Do you think of Garcia as a caregiver for Trinity at any point?? I love flip4flip Whitaker and santos but I’m just curious!!
yes!! mama garcia in the house, although, it takes a while for santos to really honestly let anyone besides whitaker see her in such a vulnerable state. (cause she’s been around whitaker so much, he was the one to accidentally find her in a regressed, without even knowing what it was, which introduced her to age regression.) i feel like the same scenario would happen with garcia and trinity,
like trin’ has a hard day, and has dropped BAD, into which, garcia finds out, and santos is trying oh so hard to be a big girl, but just, crumbles.
i just imagine the first time garcia spots a regressed santos, she is confused as hell to why a sobbing and stuttering santos is trying so hard to tell her that she’s fine and just acting different, into which garcia tried to talk to her, crouching at her level,
“santos, whats up with you?”
“i’m- i’m fine! dana already checked on me! jeez how many people does it get a intern to stop crying hah- fuck, I didn’t mean to come of—sorry,” santos sniffles rubbing her glassy eyes, as if that comment was meant to make garcia laugh,
“dumb joke. can… can you just get whitaker? p’ease?” garcia frowns a bit, she wonders why trinity can’t tell her, but understands that she probably needs whitaker to calm down, so she calls the meek boy, into which he comes in with tissues and a fruit snacks. garcia watches from far away, taking it in, watching how parental whitaker sounds, and how santos usual “tough guy” demeanor gone, and is… child like, and scared, hm.
the second time this happens again is a panicked phone call from, said whitaker,
“i— i was called into an emergency night shift, and— trinity still has the flu! i, i would usually just be fine with her by herself, but she’s really out of it… and well, she’s also feeling a bit, yeah whatever-“ at the time, garcia clocked it, “feeling a bit what?” which dennis panicked and screams, “please just come!!! I gotta go! trin just puked!” and hangs up. garcia sighed, might as well go, her girl has fallen ill.
garcia pulls up almost immediately, seeing the door already unlocked she paces in and there’s where she sees it,
a panicked pathetic dennis with his scrubs on cradling a every more pathetic trinity while toy story mellows in the backround. this sight slightly breaks garcia’s heart because she’s truly never seen santos look this vulnerable and sick.
whitakers eyes shoot up at garcia with a glisten of hope that makes trinity tug on whitakers scrubs even tighter digging her face into his chest with broken whimpers garcia thought only stray kittens could make.
“i’m here, is she alright, whitaker?” she asks rushing over to pet her hair, which makes trinity shy away, making garcia question, was trinity embarassed?
“does she look alright?” dennis spat back, snappy, his attitude hostile (seemed like trinity was rubbing off on him more then he’d like) before realizing his tone and took a breath, jeez, the kid could be such a brat sometimes, “sorry— that was uncalled for. no- look, she has a fever of 102, it’s— it’s been like this for a day now, and I’m getting called in, and she’s a little clingy right about now, she’s not feeling herself, if you could just… i don’t wanna go, I really don’t but-“
“but you have too, i know, i understand huckleberry. i got this. c’mon.” dennis looks down at trinity with his sad eyes before handing over the sobbing girl to his co-worker, the two could tell trinity didn’t like that. trinity started to wail even louder, her snot covered face in shambles as the sick girl pathetically flailing her arms to reach out to dennis, yolanda patting trinity’s back and rocking her, this was really catching the older resident off guard, but nonetheless carrying it all in and caring for the poor girl anyways.
“c’mon trin, don’t worry… i’ll come back, y’know i always do.” dennis said between trinity’s sobs, stroking her messy hair,
“plea—… please don’t go.. please’euch,” trinity bawled out, her hands turning into fist to messily wipe her wet burning face, this poor girl.
garcia could tell dennis himself was trying his hardest to hold it in, but alas, they both knew were this was gonna go. dennis sighed once more a placed a gentle kiss on trinity’s forhead, before standing up and waving a sad goodbye, trinity continued to reach out for him, trying to pitifully crawl over to him in garcia’s lap, but to no avail, dennis had to go.
the rest of the night, to what trinity even rememberes is garcia trying her best to soothe the regressed girl, giving her cold baths wth bubbles (trinity’s favorite) changing her into comfortable clothing and singing her to sleep, she doesn’t remember a whole lot, but just garcia being the softest she’s ever been with her in that state…
