simply__elizabeth
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Elizabeth Martin didn't hit rock bottom overnight. It was a slow, relentless descent fueled by trauma, loss, heartbreak, and survivor's guilt until she could no longer remember what it felt like to stand without falling.
She came home alive, but she left part of herself behind.
Now, every day is the same. A prosthetic leg that still doesn't feel like hers. Phantom pain. Flashbacks. Nightmares. A service dog that sees through every lie. And an overprotective brother who refuses to give up on her.
Everyone says she should be grateful to be alive, but all Elizabeth can think about are the people who never made it home.
She avoids crowds, pushes away everyone who tries to help, and insists therapy is a waste of time. The truth is far more terrifying: she doesn't know who she is without the uniform, without the mission, without the people she lost.
Then Jack Gibson barrels into her carefully guarded life like she was a four-alarm fire.
A firefighter who's infuriatingly stubborn, endlessly patient, impossible to scare away . . . And completely infatuated.
He doesn't believe Elizabeth when she says she's fine. He ignores every sarcastic jab, every excuse, every attempt to push him away. Instead of walking away like everyone else, he keeps coming back . . . More determined than the last time.
What begins as reluctant conversations and unwanted visits slowly becomes the one thing Elizabeth never expected to need: someone willing to stay.
Now she must face the hardest battle of all. Not surviving, but learning how to live again . . . and maybe even love.
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[Station 19 | Jack Gibson] [Slow Burn|Enemies to Lovers|Hurt/Comfort|Emotional Healing|Forced Proximity] [Grey's Anatomy × Station 19 Crossover]