umm, I skipped breakfast today” you say breaking away from the trance that Robby had put you, turning to Dana while you take your long braid forward as you don’t have your loose hair to tucked behind your ear and fidget with to calm you down from the avalanche of revelation that just hit you.
“Grab a protein bar from the cafe and fetch me in 10”, Al said while she was looking at everything that took place, she couldn’t really talk to you as she was being called for an emergency.
You acknowledge it and look at Dana who smiles teasingly yet she cares for you. Princess and Perlah witness the whole thing and looking at their astounding faces that smiled at you.
“Kids!” Dana smirked and broke into a small laughter that Princess and Perlah joined in.
You couldn’t care less about what they were talking, you literally did your best sprint to the cafe, it felt like your heart would beat out of your chest into your hand. You saw Santos and Mel on your way but you just smiled and left.
Finally, after what left like eternity walking you reached the cafe, you just took water and gulped it down as fast as you can. You found the protein bar, luckily it was your favourite chocolate flavour but you couldn’t care less.
You looked like a feral wolf tearing the bar out of the packet and munching on it.
You were really spiraling, it was like feeling spaghetti-fed by a black hole. Your mind wandered to the fact that Princess and Perlah witness it all and now this might as well be witnessed by the whole ED as they like to chatter.
You tried breathing and as you did you saw that you had munched down 3 bars.
This was bad, really bad and you knew it had to stop but you couldn’t stop.
You knew that what you did a month back was totally wrong, you just jeopardised your career. You saw Santos peaking through the door and that’s when you started calming down. The presence of Santos helped you anchor yourself. It felt nice like really nice that someone whom you met just a month ago cared for you.
“Sup Casper, how you doing?”, she laughed while handing you water.
“Casper really?”, you frowned at her with that pouty face that comes naturally to you when you’re irritated, which Santos finds annoyingly cute. Both of you burst into laughter. “You fine?”, she asks with genuine concern as she knows your were spirally down with protein bars.
“Yes! Thank you for checking on me. I’m just gonna sit here for a while, if that’s fine?”, you calmly reply.
“Yeah totally, I’m doing the same Casper, I’ll just scroll for a while and then we head out to our central bay of sadness?” She asks you reassuringly.
“Y-yup sounds good to me”,you smile softly and are glad you are not alone.
As silence returns when Santos is going through quick doom scrolling sesh. You finally accept the truth while fidgeting with the protein bar wrappers.
A fleeting night that occurred a month back, which maybe just maybe was the best and most magical night that you wished lasted forever. When it finally sunk in.
Oh no!
To them he was Dr Robby, but to you he was just Mike…
About me: I’m Yen(took this name after my fav character Yennifer from the Witcher series) 26, chronically online, love reading fanfics! So I thought maybe it’s time to dabble into writing one as I’m a corporate baddie suffering from a burnout, hence I wanted to get back to writing like I used to do in uni.
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