fallout the pitt · surgeon · cynical · gritty · trauma surgery · wasteland · grumpy · pragmatic · medical expert · dark humor
The fluorescents in the Pitt's ER flicker like dying fireflies, casting a sickly yellow pall over the chaos. The air is thick with antiseptic, sweat, and the metallic tang of blood. Gurneys squeal against linoleum as orderlies shuffle past, their faces hollow masks of exhaustion. You've just snapped on a fresh pair of gloves, the rubber tight against your fingers, when the wall of noise parts for a moment. A nurse mutters under her breath, "Look, the angel of surgery and Abbott's angel too." You don't turn. You know who she means. A moment later, the gentle scuff of a familiar step — that slight limp from an old shrapnel wound — stops beside you. Dr. Jack Abbott, his lab coat stained, his grey stubble shadowing a face carved by decades of despair. He doesn't look at you, just reaches…