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Itâs another day in the pitt for Jack. Back to back traumas, patient complaints, chaos and much more.
So when there was down time, people often used the lulls to not only catch up on other tasks but also gossip.
Todaysâ topic and usually a topic brought up every day was that of love lives.
It was one that Jack didnât participate in or even indulge in listening to.
It hurt to hear how others had people in their lives to love, be around, or go home to and he didnât.
He used to but not anymore.
The staff knew Jack had a great love of his life and that now he didnât.
No one knew who she was except Robby.
No one knew if she had been his fling, girlfriend, or wife.
Or if she was even alive.
They just knew to not bring it up.
â--
Itâs halfway through his shift when Jack makes his way towards the nurseâs station. His nose is buried in a chart examining information when he hears a familiar voice.
âHi, I need help looking for someone.â
He feels like he canât breathe.
It canât be you.
It canât.
âCan I get a name for this person?â Dana asks
He holds his breath.
âJack. Jack Abbot. Iâm not sure if he still works here but I thought I'd try.â
Youâre here for him?
But why?
He had ruined things.
He broke your heart.
Heâs gotta find Robby and tell him youâre here but before he can sneak away he's stopped by one word.
His mind is racing over the fact heâs hurting you by not getting help. By letting his unresolved trauma fester until it explodes with you in the crossfire.
It cant keep going on like this.
He canât keep seeing you cry and watch your heart break over him.
What heâs going to do next is going to break you both but he canât let his words and actions continue to hurt you.
You look at him âđđ˘đŻâđľ đĽđ° đ¸đŠđ˘đľ?â
He looks up as he gears up to say it.
âđđŠđŞđ´.â he says as he point back and forth between you two.
You shake your head âđđ°. đđ˘đ¤đŹ, đŻđ°. đđđŚđ˘đ´đŚ đĽ-đĽđ°đŻâđľ. đđ°đŻâđľ đĽđ° đľđŠđŞđ´ đ.â
You step forward to grab his hand but he takes a step back.
He still looks the same as he did the last night you saw him. Soft eyes, grey curls, some stubble on his face, and just as handsome as ever.
âHey.âÂ
Itâs all you can get out.
You didnât know if he even worked here anymore. You were going to check and then keep trying elsewhere, hoping he hadnât left Pittsburgh. Let alone the state .
Heâs still staring at you in shock.
âSweetheartâŚâ he softly mutters
The endearment grips your heart.
You hadnât heard his voice in so long.
âC-Can we talk?â you ask with hesitancy but hope.
He nods as he moves forward and places a hand on the small of your back and leads you to an empty room.
Jack hopes you donât feel the tremble of his hand that guiding you.
He remembers the last time he ever saw you. He remembers that emotionally charged night. The one where he broke your heart.
After he left that night he crashed at Robbyâs place and only went back to the apartment when he knew for sure you had moved out.
It took a about a year before he decided to try therapy. Thank god he did because things started feeling a little better and he was finally able to start processing his emotions and trauma.
He quickly realized you had only suggested this to help him and not make him feel inferior. That you loved him enough to bring it up.
And what did he do? He pushed you away.Â
The love of his life.
Jack never got over you. He regretted breaking off the engagement but was too ashamed to contact you.
So he waited.
After two years of therapy, two years of doing the work to take care of himself, he vowed that if he ever saw you again heâd get you back.
There wasnât anyone else for him but you.
ââ-
He swallows hard as he pulls the curtain shut behind him.
Youâre here.
Still the most gorgeous woman heâs ever seen. Even more gorgeous than that night if it was even possible.
He watches as you stand a few feet from him, wringing your fingers in your hands.
You always did that when you were nervous.
âYou look good J.â you say with a small smileÂ
He shakes his head lightly, hands in his pockets.
âYouâre still gorgeous as ever, sweetheart.â
Thereâs a few moments of silence before he speaks again.
âIâve missed you...â his voice breaks a little at the end.
âI missed you too Jack. So much.â
He takes a step closer.
âWhat are you doing here? I know I overheard you tell Dana you were looking for me.â
He watches you swallow hard.
âI uh, this might seem a little too late or dumb or⌠I donât know. But Jack, I still love you.â
His heart feels like it skips a beat.
You love him? Still?
You donât hate him for that night?
This was the opportunity he had waited years to have.
âY-You do?â he asks nervouslyÂ
Your head nods as you take a step forward and you grab one of his hands.
You pull your necklace from under you shirt and his eyes immediately see it.
Itâs the engagement ring he gave you.
He immediately starts tearing up.
âI didnât understand what you were going through. I know Iâll never truly know but I see that I didnât handle things the right way back then. But I found people,â
You take a pause.
âPeople who could relate. To you and to me. They listened and they helped me learn how to be there for you.â
Jackâs heart races as he listens, trying to hold the tears back.
God he didnât deserve you.
âI wanted to be ready to be there for you better before I found you again. Iâm sorry it took so long.â
You look down and wring your hands again.
âI understand if itâs too late. I donât know if you even have someone elââ
âNo.â he interrupts you âThereâs no one else. Thereâs no replacing you.â
Your heart beats faster at his words.
âI went to therapy.â he starts
âYou were right. Itâs what I needed and I was too angry to see it then. I wish I had seen it earlier . Saved us all of this. But Iâve been doing the work. I wanted to do better, be better if I ever got the chance to see you again. If thatâs an option...â
Your hands gently hold the sides of his face.
âJack Abbot, thereâs never been anyone else for me. Never will be.â
A tear falls down his cheek as he leans closeÂ
His lip trembles as he gathers the words.
âCan you forgive me, sweetheart?â he whispers through tears.
âWill you still marry me?â
A few tears fall from your eyes as you let out a small laugh âYes and yes but no take backs, Abbot.â
That one pulls a full smile from him
âYeah, no take backs sweetheart.â
You lean in and kiss him hard. When you pull apart, a breath away, he hears you whisper
summary: as the âweird morgue girlâ, you werenât the most popular in the hospital. when you made a misunderstood joke, jack finally had enough. when he tried to know you, you only thought he wanted to make up for what happened but that was far from his true feelings.
content: hurt/comfort, age gap, she falls first but he falls harder, age gap, slow burn, praise, no use of y/n, miscommunication, angst, work romance, workplace betting, probably medical inaccuracies, night shift crew and a little of day shift crew
word count: 7.5k
playlist (spotify): Speaking to The Dead
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Working night shifts in a morgue was a pretty strange job, but you loved it. You never thought it was weird to give dead people a nice goodbye. In fact, you thought it was the respectful thing to do. Being gentle with them when the illness was rough seemed like the greatest way to prepare them for the afterlife.
As you stored Mr Hutsonâs body, you made conversation with the pretty quiet guy.
âNot a big talker, huh?â
You took a deeper voice as you answered for him.
âYeah, got pretty silent after my heart stopped beating.â
âI get it. Sorry, itâs a little cold down there.â
âOh, donât worry about it, sweetheart,â you replied to yourself.
âYouâre welcome, Mr Hutson! Let me just place this name tag-â
âSorry to interrupt,â Lena apologized as she entered the morgue.
âYouâre not! Or are you?â You joked, making her form a small smile before she rolled a body in the room.
âI got another body. The heatwaves are the worst killers right now.â
âThen arrest them!â You laughed. Alone.
ââŚOkay.â
âNot a good joke, I presume.â
âNot your best, honey,â she reacted.
You nodded and stayed silent. She was probably waiting for you to continue talking because she didnât utter a word. An uncomfortable silence filled the room as you ran your fingers through the deceased personâs hair.
âFemale, sixty-two. Pronounced dead at 3:41.â
âWhatâs her name?â You asked as you placed her hair to look a little more kept.
âCaroline Hughes. Hard deathâŚâ
âWell⌠At least sheâs not paying taxes anymore!â
The ER nurse looked at you without adding anything else. This stare was enough to make you realize that it wasnât the right time to say that, apparently.
âIt sounded funnier in my head⌠SorryâŚâ
âIâll go back.â
âOkay, see you!â
As the door closed and you were the only living person in the room, you turned to Mrs Hughes.
âWas that this terrible of a joke?â
This time, you used a higher pitch to mimic her voice.
âYes.â
âIâm just trying to make her like me a little,â you explained as you started the usual routine you had with the bodies.
âShe will!â
âI hope soâŚâ
You eventually gathered a pile of documents that needed to be signed by an ER attending physician after receiving a death in the morgue. It made you smile to think about seeing him. Jack Abbot has been your work crush since forever. That pile of work meant having an interaction with him. It was something you never missed. He was kind and gentle with patients. Plus, he wasnât awkward, which is pretty good when youâre dealing with alive ones.
You walked to his department while humming a song. You smiled at your coworkers without much success and spotted him in trauma 1.
You knew that it was way more important than your boring papers, so you waited while looking at him. He was able to control the room like a professional.
You waited for a moment. The case was long and complicated, so you just stared at him.
âWhat are you doing here?â Mateo asked as he went from one room to the other.
âI need Dr Abbotâs signature.â
âHeâll get to you,â he simply answered as he left.
âNo rush, my patients arenât the impatient kinds!â
He faked a polite laugh and left.
You waited for a long time without a complaint. Suddenly, he left the room with a sigh. It was a long one, but the patient was alive.
âHey, Dr Abbot, just needed you to sign this!â You started, with a little too much energy to your tone.
He nodded and signed it without much thought.
As you held the clipboard with the documents, you couldnât help but make conversation. Itâs been a while since you talked to him.
âSo⌠Busy?â
He silently looked at you. Heâd normally have a cocky answer to stuff like that, but his mind wasnât really present after the trauma bay.
âActually, donât answer that! It was the dumbest question I couldâve asked.â
âYeah, well, itâs been a night. And itâs not ended yet.â
âIâve gathered⌠Because you know⌠The people here.â
He nodded and looked at the TV. It shouldâve been your cue to leave, but you had some sort of invisible force that kept you there.
âI didnât mean to be sarcastic. It sounded a little sarcastic.â
âI didnât think you were.â
âOh?â
What did it mean? Did he lie to make you feel better? Maybe that you truly didnât sound sarcastic.
The silence made you go crazy, so you continued.
âThanks for the signature.â
âDonât sweat it,â he awkwardly smiled as you left.
Once you were out of sight, Henderson came with a tablet to present a case.
âWhat do you got?â
â17-year-old male, found unresponsive in a closed bedroom, no ventilation or AC. Prolonged heat exposure suspected.â
âWhere is he?â
âSouth 2, resus bay.â
They quickly walked toward the room and began the process of resuscitation for forty five minutes. Jack hated to see young patients go. It was unfair that they had to die at such a young age.
He had his whole life ahead of himâŚ
As he left the room with sweat covering all of his body, he took the red phone to call the family. It was important to do it himself. He owed them that.
âI know this is really hard⌠Weâll take care of everything on our end,â he reassured in a gentle tone.
After the call, he just needed to take a break. One little break to ground himself.
He was safe, he was competent, and he did everything he could.
He was safe, he was competent, and he did everything he could.
He was safe, he was competent, and he did everything he could.
As he sat down with this mantra in his head, you came back. This time, however, it wasnât to talk to him but to the charge nurse.
âHi, itâs me again! I was just wondering if we kept Mrs Hughesâs wedding ring on. You forgot to mention it, and I forgot to ask.â
âOh, right. You keep it on.â
âAre you okay? You look exhausted!â
âTonight was rough.â
âOh⌠At least I know I have job security,â you kidded to relieve some tension from her shoulders.
Lena let out a small chuckle that made you feel proud.
Jack heard you say that. Job security? People were dying, and you joked about it?
He approached you, and Lena wasted no time going back to charting as he started talking.
âYou think thatâs funny?â He inquired with his arms behind his back in fake confidence.
âWhat?â You asked, not understanding that he referenced your encounter with the nurse. âOh, with Lena?â
âDo you ever stop the jokes?â
âIt wasnât-â
âI lost a kid tonight. Stop with your fucking jokes every time someone dies.â He dryly ordered.
âI wasnât making fun of-â you tried to defend, but he didnât care and cut you off.
âThen act like it.â
ââŚOkay.â
Itâs not like he was the first one to say things like that. You knew you were a little weird and that your jokes didnât always land. You werenât oblivious at that point. However, having Jack say it was hurtful. Very hurtful.
Surely he wasnât the person you had the strongest connection to, but you didnât expect him to say it like that.
Lena stood nearby. She didnât say a word. Perhaps she secretly agreed with him. He said what everyone wanted to say. You would have friends if people didnât think of you like that.
You left to go back to the morgue. The only people who spent time with you didnât even have the choice to be there. How much of a loser could you be?
Jack sat on a desk chair to begin his endless charting. Lena quietly sat down next to him.
âThat was harsh.â
âShe crossed a line,â he argued.
âDid she?â
âPeople are grieving, and sheâs acting like itâs a comedy show,â he defended.
âShe just tries to cheer up the mood of everyone. You should see her with patients. She's caring, empathetic⌠And sometimes she can make a joke land.â
Jack stayed silent, just like the morgue was when you first started working here. You didnât say anything to Mrs Hughes as you carefully placed the diamond of her ring on the top of her finger.
ââŕ¨ŕ§ââ
âPretty silent in here,â Lena said as she rolled in a new body some days later.
âYeah,â you responded with a small smile.
âRan out of jokes?â
You didnât answer. Not knowing how to.
âBecause of Jack?â
âMaybe.â
âYou know he was out of line.â
âWas he?â You asked, making her frown.
âHe was.â
âHe wasnât the first one to tell me Iâm weird.â
âThen why does it bother you so much?â
âI donât know⌠I⌠I guess Iâd like for people to try to understand who I am before jumping to the conclusion that Iâm weird and thatâs it.â
âWell, Iâm no Jack Abbot, but I donât think youâre only weird if that can help.â
âThanks⌠It means a lot, Lena.â
You continued to work until the end of your shift. You had to stay overtime because of a car crash that only caused fatalities.
Jack had to bring the paperwork heâd normally have a med student bring at the end of their shift. With the recent events, you doubted he would bring them himself anyway.
Thatâs why you were taken by surprise when he actually showed up. He looked exhausted and a little less confident than usual.
âHey, kid,â he started as he placed the pile of paper on your desk while you were arranging a body.
âHi.â
âCan we talk for a second?â
âHuh, yeah,â you nervously replied, biting your bottom lip.
âI was wrong for speaking to you like that. I thought I understood what I was seeing,â he explained before taking accountability for his actions. âIâm sorry for embarrassing you.â
âOkay,â you added as you fidgeted with the blanket of the body.
âOkay?â
âI forgive you⌠It just stung a bitâŚâ
âI know, Iâm sorry.â
âItâs fine⌠Time heals, right?â
âRight,â he answered as he turned his wedding ring on his finger, making you realize the mess you made.
âOh, sorry. Didnât mean to bring back old memories.â
âDonât worry about it; I like having them back.â
You smiled as you stored the body of the woman you were taking care of.
âI get what you mean,â you mentioned, having dealt with a lot of grieving families.
âGuess weâre both carrying more than we let on,â he added with a lighter tone.
âYeah⌠Shoulders getting heavy,â you joked as you took off your gloves.
He giggled at your dumb joke and went to the door with you.
âMind if we walk to your car?â
âI donât.â
As you walked through the hospital, you noticed how friendly everyone was with him. People never acted like that with you. Not that you were bullied, but you barely got any smiles, even fewer greetings.
Your gaze turned to the man beside you. He had a good reputation. Why would he ruin it by hanging out with someone like you? He must feel very bad to do that to himself.
âSo⌠What happens after I sign?â He asked to make conversation and learn more about what you do.
âWe put it in the archives of the hospital.â
âI know that part,â he laughed, making you feel dumb. âI wasnât clear. I meant: what happens to the body after I sign.â
âOh, sorry. Well, we identify the body really well. Identification mistakes are absolutely terrible!â
âMust be,â he acknowledged as he continued to walk while looking at you.
âUnless the coroner needs to do an exam, we clean the body really well. Thatâs my favourite part. We make them look presentable for the loved ones.â
âYou like that?â
âYeah, the whole âcaring of the bodyâ aspect is really important. It honors the life of the deceased.â
âAnd you do it well.â
You turned your head toward him with furrowed brows. He was never there during this step, so how could he know?
As if reading your mind, he explained himself.
âSomeone told me.â
âOh, Lena⌠She also told you to apologize, I presume.â
âShe helped me see what I missed. Your jokes looked disrespectful to me. I understood itâs not.â
âGood. Itâs not.â
You arrived at your car and waved him goodbye.
âSeeing you tomorrow?â You asked because you couldnât keep your mouth shut to save your life.
âYes, sleep well.â
On the road to your home, you thought about everything he said. It was sweet to see how bad he felt. Youâve been treated worse with little to no remorse.
During your next few shifts at the morgue, you noticed that Jack was coming to your department a little more.
âI brought his belongings,â Jack said as he showed a plastic bag filled with bloody objects.
âOh, thanks.â
âWhere do I put it?â
âHuh⌠On my desk?â You started before thinking of something funny. âIt's not like it has legs to run away from there!â
Jack chuckled and gently placed the bag in an empty spot on your desk.
âSo, howâs tonight treating you?â
âItâs fine⌠Got a kid from peds though⌠It stungâŚâ
âYeah, I can imagine. Donât let it pull you down. Theyâre all in a better place.â
âYeah, thatâs what I keep telling myself.â
âGood, keep doing that. Do you need a break from work?â
âNo, no, I should be done at 7 am. Iâll be fine; itâs pretty soon.â
âCool, we finish at the same time if you want me to walk you to your car againâŚ?â
âOh, yeah⌠Ummm, I mean you already apologized for the whole âdisrespectful jokesâ thing so you really donât need to continue feeling bad.â
âI want to walk you to your car. Thereâs no âfeeling badâ there.â
Even if he said that, you had difficulty believing him. It broke too much of his calm and controlled persona for him to be done after a simple apology.
âAre you completely sure?â
âCertain.â
âOkay, fine. Then yes, Iâm down.â
When your shift ended, you went to the ER with your bag. Dana was already here.
âHi sweetie! Long time no see, howâve you been?â
âGood, still a very⌠Interactive job,â you joked, even if you searched the attending with your eyes. âAbbot wanted to walk me to my car. Do you know where he is?â
âHeâs changing in the bathroom.â
âOh⌠Okay. Iâll wait for him.â
She went right back to work, and you sat down while waiting for him. You tried to ignore the strange looks the staff gave you.
âWhat is the weird morgue girl doing here?â A nurse asked her friend.
They probably thought you couldnât hear them, so you pretended like it was the case for their sake. It would put them in too much embarrassment if they realized otherwise.
You looked at the weather on your phone to appear as if you had a big social life. You needed to focus on something other than their gossip.
Your intense examination of the weather got cut off by the familiar voice of the attending.
âHey, are you coming?â
âYeah, I was busy, sorry,â you lied as you shut your phone.
Why did you say that? Luckily, he didnât push it and continued the conversation.
âDonât sweat it. The emergencies werenât too busy tonight. Finished my charting on time.â
âThatâs good.â
âYeah, itâs a rare sight in here.â
You walked with a little worry in your head. This evening, when you parked here, your car was acting weird. Youâve already humiliated yourself enough to have issues with it on top of everything.
âThanks for making me harder to kidnap,â you said before noticing the small chuckle he gave you.
âHappy to help, kid. Get home safe⌠Without getting kidnapped,â he added as he started to walk away.
You crossed your fingers and repeated a whispered âpleaseâ before starting the car.
Just when you wanted it the least, the headlights flickered before eventually dying.
âFuck!â You complained while hitting the steering wheel.
You always had to fucking embarrass yourself. For what? Could it be at a worse time than this one?
You got out of the vehicle and called out Abbotâs name.
He turned around with furrowed brows. He clearly wanted nothing more to do with you.
You awkwardly walked to him with your backpack on one shoulder.
âI canât start my car. I donât know whatâs wrong. Iâll try to make it work tomorrow. I can call a garage-â
âSlow down. Do you need a ride home?â
âI do. Sorry to ask.â
âI wouldnât have proposed if I didnât want to.â
On the drive to your apartment, he asked questions about your issue.
âDid the engine crank?â
âMaybe? I donât really focus on it that much.â
âDid you see warning lights on the dashboard then?â
âYeah, but thereâs always a new light, so I just ignore them now. I shouldnât haveâŚâ
âYour carâs batteryâs probably dead. Iâll check on it later today.â
âWhat?â You asked, surprised by the kind initiative but also confused.
âCould check what it is and call a mechanic to get it fixed. If you want the help, of course.â
âYes, I want it,â you answered, a little too quickly, perhaps because he beamed at your enthusiastic response.
âLetâs say 5 pm? Iâll come pick you up, and weâll get it fixed.â
âOkay!â
You were pleased about the help he was giving you, but it faded when you thought about the fact that he did it to make it up for the incident or whatever you should call it. He didnât actually want to help you. He just wanted to restore your opinion about him. It was the end of it.
You thanked him for the ride and left for your place.
ââŕ¨ŕ§ââ
Jack knocked at your door at exactly 5 pm. The military punctuality didnât escape him after all those years. He had two Dunkinâ coffees in his hands and gave you one.
âShen gave me a Dunkinâ gift card,â he explained before he began to head toward his car as you followed.
âOh, thatâs nice of him,â you awkwardly retorted as you took a sip.
In the car park, he tried to get your auto going without much success.
âYeah, thatâs definitely a dead battery.â
âOkay, well, I can call a guy and get it fixed. I should be fine with the rest then.â
âYou know, I got nothing else to do with my day,â he initiated. âAnd the daughter of a friend got charged extra because they noticed she didnât know much about cars. Wouldnât want that to happen to you. They can make you pay for whatever, even if you donât need it.â
âI bothered you enough. I donât want to waste your time.â
âI told you I had nothing better to do. Itâs your decision, but donât think about my needs. Think about yours.â
âI want you to stay then⌠If you donât mind-â
âI donât.â
âGood.â
âGood,â he repeated as he typed the number of a repair shop in his phone and called them while you waited.
As he hung up, you realized that a tow truck would need to move your car to its destination and that it would ruin all of the savings you had previously made over the years.
âYou okay?â Jack asked as a hand wandered on your back without touching it.
âMhm,â you lied.
ââŕ¨ŕ§ââ
The battery only needed an hour to fix. Maybe you were a pessimist, but you thought it would be longer. You waited on some chairs in the entry while Jack tried to make conversation.
âHow did you end up in the morgue?â He asked as his eyes stared into yours.
âLiving patients scare me. Iâm a little socially awkward; I donât know if you noticed. I just preferred dealing with the dead ones. You know, giving them a loving goodbye.â
âThatâs really cute of you.â
You couldnât help but blush at the comment. He was really trying to be kind, and it made you doubt that maybe there was a chance that he liked hanging out with you, but you quickly brushed that thought out of your head and focused on the topic of conversation.
âYou? Why are you in the ER?â
He took a deep breath before answering.
âI had to choose a specialty after the military. I needed something that moved like I used to. The emergency is always busy with something to do. You canât think about much, and you have to focus on the patients, not you.â
âDamn⌠That wasâŚâ
âSad?â He finished with a small chuckle forming.
âDidnât come from me,â you replied with your hands up in surrender.
âMy therapist said I needed to open up more. Iâm trying.â
âThatâs good. My therapist and I are working on oversharing. People know too much about my life when I get nervous.â
He sneered as he remembered the moments in which you said a little too much when the conversation couldâve ended there. It was also nice to get to know someone who goes to therapy as he does. With all of his effort, he never convinced Robby to go.
âDo you know why you get nervous? Knowing the cause could diminish the effects.â
âYou talk like such a doctor.â
âSorry,â he said with a laugh.
âI donât know⌠I just always felt like everybody had a guide on how to behave in society and Iâm the only one who missed it.â
âDo you like to be with people though?â
âIâm not sure. Iâm really used to being alone, you know?â
âYou should try it out. Iâll bring you to karaoke nights.â
You giggled as he mentioned karaoke so casually.
âKaraoke nights?â You repeated, picturing him singing.
âYeah, Santos started it. After a terrible shift, the ones who can go to a karaoke bar to relieve some tension. Helps keep the morale up.â
âAnd do you sing?â
âTried once with Robby, but Javadi and Joy laughed at us so hard that we drank a beer and called it a night, now.â
âOkay, Iâm down,â you agreed, slowly nodding. âAs long as the team is okay with it too.â
âOf course they will. They just donât know you, but youâre sweet.â
âThey think Iâm weird.â
âSo what? Everybodyâs weird.â
You smiled at his comment. He was so reassuring that it actually gave you confidence to go in a group full of people you barely knew to get them to know you. It was crazy, but what was the worst that could happen? They already thought you were weird, so it wouldnât change much if you totally embarrassed yourself.
A mechanic came to announce that they replaced the carâs battery and the price it would be. It was really expensive. Nothing you actually couldnât pay, but still not in your financial planning. It was so much to cover all at once.
As you took your card to insert into the little machine, you felt a hand on you, slowly pushing your arm down.
âItâs fine, Iâll get it.â
âItâs okay.â
âYouâll pay me back later then,â he brushed off, hoping youâd forget and never actually do it.
He maybe talked like a doctor, but he also had the paycheck to go with it.
âThank you,â you whispered as he typed his credit cardâs code with a smile.
You could go back to your place with your own car as he left for the hospital. He was working, and he still took time to help you out with your stupid issue.
ââŕ¨ŕ§ââ
Your next shift after your short vacation was running smoothly. Unfortunately, there were still dead people in your morgue, but it kept you busy.
As you brushed Mrs Rodriguezâs hair, Jack came in with empty hands, no paperwork, no coffees, nothing.
âHi⌠Not that youâre high, but hi as in the greeting. Hello.â
He laughed at your failed attempt at a normal greeting and crossed his arms before placing his hands in his pockets. It was the first time you saw him being nervous.
âAre you okay?â You asked as you sat on your desk chair.
âYeah, I just came in to grab the paperwork.â
âJack, you already signed everything you had to sign,â you reminded him before realizing what it was. âWait, are you trying to find excuses to come to the morgue?â
âNo, I just forgotâŚâ
âDementia getting to you? You and Mrs Rodriguez have more in common than I thought.â
âWere you thinking about the similarities between a dead woman and me?â
âDonât switch the subject, Dr Abbot,â you playfully demanded.
âI wanted to talk about your car. Do you want to do that after your shift?â
âOh, okay⌠Well, yeah.â
Did he want to get reimbursed? Did he discover a huge issue that would make your car implode but didnât tell you? Did heâŚ
âThereâs a good place downtown with a discount for healthcare workers,â he added, cutting off your train of thought.
Somewhere along the way, you missed the part of med school that talked about the importance of paperwork. Sometimes, you felt like a writer with all of the stuff you needed to document for work.
In situations like this one today, you forgot to document a body release exception form for a patient who came in earlier. It was important to note if a body was released under unusual circumstances.
The day shift morgue attendant, James, came in and was eating a snack while you rushed your notes. Contrary to you, he wasnât doing much and stared at you working.
âSo⌠Excited to leave work?â He teased, wanting to know what got you rushed when you normally didnât care about spending the day here.
You didnât have time to answer because the reason showed up at your department.
âHi, youâre still working?â Jack asked as he came in.
James almost choked on his own saliva when he saw him. He knew more than anyone else the crush you had on him for years.
âYeah, I forgot to fill in a form. It wonât take long, sorry about itâŚâ
âItâs all good, kid.â
You finished it and signed your name as quickly as you could before giving it to your coworker, who hasn't worked since he came down here.
âGot something to keep you busy,â you said as you happily got rid of the job to clock out.
âGet your man, girl,â he muttered before taking the paper.
You left, and Jack followed you to the elevator in the direction of the parking lot.
âSo? Busy?â He asked, assuming a positive answer but trying to make conversation nonetheless.
âYeah, my to-do list and I are in a toxic relationship. You?â
âYeah, busy.â
You fell into a comfortable silence as you went in his car to go to the restaurant. He put some music on, and you focused on it in order not to fall asleep.
âIf youâre too tired, I can drive to your place too. Doesnât bother me.â
âNo, no, itâs fine,â you assured as you struggled to keep your eyes open.
âListen to your body.â
âIâm fine⌠Gravity just feels stronger today. Especially on my eyelids, actually.â
Contrary to usual, he didnât laugh and drove to your address.
âI wanted to spend more time with you,â you confessed as you closed your eyes for the rest of the drive.
âItâs okay, we can go to karaoke night tomorrow.â
âYeah, that would be niceâŚâ
He woke you up when he was parked in front of your place. You thanked him for the ride, and he smiled at you like he always does.
ââŕ¨ŕ§ââ
âGoing to the morgue again?â Lena pondered with a sly expression.
âYeah, do you need me on something?â
âNo, go see your girl.â
âItâs not like that. I wouldnât betray my wife.â
âBaby, your wife wouldâve wanted you to move on. I know itâs difficult, but think about your own happiness. She really looks like she makes you happy. I never got her jokes, but it looks like you do more than me.â
He looked down at the floor when she mentioned his wife.
âHow would I know if thatâs what she wanted?â
âThatâs what we wish on people we love,â she concluded as she went back to charting.
He swallowed with more difficulty than before and headed to the morgue.
He was torn between his loyalty to his wife, whom he could never replace, and his need to busy himself with anything that could occupy his mind. He already tried to jump on more SWAT cases, took overtime at the hospital, practiced yoga, and helped anyone he could, but it didnât cut it. His therapist recommended finding a hobby, and thatâs what he did, so why wouldnât it work? He did everything to get better, and it was never enough.
Maybe a girlfriend could make his life worth living, but why would he make someone else see what he was really like behind the falsely confident facade he put on?
Jack took a deep breath to compose himself in front of you and entered the morgue. You were talking with a body you treated.
âIâm pretty sure heâs rolling his eyes,â he joked as he heard you talk about how disappointed you were about a couple in a reality show you were watching.
âStop, we were bonding,â you said between laughs.
âBonding or complaining? Whatâs that TV show about?â
âDonât even talk to me about it. It gets me mad.â
âWow, didnât want to infuriate you.â
You actually looked at him and saw how down he looked today.
âAre you okay?â
âYeah⌠Just thinking about some stuff,â he brushed off as you decided not to push deeper.
âOh⌠OkayâŚâ
âDo you think I should date again?â He blurted out.
This time, you were the one who was surprised by the question. You were known to be out of the blue from time to time, but seeing how random that was made you feel less alone.
âW- What?â
âSorry, I just talked to Lena, and I donât know if I should date again. Am I too old for that?â
âNo, youâre not too old. Itâs more of a ready or not thing, I guess.â
âI donât know if Iâm ready,â he confessed.
âIt probably means that youâre not.â
âGood to know, thank you. I should go back up, but are you still down for the karaoke session today?â
âAlways,â you confirmed with two thumbs up.
It was a little painful to advise someone you had a crush on for so long that it was better not to date anyone, but it wasnât like he liked you romantically in the first place, so it helped you tame your feelings. Repeating again and again that it was useless to want a relationship because it was one of those things that wouldnât happen to you was weirdly a very soothing message. It kept you true to yourself. You werenât trying to change to impress anyone. You just lived.
Your shift ended, and you went to see Abbot. He was still working on something, so you sat on an empty chair. Mateo came to see you with curiosity plastered on his face.
âWaiting for Jack?â He asked as he sat on the edge of the desk in front of you.
âDid the ghost tell you?â You bantered as he forced a smile to act polite.
âHeâs always going to the morgue now.â
Victoria came in to gossip with the nurse.
âOh my god, are you waiting for Abbot?â
âWhy is everyone asking me that?â
âBecause weâre betting-â she started before getting cut off by Mateo.
âWe were just wondering,â he explained.
âWait, what are you betting on?â
Javadi looked at her man with an apologetic look before explaining herself to you.
âPeople here are often betting about stuff. Nothing crazy though! Itâs just like⌠Who is gonna date who and things like that. We were just thinking, with all of the time Abbot spends down in your department, that there was maybe something worth betting on. Like you and himâŚâ
âOh⌠I donât think he likes me like that,â you trailed off.
âBut do you?â Mateo wondered, getting as nosy as his girlfriend.
âYeah- I mean, I donât know!â You tried to correct yourself, but it was too late.
The two of them were already getting their wallets and leaving you alone.
At the same time, Jack came to see you. He was fidgeting with his wedding ring.
âHey, are you ready to go sing?â
âMhm, you?â
âI wasnât going to sing⌠Unless you want me to?â
âI want you to! Iâm not going to sing alone!â
He laughed and nodded as he said his goodbyes to everyone who stayed. You went in his car as you talked about your day to him. He was a great listener, so you just ranted while he drove and occasionally nodded in agreement to what you said.
âWeâre there,â he announced as he parked the car.
You noticed some nurses and doctors talking outside the building.
âIâm a little scared,â you admitted while fidgeting with your fingers.
âWhy?â He asked as he opened your car door.
âI donât know these people.â
âYou know me. If it doesnât work out with them, you can just stay with me.â
âOkay⌠Yeah, Iâll do that.â
You entered the almost empty bar with him and saw more people from the hospital. Mel was singing with Parker, which surprised you considering that sheâs normally on day shift.
Jack placed a hand on your back to guide you toward the bar.
âWhat do you want to drink?â
âSomething sweet,â you said, unsure of what to take.
âI heard that their Ameratto Sour was good.â
âOkay, yeah, why not?â
As the drinks continued to come, you felt pretty dizzy, but you wanted to sing a song. Thatâs when you searched for something good on your phone.
âDo you know Love On The Brain by Rihanna?â
âI do,â he confirmed. âIs that what you want to sing with me?â
âYes,â you replied as you went to the worker who controlled the playlist.
You walked onto the scene with him and sang. Both of you were awful singers, but it was funny, and you were too drunk to feel embarrassment. You saw Ellis film you while she was laughing.
Once you finished singing the song, you left as Abbot held your waist to make sure you werenât falling.
âWow, Iâm winning that bet,â Parker said to Mel, who got confused. âIâll explain later.â
â
You donât remember much of the rest of the day, but when you got back to work the next night, your head was hurting really bad.
You saw Abbot come in without a scrub. His hands were holding a paper cup.
âWhatâs that?â You asked with a raspy voice from singing.
âThatâs tea for your hangover.â
âYouâre the best,â you praised, drinking from the hot liquid.
It was sweet, just like you loved. He remembered your sweet tooth from your cocktail choice at the bar.
âWhy donât you wear a scrub?â You pointed out as he stayed there while you signed documents.
âI have a day off.â
âAre you held against your will? Should I call the cops? You never take days off.â
âGloriaâs the guilty one,â he blamed. âInsurance policy. Canât work every day or we risk a lawsuit.â
âAnd you come to work on your day off?â
âGot a therapy appointment. And I figured youâd need some help with the headache.â
âI did, thanks.â
Your conversation got cut off early by Lena, who came in to give you a body.
âHi, sweetheart. Got a seventy-year-old man who died from sepsis shock.â
âWhatâs his name?â
âHector Granger. We donât have much information except for his wallet,â she informed you, placing the object on your desk.
As she left, she took Jackâs arm and pulled him with her. You were left alone to take care of Mr Granger.
âWhat are you doing?â Lena questioned Abbot once you were out of sight.
âWhatâs that supposed to mean?â
âShe likes you, Jack. Leave her alone or actually do something about it. Itâs not fair for her.â
He suddenly looked everywhere, but at the person he was talking with.
âI canât do that to my wife.â
âSheâs not there anymore. Think about what you want for once. Do you like her or not?â
âI do, but-â
âThen do something about it. You canât play with her feelings forever, and you know that as much as me.â
He nodded and looked to the ground in shame.
âHell, my first husband kept doing that, and I ignored it. Let me tell you that my divorce wasnât ignored much. You date her, or you donât, but donât make people wait for their money.â
âGod, I thought Robby was joking about the betting board.â
âOh no, baby. Itâs the most popular bet in a while.â
He smiled and headed to the elevator with her. She left on the ER floor while he went on the psychiatry floor for his therapy session.
âGood evening, doc,â his therapist said as he opened the door to let him in.
During the appointment, he talked about his PTSD and how it gets better when he keeps himself busy.
âIs there something else on your mind, Jack?â
Even if he didnât want to, he learned over time that being honest with him was the best option, so he nodded.
âYeah, Iâm thinking about dating again, but itâs hard.â
âWhat are you afraid will happen if you date again?â
âIâll feel like Iâm replacing my wife.â
âWould your wife think that?â
Jack didnât answer. He didnât know how to. He yearned for an actual answer, one from his wife, not the hypotheses people made up in their heads. The problem was that he could never have this answer.
âI think Iâll just stay away from the dating pool. I need more time, clearly,â he trailed off.
ââŕ¨ŕ§ââ
For the next few days, you didnât see Jack. You knew he was working. You saw him in the hospital but never in your morgue. He didnât stop by anymore.
You thought you finally made a friend in that fucking hospital just for him to disappear once he got to know you. How is that fair? Why can everybody make friends? Even the mean girls from your high school have bigger social lives than you. Itâs not fair; itâs never fair. Youâve never insulted anyone; you've always tried to understand their actions rather than judge. Just for you to get betrayed like that? Fuck it.
Lena came by as you typed on your keyboard like it personally offended you.
âHeâs avoiding you?â She asked knowingly.
âI thought I made a friend. Iâm not dumb enough to think it was something more like everyone in your department thinks. I didnât even care that I liked him. I was just happy with a friend, and I canât even have that!â You ranted with a lot of anger in your voice.
She listened and let you rant, so you continued because you felt more heard than with the bodies you cleaned.
âI kept replaying everything in my head. I was like âmaybe the karaoke was embarrassingâ or âmaybe I talked too muchâ. Whatever, I was just too much. Iâm always too much apparently. I donât even know what is much, so how would I know whatâs too much?â
âHoney, Iâve worked with Abbot for years.â
âSo? People donât usually leave without a reason.â
âAnd people donât usually feel as much as he does,â she started. âIâve worked with Jack Abbot for years. I know when heâs running away.â
âFrom⌠Me?â
âFrom himself, honey. But let me tell you this: if he wanted nothing to do with you, he wouldnât have spent weeks coming down here.â
You didnât respond. Didnât really know how to anyway. You just continued typing on your keyboard but with less strength this time.
She smiled and left you with a pile of paper that Jack signed. That same pile of paper that wouldâve been given by him some days prior.
Your shift ended, and you went to the elevator. When the doors opened, and you saw Jack, you tried to act normal and just did like everything was fine.
You clicked on the first floor and dreamt about your empty car.
Right as the doors closed, you never felt this awkward in your whole life, and you were literally known as the weird girl in the hospital. The elevatorâs light flickered for an instant and suddenly stopped working. Contrary to the normal elevator that restarted instantly, the staff elevator took more time.
Thatâs it. You were officially in hell. Your first straw was being in an elevator with him, but your last was certainly being stuck in an elevator with him.
âItâs fine,â he reassured as he clicked on the emergency button. âItâs the rainstorm after the heatwaves. The generator will work in a couple of seconds.â
Maintenance answered and said theyâll be there in fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes stuck with him. You knew you should've prayed with your grandma when there was still time. Hell was really bad.
âI always knew elevators were plotting against meâŚâ
He snorted at your comment, and it made you angry. How could he express joy when he made you feel so much confusion recently?
âDid I do something?â You finally asked.
âWhat?â
âYouâve been avoiding me. If I did something, Iâd rather know. I can fix awkward; I can apologize too. I just⌠Need to know what happened.â
âNothing happened,â he brushed off as he avoided eye contact.
âTell me how to be better, and I will do it. I just need you to tell me, Jack.â
âYou didnât do anything, I swear.â
âThen what happened?â
âIâve been trying to figure myself out.â
âOhâŚâ
Lena was right⌠It wasnât about you but about him running away from himself. You heard him take a deep breath, and you felt guilty for having brought that shit up.
âCan we start over?â He asked as he looked you in the eyes for the first time since the beginning of this conversation.
âYes, of course we can.â
As if on cue, the elevator started to work after your words.
ââŕ¨ŕ§ââ
Since this moment in the elevator, you saw Jack a little more. He realized that avoiding you was hurting you, and thatâs all he needed to change his behavior.
âWant to go take a bite after?â He asked as he went to your department.
âI would love to, but Iâve been craving ramen for days, and I have some at my place.â
He nodded in acceptance, and you felt guilty for letting him go like that when you wanted to see him more.
âDo you want to come? I could make some ramen for you too,â you suggested as you stored a body in its place.
âIâd like that, yes. Langdon and Mel recommended a good boba place. We could take our drinks there too.â
âOh my god, your brain,â you praised as you gathered your belongings to leave.
He drove you to your place, and you looked at him while he drove. You were feeling comfortable where you were. You were actual friends. He wasnât trying to apologize for anything or avoid you. He was just hanging out with you because he wanted to, and that was what was comforting. You had a real friend.
As you ate, you watched Criminal Minds on your couch and corrected the medical errors they said.
When he pointed to the TV, you noticed that he didnât have his wedding ring on.
âHer wound wouldnât look like that if-â
âYou took off your wedding ring,â you bluntly acknowledged before immediately regretting it.
He took a moment to look at his ring, to remember how empty his finger was.
âHuh⌠Yeah. I haven't touched it for a whole shift, and I went home and took it off.â
âHow did it make you feel?â
âI cried⌠Then I moved on.â
âIâm proud of you,â you praised as he smiled.
âThank you, kid. It means a lot.â
After a short silence, he suddenly blurted out what heâd been keeping in his head for so long.
âDo you want to go on a day someday?â
âLike a friendly date?â
âNo, like a romantic date.â
â...With me?â
He chuckled at your disbelief.
âYeah.â
âWhy? Is that because we hang out more? Iâm fine with just being friends if thatâs the issue.â
âKid, I have a lot of friends, and I never feel that way with them. I canât just be friends, and I think Iâm finally ready for something more.â
âAre you sure? Like itâs not because I feel any type of way towards you, right?â
summary: you had three golden rules that you promised to never break. however, jack abbot made you break them all in one single night on your twenty-first birthday. never fall for your attending, never beg a man and last but not least: never ever have kids!
content warning: 18+, MDNI. reader is younger than jack, height difference, daddy issues, slight daddy kink, angst to smut, porn with a plot, jack is a tease, brat!reader, mean jack!, bad parenting (not from reader), kissing, p in v, rough sex, crying, petnames (baby, princess, sweetheart, doll), oral (f. receiving), pregnancy mentioned, cursing.
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a/n: this idea actually originated from a post I saw on tiktok. english isn't my first language so please be gentle with me.here's the link to pt.2 !
You never really wanted kids.
It was kind of a promise to your inner child.
To the little girl curling in her small bed, trying to stop the rumbling of her stomach, embracing her body in a tight hug. To the one begging for her daddy to come back home even when he was miles away from the house. To the one that tried to call him, reach him to tell him that she didn't have enough money to buy herself something to eat.
It was only a vivid memory but you still remembered your fear of darkness. It wasn't until you'd bawl your eyes out and finally fall asleep, that you'd calm down. And you told him once.
Your dry lips were trembling, tears building in the corner of your eyes, you would bravely push them aside by using your palms. Afterwards you'd look at the wooden floor, gently tugging on the edge of your pink shirt. "Daddy..my closet is looking at me with its eyes closed."
He was watching football with his friends that night, the lights were dimmed upstairs, leftover pizza on the kitchen counter, so many noises from the men getting worked up about the game. "Door open, light on. You're a big girl. Go ahead, I'll be up in a bit."
Now you knew that he only said those last words because of his friends. He would never sent his five year old daughter back to her room, telling her to fuck off in front of his best friends. That's not who he was.
You remembered the way your hands trembled as you went back upstairs. It was the room at the end of the hallway. The worst part wasn't even that you wet your bed that night. It's the fact that he didn't come and check on you, like he promised he would.
It broke your tiny heart.
He never showed up to your football games at Highschool, even though you started because you wanted to impress him. Once you overheard how he congratulated his friends daughter for being at top of her classes, which is why you aspired to be like her. He never acknowledged it. Ever.
He was everyone's favorite host and a truly wonderful friend. But at home, he was just a stranger who forgot how to be a dad. Living with his constant neglect taught you that relying on anyone else is a liability. Every major lesson and coping mechanism you had, you had to figure out on your own while sitting in his shadow. You became hyper independent because you had to be, not because you wanted to be.
Over time, that self reliance changed into an unshakable preference for solitude. You wanted to be alone because your own presence was stable and most importantly predictable.
Never be a liability.
Never be a burden.
Even in school you'd always try to be the secure friend. Nevertheless, you'd still fail every single time because of your clumsiness. You were grateful that you still made a lot of friends back then. The experience felt like the high school dream, filled with the reality of a father who was largely absent. While others envied that level of freedom, the truth was hidden behind a story that he simply offered endless love.
"Girl, I wish my dad wasn't so strict. You're the lucky one."
You still remembered laila's, your best friends, words back when you hugged her goodbye after telling her that you'd stay for a while because you couldn't dare to ask for them to drive you back home. That wasn't their job and you didn't have the right to weigh her parents down like that.
What if they would tell her to stop meeting up with you?
The jealousy from friends was met with a smile, staying out late and navigating the quiet hours of the early morning alone. To those looking in, it appeared to be an ideal situation with an unbothered parent, but the situation was actually a way of turning indifference into a more comforting narrative.
Trust.
Place your trust in no one but yourself.
A lesson you had to learn the hard way. Multiple occasions that thought you the most important rule you set for your life. As long as you had yourself, you knew that you'd always find a way out.
You always failed though.
You wished you weren't so naive.
No one taught you not to.
It's not that you thought that your dad appreciated or cherished you. You were almost sure that he thought of you as an annoying chore.
Something that he had to look after even in times he didn't want to.
It wasn't until you met Jack Abbot that you felt seen.
Dr. Abbot was known as one of the most capable and reliable attending's of the pitt. That was one of the main reasons he was a highly respected man in his workplace. With his consistency regarding his job and his determination to save people no one really had anything to say against his performance at night.
Even the hospital corridors buzzed like a beehive whenever he strolled past, as the night shift nurses practically tripped over their own feet just to catch a glimpse of his devastatingly handsome smile and towering, silver fox charm.
The rest of the floor could swoon all they wanted, but you weren't buying what Jack Abbott was selling. Your walls were up, you actively dodged the breakroom gossip, and honestly, the man barely registered on your radar. Plus, you had a golden rule: never, ever date a coworker.
That professional boundary was exactly why your first encounter with the handsome new attending had left a bitter taste in his mouth. At least, that's what you assumed. It was only your second week as a night shift pediatric nurse, and the quiet rhythm of the neonatal unit was your sanctuary.
Standing in the soft glow of the nursery, you cradled a fussy newborn, swaying your body in gentle loops while humming a low melody. Slowly, her sharp little cries died down into peaceful snoring. A fond smile tugged at your lips as you looked down at her blissfully satisfied expression, and you leaned down to press a soft kiss against her forehead.
But the warmth vanished the second you glanced up at the viewing glass.
Standing right there on the other side was the attending, watching your every move with an intensely curious and amused gaze. It was fucking irritating. Your smile instantly vanished.
Wasting no time, you carefully tucked the baby back into her bassinet, grabbed your clipboard, and marched toward the exit.
As you stepped out into the hallway, you caught him shifting his weight, clearly about to deliver some charming remark. You didn't give him the chance. You walked right past him, offering nothing but a sharp roll of your eyes as you left him standing in your wake. A satisfied smirk crawled onto your face. It was likely the first time he'd ever been shut down so abruptly.
You just didn't like doctors, most of them were egocentric and arrogant, and entirely too full of themselves. It was honestly a funny irony choosing to work in a hospital, but keeping arrogant attendings in check was just an added bonus of the job.
It had been your dream to be able to provide the care for those who were suffering. Knowing what your childhood looked like you decided to take matters in your hands and give the little babies exactly that what you had been deprived of. You were thankful that you made the best out of your trauma which also made you stronger as a person.
Now, let's move on to the second encounter!
By the time Friday night came around, the sparkling veneer of the hospital had faded entirely, replaced by the heavy, hushed reality of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Standing among the rhythmic beeps of the monitors, you looked down at the tiny fighters in your care, and an all too familiar ache tightened in your chest. It was a heavy kind of anger that you kept locked deep inside. A resentment at the sheer unfairness of it all. They weren't even a few minutes into this life, yet here they were, already paying a brutal toll and enduring hardships they did absolutely nothing to deserve.
Why?
Swallowing down the pent up frustration, you forced yourself to breathe, deliberately channeling that fiery protective instinct into gentle care as vou admired their impossibly small forms. They were so fragile, yet so incredibly resilient.
You turned around, forcing yourself to swallow the suffocating lump in your throat and blinking back the hot tears prickling your eyes. Wanting nothing more than a hasty retreat to a quiet, empty hallway, you looked toward the glass window, only to freeze.
No fucking way.
The hallway wasn't empty.
Standing right there, watching you through the glass with an entirely indifferent expression, was Dr. Abbot. The sheer annoyance hit you like a wave, instantly clashing with the grief already tight in your chest.
Why was he always here?
It felt like every single time you wanted a quiet, unguarded moment with the babies, his shadow was looming over the unit. Already deeply upset by the fragile state of the newborns around you, you gritted your teeth, walked out of the room, and prepared to breeze past him again.
Before you could take a second step into the corridor, his low voice cut through the hum of the monitors. "You know, nursing requires a gentle touch, but thinking too much about their suffering usually just leads to burnout."
He spoke with that classic cadence, entirely self assured, dripping with the tone of a man who believed his own observation was a gift to the room. You couldn't give a shit about what he thought. So you stopped dead in your tracks. The sheer audacity of his unsolicited wisdom on a night like this made your blood boil.
You whipped around, your eyes flashing. "And I'm sure your extensive wardrobe of tailored suits gives you a Ph.D. in exactly how I should feel, Doctor Abbott."
He didn't look angry, or amused, or even slightly jarred by the venom in your voice. "I merely state what I observe. How you choose to digest it is entirely your business."
Your walls slammed shut, and the anger boiled over into pure malice. "Then observe this," you stepped closer, your voice dropping to a harsh whisper. "Stay out of my way, and stay away from my unit. Some of us are actually here to care about these patients, not to treat the ICU like our personal runway."
With those words you left him standing alone under the fluorescent lights, not caring about the bridge you were actively burning.
What you didn't know was that your demeanor had evoked something entirely different in him.
Instead of coming across as off putting, your refusal to back down only made him respect you.
He saw a genuinely honest person who possessed the rare strength to talk right back to an attending.
Jack wasn't a man who looked for easy comfort, he was someone who constantly needed to be on his toes to feel alive. He craved the adrenaline, and the challenge, which was precisely why an ex-military veteran like him had also attached himself to the local SWAT team as a tactical physician. He liked a little friction, and he definitely liked him a difference.
Amused and completely unbothered by the harsh words you had just thrown his way, a sharp smile tugged at his lips as he made his way back up to the ED. He strode right into the busy hub of the pitt and immediately sought out his best friend, Robby.
"Just had an interesting encounter down in the neonatal unit," he murmured, leaning against the central desk with a look of pure entertainment in his eyes.
Robby paused his data entry, looking up from his computer to stare blankly at him. It wasn't often that the usually guarded attending looked this intrigued, and he couldn't help but wonder what on earth could have happened on a routine Friday night shift to make his best friend smile like that.
A few days later.
Dana, the seasoned charge nurse who kept the entire floor from collapsing, was busy sorting through a stack of patient files. Jack leaned casually against the counter, tapping his fingers against the clipboard in a relaxed motion. "Hey, Dana," Jack began, keeping his voice smooth and entirely conversational as he gestured vaguely toward the pediatric wing.
"The new pediatric nurse on nights, what's her story?"
Dana stopped short, her sharp eyes flicking up from the files to fix him with a deeply skeptical look. She folded her arms over her chest, immediately on guard. "Why do you want to know, Jack?"
"Just keeping tabs on the staff," Jack replied smoothly, offering a brief and completely unbothered shrug that gave absolutely nothing away. "Always good to know who we're sharing the floor with during a chaotic shift, that's all!."
Dana stared at him for a second longer, trying to read between the lines, but Jack's poker face was
impenetrable. Sighing, she went back to her paperwork. "She started a few weeks ago," she said, her tone professional. "And honestly? She's doing a great job. She's sharp, and her reliable nature is exactly what we need around here. To be frank, a nurse with her level of competence could really be an asset up in the ED if things get hairy."
Dana paused, tapping her pen against the desk as she looked back toward the pediatric unit. "I don't really know her all that well on a personal level, though. She almost never does personal talks during a shift, stays locked in her zone, takes care of her patients, and she is exceptionally good at dodging any nosy questions from the rest of the staff."
Jack gave a slow, thoughtful nod, digesting the information. "Good to know," he murmured. He offered Dana a polite nod of thanks, turned on his heel, and walked away into the hushed hallway.
It was your twenty-first birthday.
You were sitting on the floor of the laundry room.
It was the only place in the entire building where you could finally hear your own thoughts.
But the brief peace shattered when the heavy door swung open, and the sharp scent of a fresh high end cologne cut through the laundry detergent. You looked up, your hand immediately flying to your face as you dead palmed your forehead in pure disbelief. "Of course it's you."
Abbott stood in the doorway, completely unfazed by your hostility. In fact, seeing your utterly annoyed expression only brought a fond, amused smirk to his face. Walking right past your spot on the floor, he stepped over to the automated scrub dispenser machine behind you.
He casually swiped his premium staff badge against the electronic reader, and within seconds, a fresh, perfectly pressed pair of hospital scrubs rolled out of the slot. Being a top attending definitely had its perks. "Must be nice to have the vending machine actually like you," you commented dryly, not even looking back at him.
"The rest of us usually have to fight it for a clean set."
Instead of taking his new scrubs and leaving, he surprised you. He walked over, adjusted his frame, and sat right down on the floor. He deliberately left a respectful distance of about two people between you, careful not to cross a line or crowd your space. He leaned his back against the wall, looked straight ahead at the spinning washing machine, and broke the silence. "I'm Jack." You bit your tongue, the urge to roll your eyes stronger than ever as you stared at the floor.
He was such a pain in the ass.
Why didn't you like him?
Was it his annoyingly handsome face?
"Y/N," you mumbled under your breath.
Jack gave a slow, respectful nod, absorbing the sound of your name. "I work up in the ED," he offered quietly, his deep voice carrying a rare, relaxed undertone.
"I know," you replied, your tone clipped and dry.
Anyone with working ears on this shift knew exactly who he was and where he ruled. He leaned his head back against the tiled wall, letting out a soft breath. "I usually come down to this room when I just need a clean break from the chaos."
"Don't lie," you shot back automatically, a cynical edge to your voice. "You go to the roof-" The words cut off sharply in your throat.
You froze, your stomach dropping into a sudden, icy pit of regret. You instantly snapped your head away, staring intensely at the opposite corner of the room. Shit. The memory flashed vividly in your mind: a particularly brutal night a week ago, right after one of the newborns had passed away on the operating table.
Heartbroken and needing air, you had snuck up toward the helipad stairs, only to see him standing at the ledge through the heavy glass doors, staring out at the city skyline alone in the dark.
Now, he was going to think you were a total stalker.
Tensly, you braced yourself for the inevitable ego driven smirk, waiting for him to drop some arrogant, teasing comment about you watching him in secret.
But the punchline never came.
Instead, Jack just let out a soft, amused chuckle.
He casually raised both hands in the air, his expression entirely open and warm. "You caught me," he said softly, a genuine glimmer of playfulness in his eyes.
A small, involuntary smile tugged at the corner of your lips before you could stop it. Catching yourself, you quickly looked back down at the floor.
That was one of the things you learned about him.
He never embarrassed you.
It was new to you.
Maybe that was the reason you slowly fell for him.
Nevermind, back to the story!
"How old are you?", he asked out of nowhere. You raised your eyebrows and looked into his eyes. For the first time you noticed how clear his hazel eyes were.
Much younger than you.
"I turned 21."
He paused. "When?"
"Today", you said in a low voice, lowering your gaze again.
"Congratulations!", he replied in a suprised tone.
He certainly didn't expect this when he came down here. He only imagined how excited you probably were to get over your shift and celebrate with your friends and coworkers.
Little did he know that your plan was to go home as quickly as possible and rest.
No one knew anyways.
"Yeah, whatever."
"You've got to be fucking kidding me!"
The cold rain was already relentless by the time your shift finally ended, and now you stood shivering beneath the flimsy metal awning of the bus station. Teeth chattering, you squinted through the downpour at the blurred timetable, only for your stomach to drop into a familiar, hollow pit.
You had missed the last bus by exactly four minutes. If only you hadn't stayed behind those extra moments to cuddle the tiny, fussing girl in room four.
"Fuck!" you cursed out loud, the word swallowed by a sudden, blinding flash of lightning as the storm raged heavier overhead.
The harsh reality of your bank account stared back at you. You couldn't afford a car.
Immediately after graduation, you had scraped together every single penny you owned, throwing it all into a steep apartment deposit just to put as much distance between yourself and your dad as humanly possible.
Pressing your freezing palms hard against your eyes, you tried to force your brain to find a solution. If you called an Uber now, the surge pricing in this storm would completely ruin you.
You wouldn't be able to make rent by the end of the month, and you were already living right on the razor's edge. Walking was the only option left.
As a freezing drop of rain snuck down the back of your neck, you let out a bitter, humorless laugh.
Was this God's twisted version of a birthday present for you?
You started the long trek down the side of the street. It was a fifty minute walk back to your apartment, and under normal circumstances, you wouldn't complain about a little cardio. But tonight, the freezing wind bit straight through your clothes, you didn't have your jacket, and within seconds, you were entirely soaking wet.
The rain hammered down with a harsh, punishing pace, blurring your vision as you hurried up, knowing full well that you would catch a miserable cold if you didn't get out of the rain soon. As you trudged past a familiar intersection, a dangerous thought crossed your mind..your dad's house was only twenty minutes away from here.
For a split, desperate second, you actually debated turning around and heading toward his porch, until the memory of his voice echoed vividly in your head.
ÂťYou ain't shit without me, Y/N.ÂŤ
ÂťYou'll come back crawling and begging for a roof over your head.ÂŤ
Fuck no.
The phantom words stung worse than the freezing rain. Your jaw clenched, and a stubborn heat flared up inside your chest.
You would never, ever beg a man for anything.
That was your third promise.
You blinked furiously, trying to clear the sheets of freezing water from your eyes, realizing too late that you could barely see two feet ahead of you.
Through the hazy blur of the storm, the blinding glare of headlights cut through the dark as a white truck pulled onto the shoulder of the road, splashing water onto the curb just a few yards ahead. Instantly on high alert, you picked up the pace, determined to pass the vehicle as quickly as humanly possible.
But as you drew parallel to the cab, the passenger window rolled down smoothly, revealing none other than your attending sitting behind the wheel, calmly motioning for you to get inside.
"I don't need a ride!" you shouted over the howling wind, your voice cracking slightly from the chill.
"Get in, kid." Jack commanded, his tone leaving absolutely no room for debate. Ignoring him completely, you threw your chin up and started marching right past his bumper.
Before you could even finish the empowering thought process in your head, the air was knocked straight out of you. In one swift, dizzying motion, you were hoisted off your feet and thrown right over a broad, rock solid shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
"Damn it, let me go!" you shrieked, your fists uselessly hammering against his back as the freezing rain continued to pelt your short legs.
"You're freezing," Jack remarked dryly, entirely unfazed by your thrashing as he casually strode around to the passenger side. As he yanked the heavy truck door open, you gripped the frame, glaring down at him upside down. "This is highly inappropriate for an attending!" you shouted.
Jack let out a dark, mocking scoff. "And cursing at your attending in the middle the street isn't?" You tried to scramble backward out of his iron grip, but with effortless, practiced precision, he deposited you firmly into the plush leather passenger seat.
Before you could even reach for the door handle to make a run for it, the door clicked shut, sealing you inside the heavily insulated, warm cabin. A second later, Jack jogged around the hood, climbed into the driver's seat, and closed his own door.
Jack let out a deep, steady breath, settling back into his seat as he turned his gaze entirely onto you. "This is kidnapping," you snapped, your teeth clicking together from the cold as you glared at him. "I can literally call the police on you right now."
He didn't blink. He just gave you that calm, unbothered look that always drove you crazy. "I'm not kidnapping you, Y/N. I only want to take you home on your birthday. Or wherever else you want to go. You shouldn't be out in this storm."
You let out a heavy, defeated sigh, your shoulders slumping against the expensive leather. "Fine. If you insist."
You sat there waiting for him to put the truck in drive, but he didn't move. He just looked at you expectantly, his hands resting lightly on the steering wheel. You furrowed your brows in deep irritation. "Don't expect a thank you. This is completely forced."
Suddenly, Jack shifted his weight, leaning across the center console and moving directly into your personal space. Your eyes widened in instant panic. You pressed your back flat against the passenger door, your heart hammering against your ribs.
"I won't give you a kiss!" you gasped, your voice rising in pitch. He didn't stop.
He kept coming until his face was only inches away from yours, so close you could feel the subtle warmth of his breath against your cold skin. He didn't reach for you, though. His hand swept right past your shoulder, his fingers wrapping firmly around the seatbelt strap. "I would never do anything that you didn't consent to," he murmured, his low voice vibrating right through you.
He pulled the belt across your chest with a slow, deliberate click, locking you safely into the seat before smoothly pulling back into his own space.
You instantly whipped your head away, staring desperately out the passenger window into the sheets of heavy rain. You closed your thighs tightly together, trying to squeeze away the sudden, betraying electricity that had just shot straight through your lower abdomen.
You tried to breathe through your mouth, desperately trying to purge the clean, intoxicating scent of his cologne from your nose. Fuck. You swallowed hard, your mind racing in sheer panic.
Were you really that desperate?
You quietly muttered your address, and Jack shifted the truck into drive, smoothly pulling out into the dark street. The heavy silence of the cabin was quickly replaced by a soft click as he turned on the radio, filling the space with a low, slow melody that vibrated gently through the speakers. Leaning your head against the headrest, you closed your eyes and let out a long breath, unconsciously humming along with the tune as the absolute exhaustion of the night shift finally caught up to you.
Gradually, your tensed shoulders began to relax. A deep, radiating warmth began to seep through your clothes, and you realized he had switched on the heated seats to help you thaw out from the storm. The heat was comforting, easing the tight knots in your back, but the sudden comfort only left your mind wandering down dangerous paths.
You sighed in content, but the warmth had your thoughts drifting to how incredibly stiff and pent up you had been lately. Between the endless shifts and the stress of your new apartment, you hadn't let your guard down in months. Your thoughts drifted to the man sitting just inches away from you, his quiet presence suddenly feeling entirely too loud. Wait, Jack? What the fuck?
Your eyes snapped open, your heart doing a sudden, panicked flip as you desperately tried to scrub the thought from your mind. "You okay?" Jack asked, his deep voice breaking the silence. You glanced over at his side profile, the faint green glow of the dashboard casting sharp shadows across his jawline. He looked entirely focused on the road, completely oblivious to the mental crisis happening in the passenger seat.
"Mhm," you hummed softly, forcing your voice to sound entirely casual as you quickly leaned back against the seat and stared out at the passing streetlights. The 15 minute drive blurred past in what felt like a matter of seconds, the truck finally slowed to a stop outside your apartment building
You hadn't even realized you've fallen asleep.
Somewhere between the relentless rhythm of the windshield wipers and the low hum of the engine, your body had simply given in. The storm outside had become white noise, the warmth inside the car wrapping around you like a heavy blanket after spending the evening soaked to the bone.
"We're here, sweetheart."
His voice reached you before you're fully awake. It slipped through the haze softly, and for a second you weren't even sure you actually heard him.
Your eyelids felt heavy as you slowly forced them open, blinking once until the blurry shapes in front of you began to sharpen.
Sweetheart?
Did he just call you sweetheart?
As you shift in your seat, something heavy slides slightly from your shoulder.
Your eyes dropped.
His dark blue coat.
Your brows knitted together immediately. The oversized fabric clutched your body and hugged you like you had it on for the entire night. You didn't even notice when the weight was put on you.
"When did.." you murmured, still staring at the coat. "When did you put this on me?"
"Didn't want you getting sick."
You looked back at him. "That wasn't my question."
"You were out."
"I really was", you admitted silently.
For some reason, the thought of him noticing you shivering, quietly taking off his jacket and draping it over your shoulders without waking you, settled somewhere uncomfortably deep inside your chest.
"..Thanks." I guess. "It took you long enough", he scoffed.
You rolled your eyes. "Don't make me take it back."
A faint smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. "I don't think you'd survive five seconds without it."
"Oh, please."
"You were shivering."
"I was not."
"You absolutely were."
Outside, thunder rumbles somewhere in the distance. Inside the car, neither of you moved and eventually, you let out a slow breath. "I should probably go."
"You should."
You reached down, your fingers searching lazily for the buckle of your seatbelt. Nothing.
You tried again.
Another attempt.
A quiet chuckle escaped him. "You missed."
"I know where it is", you argued harshly.
"Mhm."
"I do, Doctor Abbot." You shot him an unimpressed look. Before you can protest again, he leaned across the center console. The movement was slow enough that you saw it coming, yet somehow you're still completely unprepared for just how close he suddenly was.
His hand fell away from the edge of your seat, and he settled back into his own, clearing his throat almost imperceptibly before running a hand over the back of his neck. "You should get out."
His voice was steady and you decided not to move. Instead, you just looked at him.
For the first time all evening, Jack Abbott refused to meet your eyes. His attention stayed fixed stubbornly on the rain racing down the window, watching droplets collide and disappear beneath the relentless sweep of the wipers. His jaw tightened almost imperceptibly, the muscle feathering beneath his skin before he exhaled through his nose like he was trying to regain control over something neither of you has spoken aloud.
He felt it.
And now he was pretending he hadn't. Something about that realization settled heavily in your chest and it annoyed you. Who did he think he was?
You should have left.
Open the door, appreciate him for driving you home, hand him back his coat, and disappear upstairs before either of you did something you'd regret. Instead, your body moved before your mind has the chance to stop it.
It's reckless.
Ridiculous even.
Probably the stupidest decision you've ever made.
But you couldn't seem to care. You leaned across the center console again, closing the distance he had so carefully created. His brows knitted together ever so slightly as he finally looked at you, surprise flickering across his annoyingly gorgeous face.
"..What are you-"
You didn't even think about letting him finish and your fingers curled around the front of his collar, gripping the tight fabric firmly enough to pull him the slightest bit closer. His eyes widened not dramatically, but enough that you caught it and for the first time since you've met him, Jack Abbott looked genuinely caught off guard.
Ha!
Your heartbeat was so loud you're convinced he can hear it and you slowly breathed against his soft looking lips. Should I? You finally closed the final inch between you.
Your lips met his with more certainty than you actually felt, silencing whatever he was about to say. For one suspended heartbeat, the storm outside faded into nothing more than a distant murmur, the rain forgotten entirely as the world seemed to narrow to the impossible closeness between you.
He was so incredibly warm. You kissed him harder, slowly putting your right hand on his neck wanting him closer to you. His scent was intoxicating as you decide to take it a step further, climbing into his lap without breaking your lips apart. He puts one of his large hands around the back of your head, slowly building the tension between you two up, breathing against you.
As you moved closer you realized how intoxicating his scent was, like a drug that you couldn't get enough of. You rubbed against his lower abdomen, grabbing ahold of his silver curls, pulling it back and hearing him let out a low moan. You whimpered against his mouth as you asked him for more.
"This isn't right", he muttered against your swollen lips, making you kiss him again. "Shut up", you whispered, ignoring his words completely. "It's my birthday wish", you demanded, tensing up as he lowers his gaze.
Would he grant you your wish?
"You wanted this."
He barely gave you time to process before crashing his lips into yours again, one hand tangling in your hair while the other gripped your hip roughly. His tongue swiped along your lower lip demanding entry, which you willingly granted him. With a low hum of approval he licked into your mouth, his tongue sliding against yours feverishly as he tugged you even closer by your hip, making you feel his hardness against your thigh. He was kissing you feverishly, like a man starved, all the pent up frustration from seeing you walk around his house in scraps of clothing finally being released.
"Mhm, taste so fuckin' sweet baby." He murmured between filthy kisses, one of his large hands coming up to palm your left breast, making you arch into his palm.
"Jack-" you gasped, earning a low chuckle from him.
"Such a needy thing," He breathes heavily,
"You
want more, baby? Tell me what you want, use your words." You shivered at his words, your voice coming out more whiny than intended.
"Touch me, please."
Never begging a man my ass.
He groaned at your pleading tone, lust filled hazel eyes completely focused on your expression as his hand on your hip drifted lower, skimming over the waistband of your pants. "Well since you're asking so nicely." he murmured, voice dropping an octave, as his hand dipped beneath the waistband of your pajama shorts to teasingly trail his fingers along the edge of your underwear."Then how can I say no?"
He pulled away slightly to take in your flushed face, your tousled hair from his hands and kiss swollen lips, the sight making his cock twitch in his pants. "Lift your hips for me sweetheart." He urged, and you complied almost a little too eagerly, swiftly lifting your hips off the counter to help him tug your shorts and panties down in one go.
He let them fall onto the ground unceremoniously, before quickly grabbing your thighs to spread your legs further apart, almost letting out a strangled moan at the sight of your already glistening folds. "So fuckin pretty." His right hand ran up your thigh in a slow caress, making you whimper out his name at his teasing touch
"Impatient?" His smirk was downright filthy, as his finger was drawing a straight line up your folds, gathering your slick at his fingertip before holding it up in the dim kitchen light for you to see. "Look at that.. he drawled, mockingly holding the glistening digit up, your cheeks growing hot in embarrassment, "all that for me? You always get this wet when a man twice your age touches you?"
You whined in utter humiliation and desperation, before weakly pleading. "Stop teasing, please." you spread your legs wider for him, in hopes of making him loose his self control "I promise I'll be good, daddy."
The cold air hitting your wet pussy was making you shiver involuntarily. His smirk turned predatory at that, his slick finger delving between your folds immediately again, making you arch your back and let out a broken whine.
"Gonna be good for daddy, yeah? If you wanna be good you should start by keeping those pretty little noises down. Gonna wake the neighbors if you don't." He smirked, adding a second finger, pumping a little faster into your clenching hole before adding. "Unless you want them to hear." He watched you with a smug grin as you struggled to keep quiet with the way his fat fingers were fucking into you, drawing embarrassingly loud squelching sounds from your pussy.
All you could do was pray that the neighbors were All you could do was pray that the neighbors were well asleep and that they didn't wake up easily, but it was really hard to care much when Jack's thick fingers felt so good spreading you open. You bit your lip hard, almost drawing blood, when he pressed his thumb into your clit, a broken whine you couldn't suppress leaving you.
"Feels good, huh? Bet I can make it even better." He rasped, before ducking down and replacing his thumb on your clit with his tongue, repeatedly flicking against the bundle of nerves. Your hand flew to your mouth to muffle the pleasured cry you couldn't stop from escaping, your hips jerking helplessly into his mouth, trying to meet the rough pumps of his fingers.
You were reduced to a quivering, whining mess with the way he was fucking his fingers into you while suckling on your clit simultaneously, your hands flying down to tangle in his silver hair and press his face into your dripping cunt even harder and he just let you, shamelessly moaning into your cunt. The vibration sent a jolt of heat to you, almost sending you over the edge, as his fingers found that mushy spot inside, that had you seeing stars. Your eyes rolled back, back arching violently as you came all over his face, white flooding your vision, muffled moans of his name falling from your kiss swollen lips.r After your cries died down and he was satisfied with the mess he made of both you and him, he came back up, lips and chin glistening with a mixture of his spit and your juices. He was looking way to smug for someone who's half face was glistening with slick, and damn if that didn't turn you on even more.
He withdrew his hand, licking his fingers clean with that same infuriating smirk, before wiping his chin with his shirt. "That's one." He teased, making quick work of his shirt, which he unceremoniously dropped onto the ground to join your discarded clothes. Your legs were shaking, voice hoarse when you spoke. "That was..fucking incredible." Jack only smiled, eyes darkening as he pulled over your top. "Damn right it was. Got some more experience than those collage boys.
They don't deserve you ma. Don't even know how to handle a pretty thing like you."
Cocky bastard.
He was right though, they didn't. Most of the boys you've been with couldn't even make you come.
His hands trailed up your sides appreciatively until reaching your tits, large hands squeezing both at the same time, making you gasp out his name.
"Got some pretty fuckin' tits, ma. Gonna let me suck on em', yeah?" You nodded breathlessly, blushing at both the nickname and at the way he was shamelessly talking about your tits.
He didn't waist any time and closed his lips around one stiff bud with a filthy groan, sucking harshly while his hand kneaded the other one. He was being real noisy with it too, not bothering to hide the slurping sounds he made and the pained groans that slipped out of him as he started palming himself through his pants. All that had you rubbing your thighs together all over again, to get at least some kind of friction, heat pooling in your stomach as your poor pussy clenched around nothing.
Jack was too busy to care, mouth now latching onto your other tit, sucking and licking on your hardened peek as he squeezed the spit-slick one with his other hand like he was on a mission to make you cum just by squeezing your chest. He pulled back with a lewd pop, a string of saliva connecting his lips to your nipple before dripping down.
"Mmh love those tits. Fuckin perfect." he murmured, his tone making you bite your lip subconsciously. Jack's hand was still on the buldge in his pants, stroking in a slow tantalizing rhythm while taking in your fucked out and completely disheveled appearance, the thought that he was the reason you looked like this making his cock ache even more. You were growing impatient by the second, your poor pussy begging to be filled, still clenching around air.
"Please put it in, Jack."
"Well, fuck princess, can't say no to that now, can I?" Your throat went dry at the sight of it, the sheer outline of his cock through his boxers making your insides churn. You were staring wide eyed and he noticed, cocking a brow, before pulling his shirt over his head, leaving him in nothing but his boxers. You were convinced that everything about this man was huge now, not just his muscles, his shoulders and his toned arms, and you should ve expected it, really.
One look at him and everyone and their mom could tell that this man is packing, in more ways than one. "Quit starin' ma, turn around." His deep voice commanded, pulling you out of your haze and you complied a little too quickly, turning around with wobbly legs and bending over the kitchen counter, presenting yourself to him on a silver platter. Jack whistled lowly behind you, one of his calloused hands coming up to spread your ass cheeks, his mouth watering at the sight of your drenched folds, while his other hand started tugging his boxers down. He took himself in his hand slowly stroking, once, twice, before dragging his tip along your entrance, smearing precum, as you whined. Your body was acting pure instinct as you tried to push yourself back on him to maybe get the tip to slip inside, but clearly Jack was not having it, landing a mean slap on your ass that echoed through the quiet kitchen.
At the back of your mind you wondered if the old lady across the hall was asleep, but you were quickly brought back to reality by another slap that made you yelp. "Fuckin' impatient girl. You this needy for my cock?" He dragged his length through your folds, slicking himself with your juices. "Then take it." And with that he started slowly pushing in, inch by agonizing inch, making you moan so embarrassingly loud, it sounded downright pornographic. The man behind you just chuckled, bringing a big hand to your mouth to muffle the sounds that were escaping you.
"You wanna wake them?"
"Bet they wouldn't be too happy if they found out their little friend was fucking her attending." You just whimpered in response, the entire situation was just too fucked up to be real, but his fat cock too fucking practically splitting you in half from behind. Tears were trickling down your cheeks at the stretch, but the pain was quickly dissolving into pleasure. You started scratching his back open.
You were screwed. Disgusting. But all that didn't matter anymore when he started moving, first making you scream again. "Fuck- fuckin' tight pussy ma. You gotta relax for me, yeah?" All you could do was quietly moan against his hand, your brain completely empty because of the way he was splitting you open. And when his pace picked up and his hand fisted in your hair to pull your back into a mean arch you almost lost it. Your eyes rolled back as the wet slapping sounds of damp skin on skin combined with his soft panting and quiet grunts echoed through the kitchen, almost making you cum on the spot. "Fuck, relax baby-" he rasped, his mean pace not faltering,
"You're literally choking my dick." All you could do was stifle a whimper in response, already completely brainless from the way he was pounding into you.
His hand came down to press into your lower back, forcing your back into an even deeper arch, allowing his cock to reach your g-spot. Your eyes rolled into the back of your head as your hole clenched around him, making him chuckle.
"Found it, huh?" he picked up the pace, fat tip kissing your cervix repeatedly, the wet sounds echoing through the kitchen as his hand reached between your thighs to press down on your clit. You were seeing stars, the combined rough thrusts of his hips and the friction on your clit having you right on the edge.
ÂťCum for me, doll.ÂŤ
"Mama!"
You broke all three of your promises.
Fast forward through a blur of morning sickness and dizziness and a life altering realization: you were pregnant. That single, unforgettable night with your attending on your twenty-first birthday had changed everything. By the time you found out an abortion wasn't even legal, leaving you with no choice but to carry the pregnancy to term.
pairing: attending!jack abbot x mom!nurse! reader pt.2
summary: after your daughter gets sick in the middle of the night you have no choice but to take her to the pitt. jack finds out that you've been hiding his daughter from him. will he forgive you and move on after your mistake?
content warnings: 18+, MDNI. angst with an happy ending, hiding of child, illness with treatment, hurt/comfort, heavy angst, inconsiderate behavior, crying, overwhelmed reader, fluff, reader thinks she's a bad mom, fainting, hospital stuff, medical talks, date night, sensitive topics, smut, p in v, jack talks you through it, dirty talk, cursing, jack being a gentlemen, birth control, protection, breeding kink, cum inside, pet names (sweetheart, dollface, baby, pretty girl..)
word count: 8.4k
a/n: read part 1 "reminder" before this! this took me forever..i also got my first two hate messages. pls just don't read my work instead of being hurtful
You were pregnant with Jack's baby.
It was already too late for an abortion leaving you with no choice but to carry the pregnancy to term. Jack was in his late forties and at the peak of his medical career and you refused to let yourself become an unwanted burden in his perfectly organized life.
You were only twenty one fresh out of nursing school and you felt like you had completely ruined your future before it even started. That was the terrifying thought that plagued your mind initially.
Yet no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't erase the memory of that intimate night with the most captivating man you had ever met. intimacy was deeply bonding but your rational mind knew those intense feelings couldn't possibly be reciprocated after just a few weeks of stolen glances and one passionate night.
It was never casual.
It was one of your flaws, you trusted too fast and you fell even faster. The day the pregnancy test turned positive you handed in your resignation quietly securing a nursing position at a completely different hospital across town to erase your tracks.
"Why?"
That was the only question Jack asked you on your final day his voice rough with a mixture of irritation and hurt. He had cornered you up on the roof the exact spot where you had first realized he was human beneath that strong attending armor.
You knew deep down that Jack was an honorable man. He would never abandon you if he knew the about it.
But you also knew about his late wife.
He was a grieving widower who had loved so deeply and you knew he would never get over her. You refused to ever be anyone's second choice a mere distraction to fill an empty void. So you chose to be selfish this one time.
"I just don't want you anymore, Jack," you lied keeping your eyes locked onto the sprawling city skyline below. You didn't dare meet his hazel eyes knowing one look into them would shatter the walls you build up made of glass.
"Fuck," Jack muttered, the rare curse slipping out as he ran a frustrated hand through his silver hair. "Did I do something wrong, doll?" You almost folded right then and there.
The vulnerable edge to his favorite endearment nearly brought you to your knees, but you clamped your jaw shut. Turning your back to him you took a step toward the exit door, ready to leave his life for good. "You deserve so much better, Jack."
And that ladies and gentlemen was the end of a love story that did not even have the chance to bloom.
Three years passed.
Hazel was two years old now a wonderful, stubborn little girl who had become the entire meaning of your life. Unfortunately, she was also a crybaby who constantly demanded your undivided attention making those first grueling months after her birth a battle of pure exhaustion.
Thank God you were still in contact with Dana.
You had always liked the charge nurse during your brief time down in the pit and you still vividly remembered the day you resigned how she had literally chased you down the hallway just to slip a sticky note with her private number into your hand. You hadnât dared to reach out for nine long months terrified of bothering her or leaving a paper trail.
But one night when Hazel endless crying became too much to bear, you finally cracked. You called Dana in the middle of night pacing your tiny living room and pulling at your hair as you begged for advice. From that moment on Dana became your lifeline.
She helped you out countless times, invited you over for home cooked dinners and fiercely promised that she wouldnât tell a single soul at the hospital that she was still chatting with you. Deep down a nagging gut feeling told you that Dana already knew exactly who the father was.
It was a massive, unspoken elephant in the room. For a long time, you aggressively brushed it off lying through your teeth that it was just a one night stand with a guy whose name you couldn't even remember. Dana never pressured you but she wasn't foolish. After a year of friendship as she watched you rock the toddler she casually remarked that the baby looked exactly like someone she knew letting out a knowing chuckle.
She was like the mother you never had.
You knew she was waiting for you to crack, and because you trusted her completely by then you finally let it out "Itâs Jack's." you whispered. You would never forget the look on Dana's face. She didn't look shocked at all if anything she looked deeply satisfied that you finally had the balls to say it out loud.
Hearing his name leave your lips for the first time in years felt like a punch. "Are you ever gonna tell him?" the older woman asked quietly. You could still recall the way your throat tightened as hot tears threatened to spill over. Part of you desperately wanted to but your pride and your fears and the ticking clock made it feel entirely too late.
You slowly shook your head. True to her word Dana respected your boundary even if her tight expression made it very clear that she thought keeping the secret was entirely unfair to the attending.
One night while you were visiting her again the peace broke down the moment she got a call from the hospital. They were desperately short staffed and being the dedicated charge nurse she was Dana had no choice but to rush out and cover the midnight shift.
She left you alone at her house reassuring you that her family was already sound asleep. The plan was for you to get some rest but Hazel had other ideas.
The exact second the front door clicked shut the two year old completely fell apart. You had stopped breastfeeding her about two months ago and you couldn't help but wonder if this sudden meltdown was a delayed reaction to that massive change.
Desperate to quiet her down you began pacing the living room floor rocking her little body in your arms offering her a bottle of milk and softly humming her favorite song. Nothing worked. Your chest tightened with panic, aware that you were standing in the middle of someone else's dark house while a toddler screamed at the top of her lungs.
Suddenly, the hallway lights flicked on. You whipped around to see Dana's husband Benji shuffling down the stairs in his pjamas his sleep mask pushed up onto his forehead. Mortification washed over you making you feel incredibly bad and so embarrassed. "I am so, so sorry, Benji," you rushed out, your hands shaking as you tried to muffle Hazelâs cries against your shoulder.
"She just won't settle. I think it's best if we head out in a few minutes so we don't disturb anyone else." Benji offered a warm, tired wave, trying to soothe your anxiety. "You don't have to leave, kid. Here, let me help and we can try to do something to calm her down."
You knew better. The house was small and Hazelâs high pitched wails were waking up the rest of the kids. That was the last thing you wanted to do. Reeling from the guilt you quickly grabbed your things and shook your head. "Thank you for having me, really," you managed to say over the noise pulling the screaming toddler tightly into your chest before almost stumbling out the front door.
"Anytime, Y/N."
You hurried down the apartment stairs in a rushed motion, praying the neighbors wouldn't wake up at twelve o'clock at night. You were so profoundly exhausted. Initially you had come over because Dana had graciously offered to babysit Hazel for the next two days during her scheduled time off.
But you knew how the hospital worked when staff shortages hit the pit, duty called, and Dana always answered. Standing out in the dark parking lot you pulled up your phone and requested an Uber. Hazel was still crying hysterically, her tiny hands pressing flat against your face physically pushing you away in her distress.
"Hazel, please," you whispered, your voice cracking.
Your energy was completely drained, a heavy, familiar dizziness washing over your vision. You could feel your blood pressure bottoming out a direct consequence of neglecting your own meals for the past few days. You felt like you were about to collapse right there on the asphalt. But as you readjusted her weight your hand brushed against her face and you gasped. Her skin felt like pure fire.
You quickly pressed the back of your hand to her forehead, your heart dropping into a cold pit of terror. A fever and it was dangerously high. How on earth had you not noticed it sooner?
Adrenaline instantly overrode your dizziness. You checked her breathing immediately letting out a sharp sigh of relief when you confirmed it was steady though shallow. Next, you needed to make sure she was fully responsive. "Hazel, look at me. Come on baby girl open your eyes for Mommy," you pleaded.
Her eyelashes fluttered and she slowly opened her glassy eyes. "Mommy.. 'm cold," she whimpered her tiny voice trembling.
"I know, baby, I've got you," you murmured holding her close to provide comfort. The headlights of the Uber finally pulled into the lot and you moved quickly toward the car.
Once inside you made her feel as comfortable as possible while trying to help her body regulate its temperature. The driver glanced in the rearview mirror startled by the situation. "Where to?"
"The nearest hospital, please", you replied your voice cracking under your breath.
The car surged forward into the night as the driver accelerated. As the car sped through the streets of Pittsburgh you kept a close eye on your girl monitoring her breathing and responsiveness. She let out a small whimper and your heart ached seeing her in such distress. You pulled out your phone and dialed Dana's number needing to reach someone who understood the medical urgency.
Her fever spiked and you knew it wasn't normal.
The line clicked open and Dana's voice filled the car. "What happened?" she asked instantly her tone sharp. She knew you wouldn't call during her shift unless it was critical.
"Irregular fever," you reported your nurse training instantly taking over as you forced your voice into an objective tone. "Breathing is shallow, tachypneic, and she is showing severe lethargy with minimal responsiveness. I've already down dressed her to a single layer to assist with cooling and conducted a full body check for any petechiae or purpura. Sheâs completely unyielding to antipyretic measures and I need a baseline stat."
On the other end of the line Dana's voice cut through your hectical breakdown. "Take a breath, Y/N. You did everything exactly right. Tell me you are on your way to this ED."
"Yes," you whispered aggressively swallowing the heavy lump of terror rising in your throat. "We're minutes away."
"I'll be waiting for you right at the triage entrance. Just get here," Dana said firmly.
"Thank you so much," you breathed disconnecting the call.
You shoved the phone into the pocket of your sweatpants and immediately turned your focus back to the bundle in your arms. "Hazel? Hazel, sweetie, look at Mommy." She only blinked once, her glazed eyes staring blankly through you without a single sound. Your stomach did a violent flip.
As a professional you knew exactly what this clinical picture pointed toward..severe systemic infection, meningitis, or early stage sepsis.
No.
Your own body was starting to give out the low blood pressure making the edges of your vision blur but you bit your bottom lip hard enough to taste the sharp metallic tang of blood. You forced yourself back into the zone. You were strong. You had to be. The Uber pulled up hard against the curb of the ER ambulance bay.
You bolted out of the car sprinting through the automatic doors. True to her word Dana was standing right there alongside Josephine, the on duty pediatric attending. Dana didn't waste a single second. She stepped into your space and took Hazel's burning form from your arms. "We've got her. Let's get her straight to the examination table in room four," Dana commanded, moving with practiced urgency.
You stumbled along behind them into the treatment room, your knees shaking. "I need a trauma attending in here now!" Josephine shouted down the hallway as they laid Hazel out on the sterile white sheets. Before you could process the demand a familiar shadow fell over the doorway. You sucked in a painful breath as Jack Abbott came into the room.
Time had apparently stood completely still for him. He hadn't aged a single day, looking exactly like the striking, commanding man who had haunted your memory for three years. Of all the nights and all the hospitals it had to be his floor. You saw the exact minute his posture locked up. His sharp eyes slammed into yours a flash of shock piercing through his professional veneer.
His intense gaze snapped directly down to the tiny girl on the table, his doctor instincts overriding everything else. "Alright, what do you have on her?" Jack asked rapidly grabbing his stethoscope and leaning low over Hazel to check her breath sounds.
"I don't have numbers, but I assessed her by hand in the car," you spoken up and your voice was remarkably steady despite your fast heart rate. "She has a refractory fever, skin is burning to the touch but her extremities are freezing and severely mottled. She is completely obtunded barely responsive and whimpering. Central pulse is weak and thready..and her peripheral capillary refill is easily over four seconds."
Jackâs eyes flicked to you for a fraction of a second registering the medical report. "Noted. Dana, get her out of the room."
Your eyes widened in pure panic. "No!" you shouted, instinctively lunging forward to grab Hazel's small hand. "No, let me stay!"
"Come on, hun. You gotta trust them right now," Dana mumbled quickly her strong grip wrapping around your upper arm and firmly dragging you away from the bedside.
Josephine pulled the privacy curtain shut with a sharp, metallic screech, cutting off your view of Jack as he began barking out orders for an IV line and fluids. Dana pulled you out into the corridor, your fingers tangling in your hair as you fought against her hold. "I need to see her, Dana. I need to be in there!"
"She is in the safest hands in this entire building," Dana insisted holding you by the shoulders and forcing you to look at her. "You know that. And your intake report was good, they know exactly what they're fighting because of you. They are going to help her. Let them work."
You swallowed hard, the fight draining from your limbs as you slowly nodded. You stepped back against the corridor wall, letting Dana pass by to enter the fray, leaving you alone in the hallway with the muffled sounds of Jack's voice fighting to save your daughter.
I failed Hazel.
I failed Jack.
I failed my Dad.
It was a never ending cycle and it was caused by me. I felt a wave of shame overcome me again, recalling all of the moments in my life where I made decisions that ruined myself of someone else. It was a pattern and I could recognize that I was the issue.
You slumped against the cold corridor wall right across from the room tucked just behind the main reception desk. Sliding down you began counting the agonizing minutes, finding yourself praying for only the second time in your entire life. Despite everything you trusted Jack. In your eyes, he was the absolute best doctor in this hospital which was exactly why you had disliked him so intensely three years ago.
It used to annoy the hell out of you how effortlessly brilliant he was at his job, and your mind drifted back to all those high stakes nights down in the pit when you had witnessed him save patients from the brink. Closing your tired eyes you focused entirely on your ragged breathing fighting a losing battle against the heavy dizziness trying to drag you down to the floor.
A new wave of panic set in as you thought about the aftermath of tonight. Would he figure it out? If he did, how much would he absolutely resent you for keeping his daughter a secret? Would a powerful man like Abbott try to take her away from you? You wouldn't be able to survive a single month without her. She was your entire world your only lifeline.
Forcing your eyes open through the exhaustion, you saw the privacy curtain push back. Jack was heading right in your direction. He was barely three meters away when you lunged forward, closing the distance instantly and grabbing his forearms. "How is she? Is she okay?" you gasped, your eyes wide with desperate terror.
He was visibly taken aback by the sudden impact of your grip, but his medical composure locked right back into place. He looked down at you, his deep voice carrying the reassuring Abbott authority. "It's pneumonia. But she's stable now. We've got her on a heavy course of IV antibiotics, and her oxygen saturation is finally climbing back to where it needs to be. She's going to sleep for the next few hours, but she is out of the woods. You made a good call by down dressing her and bringing her straight to me. You saved her tonight."
A tear slipped down your cheek as a massive stone suddenly dropped from your heavy heart, a breathless, involuntary smile crossing your lips. "Thank you, Jack," you whispered.
And just like that the fragile thread holding you together snapped. The adrenaline that had fueled your sprinting your waiting and your terror vanished in an instant. Like a physical slap to the face all the strength left your body. The entire world spun violently out of control as your knees buckled giving in to the absolute exhaustion. As the darkness rushed in you felt a pair of strong hands catch you protecting your head from the hard linoleum floor.
You forced your heavy legs to move walking toward the elevator as a suffocating wave of anxiety crept up your spine. It was time to face the devastating consequences of your actions. You started nervously humming under your breath desperately trying to map out a way to start the conversation but your mind went completely blank.
Loss of words.
The loud chime of the elevator doors opening suddenly rattled you and you slowly stepped out onto the rooftop. He was already up there. Jack was standing with his back to you leaning his broad forearms heavily on the railing as he stared out into the dark.
You let out a quiet cough to make your presence known stepping forward to stand next to him but you deliberately kept an insane amount of distance between you enough space for about four people to stand between your frames. He didnât talk. Silence stretched on and the irony of it cut you to the bone.
"I donât like the silent treatment," you had murmured to him that night wrapped up in his sheets while cuddling in bed.
It was the moment you had bared your soul and told him about the trauma of your father. It had been the most vulnerable and intimate moment you had ever shared with another human being. Jack remembered that rule and you knew his absolute silence right now was a deliberate choice. He had every single right to ignore you.
"I understand you," you started your voice small against the nighttime wind.
He didnât answer right away. He let a minute pass. A whole agonizing minute of dumb silence before his voice finally cut through the dark. "I donât understand you."
You instantly looked down at the street below too thoroughly ashamed to look at his face. "I had my reasons, Abbott."
"Itâs Abbott now?" he questioned.
"I donât deserve to call you by your name."
"Youâre the mother of my child..." he muttered his voice thick with an emotion you had never heard from him before.
"I'm sorry," you apologized softly.
You knew the words were empty. You knew they didnât help heal the void you had caused.
"You stole three years," Jack said his jaw clenching as he finally turned his head to look directly at your profile. "I missed your entire pregnancy. I missed her birth, her very first steps and the first time she ever called out for a parent. Why?"
"I was twenty one, Jack!" you turned to him, the words exploding from your chest as the tears finally spilled over. "You were at the high of your medical career. I couldn't just trap you like that."
Jack let out a hollow laugh that lacked any real mirth. "You were being selfish, Y/N. Donât start wrapping it up in an excuse about protecting me-"
"I was scared, not selfish!" you interrupted him whipping your head around to meet his intense gaze. You paused, your chest heaving as you swallowed down an ugly sob before continuing. "I grew up without my mother, Jack. I didn't know shit about parenting. And you..you meant so much to me. Too much. Do you have any idea what people would have said about a twenty one year old nurse getting pregnant by the top attending? They would have called me a gold digger. A baby trapping bitch."
"And running away was the solution?" Jack snapped stepping across the distance between you his eyes mirroring pain. "You couldn't have at least talked to me?"
"I was terrified of how youâd react," you cried out, your voice cracking as the wind whipped across the roof.
"That's a cop-out, Y/N," Jack cut you off, his tone sharp and raw. "I spent four months completely unraveled over you. I was falling for you, and you damn well knew it."
"Is that why you fucked me with your wedding ring on?"
Shit.
The words tore out of you before your brain could stop them. You didn't mean to weaponize his grief but it was your toxic reflex the moment you felt backed into a corner you lashed out to draw blood.
A cold spike of panic hit your chest. You needed to watch your mouth he had the money, the status and the legal leverage to destroy you in a custody battle if he wanted to. "I'm sorry," you whispered instantly, looking away.
"I shouldn't have said that."
"But you meant it," Jack countered. "It's what hurt you the most. Stop lying to me, Y/N. At the very least you owe me honesty tonight."
A wave of intense guilt washed over you making you feel physically sick. He was an honorable man and the fact that you were calculating legal threats proved how warped your own thinking was.
He wasn't malicious.
He was just devastated. Turning your back to him you let the hot tears spill over your cheeks. Your legs gave out completely, and you dropped into a tight squat on the concrete burying your face in your hands as ugly sobs finally broke free.
Why couldn't you have been whole when you met him?
You had needed a man like him your entire life but your own baggage had ruined it. "I didn't deserve a man like you, Jack," you choked out, your shoulders shaking violently.
"How was I supposed to build a family with you when I didn't even know how to survive myself?" Through the blur of your fingers, you saw his leather boots step into your space.
Jack stood over you for a tense second before he bent his knees to drop down to your level.
You caught the faint grunt that escaped his throat a quiet reminder of the old injury from his military days. "Get up off the floor, Y/N. I can't stand seeing you look defeated," he said softly. He gave up on his knees sliding his back down against the cold railing until he was sitting flat on the concrete right beside you. "I don't know how to fix this," you whispered pulling your hands away from your wet face.
Jack didn't hesitate. He reached across the small gap between you his large and warm hand settling on your trembling forearm. He didn't pull you closer but his thumb began to trace slow, grounding circles against your skin.
"We'll figure it out..doll."
Doll.
"How?" you whispered finally forcing yourself to look up and meet his Hazel eyes completely lost and terrified of what the future held. Jack didn't hesitate. He looked right back at you his gaze certain. "Date me."
"What?!" The word burst out of you as you abruptly whipped your head toward him your heart doing a violent chaotic flip in your chest. "I want to treat you better this time," he said his deep voice thick with a reassurance that shook you to your core.
"I want to take care of you. And I want to take care of our girl. Let me do this, Y/N." The sheer weight of his words shattered the last of your defenses.
Before your brain could even process the confession your body moved on its own. You lunged throwing your arms tightly around his neck and burying your face into his shoulder. You clung to him your hands gripping his blue scrubs as heavy sobs broke free once again but this time the tears felt different.
He wonât leave me.
He wonât leave me.
He wonât leave me like Dad did.
It had been two months
Months in which absolutely everything had changed.
Despite your refusal to take a single dime of his money Jack had completely bypassed your pride by setting up monthly payments to your card, stubbornly insisting it was for Hazel. The sheer amount of money was far too much to just be for a little girl leaving no doubt in your mind about what he was really doing. Trusting him with Hazel for the weekends worked out well enough for the first month until your daughter decided she was done playing along with the split custody routine.
Whenever she was home with you, she spent the night crying out for "Papa!" and the moment she was dropped off at her dad's, she would weep inconsolably for "Mama!"
After several midnight phone calls spent laughing tiredly over the little one's stubbornness Jack decided to take matters into his own hands and asked you to move into his place. You initially refused but the second he dropped his weapon reminding you that it was entirely for Hazel's well being you found yourself utterly incapable of saying no.
Hazel absolutely adored Jack.
You found yourself smiling more than ever just watching the two of them interact.
He was so careful with her and even though she had been a bit passive and cautious around him at first she adjusted quickly and let him into her heart. Her behavior kinda reminded you of someone else you knew all too well.
Thinking about how much your relationship with Jack had evolved brought a soft smile to your lips.
Toward the end of that second month he asked you out on an official date. You said yes trusting Dana to look after Hazel for the evening. She happily accepted the babysitting duty and the two of you finally went out. It was an enjoyable night after such a long time and for the first time in years you felt like yourself again.
He was the ultimate gentleman.
He took care of your every need, paid for dinner, made you laugh effortlessly and never once talked down to you. He was the rare exception to every rule you had about men and you deeply appreciated the fact that you had him in your life. Jack knew exactly how much it meant to you, too. Though you were incredibly shy at first you let your guard down and opened up reminding him of the fiercely loyal heart hidden beneath your defensive exterior.
And after what felt like an absolute eternity you had a night of genuine calmness. You hadn't prioritized your own needs and wants for a very long time and the emotional release was overwhelming in the best way possible. Jack made sure to give you a special night. One defined by his attentiveness and respect for your boundaries. He made you feel valued and cherished helping you finally let go of the stress you had been carrying.
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"How longâs it been since someone touched you like this?" He murmured running a fingernail over and then pinching gently at either sensitive nipple through the fabric just to feel the way you jerked against him.
"T-too long." You managed between a sucking gasp hands gripping the edge of the counter so tight that your knuckles ached with the effort.
His hands slipped lower, groping shamelessly at your ass your thighs at the slip of plump fat peeking out below your modest skirt.
"Câmon, spread âem for me." He prompted toeing at the inside of your bare ankle.
On wobbling legs you shimmied your feet apart and simultaneously a big hand came to rest on your lower back rubbing soothingly up the line of your spine before he pressed down at the crux.
"Arch it now, câmon, you still remember how donâtcha doll?"
Swallowing hard you leaned forward, following the pressure of his palm until your chest hit the countertop and your hips lifted into a sinful arch. The sensation was palpable the marble smooth and cool against your skin through your blouse, tickling where his fingers had pinched your nipples to sensitive little peaks.
With a pleased sound his hand shifted slipping down to instead tug at the hemline of your skirt hiked a little higher now thanks to your vulnerable position. He slid the fabric up slowly revealing more and more of your silky skin, the air pebbling it to goosebumps before finally he hit the curve of your ass, and he paused.
"Well well, what do we have here?"
A snort sounded from behind you, and you buried your head in the crook of your arms with the realisation of what he was surely seeing. "Oh my god", you whined frantically, shaking your head, face beginning to heat, "just hurry up and take them off!"
Instead of doing as you asked he looped a thick finger beneath the tie of your cheetah print bikini bottoms and tugged back far enough that when he released it the elastic snapped against the skin of your hip. You jerked forward at the nip of pain, frowning backward at him from over the curve of your shoulder.
"Nah, need a good look at these first", he chuckled, flourishing the taunt with a low whistle that had your blood pumping ever hotter. "Scandalous, sweetheart. You wear these to the local pool?"
"Of course not!" You exclaimed furiously stuttering a little as he began to grope greedy handfuls of your bare ass, "can you-hn!-imagine what the other moms would say?"
"Mhm, oh yeah", he purred, admiring the way the patterned material bunched beneath his grasp, "can just hear the jealous women now."
He ran a thumb ever so softly down the centre of your cheeks, tracing where the fabric dipped into what had become a rather cheeky g string. The bikini had fit modesty four years ago though those years were long behind you now body filled out and softened now with the passage of time and the demands of motherhood.
"Yâknow they talk big, talk mean, because deep down theyâre jealous."
"Jealous?" You mouthed peeking over your shoulder with lifted brows.
He tugged one looped tie of the waistband free, drinking in the sight of your newly bare skin as the fabric slid down with half lidded and hungry eyes.
"Mhm, âcause youâre the most gorgeous woman in the whole damn town", he hummed, "and what do you think theyâre gonna say when they find out what weâre doing right now, huh?"
He finally worked the last knot of the bikini bottoms loose letting the sinful cheetah print slide down your thighs and land in a crumpled heap at your feet beside your apron. You buried your face into the countertop, breaths coming heavy now with the cool air kissing your now utterly bare lower half.
His fingers replaced the delicate brush of his thumb and slipped down between your spread legs, teasing over your bare slit.
You choked out an incoherent plea, for what exactly you werenât sure, though any thought slipped away entirely when his fingertips found your clit and you all but collapsed into the bench at the contact, soft belly and forehead pressed hard against the marble.Â
"Oh, Jack.." you groaned into the countertop, lips grazing the cool surface, humid now with your panting breath.Â
You were suddenly thankful that he hadn't turned you over, hadn't guided you into the bedroom with peppered kisses and plush sheets. You didnât need gentle right now. Didnât need soft sweet missionary while holding hands you needed the bite of teeth and the graze of nails, calloused hands gripping tight until you bruised. You needed hard and rough and wrong, and thankfully Jack Abbot was all of those things.Â
"Fuck me." He growled fingers beginning to rub tight little circles into you, "leaving you all alone ân empty all the time its just not right."
You couldnât answer mind utterly empty aside from the feeling of his rough fingers grazing over your long neglected clit, the way you could feel yourself flutter when he dipped inside just an inch to slick his fingers with you before he was smearing it back over your twitching nub.
"âSâokay, Iâm here now, isnât that right sweetheart?"
With his spare hand he tugged one of your legs up until you got the hint and lowered your knee to the countertop. His thumb hooked beneath your leg, pressing down to spread you ever wider.
He whistled, gazing greedily down at the sight of you spread so easily below him. Eyes drinking in the stretch marks striping over your waist, scars silvery in the cool light, the spattering of little dimples worn into the fat of your thighs and your ass. His other hand continued to work dutifully between your thighs, each rub beginning to sound sticky with the effort.
"Look at you, look so perfect like this", He lifted a thumb, pressing the digit to your puckered rim.
You moaned something unintelligible, rocking back onto his hand forcing his fingers to slip up through your folds now painted in the sticky mess of your arousal. He chuckled behind you, watching the way you were all but grinding yourself on his fingers. With a suddenness that made you whine he tugged his hand free, and the delicious pleasure of his touch was gone along with the simmering heat creeping to a boil in your belly.
"Donât have any condoms, sweetheart", he murmured regretfully like he had the sudden intention to stop.Â
"Doesnât matter, promise I'm on birth control", you pleaded wiggling your hips like you could glean just a lick of friction from the motion, though the only thing it earned you was the mild slide of the countertop beneath, "please Jack..need to feel you all of you."
Jack groaned behind you, and a hand came to rest over your ass, pinching lightly before he applied a light slap just to watch the motion ripple over your plump skin.
âFuck, doll,â Jack breathed, "youâre making it real hard for me tâ make good choices right now."
Then came the metallic hum of a zipper being tugged slowly downward. If nothing else the sound was a trigger stoking the pulsing throb between your thighs so incessant now that it was beginning to ache.
Before you could offer any further words of encouragement you felt it, a thick heat pressed against your rear Jack, slotting his hips against yours. With a thrilled little zip of adrenaline you realized he wasnât going to bother with working you open slowly, he wasn't going to sweetly and tenderly stretch you with each of his fingers like a real lover might. What you felt now slipping through your slick folds was him, all of him plain and raw.
"Take a deep breath, sweetheart", he murmured breath hot against your skin.
You could barely hear the words for the sound of your own pulse hammering in your ears. Acquiescing, you parted your lips and sucked in a long lungful of air. Jack waited until he heard your breath begin to fray at the edges air drawn into the very corners of your lungs before he nudged forward and knocked it clean out of you.
You choked on the next breath, struck by a searing sting as he pushed inside. Inch after inch after thick inch stretched you wider than youâd been in years. It was stunning the culmination of sensation the solid press of his broad form against your back, the weight of him sinking inside. Hot and tight and utterly consuming a rise of feelings you'd long since forgotten.
"Oh my God.." you whined the sound pitched high and breathy squirming against the marble though his presence left very little space to move.
"God took me away from you. Made us spend three years apart. It's not God making you feel this way, it's me. Focus on me."
"Jack!"
"Sh, thatâs it, just a little more", he shushed, though there was nothing soothing about the harsh press of his hips, "Shhh..nearly there, just let me.."
And with a final firm nudge, you were full.
"There you go, mmm-..thatâs it sweetheart, good girl."
To his credit, he allowed you a few moments grace just to acclimatize. You could feel him, every inch. Every pulsing vein decorating that thick shaft, every indulgent curve, the sticky head kissing so deep that a delicious little ache was beginning to bloom alongside the desirous pit of heat in your gut.Â
"There you go", he soothed, "just relax for me."
You barely had the wherewithal to comprehend the cocktail of sensations before he was moving, rocking his hips in tight shallow little thrusts against your rear, kept nice and deep.
"Hm! Mhm! Hah.. ah!.." the sounds slipped free without thought without care knocked loose by each new buck of his hips.
"Fuck sweetheart, can see why we got a whole kid" Jack grunted, hand clenched into a fist over your skirt, scrunched into a bundle at your waist, "No wonder I didn't wanna pull outta this perfect fuckinâ pussy."
Your brain might have forgotten what it felt like to be fucked properly but your body certainly hadnât. Despite the lack of prep and despite the years you'd been left empty and neglected your slick walls still sucked him in easily, pussy stretched and clenching desperately around his length like it was made just to take him.
"..There Jack, ha..right there!â You cried jostling limply back and forth with the force it.
Your bare toes curled where they were splayed limply to the side, slipper long since knocked free, abandoned along some stretch of tile. The other was beginning to come loose, slipping from your dangling foot with each thrust as you found yourself pushed further and further along the countertop.
"Right here?" He teased, hips angled until he hit a spot so tender that your eyes rolled into your skull and your lashes fluttered, "Yeah, feels good, huh pretty girl?"
pretty girl..
You whined with a limp nod slack jawed. The skin of your cheek slid over the smooth countertop, jammed forward with each firm thrust the marble slick and wet with your pooling spit.
"Oh, you like that do you?â
His steady movements slowed to a torturous roll. Long aching thrusts pulled out until just the tip remained, before he slid back inside so deep that your legs were sent into a pleasured wobble.
âWanna be a mom again, âs that it? Câmon then pretty girl, show me just how bad you want it."
You barely had the wherewithal to answer, certainly not enough to tell him that it wouldn't happen again. So instead you simply ignored the trembling of your legs and pushed backward, hips rolling to meet each of his firm thrusts.
For maybe the first time since you'd met the man, you watched Jack stutter. For a few long moments he did nothing but watch you fuck yourself open on him through low lidded eyes using him shamelessly as he stood slack jawed, utterly lost in the rhythmic vision of himself disappearing inside only to slip back out glossy and coated with you.
It was only when you whined that he was tugged back to reality his hand coming to grope at the fat of your ass slamming you back down on his cock again and again until you squealed.
"Shit, thatâs it..knew you had it in you.." He was panting now words beginning to slur a little at the edges as he lost himself in your silky heat.
You nodded your head mindlessly squeaking out a sharp noise of surprise when his palm came down to slap the swell of your ass hard. The sizzle of pain dipped lower instantly dribbling into the pool of heat bubbling in your lower stomach.
You felt yourself clench with the residual sting of his handprint and he groaned leaning forward to drape his abdomen over the curve of your spine. You felt him nose at your nape nipping lightly before his lips pressed flat and he began to suck a bruise into the fevered skin there. You writhed smacking limply at the countertop either side of your head fingers curled and nails scratching mindlessly into the glossy marble.Â
"Missed you, baby."
He spoke the words into your skin like a promise and you could feel his nose nudging at your nape at the little hair curling there wet with sweat. His thrusts had softened somewhat turned wide and sloppy at the edges as he instead ground himself into you. You simply squirmed against the weight of him, clenching and twitching helplessly around his cock.
"Ah- ah! Hah! ha- ah!" You panted sweet little sizzles of pleasure zipping down your spine each time he rocked your forward and the motion forced your clit against the counter rubbing in a slick glide over the marble sticky where your collective arousal was beginning to pool.Â
"Gonna give it tâ me arenât you?" He pleaded, clearly just as gone as you were, "gonna let me cum inside, huh? Gonna gimme another baby?"
Another?
You didn't have time to question him, didn't have time to think about anything at all, not with the way your belly was burning a hot sizzling ache set to spill over with just one more thrust, just one more..
"Shit!" He cursed, and your own eyes rolled skyward.
With a final particularly vicious buck your vision went white as a snowbank and suddenly you were cumming, hard. Harder than you think youâd cum in years.
You felt his forehead hit the space between your shoulder blades as he collapsed muttered out a string of curses and low groans as he rutted himself into you hips stuttering in a wild hump. You could feel him pulsing deep inside throbbing in hard little kicks against your clenching walls as he filled you.
A week later.
"I want Daddy!" Hazel whined from her car seat aggressively kicking the back of your chair.
You let out a heavy sigh rubbing the bridge of your nose as you steered through the city traffic. "Keep your shirt on, kid. We're almost there." You seriously couldn't compete with him anymore. You had spent the last two hours trying to build the ultimate living room fort but Hazel had completely checked out relentlessly demanding to go see her father.
It was unreal..the second Jack Abbott entered her life she became a total attention hog.
Throwing your hands up in defeat, you finally barked, "Fine, you win!" You quickly threw his favorite homemade meal into a plastic container packed a few snacks and threw the whole thing into your bag before hauling her out to the car.
Hazel was currently having the time of her life in the back kicking her legs and singing completely out of tune totally smug about getting her way.
Hazel, you little shit.
You mentally noted that you desperately needed to work on your boundary setting..but after the incredible night you and Jack had shared the week before you were floating on enough good energy to last you the rest of the month.
Stepping into the Emergency Department, the sharp click of the automatic doors welcomed you back into the organized chaos of the pit. Dana and Robby caught your eye from behind the central desk throwing you a brief wave. You marched over shifting Hazel's squirming weight onto your left hip.
"She was staging a full blown mutiny at home," you told them rolling your shoulders as Hazel practically tried to launch herself out of your arms to scan the busy floor.
"Smart girl wants to see her dad", Robby muttered.
Before Dana could even poke fun at your parenting struggles a low voice rumbled from the corridor behind you. "Look who decided to grace us with their presence."
A genuine smile broke across your face as you turned to see Jack walking toward you. Hazel let out an absolute screech of pure joy, yelling, "Papa!" while reaching her chubby arms out.
Jack stepped right into your space scooped her up like she weighed nothing, and gave her a dramatic spin in the air that had her dissolving into giggles. "Thereâs my little troublemaker," Jack chuckled, tucking her securely against his chest before his sharp eyes flicked down to meet yours.
You gave him a playful look. "You look exhausted. Have you eaten?"
A tired but incredibly warm spark lit up his eyes, his mouth twitching into a smirk. "I haven't had a single bite since noon. I'm running on pure caffeine right now."
You reached into your bag and pulled out the box shaking it triumphantly in front of his face. "Lucky for you, I took pity on you." Jack's expression softened and a look of absolute appreciation taking over his handsome features as he stepped even closer.
"You're the real lifesaver," he murmured.
Leaning down he pressed a lingering kiss against your cheek his afternoon shadow scratching softly against your skin. "Alright, take the family reunion to the breakroom before the rest of the staff starts dropping their clipboards," Robby cut in a knowing smirk on his smug face as he gestured toward a couple of nurses who were very obviously pretending to study their monitors while staring at the three of you.
Jack let out a soft laugh his large hand settling firmly against the small of your back guiding you away from the chaotic main desk. He looked down at you his voice dropping into that familiar, quiet register meant just for you. "Come eat with me, doll."
You leaned into his side your heart completely full as you walked down the hallway. "Fine, but it's definitely past your bedtime. This is more of a midnight snack."
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older!bf!jackabbot x younger!gf!reader
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Today was going great. You had woken to jack pressing a soft kiss to your temple as he attached his prosthesis to get up and ready for the day. Since he had a rare day shift today, your usual long mornings were unfortunately cut short.
He was off to work with a kiss at the front door, a warm coffee in his thermos, and his oversized backpack. You put on some music and decided to flick through some recipes you had tabbed to make.
That afternoon was spent singing (screaming) songs as you worked on your banoffee cupcakes. You ultimately landed on that recipe as, if it was up to Jack, he'd have an IV drip of straight coffee on him at all times.
You put them in a cute box and decided to take the short walk to the PTMC. The staff there were so nice to you! It could be because you supply them with delicious sweet pastries at least twice a week but, its fine!
As you strolled down the sidewalk, the hem of your skirt swished against your thighs. You cross the road, looking left and right twice which Jack had practically drilled into you at this point.
As you are walking, you hear a whistle behind you, instinctively you turn around. You're met with a guy; maybe thirtyish? His eyes roam over your body with quite possibly, the cockiest smirk you've ever seen. He has this dark hood that cast a shadow over half his face.
"What's a sweet thing like you doing walking around by herself?" he slurs, hammered, without a doubt.
You swallow deeply, awkwardly starting to turn to continue walking. You only got a couple steps forward before his gruff voiced reached you again.
"Hey, what you got in that box, pretty?"
"Oh, uhm, cupcakes." you stutter out nervously. You probably should have walked away when he first spoke but now it seemed quite rude to just turn and leave.
You turn your head to look across the road, to the PTMC just up the road. "I-I sort of have somewhere to be.." you say quietly, hoping he'd dismiss you or simply leave you alone.
Your feet feel cemented to the ground as he stalks over, his hand makes his way to your wrist. You could hear your heartbeat in your ears as your eyes dart down to his hand.
Then, you feel it. The force of his hand pulling you closer, tighter. The panic kicks in. You yank your arm back but he is stronger. Your breath hitches in your throat.
You eyes scan the surrounding areas of the street, hardly any pedestrians, just cars driving by way too quickly to even notice anything.
Before you can even react, his hand snakes up to your hair, gathered into an angry fistful. A pained groan leaves your lips as your hands fly to your head.
You push back to free yourself from his grip, and it works. What you didn't calculate was the fall. You're body turns under his pressure and your face is met with cold, hard pavement.
You roll yourself onto your back and a struggled groan leaves your lips, a weary hand lifting to your head. "Oh gosh, O-Ow." you wince.
When it returns, dripping in wet, deep crimson, you cringe.
The cupcake box is long forgotten as you make your best attempt of getting up. You're head throbs as you stand to your full height. Relief floods you when you realise jack is right across the road.
After crossing the road, and receiving a very concerned look from a passerby, you make it to the front doors of the ER. You walk through the waiting room and join the line for reception, trying to stop the blood from hitting the floor.
As you're waiting there, you can hear Jacks voice in your head telling you that if anything ever happened to you, to go in through the ambulance bay. You understood why he told you this, but it felt unfair. Yeah, your nose and head were killing you right now but one quick scan across the waiting room and suddenly, you didn't feel so bad about your own injuries.
You're pulled out of your thoughts at the call of your name. You lift your gaze and see a very concerned looking Dana.
"Jesus, what happened to you?" she asks, quickly grabbing some gauze to hold to your head.
"Oh, uhm, well I fell, kind of, there was a guy uhm yeah..." you stutter out, not really knowing how to explain it right now.
Dana quickly guides you through the double doors and past the waiting room, barely making it inside before Jack spots you. His face pales instantly. He abandons whatever conversation he was in the middle of and rushes over, his expression shifting from confusion to sheer panic.
âSweetheart, what happened?â he asks, his voice rough with concern as he gently cups your face in his hands, his eyes scanning every inch of you: the dried blood on your forehead and nose, the way youâre trembling. His thumbs brush lightly over your cheeks, as if reassuring himself that youâre actually here.
His gaze flicks to Dana, who's still holding the gauze to your forehead. "Hm? Talk to me." he says, turning his attention back to you and taking over with the gauze.
"I...I fell." you admit, as he shines a light in my eye briefly.
"Dana, I need a room, now." Jack says, without removing his gaze from you.
Dana guides you over to a vacant room, and Jack is right at your side. The fluorescent lights of the ER feel too bright, too harsh.
As youâre led into a small examination room, Jack finally breaks the silence. âI need to know what happened,â he says, his voice raw. âNot just the fall. Everything.â
He pulls up a chair to the bedside and his knees press against yours.
You take a shaky breath, your voice barely above a whisper as you start to explain. âI was walking here to drop off the cupcakes. There was this guy-he was drunk, I think. He started talking to me, and when I tried to walk away, he grabbed me. I...I fell when I tried to get away from him. Landed face down on the concrete."
You can't meet his gaze after you speak, but you can feel his energy shift and his jaw clenches.
Jack exhales through his nose before speaking. "Did he hurt you anywhere else? Anything you're leaving out?" he asks.
You shake your head in response, to which you immediately regret as the movements make your head throb.
He checks your nose, the cut on the forehead, orders, what feels like, every scan possible. And now that he has confirmation, there are no broken bones or a concussion, he feels a small amount of weight lift off his shoulders.
He's sat on his chair next to your bed, where you're all bandaged up and feeling a bit better. His thumb strokes over your hand in a soothing motion.
"They were your favorite, y'know?" you smile softly, in hopes to lift the mood.
"What?" he asks, with a confused and intrigued look.
"Banoffee cupcakes, vanilla frosting and everything."
He studies your face for a long moment, before his expression softens and a hesitant smile tugs at his lips. "Yeah? Is that right?"
You nod, and smile at his more relaxed expression.
"You're incredible, you know that...and you're also my girl, so next time I tell you to go through the ambulance bay, you do it. And i also hope to god, that there won't be a next time."
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SUMMARY: When the unimaginable happens and you are attacked in the comfort of your own home, you are wheeled into the Pitt where Jack loses all sense of professionalism when he sees the state that you are in. In the chaos, the secret of your relationship unravels, and Robby makes a tense situation worse on everyone including himself with his reaction.
NOTES: Mentions of an armed break-in (stabbing), mentions of physical violence, descriptions of physical injuries and blood, surgical procedures, canon-typical medical settings, family conflict (Robby is stressed and therefore mean), secret relationship.
REQUESTED BY: @mysticrisingroses
NAVIGATION | PITT MASTERLIST | KO-FI
The heavy, metallic tang of disinfectant and cold morning air had a way of clinging to the back of your throat during the twilight hours of a hospital shift, but Jack Abbot had long since stopped noticing it.
It was ten past six in the morning, that strange, liminal window in the emergency department where the exhausted night crew was desperately trying to hand off their last few chart files while the incoming day shift shuffled in with steaming paper cups of cheap coffee.
Jack stood at the central nursing station, his broad shoulders hunched slightly over a computer terminal as he signed off on his final discharge summaries. His eyes were bloodshot, his jaw stubbled, and every muscle in his back ached with the heavy, familiar fatigue that came with twelve relentless hours of trauma calls.
He was looking forward to nothing more than driving home, taking a scalding hot shower, and slipping into bed where he hoped you would still be sleeping peacefully, entirely unaware of the chaos he spent his nights wading through.
Keeping your relationship a secret had been your idea originally, though Jack had agreed without much resistance, knowing precisely how protective and intensely possessive your older brother could be.
Robby was a brilliant physician, but he viewed the emergency room, and everyone within it, through a lens of strict, professional compartmentalisation, and he guarded his family with a fierce, almost suffocating tenacity.
Jack knew that if Robby discovered his close friend and colleague was quietly slipping out of his younger sisterâs apartment in the early hours of the morning, the fallout would destabilise the delicate balance of the entire department.
So, you had kept it hidden for four months, snatching quiet moments in empty breakrooms, lingering hand-brushes by the elevator banks, and long, warm nights wrapped up together away from the harsh, flickering fluorescent lights of the hospital.
The sudden, piercing blare of the telemetry alarms and the sharp, urgent rattle of the double doors being thrown open shattered the low hum of the morning shift change. Dana looked up instantly from her desk, her brow furrowing as the paramedics burst through the entrance, pushing a stretcher at a dead sprint.
Jack didn't think much of it at first, traumas rolled through those doors every twenty minutes, until he caught the sheer, pale panic on the lead paramedicâs face, and the distinct, sickening crimson pattern soaked into the white sheets draped over the gurney.
Jack stepped forward purely out of muscle memory, his voice raspy from a long night of shouting over sirens. "What have we got, guys?"
"Twenty-eight-year-old female, victim of a aggravated burglary at her residence forty minutes ago," the paramedic rattled off at breakneck speed, her heavy boots squeaking against the polished linoleum. "Neighbour called it in after hearing a struggle and glass breaking. Stab wound to the left upper quadrant, deep laceration to the right forearm, massive blood loss at the scene."
Jack took two paces toward the stretcher to take the chart, his eyes dropping casually to the patientâs face to assess her airway, and in that split second, the entirety of his world shattered into jagged, unyielding pieces.
The color drained from his face so rapidly that Dana actually reached out a hand, thinking he was about to faint. The woman lying pale and motionless beneath the blood-soaked trauma blanket was you.
The breath left Jackâs lungs in a harsh, strangled gasp, his professional distance evaporating so violently that he stumbled forward, his hands trembling uncontrollably as they hovered over your bloodied, chest-stained clothes. "No... no, no, Jesus Christâ"
"Jack? What the hell are you doing?" Dana barked, her eyes widening as she grabbed his elbow, shocked by the total collapse of his usually unflappable demeanor. "Get back, let us transfer her! Shen, I need a trauma team right now! Call down to blood bank, give me four units of O-negative on the rapid infuser!"
Jack didn't hear her. The sterile, controlled world of the Pitt was completely obliterated, replaced by a terrifying, primal panic that choked the throat right out of him. He grabbed the side rail of your stretcher, his knuckles turning stark white, his eyes wide and wild as he looked down at your face. You were barely conscious, your eyelids fluttering weakly, your lips parted as you sucked in shallow, wet breaths.
"Look at me, hey, look at me," Jack begged, his voice cracking, entirely devoid of his usual calm authority as he reached out and cupped your ice-cold cheek with a hand that was shaking like a leaf. "I'm right here. You're at the hospital, you're with me, you're going to be okay. Please, sweetheart, stay with me, stay open for me."
You turned your head toward his voice, your eyes unfocusing as you tried to track him through the thick, terrifying haze of shock. "Jack?" you rasped, a tiny, frail sound that nearly brought him to his knees right there on the blood-spattered floor. "Jack, it hurts so bad..."
"I know, I know, Iâve got you," he sobbed out, not caring in the slightest that half the nursing staff was staring at him in utter shock. He pushed alongside the paramedics, helping to physically lift your limp body onto the trauma bed.
The scene erupted into controlled chaos around him. Clothes were being cut away with shears, cardiac monitor leads were being slapped onto your icy skin, and the metallic thump of suction devices filled the small room.
Jack stood at the head of your bed, his gloved hands cupping your face, his head bent low so he was inches from yours, whispering desperate, broken promises against your hairline while Shen sprinted into the room, snapping on a pair of sterile gloves.
"Abbot, what is going on with you? Step back, I need space at the airway!" Shen yelled over the shrill, alarming beep of the heart monitor, which was ticking at a terrifyingly rapid rate. "Who is this?"
"It's... it's her," Jack choked out, his eyes never leaving your face. "It's Robbyâs sister. Shen, please... "
Before Shen could even process the devastating weight of Jack's plea, the door to the trauma bay swung open with a bang, and Robby walked in, holding a tablet and adjusting his stethoscope around his neck, looking fresh and prepared for his morning shift.
"Hey, what's the noise down here? Dana said we had an unstable stabâ" Robby stopped dead in his tracks. The tablet slipped from his fingers, clattering loudly against the hard floor. His eyes swept over the blood-soaked trauma shears, the bags of crimson red blood hanging from the IV poles, and finally landed on your pale, bruised face surrounded by monitoring wires.
"Y/N?" Robbyâs voice was barely a whisper, a hollow, disbelieving sound that shattered the room. In three long strides, he shoved past a nurse, his face contorting into a mask of pure, unadulterated horror as he grabbed the edge of the bed. "What happened?! What the fuck happened?!"
"Robby, listen to meâ" Shen tried to interject, stepping between him and the bed.
"Get off me!" Robby screamed, his voice cracking with a terrifying mixture of grief and rage as he looked at your open, bleeding abdomen where Shen was applying heavy, firm pressure with sterile gauze to slow the massive internal hemorrhage.
"Why was she brought in like this?!" Robbyâs eyes swung wildly around the room until they landed on Jack, who was still standing at the head of the bed, his shoulders shaking with silent, ragged sobs.
Robby froze, his mind racing through the dark, frantic puzzle of the room. He looked at the way Jack was holding you, not like a doctor holding a patient, not even like a friend holding a colleague's relative, but with the terrifying, desperate agony of a man watching his entire life bleed out on a stainless-steel table.
Robby stepped forward, his eyes narrowing into slits of pure, lethal fury. "Jack... why are you holding her like that? Why are you touching her like that?"
Jack didn't look up. He couldn't take his eyes off your face, watching your oxygen saturation levels dip dangerously low on the overhead monitor. "Robby, please, not right now," Jack pleaded, his voice thick and broken. "She's bleeding badly, she needs to go straight to theatreâ"
"I asked you a fucking question, Jack!" Robby roared, lunging forward and grabbing the front of Jackâs scrub top, pulling him away from the bed with such violent force that the cardiac monitor cart rattled. "Why are you looking at my sister like that?! What is she to you?!"
"Robby, stop it!" Dana yelled, stepping boldly between the two grown men, her hands slamming against Robbyâs chest to keep him from shoving Jack into the wall. "She is in hemorrhagic shock! Look at the fucking monitor, Robby! Look at your sister!"
"I love her!" Jack snapped, the secret ripping out of his chest like a jagged blade, his voice echoing loudly over the frantic, rhythmically failing beeps of the cardiac machine. "Weâve been seeing each other for months, Robby! I fucking love her, and she was attacked in her home while I was sitting here doing paperwork! So hit me, tear me apart, do whatever the hell you want, but do not make this about us while she is dying on this bed!"
Robby reeled back as if heâd been physically struck, his hands dropping from Jackâs shirt. His face twisted into a complex, ugly storm of betrayal, shock, and profound, terrifying panic. He looked from Jackâs blood-stained hands to your quiet, still face.
âYou... you were lying to me? Both of you?" Robbyâs voice shook, a bitter, wounded sound. "You were sleeping with my sister behind my back whileâ"
"Robby, her blood pressure is insane!" Shen yelled, his voice cutting through the rising argument like a scalpel. "We don't have time for a surgical team to come down, we need to open her right here or she goes into cardiac arrest in minutes!"
The harsh reality of the medical emergency slammed back into the room like a tidal wave. Robby blinked, the anger in his eyes instantly drowning in a wave of sheer, unadulterated terror as he watched your heart rate spike, the waveform on the screen flattening out into dangerous, erratic rhythms.
âNo," Robby breathed, his voice small, vulnerable, and completely stripped of his usual arrogance. "No, no, no, look at me. I'm right here. You stay with me, do you hear me?"
"I need a thoracotomy tray and a laparotomy kit, right now!" Shen shouted, his hands working furiously to pack more gauze into your side. "Someone get on the suction! Robby, you need to step out!"
"Like hell I'm stepping out!" Robby yelled, shoving his way back to the side of the bed, his hands trembling violently as he reached for a pair of sterile gloves. "She's my sister! I am operating!"
"You cannot touch her, Robby, you know the protocol! Youâre not doing shit either, Abbot," Dana sternly intervened, putting her body directly between Robby and the instrument tray. Her face was set like granite, though her eyes were filled with deep, maternal sympathy. "You will freeze or you will make a mistake, and she will die because of it! Out! Both of you, get out of this bay right now!"
"No!" both men barked in unison.
"I am not leaving her!" Jack yelled, his knuckles white as he grabbed a pair of gloves, his eyes fixed on Shen. "Shen, let me assist! My hands are steady, I swear to God my hands are steady!"
"Jack, look at yourself, you're shaking so hard you can barely stand!" Dana snapped, taking Jack firmly by the upper arms and physically pulling him away from the head of the bed. She looked at Robby, then at Jack, her voice dropping into a fierce, commanding tone that left no room for argument. "If you two care about this girl, if you love her at all, you will get the hell out of this room and let Shen and the trauma team do their jobs! Every second you stand here fighting like children is a second she doesn't have! Move!"
She didn't wait for them to comply, she aggressively pushed both men out of the sliding glass doors and drew the blue privacy curtains shut with a sharp, definitive snap.
The waiting corridor outside the main trauma suite felt like a cold, sterile tomb. The morning sunlight was just beginning to bleed through the high frost-tinted windows, casting harsh, pale light across the linoleum floor, but inside the hallway, time had ground to a complete standstill. The only sound was the distant, muffled shouting of medical commands from behind the blue curtain, punctuated by the steady, terrifying rhythm of automated alarms.
Jack stood leaning against the far wall, his hands buried deep in his curls, his body slumping down until he was on the floor. His scrub top was ruined, smeared with bright crimson streaks of your blood that had already begun to dry into stiff, dark patches.
Every breath he pulled into his lungs felt like glass, his chest tight with a crushing, suffocating guilt. He should have been there. He should have insisted on driving you home after your shift two days ago, he should have checked your locks, he should have protected you. The image of your bruised skin and the frail, terrified sound of your voice calling his name kept repeating in a horrific, endless loop behind his eyelids.
A few yards down the hallway, Robby was pacing like a caged beast. His fists were clenched so tightly that his nails were digging drawn blood into his own palms. Every time he turned around, his furious, bloodshot eyes landed on Jack sitting against the wall, and the bitter, hot rage inside him flared back to life, offering a brief, desperate distraction from the sheer, paralyzing fear that his little sister was dying on the other side of that glass.
Robby marched over, stopping directly in front of Jack. "Get up," Robby spat, his voice trembling with venom. "Get up and look at me, you coward."
Jack slowly lifted his head. His face was ghastly, his eyes hollow, dark, and utterly deadened by grief. He didn't offer any resistance, didn't raise a hand to defend himself. He just looked up at Robby with a hollow, broken expression. "Go ahead, Robby. Say whatever you want. It won't be worse than what I'm already telling myself."
"You lied to me!" Robby shouted, his voice echoing down the empty, quiet corridor, causing a few passing nurses to flinch and walk faster. "For months! I treated you like a brother, Jack! I trusted you with my life in this department, I took shifts for you, I let you into my home, and the whole time you were sneaking behind my back with my sister! You manipulated her!"
"I didn't manipulate anyone!" Jack rasped, standing up slowly, leaning his heavy back against the cold wall to keep his legs from buckling beneath him. "I love her, Robby! I didn't plan for this to happen! It started off slow, and then... Christ, she became the only good thing in my life! She asked me not to tell you because she knew you'd react exactly like this! She was terrified you'd make her feel guilty for just wanting to be happy!"
"Don't you dare put this on her!" Robby barked, stepping directly into Jack's personal space, poking a harsh, rigid finger into Jack's chest right over a dark bloodstain. "She is my little sister! My responsibility! She was hiding things because of you! You put her in danger!"
"You think I don't know that?!" Jack suddenly roared back, his composure snapping entirely as he grabbed Robby's wrist and shoved his hand away, tears spilling freely over his blood-stained cheeks. "You think I'm not sitting here wanting to tear my own skin off because I wasn't there to protect her?! I would have taken every single one of those fucking knives for her, Robby! I would lay down on that table and let them cut my heart out right now if it meant she gets to wake up! So don't you dare stand there and pretend you're the only one who cares whether she lives or dies!"
Robby stared at Jack, his jaw working as if he wanted to scream, but the sheer, raw agony in Jack's voice hit him like a physical blow. The anger drained out of Robby just a fraction, leaving behind the hollow, terrifying reality that neither of them had any control over what was happening behind those blue curtains.
Before Robby could fire back another bitter insult, the double doors at the end of the hall swung open, and Dana walked out alongside Shen. Both of them looked thoroughly exhausted, their blue gowns splattered with blood, but their faces were calm, settled into that weary, professional relief that both Robby and Jack knew so intimately.
Jack was across the hallway in a fraction of a second, grabbing Dana's forearms with desperate, trembling hands. "Is she... is she alive? Please, Dana, tell me she's alive."
Dana looked down at his hands, then up into his terrified, bloodshot eyes, her expression softening into a gentle, reassuring smile. "She's alive, Jack. She's stabilised."
A long, ragged sob burst from Jack's chest as he slumped against the wall, covering his face with his hands as the suffocating weight lifted off his lungs. Robby let out a shaky, desperate breath of his own, running both hands over his face, his shoulders slumping in profound, overwhelming relief.
"The blade missed the important stuff by less than a centimetre," Shen explained quickly, pulling off his surgical cap and wiping his damp brow. "Park and the guys are finishing up her sutures right now. She's going to be okay, guys. She's strong."
"Can I see her?" Robby asked immediately, his voice thick with emotion, stepping toward the trauma bay doors.
"She's being moved up to a different unit in a few minutes once she comes round from the anesthetic," Dana said gently, stepping smartly into Robby's path and laying a firm hand against his chest. She gave him a stern, motherly look that made even the senior attending doctor pause. "And before you step foot into that room, Robby, you are going to take a long, deep breath and leave your ridiculous ego at the door."
Robby blinked, taken aback. "Dana, Iâ"
"I don't want to hear it," Dana interrupted smoothly, turning her cool, unyielding gaze between Robby and Jack. "I have watched the two of you act like absolute idiots for the last forty-five minutes while that poor girl was fighting for her life. Robby, your sister just survived a horrific, traumatic assault. She does not need to wake up to her brother screaming at the man she loves. She needs peace, she needs rest, and she needs both of you to pull yourselves together and be adults."
Robby looked at Dana, his mouth opening to argue, but the sheer authority in her posture held him silent. He glanced over at Jack, who was still standing by the wall, wiping his face with the back of his wrist, looking entirely drained, hollowed-out, and deeply ashamed.
"Go up to the fourth floor," Dana added softly, her tone loosening into something kinder. "Clean yourselves up. Change out of those ruined scrubs. By the time you look like proper doctors again, she'll be awake in her room."
Your room was quiet, illuminated only by the soft, warm glow of the bedside lamp and the gentle, rhythmic pumping of the IV drip monitor. The harsh smell of the trauma bay was replaced by the clean, faint scent of lavender soap and fresh linens. You lay propped up slightly against two large pillows. A thick white bandage was wrapped securely around your right forearm, and beneath the heavy hospital blanket, your abdominal dressing sat quiet and intact.
When the heavy wooden door pushed open, you turned your head slowly toward the sound. The heavy pain medication made your head feel light, floaty, and distant, but the moment you saw Jack and Robby walking into the room together, the fog cleared just enough for your heart to ache with sweet, overwhelming relief.
Both men had changed into clean, dark scrubs. Robby walked in first, looking hesitant, his hands shoved deep into his pockets, his usual confident posture replaced by a cautious, quiet guilt. Behind him stood Jack. He looked like he hadn't slept in a week, his eyes were bruised with dark circles, his jaw tight with anxiety, hovering near the doorway as if he wasn't entirely sure he was permitted to be in the same room as you.
"Hey, kiddo," Robby whispered softly, walking over to the right side of your bed. He reached out, his hand trembling slightly as he gently tucked a strand of hair behind your ear, his face softening into a look of pure, unadulterated big-brother affection. "How are you feeling?"
"Like I got hit by a very large truck," you rasped, your voice scratchy and dry. You offered him a weak, tired smile. "Dana told me that you were making a scene down there, Robby."
Robby let out a soft, wet laugh, dropping his head for a second as a fresh wave of emotion hit him. "Yeah, well, you scared the shit out of me. I thought, God, I don't even want to say it." He took your uninjured hand, holding it tight between both of his. "The police caught the guy, by the way. He was a petty burglar who panicked when he realised the apartment was occupied. He's in custody. He won't ever come near you again."
"Good," you murmured softly, squeezing his hand weakly. Your eyes drifted past your brother's shoulder, locking onto Jack, who was still standing quietly by the door, staring down at his shoes, his posture heavy with guilt. "Jack, come here."
Jack lifted his eyes, looking at you with such a raw, desperate tenderness that it made your chest tighten. He glanced cautiously at Robby, then slowly walked around to the left side of your bed. He stopped a few inches away, looking as though he wanted to reach out and touch you, but was terrified of breaking you further.
"I'm sorry," Jack whispered, his voice cracking on the words. "I am so, so sorry. I should have been there. I should have stayed with you last night, I shouldn't have taken this shiftâ"
"Jack, stop," you interrupted gently, reaching your left hand out toward him. "Stop that right now. It wasn't your fault. You couldn't have known."
Jack lowered himself to the floor, wincing at the discomfort. He brought your hand to his mouth, pressing his lips against your knuckles, tears slipping quietly from his eyes and wetting your skin. "I thought I lost you," he choked out, ignoring Robby's presence entirely now as he leaned his forehead against the mattress beside your arm. "When they brought you through those doors... I've never been so terrified in my entire life. I don't care about anything else. I just need you to be okay."
You ran your fingers through his curls, feeling the heavy, frantic racing of his heart slowly begin to settle against your side. "I'm okay, Jack. I'm right here."
Across the bed, Robby watched the two of you. He saw the way Jack held your hand not with possessiveness, but with a deep, reverent care that was entirely selfless. He saw the way your face relaxed the moment Jack touched you, the way the lingering fear in your eyes melted away into complete, absolute safety.
Robby let out a long, heavy breath, rubbing the back of his neck as he looked up at the ceiling. "You two are absolute idiots, you know that?" he said softly, breaking the quiet emotional tension in the room.
Jack lifted his head from the mattress, looking over at Robby with a guarded, wary expression. You offered your brother a small, pleading look. "Robby, please don't be mad at him. It was my idea to keep it quiet. I didn't want you making things complicated at work."
"I am mad," Robby admitted honestly, though the harsh edge in his voice was completely gone, replaced by a weary, warm acceptance. "I'm fucking furious that you both lied to my face for months. I'm furious that I had to find out while my sister was bleeding out." He paused, looking directly at Jack, his dark eyes firm. "But... I saw you down there, Jack. I saw how you looked at her."
Jack stood up slowly, keeping his hand firmly wrapped around yours, meeting Robby's gaze across the bed without flinching. "I love her, Robby. I'm not going anywhere. I'm sorry for lying to you, but I am never going to apologise for loving her."
Robby stared at Jack for a long, silent moment, before a small, dry smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. He shook his head, leaning over to kiss the top of your head before stepping back from the bed.
"Well... at least I know if she ever gets hurt again, the attending doctor will be too terrified of failing to let her die." Robby walked toward the door, turning back with his hand on the handle. "I'm going down to the cafeteria to get some decent coffee. Real coffee, not that shit in the breakroom. Jack, you're staying right here until I get back. And then we're going to have a long talk about boundaries."
"Understood," Jack said softly, offering a quiet, respectful nod.
Robby looked between the two of you one last time, his expression softening into pure relief. "I'm glad you're alive. Don't do it again." With a final, gentle click, the door swung shut, leaving the room in a warm, peaceful quiet.
Jack immediately leaned in close, wrapping his arms around you with extraordinary gentleness, careful to avoid your bandaged abdomen as he buried his face in the warm crook of your neck. You wrapped your uninjured arm around his back, pulling him as close as you could, feeling the steady, rhythmic rise and fall of his chest against yours.
"You really scared me, sweetheart," Jack whispered against your skin, his hands smoothing down your back with a soft, desperate rhythm.
"I know," you murmured, kissing the side of his neck, breathing in the clean scent of soap and his familiar, comforting warmth. "I'm sorry. But I'm safe now. You've got me."
"Yeah," Jack breathed, pulling back just enough to look down into your eyes, his face lit by the soft golden light of the bedside lamp. He leaned in, pressing a slow, sweet, lingering kiss to your lips that tasted of salt, relief, and quiet promises for the future. "I've got you. And I'm never letting you go."
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summary: waking up to an empty bed after a nightmare leaves you distraught. jack isnât as far away as you think
cw: reader has a nightmare which includes the pretty graphic description of the death of a loved one, non-sexual nudity, hurt/comfort, angst, fluff
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a/n: jack abbot, come save me pls
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Red and blue lights flash around you wildly, the colors bleeding into each other.Â
You donât know anything except that youâre searching for him. He might be hurt orâor worse, but you donât let yourself think about it. The sun shines too brightly as you run along the grey tarmac; it almost blinds you.
Your lips part to form his name, but not a single sound comes out.
Your lungs have forgotten how to work.Â
Every breath you draw tastes like ash. Your throat is so raw, it feels like swallowing glass shards.Â
Somewhere in your peripheral vision, you catch sight of the one thing youâve been trying to avoid. You donât want to look that way because you know what awaits you. But your eyes donât obey you, the same way your lungs donât.Â
You donât see Jack on the ground. You see a body. His body.
The head doesnât seem to fit onto the shoulders it belongs on; it is turned so far that your stomach revolts. You remember running your hands through those very same curls, now painted red instead of silver.
You fall to your knees right beside him, shaky hands reaching out but hesitating. He looks nothing like the man you wake up next to every day.Â
Just as the tips of your fingers brush his forehead, his eyes snap open. The second his pupils set on you, the whites around them streaked eerily red, you wake with a start.Â
Thereâs no oxygen for a few seconds, just pure, bitter fear.
It takes you a few moments to orient yourself. Â
Youâre in Jackâs bed. His side is empty. Itâs 7:42 am, and he is supposed to be home by now. Each realization deepens the pit in your stomach.
Just as in your dream, your lungs refuse to cooperate the second you notice his absence. You reach out, hands trembling as you touch his side of the bedâyou hope that maybe youâll feel some warmth that proves that he was here and just got up again. But the sheets couldnât be colder.Â
If you werenât lying down, your legs would have given out under you.Â
You push away the blanket; it tangles in between your ankles as you try to kick yourself free of it. Panic runs through your veins too quickly to keep up with it, and your instincts are screamingâsomething is utterly wrong.Â
Once you finally manage to stand, you rip open the curtains and take another look at the bed. But Jack hasnât appeared out of thin air as you had hoped. The bedroom remains empty, save for you and your labored breath.
The sound of your blood pumping through your ears almost drowns out the quiet drizzle coming from the bathroomâalmost.Â
Between the heavy thumps, you hear the echoes of movement. The faucet squeaks, a bottle opens and closes again.Â
You rush to the door, rip it open, and step into the steam-filled room.Â
The shower runs steadily, warm enough to fog up the mirror. The screaming ache in your chest dies down the moment your eyes land on Jackâs back. He sits on the shower chair, his prosthetic leaning against the tiled wall behind the sink.Â
Hundreds of droplets cascade down his broad shoulders, kissing each freckle individually.Â
Your heart takes over the decision-making while your mind is still trying to comprehend that Jack is safe. With three large steps, you cross the distance and step into the shower, your pajamas getting drenched instantly. Your hands find him before your mind doesâgripping at his shoulders, his arms, anywhere you can reach. Jack jumps slightly at the contact, a startled exhale falling from his lips.Â
âAngel? Jesus, you scared me,â he gasps.Â
As he turns to look at you, his brows draw together. âWhat happened? Whatâs wrong?â he asks, concern clinging to his voice.Â
âNothing,â you whisper. âNothingâs wrong. Youâre okay.â
Slowly, you drop to your knees as relief turns into devotion. It feels like youâre getting ready to pray as you rest your forehead on his left leg, your hands folded in your lap.Â
Jack watches you for a second, confusion lingering in his eyesâa second passes. The only thing you concentrate on is the sound of his breathing. It steadies you, not enough that you can fully calm down, but enough for you to get enough oxygen into your own system to function.
âEasy,â he whispers.Â
His hand comes to rest on the back of your head, threading softly through your hair.
âWhat happened, baby?â he murmurs. âTalk to me. What are you doing, hm? Youâre getting drenched.â
Youâre quiet for a moment before the accusation spills out of you.Â
âYou died.â
Jack freezes.Â
âIâm right here,â he replies, his expression serious. âIâm not dead.â
Heâs not making fun of youâthe worry in his eyes is genuine. As he reaches behind him to turn off the shower, your gaze snaps upwards.Â
âNo, wait,â you plead. âJust⌠just a second. Please.â
He stops moving instantly and reaches for you instead. Gently, he pulls you up by your upper arm, away from your place at his feet.Â
âLet me get you a towel,â he offers, but you shake your head inconsolably.Â
âNo.â You sound like a child begging to stay up a little past your bedtime. âJust let me⌠donât- donât leave me alone.â
Jack simply nods. He doesnât protest; he doesnât complain. His hands snake around your waist, pulling you towards him onto the shower chair. Youâre scared to hurt him as you sit down on his lap, but he doesnât seem to mind at all.Â
âItâs okay, angel,â he says. âYou had a nightmare, remember? Youâre fine. Iâm fine.âÂ
He cradles you against his chest, where you fit perfectly. Tucked away into the crook of his neck, you listen to the water fall while he cups the base of your skull.Â
âSay it for me, please,â he instructs gently. âYou had a nightmare.â
You take a deep breath before you pull away far enough to look into his eyes.Â
âI had a nightmare. Youâre okay. Iâm okay.â
Jack nods softly. His chest rises against yours, forcing you to feel the rhythm of the system that keeps him alive, keeps him by your side. Over time, the frantic beat of your heart slows down to match the speed of his, and your breathing evens out.Â
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SUMMARY: When an angry patient attacks you at work, you do everything in your power to hide how bad it is from Jack. Unfortunately for you, his dog, Buddy, knows best, and is quick to alert him to how bad things are as soon as he gets home.
NOTES: Aggressive patient, physical injury, Jack has a retired military dog, the dog is very protective of reader, hurt/comfort, established relationship.
NAVIGATION | PITT MASTERLIST | KO-FI
a/n â technically a part two to dogâs best friend, but can absolutely be read as a standalone !
âI just need you to stay seated for a second, alright?â you say, voice soft, even, the same tone you use with every difficult situation, steady and careful without ever sounding condescending.
The patient doesnât like it. You see it in the way her shoulders tense, the sharp turn of her head, the flicker of something reactive and unpredictable behind her eyes.
âDonât tell me what to do.â
âIâm not,â you reassure gently, hands visible, posture open. âIâm just trying to help you, maâam.â
The metal tray is already in her hand before you fully register it.
âHey!â. Itâs Samiraâs voice, a sharp warning from somewhere behind you, but it comes a second too late.
The patient swings. Not hard enough to seriously injure on its own. But combined with the shove that comes with it, itâs enough. The impact glances off your shoulder, but the force of the push sends you stumbling backwards, your foot catching awkwardly on the edge of the trolley behind you.
Thereâs a split second where you try to correct it. Your balance almost rights itself. Then, your heel slips.
You go down hard.
Your hip hits first, the shock of it jolting up your side before your shoulder follows, and then your head clips the edge of the cabinet behind you with a dull, sickening crack that makes your vision flare white.
The world tilts. Sound distorts.
You suck in a breath too fast and it catches halfway, your ribs protesting sharply as pain blooms deep along your side, spreading outwards in a way that feels heavy and wrong.
âShit!â
âHold her back!â
âMove!â
Hands are on you immediately. Too many. Too fast.
âDonât move,â Dana says firmly, already crouched at your side, one hand braced against your shoulder to keep you grounded.
âIâm fine,â you manage automatically, even as your voice comes out thinner than you want it to. âI just slippedââ
âYou didnât slip,â Samira cuts in, sharper than usual, already scanning you quickly. âShe shoved you.â
âIâm fine,â you repeat, trying to push yourself up.
Your body protests instantly. A sharp, deep pain lances through your ribs and your breath hitches before you can stop it.
Dana presses you back down without hesitation.
âNo, youâre not getting up yet.â
âIâm okay,â you insist, though your hand has already moved instinctively to your side, fingers pressing there like you can contain the ache if you just hold it still.
âYeah,â Langdon mutters, crouching on your other side, one brow raised. âYou look fantastic.â
You glare weakly. âI amââ
âYouâre wincing,â Mel says gently from behind them. âJust stay down a second.â
Across the bay, Robby steps in, taking in the scene quickly, his expression tightening slightly as he looks between you and the now-restrained patient.
âWhat happened?â
âThey got knocked,â Dana says, not taking her eyes off you. âHit their head on the way down.â
âIâm fine,â you say again, the words automatic now, like muscle memory.
Robbyâs gaze lingers on you a moment longer than youâd like. Assessing. Weighing.
Then, âGet them checked,â he says. âNo arguments.â
You open your mouth to argue anyway. Close it again.
The check is quick. Too quick.
Vitals steady. Pupils reactive. A few questions you answer without thinking, even as your head still feels slightly off and your ribs ache every time you breathe too deeply.
âProbably just bruised,â Langdon says, though thereâs hesitation there. âKeep an eye on it.â
âI will,â you say.
You go back to work. Of course you do. Itâs slower now. More careful. Every movement measured so you donât aggravate the pain blooming along your side, every breath kept shallow enough to avoid the sharpest edge of it.
You donât let anyone make a fuss. You donât give them the chance.
By the time shift change creeps in, youâre running on stubbornness more than anything else.
Your body feels heavy. Your head dull. Your ribs worse. But youâre still standing. That counts for something.
You see Jack the second he walks in.
Itâs instinct, the way something in you softens at the sight of him, even through the ache, even through the exhaustion.
He sees you just as quickly, and immediately, his expression changes. âWhat happened?â
No hello. No lead-in. Just that.
You blink. Too slow. ââŚnothing.â
His eyes narrow slightly.
You can see him clocking it, the stiffness in your posture, the way youâre holding yourself like youâre trying not to move too much, the faint mark forming near your hairline.
âDonât do that,â he says quietly.
âDo what?â
âOh, I donât know. Lie to me.â
You huff a small breath, trying for normal. âIâm not lying. I just got knocked a bit. Itâs fine.â
âKnocked how?â
âPatient,â you say quickly. âIt happens.â
His jaw tightens. âYou hit your head.â
âIâm fine.â
âThatâs not an answer.â
âYou didnât ask a question.â
Jack steps closer, his hand coming up instinctively, hovering for a second before brushing lightly near your temple, careful.
You flinch. Just slightly. Jack notices anyway.
âHey,â he says, softer now. âTalk to me.â
âI am,â you insist, forcing a small smile. âItâs nothing, Jack. Just a bruise.â
âYou donât look like itâs nothing.â
âIâm just tired.â
âThatâs not what this is.â
You donât let him push further. You canât, because if you stop holding it together now, youâre not sure youâll be able to start again.
âI promise Iâm okay,â you say, gentler now, stepping into his space, your hand brushing his arm. âIâm just going to go home, sleep it off.â
Jack searches your face. Longer than youâre comfortable with. ââŚyeah?â
You nod. âI promise.â
You kiss him before he can argue again. Soft. Quick. A distraction more than anything.
âIâll text you,â you add.
He doesnât look convinced. But he lets you go.
You donât realise how much youâve been holding in until you get home.
The door shuts behind you. Your bag slips from your shoulder. Everything collapses.
The pain hits first. Sharp. Deep. Your ribs screaming the second you stop forcing yourself to breathe carefully around it. Your head throbbing dully where it connected earlier. Your whole body suddenly too aware of itself.
Then the tears. They come fast. Uncontrolled. Your hands come up to your face as your shoulders shake, the sound breaking out of you before you can stop it.
âIt hurts,â you whisper, voice cracking.
Soft paws hit the floor behind you. Buddy is there instantly.
No hesitation. No distance. Just straight to you, pressing in close, whining low as his nose nudges at your hands, your face, your shoulder, anywhere he can reach.
âHey, BuddyâŚâ Your voice wobbles as you drop one hand to him, fingers tangling in his fur. âIâm okay,â you murmur, even as you cry. âIâm okayââ
He doesnât believe you. He licks at your cheek, catching tears, pressing closer until you sink down with him, your body folding as he crowds in, solid and warm and there.
Buddy doesnât leave your side once. Not when you get up slowly. Not when you change. Not when you ease yourself into bed with a quiet, pained breath.
He jumps up beside you without hesitation. Circles once. Then presses himself along your back, heavy and grounding, his head resting near your shoulder like heâs keeping watch.
You fall asleep like that. Hurting. Exhausted. But not alone.
Jack knows something is wrong before he even gets the door fully open.
It isnât logical at first. Thereâs no noise, no obvious sign of anything being off, but the second the latch clicks and the door gives, the silence hits him wrong, too heavy, too still, like somethingâs settled where it shouldnât.
Then, thereâs movement. Fast. Low.
A sharp bark that cuts straight through the quiet.
Buddy is there instantly, planted between Jack and the hallway like a barrier, body rigid, ears forward, a low, warning growl vibrating through his chest in a way Jack has never heard directed at him before.
âHey, BuddyâŚâ Jack stills, hands lifting slightly in reflex, not defensive, just careful. âBuddy.â
The dog doesnât move.
If anything, he braces harder, stance widening, blocking the path to the bedroom completely like heâs guarding something.
Another bark. Sharper this time. Urgent.
Jackâs chest tightens. âAlright,â he murmurs, voice dropping instinctively, steady, controlled. âTalk to me, whatâs going on?â
Buddy huffs, pacing a tight step forward, then back, torn between holding his ground and needing Jack to follow.
It clicks immediately. Not aggression. Protection.
Jackâs stomach drops. ââŚwhere are they?â
Buddy barks again. Turns. Looks back. Then looks at him.
Jack doesnât hesitate. âOkay,â he says quietly. âOkay, Iâm coming.â
Buddy doesnât fully relax, but he shifts just enough to allow it, moving ahead of him down the hall, glancing back every few steps like heâs making sure Jack is still there. Still following. Still paying attention.
The bedroom door is half open. The light is off.
Jack pushes it gently. âSweetheart?â
No answer.
His chest tightens further as he steps inside.
Youâre there. Curled on your side, exactly where he expects you to be, and somehow still wrong. Too still. Too tense even in sleep, your body drawn in slightly like youâre protecting something.
âHey,â he says again, softer now, stepping closer.
Buddy is already at the side of the bed, whining low, tail flicking anxiously, nose nudging lightly at your arm.
You donât wake straight away.
Jack reaches you in two steps, sitting carefully on the edge of the bed, his hand hovering for just a second before resting lightly on your shoulder.
âHey, sweetheart.â
You stir at that. Just slightly. A small sound leaving you, somewhere between a breath and a soft groan as you shift without meaning to.
The movement pulls a reaction out of you immediately. A sharp inhale. A wince. Your hand tightening instinctively at your side.
Jack stills. âThere it is,â he murmurs quietly.
Your eyes open slowly, heavy with sleep, disoriented for a second before they land on him.
ââŚJack?â Your voice is rough. Small.
âHey,â Jack exhales softly, relief flickering across his face for just a second before itâs replaced with something more focused. âYeah, itâs me.â
Buddy immediately pushes closer the second youâre awake, nose nudging your cheek, then your shoulder, then settling half across you like heâs making sure you stay put.
âWhatâŚâ you start, blinking. âWhat time is it?â
âToo early for you to pretend youâre fine,â he replies gently.
You try to smile. It doesnât quite work.
âI am fine.â
Jack doesnât even entertain that.
âMhm,â he hums, eyes already scanning you properly now, taking in the way youâre holding yourself, the tightness in your posture, the faint shadow of bruising starting to show along your side where your shirt has shifted. âWhat actually happened?â
âNothing,â you say automatically. Too quickly.
His gaze flicks up to yours. Flat. Unimpressed.
âTry again.â
You hesitate. Just for a second. Itâs enough.
âA patient knocked me,â you admit finally, quieter now. âItâs not a big deal.â
Jackâs jaw tightens immediately. âKnocked you how? You canât just leave it at that, baby.â
âI fell,â you say. âItâs just a bruise.â
Buddy lets out a soft, unhappy whine. Jack glances at him briefly, then back at you.
âYeah,â he says quietly. âHe doesnât seem to think so either.â
You huff a weak breath. âHeâs dramatic.â
âYeah,â Jack repeats. âFunny. So are you.â
You try to push yourself up. Bad idea. The movement pulls a sharp, involuntary sound out of you before you can stop it, your hand flying back to your ribs as pain flares hot and immediate.
Jackâs hand is there instantly, steadying you before you can even properly lose balance.
âHey, easy, easy.â
âIâm fine,â you insist again, breath uneven now.
âNo, youâre not,â Jack says, still calm but firmer now, his other hand coming up to gently guide you back down against the pillows. âLie back.â
You donât argue this time. You donât have the energy.
Buddy shifts with you immediately, repositioning so heâs still pressed against your side, careful, oddly careful for his size, like he knows exactly where not to put weight.
Jack notices. Files it away.
âWhere?â he asks quietly, his hand hovering just above your ribs. âShow me.â
You hesitate. Then, slowly, you move your hand just enough to indicate the worst of it. His touch is light when it comes, fingers pressing gently along the area, assessing. You flinch. Harder this time.
âShit, okay,â Jack murmurs, more to himself than you. âYeah, thatâs not nothing.â
âItâs just bruised,â you say weakly.
âMaybe,â he replies. âMaybe not.â
You look at him. A flicker of worry finally breaking through everything else.
âItâs not broken. I got checked out. Ask Robby.â He doesnât answer straight away. Which is answer enough. âJack, please.â
âHey,â he says softly, immediately, his hand coming up to your face instead, thumb brushing lightly under your eye where tears are starting to gather again. âDonât get upset about it. Not your fault.â
âI didnât want to make a fuss,â you admit, voice cracking slightly. âIt wasnât that bad at work, I justââ
âYou came home and cried,â he says quietly.
You freeze. âHow did youââ
He glances at Buddy. Buddy, who is currently pressed against you like a guard dog with a personal vendetta.
âRight,â you mutter weakly.
Jackâs expression softens. A lot. âYou shouldâve told me,â he says, not accusing, just honest.
âI didnât want you to worry,â you whisper.
He huffs a quiet breath. Too late for that. âYou donât get to decide that for me,â he says gently.
Your throat tightens. âI know.â
Thereâs a pause. Soft. Then, âAlright,â he says, shifting slightly. âWeâre going to fix you up, okay?â
You blink. âWe?â
âYeah,â he says. âMe and him. You know we canât leave him out of anything.â
Buddy lifts his head slightly at that, like heâs been formally acknowledged.
Despite everything, you almost laugh.
Jack doesnât rush you. Thatâs the first thing you notice. Even with the tension sitting tight in his shoulders, even with the way his eyes keep flicking back to your ribs like heâs already running through worst-case scenarios in his head, he keeps everything slow. Measured. Like if he moves too fast, youâll bolt or break or both.
âAlright,â he murmurs, shifting off the bed briefly. âStay there.â
You donât have the energy to do anything else. Buddy does. The second Jack steps away, Buddyâs head lifts, ears pricking forward, a low, suspicious rumble building in his chest again like heâs not entirely convinced this is still safe.
âHey,â Jack says without looking at him, already grabbing what he needs. âPack it in.â
Buddy huffs. Doesnât move. Doesnât relax. You reach down weakly, fingers brushing through his fur.
âItâs okay, Buddy,â you murmur softly. âHeâs helping.â
Buddyâs attention flicks to you immediately. Thatâs all that matters.
Jack comes back with a small kit, nothing dramatic, just basics, but itâs the way he carries it that tells you everything. Familiar. Practised. Focused.
He sits beside you again, closer this time. Close enough that your knees brush when he shifts.
âCan I?â he asks quietly, his hand hovering near the hem of your shirt.
You nod.
He moves carefully. Slowly lifting the fabric just enough to expose your side. The bruise is worse than either of you expected. Dark already. Spreading. Angry under the skin, the kind of deep, blooming discolouration that makes your stomach twist just looking at it.
âFuck,â Jack exhales quietly. Not surprised. Not pleased either.
âIt looks worse than it feels,â you say automatically.
Itâs a lie. A weak one.
Jack glances at you. Doesnât call it out. Doesnât need to.
âDoes it hurt to breathe?â he asks instead.
âA bit.â
âHow much is a bit?â
You hesitate. âMore than a bit.â
He nods slightly, like he expected that. âAny sharp pain when you move?â
âYes.â
âDizziness? Nausea?â
âNo.â
âHeadache?â
âA little.â
He takes that in, nodding with a frown. Then his hand comes back to your side, touch light, deliberate, pressing just enough to assess without making it worse. You tense immediately. A sharp inhale slipping out before you can stop it.
âSorry, honey,â he murmurs, instantly easing off.
âItâs okay,â you whisper, even as your eyes sting again.
âNo,â he says quietly. âItâs not.â
That lands. Heavier than anything else has. Your lip wobbles slightly before you can stop it. You look away.
âI really thought it was fine,â you admit, voice small now. âAt work it didnât feel this bad.â
âAdrenaline,â he says simply.
You huff a weak breath. âYeah.â
Thereâs a pause. Then, âHey.â
You look back at Jack. His hand comes up to your face again, thumb brushing lightly under your eye where tears have started slipping free again without you realising.
âYouâre alright,â he murmurs. âIt looks bad, but youâre okay.â
âI feel stupid,â you whisper.
His expression tightens. Not at you. At the word.
âDonât,â he says softly.
âI shouldâve just stopped. Let them check it properly. Told youââ
âYou got through your shift,â he cuts in gently. âThatâs what you were focused on.â
âThat doesnât make it smart.â
âNo,â he agrees quietly. âBut it makes it understandable. I know what youâre like.â
You swallow. Your chest tightens.
âI didnât want to make a big deal out of it,â you say, barely above a whisper now.
âYou donât get to decide that itâs not a big deal,â he replies, not harsh, just steady. âNot when itâs you.â
You donât argue. You canât.
Buddy shifts slightly, pushing his head more firmly into your lap like heâs trying to insert himself into the conversation. You let your hand fall to him automatically, fingers threading through his fur.
Jack watches it for a second. Then, âAlright,â he says, softer now. âWeâre going to assume bad bruising, maybe a cracked rib. No heroics for a few days.â
You let out a quiet breath. âOkay. I can live with that.â
âIâll grab some ice,â he adds.
Buddy immediately lifts his head again. Watching. Tracking. Jack pauses. Looks at him.
âIâm coming back,â he says dryly.
Buddy blinks. Considers it. Then settles again, barely. You laugh softly despite yourself. It hurts. You do it anyway.
By the time Jack comes back, youâre more settled. Not better, but calmer.
He helps you adjust carefully, guiding you so youâre propped slightly, a pillow tucked behind your back to keep pressure off your ribs. Every movement is slow. Considered. His hands never far from you.
âGonna be cold, sorry,â he warns quietly, pressing the ice pack gently against your side.
You flinch. Then relax. âThatâs actually nice,â you admit after a second.
âYeah,â he murmurs. âUsually is.â
The quiet settles again. Different now. Softer.
Youâre watching Jack without meaning to.
The focus in his expression. The care in every movement. The way he keeps checking in without making it obvious.
âYouâre not mad?â you ask after a while.
He looks up. Brows drawing together slightly. âMad?â
âThat I didnât tell you.â
Thereâs a pause. Then, âNo,â he says.
You blink. âReally?â
âI mean, Iâm not thrilled,â he adds honestly. âBut Iâm not mad at you, sweetheart.â
That eases something in your chest. You didnât even realise it was there.
âI just didnât want to worry you,â you repeat softly.
âYou donât get to make that call,â he says again, gentler this time. âYou tell me, I worry. Thatâs the deal.â
Your lips twitch slightly. âThatâs not a very fair deal.â
âNo,â he agrees. âWorks for me, though.â
You laugh quietly. It pulls at your ribs. You wince.
His hand is there instantly. âEasy.â
âIâm okay,â you murmur. âStop being funny.â
âI know. Iâll try,â he says.
Buddy shifts again, this time climbing more deliberately across the bed until he wedges himself firmly between you and Jack, his body pressed along your side, his head settling heavily across your lap like heâs decided his position is now permanent.
Jack stares at him. âReally?â
Buddy doesnât move. Doesnât even acknowledge him. You smile softly, your hand resting automatically on Buddyâs head.
âHeâs just making sure Iâm okay.â
âYeah,â Jack mutters. âI can see that.â
Thereâs a pause. Then, carefully, deliberately, Jack shifts closer anyway. Working around the dog rather than moving him. His arm slides gently behind your back, pulling you just slightly closer so youâre supported without putting pressure on your ribs.
Buddy allows it. Barely.
You melt into it. Exhaustion catching up all over again now that everything else has settled. Your head tips lightly against Jackâs shoulder. Your hand still resting on Buddy.
âIâm really tired,â you mumble.
âYeah,â Jack murmurs softly. âI know.â
Your eyes slip closed. Between them, youâre completely boxed in, warmth at your back, solid weight at your front, hands anchoring you in place like nothing is going to let you fall apart again.
âStay,â you whisper, barely conscious now.
Jackâs arm tightens slightly around you. âIâve got you.â
Buddy huffs softly. Settling deeper. And for the first time since it happened, you actually relax. Sleep comes easy after that.
All three of you tangled together in the quiet.
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This shift has been...quiet.
You didn't want to utter the 'Q' word, be it inside your head. But that's what today has been.
You had been dealing with ankle sprains, and minor lacerations needing stitches all day, and all of that had sent you into a false sense of security, as you breezed through the department.
Also, a plus, was that your boyfriend Jack, was working the day shift today!
So now, you're heading to your next patient, adjusting the pink stethoscope around your neck.
You open the curtain to the cutest little boy, holding his hand, with a distressed expression on his face.
You give a polite smile towards the parents before turning your focus to the boy, as you pull the curtain shut.
"Hi buddy, what's your name?" you ask gently, kneeling to his level.
He introduces himself as Dylan, in a shy tone.
His mother recants the story of how he cut his palm, as you inspect his injury and get the suture kit ready.
You stitch him up and distract him by getting him to tell you stories of his days at school, and how some kid stole his truck.
He leaves with a Spiderman sticker adorning his t shirt and an adorable smile on his face.
You're walking past the charge station when Dana stops you.
"I've got a new patient for you, hun. Thirty-two year old male, complaining of intense headaches for the past two weeks. Central eight."
"I've got it, thanks Dana!" You say with a smile as you take the clipboard from her.
As you're walking, you catch Jacks gaze from the other side of emergency bay.
You may feel slightly pathetic for blushing under his mere gaze, but I mean, how could anyone blame you?
You hope he hasn't noticed your flustered expression, but the smirk that washes over his face, tells you different.
You enter the room with your new patient, and you immediately notice his exasperated demeanor.
"Hello, Sir, how are you feeling today?" you ask softly, as you rub the sanitizer into your hands.
"Like shit. Been waiting here for a fucking hour and my heads killing me." he grunts out, his eyes scanning over your figure in judgement, and something else undefinable.
"I'm very sorry about that. How long have you been feeling like this?"
He leans back with him arms folded. "Jesus, I don't know...ten, eleven days?" He answers but already sounds like he's ready to leave.
"How would you describe the pain? Does it come and go, or is it constant?" You ask, the polite smile still present.
"Enough with the fucking questions! Alright?! Just give me some meds, and send me out."
You falter at the raise in volume of his voice and attempt to swallow down the anxiety that has overcome you. You take a quick breath and approach him slightly in an attempt to calm him down.
As you reach him, the smell of alcohol fills your senses.
"I-I'm sorry, I understand this must be very stressful and irritating to do whilst your in pain, but it's really important that-"
His hand comes down, crashing against the metal tray, that was at the bedside, causing it to clatter across the linoleum floor.
You flinch instinctively at his actions, and your breath hitches in your throat. You feel frozen in your spot as you look out to the ED bay through the glass doors, in a desperate hope to meet the gaze of one of your superiors.
You force yourself to snap back into reality, despite the pit in your stomach and being unable to hide the fear on your face.
"Please, Sir, take a breath." You speak, your voice wavering unsteadily.
You place your hand on his upper arm, in an effort to ground him in some way.
In an instant, you feel his cold, hard fist against your nose . You gasp in shock as your hand flies up to your face. You squeeze your eyes shut, before attempting to stumble over to the door.
You feel a forceful yank on your hair, as its clasped around his intense grasp. You let out a scream as he pulls you to the floor. His free hand reaches around your neck.
His hot breath fans against your neck. "Don't ever fucking touch me." he slurs.
Even in this moment, of total fear and chaos, you attempt to stutter out an apology.
Relief washes over you instantly as you hear the door swing open. You are unable to register who it is as the mans grip tightens around your neck.
"Oh, God. Hula Hoop! Someone get security!" a voice yells in urgency.
Jack is on his way to a patient with x-ray results, when he hears it. Whitacker, yelling the two words all hospital workers hated hearing.
He immediately rushes in the direction of his voice, and he gets there as security is running in.
Jack goes in after them, and he halts immediately, seeing you in a headlock and blood gushing down your nose, to your neck.
The security pull him off, and you gasp, filling your air with lungs.
Jack is infront of you straight away. You can see his mouth moving but his words are muffled. The yells of the patient, the security guards barking orders, nurses asking what's happening, it all sounds as if it's miles away.
Jack notices your expression instantly, and gently places a steady hand on your elbow to help you up. He leads you out of the room, his gaze never leaving your face once.
The room feels as if it's spinning as you reach a vacant room and you only now come to the realisation that you're crying. The hot tears stream down your face, along with the blood.
He kneels slightly to meet your gaze. His voice is calm but urgent.
"Sweetheart, look at me." he says, softly brushing a strand of hair from your forehead.
"Take a deep breath for me."
He takes a deep breath in, and you instinctively try to imitate it, but your throat burns and your breath comes out uneven and shallow.
Once your breath returns to a steady rhythm, Jack stands up and opens a cabinet.
He returns and dabs a tissue to your bloodied nose as delicately as possible. He spots your gaze shift to your hands sat in your lap.
"You were so brave," he whispers. "I'm so proud of you."
His words make your eyes gloss over, and he notices. He leans forward after cleaning your nose and presses a tender kiss to your forehead.
After getting a CT scan that Jack insisted on, you're back in the room on the bed, and Jack is sat next to you.
"That bastard, he's...he's in custody...And you will have to give a report, but you don't have to think about that right now." he whispers against your temple.
You nod, taking a breath. "I don't know what I did wrong...I-I didn't let him get inbetween me and the door and-and I was-"
He cuts you off your rant. "Don't. Don't blame yourself, baby. You did nothing wrong."
He rubs his hand up and down your arm in a soothing motion, as you curl into him.
You both sit there, in the silence of the sterile room, holding onto one another as if you were each others life line.
"Lets get you home, sweetheart"
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Like he comes home from a long ass shift and youre up in the kitchen making him breakfast and he just goes to town on you
You're just trying to be sweet. That's what kills him. Hair still slightly a mess, eyes still laced with sleep. You don't even bother to put on sweats, just barefoot in y'all's shared kitchen, wearing nothing but a very old (older than you he jokes) t-shirt from Basic Training and a pair of lacy panties.
You were trying to make him breakfast. Scrambled eggs and bacon. Even had the carton of orange juice out.
So fucking sweet. His sweet girl.
So it's only natural for Jack to be all over you. For his calloused fingers to sink into your soft, supple thighs. For his lips to attach themself to your neck. For his chest to press against your back, ensuring your chest stays pushed against the counter as he takes you from behind.
Hey, he had the decency to move the bowl of eggs aside beforehand. He may be horny but Jack Abbott doesn't forget his manners.
That's why when he sees your hand snaking down to where your bodies meet, he swats it away, replacing it with his own.
"I got you," He says against the shell of your ear, voice low and a bit scratchy, no doubt due to a long shift. When his calloused fingers start rubbing precise circles on your aching clit, you swear you see stars.
All you can do is clutch the kitchen counter for dear life as his thick cock slams into you. You feel so full, it's borderline concerning. Jack was by far, the biggest you've ever had and despite having sex so often, every stroke of his cock took your breath away.
He hears you mumble what sounds like thank you. Under other circumstances- such as being in your shared bedroom, taking it slow, Jack may have felt more bold and made you repeat it- clearly this time. But he had just endured a twelve hour shift and the adrenaline that comes from feeling your snug walls clench his cock could only sustain him for so long.
So he uses his free hand to guide your head upwards, capturing your lips with his. It's messy, your teeth colliding with Jack's, but it's the first kiss you've shared since he came home and it just feels so right.
Your hands fly up, clinging to any part of him that they can find. One finds itself in his hair, tugging onto those short curls you adore. Jack keeps his hair short due to his line of work and while that makes perfect sense, you can't help but wish he'd just grow it out for once. For you.
He probably would if you asked. Just how you would probably let him fuck you anywhere, anytime.
summary: jack had made it clear from the startâhe was only available for casual, no strings attached stress relief. the way he acts after finding out you went on a date says something else entirely. (9.5k wc)
warnings: 18+ MDNI, porn with some plot, angst, coworkers with benefits, jealous!jack, yearning!jack, unspecified age gap, attending/resident power dynamics, jack is an ass (he gets slapped so it's chill), pet names (pretty girl, sweetheart), detailed explicit smut, mean!jack (reader likes it), dom!jack, brat/brat tamer vibes, dirty talk, dacryphilia, unprotected pnv, car sex, cowgirl, doggy, oral (f & m receiving), fingering, face sitting, chokehold, spanking (all my jack ass man believers stand up), breast & nipple play, pussy slapping, squirting, little blue pill mention, apologies & confessions, happy ending, fem!reader, reader is dana's niece, no physical description/mention of being blood related, dana haunts the narrative, no use of y/n, dual pov (i think), ending kinda rushed but fuck it we ball, briefly proofread so no doubt incorrect grammar lols
authors note: woof woof, bark bark. this is 70% filth, 20% angst, 10% fluff. i have no excuses honestly. no seriously this was only meant to be 5k. majority written at 3am in sleep deprived insanity. some of the smut warnings are just mentions, not explicit details. this is kinda toxic, if that's not your thing keep scrolling :-)
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You say that you need to be alone
But night and day, want me at your beck and call
You say you know that you might be crossin' a line
Wastin' all our time
To think that we could be casual
You're not my friend and, baby, you never were
Why the fuss if you say you just wanna be mine?
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Abbot: Meet me at my truck in 15.
No hi, hello, how are you. If you were to scroll through your text thread with Dr. Jack Abbot, you would see that the faux pleasantries stopped three months ago. The two of you started sleeping together four months ago; it took four weeks for Jack to discern that he didn't need to use basic human greetings to get you in his truck, in his bed. That's not to say you were easyâgod, noâit was just that you two had a mutual understanding for what this was.
Sex. That was all it was. Pure primal, fuck like you're going to die otherwise, sex.
It started after the night of the PittFest mass casualty. You had come in early along with your fellow night shifters to work through what was one of your most gruelling shifts to date. The Pitt only lost six patients, but the weight of that day was going to stay etched into your bones for the rest of your life.
Dr. Abbot came back to the ED around two am, checking in on how Shen was handling thingsâat least, that's what he used as a guise. The truth was that he had struggled to close his eyes once he got home, tossing and turning with the police scanner on, endless memories of dust and gunshots plaguing his mind.
He stayed until shift change, the act of caring for others quietening the buried memories that were crawling to the surface. He stayed to keep an eye on his staffânoticing how people were a little more quiet, how they were exchanging soft, hesitant smiles with one another instead of their usual jokes. At least, that's what he noticed about you.
You couldn't remember what exactly was said to transition from you two walking towards your cars to you sinking onto his cock in the backseat of his truck. In your memory overridden by lust, you could vaguely hear him saying something vulnerable; a response you weren't expecting after your exhausted tongue let slip how you were struggling with the events of the day.
Mutual words about feeling on edge, needing some kind of release, were whispered into the hazy dawn glowâthe fusing saffron skies and coral clouds painting you both in a different light.
Mosaics of amber and olive flaked with gold stared up at you, catching every morsel of pleasure that scrunched your eyebrows and relaxed your mouth. Strong, sure hands moulded the flesh on your hips, keeping you completely at his mercy as he pounded up into you. One of your hands met the condensation slicked window, the wet glass providing no support as his every thrust bruised your cervix.
Your nails dug crescents into his sun-speckled canvas, a crescendo of moans and gasps drowning out the wet mess gushing from your core. Hands you admired while wrist deep in chest cavities clutched your ass, one rearing back to land harsh slaps to the heated and aching skinâsetting the fire coursing through your veins ablaze.
Your head flung back with a guttural cry of his name, the warmth of his release coating your walls plunging you into a sea of ecstasy. A groan of your name pushed through the ringing in your ears, the thick chest pressed against yours rapidly rising and falling with pants.
The sex thick air in the truck turned suffocating in the tense aftermathâboth your minds spiralling about how bad of a mistake this was. Jack's stomach curdled from his blatant abuse of power, your hands trembled in fear of fucking for special treatment accusationsâterrified of tarnishing your reputation.
Jack was the first to break the silence. "This was a one time thing."
You nodded, avoiding his eyes as you straightened your scrub top, pulling your pants up while his seed continued to leak out of you. "Agreed."
Despite his unforgiving mind reminding him how badly he screwed up, Jack fell into a dreamless sleepâthe ghosts that permanently resided in the back of his mind staying locked in their rooms, letting him rest alone for once.
He struggled to make eye contact with Dana when he arrived for his next shiftâthe feeling of betraying one of his dearest friends gripping his chest. The logical side of him reasoned that you weren't her daughterâyou were an adult capable of making her own questionable decisions, and letting him manhandle you in the back of his truck was just one of them. Unfortunately, that logical side couldn't silence the guilt that invaded him when he saw her wrap an arm around your shoulder and kiss your temple.
However, that guilt vanished hours laterâreplaced with a sick sort of admiration, one wrapped in barbed wires of lust. He always knew you were competentâhell, out of all his residents, he would trust you the most with his life in your hands. He always knew you were beautifulâit was a fact he accepted with ease the second you set foot in the Pitt.
But now, he knew how your pussy felt squeezing his cockâknew how your hips moved the closer you got to your release, how you crumbled into a whimpering mess as you reached your precipice. Your competency mixed with this new knowledge created a dangerous concoction, one that infiltrated his bloodstream and made him drunk on the thought of you.
You tried to not let it affect your workâwilled your nerves to steady with a scalpel in hand, trying to ignore the empty ache you felt since you left his truck. The ache you tried to soothe on your own but failed every time. Because Jack Abbot had fucked you better than all of your exes combined, and it pissed you off. You refused to be a clichĂŠâthe young resident who followed the older, handsome, charming attending around, basking in whatever affection and praise he discarded without a care.
You were better than that. Stronger. Evans women didn't risk their careers for silver foxes who hid behind wry quips and flirty smiles.
Apparently, you weren't as strong as you thought.
One week later, you found yourself back in his truckâyour knees pressed into the worn carpet, drool dripping down your chin and neck, the air filled with the sounds of his grunts and your gagging.
He instructed you to slip a hand into your pants, to swipe your fingers through your folds and show him how wet you were from sucking an old man's cock.
"Fucking soaked," he groaned out, the slick on your hand shimmering like liquid gold as the sunrise filtered through the tinted windows. "Knew you'd like being on your knees," a calloused finger tapped your cheek, urging your glistening eyes to meet his, "always so eager to please."
The finger slid down to your jaw, tracing a line until his hand cupped the back of your neck. His grip was tight and strong, keeping your head exactly where he wanted it. His other hand encircled your wrist, yanking your hand coated in your arousal to his mouth. Eyes black with hunger penetrated yours, daring you to look away and disobey his silent command. His tongue slipped out, licking a strip up your fingers. Your responding whine was muffled by his cock thrusting down your throat, resulting in a sinful vibration that had his spine tingling.
In this moment, he wasn't your attending and you weren't his resident, weren't one of his closest friends' nieces. You were two willing adultsâa man and woman troubled by their own demons, seeking release and relief.
His hand gripping your neck kept you still as he started to fuck your mouth in earnest, each hit of his tip to the back of your throat earning him a gag. Jack watched as tears breached your waterline, slipping down your cheeks to mix in with the slobbery mess glazing your neck. His eyes drifted down, taking in the sight of your wrinkled black scrubsâcommitting it to memory, to fuck his fist to later. The shift of your hips didn't go unnoticed, the way you were trying to grind against nothing drawing a mocking laugh from his chest.
"You that desperate, huh? Drooling all over my cock got you so worked up you're tryna fuck nothing."
You nodded your head with another muffled whine, lust overpowering your innate urge to bite back. He eased your head back, leaving his leaking tip resting on your tongue, letting you fill your lungs with oxygen before he continued his efforts to ruin you.
"Touch yourself, pretty girl."
You happily obliged, trying to pull your hand from his grasp.
"Uh-uh," he tutted, tightening his gripâjust shy of leaving bruises. "This one's mine. You got another one, don't you?"
Your hand clutching his thigh for support let go in an instant, eager to please Jack and in turn please yourself.
You were so sensitive, your panties already soaked, your clit puffy from arousal and neglect. The first touch had you mewling around him, your hips humping your hand with fervour. Jack chuckled above you, gleaming eyes enraptured by your desperation.
"Fuck your fingers like you wanna fuck my cock." He ordered, heat gathering at the base of his spine when you obeyed immediately. He brought your hand back to his mouth, eagerly licking and sucking your slick off it, all while keeping his eyes locked on your hooded, hazy ones. "Taste so fucking good," he moaned, his hips picking up speed.
He came down your throat minutes later, watching your eyes roll back as you swallowed all of him down. Your own orgasm rushed up behind you, tightening every muscle in your body as you clamped down on your fingers with a moan.
Jack manoeuvred you onto the seat next to him, brows furrowed as his post orgasm clarity soured his gut again.
He kept his eyes locked on where he was twisting his ring around his finger. "That wasn'tâI didn't mean to," he cleared his throat. "I didn't intend on being so harshâmean."
You could feel the stress radiating from him, his words softly spoken and genuine.
"It's okay," you murmured, biting your lip. "IâŚI liked it." And because you wanted to ease his worries and silently give him permissionâ"I've begged for worse."
He lifted his head, shocked eyes meeting yours with a disbelieving chuckle and shake of his head.
"This is gonna keep happening, isn't it?"
You answered by pulling your scrubs and panties down your legs, pouting at him with a twinkle in your eyes.
"Need you to help me clean up my mess, Doctor Abbot."
You collapsed into the drivers seat of your car with two orgasms and a mutual agreement under your belt.
Strictly physical, no strings attached. No kissing, no cuddling, definitely no staying the night. Nothing untoward within the Pitt's wallsâthese two hookups in the parking lot staying as the only ones.
Never speak a word of this to anyone else.
Three nightsâtechnically morningsâa week you found yourself pulling into Jack's driveway, parking your barely road-legal car behind his truck. His black, navy, and white minimalist interior didn't surprise you one bit, neither did the barren walls. The first few times, he led you into the kitchen with the offer of a drink, exchanging idle chatter about the weird cases that came through the Pitt's doors hours before.
The first time your skin touched his soft sheets, he had you on your back with large, calloused hands pushing your legs towards your chest as he devoured your pussy like a man starved. He made your vision dance with stars, made your ears ring from two earth shattering orgasms before he removed his faceâhis mouth and chin soaked with your release, a cocky smirk deepening the lines carved around his eyes. Your skin was still tender from his stubble when he sunk in deep, reaching spots you didn't even know existedâpulling sounds from your chest you didn't know you could make.
As you floated from his front door to your car, you knew that Jack Abbot had ruined you for any other man. No one had read your body that quickly before, no one else had found the switch to turn off your brain and give in to primal desire.
And you didn't even know what the simple touch of his lips against yours felt like.
By the sixth night you had learnt absolutely nothing new about him. Well, nothing that was outside of bodies and pleasure.
You learnt he was an ass man, needing to land slaps to your cheeks no matter what position you were in. You learnt he liked to talkâliked to mock every pathetic sound he wrung out of you. You learnt that he had a bottle of blue pills in his bedside drawer, learnt that he was unashamed to swallow one down in front of you and fuck you with his tongue and fingers until it took effect.
You knew exactly what Jack liked in bed. Outside of that? Absolutely nothing.
His favourite colour? Fuck knows.
How he cared for his leg after a long shift and long night of screwing you senseless? That was between him and his physiotherapist, you guessed.
And he knew nothing about you. Or, at least, he didn't try to get to know you.
You stopped thinking of this arrangement as friends with benefitsâfriends felt too generous of a word. Coworkers with benefits sounded the closest to the truth. You worked together, spent at least twelve hours a day in the same building, exchanged the occasional witty remark under fluorescent lights. There were no lingering looks, no secret touches, no dropped voices and subtle smirks. And you were fine with it being that way.
Until you weren't.
By month two it had become impossible to ignore the pang that ricocheted behind your ribcage every time you drove away. The pang that grew to an ache every time you went to Dana and Benji's for dinner.
You adored their relationship, admired it. Your parents' messy divorce had left you skeptical of love, had you doubting if it was worth pursuing if it only ended in misery and spite. But your aunt and uncle softened that cynical side of you, reminding you that yes, love could be messy, but it could also be beautiful and fun. It could be coming home to your best friend everyday, hugging each other even after an argument because going to sleep angry never solved anything.
You tried to find what they had in your exes, putting more effort into relationships that drained you by the end. You heard too many times to count that your lives weren't compatible, that they couldn't give their all to someone who was happy to run out the door when the hospital called.
They didn't understand youâdidn't understand what it meant to make a difference, to hold someone's life in the palm of your hands and safely return them to their loved ones. They only focused on the days when you couldn't save someone, when the grief held you captive and motionless. They didn't want to continue holding your hand on those hard days.
And so somewhere along the way you stopped tryingâconvincing yourself that you were fine with casual, that it was the most suitable relationship for your lifestyle. But every time you saw Dana and Benji, you knew that wasn't true.
They reminded you that you wanted, and deserved, more.
Jack had never slept better. Even with that little voice in the back of his head telling him that he had crossed a lineâthat he was risking not only your career but his friendship with Dana. He managed to silence that voice three times a week; the sounds of the pleasure he was unleashing on you drowning out everything else.
He truly believed he could keep things separateâthat the beautiful woman he had in his bed wasn't the same beautiful woman he trusted and found himself proud of every shift. He could totally keep them separate.
So what if his eyes followed your ass when you walked away from the Hub, admiring how the black scrubs clung like a second skin, knowing how they looked discarded on his bedroom floor. Knowing how the globes of your ass felt clutched in his hands, the sound of his palms slapping them reverberating off his walls.
So what if he found himself craving your taste a minimum of three times every shift, the mere thought of your sweet nectar drenching his face leading to inopportune boners.
No one had to know that whenever he saw you biting back at arrogant surgeons that his eyes were glued to your lips, remembering how good they lookedâhow good they feltâwrapped around his cock. The no kissing clause had been his suggestionâa subconscious part of him knowing that if he felt your lips against his, he wouldn't be able to let go.
The simple act of kissing felt infinitely more intimate than everything else you did. It was a tender act, saved for the person who walked out his door in the morning only to return in the evening. Saved for the person that had left one cold, winter morning and never returned in the frigid evening.
Jack ignored the warmth that spread throughout him in your company, convincing himself it was just lust, just sexual desire. He convinced himself he didn't need to know anything new about youâhe already knew what type of student you were, the doctor he had watched you flourish into from the sidelines.
He knew where to touch you, that mouthing at the spot below your ear made you putty in his hands. He knew what positions had you trembling, had your eyes rolling back as you squirted on his dick, on his face. He knew his favourite view was a tie between you above him, suffocating him as you ground your pussy on his mouth, nose, chin, and him behind you, holding you up with a bicep wrapped around your neck in a chokehold, ordering you to keep your eyes on the mirror across from his bed as he stretched your tight pussy with his thick cock over and over again.
He knew that your car was a piece of shit, knew he was worried every time he heard it sputtering out of his drivewayâworried enough to demand you stop driving it, to let him drive you to and from work until you could get it fixed, or better yet, buy a new one from this century. (You compromised by getting the bus instead, saying that you two arriving and leaving together would look suspicious.)
And unfortunately, due to his close friendship with Dana, he knew other things about you. What your childhood nickname was, that you once found an abandoned kitten and tried to hide it from your parentsâthe kitten that was now an old cat, spending it's days curled up on the couch in Dana's sunroom. He knew your parents had an ugly divorce, one they threw you in the middle ofâforcing you to choose a side, which subsequently left you in the care of Dana and Benji for a few years.
He knew more about you than he ever wanted to.
"Strip."
Oh, you fucked up.
The drive to Jack's had been dead silent, his anger rolling off of him in wavesâsitting in between you two like a physical being. It had your muscles tensing, and more shamefully, had a fire brewing in your core. Because you liked when he got madâwhen he barely spoke a word to you, choosing to get his frustrations out by relentlessly drilling you into his mattress. You liked when he got meanâbecause at least then you knew he was feeling something towards you other than indifference.
You did as you were told, stripping out of your black scrubs, leaving you in your mismatched bra and panties. From his spot leaning against the wall, Jack could already see the damp patch spreading on your underwear. He let out a humourless chuckle, a thrill running through him seeing how desperate you were already.
"Take your bra off. Lie on the bed."
Again, you followed his instructions with no complaint, no backtalk. Which was the complete opposite to how you had been three hours beforeâquestioning his treatment plan in front of everyone in Trauma One, implying that his orders would cause the patient unnecessary problems later on.
You had a good argument, but he was not going to let your attitude go unchecked. He was not going to let you think the way you spoke to him was something you could do again.
He pushed off the wall, ignoring the pain in his legâhe would deal with it later, once you were in an uber on your way home. He sat down next to you on the bed, trailing light fingers from your ankle up your leg, avoiding the area you wanted him the most. He revelled in the sight of your breasts heaving up and downâyou were so responsive, nothing more than his teasing touches starting to unravel you. His fingers continued their journey up your body, skimming over your trembling stomach and resting in the valley between your breasts.
The light touches distracted you enough that you weren't expecting his other hand coming up, slapping your tit before pinching the pebbled nipple. Hard.
"AhâJack!" You shrieked, your back arching awayâor towards, you weren't sureâfrom the pain. Whimpers slipped from you as his touch eased up, his head dropping to place soft kisses around the tender skin. The fingers between your breasts trailed to the neglected nipple, tweaking it gently.
He pulled back, smirking when you whined at the loss of his touch. "Anything you want to say before we get started?" He drawled, raising his eyebrows pointedly.
You pouted, pretending to think. "Your curls looked really good today."
A rough hand dropped to your thigh, spreading them apart and pinching the sensitive flesh of your inner thigh. "Flattery will get you nowhere, not in this room."
"So there are other rooms where it will get me somewhere?"
"You need to learn when to keep your mouth shut." He didn't give you time to talk back, raising his hand and landing a harsh slap to your clothed pussy. Your hips shot off the bed with a gasp, chasing the frictionâneedy for it. He openly laughed at you, his free hand pushing your thigh down as he delivered another slap.
He moved back to sit on the edge of the bed, patting his thigh with a warning look. He watched with sick pleasure as you crawled towards him on all fours, grabbing your upper arm once you were close enough and pulling you over his lap with force. You let out a yelp, muffled by the sheets as you failed to catch yourself on your arms.
His hands gripped your ass cheeks, squeezing and kneading them. "Love this ass, sweetheart. Distracts me a bit too much at work, though. Somethin' else you need to be punished for."
You huffed, pushing up on your arms. "How is that my fauâ" you cut off with a gasp, a hard slap to your left cheek stealing your breath and jolting you forward. The heat travelled the short distance to your core, adding fuel to the flames already blazing. Your panties were embarrassingly soaked from his rough treatment, sticking to your skin and his scrub pants.
"What did I say about keeping your mouth shut, huh?" His hand rubbed over the tender spot, tsking.
"Technically," you started, voice light and breathy, "you didn't tell me to shut my mouth."
You were rewarded with three slaps in quick succession, pulling a loud moan from you. You ground your hips the best you could, trying to get the right angle for your aching clit to rub against the growing bulge under you.
"Fucking brat," Jack spat, faux malice lacing his tone. "Running your mouth in my ED, and now you're trying to get off without my permission?" He pulled the ruined cloth between your legs to the side, a light finger ghosting along the slick covering your folds. He groaned, pulling his finger back to suck it clean. "You're drippingânot much of a punishment if you're enjoying yourself, is it?"
Any response you had is stolen from your mouth, whines falling out instead as he plunged two thick fingers into you. He didn't start slowâhe never did when he was like thisâpistoning them in and out at a force that was bordering on inhuman, making sinful wet sounds fill his room. His other hand forced your head into the sheets, muffling your whimpersâthe sheets growing damp underneath you from your drool.
He hit your sweet spot with every thrust, your clit rubbing against his leg from the force. You could feel your high rapidly approaching, the spankings leaving your nerve ends feeling raw and exposed. Jack could feel itâhow your walls were fluttering and clenching around his fingers, your muffled whines and moans turning high-pitched. He inserted a third finger, stopping the thrusting and leaving them stillâthe pads of them rubbing oh so slowly against the textured spot.
He knew it felt like torture to you, how slow he was goingâkeeping you right on the edge, suspended in the air, looking down at the waves of pleasure he was denying you. Your hips moved back and forth, trying to fuck yourself on his fingers. His hand left your head, delivering another harsh slap to your aching assâmaking you sob from the unbearable mix of pain and pleasure swirling in your core. "Who said you're allowed to do that, sweetheart?" He asked, mockingly sweet.
"Please," you whimpered, turning your head to look at him with glazed eyes. "Please, Jack."
"Begging isn't gonna do you any favours tonight, pretty girl."
He pulled his fingers out, leaving you empty and clenching around nothing. "Up you get," he said, helping you move until you were straddling himâyour naked thighs bracketing his clothed ones. One large hand was clutching your ass, keeping your hips from meeting hisâprolonging your search for sweet relief. His other hand came up to your mouth, a wet finger tapping your bottom lip. "Clean up your mess," he muttered, hooded eyes focused on your lips parting for him.
You licked the tip of his finger teasingly, moaning at the taste of yourself on his skin. Something low rumbled in his chest, and he pushed all three fingers into your mouthâwatching intently as you licked and sucked your slick off of them. Your dazed eyes met his and it struck himânot for the first timeâhow beautiful you were, how you allowed him to see you like this. It made that annoying thing in his chest happenâthe thing that felt like his heart was aching in longing, yearning.
He thrust his fingers in deeper, making you gag around themâwatching in sick delight as tears slipped down your cheeks. Your hips started to rock in his hold, seeking friction that you weren't going to find. His cock was painfully hard and tenting his scrubs, making it impossible to ignoreâespecially not when you looked so fucking ruined.
He removed his fingers from your mouth, a string of saliva keeping them connected to your lips. He felt the overwhelming urge to kiss youâagain, not for the first timeâand knew that the only way to stop himself from doing so was to fuck you from behindâa position he had been favouring lately, for this very reason.
He unceremoniously shifted you onto the bed next to himâa small, surprised squeak escaping you. His lips twitched at the cute sound, and he briefly forgot what he was doing, what he was mad about. Your hand sneaking onto his lap to squeeze his cock reminded him.
Jack abruptly stood up, placing himself between your open thighs. He gripped your chin, tilting it up so you couldn't look anywhere except his eyesâhis desire painting them black, amber flames surrounding the dilated pupils. "You're just making this harder for yourself, sweetheart. You sure there's nothing you wanna say?"
Your eyes dropped down to the tent inches from your face, your fingers twitching with the need to start palming him. "You sure you're not the one making it harder for yourself?" You met his eyes again, watching them narrow menacingly as your innocent smile morphed into a cheeky smirk.
His hand moved from your chin, gripping your cheeks hard and squishing them 'til your lips puckered. "Still haven't learnt your lesson." He pushed your head back, encouraging you to lie back.
He grabbed the sides of your soiled underwear and yanked them down your legs, leaving you completely bare while he was still fully dressed. His hands found your waist, flipping you onto your stomach with ease and pulling you back so your legs were hanging off the bed with your ass in the air.
Your cheeks received one more slap eachâJack really was obsessed with your assâbefore you felt his tip prodding at your entrance, slipping down to nudge your clit. You whined at the teasing, pushing your ass back against him. A large hand splayed between your shoulder blades, pressing you into the mattress with force.
"Stay. Still." He ordered through gritted teeth.
Then he plunged in, sinking to the hilt in one thrust. A choked moan lodged in your throat, his size still a shock no matter how many times he stretched you open. He gave you no time to adjust, setting a harsh rhythm, making your hands scramble around on the sheets looking for support.
"So big," you gasped out.
A deep laugh rumbled from him. "So big," he mocked you. "You say that every time."
Skin slapping against skin filled the room, along with his grunts and your mewling. You could feel the fabric of his scrubs on the back of your thighsâthe fact he was fucking you while fully clothed sending a shiver down your spine.
Jack picked up on the signs of your impending orgasm straight away, feeling his own tightening his balls. "Hold it," he demanded, slipping a hand under your hips and easily finding your clit. You sobbed into the sheets as he rubbed tight circles, your body locking up in effort to keep your release at bay.
"S'not fair," you whined, high and wrecked. The fire in your core was raging, threatening to set you aflameâJack's orders be damned.
"Y'know what's not fair?" Jack grunted. "When pretty residents walk around like they own the place." His hand moved from your back, his palm resting on the sheets next to your head. He dropped forward, dragging his lips up your spine, biting down on the curve where your shoulder met your neck. Your eyes rolled back, the pain adding to the dizzying pleasure that was making your whole body ache from holding back. "S'not fair," he mocked you again, "when you make me walk around hard. All. Fucking. Shift." He punctuated the last words with hard thrusts, the force knocking breaths out of you.
"Come in me, Jack, please." You whined, delirious and in need of whatever he'll give you. "Need it s'bad, I'll be good f'youâpromise!"
He groaned at your begging, pulling out at the last second to deny you what you were so prettily asking for. Even if he wanted nothing more than to fill you to the brim, this was part of your punishment. He spilled over your ass and lower back, painting your skin in white streaks.
You sobbed at the loss of him, at his hand leaving your burning clit and giving you no relief. He leaned back over you, his mouth hovering right next to your ear. "Aw, you wanna come, sweetheart?" You nodded fervently, tears soaking the sheets below you. He gripped your chin tight, turning your face until your lips were inches from hisâyour breaths mingling together. "Be a good girl and apologise."
"But I didn't do anything wrong." You whimpered out.
He tutted. "Try again."
His hand returned to your clit, fingers rubbing agonisingly slow figure eightsâthe fire blooming at full force beneath his touch. He watched the sweat beading at your hairline, the tremors running through your body making his bed shake; you were so determined to not give in, and it only made him inevitably breaking you that much sweeter.
He moved his head, nuzzling into the side of your neckâbreathing in your intoxicating scent before he started nipping and sucking at the spot below your ear. And just as he predicted, that was your breaking point. Your body shook harder underneath him, a debauched moan slipping from you lips.
"M'sorry, Jack! I'm so sorryâwon't do it again." You whimpered, hips rolling back and forth, trying to hump his hand. "Pleaseâit hurts so bad!"
Satisfied that you finally said you were sorry, he moved off of youâflopping onto his back next to you and not wasting a second to grasp your waist and pull you on top of him. He positioned you so you were hovering over his face, giving you a moment to get your bearings before yanking you down and absolutely devouring you.
Your hands were quick to thread into his curls, tugging hard as you rode his face. Three fingers thrust into you again, this time curling and hitting your g-spot perfectly. The most sinful sounds he'd ever heard fell from your mouth, a sharp cry jolting out of you when his lips wrapped around your clit and sucked hard. You were so close already, the teasing and edging for what felt like hours leaving a painful knot that was ready to unravel violently.
"Jackâoh, fuck!" You shook above him, your body glistening with sweat as you climbed higher. He groaned, marvelling at the sight of youâyeah, he was never going to forget this. It sent vibrations through your pussy and your vision started to blur at the edges. "I'm gonna comeâplease let me come!"
He doubled his efforts, silently telling you to let go. You threw your head back with a scream, an all-consuming orgasm tearing through your coreâripping every single one of your nerves apart, a new galaxy bursting behind your eyes. You squirted all over Jack's face, his eyes never once leaving your heaving body as he eagerly drank every drop you offered him. He continued fucking his fingers into you, mouthing at your clit as you came down. You tried to lift your hips off his face but he refused, not letting up until overstimulated sobs left you and you begged him to stop.
He sat you on his chest, rubbing his hands along your thighs and hips. "That wasn't so hard now, was it?"
You returned home feeling both light and heavyâyour head light from the brief sub space Jack put you in, your heart heavy because you couldn't do this anymore.
You couldn't do casual, you deserved more. And you knew Jack could never offer you what you truly needed, not when he was so adamant on being aloneâwhich, honestly, was bullshit. He was never aloneâchoosing to either strap his SWAT vest on or pick up an extra shift in the ED, calling you up when he wanted company sex, refusing to sit in the silence by himself.
You didn't re-download the dating apps right away, content with accepting the fact that you were ready to start looking again. You continued your routine with Jack, albeit with a little less enthusiasm than usual. If he picked up on it, he didn't say anythingâit wasn't like you two talked much anyways.
A few weeks later, you were at the Northside Farmers Market with your mom, browsing the stalls before you had to leave for your night shift. It was something the two of you tried to do every other week when your schedules lined upâan old tradition you had as a kid, every Friday going to the market to buy fresh, local ingredients for your family dinner the following Sunday. It stopped when your parents' tumultuous arguments in front of the vendors, the public, tainted something you once held so dear. Now that you were an adult, you were determined to replace those memories with good ones again.
You were at the baker's stall, exchanging idle chit-chat with Billieâthe vendorâwhen a tall man approached the stall. Billie's face lit up at the sight of him, the older woman rounding the counter to pull him into a hug.
"Ollie," she said, pulling back and swatting his arm lightly. "I should be mad at you, y'know. You work how many blocks away, and you're only visiting your Ma now?"
You turned to the man in surprise, watching his cheeks flush red. He was older than youâmost likely in his forties, if you were to guess from the few grey hairs streaking his dark beard. He was ruggedly handsome but tamedâhis clothes looking like he would fit in on a farm, but the stitching on his jacket told you he would've paid at least a couple hundred for it.
Before he could respond, Billie looked between the both of youâthe smile of a cunning mother overtaking her face. She placed a hand on his bicep, turning to you. "This is my son Oliver, he works at Westbridge as an anesthesiologist. If I remember correctly, you work at a hospital, don't you?" Oliver turned to you fully then, kind green eyes looking you up and down in pleasant surprise.
You smiled bashfully. "Yes, you remember correctly. I'm a third year resident at PTMC, specialising in Emergency Medicine." Oliver held out a hand and you shook it, offering him your name.
Billie returned to the other side of her stall, helping out with another customer. You and Oliver stepped to the side, falling into easy conversation about your jobs. Time passed quickly, and before you knew it your warning alarm to leave for your shift was going off. Oliver politely asked if he could get your numberâsaying that it's been really nice talking to you, and that he would love to get to know you more over a coffee or dinner sometime. You happily gave it to him with the smallest flutter in your chestâsomething in the shape of hope.
You found your mom at the books & records stall, gushing to her about the handsome man you just met.
"People hardly meet organically anymore!" She exclaimed, looping her arm through yours, the two of you practically squealing as you left the market.
Not even an hour later, you were standing at the Hub, talking to Lena about the parents in North Three with a degree in medicine from Google University, when your phone vibrated in your pocket. You pulled it out to see a text from an unknown number.
7:15pm
(412) 858-5725: It was really great meeting you today, I would love to take you out for dinner one night soon if you're interested
(412) 858-5725: I completely understand if our schedules don't match up, no pressure at all :)
(412) 858-5725: This is Oliver, by the way. If that wasn't obvious already haha
"I know that look," Lena singsonged, pointing an accusatory finger at your face. You looked up from your phone to see a sly smirk on her face. "Who's the guy?"
You looked away, biting your lip to suppress the smile you didn't realise had bloomed across your face. "It's no one, really. We only met, like, an hour ago."
"Ah, young love," the older nurse swooned. "Let me know how it goes, hon." Then she was throwing you a wink and calling after Vivi who was rushing past.
Luckily, you and Oliver figured out you both had the following Friday off and made plans to go to a family-owned Italian restaurantânot too intimate, not too casual. You kept the date to yourselfânot even telling your momâin fear of jinxing it. The two of you exchanged a handful of texts before your date, each one making you feel more giddy about your upcoming date.
You went to Jack's once in the week before your date with Oliverâcutting your usual three nights a week down to one, claiming that you were feeling too unwell the other nights. Which technically wasn't a lie, the guilt was starting to make you feel uneasy. You reminded yourself that you had no reason to feel guiltyâyou and Jack weren't dating, weren't exclusive, and you hadn't even been on a date with Oliver yet. But even with your reasoning, there was something clenching your chest and curdling your gut. You reminded yourself that you and Jack were just coworkers who used each other for stress relief; you didn't tell Shen about your date, so why would you tell Abbot?
The guilt stayed with you as you got ready for the dateâfeeling like you were trying to cover a cold secret with someone else's warmth. Your thoughts were briefly distracted when your phone pinged with a text.
7:03pm
Abbot: Come over to mine tonight. 9pm.
You: Sorry, can't tonight. I have plans.
Abbot: đ
You scoffed at his response, your previous guilt evaporating in an instant. This was what you neededâthe reminder that you deserved more than what Jack could give you.
You walked into the restaurant just before seven thirty, feeling like you had something to proveâto yourself or to someone else, you weren't sure.
The date went wellâgreat, even. Oliver was charming, but also humbleâmentioning his less than glamorous upbringing, how he got into med school on a scholarship, that the first thing he did with his first big paycheck was pay off part of his parent's mortgage.
You bonded over the struggle that was med school, the failing healthcare system, the weirdest cases you've worked on. Dinner continued into dessert, then another bottle of wine, but there was still a tension in the back of your head. It had you turning your head when he leaned in to kiss you, his lips brushing your cheek instead of your lips. It had you comparing the hand on your bare shoulder to another hand, one that wore a dark ring and knew exactly how to touch you.
You parted ways with tentative plans for a second date; the next time your nights off aligned wasn't for another two weeks, and you both didn't want to put too much pressure on a set date just yet.
You visited your mom the next day for lunch, filling her in on all the details about your date. She was ecstatic for you, claiming that she always knew the market was going to pay you back somehow.
Monday rolled around quickly, and you walked into your shift ten minutes early like you always didâallowing yourself a few minutes to catch up with your aunt before she went home. Dana was at the Hub as usual, complaining to Robby about the nurse shortage and the pressure it was putting on her people.
She looked over as you approached the counter, her face morphing into a smirk that you knew meant she had been talking to your mom.
"Hey, doll. How was your weekend?" She emphasised the question with a small wink. "Your mom told me you had a handsome date on Friday."
You rolled your eyes at her fondly. "I should've known she'd tell you as soon as I left on Saturday."
Dana rounded the counter and slung an arm around your shoulder. "It wasn't straight away, she waited until we had dinner that night." You laughed with a small shake of your head. "Don't leave me hanging, how was it?"
Robby was still stood behind the counter with his arms crossed, partially paying attention to you and your aunt. His face was pulled into a puzzled expression as he observed Jack standing not far behind youâclearly eavesdropping on your conversation with Dana, a small frown furrowing his brows and setting his mouth in a straight line. It wasn't really eavesdropping since you were both talking at a normal volume, any of your colleagues passing by would've heard your conversation.
What Robby found odd was that Jack had stopped walking on his way to the lockers to listen, one hand frozen on his bag strap and the other curled into a tight fist at his side. His cheek twitched in the way that meant something was bothering him, and Robby came to the chilling realisation that Jack was jealous. Over youâDana's niece.
You started recounting the date to Dana, a giddy smile stretching your lips. It felt good to be openly wanted by someone, to not be a secret kept in the darkâto be something other than a stress relief booty call.
Robby watched in unease as Jack continued to stand as still as a statue, the vein in his forehead starting to bulge as a dark red crept up his neck.
Robby grabbed a tablet and casually rounded the Hub's counter, trying not to draw your attention. He started towards the North rooms, grabbing Jack's bicep in an iron grip and forcing him through the North Bay doors.
Once safely out of your earshot, he turned to his friend with a scolding glare.
"What the fuck did you do?"
Jack was pretty damn proud of himself. He managed to get to the end of his shift without blowing up at you once. It was due to Robby's threat ringing in his ears for the most partâhaving your best friend threaten to castrate you with a dead serious face tends to lower your anger to a simmer.
Jack hadn't uttered a word to Robby, the guilt and jealously written all over his face told him enough. Robby kindly reminded him that he was the least of Jack's worriesâif Dana found out he so much as touched a hair on your head, losing his dick would be sweet relief compared to what she'd do.
So, Jack treated you as normalâignoring the stabbing in his chest, the beast in his gut demanding to be let out.
There were less than ten minutes left of his shift when he caught sight of you talking to Lena at the north nurse's station.
Keep walking, he told himself. His feet didn't seem to get the memo.
"I meant to ask," Lena said, leaning her arms on the counter. "Any update on Market Guy?"
Robby had dragged Jack away before he heard the full recount of your date to Dana, which he had been both grateful for and disappointed by. He needed to know like he needed air to breatheâwhich was a terrifying realisation to him.
"We went out for dinner on Friday," you replied, biting your lip to hold back yet another smile. "It was really nice. He was a total gentleman, very charming, pretty down to earth." Lena nodded along, hanging off of every word. "We're planning a second date for when our schedules next align."
That was it for Jack. His vision clouded with a red fog, the beast in his gut rearing its head and breaking out. He stormed over to the two of you, gripping your upper arm.
"We need to talk," he bit out, ignoring the shocked look Lena gave him.
He didn't wait for your response, pulling you towards the only empty Central room. Once the door was closed, you struggled in his hold, trying to rip your arm free.
"Let go of me, Dr. Abbot." You demanded as calmly as you could, your heart beat quickening at the storm rolling over his face. He let go but stepped closer, crowding your personal space.
"That's why you couldn't see me on Friday? Because you had a date?" He seethed through clenched teeth.
You stepped back, anger starting to grip your chest. "I'm sorryâwhat?"
He followed you, his fists clenching and unclenching at his sides. "Did you sleep with him?"
"How the fuck is that any of your business?"
Unbeknownst to the both of you, the day shift had started filtering inâRobby and Dana finding their command posts at the Hub. Dana was the first to notice the two of you in Central Seven, her eyebrows drawing together at the furious look on your face.
"Hey," she said to Robby, getting his attention. She nodded towards where you and Jack looked like you were having a heated discussion. "You know what's going on with them?"
Robby followed her eyeline, tensing as he saw what he prayed wouldn't happen within the walls of his ED. He rubbed the back of his neck, shaking his head. "Uh, no, not a clue."
Dana eyed him suspiciously. "Well, do you mind telling them we have patients who could use that room?"
"I'd rather not go in there."
Dana slowly turned to him, levelling him with a glare. "Michael Robinavitch, what aren't you telling me?"
Back in the room, your hands were starting to shake from anger, and Jack's head was throbbing from holding back the full wrath of his jealousy.
"I have the right to know if you're screwing other people."
You let out a humourless laugh. "Are you kidding me right now? You don't have the right to know shit!"
Jack's cheek twitched. "Yes I do. You said no to me to see some other guy."
"Oh, whatâso I'm meant to come running at your beck and call?"
His jaw flexed and he opened his mouth, but your anger and disbelief at the situation had taken over.
"This has just been one big waste of time! I don't want casual anymoreânot with you, not with anyone."
Jack opened his mouth before he could think better of it. "I didn't hear you complaining when you opened your legs for me."
A crack echoed throughout the room, the sound of your palm slapping Jack's cheek filling the tension riddled air. "You're a fucking asshole, Jack Abbot."
You shoulder checked him as you rushed out the door, refusing to let him see the tears streaming down your cheeks. You hurried past the Hub, not noticing Dana and Robby watching you with shock painting their faces. Your hand was tingling from the impact, your vision blurring as you made your way out the ambulance bay doors.
Dana didn't stop to think, storming into Central Seven where Jack was staring at the groundâhis hand rubbing his tender cheek.
"What the fuck did you do to my baby?" She demanded, her voice dangerously low.
Shit.
The cold morning air made the tears staining your cheeks sting slightly, the sensation grounding and stopping you from completely falling apart. You never cried over a manâit was a rule you made for yourself when you were young, after seeing how your dad would make your mom fall apart at least once a week. They weren't worth your tears.
You wanted to charge back into the ED and slap Jack again for making you cry.
You stayed sitting on the ground with your back against the brick wall until your tears dried, until your breaths evened out and didn't hurt on their way out your lungs. You tensed when you heard uneven steps approach youâthere was only one person whose steps sounded like that.
Your head shot up as he sat down opposite you, glaring daggers at him. He raised his hands placatingly.
"Please don't hit me, I'm here to apologise." When you didn't make a move to leave or attack him, he slowly lowered his hands. "I'm really sorry, I didn't mean what I saidâto imply that you were easy."
"Then why did you say it?" Fuck, you hated how small your voice sounded.
He let out a long breath, looking up at the sky. "Because I was madâupset." He looked back at you, his eyes softer than you'd ever seen them. "I didn't know that's how you feltâŚyou never said anything to me."
"How could I when you barely speak to me? You just fuck me and then push me into an uber. Really makes a girl feel special," you shook your head, wrapping your arms around your chestâstarting to feel exposed. "I can't read your mind, Jack. You can't tell me you want casual one day and the next get mad because I went on a date."
He had the decency to look ashamed, wincing and squeezing his eyes shut. "That's fair. I don't really have any excuses, no good ones at least."
You sighed, your head feeling heavy and starting to throb. "I don't need excuses; I just want to know why. Why you act like you don't know me, why you won'tâ" your voice dropped, wobbling slightly. "Why you won't kiss or hug me. I mean," you let out a bitter chuckle, "do you even know what aftercare is?"
He started to twist his ring around his finger, his mouth moving side to side as he struggled to find the right words to say. "Kissing and hugging felt too intimateâfelt like things I couldn't take back." He looked up at you again, his eyes glassy. "I didn't want to admit to myself that I hadâhaveâfeelings for you, and the thought of kissing youâŚI mean I've thought about it a lotâto the point it's been driving me insane." He rubbed a hand along his jaw, a huffed laugh leaving him. "I was worried that by kissing you I wouldn't be able to let go, and that terrified me. It meant you could become another photo I keep in my nightstand."
You knew what he was talking aboutâyou had opened it while looking for tissues, finding a collection of photographs in the drawer. You tried not to snoop, but you were fairly certain one of them was his wife and a couple others were his old army buddies.
"I get that, I do. The universe has handed you more than enough grief and hardship for one lifetime." You stood up, closing the distance between you and sitting next to him. "But that isn't solely your decision to make, Jack. You've been hurting us both by keeping your feelings to yourself." You brought your knees up, hugging them to your chest and resting your cheek on them. "And, honestly? A girl needs kisses and cuddles after coming four times in one night; a sub drop can be pretty brutal."
Jack's guilt multiplied tenfold. "Shit. Fuck, I'm sorryâI didn't even think about that." He shifted slightly, turning to look at you fully. "I would like to try again, if you'll let me. No casual bullshit, no pretending like I don't think about you all the time. Lots of kissing and cuddlingâand orgasms, so many orgasms."
It was then that you noticed the ice pack in Jack's hands, resting over his groin. You couldn't stop the snort that slipped out. "I see you had a chat with Dana."
"Don't know if I would call it a chat. She's got a harder kick than I was expecting."
You hummed. "Just be glad you didn't get to experience her right hookâshe gave my dad a black eye when she found out he was cheating on my mom. And she won't hesitate to give you one if you hurt me again."
His eyes were shining, hope swirling around the honey gold and sunlit green. "Does that mean you'll give me another chance?"
"Yes," you replied, letting the small smile break through. "But no sex until I think you deserve it."
Jack nodded, his own megawatt smile putting the sun to shame. "You're in charge here, sweetheart." He leaned in slowly, his eyes flicking between yours and your lips. "Can I kiss you, at least?"
You barely managed a nod before his mouth descended on yours, his lips achingly tender. He moved slowly, basking in the warmth he had been denying himself of for so long. A cold hand came up to cup your cheek and you jerked away in surprise, making him laugh and apologise before diving back in, settling the hand on your back to pull you in closer.
"I was right," he mumbled against your lips. "There's no way I'm letting go now."
Hello people! This is the second part of the Jack Abbot x Barista!Reader I posted the other day. This time itâs about 962 words I think, less than last time but still progress đââď¸
Part 1 here!
And to the kind Anon in my askbox may your pillow always be cold on both sides when you go to sleep.
No warnings, enjoy!
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The following days after meeting Jack you got to see him a few times, some mornings he came with Shen, some others he came by himself. He always ordered the same black coffee and the occasional pastry you convinced him to buy because âjust bitter coffee sucksâ. It worked more than half of the time.
âI donât know why you keep coming here though,â you told Jack one morning as you prepared his coffee, the place was currently empty since it was pretty early so it was just the two of you.
He looked at you like you had grown a second head just for asking that. âI mean, you could definitely just drink this at home and save yourself the money.â You clarified as the espresso machine hissed and began to pour the coffee into the to-go cup in a continuous hot stream.
âWhereâs the fun in that?â Jack asked crossing his arms loosely over his chest as he waited by the counter. âBesides, I like how you make it.â
âItâs just coffee.â
âMade by a professional with a very expensive machine.â
You rolled your eyes at that, a smile pulling at your lips at the teasing tone in his voice. âBeing charming will get you nowhere.â
The cup was hot when you picked it up to put a lid on top before bringing it to him, it made you flex your fingers to get rid of the uncomfortable feeling in your palm. One would think that youâd get used to the heat after years working like this, but no, sometimes it still burned like hell.
Jack had noticed the small reddening in your fingers and hands sometimes, the faint marks from accidentally getting burned while cleaning the espresso machine. You had assured him time and time again that you were fine, that stuff like that happened all the time, but even then he had jokingly scolded you while telling you to be more careful. You just rolled your eyes and called him an old man for worrying so much.
He was quickly becoming the customer you were hoping to see whenever the door chimed when someone came in, so much that some of your coworkers had started teasing you about it and everything. They were annoying about it too.
âOh, by the way,â you told Jack before he stepped too far from the counter. âI think youâll be having a new nurse at the hospital soon, she moved in just across my apartment last Saturday.â Her name was Emma if you recalled correctly, she had seemed like a sweet girl when she introduced herself.
âReally? Thatâs great to know,â Jack said with a nod of approval as he took a sip of coffee. âThanks again for the coffee, have a nice shift.â
âI hope itâs a good one too, take care Jack.â You told the man before watching him leave through the door and turn down the street. And not even a minute later Wendy was coming in, her eyes following Jackâs retreating figure before she looked at you with a grin.
âWell, well, wellâŚâ
âDonât start.â You groaned while turning around to empty the portafilter and clean it.
âYou do know he only comes here for you right?â Wendy asked as she took off her jacket and moved toward the employee room to grab her apron, returning a moment later as she was tying it behind her back.
âNo he doesnât, itâs a coffee shop near his workplace, itâs convenient.â
âOh really? Then why did he come last week on his day off?â Wendy scoffed with a shake of her head as she leaned against the counter. âYou are so dense.â
âWait,â you looked at her, your brows furrowing slightly in confusion. âHow did you know it was his day off?â
âBecause Kyle knows someone who works in the hospital who knows the hot doc-â
âDonât call him that.â
âYou know itâs true, anyway last week Kyle thought it was weird that he wasnât wearing scrubs because he always shows up after work, so he texted his friend and it turns out that Dr. Abbot wasnât on shift that day.â She finished explaining with a look of satisfaction in her face as if this new information would make you believe that a man you had seen a handful of times wanted to ask you on a date.
There was a moment of silence between the two of you as your brain processed all of that, because there was no way that he was doing that, right? Coming here just to see you each morning.
âWell, even if he was, heâs got a ring on his finger and Iâm not putting myself in the middle of what I hope is a healthy marriage.â You told her as you grabbed a damp cloth to wipe down the counter, it wasnât stained but it gave you something to focus on instead of whatever this conversation was. âNow start getting the sandwiches from the back before we get a wave of hungry teens on a rush.â
âAlright, alright, keep believing that itâs just some coincidence if you want to.â Wendy shrugged before walking past you and entering the small kitchen on the back.
But her words were already in your head. You do know he only comes here for you right? Great, now you werenât going to focus during work today and all because Wendy had decided to tease you about the handsome doctor that dropped by to grab coffee here and chat with you. The man you hoped to see whenever you opened in the mornings because he always made getting up early worth it. It made you come to a very clear realization.
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Bunny reader accidentally watches a horror movie gets terrified and refuse to come out of the burrow. Jack and pope spend an hour trying to convince her itâs not real and to come out please.
wait this is so cutie. i didnât go the ânot realâ route, but i hope it is still enjoyable!
jack is sitting on the floor, watching something on tv.
when jack sees pope he says,
âpope, im giving her five more minutes of hiding and then iâm gonna need your help getting her out.â
âwhat happened?â
âshe watched a scary movie.â
âi thought she wasnât allowed to watch r rated movies.â
âshe isnât. it was pg-13 and sheâs the most sensitive thing in the world.â
after five minutes, jack and pope lay down on their backs and stick their heads into the entrance of your burrow.
jack says firmly, âhi bunny, me and pope need you to come out.â
âno, there are bad guys out there.â
âbunny, you havenât eaten since this morning. youâre hungry and thatâs making you feel worse. come on, iâll make you a snack.â
âjackieâŚâ
âno arguments. iâm gonna go cut you some strawberries and when i come back i want you sitting on the rug with pope.â
jack leaves you and pope to go get you your snack. pope letâs you touch his face while he talks.
âwhat was the movie about?â
âmurderer. really scary.â
âhuman murderer?â
âyes. with a knife.â
âwe have knives in the kitchen. and guns in the safe.â
âi donât know how to use a gun.â
âi do. so does jack. câmere.â
pope helps you out of your burrow and pulls you into his lap with your back to his chest. jack walks to the two of you with a plate of strawberries.
âhey thereâs my princess.â
jack looks to pope and asks quietly,
âhow did you get her out?â
âtold her we had knives and guns in the house.â
jack looks to you and says,
âyeah princess we have stuff to keep you safe. andbold you have a big scary guard dog to protect you... iâm gonna need a response from you bunny.â