#ethan x aparna

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Ethan x F!MC: Pure Fluff

One Shots Q - R

Queen’s Gambit - @anntoldst0ries It’s game time, and both players are equally competitive.

Querencia - @junggoku A year later the secret ingredient to the ‘special’ he orders at Donohues still hasn’t been revealed,  MC is determined to get it. Takes place prior to 2.8

Querida - @jamespotterthefirst   Ethan hasn’t always been good at dancing Latin American music, but he’s learning.

Questions and Answers - @usuallyamazinglyaverage While Anna is out drinking with Bryce, her friend asks her quite a shocking question and gives some much needed advice.

Quite the Simulation - @missmiimiie Ethan, Stefan and Baz are forced to experience the pains of labor. Feat. Baz

Radio Heads - @arjaywrites On a Sunday morning drive, Ethan and Dana jam out to some tunes, ending in a surprise revelation about Ethan's musical preferences.

Raincheck -  @heauxplesslydevoted Set after 2.8, Ethan and Naomi get a re-do on their dinner date.

Rainy Confessions - @krsnlove

Rainy Days and Mondays - @lucy-268 Charley’s having one of those days and Ethan makes it better.

Rangi Saari - @gryffindordaughterofathena It's his first time seeing her wearing a saari (traditional wear of women of Bengal).

Realisations - @coffeeheartaddict2 🏳‍🌈 It is Alexis’s first pride after coming out as Bi-sexual and she comes to some realisations.

Reflection - @a-crepusculo   She currently doesn’t feel like herself.

Reassurance - @potionsprefect He worries when he gets sick.

Recharged - @jerzwriter Ⓜ Casey is officially moving in with Ethan, and he finds some interesting things while packing.

Reflection - @potionsprefect He never believed he would become a father. And overtime, he realised it was the best thing to have happened to him.

Relief - @cariantha  In your HC, does Sawyer have any long-term effects from the chemical attack or its treatment?

Relief - @perriewinklenerdie   He doesn’t make it in time for her ethics hearing, but that doesn’t matter. Set in 1.17.

Remedial - @stygianflood Ethan realises how Aparna might have felt about him reminiscing his dates with Harper

Remember When - @openheart12   Ethan and Casey look back at their life.

Renaissance - @peonyblossom   Ethan and Sadie attend a renaissance fair and run into an unexpected someone from Sadie's past. Feat. OH Gang

Repercurssion - @nazario-sayeed Edenbrook’s staff reacts to Ethan saying on TV he’s not single.

Replies & Returns - @jerzwriter 🎄 Ethan is usually the one to mess up texting, but as Kaycee and Bryce are out shopping for Christmas gifts, it’s her turn to screw up.

Respect - @perriewinklenerdie Harper finds out about their patient being a part of the study and talks to Claire about it. Feat. Platonic Harper

Rest - @estellaelysian Ethan looks after Alishka when she overworks herself.

Reunion - @choicesfanaf   Arundhati attends her med school reunion.

Reunion - @openheartfanfiction   It's Claire med school reunion and they run into one of her exes which makes Ethan jealous.

Reunited - @openheartthot They reunite after her trip to Las Vegas. Set during OH:SY chapter 15.

Ride - @starrystarrytrouble Things get heated for Ethan on a car ride home. 

Ridiculous, But Neat - @inlocusmads   Jane looks like a pencil. Ethan's terrible at being "socially outgoing" and the two of them are equally terrible at making some proper Gala conversation.

Right at Home - @alwaysmychoices During a family camping trip in the backyard, Ethan has a suggestion for his wife.

Right Place, Right Moment - @potionsprefect There’s something on Ethan’s mind…

Right Up My Alley - @storyofmychoices   Ellie makes an unexpected discovery about Ethan's past. Feat. Bryce Lahela, Alex Spencer (Hollywood U)

Ringing In the New Year - @justanotherrookie 🌟 He’s working late and they bicker about who she’s going to kiss at midnight.

Ritenuto - @utterlyinevitable Marriage or break up? That is the question.

Rivals - @starrystarrytrouble Everyone at Edenbrook is talking about Tobias and Ethan. Multiple POVs. Feat. Tobias Carrick

Road Trip - @socalwriterbee  Ⓜ After many postponements, Ethan and Tessa are finally going away for the weekend.

Road Trip Ready - @blazerina MC begging Ethan for something he doesn’t want to give in to.

Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree - @liaromancewriter 🎄 Ethan returns from a business trip and discovers the joy of being home.

Role Reversal - @potionsprefect It’s usually him taking care of her, now it’s the other way round.

Rooftop - @perriewinklenerdie   They both hide away from people as the party goes on on the floor below them. They don’t need much else, except each other.

Rookie’s Nail Salon -  @lahamseiroshoe MC paints nails.

Roomie dinner - @perriewinklenerdie Few days after the accident at the hospital, Claire’s roommates discuss her very strange relationship with Ethan. Set after 2.11.

Roots - @zealouscanonindeer  Set during Book 1 just after Aspen enters the competition.

Roses Are Red - @liaromancewriter   Chief Ramsey receives a surprise delivery from a secret admirer.

Rose-Tinted Glasses - @inlocusmads   Jane's dress-up-as-a-superhero plans are thwarted after a wardrobe mishap. Nevertheless, she improvises which greatly amuses Ethan. [3.3]

Rubato - @utterlyinevitable What happened after Ethan walked out and slammed the on-call room door on Odette. 2.13 scene insert.

Rumours - @starrystarrytrouble Everyone at Edenbrook is about to find out Ethan and MC’s secret.

Rumor Has It - @liaromancewriter When Ethan finds out about Operation Cupcake, he starts to have second thoughts about the nature of his relationship with Cassie.

Running out in the middle of the night to get a food item they’re craving - @commander-rahrah

Runny Nose - @a-crepusculo   She caught a cold at the most inconvenient time.

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Ethan & Aparna💕

Giveaway Prize 8

This is the second giveaway prize, also for @stygianflood who requested for a moodboard of her OTP Ethan and Aparna🌟

Hiya! I tried to do a moodboard for your fic Like the Shoreline and the Sea, which is one your own favourites and now has become mine. I hope I didn't get anything wrong and you like it💙 Thank you for both of your requests and Love you!

To everyone who sees this, please check out the amazing @stygianflood 's absolutely breathtaking fic Like the Shoreline and the Sea, you will love it💙

[stygianflood]

1, 10, 11, 12 and 13 from love 🥰

Thank you for the asks, CJ 💕 Really enjoyed answering these.

Ship Questions

Love

1. Who said “I love you” first?

Might get back with a separate HC soon ❤

10. Do they prefer verbal or physical affection?

Mostly physical. Right from the time he fell for her, Ethan would be holding her hand, often brushing a finger over it because he knows she finds it reassuring. Aparna will hold him close, rubbing soothing circles on his back and wait for him to open up.

11. What are some songs that apply to their relationship, in-universe or otherwise?

Post Miami- Bird on the Wire by Leonard Cohen

During Amazon- For Emily by Simon and Garfunkel

Book 2 Chapter 1- Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez (Bob Dylan)

Book 2 Chapter 11- Shrike by Hozier

Book 2 Chapter 12- Work Song by Hozier

Book 2 Chapter 14- Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel

Whole of Book 3- God is Dead? by Black Sabbath 😐

12. What kind of nicknames do they call each other?

They don’t really have many of those. They call each other Drs Ramsey and Mukherjee at work, and Ethan calls her Apu otherwise. There’s a story behind why he calls her that, and he resents when the rest of the gang start using it. Ultimately they limit it to Naveen and Sienna.

13. Who remembers the little things?

They both do. Aparna’s expression may be more eloquent. And Ethan is quiet and more of a man of action, which more often than not leaves her speechless.

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Ethan x F!MC: Pure Fluff

One Shots S (2 / 2)

Spaghetti Dinner - @parkerattano Sharing a single strand of spaghetti is not romantic. Stop asking.

Special Conversations - @potionsprefect  Ethan holds some meaningful chats.

Special Surprise - @potionsprefect 💘 Luke and Lily enlist Aunt Sienna for a very special mission. Feat. Sienna Trinh

Special Treat - @potionsprefect  Victoria and Ethan buy Luke and Lily a present.

Speech is silver, silence is gold - @valiantlychaoticbarbarian

Stare - @ohfanfic

Star to Every Wandering Bark - @stygianflood Ethan surprises Aparna by asking her to add her name beside his own, on paper.

Stardust - @liaromancewriter 🎄 Ethan and Cassie’s skating date plans go awry, but all hope is not lost.

Stars - @starrystarrytrouble If Ethan had one wish, what would he ask for? MC’s about to find out.

Stars on the canvas - @perriewinklenerdie They go to the Opera House again. They get carried away. Again. Set sometime after 2.8.

Start of Something New - @trappedinfanfiction  👔  It’s Father’s Day and Celia has a surprise for her husband.

Starry Eyes Sparking Up My Darkest Night - @tsrookie They go on an ‘almost-date’.  

Stating the Obvious - @liaromancewriter ☁ Cassie struggles with the twins, and Ethan shows off his skills.

Stay, Stay, Stay - @josiesopenheart  Josie receives a fellowship offer across the country.

Stay with me - @perriewinklenerdie   As her residency comes to a close, her relationship with Ethan gets stronger with each day.

Staying In - @potionsprefect  Victoria is left disappointed when she is sick on her birthday.

Stickler For The Rules - @potionsprefect Date night looks a little different for Ethan and Victoria.

Sticks and Stones - @bex-la-get   Ethan cheers Natalie up when she’s feeling down.

Still Here - @a-crepusculo In the absence of Ethan, Marchia had a friendly conversation with his former rival in the diagnostics’ office. Feat. Tobias Carrick

Stop While You’re Ahead - @jerzwriter  Kaycee refers to Ethan as her husband. This takes place as they're checking out of the hotel in Miami.

Stranded - @jerzwriter When Ethan and Kaycee's trip home from a rural Massachusetts hospital goes awry, how will that change?

Stubborn - @perriewinklenerdie  Ethan doesn’t know how to take a break, even when he’s barely standing on his own two feel and can’t keep his eyes open. Feat. Caring!MC

Stunning - @a-crepusculo Ⓜ The dazzling couple spent their night at the Opera House.  

Summer Hideaway - @jerzwriter Kaycee has had an exceptionally rough week. That's when her secret boyfriend, Ethan, comes up with a plan to help them both recoup.

Summer Romance - @liaromancewriter  Ethan and Cassie define their status over breakfast, set early in their secret relationship.

Sunbathing - @anntoldst0ries

Sunday Mornings - @bex-la-get  Nat and Ethan enjoy their Sunday mornings. Told over several years.

Sunrise  - @starrystarrytrouble Ethan takes MC home after 2.11.

Sunrise - @jamespotterthefirst Suddenly, marriage doesn't seem like a pointless endeavor for Ethan.

Sunsets - @coffeeheartaddict2  Following hey are celebrating the anniversary of their engagement.

Surprise - @blazerina They’ve been married for 16 years.

Surprise - @coffeeheartaddict2   Alexis assists Ethan with some breakfast on Casey’s day off.

Surprise - @coffeeheartaddict2  It is finally Ethan and Casey’s wedding week and Casey receives a surprise visit.

Surprise - @ethanramseytwilight  Ethan finally proposes to his 'special someone'.

Surprise - @poudredevie  💘 Ethan has a surprise for their first Valentine’s day together.

Surprise - @takemyopenheart It’s Father’s Day, and Luz and baby Rey have special news for daddy.

Surprises - @jerzwriter Ethan realizes he and Casey have never been on a proper date and plans on fixing that. He also enlists friends to help plan a birthday surprise.

Sweet - @starrystarrytrouble   What’s a rose by any other name?

Sweet Dreams - @lem-20  Ethan is making noises in his sleep.

Sweet Dreams - @liaromancewriter   Ethan and Cassie take their twins for a visit to grandpa’s house. 

Sweet Hoax - @estellaelysian Catch and favor with a splash of fake dating.

Sweet Love - @jerzwriter   Ficlet for the Love Confession Prompt "How you made me fall in love with you is still beyond me."

Sweet Nothing - @bex-la-get  Nat and Ethan face speculation over their relationship.

Sweet Reaction - @jerzwriter 🐣 Springtime is doing strange things to Dr. Ramsey - but is that really the cause?

Sweet Start - @jerzwriter  Ethan and Kaycee start her 32nd birthday off with much to look forward to.

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SUBMIT OPEN HEART FICS HERE

[stygianflood]

6 from Pre-Relationship, 4&8 from general, 2&11 from love and 2&7 from domestic life for Ethan and Aparna, please❤

Thank you for the ask, Manamee 😍 

Ship Questions

Pre-relationship

6. If you had told one of them that the other would be their soulmate, what would they think?

Might have a ficlet on this soon ❤️

General

4. Were they each other’s first anything (kiss, relationship, etc.)?

Answered here.

8. Who gets jealous easier?

Answered here.

Love

2. What are their primary love languages?

Answered here.

11. What are some songs that apply to their relationship, in-universe or otherwise?

Post Miami- Bird on the Wire by Leonard Cohen

During Amazon- For Emily by Simon and Garfunkel

Book 2 Chapter 1- Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez

Book 2 Chapter 11- Shrike by Hozier

Book 2 Chapter 12- Work Song by Hozier

Book 2 Chapter 14- Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel

Whole of Book 3- God is Dead? by Black Sabbath 😐

Domestic Life

2. What’s the wedding like? Who attends?

Ah. Can I get back with a separate HC? Fair warning, it might not be what you expect 😅😶

7. Who kills the bugs in the house?

Answered here.

[stygianflood]

4, 6, 2, 10 💕

Thank you for the questions, Avy ❤️ I had so much fun answering them!

Ship Questions

Pre-relationship

4. Who felt romantic feelings first?

Ethan. He tells himself he's taking her to Miami because she's his only friend and confidant (which is true). But by this time, Ethan has this constant need to be around Aparna, to ask after her day, update her about Naveen and hope she'd ask after him too.

General

6. What’s their relationship with each other’s families?

Alan dotes on Aparna. Louise has limited presence in their lives, but she respects Ethan's choice and even warms up to Aparna once she realises her significance in Ethan's life.

Aparna's mother and siblings adore Ethan. Her father is the tough nut, but they bond over Aparna's lacklustre attitude to her investments. Eventually he is their biggest supporter when the extended family Aparna meets biennially keeps reminding her that she's 30+ and unmarried.

Love

2. What are their primary love languages?

Right from the time he fell for her, Ethan would be holding her hand, often brushing a finger over it because he knows she finds it reassuring.

Aparna will hold him close, rubbing soothing circles on his back and wait for him to open up.

Domestic Life

10. Who's the better cook?

In general, Ethan. Aparna aces Indian recipes. When Ethan tries the same, they're good but not as good as hers.

[stygianflood]

8 and 9 for each one that has it 🥰

Hi anon, thank you for the questions 💕

Ship Questions

General

8. Who gets jealous easier?

Definitely Ethan. Occasional advances, Bryce and Rafael he can deal with. But Grump needs reassurances that Amit, her ex (who's a good person btw) isn't crawling back into the gaping holes Ethan has left.

9. Who whispers inappropriate things in the other’s ear?

Definitely Aparna. But she's so terrible at it, he'll definitely laugh out loud in a room full of stuffy old doctors. Either way, he's embarrassed and she's successful.

Love

8. Who’s better at comforting the other?

Each would say the other. I'd say both of them. They just have that effect on each other. Long before they're in a relationship.

9. Who’s more protective?

Both of them.

Domestic Life

8. How do they celebrate holidays?

Whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving or Durga Puja, they're not so much into the religious component of it, as they are into the feasting and in Aparna's case, the aesthetics. These include a sumptuous meal cooked by Ethan and Aparna and exquisite decor. Alan and Naveen are regular guests. Aparna's parents are here once a year. Her friends join if they're in Boston. At times they gather at Naveen's.

9. Who’s more likely to convince the other to come back to sleep in the morning?

Definitely Aparna. She's become a morning person, thanks to Ethan. But it isn't something she's proud of 😒

[stygianflood]

9 and 13 in love, 10 and 11 in domestic for Aparna and Ethan? 🥰

Thank you so much for the ask ❤️

Ship Questions

Love

9. Who's more protective?

Both of them.

13. Who remembers the little things?

They both do. Aparna’s expression may be more eloquent. And Ethan is quiet and more of a man of action, which more often than not leaves her speechless.

Domestic Life

10. Who's the better cook?

In general, Ethan. Aparna aces Indian recipes. When Ethan tries the same, they're good but not as good as hers.

11. Who likes to dance?

Not like like. But tipsy Aparna might drag Ethan to the balcony where they sway to some country and blues. And Ethan learnt the waltz when he was young (Slow, Viennese, you name it).

[stygianflood]

4-7 in each category please!

Hi anon, I hope you're well 💕 I had so much fun answering these.

Ship Questions

Pre-relationship

4. Who felt romantic feelings first?

Ethan. He tells himself he's taking her to Miami because she's his only friend and confidant (which is true). But by this time, Ethan has this constant need to be around Aparna, to ask after her day, update her about Naveen and hope she'd ask after him too.

5. Did either of them try to resist their feelings?

Ethan- All through Book 1 after Miami and until he gives in and kisses her in Book 2.

Aparna- All through the beginning of Book 2, and a while after the senator's incident. (My hc differs from canon at this point)

6. If you had told one of them that the other would be their soulmate, what would they think?

Might have a ficlet on this soon ❤️

7. What would their lives be like if they had never met?

I'm taking this to mean 'if MC never read Ethan's book'. Aparna would have a PhD in Microbiology. Her ex, Amit who I've spoken of in 'Other Echoes' would still be there in her life in some capacity, but I don't see them married.

Ethan would still terrorise interns and be cynical about life in general. His career would be the same. He wouldn't fall in love. He would still date, but not settle. Naveen and Alan would be his only family. He wouldn't give Louise a second chance. (God, that man should be worshipping her)

General

4. Were they each other’s first anything (kiss, relationship, etc.)?

Aparna had one serious relationship and some casual dating before Ethan. But what she feels for Ethan is life altering and definitely a first for her. It hasn't been a picnic for her. But she knows she wouldn't be happy with anyone else once she's known what it is to love Ethan Ramsey.

Ethan had his share of flings at college and one on and off brief relationship as an attending. Aparna is the first and the last woman he loves. He's never been more baffled by anything or anyone. And he knows his life wouldn't be the same without her as long as Aparna Mukherjee walked the earth.

5. What’s their height difference? Age difference?

Aparna is 5'4", Ethan I suppose 6'4". Ethan is 10 years older than her.

6. What’s their relationship with each other’s families?

Alan dotes on Aparna. Louise with limited presence in their lives, respects Ethan's choice and even warms up to Aparna once she learns of her role in making Ethan forgive her.

Aparna's mother and siblings adore Ethan. Her father is the tough nut, but they bond over Aparna's lacklustre attitude to her investments. Eventually he is their biggest supporter when her extended family biennially reminds her that she's 30+ and unmarried.

7. Who takes the lead in social situations?

Aparna. Whether it's a besotted intern or a good-natured old attending, people just adore her.

Love

4. How often do they cuddle/engage in PDA?

It could be Aparna lying with her head on his lap watching a series he knows nothing about as he works on his paper, a hand in her hair. Or Aparna hugging him from behind, massaging his shoulders as he flops down on the couch after a particularly long day. They cuddle a lot.

They don't engage in much PDA except for some hand holding, or Ethan's hand on her shoulder or hers around his waist, as they walk down to the hospital from Derry's. Or a quick kiss after a break at Derry's.

5. Who initiates kisses?

Until he breaks up with her at the beginning of her second year, it used to be Aparna. After Ethan gives in at the softball game, it's mostly him. Eventually it's both of them.

6. Who’s the big and the little spoon?

Ethan is the big spoon. But it takes some time to settle into the habit, because my girl is a violent sleeper to begin with 🤷🏻‍♀️

7. What are their favorite things to do together?

They love cooking in silence.

Workouts. She's hated cardio all her life. Ethan introduces her to strength training.

Opera is high on the list.

They travel a lot. Ethan makes a mental note to make it happen when she almost dies and regrets that she has not travelled enough.

Domestic Life

4. Do they have any pets?

Of course. Aparna and Jenner dote on each other, so much so that Ethan often calls him a traitor. And on his 50th birthday, Aparna brings home a labrador pup. Before Ethan can think of a favourite physician, Aparna names him Padfoot and he won't respond to Ethan's Osler or Fleming.

5. Who’s the stricter parent?

Separate HC coming up soon ❤️

6. Who worries the most?

Aparna's near death experience changes something in Ethan. So it's definitely him.

As for their day to day life, they really don't, as long as they have each other. It's not the perfect household. But it's a happy one.

7. Who kills the bugs in the house?

Both of them, unless it's in a weird place that Aparna cannot reach.

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Moodboard Masterlist

Currently making content for: Mostly Choices with a bit of Harry Potter, Interactive Fiction and Random Aesthetics

Links: My Fanfic Masterlist I My sideblog exclusively for aesthetics: @noctilucentclouds​

Last Updated: 24th October, 2021

Moodboards

Day 11 of an edit a day - Luna Pagonis

Day 2 of an edit a day - Teal (Pooja, Lydia, Sienna & Margita)

Green is the colour of nature's heart : Margita Viblemo (For CMC 2021, Day 17)

Soulmates aren't just lovers: Vintage Ethan x Pooja Moodboard (For CFC 2021 Day 23 - Vintage)

A little bit of sweetness can draw out a whole lot of bitterness (Ethan x Pooja): Ver 1 I Ver 2 (For COC 2020 Day 22 - Chocolate)

Autumn is the Second Spring: Ethan x Pooja (For COC 2020 Day 7 - Nature)

Two Dolphins in a sea of sharks: Sienna & Pooja (For Day 6 of Sienna Trinh Appreciation Week)

Double Oh Tiny: Sienna (For Day 5 of Sienna Trinh Appreciation Week)

The Bestest Best Friend: Sienna (For Day 4 of Sienna Trinh Appreciation Week)

Baking Magic: Sienna (For Day 3 of Sienna Trinh Appreciation Week)

Open Heart f!MC Moodboards, Part 1 I Part 2

Pooja Sharma: Dark Academia

Character Posters

Dr Pooja Sharma

Dr Ethan Ramsey

Dr Bryce Lahela

Dr Jackie Varma

Pantone Colour Palette Series

Dr Ethan Ramsey - Snow Blue

GIF Edits

Pooja x Ethan: Their Story

Bryce x Lydia: Nothing Less than Forever

Jackie x Margita: You & Me

Alex x Mark: You’re my person

Song Edits, Polaroids & Others

Gimme the Pose (Ethan, Pooja, Alex and Mark) - Day 10 of an edit a day

Beyond the Horizon: Bryce x Lydia - Day 8 of an edit a day

Detectives by Chance, Book Cover-ish

Black & White Part 1: Ethan x Pooja (For CFC 2021 Day 26 - Lyric)

Black & White Part 2: Alex x Mark (For CFC 2021 Day 26 - Lyric)

A look inside Pooja's Phone (As a part of the TPL series)

A look inside Alekhya's Phone (As a part of the TPL series)

OPH LI Headers

When Always became Forever: Ethan x Pooja, Wedding at a glance (For the Newlywed Games)

Pooja x Ethan: Relationship at a glance

For Others

Birthdays and other celebrations

He loved her with all his five senses: Ethan x Marchia

Dr Rebecca Lao & Dr Odette Hall

Moodboard for OHFFs 1st anniversary celebrations

Bryce Lahela x Casey Valentine

Dr Kaavya Elina Valentine

Dr Alessia Rossi

Giveaway

Ethan x Aparna: Like the Shoreline & the Sea

Grand Mentor Naveen Banerji

Bryce Lahela: The Golden Boy

Pairing edit asks/requests

I told the sunsets about you: Ethan x Olivia

My heart writes letters to yours in blue ink: Ethan x Jill

Memories etched in Black & White: Ethan x Josie

A love as serene as the pastel blue sky: Ethan x Anna

I love the glimmer of pink glitter in your eyes: Ethan x Meera

Paint us in honey gold: Ethan x Lilac

You give me butterflies: Ethan x Victoria

Love me like you do: Ethan x Anj

Us is beautiful: Ethan x Natalie

Pour Toujours: Tobias x Camila

Togetherness: Tobias x Aria

Milestones of a life together: Ethan x MC

Yeh Dooriyan: Ethan x Meera (Lockscreens)

Character Edit asks/requests

Chase Kallenberg: OPH m!MC

Pairing moodboard asks/requests

Worlds change when eyes meet: Ethan x Ellie

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE: Ethan x Evelyn

The warmest light is your body: Ethan x Noelle

Everything carries me to you: Ethan x Anastasia

Perfect: Ethan x Alishka

Life as Parents: Ethan x Anj

My love is yours if you are willing to take it: Ethan x Olivia

Their Wedding: Ethan x Anj

The start of something new: Bryce x Alessia (based on this)

I think you are the moon: Adrian x Evelyn

Ethan x Anj in Sage Green

Love slap raid chain asks

Eve Valentine

Lilac Allende

Alessia Rossi

Kaavya Valentine

Anna Grace

Arielle Valentine

Casey Valentine

Arundhati Kulkarni

Character posters

Ethan x Alessia

Arundhati x Ethan

Alessia x Bryce

Leah Garcia

Lily Grey

Serena Harlow

Lana Brooks

Brooke Spiers

Ethan x MC

Meredith Grey

Victoria Clarke

Alishka Roy

Cassie Valentine

Meera Bose

Marchia Bisognin

Chiara Ray

Liam Rys

Ellie Shepherd

Diana Ramirez

Genevieve McClure

Anna Valentine

Olivia Valentine

Eiselee Blake

Evelyn Long

Anj Valentine

Abigail Chacko

Natalie Cusack

Lilac Allende

Fanfic writers appreciation

Alishka x Ethan

Lilac x Ethan

Diana x Ethan

Meera x Ethan

Meredith x Ethan

Genevieve x Ethan

Brooke x Ethan

Chiara x Ethan

Evelyn x Ethan

Marchia x Ethan

Natalie x Ethan

Olivia x Ethan

Anj x Ethan

Alessia x Bryce

Abigail x Ethan

Evelyn x Adrian

Lana x Ethan

Leah x Ethan

Anna x Ethan

Josie x Ethan

Celia x Ethan

Alyssa x Ethan

Ellie x Ethan

Serena x Ethan

Victoria x Ethan

Cassie x Ethan

Arundhati x Ethan

Christmas 2020

Ethan Ramsey x Casey Valentine

Ethan Ramsey x Alessia Rossi

Ethan Ramsey x Eve Valentine

Ethan Ramsey x Maeve Harlow

Ethan Ramsey x Arielle Valentine

Ethan Ramsey x Denise Hogan

Ethan Ramsey x Kaavya Valentine

Bryce Lahela x Casey Valentine

Ethan Ramsey x Leah Garcia

Ethan Ramsey x Abigail Chacko

Ethan Ramsey x Lana Brooks

Ethan Ramsey x Lilac Allende

Ethan Ramsey x Valerie Valentine

Ethan Ramsey x f!MC

Gift Exchange 2020

Bryce Lahela x Iros Valentine

Ethan Ramsey x Arundhati Kulkarni: Part 1 I Part 2

Random

Unquenched, Unquenchable (Teaser to @/nikki-2406's OPH x Vampires crossover fic)

Valerie Valentine X Ethan Ramsey (a.k.a my OTP#2)

By Others

Pooja Sharma GIF by @a-crepusculo

Pooja Sharma Wallpaper by @happiness21

Pooja x Ethan Moodboard by @adiehardfan

You're my favourite person: Ethan x Pooja by @parkbarks

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Moodboards

TRR MC (My 1st moodboard ever hshksa)

If you can stand, you can fight: Olivia Nevrakis

The time is always right to do what is right: King Liam

But first, Whiskey: Drake Walker

Dance like nobody's watching: Maxwell Beaumont

Why walk, when you can dance: Maxwell Beaumont

Modesty is the highest elegance: Hana Lee

A cup of tea solves everything: Hana Lee

The pets of TRR

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping: Liam x Odette (For COC 2020 Day 27 - Shopping)

How sweet it is to be love by you: Liam x Odette (For CFC 2021 Day 23 - Vintage)

Day 2 of an edit a day - Teal (Odette)

Day 5 of an edit a day - Cuteness-An aesthetic (TRR Pets)

Social Media Edits

Day 6: Sparkle - Odette x Liam (Picta Edit)

Chapter wise moodboard series (Liam x MC)

TRR Book 1

Adventure Awaits: Chapter 1

Royalty has a magic of its own: Chapter 2

And so it begins: Chapter 3

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present: Chapter 4

Song Edits

Love Story: Liam x Odette - Day 18 of an edit a day

Christmas 2020:

Royal Soul: Liam Rys x Odette Dawson

You're like really pretty: Liam Rys x Odette Dawson

Fanfic writers appreciation:

Liam x Riley

Tumblr Hug asks:

Odette Dawson

Giveaway:

Meet Jessica Garcia

Love of Eternities: Jessica x Liam

King Liam in Dark Academia

You're such a perfect little arrangement of atoms: Liam x Odette

The colours of King Liam

Liam x Riley: Valtoria

Liam x Riley: Proposal

Pairing edit asks/requests:

King Liam Rys x MC

Best Buds? Mayhaps, Mayhaps Not: Maxwell & Drake

Moodboard asks/requests:

King Liam as a Dad

Moodboards:

Kate O' Malley

Gife Exchange 2020:

Veil of Secrets: The Story

Character Posters & Book Aesthetics:

Ride or Die: The Story (For RoDAW 2021 Day 7 - Wild Card)

How strange to dream of you, even when I am wide awake: Mona (For RoDAW 2021 Day 3 - Mona)

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have: Colt Kaneko (For RoDAW 2021 Day 2 - Colt)

Perhaps we’re wishing for each other upon the same star: Logan (For RoDAW 2021 Day 1 - Logan)

Character Posters:

Rhosyn Day I Luz Mendez

Eiko Matsunaga | Thomas Mendez

Levi Schuler | Alma Velasco

Lelia Day

Giveaway Prizes:

Thomas Hunt (RCD)

Samuel Dalton (TNA)

Love Slap Raid Chain Moodboards:

Green Aesthetics

Teal Aesthetics

Birthdays & Other Celebrations:

Maia Wiseman

Alex Spencer x Thomas Hunt

Gift Exchange 2020

Harry Potter: The Books

House Slytherin

House Ravenclaw

House Hufflepuff

House Gryffindor

Christmas 2020

Taylor Swift: Evermore

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Pua Melia (Ethan x F!MC)

Summary: When Ethan reveals his feelings, Aparna’s response is far from what he expects. Continuation of the diamond scene in 3.11. Words, rating, genre- 1.2k, general, fluff with the tiniest dollop of angst.  Tropes- And they were in love.

A/N: I hope everyone is well. Supposed to be on hiatus, but that’s a lie. This came to me as I awaited (and still do) the covid test results for the family. I hope it’s nothing.  A/N 2: gandharaj: Bengali for gardenia (just discovered all the similarities between Indian and Hawaiian flora);  pua melia: Hawaiian for plumeria (garlands of it or just the flowers are presented to tourists)

Aparna pours herself a glass of water and sips the sight before her.

Shards of a midwinter moon drizzle across the vast expanse of water underneath. Impeded ever so slightly by the bay windows, they spill over the rugged expanse of Ethan’s chest. The ripple of his arm. One glorious thigh.

He’s beautiful. And strong, she thinks with a flutter in her core. And so calm he could almost be asleep. Almost oblivious of the chaos he courted only last week. 

Almost. But then he stirs, a wandering hand searching the space beside him. 

She leaves the empty glass on the counter before joining him. Looping his arm around herself, she lays her head on his chest. His other hand finds the duvet.

It’s quiet. Too quiet, but for the gentle whooshing of waves lapping at the shores. And the breeze. Sweet and brimming with the occasional gardenia. Or gandharaj as grandma called it back in India in what seemed a whole other decade.

Aparna isn’t sure if it’s middle school geography or sixteenth century anecdotes from a Ferdinand Magellan. (Or just champagne). But there’s a certain tranquility about the Pacific. Daunting in its vastness of course. But here in her sea view suite, the thrum of Ethan’s heart pressed to her ears, she settles for just tranquil. 

It is certainly calmer than the Atlantic from two winters ago. Either that, or everything Ethan had claimed and renounced that evening in Miami had muddled her senses. In her mind, Miami is exquisite. Ethereal almost. Even life altering. But almost too surreal to be true.

And yet two years later he is engraving circles on the expanse of her arm, her bare shoulder, her back. At a friend’s wedding, too. Snipping away, little by little, at the millenary drill of his life before her. 

As for the rest, Ethan never says. Never in so many words. And she never asks.

But it’s enough. 

She half wishes they could linger. Hold on to her little fistful of warm sand. There’s more to Hawaii than the whiff of gardenia. Or rows of coconut palms. Or the plumeria blossom Ines tucked behind Aparna’s left ear.  

There’s all of that, and Ethan Ramsey tossing his head with full throated laughter. Or mumbling sweet nothings into her hair as sleep overtakes her.

And it’s enough. 

Until-

-Apu...

Somewhere above her, he sounds awake as she strains to open her eyes. 

She has an arm around his middle. It’s warm. The bed. Or is it him. So warm. Her breathing softens against his chest.

-I've never felt this way about anyone.

Seconds trickle. It’s the sweetness of macadamia and their own scents. It hangs about them in a glorious mist. 

He really is talking.

-And I don’t know, he says. I don't know if I ever will again.

Her eyes snap open. 

There’s no meteor shower in the skies, or the sudden gust of wind in her hair. This is it. Ethan Ramsey is leaping with her. And all she feels is peace. An overwhelming sort of it. The sort that lulls you into sweet, sweet sleep.

Does he tense under her? 

For a second, and then he chuckles, the deep rumble tugging at something inside her.

-And as always, he surmises, my timing is perfect.

She can talk now. She must.

And so she doesn’t. 

-But... it’s probably for the best, he concludes. Kisses her goodnight. 

She smiles and holds on to her little fistful of warm sand.

***

The boarding queue is at the gates when she stumbles in, looking around wildly.

Five more seconds and I would've boarded already.

Her smile is radiant as her eyes find him and she tells him he’s all talk.

Cheeky little minx.

And in a blur of time and shapes, she asks for his help. A case of misdiagnosis. They’d most definitely miss the flight. 

He asks no more as he follows her out of the airport.

Not again, he groans, suddenly awake as sunlight assails him from what he assumes is a window shade she left open on their flight.

His attempt to rise is thwarted, his arm stuck under a sleepy tumble of dark hair. And it’s the bay window in her suite, the one he had pressed her up against last night. 

Her breath hitches for a moment and her fingers quiver for the slightest spell of a dream. Slowly, slower than the fall of her breath, he draws it and presses soft, lingering kisses on her knuckles. The softest of sighs escapes her and she releases his arm to curl up to him.

All at once he’s reminded of last night. And he feels… not regret. None of that. Sheepish perhaps.

-Morning, she grumbles from under half open eyes.

-Coffee? He kisses her hair, a little glad her eyes are closed.

He didn’t botch it. She’d fallen asleep. 

-’time is it?

-Little after six.

She snorts. As though she isn’t the one that forgot to draw the blinds. But again, he barely manages to rise.

-Stay.

She did fall asleep, right?

Ethan reclines against the headboard and picks up his copy of Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. The one he didn’t make much progress with, thanks to her. And thanks to her, he doesn’t make much progress even now.

And what if she were awake all along. She wouldn’t do that to him, would she.

He exhales long and hard.

Perhaps it was too little too late. Inadequate even.

Beside him, she laces her hand with his own larger one. Traces the veins with her fingers.

He’d be there if time is all she needs. 

He cups her face in his hand as she looks up. Twists a stray lock around his finger.

Hell, he’d always be there for her.

She props herself on her elbows and plants moist, open mouthed kisses on his palm.

-I feel the same way about you, Ethan.

He gulps, suddenly delirious. Then she kisses the length of his arm. Presses her mouth against his chest. His collarbone. And it’s maddening.

He needs to ask her now. Stop her first.

And he shudders as she bites and sucks the column of his neck. Despite himself, he presses one rough palm against the expanse of her back. Draws her closer.

She takes his bottom lip between her teeth with an unfamiliar zeal, and he finds his voice at last.

-Why now? He asks bewildered. It’s been what, five hours?

Incredulity etches her face. She might have withdrawn if not for the persuasive hand on her back.

-Gee, I don’t know Ethan, she says. Took you two years. Your five hours really put that into perspective.

It’s his turn to be dumbfounded as the faintest of smiles adorns her face. 

It’s his turn to trace her lips with his own, grateful that she doesn’t withdraw. She kisses him softly this time. Tender and unhurried. And he winds a languid hand in her hair just as a soft whimper escapes her.

-Are you all right?

This is raw. Unfamiliar.

-Better than all right, she murmurs. She nestles under his chin, averting her eyes.

-I’m glad. Forgive me, I’m not the best at putting feelings into-

-Shh. Don’t, she pleads, eyes glimmering with the thousand little hopes of his own. Just stay.

And he does. Cradling her in his arms, his chin on her head, as the first honeycreeper of the day warbles its song to the ocean.

Forgotten, Ethan’s book had slid out of his hand and opened with a soft thud on the wooden floor. A single plumeria blossom pressed between its pages flutters to land beside it.

This is unfamiliar. But not unsettling. Not anymore.

This is happiness too. Untrammelled and wild.

Thank you for reading this. Love you all. Google says, a plumeria blossom over your left ear means you are taken and over your right ear means you are available ❤

Tagging separately. Let me know if you’d like to be added or removed.

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Hideaway (Ethan x F!MC)

Summary: As promised, a very canon-divergent version of Ethan’s... dark mood. 3.8; Ethan’s PoV

Words, rating, genre, trope- 1.5k, General, Fluff (but the tone is angsty); hurt/comfort

A/N- It bothered me that Ethan’s demand for consolation was an either-this-or-nothing sort of scenario, when we know the real Ethan Ramsey would never! In this universe Ethan just leaves refusing MC’s offer to help. Much like Book 1 ❤ Also, I really tried to make sense of whatever PB is making Harper do. And there might be an Easter egg near the end.

The amber liquid sloshes down his throat, trickling into the more labyrinthine crevices of his mind, sharp and biting. Somewhere in a sky not veiled by the havoc of civilisation, a forlorn sun pours itself in a steady drip. 

For each of the last fifteen minutes, his finger has been teetering on the brink of a call he knows he’ll make.

I don’t need you to follow me, Aparna. I knew there could be consequences. 

I made my bed... The least I can do is lie in it.

She stood before him, under the lurid new lights of the revamped atrium. Face contorted in worry, and something else he is no longer a stranger to.

That doesn’t mean you have to weather them alone. 

I care about you. Talk to me.

And she looked no older than she did in her first year. 

In those days the atrium housed the trees planted in his intern year, and some even older. And Aparna had implored him to stay. Because the patients needed him. Because she needed him. 

Ethan was not brave enough to admit he needed her more than she would ever need him. That part of them remains pitifully unaltered.

This time however, it’s different from letting her in. It’s about beating the devil at his own game. Wrestling his slippery self on a rock face. 

He wonders what it’s like on the other side of the tunnel. The darker side that the likes of Bloom inhabit. The one that doesn’t have its throat slit by the glare of street lights. More importantly, how do the likes of Dr. Ramsey beat him at his own game and remain unscathed.

He’s being reckless. Dangerously so. But whatever else he might tell himself, he is lonely too.

Cloistered in an apartment that never felt emptier, he can almost hear her terrible joke on fingers of scotch. When did the notoriously single Ethan Ramsey become this dependent he wonders.

After four arduously long rings, he almost disconnects the call.

‘Ethan?’

‘Hey.’

The silence stretches into a long and restless twilight across his windows, and he thinks he ought to ask about her day. She beats him to it.

‘Do you want me to come over?’ 

‘That… That would be nice.’

She definitely rolls her eyes on the other side of the line. 

***

‘Do you ever wish you’d settled for someone… less complicated?’ He avoids her eyes fixing his own on the ceiling. 

The fingers massaging his forehead stall for the briefest quarter of a second before resuming. The slight shift finds his head even more snugly settled in her lap.

He feels stifled by an all-consuming sense of helplessness. And it’s different from the trickiest diagnoses when he knows he’s giving his all and failing. It is a plethora of all that is wrong with the system. The one he has been pitted against all his life, and mostly managed to thwart.

Ethan Ramsey never settles for half-measures. Not when he can help it. And with Bloom, he cannot. 

Not unless he tips the scales in his favour. And it has taken the last morsel of his sanity to plot it.

No loose ends. Or second footprints for that matter. One more ethics hearing and her career would end before it began, and Naveen himself could do nothing about it.

Yet here he is. The irony of it biting, as the one person he needs to protect by all means is the one being implicated. If Harper, one of the most level-headed people he knows-

‘Besides the fact that I’m nowhere close to being settled?’ Aparna interrupts his thoughts from somewhere above him. 

Oh.

‘Sorry, I didn't mean-’ 

Of course she is grinning. Annoyingly smug and utterly distracting. 

He could kiss her senseless and wipe the smirk off those lips. Make her moan right here on the couch. 

He almost does.

‘Did you wish you weren’t involved with someone whose medical license was about to be revoked?’ She asks.

Her fingers rove about his temple, right where he has recently seen specks of silver. And he awaits a joke about his age that never comes.

‘Ethan…’

God, he hopes he doesn’t look that miserable.  

‘I need you to know I’d go anywhere with you. And I mean that-’ She holds his chin to turn his face. ‘I mean that in every sense of the word. Thought you’d know by now.’

She looks strangely composed. 

It could be the immensity of her proclamation. Or the ease with which it has rolled off her tongue. But it alarms him. Not because he isn’t ready, because make no mistake he is. It alarms him because she is doing it again. 

In that moment all of his life could flicker past him like the tedious crackle of an old television set, and he’d still be enraptured by the unwavering intent in her eyes.  

And she looks no older than she did in her first year. 

He raises a hand grazing the softness of her neck. Her cheek. And the corner of her parted lips. 

Come here is all he manages before drawing her face to his own.

He only vaguely remembers the drive back home when he wanted to be in control of his life. He has never felt more disarmed. Or more- he discerns the lump in his throat- in love.

Beads of crimson settle on the horizon, and in the abandoned dregs of his whisky. The natural order of things calls for day and night. Much in the same way it summons droughts and downpour.

And as for him, he’d come undone for her again and again.

***

The stillness of the air is riddled by his own ragged breaths mingling with hers. And the deluge in his mind almost subsides. 

‘Glad that I stayed?’ She props herself on her elbows and lazily smiles down at him.

‘Always.’

She peppers the column of his neck with a final drizzle of kisses before burying one languid hand in his hair and settling against him. Just as the silence is splintered by the buzz on his coffee table.

Thankfully it’s not her pager. Just her phone. And her fingers resume their stroking of his hair.

‘How are you feeling?’

‘Pleasantly spent.’ It’s his first genuine smile in hours. ‘But really, several things at once.

‘And I’ll talk to Harper as soon as I can.’

‘I appreciate that, but… I think we need to talk to each other,’ She says. ‘For the team, but also for ourselves. 

‘I need to be able to forgive her. Not today perhaps. But I need to do it.’

He agrees. But he is baffled that Harper should accuse her now. Especially when she was willing to wait for evidence when Aparna had actually breached ethics as an intern.

Is it his tactlessness he wonders, as she loops his arm around herself. Speaking over her inputs, denying the credibility she has earned in the team by sheer hard work. 

Creating the impression that she’s still just an intern with history.

As her breath cools the sheen of sweat on his chest, he instinctively gathers her even closer. And not for the first time that evening, he feels he doesn’t deserve her.

Damage control, the interminable mutterings in his mind suggest. He needs to ensure Harper has not spoken to anyone outside the team. And Tobias has not prattled. Perhaps give Naveen a heads up.

‘Check that,’ He remarks as her phone buzzes again. ‘It could be work.’ 

But just as he is about to disentangle himself to make the calls, he sees them.

Just wanted to check on you. 

Hope you’re not beeting yourself up over it.

Not a saved contact on her phone he realises. But it’s familiar. A little too familiar. He decides against asking.

She shakes her head with a faint half-smile before replacing the phone and curling up to him. She loops an arm about his chest as he strokes rehearsed patterns on her back. 

It’s minutes before they startle the peace.

‘Thank you for being here tonight, Apu,’ He almost whispers. ‘For helping me work through this.'

‘I meant what I said, Ethan,’ She says. ‘I’ll always be there for you. 

‘Even when I don’t agree with you.’

And it’s there again. That frightfully alarming calm on her face every time she promises to leap.

When he takes her bottom lip between his teeth, it’s with the ardour of a disciple who did not just invoke her minutes ago, or this morning, or into the wee hours of the night before. 

‘And I hope,’ He manages breathlessly. ‘I hope I never take that... Take you for granted.’

She doesn’t respond. Except for the immutable glimmer in her eyes. And he knows.

He decides he will call Naveen and Harper once she’s asleep. He’ll not unsettle her. Not when it might never happen. 

‘What happens when we go back out there?’

If he only knew.

‘Let’s get you to bed.’ He smiles, lacing his fingers with hers.

His life has long stopped being the neatly stacked manila folders he’d once sorted it into. For all he knows, it could be dipped and bent in all directions tomorrow. 

But he also knows she will be right there on the promontory with him.

Thank you all for reading this!  A special shout-out to @starrystarrytrouble​ because I had the inspiration to write after ages solely because of our chat ❤

Let me know if you’d want to be added or removed.

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Queen, I hope you're well. So I thought I'd ask this to my favourite OH writers. As we know, Ethan's route is slow-burn. And who are we kidding, irl both MC and Ethan would get asked out by a lot of people before they get official. So here's my question. How many such chances do your Aparna and Ethan get?

I’m so honoured and humbled that I’m one of your favourite writers. Thank you, anon! ❤ 

Sorry everyone, it’s only a HC. I haven’t been very productive. I don’t have a separate taglist for drabbles and HCs. Do let me know if you’d like to be added or removed.

The Others (Ethan x F!MC)

Aparna-

Bryce Lahela is aware of his effect on other interns. Trainee nurses. He’s practically everyone’s flavour. And he’s also aware of the effect the star intern from Internal Medicine has on… literally everyone. It’s her housewarming party. And that slinky red top is utterly distracting. The possibilities are endless.

The one thing he doesn’t expect is a flustered and confused Aparna who’s not sure of her feelings. If anything, her polite refusal is a blow to his hitherto unharmed ego.

They’re close friends now. He’s just helped her look up a cure for Mrs. M. He puts more into that hug than he could with words. He almost believes she reciprocates. Until she slips out of his arms, and thanks him for everything. He’s not a fool either. It’s not him he realises. 

Their friendship is stronger these days. It makes absolutely no sense to Bryce that she should overwork herself even when Dr. Ramsey is away on a WHO mission. He tries setting her up with a surgeon friend. Even offers to punch the guy who’s left her broken hearted. But she’s too stubborn for her own good.

It’s the beginning of her second year. On some days, Raf thinks she’s doing more harm to herself by that exhausting fitness regime. Her face is angular, her muscles toned. But she lacks the freshness he associates with an invigorating workout. He doesn’t speak much. (Not until the day they both almost die). He ensures she doesn’t have access to the heavier weights. Aparna sees it all. It breaks her heart, for Raf is the sweetest guy she’s ever known.

Sometime in her second year, her ex, Amit, collaborates on a research at Tufts. He’ll always believe she’s the one that got away. And therefore he tries one last time before giving up. 

Amit finds her unhappy. Far from the relationship she’s spun in her head. But this is also the Ethan Ramsey he’s heard of for half a decade. He knows a lost battle when he sees one. 

Ethan-

Unnamed Harvard scholar after Book 1 chap 4, because he wants to prove a point- Politely ends the date after a phone call that (honestly) never comes. He likes to say she wasn’t interesting enough. Trust me she's all kinds of interesting. His head is just too full of a pair of warm, brown eyes, dark cascading hair and the sheer impertinence that come with his... favourite intern.

Panacea rep who meets him for coffee and at dinner to sign the deal with the DT after Miami- That day, the bitterness in his mouth had nothing to do with coffee. He learnt he’d refuse Claudette even if her pay checks didn’t come from Panacea.

Highly sought after virologist he empties his heart to, in a drunken haze in the Amazon- Could’ve ended up in her room that night. He doesn’t. Nothing happens. Poor guy is still so guilty the next morning, he calls Naveen for the most unconvincing small talk. Naveen knows exactly what (or who) he wants to discuss.

Harper in Book 2- Neither he, nor Harper are interested in each other. But the rumour mill at Edenbrook is rife with bets on a possible reunion after she steps down from administration. Gossip about an intern is conveniently brushed aside (Interns throw themselves at him every year). Scarcely do they know he’s lost his sanity over an intern just this once.

By this time Ethan doesn’t need to prove anything to himself. It’s been her. Always her. 

His annoying, infuriating, almost maddening... favourite intern.

These are the more serious ones. Of course there are the ones at bars and conferences they tease each other about. My babies are all talk; they never manage to lose sight of each other even with Ethan’s scruples.

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Like the Shoreline and the Sea (Ethan x F!MC)

Summary- Ethan is asked out on a date right after Miami in Book 1. Ethan’s PoV

Genre, rating, words- Angst, teen, 2k

Open Heart fanfic tropes- birthday, office.

March Challenge Day 13 prompt Someday; April Challenge Day 9 prompt Smell of the Rain 

A/N: nor’westers-  violent thunderstorms in northern plains of India, before the onslaught of monsoon.

Title inspired by Leonard Cohen’s Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye.

‘This will improve our understanding of adiposity and sarcopenia in this population, help identify thresholds predictive of metabolic risk, and ultimately prevent or ameliorate… ’

Better prevent than ameliorate.

‘...ameliorate the long-term impacts on health and…’ 

Twenty five years should be long enough.

Hers is a singsong voice, the warm, trilling kind. Mellow sun dances on the frills of her dress. The yellow one. 

The man at her side twirls her on the empty kerb. Dips and kisses her. Her laughter is all that is pure and golden.

A child follows them, embarrassed. She bends down to kiss him, and he is furious. 

The scene shifts.

The child is on the front porch, eyes set somewhere beyond the wild bergamot bushes. 

Tear tracks on pink cheeks mingle and dry with dust from his afternoon’s exploits. Something like a steely resolve troops in his eyes.

Ethan Ramsey has been staring at the same sentence for fifteen minutes now.

Whoever coined the term ‘nostalgia’ from the Homeric nostos and algos was speaking of anguish caused by an inability to return. But they failed to discern the inevitable tethering of reminiscence with habituality.

That is more or less the case with him. Louise Ramsey walked out on her husband, and eleven year old son some twenty five years ago right before his birthday. For a very long time now, home is not about apple crisps or kitchen gardens. 

About this time every year, a crevice in his mind he likes to call the amygdala dwells on the same days. 

Almost as a ritual. 

He is a scientist. A rationalist. And like every year, he reminds himself there is work to do.

Unless there’s a knock at the most unpleasant hour.

He never returns to the article. Never manages a come in. The distraction walks in, messy hair knotted with a pencil. Probably because she has lost another hair tie. 

He mustn’t be that aware. 

But she talks too much. 

‘Dr. Mukherjee.’ He sounds gruff. They’re supposed to be redrawing their boundaries, even if he is the only one making an effort. ‘I thought your shift ended-’

‘Two hours ago.’ Rigours of a sixteen hour shift mark her visage. Her smile is a little too conniving for his comfort. ‘I had work afterwards.’ 

She starts shuffling papers on his desk, permission be damned. He pinches the bridge of his nose, and manages an exasperated sigh. Since when have interns started walking into his office with… birthday cakes?

‘What do you think you’re- It’s not my-’

‘I heard rumours that Dr. Ramsey had to cancel a date.’ She sounds amused. He does not miss the split second glance she shoots his way before continuing. ‘On his birthday, too. Such a shame.’

He scoffs.

‘No one knows it’s my birthday.’

‘Oh, they do. They’re just too afraid to… ah, invoke the wrath of Dr. Ramsey.’

Of course, she is not one of them. She has absolutely no regard for the immutable drill he has observed for nearly four decades. And why must she, when her sole intent is to swivel the rusty axis of his life.

Ethan has never known the first shower of an Indian monsoon. It is sudden and torrential, just as it is feared and revered. It smells like summer, and mango blossoms. 

Ethan has never known one until this year.

‘I’m thirty seven, Rookie,’ He manages weakly. 

‘And I would’ve bought the candles accordingly if I knew that.’ 

The tealights she arranges look so much better, he thinks. The cake is a simple blue and white affair. Not the ones that have more icing than cake, he notes. Not the ones he disapproves of.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Terminator

‘I could’ve whipped something up without sugar,’ She rambles, suddenly starting to blush. ‘Or ordered one. But I only just came to know it’s your birthday. And there wasn’t a lot of-

‘Thank you, Apu.’ Tresses of warmth curl about his chest and the gravel of his voice.

Ethan has avoided birthday cakes for a decade now. Unless it’s Naveen’s birthday, he thinks with a pang.

In his time with Harper or his brief involvements in med-school, no one has ever convinced him to do birthdays. He checks himself. This is just an intern being kind.

But interns aren't kind to Dr. Ramsey, are they. 

She assures him the photos are not for social media. They settle on the couch, it’s his first birthday cake in over a decade. 

He is glad for an innocuous reason to look at her, laugh at jokes that in any other company would draw his scorn. She is oddly comforting. Unlike most interns who avoid his office at all costs, she moves about it as if she was meant to be here all along. 

He must have stalled birthdays worth twenty years only to spend it on a couch with her. 

The plates are disposable. It is nothing like the restaurants that come with his status, for there is an endearing simplicity about it. 

It almost feels like… home.

He steals occasional glances at her. It has been four agonisingly long days after their return from Miami. And for all his attempts to redraw their boundaries, it has been a non-return of sorts. 

Aparna drives him to distraction, flouts each and every one of his rules. Seeks him out in supply closets and muddled dreams. And every time he breaks her heart a little more, he finds himself floundering in his own squalor.

The German counterpart to the English ‘nostalgia’ is ‘sehnsucht’. Like ‘nostalgia’, it has the charm of what has been. But unlike it, it also has the enigma of what has never been. Miami will remain the swansong to an ideal that slipped through Ethan’s fingers. 

A surge of anguish ripples through him as he realises all of this is his for the asking, and he will have none of it. 

‘It wasn’t a date,’ He blurts out.

He wouldn’t tell her that if he wants her to move on. Not truly.

‘You don’t have to-’

‘She is Declan’s associate in Panacea. She suggested signing the contract with the Diagnostics Team over dinner tonight. So…  just business.’

Claudette Wilson is the most promising young face of Panacea, and Ethan needed less than a minute to know why. 

Sleek, dark hair styled at her nape played up her high cheekbones. The ruby of her pliant lips, almost risqué for a meeting such as this, always lingered a little longer on the rim of her coffee mug. Even the measured spoons of her laughter came with an all too enticing lilt.

Ethan has met the other type. Vacuous and synthetic. But the steely glint in her eyes came with a weighty intelligence. An unfaltering wit. And when a perfectly manicured hand brushed the contours of his cuff, he knew it was never meant to be just business. 

She was irresistible. And so was he.

That afternoon, the bitterness in his mouth had nothing to do with coffee. He learnt he would refuse Claudette even if her pay checks did not come from Panacea.

Aparna falls silent, almost as if discerning in his words everything he left unsaid.

They have run out of jokes and topics for a harmless chat. He is getting terribly comfortable with her again, he realises alarmed. And she is fidgeting with the ring on her finger.

She’s nervous too. He knows. He could define every twitch and turn of those fingers. 

Somewhere in their conversation they have edged so close that her knee juts into his thigh. The couch is surprisingly small for two people. Minutes pass, and despite himself, he does not want her to leave. 

His fingers rest on her flustered hands, it’s a deep-rooted reflex. Looking down, she weaves his hand in both of her own. Even as the adrenaline surging in his blood incites him to flee, the delirious part of him emerges stronger and more naive.

He thinks she is leaning in. Soaking up the mayhem in his eyes. The slight movement causes wisps of errant hair to slip from the messy bun. There’s new growth around her brows, a faded scar on her forehead. But it’s her eyes that still hold sway over him. 

They stroked him with a strange, silent awe on a balcony on the shores of the Atlantic.

She is nothing like interns that hover around him year after year. Sucking up for recommendations. Sometimes more. She can devour him, and just as easily cast him aside without batting an eye. 

And yet she is here. Snuggled in his office while her friends call it a night with cheap beer and rowdy escapades. 

But she is different tonight. The quiver in her eyes tentative, even wary.

His hand rises of its own accord, tucking strands of hair behind her ear. Inadvertently, it brushes her face, lingers a little longer against her cheek.

She caressed his face as the ocean crashed around him. It was like falling from the top of a precipice. Tumbling into the amorphous, a terrifying weightlessness. He waited.

‘It’s getting late.’

She smells like the hospital, muted shades of honeysuckle, and like herself. 

The cool breeze hummed a steady rhyme against the tumble of her midnight blue dress. Bits of the moon bounced off the dark curtain of her hair, plunging into her eyes. Ethan had never seen such fathomless eyes.

‘I should go.’ She leans into his palm, eyes fluttering close. 

‘You should.’ 

And then she caught him. It was the hollow of her neck. It was soft. Like the rest of her. 

Neither of them move today, silently imploring the other to charge. Or retreat. The battle drum in his chest is a dull ache. Throbbing and inconsolable.

The ridges of her collarbone bore traces of his ruin. Traces she covered every morning and stripped every night, like the rites of a godless liturgy.

His free hand is still laced in hers, the other drawing her face nearer. 

Her lips are inches from his own as he draws a languid finger across them. Her warm breath spills on his lips, warring and mingling with his own ragged ones. 

Her mouth was stained with wine. Numbing and inciting. He was battered, and bruised. Marooned at her side. And she was warm. So warm.

His hand traced the pummelling of her heart, kneading the softness of her chest. Her tongue jousted with his own as the ocean lapped at its shore. Tireless and persevering.

She was wild. Like her Gangetic nor’westers on a sultry afternoon. He was bewitched. She was doing something good to him.

Suddenly the air around them is ripped by the sound of his phone. 

It’s his father.

The two of them recoil to their own spaces, Ethan horrified that he let himself stray so far yet again. Silencing the still erring device, he faces Aparna bracing for another apology.

‘I know.’ 

Her smile is placid, all traces of vulnerability gone. He is vaguely aware of the gentle pressure on the hand still clasped in her own.

‘Happy Birthday, Ethan. I’ll see you tomorrow.’ 

She is gone before he can marshal his thoughts.

Ethan flops back into the couch, shivering and alone. The incandescent glow from the solitary lamp drenches the office in a soft, ethereal haze. She might not have been here at all but for the little things she scatters around him every time she forays into his life.

Today she leaves with him a caesura. It thwarts the cadence of a life he has been putting together since Miami.

After a minute, or perhaps a staggering nightmare, when he rises to pack the rest of the cake, he sees it. 

She must have forgotten her hair tie was in her pocket after all. 

It stares up at him from the floor, the silken, mute witness of his transgression. He gingerly picks it up, and turns it in his hand as though it houses some ancient sorcery. 

Laying it on his desk, he considers texting her. But scarcely does he scroll down to her name when he stops himself. And pockets it. 

Somewhere in the Atlantic, waves still crash upon the rocks, moistening, but never quite lingering. 

The waves are relentless. Someday, the rocks crumble into fine sand.

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Newly Added Fics

Mar 7 - 13

🎭 Angst  |  🛸 AU  |  ☁ Fluff  |  ♥ NSFW  |  📚 Series  

Bryce x F!MC 

Fashionably Late - @storyofmychoices ♥ Kinktober: penetrative sex, mirrors, lingerie, formal wear, and nipple play. [2.17] 

In Silence - @ofpixelsandscribbles  🎭 After the toxin attack at Edenbrook, Bryce and Aera reflect on what really matters. [2.11] 

Lose Somebody - @ofpixelsandscribbles 🎭 After the toxin attack at Edenbrook, Bryce and Aera reflect on what really matters. [2.12; Somebody Dies] 

Ricochet - @curiousconch 🛸📚 [extended: completed] 

Epilogue

Ethan x F!MC

A New Light - @gryffindordaughterofathena 🎭 Ethan tries to let go of his rules for just one night. [Pining; 1.4; Ethan’s POV] 

All That Matters - @hwu-adventures-blog 📚 [extended: wip]  Alicia Hardy and Ethan Ramsey’s relationship is complicated, it always has been, and after Alicia spends a night helping Ethan cook chicken, things start to be looking up for them getting together. However when death comes knocking at Alicia’s door, and they realise they might have just missed their chance...

Argument leading to kissing/sex - @brooks-eden ♥ They’re pretty mean to each other.  [Fighting] 

Bistro - @starrystarrytrouble ☁ Ethan realises MC’s on a date with someone else… at the bistro he used to go to with Harper. Feat. BFF Bryce [Ethan’s POV; 3.3; Jealous; Date] 

Crosswords - @perriewinklenerdie ☁ Ethan realizes he's been screwing up and decides to finally talk to Claire about it. [3.3; DTR; Confession]

Cuddling in comfortable silence before murmuring “I love you” - @brooks-eden 🎭 They really know how to hurt one another and sleep in different rooms.  [Fighting; Hurt/Comfort] 

Dr. Whipped - @irisofpurple ☁ Ethan gets roasted by Harper and learns about her conversation with Lana in the scan room. Feat. Platonic Harper [3.3]

Enamored - @caseyvalentineramsey ☁ It’s those moments they share before drifting off to sleep. [Soulmates] 

Fever - @mm2305 ☁ Towards the end of the gala in book 2, chapter 17, a karaoke game is hosted. [2.17; Music; Gala] 

Forehead and cheek kisses - @genevievemd ☁ Ethan and Gen being domestic flirty beans when she wakes him up.  [Partnership]

His Own Medicine - @jamespotterthefirst ☁ When Bryce Lahela brings her a coffee, Ethan Ramsey gets a taste of his own medicine Feat. BFF Bryce [Jealous; 3.2] 

“I’ve been in love with you for years.” - @brooks-eden 🎭 He encouraged her to pursue a career elsewhere and they’re having growing pains.  [Broke up; Hurt/Comfort] 

Memories - @lem-20 ☁ Ethan gets a little taste of his own medicine, resulting in him and MC discussing his chats with Harper. [3.3] 

Miss You More - @aworldoffandoms ☁ He’s at a conference and  “I’m tired and my bed feels so empty without you here.” [Conference] 

Music & Secrets - @utterlyinevitable 📚 [mini: wip] 

Part 1: A Secret Shared

Part 2: The Present

Needles - @schnitzelbutterfingers 🎭 Ethan opens up about his and Harper’s past to Abby. Set in the first few chapters of OH3. Feat. Ethan x MC x Harper

Not All Heroes Wear Capes - @takeharryandgo ☁ Ethan walks in on the superhero scene in pediatrics. [3.3] 

Other Echoes - @stygianflood 📚 [mini: completed] Ethan and MC come to terms with each other’s pasts. [3.3]

Paint Fight - @brooks-eden ♥ Pregnancy comes with heightened senses and Brooke just can’t focus on picking a nursery color.  [Pregnancy] 

Paper Birds - @mayatrueman 📚 [mini: wip]  While a turmoil of rage and sorrow lurks around Maya, she struggles to keep her present safe from the ghosts of her past. WIll they make it through? [Hurt/Comfort] 

2. Petrichor ♥

Porcelain - @utterlyinevitable ☁ Taking a bath together and washing the other’s hair. [Pregnancy] 

Remedial - @stygianflood ☁ Ethan realises how Aparna might have felt about him reminiscing his dates with Harper [3.3; Ethan’s POV] 

Three of Swords - @burnsoslow 🎭 [Fighting; Broke Up]

Part 2

To Forget A Woman - @takeharryandgo 🎭 His first free night in Brazil, Ethan attempts to drown thoughts of a certain intern in a bottle of scotch. [Amazon; Drunk] 

Under The Table - @droppedmydamncroissant 🎭 Calypso drowns her sorrows in alcohol after the events of Miami, marvelling at the depth of the affection she holds for Ethan - telling herself that the alchemy that circled them was unavoidable. [Drunk; 1.10] 

Wednesday Morning - @writinghereandthere ☁ On a Wednesday morning, Ethan and Mariana get ready and head to work together. [3.2; Partnership]

You’re Smiling, Right? - @checkurwindow 🎭 She’s gone now, and Ethan doesn’t know what he’s going to do without her. [Someone Dies; Illness] 

Harper Emery

Dr. Whipped - @irisofpurple ☁ Ethan gets roasted by Harper and learns about her conversation with Lana in the scan room. Feat. Platonic Harper [3.3]

Needles - @schnitzelbutterfingers 🎭 Ethan opens up about his and Harper’s past to Abby. Set in the first few chapters of OH3. Feat. Ethan x MC x Harper

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Newly Added Fics

May 3-7

🎭 Angst  |  🛸 AU  |  ☁ Fluff  |  ♥ NSFW  |  📚 Series

Aurora x F!MC 

A Hand in Friendship - @robintora ☁ i dont think we saw aurora in Donahue's so i was like, why not write it? [1.2] 

Bryce x F!MC 

Friends with Benefits - @angstymarshmallow ☁ [FWB]

Ethan x F!MC

A Hawaiian Prank - @potionsprefect ☁ He thought it was going to be a relaxing break. [3.11] 

Adagio - @utterlyinevitable ♥ She’s decided that it’s time. And it’s more than Ethan could have ever dreamt up. aka their first time.  [Domestic; Ethan’s POV]   

Almost - @alina-yol-ramsey  ☁ Two times Ethan almost said those three words.  [In love] 

Definitely - @terrm9 ☁ Rubbing noses and cuddling.  [Marriage] 

Delaying the Inevitable - @liaromancewriter ☁ Ethan and MC are in the private box at the baseball game…from Ethan’s perspective. [1.5; Ethan’s POV] 

Dolores - @lucy-268 🎭 Charley’s new patient is Ethan’s first patient. [1.4] 

Eta Aquariids - @mm2305  ☁ Ethan and Olivia watch a meteor shower together.

Fallout - @lady-calypso 📚 [mini: wip] The aftermath of accusations.  [3.8; 3.9] 

Part 1  |  Part 2

For You - @starberrybliss 🎭 MC and Ethan talk about what will possibly happen to his future at the hospital and the trial. [3.8] 

Free Pass - @justanotherrookie 🍘♥ Ethan, Tobias and MC threesome

Happily Ever After - @takemyopenheart ☁ Ethan is ready to confess those three words. (Ch. 11 rewrite) [3.11] 

Keep Forever - @estellaelysian ☁ Ethan’s inner most thoughts on her.  [Ethan’s POV; 3.11] 

Lava - @perriewinklenerdie ☁ Ethan joins his kids for a game of The Floor is Lava. [Kids] 

Living The Dream - @the-pale-goddess ☁ If Ethan did take her for granted the way the impostor in OHTY does, she’d definitely pretend to be asleep and then tease him about it in the morning. [3.11] 

Mentor - @starrystarrytrouble ☁ Three times Naveen spoke to Ethan about MC. Feat. Naveen  [1.17; 2.17; 3.11]

Mirani’s Confession - @schnitzelbutterfingers 🎭 Ines’s wedding reception , featuring Zaid’s emotions and lost love, Abby’s advice and Ethan’s promise. Feat. Zaid x Ines [3.11]

Mistakes - @lsvdw-blog 🎭 MC confronts Ethan about standing her up. [Date] 

Nightmares - @bex-la-get 🎭 Natalie experiences nightmares after the attack and turns to Ethan for comfort. [2.12; Trauma; Hurt/Comfort] 

Now, And Forevermore - @tsrookie 📚 [mini: wip] Missing moments at Ines wedding in 3.11

Part 1

POV - @estellaelysian ☁ Ethan’s POV after the vending machine scene.  [Ethan’s POV; 1.1] 

Pua Melia - @stygianflood ☁ When Ethan reveals his feelings, Aparna’s response is far from what he expects. [In Love; 3.11] 

She did make out with Bryce in the observation deck, lol. - @jamespotterthefirst ☁ Years later Ethan tells Lilac there’s cameras in the observation rooms.  [Partnership] 

Slip of the Tongue - @estellaelysian ☁

Steam - @perriewinklenerdie ♥ OH3 Chapter 8 rewrite. Claire finds a way for Ethan to let out his frustrations and get some control back. [3.8] 

The Conference - @utterlyinevitable 📚 [extended: completed]

Becca has been avoiding Ethan like the plague since he came back from the Amazon. However, Dr. Banerji has sent his two mentees to give a keynote speech at Cornell Medical. Back in her homecity both doctor’s are confronted by a bit of the past.

The Party - @takeharryandgo ☁ Ethan changes his mind about attending the interns’ housewarming party. [1.6; Ethan’s POV] 

The Therapist - @bex-la-get 🎭 Natalie and Ethan seek guidance from a therapist. [2.12]

The Signs - @anntoldst0ries ☁ After moments of passion and confessions, Ethan finds himself unable to fall asleep. [3.11; Ethan’s POV] 

Wise Men Say... - @genevievemd ☁ Ethan and Gen dance during Ines’s wedding before sneaking off. [3.11] 

Love Triangle 

Boundary - @togetherwearerapture  Tobias and Elle get to know each other while working on a case. Tobias pushes some boundaries. Feat. Ethan x F!MC x Tobias [3.5] 

Free Pass - @justanotherrookie 🍘♥ Ethan, Tobias and MC threesome

Naveen Banerji 

Mentor - @starrystarrytrouble ☁ Three times Naveen spoke to Ethan about MC. Feat. Ethan x F!MC [1.17; 2.17; 3.11]

Tobias x F!MC

How It All Began - @lucy-268 ☁ Her friends have questions.

Snow - @perriewinklenerdie ☁ Tobias tests the waters while having a drink with Claire.

Zaid x Ines

Mirani’s Confession - @schnitzelbutterfingers 🎭 Ines’s wedding reception , featuring Zaid’s emotions and lost love, Abby’s advice and Ethan’s promise. Feat. Ethan x F!MC [3.11]