sweet nothing - J.A
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wc - 1.5k | content warning - car accident, large medical inaccuracies !, angst, sad jack, established relationship, normal hospital gore, let me know if i missed anything <3
pt. 1 | pt. 2
"BP 90/60 and dropping, we need an OR now!"
"Y/n? Oh god."
"Robby, please don't let her die man. holy fuck, please!"
"Jack, you need to go, Dana! Get him out of here!"
Everything around you was so loud, but still impossibly far away. Your body was pulsating with overwhelming pain, all you could do was look up at the bright light above you whilst being prodded at and told to keep your eyes open.
But it was so hard. Robby came into your eyesight with a soft smile, one that you could very clearly see through β the worry that had settled itself behind his eyes was enough.
"You're gonna be okay, just keep looking at me." He spoke calmly, hand gently combing through your hair. Talking to you about his day as he normally would, like this was an average conversation between them, Jack's best friend and his, now, very injured wife.
His voice only starting to raise at the image of your eyes rolling, as you tried to mumble apologies about how hard it was to keep your eyes open.
The void had faded in, and you were now floating in an endless abyss
"Shit!" Robby cursed, normally he wouldn't step in on a procedure his students and the other medical staff could learn on, but this was you.
Jack was pacing outside the room, the limp obvious with irritation but it was the least of his worries. It had all happened so suddenly, you two were giggling on the way home β singing some song on the radio when a car t-boned the passenger side, your side.
He had walked out with minor injuries, a mild concussion, whiplash, and bruised ribs. You on the other hand got the brunt of everything, including a piece of the other cars windshield sticking through your torso.
"Baby!? Oh fuck me, fuck!" He cursed as he saw the way your body had been mutilated, he called 911 the moment he found his phone before assessing your injuries. This wasn't a new situation to him, the haste that was required in combat medicine had taught him well β his lack of resources was what seemed to be hurting him.
His hand reached over to feel your pulse, releasing a heavy sigh of relief when he felt the thumps against his fingertips.
"Y/n, honey, need you to open your eyes for me." The words caressed the air in a panic, pleading with you to follow his voice back. He noticed your eyelids start to flutter and your face scrunch up in pain, Jack couldn't stand it but at least you were alive.
"My head- Jack?" He heard your fragile voice reach for him, closing his eyes for a split second before attending to you. "I'm here, I'm here sweetheart, try not to move too much." Jack didn't know weather to inform you of the comically large piece of glass sticking out of your abdomen, hoping you would be easier to keep calm without understanding the extent of your injuries.
Right now the only thing you could process enough was the pounding in your head, Jack's voice, and the buzzing noise around the car.
Jack kept patting the side of your face, attempting β with little success β in keeping you awake, he starting talking about that new restaurant you two had a reservation for on Tuesday, or how he was finally taking some much needed time off in April to spend a few weeks wrapped in comfortable clothes and reading books with each other on the couch.
You tried, you really did but the pain became unbearable, compromising your being with its every power. Your husband kept you from complete unconsciousness all the way up until you began coding in the trauma room.
The tension in the ER dramatically increased when your heart stopped beating, simultaneously being silent and brain-numbingly loud all at once. Jack was stood outside the glass doors watching as resuscitation efforts started up, dissociated while they pushed epinephrine and pushed away the moment any heart rhythm was detected and you were hastily pushed up to the OR.
Dana had Jack sitting in the on-call room, quietly observing him for any life threatening injuries.
"It was all my fault." He whispered, a croak from the back of his throat coming out.
"Shh, no it wasn't, don't think like that." Dana soothed, her maternal love showing through with her words. Jack's whole body began to shake, the shock wearing off and the cold catching up to him.
Jack flinched when Dana's fingers pushed passed his β likely broken β ribs, "Alright, I'm gonna get you scheduled for a CT, you've got a pretty nasty head wound up here, and I know that wife of yours would kill me if she found out I let you wallow without a making sure you were okay first." She lightened the mood with hope, feeding it into Jack's brain before heading to the nurses station to get him sorted.
Robby continued compressions while sweet dripped down his forehead, they had pushed epinephrine twice already and got the same result of the haunting flat sound. He refused to stop till every effort possible was preformed.
"Come on, kid, don't do this." Robby whispered, breathes coming out hard. His hands pushing down 2 inches before springing back up β he already felt the crack of your ribs beneath him.
"Stop compressions!"
The silence was deafening, you could hear the churn of the physicians stomachs as they waited for something, anything.
Seconds pass, right as Robby was gearing up for another round of compression the loud, piercing sound of a beeping heart penetrated the thick tension in the room. Everyone allowed themselves a sigh of relief before getting right back into making sure your heart stayed beating, Garcia began prepping you for the OR, Robby secured your intubation tube, and Princess began calling for more O Neg while they wheeled you up and into surgery.
Jack saw as they rushed you toward the elevator, his whole body nearly shut down at the sight of you being rolled out.
That means your alive. Alive enough to be taken for surgery.
Robby walked over to Jack and yanked him into a hug, holding Jack up while his knee gave out beneath him.
"It's your turn to be looked after, brother."
Hours passed, Jack had been stitched and scanned. You were being ripped apart in a sterile room while he was sitting on the roof, not understanding why this was happening to him, why he wasn't allowed happiness and stability. You were supposed to be alive, in bed next to him and rubbing your insanely cold feet on his skin while talking about anything that popped into your brain.
He allowed himself to smile at that image of you in his head, the way you would giggle when he would respond with a half-awake grunt before you would kiss his chest and finally close your eyes with the sound of his heartbeat singing you to sleep like the perfect lullaby.
Jack stared at the sky for a while longer, waiting for the text that you were stable and out of surgery. Robby had to force him away from the thought of watching you in the observation deck, telling him 'he didn't need to see her like that' but in his head it was the only fair outcome. If you die he should have to be there for it, this was on him, he deserved every bit of hurt that was thrown upon him.
"Please baby, please be okay." He whispered out a sobbed into his hands.
Robby walked slowly up the stairs to the roof to meet Jack, rehearsing the best way to tell him all your injuries, wondering how he was going to look in his eyes while telling him that you weren't out of the woods yet. Robby opened the roof door to find jack hugging himself tight and praying to something Robby was she Jack didn't believe in.
"Jack?" Robby called out gently, trying not to startle the man breaking down in front of him.
"I-Is she okay?" He asked immediately, roughly wiping the tears off his cheeks in swift movements.
"Let's go see her, yeah?"
Robby explained the extent of your injuries while walking him to the room you lay unconscious in, Jack watched you through the doorway for a little while, working up the courage to really see you. The only way he could see you was as a doctor and not as your partner, the monitors, all the beeping, the statistics of all your injuries and the outcome of each.
He wished he could just turn it off. To just be with you.
Jack moved with a limp to your bed, his achy bones finally catching up to him as he sat down next to you and pulled your hand into his. Kissing it gently, his tears catching your cold bruised skin.
"I'm here, baby, I'm right here, always."










