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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    Cassie Mckay doesn't really know a lot about her co-workers outside of Mateo and Javadi. Sure, she's friendly but she's always been a bit too much for the others. That is until she gets to know more about everyone's favorite trauma nurse, Jesse Van Horn, during the accidental double shift from purgatory.

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    Jack Abbot would say that he is appropriately on edge given that it’s the Fourth of fucking July. It’s only in recent years that he’s even able to be conscious and upright on this date so by all means, he considers walking through Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s front doors sober and on time for shift change a fucking win. His therapist would probably disagree. He would probably say that trading in his long treasured July 4th pastime of locking himself in his cabin in the Alleghenies and sedating himself into the deepest sleep his body is capable of for a volunteer position of throwing himself into active fire and dodging bullets for sport is not the progress he thinks it is. God forbid he picks up a golf club or goes to the batting cages or any other semi-normal, well-adjusted middle aged man hobby.

    Still, when he walks back into the emergency department just a little over three hours after he last left, he can immediately sense the shift in the air.

    or, how it should have gone down when Jack woke up from his nap on the Fourth of July.

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    She hopes – he knows – that they have many good years in front of them. And then, when those years are through, he dreams – she knows – they will have many more; her ashes fertilizing the soil where his bones rest. By the time the Sun swallows the Earth, they will have been some new civilization’s Lovers of Modena.

    Samira wants to live in his skin. Jack wants to puppeteer the world to her every whim. Loss has made them odd lovers. It's not anyone's business but their own.

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  4. Public Bookmark 32

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    Fifteen hours. That's how long Dr. Cassie McKay spent fighting to save lives during the PittFest massacre-long enough to break a court order, destroy her ankle monitor, and very nearly burn herself out.

    But in the haze of trauma and adrenaline, there was one constant: Jesse Van Horn. The ER nurse with steady hands and quiet eyes. The one who didn't flinch when she cracked, didn't pry when she shut down, and didn't run when her past started bleeding through her present.

    Cassie doesn't do relationships - not with her history, not with a son to protect, and definitely not with a coworker who could see too much. But Jesse? Jesse just stays.

    And when her son ends up in the staff lounge eating crackers with him, she starts to wonder if maybe - just maybe-some things are worth risking again.

    A slow-burn, found-family romance about surviving trauma, choosing softness, and learning that sometimes, after the fire, comes something warm.

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    Emma Nolan is just trying to survive her new job in the Pitt.

    After she was attacked on her first day, getting stronger seemed like a good idea.

    Developing a gym crush on an arrogant, brutally honest ortho resident who won’t stop correcting her?

    Less so.

    Especially when he’s right about everything.

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    Brendon Park is just trying to finish his residency and leave Pittsburgh behind.

    He has a fellowship in California, a plan, and no intention of getting attached to anything—or anyone—here.

    Taking an interest in a nurse from the ED who always seems to be training next to him?

    Ill-advised.

    Especially when he can’t seem to stop spotting her.

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