#walsh

reader going into labor while she’s working during her 12 hour shift and not telling John cause he’d make her pack up and leave, and she wants to finish her shift so she makes Lena swear to not tell him

an: thank you!! it was so fun to write! if you want just more pregnant! reader x john (or any pitt cast) hcs lemme know. i hope this is alright <3

OOPS? J. Shen

You had told John you’d be fine. Why wouldn’t you be? Your last shift before maternity leave was supposed to go smoothly. The huge bump you carried around acting as a shield to usually rude patients. The nurses helping you around when your feet swelled. Everything was going fine. The odd contractions every now and then, but as you neared your due date that was expected.

That was until a patient had pointed out a liquid running down your leg. Causing your face to burn, wondering if you’d fucking wet yourself, or something. Before standing up, wobbling on your feet as you look down. That’s not pee. Eyes widening as you quickly excused yourself, going to the one person you trusted nearly as much as John, Lena.

As charge nurse for night shift, you trusted her like she was your mother. In some ways, she was. When she saw your stained clothes, Lena grinned. Congratulating you. To which you shook your head, having timed your contractions, you knew the baby was no where close to coming out now. Refusing to be one of those women stuck in a hospital room for hours, waiting.

Instead, you asked her to keep it quiet. To help you change. And to, most importantly, keep this information from John. To which she had raised an eyebrow, “Honey” she had muttered, shaking her head. But Lena knew better than to argue with a pregnant lady.

For the next hour, your soul mission was to ignore John. Which was partially difficult due to:

A) The fact that he was, well, your husband. Who ever since finding out you were pregnant, couldn’t keep his hands off of you and bump. Even before the bump was there. All grins as he excitedly spoke to your future bundle of joy. Making sure you and baby were always okay.

B) Contractions fucking hurt. You had to grip the walls, remove yourself from surgery and hide in the bathroom. Counting the time between.

But as the minutes begin to decline, you had begun to tell yourself it was all false. A trick of the mind. Perhaps if John knew, he would help. But if John knew, he’d make you stop working. And for crying out loud you could still work. Even if every step you took pained you.

It was perhaps your tenth grimace of the last half an hour that told John something was wrong. Before that he had wondered if he had put on that stupid cologne that you had hated during this pregnancy. But the moment he saw your light knuckles, John knew.

He noticed everything about you. From your coffee order to how you’d bite your lip when a waiter mispronounced your name. Everything in between. It’s what originally had scored him a date with you, picking up on those clues you so desperately had tried to hide. Now, he was picking up on these clues once more. Just, this time, getting ready to meet the life the two of you had created.

Walking over to your side, one had around your waist, allowing you to lean into him. All grins, because he loved your stubborn ass. Even if you’d tried to hide this from him. Because it was just so perfectly you.

TROUBLE Pairing: Rick Grimes x Original Character x Daryl Dixon eventually.

Summary: Trouble… Sam Walsh don't know her life without that word. It was always one trouble, after another, after another. And her only certainty and security was that her brother would always do everything for her.

Even if "everything" meant more trouble.

Tags: Parental neglect, eventual smut MDNI. slow burn. Dad with alcohol problems, maternal abandonment, the first part takes place before the outbreak, small town, drug use, violence due to alcohol use, cheating (if this is not something you like, just dont read it?), small age gap (Sam is 23, Rick is 29), Brother's Best-Friend. I'll tag each chapter if there's more stuff. This will be a two part of multiple chapters. Starts around a year before the outbreak, and the second part will hopefully cover seasons 1 and 2 of the show. This is a Translation of an on-going fanfic (English is not my first language, let me know if there's something to fix)

aka rambling thoughts from someone who watched the pitt a single time and doesn't like how everyone speaks about the night shift surgical attending..........

because walsh only comes into the series at the MCI, i think she's mostly meant to be a personification of the ORs at PTMC. astute viewers may have noticed that during the shooting, there were no issues with any of the operating rooms— there were concerns of timing and triage, as expected, but there were no problems with staffing, resources, fatigue, or further complications from patients sent from the ER. the ORs were perfect. is this realistic? obviously not, i'm sure even people not in healthcare would react to that with a healthy dose of skepticism, but i think it was the right choice for the show. it's an ER show. adding other departments having chaos and conflicts of their own is kind of just putting a hat on a hat

so the ORs are pristine. but how can we depict that, really double down to the viewers that once the ER team passes their patients off to the next step, they're still in good hands? why, you introduce the cool-as-a-cucumber, self confident, resourceful surgical lead. the audience sees this woman stroll in with her hands on her hips and a cheeky quip about needing new people to cut open lest she gets bored, literally physically backing dr. robby up to give her room, and suddenly i'm not so worried about the victims. you know she's the HBIC when garcia clocks out. (edit: actually, she’s the HBIC anyways. garcia looked away when abbot asked for a surgical lead. walsh stepped up. hmmmm) you KNOW the department you will never get to see on screen has things under control

the second part of her characterization is to provide context to mohabbot. that's right, it always comes back to a fifty year old man with me. it's expected that the emergency doctors would be cutting corners during the MCI, but there had to be some point where an individual puts their hand up and is like, wait, ok, i get the circumstances but that's still inappropriate for a doctor to do? without walsh stepping in, the audience could be easily led to believe that this behavior is normal for abbot and the department itself— the episode prior, we had just seen him ultimately commend santos for performing the unsupervised reboa. we had to see someone step in and challenge abbot; otherwise, the pigtail catheter scene loses its weight considering what abbot was pushing samira to do. this is no longer "teehee, ER cowboy and his crazy methods! he always saves the day!", this is now "other attendings are trying to stop him and he's still going. this is meant to be impactful"

How Shane has a hyper focus on keeping Lori and Carl alive and how nothing and no one else matters and how that was likely the same for Joel, except his focus was probably on Tommy and maybe whoever else made it into their group for the time being.

And I think it's easier to "forgive" Joel because we have no counterpart like Rick in the series. We don't see Tommy arguing with Joel over what's right and what's wrong, if there even was any arguing to begin with. I imagine Tommy gave Joel a LOT of freeway and chalking things up to grief and the general chaos of the world as they knew it ending in real time.