Hey everyone! So I wanted to try something new! So this is a super short chapter just kind of giving everyone a taste of what this story is going to be like. A lot more too come hope everyone enjoys! ~ Megan
Beep! Beep! Beep! Ben's alarm clock rang; the sun was shining directly in his eyes. He moaned and got up to get ready for the day. As he walked around his apartment he saw the empty dog bowl that made him sad. He had to put his dog Buster down last week, it wasn't until after Buster was gone that Ben started to realize how alone he felt, how alone he was. While he was enjoying his morning coffee before he left his phone started to go off, He ran over and saw it was his friend Cynthia.
"Hey Cynthia" Ben greeted
"Hey Ben! Hey would you do me a huge favor? My daughter came down with the flu, and Greg has a big day at work today so I need to stay home and take care of her, so would you mind taking my surgeries for the day? I only have one! It's just a tumor resection and I think Dr. Bailey is the doctor" Cynthia was an anesthesiologist as well as Ben; they had to move over together in the recent merge from Mercy West.
"Um, yeah I don't see a problem, I haven't had Bailey before though, do you know what she is like?" Ben asked.
"I haven't had her either but I herd she is a first year attending, and she is an amazing general surgeon. Crap, I need to go Ben! Thank you so much!"
"No problem" Ben responded and then disconnected the call. He grabbed his bag and headed out the front door of his apartment. When he arrived at the hospital he let the nurses know about the change so they could work it into the schedule. He went into the OR to triple check everything was right for surgery. Everything looked in place. He sat there and waited for the patient to come in, when she did Ben put her under and waited for the surgeon to come in. He started to flip through a magazine when he heard the door open and the surgeon walk in. He looked up and saw her, wow; she was, stunning, Ben thought to himself. She had beautiful big brown eyes, dark skinned and short, not sure why but Ben always had a thing for short girls. She walked up to the patient and made sure that everything was A, okay and ready for her. "um, Hi, I am um, Ben, Ben Warren, I have never been on your service before" he reached his hand out for her to shake, she looked at him up and down.
"You do realize I just spent the last 5 minutes washing my hands to get ready for surgery right?" Ben snatched his hand away.
"Oh, my bad, sorry, wasn't really thinking clearly" Dr. Bailey rolled her eyes and refocused on the patent. Well he just blew his chances with her; Ben thought to himself, she probably thinks he is an idiot.
Surgery was almost complete, Ben decided to go at it and give it another shot after surgery, and he pretended to flip through a magazine when he was thinking all of this.
"She's Tachycardic!" Ben heard resident Meredith Grey yell, he looked over and saw the patient's heart rate was going crazy all of the sudden.
"I don't understand what happened!" Ben said, " Everything seems to be in order here" Ben tried to slow the heart rate down but nothing was happening.
"There's—there's no bleeders. I don't see any bleeders." Dr. Bailey started, "Okay I don't see a reason why down here, so why is her heart rate going through the roof?" Dr. Bailey shouted at Ben. He was speechless, he didn't know what to say, and he had no idea what was going on with her heart.
"Did you check her anastomosis?" Meredith asked
" Her anastomosis is intact! Everything is intact!" Dr. Bailey yelled, "Wait" Dr. Bailey stopped. "Did I just feel movement?" she looked around confused.
"She is awake Dr. Bailey the patient is awake!" Meredith yelled. All 3 of them looked over at the patients who eyes were wide open, feeling and seeing everything that was going on around her.
"What the hell did you do" Dr. Bailey asked calmly to Ben "What the hell did you do!" She repeated angry "get her back to sleep right now!" Ben did as he was told, why the hell did she wake up? It was so unexpected, now she must REALLY think he is an idiot, but now was not the time to worry about Dr. Bailey's opinion of him. Meredith calmed down the stressed patient while Ben put her back to sleep. When the patient was finally back to sleep, "Alright lets close her up, we cant risk this again.
"But Dr. Bailey we are not done yet!" Meredith asked.
"I don't care, I need this girl off of this table right now! Got it grey!" Meredith nodded and helped closed. When they finished Dr. Bailey shot Ben a displeasing look and walked away to scrub out. Ben finished and cleaned up, then decided to go talk to the new chief of surgery about this, he was new here, he didn't want to get fired for this! While on his way over he spotted Dr. Bailey and Meredith Grey heading over as well, he knew exactly what was going on. He ran and caught up with them all approaching Derek the new chief. They all spoke at once approaching him, all talking over each other to say what happened.
"Stop! Just stop!" Derek yelled, "Just take a deep breath, this can happen to anyone, it has happened to me." They all walked into the patient's room. It didn't go well. She remembered everything, they had to think fast, there had to be someway around this.
"Here's what we do" Ben started as him and Dr. Bailey walked out of the room. " I'm going to go check the anesthetics themselves, you draw C.B.C. A chem-18 and lets do some genotype studies" Dr. Bailey looked up at him.
"Oh, here is what we do? We? Did you not here her? That girl is traumatized! The only thing we are doing is getting sued, because of you" Ben was upset who did she was? She tried walking away but Ben grabbed her arm and stopped her from moving.
"Where do you even get off speaking to me like that?" Ben asked very offended "You have no idea what went wrong inside that OR!" he yelled getting heated
"Well, here is what I know" She started "I know that you are new here, I know that you probably have a chip on your shoulder because your parking spot at mercy west was better, and I know that you are an anesthesiologist, which means you make buckets of money logging reasonable hours, sitting on your behind and flipping through "architectural digest" while somebody on the other side of the curtain does the real work and gets sued for it." Ben was furious at this woman
"Excuse me you have no idea" Dr. Bailey cut him off
"I don't know what they did at mercy west, but here t Seattle grace, we expect to be able to trust the gas man, trust him to do his job, so we can do ours. We expect the gasman to stay awake at the switch no matter how long and boring a procedure is " She said more, but Ben tuned her out. He was beyond the point of upset? Who did this lady think she was? He couldn't believe he was ever interested in this bitter woman. He walked away from her; he couldn't stand there and listen to it anymore. He needed a break.