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Samira and Robby's interactions throughout the last four episodes are everything to me. She's one of the only main characters he doesn't have a lengthy exchange with in those episodes – he talks about religion with Whitaker. He stops to tell Mel that she was awesome and that he's glad she's with them, and he has multiple one on one interactions with her over the course of the treatment of the measles kid. He has that confrontation in the ambulance bay with Langdon. He talks at length to McKay about David and the broader meaning of her actions. He bursts into laughter about how this was Javadi's first shift, then tells her the next one will be easier, a moment very much specific to the two of them, even as there are a bunch of other people around, sharing in the laughter. It's really just Samira and Santos whom he doesn't talk to in any kind of depth.

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When he tells Samira she's doing a good job, it's casual, in the middle of the chaos, while they're rushing around trying to do their jobs. When he asks if she's hanging in there after the crisis is over, it's not a one on one conversation, it's a general question about both her and Javadi. But even without a conversation, there's so much going on there. They're working so closely the entire time, even when they're on different patients, and as much as I would always want more of them interacting, because they are my favourite dynamic in the show by so much it's not even a contest, I didn't feel the loss of them in the last quarter of the show despite them not really talking about anything!

Before the patients start coming in, she follows him to ask where Collins went. He stops to check in on her, and she's explaining the case without so much as pausing what she's doing. He says, less to her than to the room in general, that she's on fire. Unlike every other time he compliments her, she doesn't stare after him in shock – she's too busy stabilizing the patient. She calls him over and explains another case, but it turns out, she doesn't really need him – he asks her what she's thinking, she tells him, and he confirms she should do what she thought she should. They work on intubating a patient together and he jokes about her having been spoiled by technology – and it's a line that could so easily be a criticism, but clearly isn't. He does not blame her for this in the slightest, because it's so out of the ordinary – the attending anesthesiologist was struggling with the same thing. She asks him about hospital procurement and why they don't stock something. She rushes to his side when Leah comes in, then jumps around to help other patients. He calls for her to go check on Mel when he's busy with Leah. When we're getting shots of pretty much all the residents, making it clear that everyone knows it's going poorly and Robby should be giving up, it's Samira that goes to stand next to Robby and ask if she can help. They do David's neurological workup together. He calls out specifically to her to finish up and go home. When he's yelling at Gloria, she's one of the three characters whose reactions we get a shot of. She's the one that asks what's funny when he's dissolving into laughter and the one that waves goodbye when he leaves.

These are all just brief interactions, spread out across several episodes, but the Robby and Samira dynamic is just this constant presence, and I adore it. There is so much happening in these last four episodes, and in them, as intense as everything is, as much pressure as they're under, Robby and Samira are in a better place than they were all season. Their interactions are lighter. After so many episodes of this lack of trust being a big thing in their relationship – Robby not trusting her clinical judgment, Samira not trusting him to not blow up at her – we get to see that when the chips are down and there's a crisis, there is a lot of trust. They work incredibly well together! He trusts her on the most critical patients and to go help the younger residents when he's otherwise occupied. She calls for his help repeatedly, and he drops whatever he's doing to go to her, knowing it'll be important. She knows pretty much immediately that Leah isn't going to make it, and she steps up to fill in for him elsewhere.

It means so much to me that Samira is the first person to indicate that she knows Leah's not going to make it, very shortly after she's brought in, and that while all the residents later are glancing over at Robby, very much aware that it's going poorly and he should have given up, Samira is the one resident to actually say something to him. They are constantly talking past each other. They are both trying to solve different systemic issues that, given the resources they have, are almost impossible to reconcile by a single person, and the fact of the matter is, the ER needs both of them, because it matters that people are trying to address both these problems, but it still is a huge strain on their relationship, not helped by how Robby lashes out at her when he's angry at himself. But when it’s Robby in distress, when it’s Robby doing what he accused her of doing all day...she has so much empathy and concern for him.

She's not Abbot, a peer that can straight up tell him that it's time to give up, that they're going to lose ten others if he keeps trying to save Leah. Not yet. What she is someone that deeply understands the impulse and the hard time he's having, who will step up when he can't. It's just such a phenomenal series of interactions to get across with so little conversation.

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it’s so hot guys i feel like i’m melting…

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Hottest girls and their pathetic men

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This is keeping sane atm

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I get why everyone thinks the 'life doesn't always go as planned' thing about Mohan is gonna be a pregnancy, but I really think it might be something to do with her mental health. I think the adrenaline high and then crash was a sneak peek into her dealing with having Bipolar Disorder, which has a pretty high comorbidity rate with ADHD, which Langdon mentioned that they all have and that's why they thrive in Emergency Medicine.

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I like them just being dumb kids

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The problem with playing smash or pass is that there's a lot of characters which I'm not sexually attracted to but I would fuck in a heartbeat out of sheer curiosity and ego, like I don't find Mickey Mouse attractive at all but if he approached me at a bar and went "Hey sexy, want me to show you my mouseketool?" I would say yes because then I get to tell my friends I fucked Mickey Mouse

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there are some fandoms i just need to fully avoid on reddit bc what do you MEAN there are people who totally missed the fact that garcia was full-on flirting with santos?? they HELD HANDS TO DO A FASCIOTOMY while everyone in the room was like 👀. garcia ASKED WHAT HER SIGN IS. she told santos that she could make up for stabbing her by BUYING HER A COCKTAIL. there was no subtlety at all 😭

but i guess that’s just gals being pals for ya

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another garsantos meme

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How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

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The Pitt boys as text posts

Bonus Robby/Jack

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Conversation carried out throughout the shift

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