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The day was finally coming to close and everyone finally felt as if they could breathe, patients from PittFest were finally slowing and Abbot had given the all clear to head on home once their tasks were completed.
Now though, Frank stood at the nurses station, looking mournfully down at his half opened can of now warm red bull that Dana had given him at some point earlier in the day. He was waiting for Mel, sweet sweet Mel who offered to stay back to help Samira with a patient discharge who just couldn’t understand his instructions for his sutures, how hard was it to not get them wet?
He felt Dana saddle up beside him as day staff seemed to all gather by the nurses station, the main man himself taking centre stage and clapping his hands to get everyone’s attention. This would be the long winded speech Dana was warning him about, something he seemed to always like doing to give a boost of confidence just in case anyone was thinking of quitting.
“Hey,” He hears a whisper to his left and he immediately knows it’s Mel, a small smile appearing on his lips as he gives her a small nod in return.
Robby’s speech goes on for what seems like forever but it doesn’t take long for him to take pity on them, more so Victoria who’s stood there with her head practically on Whitaker’s shoulder and yawning every two minutes, he’d have to make sure the rest of the newbies were good before he left- he was nice, after all.
“I just gotta chart something and then we can go.”
He hears Mel talk again, this time turning towards her and taking in her disheveled appearance, not that she wouldn’t ever look not pretty to him. Her then purple shirt was stained and she had lost her black athletic jacket sometime during the day. Her braid was half out, he wasn’t even sure it qualified as one now but he itched to run his fingers through her stands, imagining what they’d feel like, smell like-
“Dr Langdon? Frank?” Oh right.
“Yeah, yeah go ahead, I’ll be waiting for you,” He tells her, waving her off and seeing her small smile before she turns and moves around the nurses desk.
It doesn’t take long for her to finish what she needed to do, soon joining him back where they were originally stood and he could already hear Dana’s voice in the back of his head teasing him about them being joint at the hip, they just bounced off each other well.
He moved his arms down to his sides, discarding the can into a nearby trash can and he felt her hand brush against his, her pinky curling around his.
It was a small gesture, something sweet, something that only they had for themselves and nobody else. It promised things that they couldn’t say out loud until they were in the safety of their apartment, under the warm covers of Mel’s bed and holding each other close.