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Oikawa runs his fingers through the pastel pink flowers surrounding him, his mind only focused on the feel of the soft petals in his palm. His eyes closed, he hears a melody sifting through the air, and he finds himself more at peace than he’s ever be-
“Oikawa-san? Are you okay?”
He snaps back to reality, beckoned by Shimizu’s voice and concerned gaze.
“Ah, no, I’m fine Kiyoko. Thanks for waking me up. How long was I out?”, Oikawa says while standing up and offering her a small bow which she returns.
She walks to the coffee machine and presses a few buttons, “6 minutes.”
“Cool, that’s good.”, he says, making himself a coffee after Kiyoko grabs her coffee and rushes out.
The door sings open immediately after she shuts it revealing Iwaizumi in all his glory.
“Why are you still here Shittykawa.”, he says, not phrasing it as a question, but more as a statement.
When Oikawa doesn’t respond, he sighs, “Fine. How long have you been here?”
“Umm, maybe 23 or so.”, Oikawa shrugs, trying to pass it off as a small amount of time.
He watches Iwaizumi choke on his coffee, “23? Hours?”, he sputters, “Trashykawa, it’s time to get out of here.”
“But Iwa-chan,”, he whines, “I need that promotion.”
Before Iwaizumi can say anything, he glides out of the break room, to escape his best friend’s wrath.
“Oh, Oikawa.”, Tazaki calls out, “While you were busy sleeping,”, I wasn’t sleeping, his brain supplies, “I took care of the patient in ER2.”, he walks away after, giving Oikawa two seconds to think about how much he wants to punch his face before he’s accosted by one of his coworkers, (Futakenchi, he thinks?) who hands him a file, “You’re on in 5 and 8.”. Oikawa spares him a glare before scanning the contents of the file while walking towards the patient’s room.
“Hi, Ms. Miyawaki.”, he says to the old lady laying on the hospital bed, “Is there anything I can do for you?”, he directs one of his charming smiles her way, which she returns.
She moves forward, “Marry me?”
Oikawa didn’t laugh but just smiled at her, “Sure. Let me just buy a suit and I’ll get back to you.”
He then whispers to the nurse by her side, “Keep an eye on my fiancée, and increase her morphine.”
He exits her ward, before entering another one, and after that another one, and another, only stopping to get himself a cup of trashy vending machine coffee that somehow tastes like grass every once in a while.
He rushes into the washroom for a moments respite, where he finds Iwaizumi applying… makeup?“Ooh Iwa-chan, what’s the makeup for?”
He throws an unimpressed glare over at Oikawa, “The dark circles were scaring the patients.”
“Well I,”, Kuroo announces emerging from the bathroom, “have got to get back early. Dai can’t make it home tonight and the babysitter might never return if she has to stay with Kenma for 5 more minutes.”
“Ugh.”, Moniwa chips in, “Speaking of kids, I know Wakatoshi wants kids, and I do too, but like I’m literally working all the time and I really love him, but I have no clue what to do.”
Kuroo begins to offer some fatherly advice, as Oikawa hears one of the people in the washroom comment, “Oikawa, you’re so lucky that all you have to worry about is work.”
If Oikawa was honest, he would’ve told them that he wasn’t happy being single, but he’s not, so he just smiles and nods, and stores his self-pity away for later.
His phone rings, and he reaches his hand in his pocket. He barely registers the caller ID and just holds the phone up to his ear, “Hello?”
“Are you really coming?”, Oikawa’s sister, Oikawa Ayumi, says.
“Yes, I’m coming.”, he replies slightly exasperated.
“Good. Because this guy is great.”
“Have you met him? Is he there?”, he says, a hand subconsciously reaching up to fix his hair.
“I mean, I haven’t actually met him.”, she says, her voice sounding slightly guilty.
“Come on, you aren’t setting your beautiful brother up with a complete stranger!”
“He’s not a stranger! He’s a friend of a friend, and really nice.”
“Nice? So, he’s fat with a good sense of humor?”
Ayumi shouts something at Takeru and Tsukuru before sighing, “Listen, it wasn’t that easy getting him to come, he doesn’t do this often either. So, you better show up.”
Tooru conceals a laugh at his nephews’ antics, “Hey, I’m capable of meeting men on my own. I’ve already got a marriage proposal today.”
“Well, it’d be better if you met people who weren’t dying or bleeding.”, she says.
“Everybody’s dying, just at different speeds.” Hearing nothing from the other end of the line, he just huffs and says, “Fine, I’ll see you at 7.”
She sighs for the hundredth time, “It is 7.”
“Okay then.”, he whines, “Seven Thirty.”
“Better be there. Also,”, she pauses, before shouting, “Which one of you put SpongeBob in the pasta?”
Tooru takes that opportunity to cut the call and shoves his phone back in his pocket.
He spots Dr.Ukai up ahead and quickens his pace but is blocked by stupid Tazaki.
Tazaki stops in front of Dr. Ukai, and so does Oikawa, when he turns to look at both of them.
“How long have you been here?”, he asks the two of them.
“Twelve hours.”, Tazaki quickly answers.
Ukai turns to look at Oikawa who answers with, “A few more.”
He nods and turns to Tazaki, “Scrub up.”, he nods and shuffles away, so Oikawa does the same.
“Oikawa.”, he calls, “ I was going to let you know tomorrow but,”, Ukai pauses for effect, “I want you to stay on as an attending physician.”
Oikawa’s eyes widen and a big genuine smile finds its way onto his face as he mutters out a ‘Really?’ to which Ukai nods before being engulfed in a big hug while Oikawa launches into a string of thank you-s .
When Oikawa finally detaches, Ukai says, “You deserved it, you’re one of the few people who care about the patient and not about kissing my ass. Risky, but I like it.”
Oikawa is about to launch into a speech that he has totally not practiced before, when he raises his hand and says, “Oikawa, go home. You’ve been here 26 hours.”
He gives Ukai a puzzled look and he just says, “I know all.”, and walks away.
He sprints towards the locker room, his hair bouncing with every step he took, hoping to not be too late.
After changing out of his uniform, he rushes to the elevator taking note that the clock says that it’s already eight, and he prays Ayumi is in a good mood.
Oikawa scurries to his car, which is luckily parked nearby.
Just as he opens his car door, he spots a figure at the car next to him, and looks up to find none other than-
“Tazaki.”
He doesn’t seem to have noticed him until he spoke, and he looks at him, startled and says, “Congratulations.”
“Um, so like I’m sorry, I really didn’t know that Ukai was going to-“
Tazaki cuts him off, “I have another offer, life’s good.”
Oikawa nods, “That’s great.”
He’s clearly not in the mood for conversation and he steps into his car, so Oikawa does the same.
It starts raining as Oikawa begins driving, while Oikawa rings up Ayumi.
“Hey Ayumi, I’ll be there soon.”, he begins.
“Oh it’s fine, your date’s late too.”
“Also, I have some good news”
“Ooh!”
“I got the attending position; I’m staying in Tokyo!”
She squeals on the other end of the line as Tooru laughs.
“I’ll be there in a minute and we can talk more later, bye~!”, Oikawa says and hangs up after she also says goodbye.
He places his hand on the radio dial and turns the volume up, thinking that this calls for a celebration, and that’s when it happened.
Oikawa looks up, only to be met by two glaring headlights, that are coming closer by the second, and before he can turn, the world goes black.