First Day Back

YN returns to The Pitt for the first time since the hospital shooting that left her in critical condition. After fighting for her life and spending weeks recovering, she’s finally back, but walking through those doors brings back painful memories of the day she almost died. Her coworkers are relieved to see her, though everyone worries about how she’ll handle being back in the place where it happened.

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The sliding doors of The Pitt's ambulance bay hissed open, and for a moment, Y/n just stood there. The familiar antiseptic smell hit her first—sharp and clinical—followed by the distant wail of a siren and the low hum of fluorescent lights.

It had been six weeks since the shooting. Six weeks since the chaos in the ER, since the gunfire, since she'd been wheeled into her own trauma bay with blood soaking through her scrubs. Six weeks of surgeries, physical therapy, and nightmares.

The department looked the same. That was the strangest part. Same scuffed floors, same overflowing board, same beige walls that had witnessed the worst day of her life.

Dana Evans

looking up from the triage desk, her face shifting from exhaustion to shock Oh my God.

rounding the desk, voice breaking Y/n?

Dana stopped a few feet away, like she was afraid Y/n might shatter if she got too close.

Dana Evans

They said you were coming back today, but I didn't—she pressed a hand to her chest—I didn't believe it.

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