emery watches you from afar.

it’s not like she can come any closer — the two of you aren’t supposed to be together, not if workplace guidelines and hr have anything to say about it. so it’s a secret. an annoying, stressful and hard one to keep, but also a necessary one.

it’s not too hard — you don’t interact at work mostly, emery a surgeon and you a resident doctor in the er. but there’s times, times like now, where it is hard for emery.

because you just lost a patient in the pittfest massacre. your sister’s boyfriend. the sister you told emery so much about, and her boyfriend you briefly mentioned to emery weeks ago. she watches from afar as you pump on his chest. as robby pries you off.

as you shove robby. walk away.

and emery wants to follow you. god does she want to run after you and hold you and cup your face, push your hair out of your face and cradle you like you’re something precious. you are precious, to emery. and she wants to wipe your tears and say she’ll be there with you when you tell your sister. but she’s in the middle of bagging a patient.

she watches you walk out of view. does what she needs to do.

then she walks the way you went, trying to find you.