I Was Made for You

Chapter One

All That I Am.

Owen Hunt had been at Seattle Grace Mercy West for over twenty years that crisp, autumn afternoon. It didn't seem like a dark day from the looks of things, the sun was shining for once. The air was warm, and he had had the chance to enjoy breakfast with his wife on the patio before work. Days like this were rare, he pulled longer hours at the hospital now than he ever had, but he loved it. Becoming a full time doctor out of the military had changed his life in a thousand ways. Cristina had changed it in a million.

She joined him outside, sliding on a trauma gown with careful accuracy. He swore no one could wear one like she could. Now the cardiothoracic attending, Cristina was calm, and complacent. A drastic change from her younger self. She didn't have to beg to be in on a surgery, and he knew a sick part of her deep down liked to delegate who got in on her surgeries now. Sick or not, she was still the love of his life. Once her gown was in place, she raised her eyes to his and gave him a look. "What're you staring at?"

Owen shook his head. "Nothing, Dr. Yang."

She snorted in disbelief and shook her head. Behind her, Alex Karev was hurrying out the door in his gown with Calliope Torres and Miranda Bailey close behind him. She glanced to Owen again. "So Chief, what have we got?"

"Car crash victim in her twenties, seven months pregnant. Blunt force trauma with a thready pulse en route," He told her routinely. "I'm not sure of the details aside from the clinical stuff."

"That's all I need," Cristina purred, cracking her knuckles, only to receive a disapproving look from her husband. "Sorry."

"Hey," Lexie Grey hurried up to them in her gown. Her eyes were full of tears, and it was obvious that she had been crying for a little while. "I just heard…how did this happen?"

Owen frowned. "You heard what? It's an incoming trauma, Dr. Grey…"

"No one told you." She breathed, and she swallowed hard to find the strength in her throat to say it. "It's Caroline. Caroline was in the accident."

Cristina's cocky demeanor was instantly crushed, and she grabbed onto Owen's arm to support herself as a wave of nausea pulsed over her. "Oh God, are you sure, Little Grey? Where did you…"

She was interrupted by the sirens of the ambulance as it came blaring up to the trauma ramp. The others were ready to join them, and they did. Owen hurried to meet the EMT's as they unloaded the victim. "Twenty year old female, severe trauma to the abdomen and head, with vitals critical in the field. Twenty seven weeks pregnant, fetal heartbeat found en route."

"Alex, you get monitoring that baby and let me know if it needs to come out, then you make sure Dr. Bailey is there to assist you," Owen ordered. Karev had made it to being the obstetrics attending, with Bailey attending in peds.

He sent Lexie and Cristina off with Caroline and went inside. The nearest nurse didn't look any busier than usual, and he approached her discretely. "I need you to page both Dr. Shepherd's and tell them to meet me in Trauma room three. And I need them to know it's a 911."

"Yes, Chief Hunt."

Owen made the short walk to said trauma room, and was met by two police officers, who had clearly just been told that they couldn't be in the room. He cleared his throat. "Can I help you, gentlemen?" One of them eyed him closely, as if to see if he was worth talking to, and the other recognized him from having been in and around the hospital before.

"Ah, Chief, we're investigating the circumstances of this lady's accident. Can you tell us who she is?"

Owen nodded, but had to catch his voice. "Caroline Shepherd. She's the daughter of two of my doctors, here." He searched the corridor for any sign of her parents before he continued. "Uh, she's twenty-three I think. She's a grad student at Northwest. Any idea what happened?"

"Hit and run."

Suddenly, he saw Derek round the corner ahead of him, and his heart dropped. He was glad the news hadn't spread, but in a way, he didn't want to have to be the one to tell him. "Uh, if you head to the main nurses's station back by admitting, they ought to be able to answer more of your questions. Excuse me."

Derek smiled as he greeted Owen, who cut him off before he reached the door. "Hey, you need a consult? I was having a surprisingly slow morning…." He started to try to peak into the room and Hunt blocked his way, causing him to frown suddenly. "What, what is it?" Suddenly he made a leap for the door. "Is it Mer! What happened!"

"Derek, Derek," Somehow Owen managed to still him by holding his shoulders. "It's not Meredith…" No sooner had he said it than Meredith had rounded the opposite corner, her face smiling tiredly until she saw the distress on her husband's face. She bolted for him.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't…"

"Doctors," Owen tried to get them both to look at him as she took Derek's hands, and they did. He sighed. "We have a hit and run accident victim I this room." He almost wasn't sure how to proceed, and at the last moment decided to just spit it out. "It's Caroline. Caroline's car was hit today, and she's suffered some serious injuries."

"Oh my GOD." Meredith was through the door before either man could think to stop her. But both were on her tail. She didn't make it in very far, when they flung the door open she was standing at the foot of the bed with her hands over her mouth and her eyes glassy with tears.

Derek was right next to her and he wrapped her in his arms, tears filling his own eyes. "Oh, my baby."

Meredith looked to Alex who was busily performing an ultrasound on her. "Alex, is the baby…"

"Fine for now," He told her softly. No sooner had the words come out of his mouth than Caroline's pulse had started to drop. "Shit. Yang, get her stable. Her heart stops and I'm booking an OR to get this baby out."

"Shut up!" Cristina hollered as she tried to get a good picture of Caroline's heart with another ultrasonic machine. "I'm going to need to get into here anyway, she's got an aortic tear. Matthews, tell the OR we're on our way. We don't have a moment to lose."

"Right away."

Meredith was reduced to sobs, but she and her best friend exchanged a look. She knew Cristina would do everything she could. Derek however, had moved to examine her head wounds as they started to prep her gurney to roll down to surgery.

"You'll need to do an MRI as soon as she's stable," He told the neuro consult that had been called in in his place since she was his daughter.

Owen hurried to grab the gurney to help push. "You guys can go sit in the theater's box. But no one comes into the OR."

That was procedure. Normally, Meredith had no issue following it, but with her child on the line, she felt her stomach balling up in her body. It had taken a very long time to conceive Caroline, so long that they had adopted once before her birth. The idea of losing her and their grandchild was sickening, and she sunk to her feet on the floor after they were all gone.

Derek dropped down next to her and hugged her to him again. "Don't worry. They…she's in good hands. We have to be strong for her, Mer."

Who are you? WHO are YOU?

She wandered down the familiar halls of the hospital as the voice persisted, and as she stepped into the OR, it became clearer.

"Who are you?"

She blinked back tears and turned to look at the person speaking to her. Someone who reminded her of her mother in a way with blue eyes and short brown hair. "Who are you?"

"I um," She wiped her face. "I'm Carrie. Carrie Shepherd and I think I'm terribly lost."

Ellis Grey watched her a moment and then looked over at the table nearby, shook her head. "No, no. You belong here." She seemed to turn sad, and she kept her eyes on the surgery that was beginning nearby. "We have to get you whole again. Your mother will never survive this."

Caroline tried to look at the table, but Ellis was blocking her way. "Do you know my mother?"

Ellis didn't respond at first but then her voice was soft. "What do you want to be?"

"I'm..I go to school for business admin but, really I'd like to be anything but a doctor."

"What are you going to name your baby?"

Again, she tried to look. "Uh. I can't decide but it's between Travis and Nathaniel."

"Nathaniel is a lovely name. He'll be a part of you. Half of you. Just like you're half of Meredith and she's half of me." Ellis was gone suddenly, and Caroline could see herself on the table and heard herself crashing.

She couldn't understand what anyone was saying at first, but suddenly there was a commotion, and then she saw Karev pass her baby over to Bailey, who hurried him to be cleaned by the nurses awaiting him. His cry was the clearest sound in the room outside of the scream of the monitors.