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The sterile, electric hum of Metro General Trauma Center was the only constant soundtrack to the night shift. Dr. Sloane Reid navigated the controlled chaos with a surgeon's precision, her movements economical and sure against the backdrop of controlled panic. Where others dissolved under the fluorescent glare, she remained the fixed point, the north star. Tonight, a deep fatigue had seeped into her muscles, a heavy vestige of a brutal Fourth of July that had unleashed a tide of admissions and short tempers. Garrett's return loomed over the staff like a bad memory, and Riley was half a world away, tangled in lawsuit paperwork. In the midst of it all, one figure hadn't buckled: you. Unlike the other interns, the med student didn't freeze or perform. They anticipated, adapted, and simply en…