man, i'm just tired and bored with myself the pitt pre-season 1 - ? original female character

How can you look at me and pretend I'm someone you've never met? © potter_spellbook, 2026 (SLOW UPDATES) jack abbot x oc cover by me!

She came to PTMC to become exceptional. She didn't expect Dr. Jack Abbot. Brilliant, exacting, and relentlessly professional, he is the kind of mentor who makes residents better simply by believing they already are, and the kind of man who calls her sweetheart without meaning to and spends the next morning rebuilding his walls. Their slow burn spans twelve weeks of careful rules, five months of an even more careful maybe, and one honest conversation that might cost them everything. Cracks in the Armor is a story about the love that shapes you rather than keeps you. About delivering other people's beginnings for a living and learning, finally, to claim your own. Some love stories end at the altar, some end with the rest of your life finally in front of you.

Josephine "Josi" Hastings is the new nurse at the "Pitt", working for the day shift. She left New York behind because being attached to something is a thing she hates. She leaves before things get too involved, too emotional, just too ... close. It is her policy to leave before anyone can leave her. This is how she ended up in Pittsburgh, looking for a fresh start where she can be the new "nobody" with zero attachments. But then there is him. With his salt and pepper hair, and these arms, that look like they could carry all your sorrows away. Dr. Jack Abbot. The night shift attending, a war veteran, a widower, and by all accounts the last person anyone should get close to. He isn't looking for anything either. Neither of them gets a say in the matter.

Andy couldn't stay in DC anymore, not when everywhere she looked she saw him. Neither could she stay in that ER, not when all of her colleagues had seen her have a mental break down. So now she was in Pittsburgh, beginning her life again. Andy had a plan to build a better, more stable and healthy life, only that plan was very quickly hijacked by a closed off veteran with a dry sense of humour and an obsession for his work.

Jo's fresh start in Pittsburgh puts her next door to Jack Abbot, and quiet proximity soon becomes something neither of them can ignore.

One glitchy tablet, one HR email, and suddenly you're married to your attending, Jack Abbot. HR thinks it was intentional and has already started merging your records. Claim it was a mistake, and your residency could be delayed. With only three months left until you're an attending, Jack agrees to play along. Pretending to be married might save your career-but can your heart survive the side effects?