The New Normal by L J Hayward

Author:L J Hayward [Hayward, L J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, contemporary romance
ISBN: 9780648784654
Publisher: L.J. Hayward
Published: 2020-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Day two with Dr. Compton went both better and worse. Brian only got two stern comments, so yay, but then managed to get a needle stick injury during a trauma case. He was shuttled off to pathology for his baseline blood tests and told to go home early.

“Hey, Brian,” Sean the phlebotomist said when he walked into the collection room. “You’ve come to visit me today instead of me going to see you.”

Sean was around Brian’s age, lively, extremely good with patients and, after he flashed an engagement ring, set to marry his dentist boyfriend. He had Goku hair—on purpose—a lithe body from running and after work was often seen applying some eyeliner so he’d look good on the run home. ‘He/him’ was handwritten under his name on his security tag.

Brian’s first encounter with Sean had been on one of his overnight shifts during his palliative care rotation. Sleepy after a day of taking Andrew to and from a chemo session, Brian had been catching a quick snooze on the couch in the staff tearoom when he woke up to a male nurse giving a very detailed description of being bent over a kitchen counter and getting very thoroughly dicked. To which Sean had happily responded with, “See, I told you you’d like it. You should have listened to me earlier.”

It had taken the rest of that rotation, and his next in surgical, to stop blushing whenever he saw either the nurse or Sean, but now, thoughts began to percolate in Brian’s head as he was guided into the collection chair.

“Got stuck,” he muttered. “I was helping hold an MVA patient’s leg on and the consulting surgeon stuck a needle right into my hand.”

Grimacing, Sean grabbed a body fluids exposure kit and opened it, tipping the contents onto the table. “That’s not good. How’s the patient?”

“Off to surgery right now. They’ll collect samples afterwards.”

Sean quickly checked all of Brian’s details and set out his equipment and tubes. “I figure you know the drill.”

“I collected all through my graduate degree. Not here. For a private pathology company,” he added when Sean frowned as if trying to remember him from years ago.

“Oh, that’s why I didn’t know you when you showed up here. Make a fist.”

Brian complied and watched as Sean expertly applied the tourniquet, found a vein and swabbed it. A moment later, the sharp point of the needle slid into his skin and he barely felt it.

“There you go,” Sean said once he was done and taped over the puncture site. “You were an absolute hero. Do you want a sticker?”

“What are my options?”

“A lion that says ‘I’m a brave boy!’ or a ladybug that says ‘I’m a good girl!’ It’s hella binary and insultingly sexist but those are the options, I’m afraid.”

“Neither in that case. In fact, I’ll help you smuggle them out and burn them.”

Sean sighed. “If only we could. They’d just order more. I’ll take care of the rest of this. You, my fine brave ladybug, are free to go.

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