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It wasn’t that Trinity was necessarily watching Langdon, but when someone is standing in place, jumping up and down so fast they look like they’re vibrating, it’s kind of hard not to glance in their direction every now and again. All she was trying to do was catch up on charting in between patients, and he was just there in the corner of her eye
“Like a fucking sleep paralysis demon…” She muttered to herself while continuing her furious typing until about 5 minutes had passed and she'd reached her limit, “Huckleberry! What is up over there?”
From the opposite side of the computers, Dennis’s head popped over the monitor, looking in her direction. She waited until he was looking at her to motion towards Langdon with her lips, and she watched as his eyeline followed towards a small group made up of Langdon, Donnie and some of the guards. Dennis quickly leans back in his chair to get a view of the screen before standing up and walking over to her.
“It looks like some kind of massive fire at a building nearby, betting board I’m guessing?” Dennis talks in a low tone, trying not to let his voice carry. Just as he made it over to her desk, she watched as Langdon dashed over to Dana, his eyes constantly flicking back to the screen, and he spoke in what looked like hushed panic.
From the same corner came a chorus of gasps and exclamations to the tune of ‘Holy shit that just blew up.’ ‘That fully collapsed the building, aren’t people inside?’ which triggered Langdon running back to the TV and Dana frantically dialling someone, Trinity couldn’t quite hear.
“What the fuck?” Trinity whispers so only Dennis could hear as she moves her eyes between Dennis and Langdon. Dennis just shrugged in response but joined in, keeping his eyes flicking between Dana and Langdon trying to get some idea whats going on. Neither of them expected Dana to spin on her feet to stare straight at them.
“Santos, Whitaker, 2 traumas ETA 5 minutes. One of you go find Dr Robby, one of you go meet Dr Langdon and Dr Mohan outside.” Then she spun on her heels to continue delegating placements for the incoming trauma. Without a second thought, both of them split in different directions their earlier conversation forgotten.
When Trinity got outside, Langdon was already talking to Samira in a rushed voice. She was clearly trying to console him, but the worry seemed almost primal or instinctual so no words were going to help at the moment. She got closer to the two and coughed to make her presence known; both of them stopped speaking and snapped towards her.
“Dana sent me out here. Is there a plan?” Trinity spoke, swaying back and forth on her heels, trying to remain as casual as possible, as if she hadn’t been low-key eavesdropping moments ago.
“There are 2 incoming cars, you and I will take the first one, and Dr Langdon will take the second.” Just as Samira finished speaking, Trinity heard the sirens from a distance, and the lights slowly came into view. “Alright, let’s do this. Santos on me.”
The first ambulance pulled up, and the doors swung open, Trinity almost grimacing at the burnt tyre smell. How fast did they drive here for it to be that ba—oh shit it’s not the ambulance. Trinity listened intently to the handover from the EMTs, then to all the instructions Samira gave her. By this point, she'd forgotten the whole situation leading up to this
The injuries were too severe to be treated from down in the ER, all they were really doing was prepping the patient for the OR. It didn’t look good, 3rd and 2nd degree burns littered the patients body as well as a nasty cut along their back from the caving roof tiles. As the situation settled down and the patient was wheeled up to the OR, Trinity took a moment to look over at the other trauma room where the second car's patient was being treated. She noticed that the room had been cleared out quicker than this one; it was only Langdon, Robby and the patient in the room. Bit odd in her opinion.
She left the room, dispensing her gloves on the way out, and beelined towards the main nurses’ station where Dana was currently stood looking at the board. Trinity opened her mouth to speak and closed it just as fast when she saw Robby walking straight towards the station, followed by Langdon and the, now walking, patient. Maybe just eavesdropping was the best plan, she took a seat at her computer going back to typing a previous chart.
“How's she doing?” Dana wasnt trying to be subtle, thankfully, so her voice carried well enough for Trinity to hear from where she was sitting, pretending to chart.
“Oh shes fine, indestructible if anything. Nasty laceration across her face and a slight one on her chest from a piece of metal falling from the ceiling. He refused to let anyone else do the stitches.”
“That's quite sweet.”
“Tell that to Donnie, got a look of premeditated murder when he offered to do the stitches.” Dana couldn't hold in her sharp laugh at Robby's last comment, which finally got the attention of Langdon and the mystery patient who came bounding over confidently to the desk and engulfing Dana in a hug.
“Ah Thing 1 and Thing 2 how we doing, how you feeling missy?”
“I still don’t understand how I’m Thing 2.”
“Because I’m cooler than you?”
Dana held the woman's face in her hands, inspecting the injury, causing her to stick her tounge out towards Langdon at the show of affection from the charge nurse.
“I actually work here! This is ridiculous favouritism…” Langdon mumbled to himself slightly turning away from the situation.
As she was trying to chart to eavesdrop, Trinity felt a presence to her right, she had obviously been spotted. She took a slight glance only to notice it was Princess, she was instantly safe as Princess was probably also here to see what’s going on. Trinity motioned, with her lips, towards the woman and raised her eyebrow hoping Princess would already understand the question.
“Ading (younger sibling)” Princess said in a hushed voice.
“Kapatid niya yun?! (That’s his sister?!)” Trinity’s voice came out louder than she’s intended, luckily no one else around them kne—
“Sino ang pinag-uusapan natin? (Who are we talking about?)”
Both Trinity and Princess froze when they heard another voice talking. She knew that it had come from the mystery woman and that now she had 5 sets of eyes trained on her but she was taking the t-rex approach of if you don’t move they can’t see you.
“You speak tagalog?” Princess spoke first, Trinity could have got on her knees to praise her right there for taking the majority of the eyes from her, however she’d noticed a set of eyes still trained on her.
“Yeah, learnt it for an ex-girlfriend. You’re Princess right?” She said breaking eye contact with Trinity, walking around Landgon to reach her hand across to shake Princess’ hand “I think we met at a previous trauma call, however I wasn’t a patient last time thankfully.”
Trinity hadn’t failed to notice that this now meant she was stood on the corner next to Trinity’s desk, they no longer had a Dr. Langdon buffer in the middle of them. Princess laughed softly at the joke easing the tension from the previous moment, in a way only she could.
“I do remember! It’s lovely to see you again I’m glad you’re safe that news coverage looked scary!”
So that’s why he looked so stressed at the news earlier, Trinity thought to herself.
“He what?”
Trinity quickly realised the thought was very much not to herself, now she had 6 pairs of eyes on her. How do the numbers keep increasing? Oh well time to sink or swim she thought, this time actually to herself.
“Dr Langdon earlier, I could see him while I was charting now I understand the stress,” She took the moment to stand up actually meeting the womans eyeline, she knew she shouldn’t from the look on Langdon’s face but she couldn’t help herself, “I’m Trinity Santos, Second year resident, it’s nice to meet you…”
“Y/N,” She spoke extending her hand out to Trinity, “Langdon, that bit was a given though, it’s nice to meet some more of Frankie’s coworkers.”
“What have I said about calling me Frankie at work?” Langdon’s protests were cut off as she stuck her hand over his mouth causing him to mumble what was probably a protest to the action.
“So why is this the first time we’re meeting?” She asked, still having her hand covering his mouth so you could only see his eyes, that was enough to convey the emotion when he immediatly side-eyed her at the comment. Trinity couldn’t tell if she was genuinely flirting with her or just annoying her brother but the intensity the eye contact was giving her little space to think right now.
“I—I’m only a second year,” Trinity mentally kicked herself hearing how her own voice came out where has all of her game gone. Maybe it was performance anxiety with the fact there was at least 4 people watching this interaction, “Does your work really land you here that often?”
“The ER yes, this one specifically no. I try not to worry Frankie here.” Y/N laughing as she spoke using the hand that was originally covering Langdon’s mouth to ruffle his hair.
He swatted her hand away muttering, in a mood only a sibling can create, ‘frankie this, thing 2 that, i cannot escape’ as he stormed off to check in on another patient. Dana and Robby also took that as their queue to slowly walk away. Princess was another story, she had moved less than Dana but had somehow been joined by Perlah. Points for at least attempting to be subtle though.
“So how is 2nd year going so far?” Now the the crowd had dispersed there was a softness in her voice, her curiosity obviously genuine.
“Charting is kicking my ass, I’m behind on things that are yet to happen and I think my roommate spends every weekend at a farm with a widow and their ba— I’m sorry I don’t know why I said all of that.” Trinity laughed out the sudden honesty shocked Trinity as she spoke.
“It’s ok I asked, I wanted an honest answer,” Y/N wheeled a chair around as she spoke motioning Trinity to also sit down again, “I remember Frankie’s 2nd year, I was convinced a few months in that he was days away from turning into a zombie.”
Trinity couldn’t help the laugh that tore out of her, it was enough to make Langdon’s head snap back to you both.
“I’m serious! I didn’t think a human being could turn grey!” Y/N laughed out before rolling the chair she was sitting on even closer to Trinity. Their knees knocked and slightly intertwined as she reached over to grab a blank piece of paper scribbling down what was definetly a number, “I don’t want to keep you from your charting too long so he—”
“Allllrighty let’s get you checked out and back to your job.” Langdons voice cut her off, he pulled her chair leaving a jokingly large space between the two and tipping the chair forward forcing her to stand up.
“Alright Frankie I get it,” She immediatly turned her attention back to Trinity, “Sorry about that I guess he’s not a fan of me flirting with his coworkers.”
“Wait you were flirting?” Once again Trinity’s thoughts came out spoken, she was definetly blaming it on the lack of sleep. Both Langdon’s face’s widened with emotion but for vastly different reason.
“Was I not obvious enough?”
“Oh so help me god,”
He immediatly grabbed her wrist to walk her away and out of the ER but it wasn’t enough to stop the smirk on her face.
“Text me, I promise I’ll make it more obvious next time.”
“STOP flirting with my coworkers!”
“You can’t tell me what to do Frankie.”
“Stop with the Frankie! Jesus Christ I hate that I was worried about you.”
The bickering persisted all the was into the ambulance bay. Trinity was struggling to hold in her laughter at the sight. She looked down at the scribbled number and pocketed it before she forgot, or before Langdon stole it.
“Why are you so red faced was the trauma call that bad?” Dennis said as he saunted up to her side.
“You look like you’ve ran a marathon, do you need some water I can go grab some for you?” Mel’s voice appeared from the other side of her.
“No I, I just met Langdon’s sister,” She spoke.
“Aw that’s cool.”
“Was she here for an injury?”
“I didn’t know he had a sister.” Javadi’s voice had now joined
“She also flirted with me.” She was met with a collective stunned silence, “And gave me her number.”
Somehow the silence got even louder.
“So are you going to text her?” Dennis asked.
“Are you kidding me?” Trinity noticed Langdon walk back in so she made sure to lower her voice to just those surrounding her, “Of course I am. Dude she’s a firefighter.”
“Can you handle all that heat?” Dennis quipped.
“Okay we have been living together far too long, I’m not accepting this attitude from you Huckleberry I have charting to do.”
Victoria and Dennis walked away whispering amongst themselves
‘She’s still blushing’
‘I bet the number’s burning a hole in her pocket’
Neither of them were wrong but she wouldn’t let them know that.