3 Works by occamsscissors
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There was a taxonomy to attraction. Bodies were simple, even as brains could be complex.
Science did not cleanly explain why, some nights, with her fingers pressed inside herself, the memory came to her of Jack Abbot with a donation bag strapped to his calf while his fingers massaged a heart through an open chest wound and he looked to her. Science did not explain why the image reliably made the muscles of her core clench and flutter. And if psychology did, well, that wasn’t a path she was sure that she wanted to go down.
Jack invites Samira to donate blood with him. Samira contemplates the depths of her want.
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It started the way it always did.
Well, that wasn’t entirely true, Samira corrected her own thoughts. The medium of her mother’s distracted disinterest had changed through the years.
Samira Mohan's parents' approaches to life have shaped her personal and professional choices. Jack Abbot consistently challenges her careful rules.
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“How do you not have a date for this, anyway? You’re…”
He glanced back at her, eyebrows raised, not sure where she is going with this but hopeful. “Going to finish presenting your diagnosis, Dr. Mohan?”
“Never mind. The cockiness explains it.”
He gave her a crooked grin, “I asked my sister, but she said she’d rather be my patient.” He turned serious. They were on her block now. “I may have downplayed it. Didn’t want to spend this charming anniversary with someone who didn’t go through it. And didn’t want to drag someone who went through it to this dog and pony show.” He glanced sideways at her. “You were the first person I thought of. We worked together almost the whole night. You deserve this honor even if the wrong people are giving it in the wrong way. But just because you can handle one jackass-“ he gestured at himself, “doesn’t mean you want to be in a room with four hundred more.”
With Robby not exactly PR material, Dr. Jack Abbot finds himself the reluctant but compelling face of the hospital’s capital campaign in the wake of PittFest. As black tie events become an excuse to spend more time with a certain Dr. Samira Mohan, he wonders if the role doesn't have some benefits.