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1. Santos
Dana Evans would like to say that she knew everything that went on in the ER.
She knew wich people where hooking up, even if they didnt think that anyone knew. Knew if something happend, before anyone eles in the ER knew. And unlike some other people, Dana Evans never gossiped about what she knew.
Yet Dana had no idea what was going on with Trinty Santos. But she knew that there was something going on. No clue what, but he knew that there was something wrong.
But she was sure that there was something wrong.
Santos was leaning against the nurses station just staring at the board. The girl hadent moved in about 5 minutes. She barley looked like she was breathing at all. Or blinking.
How she was doing that Dana had no idea. But it could not keep going.
"What wrong?" Dana said pulling her glass's of her face and making Santos jump a little as she spoke. She could she Santo's about to open her mouth, probley to say that she was fine so Dana cut her off. "Dont give me that, i am fine bullshit"
Santos just started at Dana for a moment. Like she was truly seeing Dana for a momment. Then she began talking "The little girl in bed 7."
Ah, her. The 9 year old girl. She had been brought in by heer mom who had noticed that something was wrong. How she keept getting bruises. Turns out it was her teacher in school who had done it.
Santos hadnet seem to be okay since they had found out. Like her mind was some where eles. Wich was so bad when you where a doctor. You had to be there all the time with a clear head.
But it made sense why Santos was feeling off. Because while Santos had never out right said anything to anybody, Dana could see it in her.
Something had happended in her past to make her angry. No one was just angry like that with out reason. Other people could call Santos mean and rude all they wanted, but Dana knew better.
There where no people who where like Santos where for no reason. That anger had to come from some where. And that need to prove herself, also had to come from some where.
Dana had met many angry people working in the ER. People where so often angry when they where in the ER. And even doctors could be angry, look at Robby or Frank. But allmost all of them had a reason to be angry.
And Santos had gotten better. More of a teammate, not so much a solo player anymore. More open to help other people and let people help her.
Also Dana knew that maybe that had something to do with her new hook up. Garcia, because dont think Dana hasent spotted that allready. It was hard not to with the way the two of them basicly eye fucked one and other. When ever Garcia was down in the Pitt the two of them where basicly having eye sex in the middle of the ER. Or maybe her new friend, Whittaker. It was hard to be angry when Whitaker was there with his big mouse eyes.
"Santos is there something you wanna talk about?" Dana said putting her ipad down on the nurses station, giving all of her attion to Santos. "Because you know the girl is gonna get help here, and she has been sat up with someone to help her with what happend after this. And that teacher i going to be locked away"
"I know. I know that it just" Santo's stoped talking as she ran a hand trough her hair, wich was slowly getting longer. Letting out a loud shigh as she went on "I never stop being angry over men like that"
Oh. OH.
Dana would have never thought of that. But she gussed it made sence. Out of everybody in the ER, Santos seemed to have taken the whole thing the hardest. Nobody in the ER was happy with what happend, but Santos seemed to have taken it truly to heart.
Walking around the station she put a hand on Santos shoulder. "You listen to me, okay. And you listen good. You are an amazing person, and everybody thinks so. Everybody in this ER might not like you, but everybody can agree on one thing. You are a good doctor, even if your just a med student"
Santos looked like she needed it but Dana didnt stop talking. "And you dont have to stop being angry. You can keep being angry, but you have to figure out away to let out. Talk to someone or use the energy on something. You cant just let it boil up inside at explode at random point. But do you hear me Santos? Never stop being angry at people like that"
Santos gave her a small smile. One of her real once that she allmost never gave. Like she wasnt allowed to smile and not be angry. Dana gripped Santos shoulder a little thighter, and then said "Now stop sulking around and pick a case"
Letting out a small laugh, Santos walked off. Dana picked up her ipad, and looked over it. Dana liked helping the young doctors and med students as they got used to being in the Pitt.
And if she dropped some fliers for boxing, running and other sports, plus some counslers, into Santos locker. Well then no one had to know about that, other then Dana and Santos.
2. Javadi
"No mom, i dont mom- just i, i have to go" Javadi said, and Dana noticed how the kid might have hit the botton just a little to hard.
Dana Evans would never understand kids these days. Most people would probley call Javadi rude for haning up like that. And maybe Dana would to, if she didnt know just a little bit of the story.
Javadi and her mom had some realtionship that nobody seemed to understand. At first, when Dana first noticed that someting was up between Javadi and her mom, she thought it was normal. She had seen it happen all the time with people, both her own friends, but also people at the hospital. Parents who jusst seemed like the had a hard time letting go of their kids. But as Dana saw more of it, she thought there was something eles.
There was more to it, if you looked for a little bit longer. Javadi seemed to love her mom very much, but also seemed to really enjoy spending time away from her. Like she needed all the time she could get away from her mom. But at the same time, most of the choices Javadi seemed to make, was something her mom made or thought.
Javadi liked purple. Nothing wrong with that, that was pretty normal. And there had been nothing wrong with that, until Dana found out why Javadi liked purple. It had happend a few days ago
Dana had over heard it when she was getting a cup of coffee. It had been some random day, and Dana had been tired as hell. She had no idea what hour she was on of the shift, but it was to fucking many.
Dennis and Javadi had been standing on the other side of the small break room. Dana had notcided how Javadi, Mel, Santos and Dennis had all made some little group. The 4 of them seemed like they had become friends faster then most people ever had. Maybe it had something to do with the tramua most of them had faced on the first day in the ER.
"So what you just like purple because, your mom gave you purple things growing up?" Dana heard Whitaker say as she poured new coffee into he to go cup. And well Dana hadnet been paying attion before but now she was.
"Well i guess so" Javadi said, and she was streaching her arms out infront of her. She was wearing a purple soft zip up hoddie, that Dana had seen her in for the last few weeks. "But arent we all like that? You know we just like what our parents tell us we like"
No, Dana wanted to yell across the whole breakroom. You have to find out things that you like, not just what your parents like. But then she thinks to herself. About Victoria Javadi, and everything she knows about her.
Javadi was a child prodigy, she was younger then anybody eles as the hospital. And half the time she looked like she was just trying not to break under her moms pressure. People who had to grow up fast under the pressure of everything, and everybody, probley didnt have alot of time to find out things about themselfs. Atleast that was what Dana thought. She had never actully met another child prodigy other then Javadi, but she had hear about it. Things like this. Pushing your child so hard, so that they would become what you wanted out of them. But at the sametime, pushing people that hard, was not good for anyone.
And now here was Dana watching Javadi as she ran her hands trough her hair. The girl had stuffed her phone into the pocket of her scrubs, and Dana felt her heart shake a little bit at her.
"You okay?" Dana said as she looked up from her tablet, as Javadi jumped a little bit at the sound of her voice.
"Yeah ehm yeah im fine" Javadi said and Dana just raised an eyebrow at her. "I just....my mom"
Dana pulled over a chair and sat down next to where Javadi had been in the middel of charting. She put the tablet down for a momment. Normaly Dana wouldent have a even a momment to breath let alone talk with the med students. But luckly today was not that busy, and fast. And above all things Dana knew that everybody had to be here with everything they had. Even if that meant talking with some of the never people.
"Just what?" Dana said pulling her glass up to the top of her head. "You can talk to me and i will hear you"
"She.....she really wants me to go into surgery just like her" she said as she twirled the end of her braid in between to fingers. "She thinks that it is a waist of potential to work in emergancy medcin."
Oh well that was something eles. Not really what she had thought.
"Does this happen often?" Dana said putting her hand on the tabel looking at Javadi who was very much not looking Dana in the eyes.
"I mean sometimes" Javadi said twisting her hair even thighter "I guess she had just allways had an opinion on what she thinks i should do. And sometimes it like no matter how many times i tell her i know what i want she wont hear it"
Okay so this was simple. Atleast for someone like Dana, who had a nack for making people tell her things, they might not want to talk about. It was just about Javadi trying to set some lines in between her and her mom.
"And have you tried to tell her how you feel?" Dana said and for a momment Javadi didnt move and then she shook her head. Ah Dana thought so. "Well maybe you should do that? It might make her see what she is doing to you, and she might rethink it"
Javadi looked at Dana like she had just told Javadi that she should cut her own arm off. "I have never actully really done that. You know told her how i feel about the way she talks to me"
"That is something you should maybe try" Dana said picking at Javadi's hands that was over her hair. She stopped her from basicly pulling out her own hair. "It might because you are so young, but it is still inportent that you tell her how you feel. About where you want to be, because that is what matters. You have to be where you feel like you help out the most"
"But what if she is right?" Javadi said not pulling her hand back from where Dana was holding it in her own. "What if i could be more of a help in surgery?"
"Then you will have to find that out. Maybe do an internship in surgery, and try it out. And then you either find out that you hate it or you love it. But you dont seem to like doing anything close to surgery" Dana said and this time she made sure to look into Javadi's eyes. Javadi just looked back at her and then gave a small nod. "Then you tell her that. You tell her that it doesnt matter what she thinks you should do, but what you want. Because that is what matters. You have to do what you want and like so that you can put everything into it."
Javadi looked back at her for a little bit and the put her hand up and whipped the tears nearly spilling out her eyes away. "yeah your probley right"
And that was why when Dana saw Javadi latter that day talking with her mom, Dana gave her a small thumbs up. Javadi smilled a quick smile and took a breath. Yeah Dana was pretty proud of her. That child prodigy could grow up to be a pretty good person even if she had a little to much pressure on her.
3. Whitaker
Whitaker or Dennis, something Dana still allmost never called him, was maybe the med student that she was most worried about.
Thoes big eyes that allmost allways looked like they where about to fill up with tears. Eyebags that allways made it look like the kid had not sleept in weeks. And Dana had seen how skinny he was when he first started here. He was still skinny even if he had ganied a little bit more weight. He also had one of the worst first days ever, atleast that Dana had seen.
But still he pushed trough it all. Like it was nothing and everything was fine. It was like he was a mini robby in that way. And not in the good way. Dennis seemed like he wanted nobody eles wonder if he was anything then fine. Like the thing he wanted least of all was for people to worry about him.
He also didnt talk alot about his life outside of the hospital. Dana knew that he lived with Santos now, but she had no idea where he lived before that. She was pretty sure she had heard that he used to live on a farm in Nebraska. Some small town in the middle of no where called Broken Bow. And that he had a big family wich didnt come as a surprise. Older brothers apartley.
That didnt come as a surprise to Dana. The kid looked like he was used to getting tossed around a bit. And like he was used to being the weak one out of everybody. Dana herself was the oldest sister with 2 younger sisters and 1 youngest brother. So she had no idea what it was like to be youngst out of everyone.
Right now Dennis was looking like he was about to fall flat on his feet. But then again most med students looked like that, the only one who seemed to go around it was Javadi. But still, Dennis looked worst then most med students that Dana had seen in her many years. Only up taken by that one med student who had passed out from lack of sleep.
Pretty sure she quit med school a few days after that.
"Whitaker take a look at the guy in bed 4 please" Robby said as he passed by him, sliding his hand along the med students neck. Dana did not miss that, because she never missed anything inside of this ER.
Robby had since day one nearly used Dennis Whitaker as some kind of stress toy. When ever he was telling the kid something, he would be touching him. Or just when they where standing next to one and other. Like he was doing it without even knowing it. And even tho Dana wasnet on the night shift she had heard that Jack had some tendice to do the same.
Also dont think Dana has not seen the few times Whitaker has come in with hickeys. Once when Jack had been in aswell, Dana could have sworn she heard the older doctor wisper in Dennis ear about "You look so good with mine and Robbys marks all over you. God i cant wait to give you more later" Something she did not want to think about, like at all. It was like thinking about her siblings having sex. No thank you she did not want to think about Robby and Jack having sex.
Anyway, back to the momment, and not how Robby and Jack might be fucking the doe eyed med student. The guy in bed 4, some pain in his leg, was not the problem. It was his family and there was a whole lot of it. The paitent seemed nice enough but his family looked about ready to punch everyone. Probley why Robby sent Whitaker over, he was so kind with paitents family, that it was hard to be angry.
About 5 minuttes went by before it happend. Dana turned around when she heard the yelling, from where she was standing with Princess looking over some charting. It was comming from bed 4.
"Sir-sir i promise you that we are doing everything we can" Whitaker was saying with his hands raised out infront of him. Like he could maybe hold back the angry family member without touching him.
"WELL THEN DO FUCKING MORE!" The guy yelled getting even closer to Whitaker. Dana was moving even closer to the bed, before she even knew what she was doing.
"Sir- if you could ju-" Then they all heard it. A crack snapped trough the air as the guy lifted his arm and swung right at Dennis face. He hit Whitaker right in the nose, and the kid feel back and down on to the floor. And then everyone was moving.
Ahmad was grabbing the guy had pulling him away with the help of another guy. Dana and Princess where both at Whitaker who was still laying on the floor. Still out like a light, wich was not good
"Okay Whitaker kid, stay with us. Come one come on wake up show me thoes eyes" Dana said as she made sure that Whitaker didnt try and move to much. "Princess come help me get him up and into a med"
They slowly, and with the help of Donnie and Matheo, they got Whitaker into one of the open beds. Checking him over and making sure nothing was broken, stayed by Whitakers side. He was in and out of it, as Dana put the IV into his arm, filling him with some fulides.
Ahmad stuck his head past the curtin "We got the guy locked up in one of the extra rooms, called the cops. Gonna need a stament from the kid"
Dana looked down at where Whitaker, still mumbling a little as Princess cleaned up his nose and Cassie, who had come in to help, checked up the back of his head. They had to make sure that Whitaker didnt hit anything when he fell on the floor. "Yeah, tell me when the cops show up, and we see how awake he is"
As Dana walked over and took over Princess place in cleaning Whitakers nose, he opended his eyes a little "Maw?" He wispered in a tiny voice, allmost broken as he looked at Dana. "Wha goin on?"
"Whitaker can you hear me, kid?" Dana said as she grapped a light and shawned in them. Everything looked fine with his puples. "You feel anything?"
"Mama my head hurts" He said as he looked up into the roof, his eyes closing a little bit again "Maw wher the stars? Why cant i see them stars?"
"Whitaker gonna need up to keep your eyes open for me, kid okay" Dana said as she looked down at Whitaker. Dennis looked like he was slowly comming to it more and more. "Yeah there we go, open thoes pretty big eyes for me"
"Dana? What happend?" Whitaker said as he was pushed softly down again by Dana with a hand on his chest. "My head hurts, like alot. And my nose"
"Yeah that guy knocked you out pretty good" Dana said as she let her eyes, tranied nurse eyes, over Dennis as she helped him sit up a little in the bed. "We are gonna get a CT on you. Make sure he didnt rock things around inside that brain of yours"
"No no im okay" He said as he tried to stand up from the bed, and Mckay and Dana pushed him down again. "It okay, really i dont need a CT, i feel fine"
"Kid, you where passed out for nearly 2 minutes. Your nose might be broken, we are getting you a goddam CT" Dana said as she looked at the IV drip. It was just some fluids but maybe the kid needed some pain meds.
"Okay but just dont tell Santos. Or Robby or Jack" He said as he softly closed his eyes. Dana and Mckay shared a look over the med students head. Since when was Whitaker one first name with Robby and Jack? They rolled him toward the elevator to get up him up to get a CT.
But when they came down they where greated with a surprise. The surprise being, Jack and Robby both with worried faces and arms crossed. And Santos who for the first time looked scared as she ran up to Whitaker. "Dennis what the hell happended?"
"Stop" Dennis said as he tried and failed to push off Santos from looking him over. Santos and Mckay rolled Dennis back to the room, as Dana shared a look with Jack and Robby.
"Ahmad allready called the police, the guy is locked in room 3" Dana said as she looked over both of the older men. Then she squited her eyes a bit at them. "Listen as long as you dont start going at it at the hospital, i dont care. But maybe dont be so clear about it, or someone is gonna call HR. Or better yet just tell HR before you mess up"
Then Dana walked back to Whitaker. The kid dessvered someone by his side. Even if they couldent have his mother, maybe he could atleast have Dana.