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“Who the hell stabilised this woman’s pelvis without waiting for me?” Nico growled as he walked in the room seeing his job had already been done his eyes sweep over the doctors bustling around the woman’s bed his eyes linger on Levi for a second before moving on like he’s just another doctor, not someone who he was supposed to have loved.
Levi gets on with his work monitoring the vitals keeping steady pressure on the head lac for Amelia.
“That would be me” a head says shooting up from where he was crouched on the floor checking how much blood was in the drainage container from the chest tube.
“Who the hell are you?” Nico practically snarls he’s been angry a lot lately.
“My friends call me Stiles… you can call me Doctor Stilinski”
“Well doctor Stilinski who the hell gave you permission to stabilize this patient’s pelvis without waiting for ortho? Do you have any idea how many injuries you could have given her?”
“Considering I’m board certified in orthopaedic surgery I’d say that being a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons would give me permission to do my specialty but it is my first day and I’m sorry if I stepped on anyone’s toes just when I worked at the Mayo Clinic I tried to answer my pages before…” He pauses to check the clock on the wall “Thirty minutes”
“Link and I was in a surgery” Nico growls and Levi honestly doesn’t know who to root for at this point.
“Dr Grey” Dr Stilinski says turning to address Dr Grey ignoring Nico “Judging from the amount of blood in her drainage bag she’s bleeding internally, I’d suggest a CT but there might not be enough time, would you recommend Burr Holes Dr Shepard?”
“I don’t see any other option till we can get her a full CT” Amelia nods looking impressed.
“Take her then Doctor Stilinski I’ll assist” Doctor Grey smiles.
“Doctor Schmitt” Levi jumps as Doctor Stilinski addresses him, Levi’s sure he see’s him smirk and look him up and down before asking him to book and OR and get ready to scrub in.
He rushes to the phone and calls the OR schedular and watches as Amelia and Doctor Stilinski wheel the patient out the room.
“Your letting an orthopaedic surgeon operate on a general surgery case?” Nico questions Dr Grey before she walks out the trauma room.
“He’s a general surgery fellow, he’s my general surgery fellow actually, DR Bailey and I decided it was time to impart my wisdom on my own fellow, well actually I got jealous of her when she had Jo so I asked her for the funds and she got me them, we got five thousand applicants and Doctor Stilinski had just passed his board certification in Ortho and was about to start an attending position in the Mayo Clinic when he saw the job opening, when the chief of surgery from Mayo begrudgingly rings and highly recommends taking his star student on as my fellow I couldn’t pass that up, he wants to be double certified in ortho and general surgery and from what I’ve seen in the three hours he’s been working here I think Bailey’s going to give him whatever damn salary he wants to keep him working here once his trainings over”
“Is he allowed to do ortho?” Nico questions his eyes narrowing.
“He’s board certified in ortho so if he needs to do ortho then he will, I’m surprised Link didn’t tell you he’s trying to get Bailey to let him run his service for a couple weeks whilst he takes time off to be with the baby, I’d thank him if I was you Kim the next time you don’t answer your page for thirty minutes whilst I’m waiting for a consult I’ll have you in the chiefs office so fast your head will spin” She warns storming out the room.
Nico stands there spluttering, and Levi hangs up the phone going to make his way up to OR 3 now that it’s booked.
“Can you believe the gall of that man?” Nico questions
“I’m his intern and he’s pretty amazing actually best surgeon I’ve seen in a while” Levi says his voice stony as he pushes past Nico.
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“Are all the ortho surgeons that douchy?” Dr Stilinski asks not taking his eyes off the perforated bowel he’s mending with ease.
“I think he was just worried about the patient” Dr Grey says her eyes unsuitably looking up at Levi.
“Don’t worry Dr Grey, we broke up he is a douche” Levi tells her.
Dr Stilinski looks up at that and his eyes crinkle he must be smiling under the mask “my last boyfriend decided that dating a surgeon wasn’t worth the time because I was always in surgery and never in his bed, I told him that If he had a career instead of picking up the odd bar shift here and there he wouldn’t notice the absence that much, he broke my nose for that, my ex-girlfriend before him tried to get me to marry her because she thought I’d be able to pay off all her credit card debt because it would legally be half mine, I know a thing or two about douchy exes” Dr Stilinski laughs it’s like he doesn’t even look at what he’s doing leaving over to ask Bokee for 2-0 proleen.
Levi’s eyes widen in shock at the revelation this dude is bi he covers up his shock by asking him a question “May I ask Doctor Stilinski…”
“Call me Stiles” he interrupts.
“Okay, may I ask Stiles how you are so good at general surgery if you’ve been studying ortho for the past two years” Levi questions.
“I was thinking the same thing” Dr Grey questions she’s staring into the patient and so far, she hasn’t made a single suggestion which shouts more about how good Stiles was than if she was to actually say well done.
“You googled me?” Stiles questions looking up at Levi and smiling again his eyes looking like molten chocolate as they crinkle.
“Well, I saw the schedule and saw I was on your service and was curious as to who you where I saw you did a year’s fellowship in orthopaedic trauma and another year in orthopaedic sports medicine? I was curious as to why general surgery and how your still so good after two years of dealing with bones”
“I wanted to be a general surgeon since I started my intern year, I was the best I was doing solo surgeries in my second year, with the right supervision of course but I did them start to finish, I was about to finally finish residency when my chief of surgery who had been teaching me since I got to Mayo offered me a ridiculous amount of money to be his fellow because he wanted me to run his department one day and he was an orthopaedic surgeon, I felt I owed him, he’d made me the doctor I am today, so I stayed for a year doing a fellowship then I added another year onto another fellowship, I love a challenge love to learn new things, it’s probably because I’ve got like zero social life anymore, I was about to become an attending but once I saw that fellowship under the Meredith Grey I knew I had to come here, knew I had to have the job, so I went to Zac and told him and he hated it, didn’t want me to go but he eventually gave in and said he wanted what was best for me even if it wasn’t mayo, and said he wouldn’t rest till he got it for me, before I knew it I’m moving to Seattle and I’m living in a bed and breakfast because, I haven’t had a chance to go apartment hunting” Stiles finishes.
“Apartment hunting is the worst” Levi nods.
“Are you thinking of staying here for the long haul?” Dr Grey questions.
“Zac… who’s the chief of surgery for Mayo, and Dr Higgs, who’s our chief of general surgery have been emailing me offering me positions to come back to mayo after my fellowship is over, I’ve got the pick of departments they’ve even offered to let me do both, so I suppose the answer to your question Dr Grey is that my life is in your hands it all depends on you” Stiles smiles again.
“Well if I have it my way you’ll be here till retirement I need another me around” She smiles herself.
“Whilst I don’t think it’s possible for another Meredith Grey, I sure hope I can be at least half as good, but I guess you’re just going to have to challenge me and keep me keen on Grey Sloan”
Levi silently wishes he stays for a long while.
“Schmitt you ever ran a bowel before?” Stiles questions and Levi jumps a little from where he’s still suctioning, he shakes his head no.
“Well then why don’t you hand the suction over to Dr Grey and join me round here let’s see if we can teach you how to do it”
He hesitates to pass the suction over to DR Grey; she rolls her eyes but then smiles under her mask “Go Schmitt”
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“I ran the bowel, whilst Dr Grey suctioned for me and he let me close for him, he even complimented my suture method” Levi says sipping his whiskey relishing in the burn.
“You’ve found your Grey” Taryn says letting out a sigh as she looks across the bar to where Meredith Grey is drinking with her sisters, well with Maggie and Amelia is drinking a club soda stuffing herself with a triple cheeseburger whilst Dr Lincoln looks at her impressed.
“Dr Grey’s my Dr Grey” Levi says confused as to what she means he doesn’t hear her reply as he sits up ramrod straight on the bar stool as he spots DR Stilinski walk in, the dudes nearly thirty-five how does he still look younger than Levi?
Dr Stilinski goes to make his way to the bar but he’s called over by Dr Grey and Amelia, Dr Lincoln shoots up quickly and says something to Stiles that has him laughing and shaking the Doctors hand, Levi’s eyes travel down the doctors body appreciating it.
“You’ve been caught” Taryn whispers in his ear and he jumps looking at her.
“So, what you check everyone out”
“Not by me you idiot, back table” Taryn says and Levi's eyes subtlety well as subtle as he can anyway look to where she pointed out and Nico is glaring from Levi to Stiles, he leans into to person’s space he’s sitting with and after a second they rise from the table leaving the bar hand in hand.
“What a douche, next time you find someone to date make sure you tell them your looking for commitment first” Taryn says anger in her voice audible.
“I did that once… he still just wanted sex then acted surprised when I got mad about him sleeping with someone else” Stiles says making both of the residents jump.
“Dr Stilinski sorry we didn’t see you there” Levi laughs rubbing the back of his neck.
“No worries, you must be helm” Stiles questions leaning on the bar and offering her his hand which she takes right away.
The bartender appears and asks what he wants, and he orders himself a whisky and two more for Helm and Levi.
“How’d you know my name?” Helm questions.
“I asked DR Grey who else she thinks I would like from the interns besides Dr Schmitt” He admits.
“Call me Levi he rushes to say he gets the full force of the smile he didn’t see because of the mask and it’s mesmerising.
“She said I’m good?” Helm questions and doesn’t wait for the answer she starts doing a happy dance on her stool nearly falling off.
“She did actually and you’re going to be on my service tomorrow”
“But I’m on your service for the rest of the week?” Levi questions.
“Ethically I had to swap you” Stiles answers with a smile.
“I’m just going to go to the ladies’ room” Helm says slipping off her stool.
He waits till she’s gone moving forward to her vacated stool so he’s next to Stiles to ask “What about me made you have to ethically dump me from your service? Is it because I’m Jewish because if that’s the case then shame on you buddie it’s twenty-twenty, or did Dr Grey tell you about the time my glasses fell into a patient because I wear contacts now…”
“Jesus was that all in one breath?” Stiles questions laughing “I couldn’t have you on my service because I wanted to ask you out, although if you think I’d discriminate against someone because of anything let alone religion maybe I should wait till you get to know me more”
“That’s what dates are for” Levi blurts out after a moment of silence stupidly he could hit himself on the head with his glass.
“Was that a yes?” Stiles questions smiling again.
“Yeah, yeah of course” Levi beams himself.
“Good, we will sort out the details when were both off duty” Stiles tells him.
“Am I really not allowed on your service though?” Levi questions he and Nico were known to be dating by everyone and he was still allowed on his service.
“No, you’re still on my service just wanted to see how you’d react” Stiles smirks.
“That’s not nice poor Helm” Levi says but he smiles anyway because he loved working with him today.
“She is actually on my service as well, I have three back to back surgeries and I want you both to scrub in with me I have a hernia repair, then I’ve got a cholecystectomy and a Tonsillectomy, pretty basic stuff so I was going to let you and Helm take one each and see if you can do it from start to finish with the right supervision of course” Stiles smiles.
“Your letting me do a solo surgery tomorrow?” Levi questions looking at him with shock “Dr Grey’s okay with that?” he asks looking from Stiles over to where Dr Grey is watching them like a hawk her eyes mischievous he looks to the rest of the table and her sisters have the same glint in their eyes Dr Lincoln however is fiddling with his drink his finger tracing the rim for some reason.
“Dr Grey’s okay with what?” Helm asks coming back taking Levi’s vacated stool.
“He’s giving us both solo surgeries tomorrow” Levi tells her before looking at the barman “Can I get two bottles of water please” the barman nods and goes to get them as Stiles hands the money over for the three whiskeys, he tells him to take the money for the water out of that and to keep the change.
“You are? He is?” Helm asks slightly panicked.
“It was Dr Grey’s suggestion, second year is normal to be doing solo surgeries they’re simple and easy and I’ll be with you both the whole time, I’d suggest going home and getting a good rest and I’ll decide who gets which case in the morning”
“If we sleep in an on-call room, we can get some last-minute studying in before the surgery” Helm suggests as the bartender hands the bottles of water to them both.
“Good idea” Levi nods grabbing his stuff and practically goes to sprint out the door following Helm, he stops near Dr Greys table and turns back around rushing back to the bar and kisses Stiles on the cheek it makes the other doctor blush and Levi wants to do that more often.
“You’re not just after me for sex, are you? Because you found out I’m gay and it’d be convenient to sneak into an on-call room because we spend most of our life at work?”
“I don’t do sex in on-call rooms, I’m a romantic and sex in on-call rooms isn’t me, never has been, and because we work together you should know sex is off the table”
“Off the table?” Levi questions.
“Until I know when we get to know each other if this is worth perusing a relationship or if we’d be better off as friends, no sex means no awkwardness in work should this prove to be the latter, but Jesus Christ you’re hot so I really hope it’s the former” Stiles says making Levi blush now.
“Me too” Levi smiles and bids him a good night he walks towards the door more normally now he can feel Stiles’ eyes on his back as he goes, and it makes him feel about three feet taller.
“Seriously why does Schmitt get all the hot guys” He hears Dr Peirce ask and surprisingly it’s Dr Stilinski that answers.
“It’s the eyes, you just get lost in them” Levi looks back to see Dr Stilinski had joined Dr’s Grey, Lincoln, Shepard and Peirce at their table passing the three whiskeys to Grey, Link and Pierce Stiles has a smile and a blush covering his face and it’s weird to think he put it there.
He really does get all the hot guys.
He rushes out to join Helm outside and they make their way over to the hospital, they don’t have to be on shift for another 10 hours so they can get a good eight hours if they make sure to lock the door so nobody disturbs them he’s such a light sleeper if he sees light he will wake up.
“I like Grey’s new favourite I honestly thought I’d hate him or be super jealous, but I might love him” Taryn says putting her arm through his.
“He asked me out” He reveals to his best friend.
“Oh my god yes!! I am so for that, he seems so nice, but seriously if I detect another Nico style drama, I will use you to practice an appendectomy on”
“I don’t think it will be he seems different”
“Is it weird we’re both only attracted to older people?” Helm asks after a second.
“It’s only six years between us and I swear to god if you say I have daddy issues I will push you down the stairs”
“I think Meredith Grey could be one hundred and I’d still be in love with her” Helm sighs and Levi just laughs how the hell is this his best friend.