'A Rush of Blood to the Head' Chapter I
"Well, the surgery went well and we're looking at a full recovery."
Burke smiled at the patient in front of him, smiling back with a sincere but weak smile.
"Thankyou Dr. Burke."
"Anytime. Dr Grey?"
Meredith put his file back on to the foot of the bed and walked out of the room with Burke. "You think he's going to be ok?" She asked softly.
"Hard to tell. I removed most of the tumour, the next few months will see tell if it's going to come back. He's lucky it was benign."
They came up to the elevator and Meredith pressed the button.
"Good work today Grey."
"Thankyou Dr Burke." Burke walked down the hallway leaving Meredith by the elevator. The was a ding and the metal door open revealing Derek inside, leaning on the walls.
"Oh!" Meredith was shocked, she hadn't seen Derek since she told him about Finn and got the reaction she definitely wasn't expecting. Walking into the elevator she moved to the side and pressed one of the buttons. She then faced the metal doors, determined not to hound Derek. She tried to give him time but she didn't. Now she's screwed it up. She cannot interfere any more. He's moved on, he walked away.
"Meredith?"
Meredith stiffened up, she could hear Derek move to her side, trying to turn her sight. "How's you day?" Meredith tried in vain to dissuade Derek from the inevitable conversation.
"Ok."
Meredith smirked at the word. Ok, ok ok... the same thing going around and around her head. What happened to 'I love you Meredith' or 'Now I'll take that coffee you owed me'?
"We need to talk." Meredith looked up reluctantly at Derek. She sighed and was about to answer when her pager went off. Quickly she looked at it. Code Blue room 401. Shit, that was Burke's guy.
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Meredith rushed into Room 401, now crowded with nurses trying to hold the patient down. He was seizing violently. Why the hell was he seizing? It made no sense. Quickly she ran up to the bed and helped the nurses.
"Page Dr Burke and push 12 of epi, stat!"
The nurse quickly shuffled through the draws as Meredith tried in vain to hold her patient down. Swiftly the nurse gave the epi and slowly the patient stoped seizing. Suddenly Burke rushed in the room.
"What happened?"
Meredith couldn't answer, she was exhausted, but she simply did not know what happened. She felt something warm against her arm which was resting on the patient. She threw back the patient's sheet and saw it. Blood, everywhere on the bed. The patient had bled out profusely. Burke walked wide eyed towards the bed and looked at Meredith, equally confused. The cancer wouldn't have done this.
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