(Submitted to someone who would rather remain anonymous, but posting here for posterity, and to share with everyone!)
Ed couldn't believe—the guy had /fainted./ The really hot, cocky, suave, confident asshole that sat two seats over and three seats up from Ed—just the right spot to be fucking /distracting,/ with how he chewed on his pens—had taken one look at the open patient on the operating table and keeled right on over.
This, of course, had left Ed, as the other med student in the room, to get him over to the side room that they, apparently, kept for such purposes. ("Happens all the time to first-timers," one of the nurses told Ed, unconcerned. "Get him through there and watch through the window.")
It wasn't too long before the guy—Roy, Ed remembered, finally—groaned, eyes fluttering open. He glanced around, taking in his surroundings, and closed his eyes again. "I fainted again, didn't I?"
"A—/again?/ This has happened before?"
"It's the blood," Roy sighed, reaching up to pull his surgical mask off, a resigned expression on his very pretty face. "I thought I could handle it, but..."
"Wh—the fuck are you in medical school for, then, if you're afraid of blood?!"
"I've gotten better!" Roy's expression brightened, and Ed tugged his own mask off—the better to argue with. "I saw someone get stitches the other day, and I didn't faint!"
Ed groaned, covering his face. "Well, I hope you get used to it soon. Unless you wanna be a radiologist or somethin'.
"Nonsense. Surgeon or bust."
Ed scoffed. "Yeah, good luck justifying that one after what happened in there."
"Oh, I'm not worried. I'll just tell them that your breathtaking beauty stunned me to the point where I lost consciousness."
Ed's jaw dropped—what was a snarky retort to /that?/
Roy was smirking now. "Edward, right? Infectious diseases?"
"You mentioned it in class. I pay attention to people I intend to ask out for coffee."
"You're—are you asking me out for coffee in the middle of surgery?!"
Un fucking believable. "Tell you what. The day you sit through a surgery without gettin' squeamish, /that's/ the day I'll go get a coffee with you."
(It was two years before Roy got that coffee, but after the kiss afterwards, Ed decided that the wait was totally worth it.) ~The Royed Fairies