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6:48 PM
Trinity had finally finished her charting, Dennis had already bussed back to the apartment *stupid huckleberry*
trinity got up from the desk with a sigh, she waved bye to Lena, and went to the lockers to grab her stuff, she finally walked out of the ptmc ten minutes to seven, her bag slung over her shoulder she pulled the keys out of her jacket pocket and walked into the parking lot, unlocking the car with a *beep* she got in the driver seat and put the bag in the passengers seat beside her, before she started driving she undid her tight ponytail and connected her phone to the car speakers, she put on Chappell Roan, who she only usually listened to after shifts as a pick me up, because sure the lyrics were depressing but the beats were fire.
She started the car and pulled out of the parking lot, merging into the regular road and heading home.
It was a mundane drive she did many times before since she started working at the Pitt, she arrived at her apartment building and pulled into her designated parking spot before grabbing her bag and getting out.
As she was about to buzz into her apartment she saw something moving on the ground under a thin tree, she thought it was a baby bird and racked her mind for what you were supposed to do with a baby bird, *she wasn't supposed to touch it right, or mom would abandon it?* she reached her hand closer to it, just to see what it was then; "OW fuck!" it bit her! it actually bit her! It definitely wasn't a baby bird, that was a bat, and this one *was* cute. It would've been cuter though if it didn't sink its little teeth into her flesh. It had let go, and it wasn't flying away so she grabbed it, "sorry bud, gotta make sure you don't get me sick" she said to the little animal.
She got up off her knee and walked to the apartment building door, buzzing in and ignoring her bleeding finger and the little animal struggling pathetically in her other hand. She walked up the stairs quickly, she wasn't scared just annoyed.
She unlocked the apartment door and walked in. She could smell mac and cheese and she was right. Whitaker was clearly making dinner, which was nice of him but rather unfortunate as she knew they wouldn't get to eat it. Dennis greeted her with a smile, which quickly turned to horror when the mousy farm boys eyes landed on her bleeding hand and the bat in her other, she held the bat away from him, he didn't have a good rap with small mammals.
"did it bite you..?" he asked hesitantly, Trinity nodded, "yes huckleberry, go get me a towel from my bathroom and a paper towel" Dennis obliged, he grabbed the paper towel first and handed it to her before jogging off to the bathroom and grabbing a towel. Trinity wrapped the little animal in it, the little guy was growing on her, *or maybe it was the rabies making her feel fond* she thought. She pressed the paper towel against her bleeding finger "ugh fuck my life man" she said looking around "do you think the pitt'll make me wait when I have possible rabies infected bite?" she asked Dennis, who shrugged, "I mean we didn't really catch up with the waiting room so depends wether or not there's anyone worse off" he said, Santos groaned.
"Can you grab a charger, blanket, water bottle or two some polysporin and some snacks and meet me in the car?" she asked him, maintaining a good grip on her new batty friend. Dennis nodded, and grabbed a backpack to gather the stuff in, before quickly walking around the apartment to grab the stuff she asked to bring, "you want me to come?" he asked her before she walked out of the apartment, she sighed and turned around to face him "yes huckleberry" she muttered something under her breath in tagalog before exiting the room. She walked down the stairs and into the parking lot, getting into the car, *could Dennis drive..?* she didn't want to give him the bat, she hadn't forgotten the rat incident. Dana stilled called him the ER bloodhound, which was a more badass nickname than any of the ones she had given him.
A little less than ten minutes later Dennis entered the passengers side of the car withe the bag. He pulled their rubber oven mitts out of the bag and put them on, he also handed her a container of Mac and cheese and a plastic fork "um...I didn't want to waste it so i just finished making it, and uh...." he stammered "thanks" trinity deadpanned. "why the mitts" she asked. "well um...I though it would be a good safety precaution, y'know..." he said nervously, Trinity shrugged and gave him the towel wrapped bat, Dennis tensed and held it tight and away from him.
The drive was quiet, Trinity was still bleeding a bit and Dennis was clearly freaking out inside, "wow huckleberry for a farm boy you're really not good with animals" she scoffed, she knew he probably was but she wanted to tease him. He immediately got defensive "I don't have money for the vaccine come on Trinity you know that!" he whined, "and rats can carry more than just rabies I don't want some rare tropical disease the US has never seen before!" Trinity smiled, "yeah whatever huckleberry" she said as they pulled into the Pitt parking. She parked in staff parking because she could even if she really shouldn't.