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3rd Person's POV
Atticus Lincoln had a feeling; he woke up feeling like something bad would happen. He almost didn't go to work, but he couldn't leave his fellow alone. Anyone with two eyes could see he's head over heels for that intern, Schmitt. Only God knows what would happen if they were there without Link's supervision.
Good for Nico, he thought as he downed the coffee from the attendings' lounge. Inside the hospital, the attending and his fellow were purely professional. But outside of their work, the two were best friends. They had come to Seattle together and before that, Link was Nico's mentor since he was a year two resident.
"Dr. Lincoln," the young doctor murmured to Link as he was eating a sandwich at the dining hall, "I was wondering…"
"Yeah, Nico, what's up?" Link was always laid back when he wasn't treating patients. Being serious was tiring.
"I was wondering if I could declare ortho as my specialty." The attending was surprised but not shocked. He was more surprised that Kim wanted to declare a specialty so early on in his residency. In all honesty, Link could see Nico's skill and passion for ortho and he told him as much. Needless to say, Nico left the attending feeling on Cloud 9.
Without Nico, Link wouldn't be Link. Having a student helped, not only Nico but himself as well. He had someone to mentor and form.
His pager went off, shocking him out of his gleeful flashback, for a 911 to the pit. This is where it begins, he thought. As Dr. Lincoln approached the ER, doctors and nurses were rushing everywhere, preparing for the incoming trauma. "This must be a big one," Link mumbled under his breath. He got a trauma gown and gloves on and made his way to the ambulance bay.
He approached Dr. Bailey, who was anxious for the first ambulance to arrive. "Do you know what happened?"
"Truck flipped on the I-90, caused a giant pileup." Miranda didn't bother turning to her ortho attending, they were both focused on the bay entrance. "Seattle Pres is already filling up. We gotta be ready for anything."
Ambulances pulled in and doctors began to crowd the doors. Link approached one and opened the door.
"Female, young 30s," the first responder began, "Found unconscious at the scene with a GSC of 11. She has a broken right foot, a dislocated shoulder, numerous bruises on her extremities, but no other external injuries found."
"Trauma 1, page Shepard." Link shut the door and followed the paramedic inside. After checking the patient, he set the woman's shoulder and sent for x-rays on her foot. Amelia ordered a CT for her but she couldn't find any damage.
"Where's your fellow, Dr. Lincoln?" she asked. He hadn't realized Nico wasn't there. The shoulder was an easy fix.
"I'm sure he's on his way."
"He's probably with Glasses." She snickered as she put her penlight back in her lab coat. "They've both got goo-goo eyes for each other. I'm surprised they can keep their hands off each other."
Though Link didn't realize when he smirked and left for another trauma, Amelia was getting choked up. She was thinking about how similar his fellow and her brother are. Nico is smart and you can tell he cares deeply about the people he loves. What strikes Amelia the most is how both of the men fell head over heels with interns. Though the scar from losing Derek was healed, it still stung. She was hopeful for the pair, since her brother brought so much warmth and love to everyone, especially Meredith. Dark and twisty Meredith Grey, daughter of the Ellis. She and Derek brought three beautiful children to the world and Derek is plain as day in each of them. Zola has his ambition, Bailey has his smile and his hair (though the color is different), and Ellis has his eyes. Oh, those eyes. Blazing blue with everything good about him packed in two little muscles. Amelia loves those kids with all of her heart because with them she knows that Derek lives on.
Like Atticus, Amelia knows how smart Nico is and how good of a surgeon he's becoming. Levi as well. That isn't the only thing Link and Amelia can agree on.
xXx
After sending in 2 more ambulances, Nico Kim was nowhere to be found. Link asked the nurses' station to page him again before going out for his fourth ambulance. The patients he had received weren't ortho or urgent, so he sent them on their way. The next ambulance came barreling in, a bit too fast for Link's liking. The paramedic was quick to unload this patient.
"Male, early- to mid-20s, unconscious at the scene, GCS of 5," the first-responder quickly listed off. "He doesn't look good."
Link wasn't listening anymore, he was focused on the patient himself. The EMT was right, he looked horrid, worse than any of the patients he's seen so far. His sweater and jeans were battered and bloody with trauma everywhere you looked; He had a large scalp lac and his curly hair was caked in blood and glass. But that wasn't the only unfortunate thing he noticed.
Dr. Webber approached Link as the paramedic finished the recap to help. The ortho attending looked to his fellow doctor in desperation, praying it wasn't what Link thought it was. Richard shook his head, it was barely discernible, but Link didn't miss it.
"Stop, stop, stop!" Dr. Webber bellowed to everyone surrounding him. "I need someone to go inside and tell the nurses to stop paging Dr. Kim. Keep him the hell away from this patient!"
Everyone was confused but someone rushed inside. Link mentally cursed for being the one to break the news. "This is Levi Schmitt."
"God!" he thought. "Why me? Why Schmitt?!"
xXx
Nico's POV
Shit, shit, shit! I'm late! I'm fucking late! My stupid fucking alarm didn't go off and now I'm late. My damn car wouldn't go fast enough to get to the hospital and the I-90 is shut down. Text messages from just about everyone asking where the hell I am for a massive trauma. Link is gonna hand me my ass for being there to assist. The hospital must be almost filled to capacity with traumas.
"Fucking hell!" I slam on my horn, praying people would take the hint and hurry the fuck up. I need to get to the hospital as fast as possible, they probably need all hands on deck and I'm not there. God damn it! What the hell am I gonna do?!
I almost crashed my car into the side of the hospital but I made, 2 fucking hours late. Link is going to kill me. I ran inside the building and scanned the ER. Everyone was surrounding a patient on a stretcher, so I decided to join the mayhem.
"Nico," someone called while turning me around. Shit, Link. I got clammy and my legs almost gave out on me under his hold.
"Look, Dr. Link, I'm so sorry for being late-"
"Stop Nico," he interrupted, "I brought in a female patient with a broken foot. Go check her x-rays."
I turn to the massive crowd of people walking away to a trauma room and turn back to Link. "But.."
"Dr. Kim," he said, completely calm. "Please go check on that patient."
I didn't bother arguing, I was late to work. Didn't really want to push my luck when my job is on the line.