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Death Stare

Book : Open Heart (set in Book 3 timeline)

Pairing : Dr. Ethan Ramsey x F!MC (Dr. Meera Bose)

Category : Fluff

Summary : A friendly staring contest turns into a heated competition. Who will emerge as the winner? Ethan or Meera?

Warnings : None

Rating : General

Word Count : 1356

Trope : Valentine's Day, Donahue's, Friends Intervene

A/N : I received this ask quite some time back and have been meaning to write something for it forever. Happy Valentine's Day everyone, hope you like this, and also Happy Reading. ❤️

Submission to @choicesficwriterscreations Valentine's Day event, @choices-february2023 Day 14 : Valentine's Day and @choicesmonthlychallenge : To Be or Not to Be (prompts used : hell no, not happening & never which will appear in bold)

Ethan Ramsey put down his pen to pick up his phone. The name on the screen instantly bringing a smile to his face.

She is right, he thought. Typing in a quick reply he grabbed his coat and left his office.

He walked into Donahue’s, scanning the crowd for Meera, but instead he was greeted with the unfamiliar red and pink decorations and the cheering and hollering of a crowd. He pinched the bridge of his nose suddenly recalling that the upcoming consumerist trap of a holiday was just round the corner. He was reevaluating whether leaving his silent office was a wise decision when his eyes landed on Meera. Ethan pushed through the crowd to reach the booth she was seated at with her friends.

“There you are!” Meera pulled him in for a kiss.

“This place is packed,” he commented taking a seat.

“Yeah, why not? Reggie is giving out free drinks,” Elijah informed.

“Really?” Ethan said in disbelief.

“Not just like that, you have to earn it,” Aurora added.

“Earn it?”

“You have to beat your partner in a staring contest!” Bryce said. Ethan’s face showed that it was the stupidest thing he had ever heard.

“It’s for Valentine’s Day!” Sienna exclaimed, “also, we think you and Meera should totally put your names down!”

A wave of excited murmur went around the group.

“Hell no!” Ethan protested, “ is this why you brought me here?” he asked Meera.

“I mean, not exactly,” Meera paused, “but free dinks never hurt anybody.”

“Yes!”

“Amen!” Her friends shouted in support.

Ethan shook his head, “Meera, you are still working, you can’t even drink!”

“We can!” Jackie stated the obvious. “And trust me, broke residents like us could really use a free round of drinks.”

“If that is so I can happily buy all of you a round,” Ethan offered desperte to get out of this situation.

“But you know there is absolutely nothing like free drinks!” Bryce explained earning another round of supportive cheers from the group.

“So it’s settled then you guys are entering the competition!” Sienna shouted in a sing-song manner.

“Not happening,” Ethan repeated.

“Do it. DO IT. DO IT!” as the younger doctors started cheering Ethan looked helplessly at Meera, who was enjoying his misery a little too much.

She lowered her voice, so that only he can hear, “What? Afraid of a little friendly competition, Ramsey.”

He locked eyes with her, the mischief glinting in the pair of brown orbs.

“Fine!” he finally declared, earning claps and wolf whistles from the group.

Bryce does the honour of putting their names on the list and while everyone patiently wait for their turn, Ethan slides upto Meera, “I can’t believe I agreed to this.”

“Well you better start believing, because you are going down Ramsey.”

“Is that a challenge?”

“Could be,” Meera shrugs.

As the last couple break their stare, Reggie goes upto the makeshift stage. “Well, next on the list we have Meera Bose and…,” he gives a long pause, his eyes falling on Ethan, expression a mixture of amusement and confusion. “Well I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Ethan Ramsey!”

As the people in the bar cheer, their friends being the loudest, Ethan and Meera take their respective positions at the ends of a table.

“Ready to lose?” Meera smirked.

“Never,” Ethan replied.

“All right your time starts now!” Reggie announces.

They locked eyes, the chaos of the bar fade away, focusing on each other only. None knew how much time had passed but they refused to give up. As more and more time passed, the enthusiasm and excitement of the crowd died down.

“I gotta admit this is getting kinda boring,” Aurora remarked.

“Well atleast they are lasting much longer than the other couples,” Bryce said.

“Guys come on!” Jackie had reached the end of her patience, “we’ll be the ones getting the free drinks, it dosen’t matter which one of you win, just break it off already!”

“I have a feeling pitting these two against each other wasn’t a good idea,” Sienna sighed.

“God, I hope there is a miracle,” Elijah could hardly finish when two pagers went off together.

Ethan and Meera’s brows knitted as realization dawned upon them.

“Sometimes I hate my job,” Meera said still not breaking eye contact.

“It’s okay we can pick this up again sometime later,” Ethan reassured.

“Okay guys, it’s finally happening!” Jackie said, ecstatic.

As if on mutual understanding the couple broke eye contact answering their respective pagers.

“It’s done, Reggie, give us our alcohol,” Jackie demanded.

“It was a tie,” Reggie announced earning a groan from the group.

“Oh come on! You know the drinks would be ours irrespective of either of them winning,” Bryce reasoned.

“Sorry, against the rules,” Reggie replied.

As the group continued arguing Ethan turned to Meera, “we need to go.” She mouthed a sorry to her enraged group of friends walking out of the bar. The last thing she could hear was Aurora going, “that is so unfair.”

“Well you’ll have to buy them drinks sometime,” Meera said to Ethan as they were making their way back to the hospital.

“No way, I offered them at the beginning, they declined and I had to go through all this, no way I am offering them again.”

“So you are saying you didn’t enjoy staring into my eyes at all.”

“I did, but next time, I’d prefer not being surrounded by drunk strangers.”

Much later, the team leaves the diagnostic office after Ethan dismisses them. He comes upto Meera who is packing up her belongings. “Great solve on that one, I’ll admit it was a little tricky.”

“Thanks!” Meera grinned, “I’m just trying to learn as much as I can from the very best.”

Ethan smiles proudly, pecking his girlfriend’s cheek. “Anyways you go home, I’ll stay back a little longer. I want to monitor Mr. Huxley for a couple of hours. I am a little worried about his BP, we will have to change the NSAIDS dosage if it plummets.”

Meera nodded silently, going over the patient chart once again. “Why don’t I stay back and you go home?”

“No it’s fine, you have had a long shift.”

“So have you. Look, I am the junior member of the team, it’s my job. You promised you won’t go easy on me just because I’m your girlfriend.”

“You are right,” Ethan wrapped his arms around her, “I can’t risk playing favourites and have HR breathing down my neck.”

“Imagine! What a dreadful allegation,” Meera laughed.

“Fine, you stay, but run by me before you make any changes to the dosage.”

“Yes sir!”

“And come back to my apartment, you still have a staring contest to lose, rookie.”

“We will see about that.”

Meera entered the condo, putting her keys down on the countertop.

“Babe! I’m home!” she called out, only to be returned with silence. She started searching the rooms until finally going into the bedroom. The door to the bathroom was slightly ajar and she could hear the water running, “so there you are.”

Ethan walked out, in nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist, “sorry I couldn't hear you from inside.”

Meera’s breath got stuck and god knows how many beats her heart skipped. Her eyes moving down from his collar bones, perfect abs and lower.

“Like what you see?” Ethan’s voice breaking her haze. “I believe we have a little game to continue.”

“This is so not fair,” Meera protested.

“Everything is fair in love and war, my dear.”

Ethan moved closer, leaving an almost non existent gap between them. They lock eyes. Ethan smirking on getting the upper hand, while Meera fighting her human instincts to close the gap between them and throw the towel away. A few seconds later she blinks.

“You lose, I win,” Ethan looks at Meera hungrily, “now I get to claim my price.”

He tilts her face and their lips fit like perfect puzzle pieces. As Meera melts into the kiss she makes quick work of the towel thinking how it was a win-win situation for her.

Thank you so much if you have read till here, it means the world to me. Hope to see you go on other different adventures with me, Ethan and Meera, till then sending love and hugs your way! ❤️

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