I’m not even sure her ass makes up for the collective amount of trauma and baggage anymore…her head game does though.
[ needy ] sender pulls receiver into their lap, desperate and breathless, kissing them like it’s not enough // @pittmade
she'd uttered his name, light brushing over his form in feathery strokes. her limbs followed, wrapped in 8a8179HIS SCENT, his shirt, any part of him she could press to her skin. all-encompassing as the arm that reaches out to ensnare the willing. gloria lands in his lap with a soft exhale, the worry of her brow and part of her lips silenced by the heat of his embrace. her palms found his shoulders, pressing gently on the knots of tension he carried like every burden of duty without complaint. his mouth on hers is not careful. it’s not patient. it’s frantic. a hunger she is fluent in. one with no earthly comparison or poetic scripture because it was only meant to exist between them. the prettiest stranger she'd thought of in passing over years of carnage and heartache made her own. all the suffering and war beneath her palm, and he was life breathed anew.
her hands are buried in his hair, dragging him closer like she can crawl inside him if she clings hard enough. always close, closer still and begging for more because it's still never enough. gloria can feel the bloom of sweet bruises beneath the imprint of his fingertips. handfuls and mania, trying to decipher where to touch and craving all at once. she understands the same instinct that hums almost violently beneath her flesh. her ribcage, cracked open to a heart and soul that finds purpose with the one who makes it all whole.
there is nothing subtle in how they dance. all fire, all intensity carried through the working of lips and tongue— AND TEETH. a dizziness that crowds every thought, she has no use for anything outside of him. every molecule, every drop of blood in her veins, screamed — ❛ jack. ❜ caught between a shattered breath and the frenzied serpentine roll of her hips. forehead pressed to his, her lips catching his in short bursts of unyielding devotion. entwined soul reaching out by the way she searches his gaze for any turmoil she was prepared to chase from his psyche. ❛ give it all to me, i'm here. let me take it. ❜
30. netflix watch history. // HCS @pittmade
❛ are you saying you want to secretly perform scientific experiments on your friends and coworkers to increase efficiency? ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @vanhornrn
EDITS// dr. gloria de lima ( mutuals my reblog )
29. ] sender wakes receiver in the throes of a nightmare, reassuring them, "it's okay, it's not real." @bruz3r
she breathes in dust, knees coated in bloody sand. gunfire cracks the sky open with fury, heart slamming against her ribs like it was trying to escape. the heat was suffocating; smoke, cordite, and burnt flesh filled her nostrils, coated her tongue until she gagged. hands everywhere all at once, fumbling for the medpack, pressing down on the shredded mess of a man’s open chest, shouting over the gunfire. stay with me, godamnit — desperate plea to gods that never listen. her voice cracked from the particles of caught debris and screaming for too long.
he was younger than he should’ve been. barely twenty. his mouth moved like he was trying to say something, but only blood bubbled out, fear wide in the glow of youthful green eyes. there wasn’t enough gauze in the world to hold him together. didn’t matter. she kept working. kept fighting. because if she stopped, it was real. there's a distant echo, a hollow sound overhead but she didn’t hear it. didn’t hear anything except the ringing in her ears, the desperate rush of her hands trying to clamp a mortal wound closed. trying to will a shattered body back to life. her hands slipped and his body jolted once and then went still. — no. no no no breathe for me, breathe kid, common! she beat on his chest, hands trembling, blind with panic as the shadow of death mocks her from the corner of the battlefield.
she hears it again.
distant sound gaining rhythm between ichor and carnage. someone grabbed her wrists, firm but not cruel. honey eyes wild and far from the present, her head snaps like the coil of a venomous snake. gloria's mouth twists into a broken scream from the depths of something animalistic inside her bones.
it's okay, it's not real...it's okay, it's not real. but it had been.
she pushed. reared back and slithered from the most gentle grasp. adrenaline still flooding her veins, muscles seized up, heart hammering. it took her longer than she wanted to realize she wasn’t wearing flak. no helmet. no rifle. no medkit. just sweat-soaked skin and the terrible ache of coming back to herself. back pressed against the wall, staring at the doorframe as though the front would materialize in front of her. ❛ did i hurt you? ❜ frantic, feral beat of war, placing a whole field between them with her palms up. ❛ i don't want to hurt you. ❜
gloria, the doctor who will know how every nurse takes their drink. gloria the doctor who can ( and likely has ) probably strong armed a violent patient before security can get there. gloria, the doctor who needs a giant hug and something explicit.
15. bookcase. // HC @owestwind
BOOKSHELVES// she has a habit, a collection that rivals her record one. two points in her home have dedication to her literature. - a corner in her living room and a good portion of her bedroom. every single book is one she's read at least once before and there are favourites she revisits often. many copies that have seen combat and deployments and gotten her through difficult times. she's a fast, thorough reader and her taste varies, but this is a little snippet of some of her favourites.
🌶️ SC // @washsins ( russell shaw )
she didn’t think. she couldn’t think. by the time she had crossed the threshold past his door, gloria’s hands were shaking. not from fear, not from the cold, but from something hungrier, meaner. something she couldn’t scrape out of her chest, no matter how hard she tried. it had been gnawing at her for days, weeks maybe. that hollow, bone-deep need that curled under her skin and made her feel too tight, too human, too breakable. heart hammering against her ribs, adrenaline stabbing at the base of her skull the way it used to before firefights.
only this was worse; this was personal.
gloria doesn't give russell a second to breathe or contemplate the brokenness she carried in. she was already on him, grabbing the collar of his shirt and dragging him down to meet her mouth. it was desperate, waking up the part of her soul that had been warped into something caustic and fractured. her teeth caught on his lip, fingers yanking at the fabric over his chest like she could tear her need out by force if she just clawed hard enough. she needed someone real. someone solid, someone that could pin her down when the world spun out and she couldn’t catch her breath. ❛ please. ❜ gloria heard herself say it like a disembodied entity haunting the room. a hoarse whisper, nearly unrecognizable. she hated the sound of it, the crack in her own voice, but she needed him more than she needed pride right now.
@medicbled - gloria de lima. combat medic, mercenary, occasional emergency medicine doctor verse pending. @docmohan - doctor samira mohan of max's the pitt. canon & hc driven. @sweets1n - roxana flores. stripper/burlesque dancer, rockabilly baby, religious trauma and heart of pure gold and peach cobbler. @enduredshe - emersyn thompson varela. trafficking survivor, social worker, vigilante and hacker.
nothing follows, not yet. the words don’t rise so much as settle as silt in water after the stirring’s stopped. HER EYES FOLLOW A CRACK ALONG THE BAR TOP. it's long and jagged and reminds her of scar tissue, the mangled and crooked stories on her body in phantom aches. a flicker of recognition sharpens the corner of her gaze. not pity. not camaraderie wrapped in cliché. but that rare kind of understanding that doesn’t announce itself; it just takes up space beside you and doesn’t flinch.
the glass in her hand sweats against her palm. she hasn’t taken a sip in minutes, just holds it like something steady, something to tether her. dinah's voice lingers in the air, heavier than the scent of stale beer and old smoke, heavier even than the history pressed into every inch of this place. she exhales slowly, controlled in how they taught her to when adrenaline starts to eat through clarity.
she shifts in her seat, the rare form of an evening off melting in small waves. not discomfort, just recalibration as though she’s letting herself settle differently now. not into the bar, or the chair, but into the truth between them. that unspoken place where blood isn’t a metaphor, and memory comes with texture. the quiet motion of someone who has bled and stitched and kept moving, who knows the cost of softness and still lets it in.
not everyone exists the same. some become the violence, some hide from it, some bury it so deep they mistake it for the wild of grief. no matter how anyone attempted to keep it, eventually it creeps up and reminds you it's always been in charge.
❛ sorry. ❜ gloria sets the glass down gently, a smile that isn't all there lifting the corner of her lips. ❛ i'm surprisingly shitty at small talk for it being a big part of my job. ❜ WAR WAS LESS COMPLICATED THAN MEDICINE; empathy had drained her then, and it drains her now. an empty tank that keeps running onwards. ❛ i also hate baseball. ❜
the place doesn’t announce itself. no sign worth reading. just the dry clink of glass against wood, the heavy drag of a barstool across concrete, the soft static of a baseball game playing overhead on a battered television. the walls carry nicotine stains and the bartop’s been wiped down so many times it shines in patches. most of the men here wear uniforms, or did once. one can tell by the way they sit: spines too straight, eyes that scan the room but never settle.
dinah does not blend. not really, and never by accident. black satin pants skim just above the ankle, the soft grey blouse tucked clean at the waist without a single crease, and red-bottom heels on her feet which she exchanges for an old-pair of sneakers after hours; still yet, elegant, unmistakably out of place. she looks like she arrived from a place built on marble and discretion, where voices are tempered by diplomacy and the real power circulates three doors behind the visible one. and maybe she did. but she was never designed to belong to those rooms. strategically placed in them.
‘ yeah, ’ she says, not just with agreement but with recognition as well, like the words been filed and revisited too many times to come out any other way. like she knows exactly what gloria means because she’s lived it more than once. violence, institutions that reward detachment and demand resilience just to survive, even as pamphlets in the therapist office announce that vulnerability is not a weakness.
‘ well. fuck it. ’ she remembers a man once—older, career army, the kind who spoke like authority was his by birthright. he told her women like her couldn’t possibly understand what it meant to be ankle-deep in blood with the comms down and someone dying under her hands. she said nothing then, nothing even as she cleaned the blood off her own hands later that same week.