Sarah Paulson Character x Reader One Shots

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝)

pov: You have a bad day and Bucket wants to provoke you but Mildred protects you from her

It was a bad day for you. There wasn't even a specific reason. I just didn't sleep well and was in a bad mood today. Nothing special. But I really wanted to mind my business at work today. I didn't really wanna talk to anybody but my girlfriend.

My girlfriend was Mildred Ratched. Yes, head nurse of the Lucija State Hospital. I worked there for a while now and we are in a relationship for five months now. I knew I wanted her by the first time I saw her.

And after a while, seeing her became the only motivation to get me to work everyday and to always give my best, because I wanted to impress her and I wanted her to be proud of me. It obviously worked and now, the prettiest woman alive is my girlfriend.

We are very private with our relationship. I know, that's an understatement. Nobody even knows we aren't interested in men. But here we are, secretly staring at each other or making out when no one's there. It's exhausting sometimes but I think it ads a little "spice". It's hot, even though we're risky with our work. It could destroy everything and ruin us, but no risk no fun right?

Now there was only half an hour left, till my shift ends. That will be the longest thirty minutes of my entire tired life. And even though there wasn't too much to do because I didn't have that much of assignments today, but I think nurse Bucket wanted to get on my nerves to day. Like more than usual. I don't understand it. The human body has seven billion nerves and this woman manages to get at every single one of them.

I am a very calm person, like it's really hard to provoke me or make me angry, but she pushes the right buttons I guess. I have to admit, that's something she's really good at. And when I had a bad day, it was a lot easier to make me angry because I get upset about everything.

I was cleaning the floor right now. I like cleaning, so it kinda calmed me. But then I caught nurse Bucket in the corner of my eye. I suppressed the urge to roll my eyes but I think she knew I didn't want to talk to anyone right now. I tried not to show it so she wouldn't take advantage of it, but I felt as I exhaled loudly while looking at the clock.

"I think you missed something over there." She said, pointing at some bread crumps. I cleaned it and looked at her, killing her with my eyes. I showed her the "don't come at me"-look and lifted my right eyebrow.

"Uuh, seems like someone has a bad day today." She said, grinning widely. "Do you really think y-" She started, but I cut her off. "Can I do something for you, nurse Bucket?" I asked, fake smiling at her. "No, I just wanted to ask if you could stay a few hours, I can leave earlier today."

How was she serious. I think she didn't really want to leave earlier, she just wanted to piss me off and she was very close to get what she wanted. I was practically speechless but opened my mouth to say something I was probably going to regret when my beautiful girlfriend cut me off.

"No, she won't stay any longer. She already worked enough for today. You can order her around tomorrow. But now it's my turn." She smirked and looked at me at the last part. Bucket wanted to say something, but Mildred was faster than she was. "You can eat my peach but don't provoke her, just because your bored. If you'd just work like you annoy your co-workers, no one would have to stay longer." Mildred practically roasted her and I tried my best to suppress my laugh.

Mildred waited for her to go away and lifted her eyebrows when she didn't. "What are you waiting for?" She asked and nurse Bucket walked past us. Mildred rolled her eyes and waited for her to get away, so no one would hear us.

"Are you okay, sweetheart?" Her attitude switched in seconds and her features softened immediately and she replaced the professional look in her eyes with love as she smiled gently. "Yeah, i'm fine. Thank you." I said smiling quickly and went back to cleaning. "Your shift is over and so is mine. Let's go home." She said, cupping my left cheek and kissing the other. I smiled, but now, it was a real smile.

When we sat down in her car, she hugged me tight. I melted in her touch and for a short moment all of my worries and nightmares floated away and all I felt was peace and freedom. Like coming home after traveling for ages. She pulled back and said "I know your not okay. Tell me what's wrong." She said, comforting me.

I really appreciate that she sees when I don't feel okay, even though I lie to her. I pull back and sigh. "I just had a bad day. I don't know why, I just don't feel so well today." I said, trying to put the mess in my mind into words. She smiles and strokes my cheek. "It's okay, love. Let's go home. I'll cook your favorite food today and perhaps we could go to that bookstore later." She said and my mood lifted immediately.

"That sounds good, thank you." I said and kissed her. She laughed and started the engine of her car. "And stop saying "thank you" so often. You can say that when your mom sends you flowers for your birthday but not to me." She said and we giggled.

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I know it was a bit short today, but I hoped you liked it. 💜

Hope ur okay and had a good day, not like y/n ;)