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Lifeguard [Ethan Dolan]

Description: Ethan keeps running into a beautiful lifeguard at the beach.
Warnings: Dislocated knee. I think that is it?
Their encounters had started months before. He was a surfer who liked to get himself into tricky spots, and she was a lifeguard just doing her job.
The first time they met was when he got smashed in big surf. He'd resurfaced and grabbed onto his board, but didn't get on, so she paddled out to check on him, fearing he might've suffered a concussion or a spinal injury.
"Are you ok?" She asks once she stops paddling and sits on the rescue board.
"Yep, just sucking up my pride, or what's left of it." He lightly chuckles and jumps up on the board.
"You sure? No pain in your head, neck or back? You were smashed pretty hard." She questions, but also hints that she'd seen him wipe out.
"Yeah, I'm all good. Thanks though." She nods and then turns to catch a wave back in. He watches her as she turns to go over to a swimmer holding onto a boogie board. She gets the boy on the board and gets the boogie board secured before taking them both back into shore.
This happened three more times over the course of two weeks.
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The next time they met was again, in the water. This time she'd just gotten off duty and was heading back to the tower, but then her radio goes off, her coworker telling her there's been a incident in the water, and she needed to book it out there. She grabs a board and runs in. She quickly makes it out there to see the same guy she'd paddled out to multiple times a few weeks earlier, holding up a guy with a dislocated knee.
"Dislocated your knee?" She asks. The man nods with a grimace on his face. "Alright, could you give me a hand getting him up on my board?" She asks the man. He nods and she jumps into the water. "Get him on his side and then we'll roll him." They get the man on his side and place the board behind him. She supports his leg and the other man rolls the board so it's sitting normally. "Thank you for your help."
"I'm coming with you. He's with me."
"Alright. If you see a big set warn me!" Then she turns to the man on her board. "I'll try not to get a big wave so it doesn't toss you around." The man nods. Once they get in they help the man up and over to the ATV. "We've got an ambulance on the way. How's the pain?"
"A four or five probably."
"Don't act tough Jake, you know it's hurts like a bitch." The other man laughs.
"Shut the fuck up Ethan." Jake groans. She laughs and gets a splint.
"Alright, I'll put this on so you can't move your leg around and I'll drive you up to the tower."
After sending his friend off, Ethan walks back over to her.
"So this is the fifth time I've met you, and I still don't know your name."
"Yep." She nods.
"So, you gonna tell me your name or do I have to do my research?" Ethan jokes.
"Y/N." She answers.
"Beautiful name for a beautiful girl." Ethan smiles and winks at her.
She was going to reply with a sarcastic comment, but got called away for another first aid on the board walk.
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They ran into each other two days after. But this time not at the beach. In the gym.
Y/N was training for the upcoming lifeguard challenge and would continue through recruitments, so she was halfway through her two mile run when a familiar face jumped onto the treadmill beside her.
"Didn't know lifeguards liked running." Ethan says as he turns the treadmill on.
Y/N looks over at him. "We do, we just like the water better."
"Are you training for something? I've never seen you here before." He points out as he starts jogging.
"Annual lifeguard challenge. I've got a meal for two at Cheesecake Factory on the line, so I have to at least beat Quinn, but winning the whole thing would be great too."
"Meal for two? Who are you taking out?"
"Either my little brother, or I'm pigging out." She answers, and Ethan just laughs.
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It'd been a month since Y/N and Ethan had seen each other. She'd won the Cheesecake Factory bet and gotten second place in the Lifeguard challenge. She'd also finished the yearly fitness assessment for already hired lifeguards with flying colors, and the recruitments were the week before.
The head lifeguard had informed her that she was getting a new trainee, the other lifeguards love getting newbies to pick on, but she loves teaching people. Teaching them about rips, different rescue techniques, just the basics. So when she heard the knock on the door lifeguards use, she jumped out of her seat. She opened the door to see her boss and he smiles.
"Hey, your trainee is changing, he will be over in a minute." Y/N nods and stands outside with him.
After a few minutes of talking her boss says her trainee is walking over. She turns around and sees him.
Of course.
"Ethan, this is one of my senior lifeguards, Y/N. She will be showing you around this week."
"Hi." Ethan smirks.
"Hi." Y/N replies.
Her boss looks between the two and holds back a laugh.
Ethan's definitely got a crush on her.
And Y/N is definitely oblivious to it.
"Have you two met before?" Her boss asks.
"Yeah, we've bumped into each other a couple of times." Y/N replies.
"Alright, well I am going to leave you here with her." He says to Ethan. "Just don't piss her off and you'll be perfectly fine." Then he walks away and Ethan turns to Y/N.
"Why shouldn't I piss you off?"
"One, I'm your boss. Two, my sister is a boxer. I've got a nasty right hook."
"Noted." Ethan nods. Y/N laughs and opens the door.
"I'll introduce you to the team. We all work the same shift, unless someone calls in sick, so you'll have to deal with us for the rest of your time here." He follows her into the medical bay and up the stairs to the lookout. "Ethan, this is Quinn and Max. Quinn, Max this is our new trainee, Ethan."
The lifeguards introduce themselves and ask Ethan about himself, but eventually they need to get back to work. Y/N takes him down to one of the ATV's sitting down in front of the tower, and shows him how to drive it, how to use the megaphone, and the lights and sirens. She drives him down to the shore and introduces him to everyone else before she starts going over protocols with him.
By the end of the day, Ethan has performed one rescue and helped with two first aids, all by Y/N's side. Now at pack up time Y/N lets Ethan back the ATV in.
"You know, when I first met you I thought you were just a beautiful lifeguard, but you run this place so smoothly. I'm impressed." He compliments.
"Thanks. When I first met you I thought you were just a sucky surfer."
"Yeah, that was a pretty nasty wipeout, wasn't it?" Ethan laughs.
"Nasty? More like horrific."