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Do you have any thoughts on what dating Dr Gloria Nathan would be like? Also I love this blog and hope that you are feeling better soon.
Awwww you’re too sweet! Honestly made this page just because I ran out of fanfiction to read so I was like I’ll just keep my fics here. Now I’ve got some regulars who seem to enjoy my work, plus a community of people as stoked on this show as I am. And thank you! Had PT today, which was ROUGH but now I get to write this! 🥹😁
Dating Dr. Gloria Nathan would include…
Oh she’s had bad fucking luck when it’s come to love.
She’s ready. Ready to love with everything she has and then… the rug gets pulled out from under her. Who knows. Maybe it’s just not her thing.
She’s lost a little bit of that bedside mojo working in Oz. So when she’s asked as extra hands at the local hospital, she’s told she’s a little stand offish with the patients.
“Breath in. Breath out. Breath in.”
“Shake it all about?”
Her eyes flit up to see you on the bed, smile on your face.
“Oh, you’re joking sorry. I, uh, don’t get out much.”
“I can see that. Good for my health. Bad for yours.”
She chuckled again. You were funny.
“I knew you were gonna be a good doctor.”
“How so?”
“You were 30 minutes late. I’m not being a dick. My mom always told me be wary of a doctor that’s on time. It means they care about the schedule more than the patients. If someone needs extra care, they get it. I can tell, you’re a good doctor.”
She checked how many painkillers you were on, but found nothing.
“Is this a make a wish clinic? Do I get to make a request?”
“You’re not dying, but sure.”
“One night out with the beautiful but terrifyingly serious doctor? For a dying person’s sake?”
“Again; fractured wrist. Not dying.”
She’s giggling like a school girl by the time she leaves your room. She wonders if it wouldn’t have been a complete breach of protocol to leave her number with you, but shakes it off. She’s a professional.
When you leave the hospital, you wait by her desk.
“Mr/Mrs/Mx L/N-“
“Can you at least let me bring you coffee tomorrow? Or lunch on your break? Just to say thank you.”
“It’s not just a thank you, is it?”
“Nope.” 😇
She doesn’t really expect to see you the next day, but you’re holding eight coffees.
“What happened?”
“I realized I didn’t know how you take your coffee. So I prepared seven alternatives to the black coffee I got you. All the milks and sugars.”
Sister Pete is watching from her desk and can’t help but giggle. Gloria is taken a little off guard.
Somewhere Tim is being mopey because someone else likes Gloria.
“Thank you, you really didn’t have to go through the trouble.”
You smile good-naturedly.
“Not a trouble.”
She smiled at you and tells you she has to go take care of a patient.
“One of those many cups has my number on it. Maybe give me a call?”
She agrees and then continues to work. Her and Sister Pete have lunch together.
“Saw Starbucks came to visit you at work today.”
Dr. Nathan explained the situation.
“He/she/they’re really sweet but… I don’t know. Think I’m a little too uptight for dating right now.”
“I don’t know. Starbucks seems sweet.”
Sister Pete learns your name later but all she calls you is Starbucks.
You text for a little while, her always blowing you off because she’s busy, but she appreciates the good morning texts all the same.
She gets all red faced and bashful whenever she’s complimented.
She’s grown a thick skin in Oz that’s hard to undo.
You show up at the hospital, but she’s back in Oz for the day Sister Pete tells you. You look dejected and just say “oh. Thank you.”
“Why don’t you step back into my office. We can talk if you’d like?”
“I promise I’m not some stalker. We talked and she seemed really nice. I figured if she didn’t have the time I could make it for us. I don’t know. I think I’m just annoying her. I’m gonna stop now.”
Sister Pete listens to you non-judgmentally.
“Tell you what, if you don’t receive a text by tonight telling you that she’s interested, I think you should stop… just let me talk to her first. Figure out what’s going on.”
“You would do that?”
“For you. For her. For a little romance.”💝
You’re about to leave the room when Sister Pete says; “shd likes French toast, fluffy cats, and the beach.”
Sister Pete makes good on her word to talk to Gloria.
“I talked to Starbucks today.”
“He/she/they were here?”
“Yup. Asking about you. Wondering if they should stop pursuing you before they annoy you.”
Gloria thinks for a second. She feels badly for you, really. She does like you; the kind eyes and the jovial personality.
“Why are you dragging your feet? I can tell you care about him/her/them.”
“Since my husband-“
“And Tim and O’Reily. I know, Gloria. You’ve had terrible luck. But it’s never going to get better if you don’t take some chances.”
She thinks about what Sister says all day. All night. You get a text at two in the morning.
Hi, Mr/MrsMx L/N. I’m sorry I’ve been so aloof. I’d like to have dinner with you tomorrow if it’s not too much of a trouble.
You respond with this:
She didn’t stop laughing for twenty minutes.
You to to the diner Tim took her to.
She always gets French toast. Has a love for it but hates cooking. She gets powdered sugar and blackberries on top.
You rapid fire questions to get to know her. Her small talk is crap.
She likes berry flavored anything. Gets way too into watching Judge Vonda B. She also loves swimming.
You ask what her favorite flavor of milkshake is. She thinks for a second.
“Orange dreamsicle.”
You surprise her with one on her shift the next day.
She finds she really enjoys being at around you. You seem to genuinely care about her.
It takes her a while to talk about herself without prompting. She’s just generally very closed off.
When you guys do go out, she prefers smaller things.
Wine tastings, cafes, book stores.
She prefers just spending time around you, not necessarily the whole city.
You find out she likes having sweet snacks while she works. Sister Pete lets you into her office one day in secret.
When she comes in the next day, her desk if filled with treats.
Pulparindos, pelon pelo rico, and revocladitas (watermelon, her favorite)
The Latinos are jealous lol
Murphy and Tim tease her a little for being so smitten.
When you come to pick her up from work one day, you meet them, Tim being a little bitter about losing Gloria.
“Wow, Gloria, it’s like they’re your boyfriend/girlfriend/partner.” -Tim teases.
Gloria looks at him, and then at you, and smiles:
“Yeah, I guess he/she/they are.”🥰
You love seeing her work; she’s so passionate.
You deal with a few O’Reily jabs here and there
After a while, Gloria is able to talk about what happened to her. With Keenan.
You hold her as she cries and tell her she’s safe.
She really does feel safe with you.
Everyone at work notices her smiling more, that broken look in her eyes is gone. 😄
You learn she’s not bad at cooking, but she hates it, so you cook often.
She likes to watch you cook as she does her work at home.
She’s stupid for the Harry Potter series. Remembers reading them as she was getting her doctorate.
(Not so much after Joann’s newest rants but that wasn’t really known in the early 2000s.)
She likes to marathon the movies.
You find her novelty food like the Bertie Bots every flavored Beans, chocolate frog, popping chocolates.
She enjoys them all, especially when you dress up in your house robes for her.
She’s a Ravenclaw. All the way.
She likes gardening. Keeping a small tomato and cucumber garden. She grows MASSIVE cucumbers.
“Hey, we need to talk, Y/N.”
You get nervous.
“I just… I mean, I’ve said these words so many times I didn’t think I could still mean them. I love you, Y/N.”
You actually do dance in front of her this time. 😁
She’s a very good domestic partner. Always helps around the house no matter how tired she is.
You get married, because you decide together to get married.
She still plans a proposal.
Something small and personal.
She takes you to a secluded spot in the city. A rooftop of her old building, in her old neighborhood.
You watch the sky together, counting the birds and planes overhead.
“My life is better with you. I hope yours is better with me.”
The ring is simple. Just a band and a stone, but the stone is bright yellow like the sun. It’s a gorgeous ring.
The wedding is with all of the Oz crew. Sister Pete and Mukada congratulating you. Murphy making Tim not act like a mopey asshole the whole time. Howell is raiding the bar.
You adopt a cat together afterward. A beautiful rag doll cat that becomes your baby (even though you adopted older because Gloria said it wasn’t too late for anyone to find love)
Her/his name is Maria/Peter.
(For obvious reasons lol)
She speaks in Spanish to her little baby doll.
“Thank you, Y/N, for everything.”
“Te amo.”
“Te amo, Y/N.”😘
Bonus: You get Christmas sweaters to match every year. Usually with one half of a joke on one, and the other half on the other. No one can deny you’re a cute couple. ☺️
for the ask game:
"I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen."
Sorry about the wait! I also went in the direction of a rarepair... Hope that's OK. If not, I can try to re work it or you can send in a different sentence. (Also I tweaked to the prompt a bit.... just put in a comma instead of a period. Hope that's OK.)
"I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen," Gloria states once Shannon drops her vice like grip on her hand; she's marched them into a stair way, away from the hospital ward and away from prying eyes.
The plan had been to drive O'Reily crazy by pretending to date each other - it had been the only ethical plan they could come up with to get their revenge on him - and for the past few months it had been going well.
But Gloria wasn't supposed to look forward to meeting up with Shannon O'Reily, wasn't supposed to miss her company when she was gone and she certainty wasn't supposed to "accidentally" brush hands with her whenever they were close.
And Shannon wasn't supposed to kiss her - like she was dying and only Gloria could save her - in the middle of the hospital ward, in front of her colleagues and patients; Tim and O'Reily had made the most beautiful choking noise that she should actually look into when she gets back - but not right now - right now she feels giddy and warm in ways she hasn't in years.
"Want do it again?"