Dating Jack Abbot Headcanons
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What it is like to date Dr. Jack Abbot as a member of the Pitt Crew
Your relationship developed after you started working a rotation on the night shift with him. You impressed him, gaining his respect and admiration. He endeared himself to you with his sarcasm and pleasantly blunt way of communicating.
This mans is absolutely the kind of person to show his affection through acts of service. When you first grow close, he shows it with little things at work. He'll get coffee for you, hand you a protein bar mid-shift when he knows you haven't eaten. As things progress it turns into him giving you rides home and offering to pick you up on the way there.
Once you two are really in a relationship those little things grow. If there's something in your life that needs to be fixed, he probably saw it before you did and already fixed. Your car due for an oil change? Done the day the light turns on. Bulb in your kitchen light out? It's changed within six hours. He never brings it up, just does it. You of course catch on and thank him anyway.
People think that Jack isn't a good communicator, they're wrong. He is not particularly talkative. However, when it matters he will say it. Any time something important comes up with your relationship, he will address it directly. While he is very good at showing you how much he loves, he also makes sure to tell you.
Jack loves the days when you come home with him after work. There is such a relief to knowing that you will be by his side when he gets home. That he'll have you laying next to him in bed. That when he wakes up you will be there. Even if you steal blankets or snore, it doesn't matter to him. Some days, all he wants is warmth of your body next to his.
Jack may not engage in any workplace gossip about your relationship, but he is not hiding it. He does not want to answer any invasive questions about the two of you and will brush anyone off that asks. If you go out with the team after work though, he will spend the entire time right by your side. Likely with an arm around your waist or hand resting at your back.
One of the things that makes him feel the most loved is casual physical contact. That doesn't mean he wants you to be all over him at work or anything like that. But he loves when you lean into his touch as he puts an arm around you. When you press a quick kiss to his cheek before the two of you walk into work. When you lean into his chest while the two of you are sitting on the couch together.
It is no secret that Jack has been to hell and back and still suffers because of it. The first few times you witness this, it's hard. You want to be there for him and you don't know how to be. Jack doesn't really know how to let you be. He ends up asking you to come to see his therapist with him for a session. His therapist helps facilitate a discussion between the two of you to find ways that you're both comfortable with to help support Jack when things get hard.
One of the harder things for Jack to learn is how to let you help him. He thinks nothing of cleaning for you, cooking for you, getting you a little treat on the way to work. But the idea of you doing any of those things for him? Insane. He warms to it eventually, but it takes time. He struggles with the idea of someone wanting to take care of him the way he wants to take care of you.
Jack is by no means a jealous man, but he will be a protective one. If he sees you laughing and with a coworker it doesn't bother him. In fact, it makes him happy to see you happy. If he sees you at all uncomfortable though, the slightest tense of your shoulders or frown, he's there in a second. By your side, not interjecting, but there if you need him. You want to head out for night with your friends? He's telling you to have fun and then asking you to give everyone his number just in case.
