Author: GemmaGemroForever
Title: The Pediatrician And Cardiologist
Fandom: Sons Of Anarchy
Pairing: Gemro [Gemma/Nero]
Summary: Nero and Gemma meet at Saint Thomas Hospital where they are both doctors...sparks fly so what else could happen? read and find out
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: No characters belong to me they belong to Kurt Sutter & FX/Disney.
A/N's: First of all this story will be totally non-canon divergence/AU as Gemma is a pediatrician at Saint Thomas Hospital while Nero is a cardiologist. I've had this idea in my head because I love a lot of medical/drama shows. This plot I know will probably be strange for a lot in the fandom, but personally I think the idea is quite interesting. 2Nd: Their club/biker/escort/pimp lifestyles and everyone in them including: Clay, JT, Jax, Tara, Abel, Thomas, Gemma's Thomas etc...will not exist here and in addition Nero's adulthood backstory on the show will not be included in this story and neither will Gemma's although all of her childhood will stay the same as it was on the show meaning her mother and brother are still dead and her father is still alive and has his dementia and she's already put him in the home. Nero's childhood backstory will stay the same whatever that was since we really don't know how that went or how it was with the exception of Carla his half sister/lover because honestly I hated her and we really didn't know much about her anyway; so in other words they will have clean slates in their adulthood lives. 3rd: Finally this story is written with seasons 5 & 6 in mind, but won't follow anything canon related that happened in the show whatsoever in those seasons with the exception of Gemma and Nero and it will be a slow burn type of relationship.
*I'm not a doctor, but I'll try my best to get the medical terminology as accurate as I can, but I'm also not gonna spend too much time on the medical side either*
Here's my long awaited new Gemro story...I'm not sure where I'm going to take this just yet though I do have a few ideas jotted down already, but it's not exactly a done deal with those ideas the only thing I know for sure I'm gonna do is about their relationship for now, but I'm pretty sure I'll eventually figure it out.
Chapter One: The Long Shift
St. Thomas Hospital – Monday January 8th - 7am
Dr. Nero Padilla has been a cardiologist for 8 years, he's just gotten off a very long 24 hour shift, he's been on call since yesterday morning he's exhausted, but finally he's going home; walking down the hallway to leave he collides with another person "Oh, I'm sorry" the woman said, smiling at him, Nero smiles flirtatiously at her "Sorry about that, doctor" Gemma chuckled. "It's okay" they look at each other unsure what to say next, but Nero breaks the nervous tension between them "I've never seen you in this hospital before" Gemma smirked at the comment "Well I just started here... transferred really a few weeks ago, I'm a pediatrician in the ER" Nero nodded in understanding "Oh, what's your name?" She touches him lightly on his arm acting coy "Gemma Madoc" extending out her hand to him "What about you?" She asked curiously "Nero Padilla, I'm a cardiologist" they shake hands "It's nice to meet you, Nero" she remarked flirtatiously, just staring unable to take her light brown eyes off him "Nice to meet you... Gemma" Without another word Nero lets go of her hand turning around and walking away as Gemma watches already finding herself instantly attracted to the tall, dark and handsome man and getting butterflies in her stomach.
Minutes later, Nero arrived home going straight to bed, but for some reason can't fall asleep Gemma the woman he met earlier is on his mind heavily after an hour of tossing and turning he finally falls into a restless sleep. Across town, Gemma is now home in her bed, staring up at the ceiling can't sleep herself because she can't stop thinking about Nero, but after a while she turns over falling asleep.
Tuesday January 9th – 6am
The next morning, the loud ringing of Gemma's alarm awakens her, she slams her hand down on it stopping the noise, yawning she got up padding her tired self into the kitchen to make some coffee, while waiting she fills a glass with water from the sink next makes her way into her bedroom grabbing her pills off the dresser, she opens the bottle taking out the pill putting it her mouth, swallowing it down with the water, groaning as the bitter taste goes down her throat, a few moments later the coffee is ready so she pours the hot liquid into a traveling mug leaving it on the sink and jumps into the shower to get ready for work.
She has been a pediatrician for 8 years up in Oregon and it was hard work getting to where she is now from Providence Hospital. She studied hard in med school and passed her boards with flying colors and now she's here in California and can't wait for her next adventure in medicine.
20 minutes later she's out of the shower, quickly gets dressed, puts on her make up, brushes her hair putting it up from her face, she is now is ready to leave, grabbing her keys, purse, phone and coffee she heads out the door.
Arriving at the hospital five minutes later she pulls into the parking garage that's for the staff driving around for a bit she finally spotted her parking space with her name on it and she parks turning off the ignition taking out her keys, grabs her purse, phone and sunglasses and opens her door getting out and walks in she goes straight to her locker to getting out her lab coat putting it on to get started for the day, but before that she goes over to the computer to check on her patient's lab results from yesterday, she checks them, groaning, mumbling to herself. "Still pending, ugh" shaking her head, annoyed, she grabs a chart from the rack, quickly looking it over as she walks into the exam room seeing her first patient of the day: 4 year old boy with a fever and cough "Hi, Mrs. Coleman?" they shake hands "I'm, Dr. Madoc" she smiles looking at the child before her "and you must be Cody" the young boy shakes his head "Okay, sweetheart I'm going to check out your heart" Gemma takes her stethoscope from around her check placing the ear pieces into her ears instructing "Cody, I need you to take a deep breath for me okay" putting the chest plate on the boy's back he breathes; moving the chest plate over to another area on his back he breathes again, after a few more minutes of listening to his breathing she takes off her stethoscope placing it back around her neck announcing "well I hear some congestion, so I'm going to prescribe a decongestant and give him Tylenol for the fever, it's probably just an upper respiratory infection, but I'd keep an eye on him and if he gets any worse or his fever gets over 104, bring him back in okay" the mother smiles. "Thank you, doctor" Gemma smiles at her. "You're welcome" she turns to Cody replying. "You feel better, sweetheart" She walks out of the room placing the chart back at the rack.
She goes back to the rack picking up the chart on her next patient: "6 week old with a fever and red ear" Gemma walked into the room. "Hey there, I'm Dr. Madoc" she extends her hand out smiling. "Hi, doctor, I'm Ms. Michelle Woods and this is my baby Nicole, she's got a fever and a rash on both of her arms" Gemma nodded. "Okay, let's take a look here...hi sweetheart" she smiled, leaning down to get a good look at the baby's arms and spots the red rash, puzzled, she looks to the mother asking. "Any other symptoms?" "vomiting?" "diarrhea?" "any trouble breathing?" Michelle shook her head no to all the questions. "What's wrong with my baby, doctor?" she asked. "I don't know, but we are going to find out" Gemma said surely.
After a few minutes and a lot of tests later, Gemma and the other doctors found the problem with baby Nicole it turns out she's got an infection.
Gemma returns to the examine room with medication "Here's some antibiotics for her ear infection give her all the medicine until it's gone even if she's feeling better and if you need to you can also give her baby Tylenol for the fever come back if she gets any worse okay" With that Gemma walks over to the door opening it and leaving.
Wednesday January 10th12 Hours Later: 6am:
Gemma's last patient is finally out the door she's exhausted and hungry having been on call for 12 hours now not having time for much food, yawning she sluggishly walks over the elevators pressing the button tiredly waiting for the doors to open exhaling heavily.
A minute later the elevator doors ding and open Gemma steps inside as the doors close looking around noticing a few other doctors there she smiles at them then turns back around reaching her hand over to the elevator pad pressing the button for the 5th floor – Cardiology which begins taking her up to the designated floor.
Seconds later she arrives at the Cardiology Unit and elevator doors spring open and she steps off making her way down the hallway to the unit once there she opens the door to gallery closing it quietly taking a seat in the one of the empty chairs leaning back crossing her legs she watches her new friend Dr. Padilla perform heart surgery on his patient entranced by him.
4 Hours Later: 10am:
Nero is finished with the surgery now sighing tiredly he walks out of the operating room snatching off his cap, gown and mask throwing it onto the ground, seeing him leave Gemma quickly stands up walking over to the door opening and closing it quietly and goes to meet Nero outside the O. R.
She arrives there within a few seconds, looking up at him
"Hey, how did it go?" she asked
He smiled. "Hey there it went fine"
"Good, I was watching" She confessed
"Oh?" He questioned, smirking
"Yeah" she said
"I'm starving do you want to get some to eat?" she asked, gazing into his eyes
"Sure" he replied, smiling
After a few moments they looked away from each other and begin walking down the hallway to the elevators
Nero presses the button and they wait for the doors to open while waiting Gemma looks up at him as he also looks down at her she clears her throat again looking away, but he's still looking at her.
God I want to kiss her he thinks inside
I want to kiss him she thinks inside
Gemma starts fidgeting with her hands nervously when suddenly the elevator doors ding open, she jumps a bit stepping inside and Nero does the same Gemma turns around pressing the button for the 3rd floor as the doors close.
While in the elevator Gemma breaks the silence
"So are you single?" she asked, looking over at him
"Yeah" he said
"Me too" she said
"Good, I'm glad" he said
"Hmm" Gemma smirked.
"Well I guess there's nothing stopping us" she commented, rubbing his arm gently, but quickly letting go.
"What do you mean, Gem?" he asked, looking over at her inside his heart is racing.
"I-" just then the elevator doors ding open and they step out and they head over to the cafeteria together silently.
Arriving in the cafeteria they walk over to the line behind where a few other doctors and nurses are standing there getting their breakfast as well, the two of them grab trays quickly as the line of people move down.
After a few moments it's their turn
"Can I help you?" the lady asked
Gemma looks down at the breakfast options unsure of what she wants because she's starving.
"Let me have some eggs and bacon" she replied, sighing heavily holding her tray out
"Okay" the lady says scooping out the eggs placing them onto a plate then putting then plate onto the tray and giving her a few pieces of bacon.
Gemma grabs the tray back carrying it in front of her as she's now the next one in line
Nero looks over at the options nothing really looks that great to him except for what Gemma has
"Uh let me have what she got the eggs and bacon" he replied.
"Sure" the lady says as Nero holds the tray up and she scoops the eggs and bacon onto a plate and placing the plate onto his tray and he takes it back carrying it in front of him.
Gemma quickly grabs two bottles of orange juice turning around facing him she asks "Do you want an orange juice?"
"Yeah thanks" he says
She holds onto her tray tightly with one hand placing her bottle of orange juice onto her tray while giving him the other bottle of orange juice their hands lightly touch each others as Gemma swallows hard, but says nothing.
She turns back around again and pays for her food and drink looking around the room she tries to find an empty table to sit at, after a few moments she finds one way in the back and walks over there and sits down. Up at the breakfast line Nero quickly pays for his food and drink then looking around for Gemma finally finding her at the back of the room he walks over to the table and sat down joining her.
The two start eating their food while every once and awhile stealing flirtatious glances at each other.
"So Gemma, scars of a feather" he said, out of nowhere swallowing a bit of his food.
"What?" she said, a confused expression is on her face.
Nero pointed to her chest nodding a bit, Gemma looked down at her scar then back up at him again
"Oh" she chuckles "Open heart, bad genetics" she explained
"Triple bypass at 42" he explained
"Wow" she said, looking at his scar "Sorry"
"It's okay" he said
The two continue eating their breakfast together stealing occasional flirty smiles.
20 Minutes Later: 10:15am:
The two are done eating leaving all of their empty plates and everything on their trays suddenly Gemma grabs her pen and note pad from the front pocket of her lab coat slapping the notepad down onto the table Gemma leaned down jotting her number and address for Nero after a few seconds she tears off the piece of paper handing it to him "You take care...Nero" she said, getting up from the table grabbing her tray and walking away throwing her garbage into the can putting the tray back and walking out of the cafeteria as Nero watches her once she's out of sight of him he looked down at the piece of she gave him, it's her number and address, he smiles wickedly folding the paper up placing it into his pocket leaning back into the chair.
To Be Continued...
Notes: I had originally wanted to go a bit further with this first chapter in my mind, but I decided against it. This is my first time ever writing a slow burn relationship for any couple in any fandom so I hope it's okay so far now that said I'm trying my best to keep Gemma and Nero's personalities and mannerisms and so on in character since this story will be such a different take on them and their relationship from canon.
