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Well, here’s a little collection of fics I’ve come across featuring older women characters (either explicitly stated, or just written in a way that reads older to me) who feel beautifully shaped by their experiences.
This is such a niche I absolutely love diving into. There’s something about this dynamic that just hits different. The lived-in confidence. The history. The emotional awareness. The way their interactions feel layered— not just flirtation or tension, but experience meeting experience. I wish I had better words to describe why it feels juicier, richer, more grounded. Honestly, I think it’s one of those things you only fully understand once you read it yourself. There’s a weight and texture to these relationships that I can’t get enough of!
I will forever be on the Older!Reader agenda. I’m committed. I’m riding this train indefinitely.
So here’s the collection I’ve gathered so far under this niche! And here’s to hopefully stumbling across even more, because I genuinely love finding stories that let women be seasoned, complex, and fully realised.
And if you’ve got recommendations? You already know I’m all ears.
Massive shoutout to @cafekitsune for the dividers I'm obsessed with.
Key: A - Angst | F - Fluff | S - Smut | C - Comfort | HC - Hurt/Comfort
Joel Miller | The Last of Us:
> As It Always Was by @mirrormauve
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, HC
Word Count: 6.9k
Description: Joel wants you to come live in Jackson. With him, maybe. But you are stubborn.
> Notes in the Dark by @pandapetals
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, F
Word Count: 1k
Description: Joel always thought he was the musical one with his guitar, until he comes home to find you at the piano, singing softly. It’s a hidden talent you’d never shared before, and the moment leaves him awestruck, falling even harder as music becomes something you can share together.
> Sunset on The Fenceline by @/pandapetals
Tags: 18+ MDNI, One Shot, 2nd POV, F + S
Word Count: 11k
Description: In a world still haunted by old dangers, Joel and you have built a quiet life together on a farm outside Jackson. Between playful banter, shared chores, and tender moments by firelight, they hold tightly to the love they fought so hard to find.
> The Band Plays On by @sweetsuburbanlegends
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, HC
Word Count: 8.5k
Description: You’d never met someone who loved the way Joel Miller did.
> Joel Miller x Reader by @auteurdelabre
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, A + C
Word Count: 7.9K
Description: Stream of consciousness story for the older ladies that don't feel as represented in the Joel x reader stories.
> Jackson!Joel Miller x reader by @lonely-ey3s
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, A + F
Word Count: 5.4K
Description: Established "secret" relationship, small age gap (Joel is late 50s, reader is late 40s), flirting, fluff, violence, soft!Joel.
> Baby, Come Back to Me by @followyourfleart
Tags: 18+ MDNI, One Shot, 2nd POV, A + HC + S
Word Count: 18.3K
Description: Separated by miles, years, and the undead, you and your husband have been ghosts in each other’s lives for two decades. The thought of Joel being alive hurt just as much as thinking he was dead. But when a stand-off forces you face-to-face with a familiar man—older, harder, and still devastatingly him—all the pain resurfaces.
> Ma'am by @mssalo
Tags: 18+ MDNI, One Shot, 2nd POV, C + S
Word Count: 11k
Description: Joel Miller’s spent a lifetime in control, but under your confident lead, he’s discovered just how good it feels to let go. As your right-hand man in Jackson, he’s desperate to please, finding himself worshipping you in ways he’s never dared before—and loving every filthy second of it.
> I'm Empty Without You, So Come Grow Within Me by @chronically-ghosted
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, F + HC
Word Count: 9k
Description: With winter approaching, Joel takes stock of what he wants and what he has in his life. He wants you, but he's not quite sure he has you, not in a way that only a life in Jackson can afford. Joel's an old-fashioned guy, so he's looking for an old-fashioned love . . . if he can only remember how to do it right.
> Sugar Talking by @pearlessance
Tags: 18+, MDNI, One Shot, 2nd POV, A + HC + S
Word Count: 11.2k
Description: After three years of separation, Sarah's birthday offers you and Joel a second chance. But finding trust isn't easy once it's been broken. Luckily, Joel knows exactly what to say to get you to open up your heart to him again. And it certainly helps when he's begging on his knees.
> Texas Sun by @from-the-clouds
Tags: 18+ MDNI, Series, 2nd POV, A + F + S + HC
Chapter Count: 14
Description: Twenty years later, Joel still doesn’t know how to describe what you were to him. You’d never made any promises to each other, but you loved his daughter like she was your own. Had he known what was going to happen, he wouldn’t have let you go.
> Cover Me Up (AO3) by @almostfoxglove
Tags: 18+ MDNI, Series, 2nd POV, A + S + HC
Chapter Count: 27
Description: After you spare the lives of two kids who break into your isolated cabin in the woods, they lead you back to their settlement. You intend to get in, trade for valuable supplies, and get out, but end up staying. Four years later, you’re a solitary but respected pillar of Jackson’s close-knit community when Joel Miller shows up, kid in tow. You think nothing of him or the kid. You like your quiet life. Too bad it won’t stay quiet for long.
> I Owe You by @lillaydee
Tags: 18+, MDNI, Series(Ongoing), 2nd POV, F + A+ HC + S
Chapter Count: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | Pt. 4 | Pt. 5 | Pt. 6 | Pt. 7 | Pt. 8 | Pt. 9 | ... | Pt. 12
Description: 15 years ago, you begged Joel Miller for a favour, receiving only silence in response. You left Boston thinking he wasn't interested in your lame bargain. You found out, too late, that Joel Miller actually did do you that favour, fulfilling his end of the bargain, leaving you indebted to him. Now, all these years later, he arrived in Jackson, and you found yourself living your life, wondering - will he collect?
> Tender Payment For Our Sins by @3pirouette
Tags: 18+, MDNI, Series(Ongoing), 2nd POV, F + A+ HC + S
Chapter Count: Pt. 1 | ... | Pt. 59
Description: Jackson is less idyllic than it seems, as is everything post-infection. He doesn't want to see you tossed out, and can’t take the way you flinch when the men come sniffing around, so he does the only thing he and Ellie can think of to keep you around.
Multiple Pairings | The Pitt:
> It Is What It Could Be (Jack Abbot) by @inkdippedquills
Tags: 18+, MDNI, Series, Ex-MSF Reader, 2nd POV, A + HC + F + S
Chapter Count: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | Pt. 4
Description: You have made peace with loving Jack Abbott quietly.
> Jack Abbot x Reader by @cryonme
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, F
Word Count: 576
Description: I would love to see something with jack and a closer in age reader, maybe they work in another position at the hospital
> Whatever Happened to Ageing Gracefully? It Got Old (Jack Abbot) by @thatcorporategirlie
Tags: 18+, MDNI, One Shot, 2nd POV, A + HC + S
Word Count: 8.5k
Description: You’re struggling with feeling beautiful as you get older, and Jack is not amused.
> Kiss it Better (Jack Abbot) by @/thatcorporategirlie
Tags: 18+, MDNI, Part of a series but I read it as a one-shot (welp), Older!Reader, A + HC + S
Word Count: 12.2k
Description: You and Jack make up at his brother’s wedding.
> You Got Me All Twisted Up (Jack Abbot) by @/thatcorporategirlie
Tags: 18+, MDNI, One Shot, Older!Reader, A + HC + F + S
Word Count: 13.2k
Description: Jack was no better than Robby when it came to relationships. He moved through life after his divorce using intimacy as a distraction rather than a connection. And then… he met you.
> Know Me Too Well (Jack Abbot) by @domesticblisss
Tags: 18+, MDNI, One Shot, 2nd POV, A + S
Word Count: 6.2k
Description: The biggest heatwave in the history of Pittsburgh hits the city, and Jack Abbott decides to throw a pool party to boost the team’s morale. The only problem is that you and Jack hate each other.
> The Heart Skips A Beat (Jack Abbot) by @inknopewetrust
Tags: 18+, MDNI, One Shot, F + C + S
Word Count: 6k
Description: Date night gets interesting when Robby unknowingly interrupts yours and Jack’s dinner with a date of his own—and no one is more nosy than the Abbots.
> Jack Abbot x Reader by @rkkuna
Tags: One Shot, Older!Reader, F
Word Count: 617
Description: Jack Abbot being married to milf!reader hmmm.... a few years older than him
> No Excuses (Jack Abbot) by @deliciousangelfestival
Tags: Series (Ongoing), 2nd POV, A + F + HC
Chapter Count: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2
Description: Dr. Jack Abbott walks into his night shift expecting another case, until he steps into the trauma room and finds the patient isn’t a stranger, but someone from his past.
> It's Just Us (Jack Abbot) by @fairydustttx
Tags: One Shot, Older!Reader, A + HC
Word Count: 2.1k
Description: You graduate with your PhD, a hard-earned milestone that feels different from anything before. Your boyfriend can’t get the day off, and his absence lingers as the ceremony unfolds.
> Dancing in The Dark (Jack Abbot) by @thegingerjameson
Tags: Series (Ongoing), 2nd POV, A + HC
Chapter Count: Pt. 1 | ... | Pt. 3 | Pt. 4 | Pt. 5 | Pt. 6
Description: A newly transferred trauma resident finds herself irresistibly drawn to her sharp-tongued, charismatic night-shift chief, Dr. Jack Abbot — a widower with a reputation for emotional unavailability. After months of flirtation, they finally give in to their chemistry, only for the night to end in heartbreak when he whispers another woman’s name in his sleep. Determined to stay professional, she’s blindsided when she’s promoted to work directly under him — just as the woman from his past arrives at the hospital. Now she must navigate ambition, jealousy, and lingering feelings while deciding if Jack is worth the risk.
> Pretty Mama (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @ofthepitt
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, F
Word Count: 765
Description: A husband who falls in love with his wife for the 10,000th time, and a tiny daughter who fully agrees that Mama is the prettiest human alive.
> Michael "Robby" Robinavitch x Reader by @thedilfydoctorshow
Tags: One Shot, 2nd POV, F
Word Count: 1k
Description: Hi! I'd like to please request a Robby X fem!reader where she's around the same age as him and a senior attending at another sector of PTMC (maybe ICU or surgery), and they're married with kids, and no one in the pitt knows until like a holiday party or something. Thanks in advance!
> If (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @rr-after-dark
Tags: 18+, MDNI, Mom!Reader, One Shot, 2nd POV, A+ HC + S
Word Count: 8.7k
Description: Robby’s always kept his five daughters close to his chest, but a serious accident sends them all out of orbit. An exploration of family dynamics, forgiveness, gratitude, and connection.
> Mom and Dr. Daddy (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @paigepie213
Tags: One Shot, C + F
Word Count: 7.8k
Description: If you’re the ER mom, does that make Robby…?
> 68 Whiskey (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @somethingeh
Tags: One Shot, A + F
Word Count: 4k
Description: Robby can't get enough of you, Jack's old war buddy and former army medic.
> His Wife (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @queensinxs
Tags: One Shot, F
Word Count: 4k
Description: Robby doesn't advertise his marriage. So when his wife shows up at ED to discuss their son, it's safe to say the residents were shocked. Now they wonder how the two of you met. This throws him back to when he was an MS3.
> Food Is The Way To The Heart (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @porchlightfairy
Tags: One Shot, F + A + HC
Word Count: 10.1k
Description: A timeline of your relationship with Michael through food and how you become notorious in The Pitt. Your story begins when you meet, while you are working a food truck in the park across the street from the ED.
> The Fawn (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @docrobinavitch
Tags: One Shot, F + A + HC
Word Count: 22.5k
Description: Michael Robinavitch was practically your sworn enemy in med school. your sworn enemy that you'd slept with, regretably, once. Then twenty years passed, and back in Pittsburgh, you see one Michael Robinavitch on Hinge. Ever the hopeless romantic, you can't help the curiosity that leads you to match with him. Unfortunately for you, he doesn't remember you.
> Something in The Orange (Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) by @/thegingerjameson
Tags: 18+, MDNI, Series, 2nd POV, A + HC + S
Chapter Count: 10
Description: You and Robby approach healthcare from two different sides; him as a Chief Attending in the Pitt, and you as the new Director of Hospital Administration. Initial conflict leads to budding romance, but can Robby keep his trauma at bay long enough to allow himself to be happy?
‧₊ ♪˚⊹ Summary: You're apart of a wealthy family in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Sammie Moore has had his sights on you for the longest. He hears you mention you're moving to Chicago for college. He realizes this is his last chance to confess his true feelings before you leave Clarksdale forever.
‧₊ ♪˚⊹ a/n: I love me some Sammie. Ouuwee, sorry guys. This will have a part 2. Enjoy! I do not consent for my content to be published on other platforms and such by others. Also, please don't claim my work as your own! <3
Your brother reluctantly accompanies you at the bookstore, watching you look through books. There was Sammie across the street trying not to stare, because he didn’t want to seem like a creep. Nonetheless, he’s staring, watching you stack the books in your brother’s hands. You’re the prettiest girl he’s ever laid his eyes on. He especially stares at you at church. Your soft voice blending in with the rest of the crowd, and your lingering eyes meet his. Your father is a doctor, and your mother is a housewife, who hosts events at your house. You, on the other hand, were a bit different. Sometimes reality was too much to bear, resulting in you having your head in books. Sammie noticed that about you. When he’d see you at meetings with your mother and other women, he’d see a book in your grasp under the table. He’d walk past the window, tipping his hat towards you, not wanting to interrupt. You’d flash him a smile, wanting him to rescue you from the upcoming conversation on your studies.
“Come on, y/n, I have a case to review” you roll your eyes at your brother's complaints. You don’t let him see, because he’s the one buying. He stands in front of you, purchasing the books, and carrying the bag. Your eyes catch Sammie’s, and goodness gracious. His dark brown eyes are beautiful; how long has he been staring? You follow your brother back to his car, but you make sure to wave. As always, Sammie tips his hat. The sun is almost set, and you swing on the porch swing. A book in your hand and your mind lost in the world that’s written before you. So much so, you don’t hear the footsteps walking up to your porch. “Ahem,” the deep voice catches your attention. “Sammie, hi!” you say happily, you slide your feet into your house shoes.
Your arms wrap around his neck, inhaling his scent of wood and a mix of fried fish. “What brings you here?”. He takes off his hat, holding it to his side. The truth was, he didn’t know. Something pulled him to your house, to hear your voice say his name with such delight. “I was on a walk...”. You smile at him and grab his hand. “Let’s get you some sweet tea,” you pull back the screen door. The air from the air-conditioner cools his slightly sweaty body. He didn’t know your mother was at brunch and your father was dealing with a patient. Leaving you two, alone. “I just made it earlier today,”. You happily trot to the kitchen, grabbing a glass cup from the cabinet. You wash out the cup, then let sweet tea fill it from the pitcher. He stands beside you, leaning on the counter. He knows it’s wrong, but he watches how the dress flaunts your behind.
His grip on the counter tightens when you bend over to put the pitcher back. You hand him the cup with a bright smile. He takes it happily; his hands brush yours during the exchange. Your heart practically skips; the single brush of his hand makes your body light up like a flame. “You can tell me if it’s good,” you say, grabbing the lid covered bowl containing fruit salad. Your mother makes it every Sunday. You two sit on the porch, admiring the view. Your fork pokes into the pineapple, letting the wind slightly move your dress. Sammie never notices, because he’s listening to you talk.
“My mother keeps talking about sending me to Chicago to live with my aunt,” you don’t notice, but he does. Your eyes are filled with sorrow; he knows you want to say more, but you don’t. “She’s only trying to give you a better life, you’re smart. You can reach your potential there.” His calming voice assures you. You know he’s right, but an unsure feeling remains inside you. There’s something or someone; Mississippi has that Chicago doesn’t. “I know” you pout slightly at the thought of leaving the town behind. The only person you know in Chicago besides your aunt is your best friend, Irene. She moved there to become a beautician.
“Hey” his voice catches your attention. His thumb rubs across your hand; his eyes flick to yours. “You’re going to be alright, I’ll even come to visit you...”. Your heart swells at the thought, him coming to visit you in Chicago.
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Summary: After an unexpected visit to the ER, you and Dr. Jack Abbot begin a mutual attraction to each other that involves flirty and poorly-concealed innuendos. Will things progress for the two of you, or will you find out that it's better to stay friends? Stay tuned to watch these two idiots in love.
Part 1: The Meeting
Part 2: Showing up to the Night Shift
Part 3: Showing up to the Day Shift
Part 4: First Dates
Part 5: Thirsty for Jack
Part 6: Jacks Wants to Spoil His Girl
Part 7: Jack is Dodging Intimacy (18+)
Part 8: Jack Helps out with Your Hair
Part 9: Main Hoes..and Side Pieces
Part 10: You and Jack Traumatize Dennis (18+)
Part 11: Jack Takes Care of His Sick Baby
Part 12: You Take Care of Jack (18+)
Part 13: Jack tells his Therapist About You
Part 14: Happy Birthday, Jack
Part 15: Jack’s Neigbor Has Beef with You
Part 16: The Pregnancy Scare
Part 17: Jack’s New Music Taste
Part 18: Jack Meets Your Parents
Part 19: Jack Comes to the Cookout
Part 20: The PTMC Crew Meet Your Sisters
Part 21: You’re Being a Brat so Jack Handles It (18+)
Part 22: Jack Can’t Reach You During PittFest
Part 23: You Celebrate Jack’s Wife Birthday
Part 24: Jack Goes Ring Shopping
Part 25: You Get Insecure about Jack and Samira
Part 26: Jack Abbot is so Freaked Out (18+)
Part 27: The One with the Proposal
Part 28: House Hunting with Jack
Part 29: The Ménage-à-trois (ft. Michael Robinavitch) (18+)
thinking abt that person who left that tag on my post abt colorism abt how us brown/black ppl should just "make our own stuff" instead of complaining
and i always think abt how i kinda resent the fact that now that we have more black and brown princesses they don't really get the sweeping swoony fairytales like the white ones did
raya and moana don't get a love story. tiana was a frog for most of the movie. they retconned the love story for asha in wish
maybe unpopular opinion but yeah its cool to show girl power and girls can be independent from men but man i just want to see a black or brown princess who gets to be the princess the prince saves from the dragon lol
and when i do make this stuff ppl will call it hetslop
that tumblr is obsessed with whitaker from the pitt is a great reminder that 95% of people have dogshit taste just absolutely bland as hell insipid gray sludge penchants and predilections. litany against craving the validation of mass popularity
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synopsis: Checkmate hires a new medic. Adrian starts wondering if he needs to get shot more often. Inspired by this tumblr post because it is soooo him
tags/warnings: fluff!!!, Adrian gets hurt a lot (not on purpose but he thinks about it), medic!reader, coworkers to lovers
word count: 3k
i don’t want to miss you like this part 2 coming on tuesday- for now have some fluff!! Thank you @embeanwrites for looking this over for me!
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Not many people in Adrian’s life are particularly nice to him.
Even his best friends are mean. Not in a cruel way. It’s the way the 11th Street Kids are, the way they’ve been since the beginning. Jabs back and forth, sometimes playful, sometimes with a little edge, but never truly vicious. Maybe it’s not the healthiest way to bond or build a friendship, but it works for them. They love each other, in their strange, sharp ways.
He’s used to Chris calling him an idiot. He’s used to parsing out John’s sarcastic comments. He’s used to the barbed words that Harcourt throws his way. He’s used to Adebayo’s exasperation, however fond.
But when Checkmate hires a new medic, and Adrian meets you—it throws him off. Because you don’t say anything mean to him. You’re nice, actually. Sweet. It makes him a little suspicious. He keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop.
It’s not often he needs help, anyways. You’re a field medic. Adrian, usually, can just walk things off. A shallow stab wound is fixed by a two hour nap. He’s been resetting his own dislocated joints for years. For quite a while, he manages to scrape by without you. He’s been downplaying his injuries for months, whether he’s been trying to avoid you or impress you, he’s not sure. (Probably avoid you, because you make him nervous.)
Until one day, he can’t. He could deal with the bullet wound on his own if it went clean through his shoulder, go home and sleep it off, but it didn’t—it’s still lodged somewhere in the muscle of his bicep when he, Chris, and Economos make it back to the Checkmate building. And he can’t reach it, so someone needs to dig it out.
His two best friends are laughing at him. He tries not to be pissy about it. He’s used to their bullshit.
“Come on dude. That guy was smaller than Judomaster! You really let him get a shot in?” Economos says, loud enough for the entire office to hear.
“Go see the doctor,” Chris teases, pushing Adrian in the direction of your tiny office, an infirmary outfitted with medical equipment. “Maybe you’ll get a lollipop out of it.”
“Fuck off!” Adrian snaps, but he’s grumpy, because John is right. He should’ve seen it coming, should have dodged the bullet from that wimpy asshole. The guy wasn’t even fucking meta, for god’s sake—and now he’s got this burning bullet buried in his shoulder, and it hurts like a motherfucker. “Fuck. Goddamnit.”
He yanks off his mask as he stomps into your office and tosses it onto a table. You look up with surprise, a bit startled, but you jump up when Adrian starts to reach for the wound, stopping him with two gentle hands.
“Hey! Don’t touch it, let me,” you say, voice soft, already reaching for supplies. “Let’s take a look at you.”
You pry carefully at his shoulder armor to pull it loose, and he exhales sharply as it jostles his shoulder, irritating the wound.
“Fuck,” he hisses.
“I’m sorry,” you say calmly. “Gotta see it if I’m gonna fix it, sweetheart.”
Adrian feels himself flush hot at the pet name, with embarrassment and anger, and he’s ready to bite back with a scathing remark, but when he looks at your face—your brow furrowed with concentration, your mouth turned into a focused frown. You’re not making fun of him. You’re just—being kind. And he doesn’t know what to do with that. Whatever biting words he was going to say die on his tongue in an instant. He knows how to respond to the sharp jabs from his friends, but your low voice and tender touch leave him speechless.
“Bullet’s still in there, huh?” you say sympathetically, cleaning out the wound carefully. You reach for your sanitized tweezers. “Looks like it’s still in one piece, at least. You want something for the pain, or do you want me to just go for it, get it over with?”
“Just go for it,” Adrian grumbles. He’s had worse.
He stays quiet, sits with gritted teeth and watches you as you dig the bullet out of his muscle, sanitize the gaping hole left behind, and stitch it up, bandaging it with care. He doesn’t even whine about it dramatically like he usually does, even though it fucking hurts. He focuses instead on the touch of your fingertips, the little dip between your eyebrows where they’re furrowed with concentration.
It’s nice, he realizes, not having to do this by himself. It hurts less, even—he’s got plenty of practice treating his own wounds, but your well-trained hands work with experienced ease. When you’re finished, you tap lightly on his chest to signal that you’re finished.
“Doing okay?” you ask, and he nods wordlessly, looking at you with wide eyes. “Are you hurt anywhere else?”
“No,” he says, his voice cracking. He clears his throat, cheeks flushing. “Um. Thank you.”
“Just doing my job,” you smile. “My door is open, Adrian. I know you like to take care of things yourself, but I’m here, any time you need me.”
Adrian smiles too, but it’s a little wobbly. He feels like his world has been thrown out of whack. Because you’ve shown him a different kind of friendship, something softer than he’s used to.
He likes it. He likes it a lot.
Adrian starts spending more time with you after that. He’d been avoiding you, he admits to himself, but now he’s realizing he didn’t need to. He’s not great with new people. But you’re different. No one has ever treated him the way you do, with such unrelenting kindness.
He makes regular pit stops in your office when he returns from missions now, whether he needs something as simple as a band-aid or as serious as stitches to hold him together through the rest of the day before he can make it home to sleep. If he was avoiding you before, he does the opposite now, and people are starting to notice.
“Dude, you gotta stop staring,” Chris says one day in the office, watching Adrian’s eyes locked on you through your open office door. “You’re being weird.”
Adrian does not stop staring. “They're so nice. Maybe I should get shot more often.”
“That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard,” Chris says. “And you say dumb shit, like, every day.”
“See, this is what I mean. They would never say that to me.”
He keeps thinking, too, about the touch of your fingers on his skin. A sensation he normally hates so much, but god, he wants it again. He wants more of it, all the time. It’s the only time he ever feels his brain really go quiet. When you’re touching him.
So, he finds every tiny excuse to go see you.
“I got a paper cut earlier,” he says, a tad overdramatically. “It might be infected. I could die. Sepsis is the number one quiet killer, they say.”
“Is that what they say?”
“You’re the medical professional,” Adrian says. “You tell me.”
You reach for his hand, bringing it up to your face and squinting. “Oh, yeah, I see it. That’s a bad one, sweetheart. Might need to amputate.” He grins as you clean it up and wrap a band-aid around it. “All better.”
He likes it when you baby him. You fuss over him like no one else ever has, even his own family—every bump and scratch is worthy of your attention, and you never, ever turn him away or call him annoying or tell him to fuck off or call him an idiot.
He just wants someone to take care of him, he realizes. And you don’t seem to mind the way he leans into your touch, in those quiet moments after missions, when he’s bruised and bleeding and more than a little vulnerable.
He feels like you really see him, not the facade he puts on. When the mask comes off, and he’s not the suave masked Vigilante anymore, but he’s also not dorky Adrian. He’s just him, and that’s all he has to be, and no matter what you’ll be gentle and calm and caring.
One day, he drops by for you to stitch up a knife wound on his forearm, pleased that it stretches almost the entire length of his arm because it means he gets to hang out with you for even longer. Every pinch of the suture needle in his skin is worth it for the chance to crack stupid jokes and make you laugh while you work, and the feeling of pride swelling in his chest, that he’s the one to make you smile like that, is far more potent than the stinging of the wound.
Harcourt pokes her head in to ask you a question when you’re almost done. “Hey, on this report—” She pauses and cocks her head, looking at Adrian strangely. “Chase, do you even really need to get stitched up? With your healing factor? Can’t you just sleep it off?”
“Healing factor?” you ask, confused, and Adrian freezes. He hasn’t mentioned it to you.
“Um,” he says.
“He heals in his sleep,” Harcourt says. “You never thought that might be pertinent information for the medic to know, Chase?”
“Um,” he says again.
Harcourt rolls her eyes. “Whatever. Weirdo. You want to sit here and get stabbed by a needle repeatedly and unnecessarily, be my guest. I’ve got work to do. Come see me when you’re done, I have a question about your field report.”
The room is silent when she leaves.
“Should I even finish these?” you ask, gesturing to the half-done stitches on his forearm with a raised eyebrow. “Or will you be fine without them?”
“I’ll need them until I go to sleep tonight,” Adrian admits. “I do have to make sure I’m cleaned up and disinfected before I fall asleep. But after that, I’ll probably be okay.”
Your brow furrows, and you look at him strangely, but you don’t call him a weirdo like Harcourt or dumb like Chris. You’re just curious, he thinks, and a bit confused. But you finish up the stitches quietly, and Adrian tries to ignore the way his heart threatens to pound out of his chest as he looks down at you, bent over his arm, touching him so delicately.
“You’re good to go, Adrian,” you say softly when you’re finished.
“I’m sorry,” he says, because he feels—weirdly guilty? “I don’t—I don’t want you to think I’ve been, I don’t know, wasting your time—”
“You’re not a waste of time,” you say quickly. “You could never be a waste of time.”
He offers you a tiny smile. “Thank you.”
Over the next few months, Adrian starts to look forward to his missions not because he gets the chance to kill more people, but because he gets the chance to pull risky stunts that might get him shot or stabbed or concussed or otherwise injured.
He never does those things on purpose. He’s not that crazy. But maybe he’s a little bit insane, because he’d be lying to himself if he didn’t hope that some asshole would dislocate his elbow or slice him across the chest, because then he might have a good excuse for you to touch him again, the way he’s been dreaming about.
It finally happens on a late-night drug bust. Someone whacks him in the face with the butt of a gun, and he nearly blacks out. On the verge of unconsciousness, the thing that keeps him awake is the spike of adrenaline that comes from the excitement that he gets to go see you after this.
He’s practically beaming when he walks into your office, a bruise forming around a cut at his temple, the skin at his cheekbone scraped and red, his lip split. Your jaw drops when you see him.
“What the fuck happened to you?” you ask frantically, jumping out of your seat and moving him over to a chair. He smiles when your hands cup his cheeks, turning his head from side to side as you assess him. His widening smile makes his lip split even more, but he doesn’t care.
“Got pistol-whipped,” he says brightly. You frown.
His eyes flutter shut when you lean in close, your warm breath fanning over his cheeks as you swipe an alcohol-soaked cotton pad over the broken skin at his temple. His head is throbbing. But it’s worth it, he thinks, as you stand between his thighs and he takes a deep breath and inhales the scent of you. He’d endure pain worse than this for the chance to be close to you, for even a little while.
“You know, I really don’t like it when you come back from missions covered in blood, Adrian,” you tell him matter-of-factly.
“You don’t?”
“No! I would very much prefer it if you returned to the office without a head wound,” you say. “I would like it if you never got injured at all, actually.”
“But then I wouldn’t have an excuse to come see you,” he says, confused.
“You don’t need an excuse to come see me, silly. I always want to see you,” you laugh. His breath catches in his throat.
“You mean I didn’t have to let that guy get in a good hit so I had a reason to talk to you tonight?”
“No,” you say. “Are you telling me you let some bad guy whack you in the face? Why the hell would you do that? Take your glasses off for me.”
He pouts. “But then you’ll get blurry,” he complains. “And I like looking at you.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“Uh huh. I think you might be concussed.”
“Not concussed,” he says firmly, and with a burst of bravery, he continues, “You’re just pretty. And nice to me.”
You go all shy at his words as you clean up his sweaty, bleeding forehead and place a bandage at his temple. “Forgive me if I check anyway.”
Adrian obediently walks through the concussion protocol with you while you disinfect the scratch on his cheek and treat his split lip, and he passes with flying colors.
“Huh,” you say. “You really aren’t concussed.”
“Told ya.”
“Well. You’re all done, then,” you say, smiling softly. Adrian sighs as your hands fall away from his face, wishing they would linger there longer, wanting to reach up and hold your hands against his cheeks. “Does it hurt?”
He shakes his head. “Nope.”
“So no need for me to kiss it better?”
Adrian’s mouth falls open, because—since when is that an option? “I—wh—no. Wait. It hurts so much. I was confused, you know, head wounds and all. Maybe I do have a concussion, you should check again—”
He falls silent when you press your lips, so soft, to the top of his forehead, right next to the bandage. It sets his heart racing. Then you move down and kiss his cheek. He inhales a shaky breath, and waits, but you just look at him.
“You forgot one,” Adrian says, trying not to sound as desperate for it as he feels. He taps his split lip with a gloved finger. His heart beats into overdrive as you lean in, and he feels your soft lips press against the corner of the uninjured side of his mouth.
“Kiss me for real tomorrow,” you whisper when you pull away. “When you’re not actively bleeding.”
Adrian lets out a whine, because you are so, so, close to where he wants you, and he really could not give less of a fuck if he’s bleeding all over the place, he just wants to kiss you now.
“Well. Head injuries are—finnicky, aren’t they?” he says nervously. “You should really—take me home. Keep an eye on me.”
You hesitate, but when he reaches out and wraps his arms around your waist, tugging you in closer to him—your resolve melts. It’s the first time he has touched you, really shown you that he wants you. You bite your lip and let your fingers card through his hair. He hums. He likes the way it feels.
“I’ve got some paperwork I was in the middle of,” you say. You nod toward the cot in the corner of your office. “Why don’t you take a nap while I finish up?”
“And when I wake up, and my body has fixed itself, you’ll let me kiss you for real?”
You smile. “Yeah.”
Adrian pushes you gently out of the way, nodding eagerly. “I need to go to sleep right now.”
He makes a beeline for the cot in the corner and lays down instantly, closing his eyes and crossing his arms over his chest. You laugh, and he blinks one eye open to look at you.
“What? The sooner I fall asleep, the sooner I get to kiss you.”
“You’re ridiculous.”
“I’m impatient.” He shuffles around on the cot, fidgeting, trying to get comfortable.
“No shit.”
“Sit with me,” he pouts, and you look at his sad, beat-up face, sigh, and grab your laptop.
You sit next to him, prop your computer on your knees, and get to work. Adrian plops himself down into your lap like it’s the safest place he could ever lay his head, and your heart swells, even as you roll your eyes, because he’s like a cat, craving attention while you’re trying to work.
You indulge him anyway, one of your hands running through his hair as he drifts off to sleep, though it takes a while because he’s so wired with excitement—with the knowledge that you want him the way he’s been wanting you all this time.
When he wakes up an hour or two later, your computer is set aside. You’re looking down at him, one hand on his face, your thumb tracing over the smooth, healed over skin of his lower lip. He smiles.
“It’s kind of crazy to watch,” you say thoughtfully. “It’s like it never even happened. Are you feeling better?”
“No,” he breathes, and you frown, a little worried, before he says, “I didn’t get my kiss yet.”
Then he tugs you down to where he wants you, lips brushing against yours. It’s soft, and nice, and everything he thought it would be. When you pull back and smile at him, he beams.
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Summary: On a chaotic New Year’s Eve shift, you and Parker struggle to keep your carefully hidden relationship from becoming the talk of the entire ED.
Authors Note: I guess you could say this is can either be a standalone or part 2 of this?
The ER didn't believe in New Year's. It really didn't believe in any holiday for that matter.
You had learned that long before you ever stepped foot inside the Pitt—because for you, it started in the back of an ambulance, sirens cutting through fireworks and bad decisions.
Midnight didn't mean countdowns. It meant dispatch lighting up with calls stacked back-to-back, voices crackling through your radio, and locations shouted over static.
Still, something about tonight felt different.
Maybe it was the way the city sounded—distant cheers bleeding into the streets between sirens. Maybe it was the glitter still clinging stubbornly to your sleeve from a patient who absolutely should not have been climbing a balcony railing.
Or maybe it was the quiet, persistent awareness sitting at the back of your mind. It was ten minutes to midnight.
JJ had noticed it too.
"You've checked the clock like five times," she had said earlier from the driver's seat, one hand on the wheel, the other tapping lazily against the dash as the ambulance idled at a red light. "You waiting for a call, or are you waiting for her?"
You had rolled your eyes, though it came out softer than you intended, your attention drifting back to the streetlights ahead.
"Just please focus on the road," you'd muttered. You didn't want to admit it out loud but now your shifts carried an undercurrent of anticipation—knowing Parker would be there.
"Oh, I am," JJ had said easily, a shit-eating grin on her face. "I'm also focusing on the fact that you suddenly volunteered to cover this zone tonight."
You hadn't answered, because you didn't need to.
JJ already knew. She'd been there from the beginning—through every "it's not a big deal" that very clearly was, through every late-night shift where your mood lifted the second a certain name appeared on the board.
She had watched it turn into something real before you had even fully admitted it to yourself. And it took a long time.
"You're glowing," JJ said one night, not even looking up from her chart.
You didn't take the bait. "I'm charting."
"Mhm."
"I'm always charting."
"That's not at all what I meant."
You exhaled slowly, already knowing where this was going. "J."
She finally glanced up, her expression calm but far too observant for your liking.
"She touched your back earlier."
Your pen paused for just a second before you forced it to keep moving. "People have backs. Sometimes they get touched. It's not—"
"—intimate?" JJ finished, helpfully.
You gave her a look. "It was directional."
JJ leaned back in her chair, completely unconvinced. "Right. Very clinical. So very necessary for hallway navigation."
"It was quite crowded."
"It always is."
You pointed your pen at her, trying to regain some control over the conversation. "Now you’re just reaching."
"I'm not reaching," she said easily. "I'm observing."
"Also, she brings you coffee now."
Your stomach dipped in a way you refused to acknowledge. "She brings everyone coffee."
"No," JJ disagreed. "She brings you coffee. She tolerates the rest of us."
You opened your mouth to argue, then closed it again when nothing convincing came out.
"...That's circumstantial," you tried. You knew you were losing badly.
JJ had shook her head.
Her voice softened now.
"You know I'm rooting for you, right?"
You glanced over at her for just a second.
"I know."
And you did.
As you pulled up to your last call before midnight, she'd nudged you lightly with her shoulder, trying to keep it light.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
You had snorted under your breath. "That's not exactly reassuring."
"Wow," JJ had said dramatically. "After all my emotional support? My expert guidance?"
"Your guidance is 'kiss her already' every time."
"And?" she'd shot back, completely unbothered. "I stand by it."
You had laughed despite yourself as you climbed out of the rig.
And now, standing in the ER with that same countdown looming over everything, you weren't laughing quite as easily anymore.
You pushed through the doors with your stretcher, the familiar chaos of the Pitt swallowing you whole the second you stepped inside.
You gave your report on autopilot, your voice steady as you handed off care, your hands moving through muscle memory more than thought.
"Adult female, mid-thirties. Laceration to the brow, likely from a fall. Vitals stable, GCS fifteen, mildly intoxicated."
A nurse took over smoothly, replacing your grip on the stretcher. Within seconds, the patient was gone, absorbed into the system, and your role in the moment ended as quickly as it began.
You stepped back, rolling your shoulders as the adrenaline started to fade, leaving that familiar after-buzz in its place.
And underneath it—something else.
Awareness.
You felt her presence before you even saw her.
"Cut it a little close bringing her in before midnight, didn't you?"
You turned.
Parker was leaning against the counter like she belonged exactly there, like the chaos around her had simply learned to move around her instead of through her.
There was that calmness about her—the kind that steadied everything it touched.
And when her eyes met yours, it shifted.
The noise of the ER didn't disappear, but it dulled around the edges, like it suddenly mattered less than whatever was happening between the two of you.
"Blame her," you said, nodding toward where your patient had been rolled away. "She decided to meet the pavement at a festive time."
"Mhm." Parker pushed off the counter and stepped closer, her attention fixed entirely on you now, her eyes tracing your face. "Or you just wanted an excuse to be here at midnight."
You raised a brow, though there was no real defense in it. "So you’re saying you are worth rearranging my entire route schedule?"
"I didn't say it," she replied, quieter now.
But her eyes held yours, and the space between you didn't feel like space at all anymore. It felt like something waiting.
"You didn't have to," she added.
For a moment, neither of you moved.
There were a thousand reasons to step back. A thousand ways to make it lighter, easier, safer.
But staying near her had never felt like something you needed to justify.
"Ellis."
The voice cut through the moment, dry and familiar.
You both turned.
Dr. Abbot stood a few feet away with a chart in hand, eyes moving between you and Parker with the kind of look that suggested he had already started putting pieces together you hadn't intended to show him.
"Are you taking over this patient," he asked evenly, "or flirting with EMS again?"
You ducked your head slightly, trying to hide the way your mouth wanted to smile.
Parker didn't even hesitate. "Multitasking."
Abbot let out a slow breath through his nose, gaze lingering a beat longer than comfortable before shifting away.
"Oh, I'm sure," he said with a small smirk. "Try doing more of the first."
He walked off, though not without one last glance over his shoulder.
Then it was called out again—five minutes to midnight—and everything seemed to collectively shift.
A few nurses cheered. Someone started a countdown too early. The energy in the room changed in a way that felt almost unreal compared to everything else happening in it.
You exhaled, suddenly aware of how exposed the moment felt.
"I should head back out before—"
"Stay."
It wasn't loud. It didn't need to be.
You looked at her again.
Parker's expression had softened in a way she didn't offer easily to anyone else. There was certainty there, yes—but also something quieter. Something that looked a lot like trust.
"I've got two minutes," you said.
"Good," she replied.
People gathered near the nurses' station, half-working, half-watching the countdown on a distant screen.
You stood just off to the side, radio clipped to your shoulder, gloves tucked loosely into your pocket, trying to pretend your pulse wasn't suddenly very aware of itself.
You could feel her before she moved.
"Thirty seconds!"
Your breath came out slower than you intended.
Across the room, Shen passed by with a chart, his eyes flicking between you and Parker for half a second before something faintly amused crossed his face.
"Twenty!"
The noise around you started to blur.
"Ten!"
Parker started walking toward you and everything else stopped mattering.
"Nine... eight..."
You didn't move. You didn't need to.
"Seven..."
She stopped in front of you, close enough that the rest of the ER felt far away again.
"Six..."
Her expression shifted slightly, just for you, softening into something more personal, more real.
"Five..."
You murmured her name under your breath, barely a warning.
"Four..."
Her gaze dropped to your mouth, then lifted again, steady and sure.
"Three..."
Her hand lifted slowly, fingers finding your cheek first—warm, grounding, like she was making sure you were really there in front of her.
"Two..."
Her thumb brushed lightly once, and something in your chest gave way.
"One!"
The ED erupted.
But none of it reached you.
Parker kissed you like she had been holding herself back from doing it for too long and finally decided she didn't want to anymore. Her hand stayed at your cheek for a moment before sliding to the back of your neck, settling there with a kind of quiet certainty that made everything in you go still.
There was no rush in it. No hesitation.
The world fell away in pieces you didn't notice until they were gone.
Then she pulled back slightly, just enough for reality to start creeping in again.
Her forehead rested briefly against yours.
"Happy New Year," she murmured.
Your breath caught softly. "Parker—everyone is—"
"I know," she said quietly.
But she didn't look concerned.
If anything, she looked like she had been waiting for this moment more than fearing it.
You stepped back, turning slowly.
And yeah.
Everyone was staring.
A nurse had her hands over her mouth. Someone looked like they might drop their chart. The intern looked personally changed by what they had just witnessed.
"I knew it," someone whispered loudly.
"How long has this been—"
"Are you serious right now?"
Your hand came up to your face briefly. "This is not—this wasn't—"
"Ellis."
Abbot's voice cut through the noise again.
You looked over.
He stood there with that same unreadable expression, but now it had shifted—less suspicion, more resigned understanding.
"Yes?" Parker answered calmly.
"...We will be discussing this later," he said.
He paused for a moment. "Try not to make a habit of it in here."
A few people actually laughed.
You turned back to Parker, wide-eyed. "We're in so much trouble."
"Relax," she said softly.
You gave her a look. "That's your answer for everything right now?"
"It's the only one that matters."
She stepped just slightly closer again, not touching this time, but near enough that you could feel her there.
Her voice dropped.
"I meant it."
Your chest tightened. "What?"
Her eyes stayed on yours.
"Worth it."
Before you could respond, the overhead paging system crackled to life.
"Trauma incoming. Two minutes."
The moment broke apart instantly.
"Alright, back to work!" someone called. "Show's over!"
The ER snapped back into motion like nothing had happened.
Parker turned with it, slipping seamlessly back into her role, focus returning in an instant—but as she passed you, her hand brushed yours.
Then squeezed.
"After," she said under her breath.
You nodded, still slightly breathless. "Yeah... okay."
She paused with something warm and unmistakably fond lingering in her expression before she disappeared into the chaos again.
You stood there for a moment longer, your heart still uneven, the echo of her touch still there at the back of your neck.
Around you, the whispers hadn't stopped.
And somewhere in the back of your mind, you already knew JJ was going to absolutely lose her mind when she heard about this.
You let out a quiet, helpless laugh, adjusting your radio as you turned back toward the ambulance bay.
*Edit*- Sorry for any repeated notifications, authors! Just reorganising the lists on here!
Key: A - Angst | F - Fluff | S - Smut | C - Comfort | HC - Hurt/Comfort
Pt 1 | Pt 2 | Pt. 3
One Shots:
> YKWIM? by @fairydustttx
Tags: One Shot, A
Word Count: 1k
Description: Sometimes it seems like I'm in your way; Well, that's how it seems.
> It's Just Us by @/fairydustttx
Tags: One Shot, Older!Reader, A + HC
Word Count: 2.1k
Description: You graduate with your PhD, a hard-earned milestone that feels different from anything before. Your boyfriend can’t get the day off, and his absence lingers as the ceremony unfolds.
> Sharp by @abbotafterhours
Tags: One Shot, F + HC
Word Count: 4.3k+
Description: You arrive at the pitt with a pair of hairdressing scissors impaled through your dominant hand and one very specific request: do not tell jack abbot. the pitt, as it turns out, is a very small building.
> Flare Up by @megalony
Tags: One Shot, Chronic Illness!Reader, A + HC
Word Count: 6.4k
Description: While on shift, (Y/n) starts experiencing absent seizures. And when they start to get worse, Jack is there to take care of his wife.
> Dog's Best Friend! by @of-apollo
Tags: One Shot, F
Word Count: 4k
Description: When Jack takes you back to his place after the longest night shift, he is quick to warn you about the stubborn rescue dog living with him. However, in a beautiful turn of events, the dog takes a very strong liking to you.
> Kiss it Better by @thatcorporategirlie
Tags: 18+, MDNI, Part of a series but I read it as a one-shot (welp), Older!Reader, A + HC + S
Word Count: 12.2k
Description: You and Jack make up at his brother’s wedding.
> Is It So Much To Adore by @flowersforbucky
Tags: One Shot, A + HC
Word Count: 7.3k+
Description: When you receive your first ever daisy award, you insist that you don’t need to have a pining ceremony. You’re used to celebrating your accomplishments quietly, on your own. You have your whole life. But Jack Abbott is determined to change that.
> Please by @abbotly
Tags: One Shot, F + HC
Word Count: 10.2k+
Description: Abbot’s mildly annoyed when he doesn’t seem to be his favorite resident’s favorite attending — he’s pissed when he finds out she’s considering leaving the Pitt.
> My Personal Nightmare by @izzwhatitiz
Tags: One Shot, Grumpy!Reader, A + HC + F
Word Count: 1.7k
Description: Turns out, having a flirtatious personality makes it hard to determine true intentions. Jack Abbot learns this the hard way.
> Speaking in Plurals (Jack Abbot) by @pellucid-constellations
Tags: One Shot, F + A + HC
Word Count: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2
Description: When Jack met you, his world shifted. He began to speak in plurals, in groups of three. It was him, and then it was you, and then it was Penny. He’d do anything for his girls, and he wanted to make that clear. Official. Concrete with titles and questions and the ring he kept mulling over. And then life happened.
> Jack Abbot x Reader by @izzwhatitiz
Tags: Drabble, A + HC
Word Count: 291
Description: Jack with an avoidant reader <3
> Jack Abbot x Reader x Michael Robinavitch by @pushingitdownnpraying
Tags: Drabble, A + HC
Word Count: 1.6k
Description: Hii i love your writing!! i would like to request something like reader and jack and robby are residents in the pitt, and there’s a bit of a love triangle but jack ends up getting back with his wife and reader stays with robby, and years later she kinda fall back in love with jack causes robby is being emotionally constipated
> Michael Robinavitch x Reader by @domesticblisss
Tags: One Shot, Grumpy!Reader, A + F
Word Count: 413
Description: Reader is hella avoidant.
> Michael Robinavitch x Reader by @xoxo--grace
Tags: Blurb, C
Word Count: 127
Description: Obsessed with the idea of robby's hand subconsciously falling to your lower back.
> Paging Dr. Daisy (Michael Robinavitch) by @redsakura101
Tags: One Shot, A+ HC
Word Count: 4.8k
Description: Robby makes one last stop to check on Baby Jane Doe. Just to find you already there. The paediatric doctor known for your cheery demeanour...and right now that is the last thing Robby wants to be smothered by. Turns out you're not so pleased by him either. However with a little consideration and thought...It appears maybe you're both not that different at all.
Series:
> Private Patient (Jack Abbot) by @deliciousangelfestival
Tags: One Shot, Grumpy!Reader, F + C
Chapter Count: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2
Description: What if Jack Abbott ends up with a rich wife instead of being the provider?
> Dancing in The Dark (Jack Abbot) by @thegingerjameson
Tags: Series, A + HC
Chapter Count: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | Pt. 4 | Pt. 5 | Pt. 6 | Pt. 7 | Pt. 8 | Pt. 9 | Pt. 10
Description: A newly transferred trauma resident finds herself irresistibly drawn to her sharp-tongued, charismatic night-shift chief, Dr. Jack Abbot—a widower with a reputation for emotional unavailability. After months of flirtation, they finally give in to their chemistry, only for the night to end in heartbreak when he whispers another woman’s name in his sleep. Determined to stay professional, she’s blindsided when she’s promoted to work directly under him—just as the woman from his past arrives at the hospital. Now she must navigate ambition, jealousy, and lingering feelings while deciding if Jack is worth the risk.