#vanshark

Firstly, the leg replantation would take 10+ hours so Park meaning that Dana/Robby/Nurse Gang would be long gone by the time he's finished. Nobody is going to interrupt such an complex surgery to tell him that Jesse has been arrested and hauled away by ICE. AND due to the hospital gossip train, everyone would already know what’s happened.

So that leaves Abbot who has to combine forces with the Ortho charge nurse to make sure nobody tells Park before he has a chance to. Night Shift are on edge all night, waiting for the phone call from the Ortho ward to let them know that Park has finished up in surgery. Lena gets the call around 3am so Abbot heads up along with Jesse's stuff that got left behind.

And poor Park is already exhausted from the IT shutdown mess and then having to do a really complex surgery - he just wants to take a shower and get to bed. He’d told Jesse not to bother waiting for him because the surgery would take hours and now he’s thinking he should probably sleep in the spare room because Jesse is back on shift in a few hours and he doesn’t want to wake him up. They won’t see each other properly until Sunday which sucks BUT they both have four days off. They're going camping at Allegheny National Forest so at least there’s that. Although he’s half expecting to find out that Jesse has taken the abandoned baby home which Park will pretend to be grumpy about but secretly doesn't mind.

But then he finds Bernie, the Ortho charge nurse, and Abbot waiting for him in his office. Maybe Jesse did take the baby home and now they’ve found the mom or something… But then Bernie starts using her “this patient is about to panic and I need to calm them down” voice and Park begins to clock something is wrong because if he was needed back downstairs, they would have just called up for him. An attending would never come all the way up here...

Abbot is relaying all the information they have but Park is still stuck on the fact that Jesse - his kind, sweet and gentle Jesse - has been a) arrested and b) hauled off to gods knows where and EVERYONE has known for hours except him. And then full blown panic because It's the holiday weekend, all the hospital admin have gone home and nobody seems to know what to do or who to call. And finally completely crashing out because Jesse’s surname is dutch - what if they try and deport him? Or send him to prison? Or Park can’t find him? 

Jesse was equally as moody, until the abandoned baby came in. As an ex peeds nurse, he can’t resist a baby and he spends most of his shift attending to Baby Jane Doe. Being a nurse he knows how broken the foster system is and Brandon grew up in foster care, he’s heard the horror stories first hand. Maybe they could take her home for a little bit…

Meanwhile Brendons mood has somewhat improved when he gets called down to see a poor gal whose had her leg sliced clean off at a waterpark. Severed limbs are his speciality. The surgery will take hours though so he stops in on Jesse to let him know that their anniversary night is a bust. Jesse  is holding a very contented looking baby and this is where if Park had ovaries they would have exploded. Yes, of course they can take the baby home for a few days, no, he didn’t give away all the formula from the last baby they looked after and yes, he would like Jesse to order him some food for when he gets home. 

Hi friend!

Honestly it would go something like Park is down bad for Nurse Jesse, that’s a given, but because of all the pesky past childhood trauma - being in foster care was BAD ™️ - his fear of rejection and abandonment is is STRONG. He’d love to ask Jesse out for a cute little metal concert date but his brain just won’t let him. Meanwhile Jesse is struggling because one minute he’s talking to fun, flirty and kind of goofy Brendon and the next its Dr. Park: Orthopaedic Surgeon and Amputation Specialist. 

It's making him miserable and confused and Park realises he needs to get his shit together because aside from Dana giving him a hard time, the new Pathologist has 100% been making eyes at Jesse. And if Jesse turns him down he can always run away to a different hospital.

There’s a band coming to town that they both like so Park buys tickets and arranges to pick Jesse up at his apartment for their date. Except nerves + dyslexia do not make good bedfellows and he mistakes 9pm for 6pm and shows up 3 hours early. Jesse’s only just got in from his shift and is a little bit confused but Park is MORTIFIED. Like wants to crawl into a hole and evaporate level of embarrassment. Jesse doesn’t mind though, and he tells Park to make himself comfortable whilst he de-scrubs. 

They spend hours talking and Park apologies for blowing so hot and cold/not being able to tell time. He doesn't tell many people about his dyslexia + foster trauma mashup but Jesse is so kind and gentle that Park blurts it all out. He also learns that Jesse hasn't dated anyone for about three years which makes him feel even more nervous.

Jesse ends up suggesting that they stay in rather than go to the concert and they stay up all night talking and eating take out.

So what did you and Dr Park do for your first date?? Drinks? Romantic dinner? Did he cook??👀

Jesse:

We went to see Anti Flag and spent all night in the mosh pit. Three people passed out, I hurt my ribs and Brandon lost a shoe. Best first date ever. 😍🤘

Pitt Nurse Gang, not knowing Dr Park rolled like that:

… ok, well as long as you had fun.

Jesse:

We're going out again on Friday night to see Megadeath🥰☺️

Pitt Nurse Gang:

🫤