"It's our anniversary tonight." I say to Meredith Grey as we walk into the intern's locker room to get ready for work. Another day at Seattle Grace Hospital, more exciting times.
"Are you doing anything special?" She asks, beginning to take her scrubs out of her locker and prepare for the day and I do the same.
"We're going out to dinner, which is nice, because we never really get to do that anymore. I actually don't think we've gone out to dinner since we got engaged." I had my entire day set out; in the morning I'd do my charts and check on some patients, in the afternoon I'm scrubbing in on an appendix removal surgery. I'll finish at the hospital at seven and go home, get ready and then we'd go out for dinner at eight.
"When you're an intern the hospital owns you." Cristina says, joining in the conversation. She's right. It's hard to really have a life when you're an intern and it's difficult to spend a lot of time with people unless you're working with them.
"It is hard, it'd probably be a lot easier if he was a med student to, but I think we make it work." I say as George comes and sits on the bench next to me. "Jesus Christ, George, go and get some sleep."
"I would if I could, but I can't. I was on call last night and I had a six hour surgery and this morning I have to do an MRI scan and a bunch of tests and then fill out charts. It feels as though I've been awake for about a year and coffee doesn't seem to be working anymore." He says with a hint of sarcasm.
"George, go and get some sleep. I'll cover your work this morning." I assure as I tie my hair back.
"Are you sure? I don't want you to get in trouble with Doctor Bailey."
"No, I've got it. Trust me. Now go and get some sleep." I walk out with him and Meredith and he goes to the on call room to catch up on sleep. That's the life of an intern. Sleep deprivation, long hours... But it'll be worth it when we get to be residents.
"Do you want me to do the charts and you can run the MRI scan? That way it'll be done quicker and we can get on to other patients." Meredith offers, taking the charts underneath her arm and smiling.
"Sure, that'll be great, thanks! I'll see you at lunch?"
"I'll save you a seat."
At lunch time we sit around the table outside, eating and conversing about our days. Meredith had been talking about the surgery she'd scrubbed in on with Burke, Cristina and George had been with Bailey in the emergency room and Alex had been doing sutures all morning because he annoyed Bailey yesterday and this was her way of revenge. I actually thought it was pretty funny. People saw Alex as obnoxious and arrogant, but I just think that they don't like that he tells people as it is and doesn't sugar coat things. Although, I'm a glass half full kind of person.
"What about you? How's your day been?" Cristina asks me as I take a sip of my water.
"Not very interesting, I've just been doing charts all morning and this afternoon I'm helping remove an appendix." I reply, shrugging a little.
"That's more exciting than my day." She sighs. "The emergency room is so quiet today, that's not a good sign."
"Something bad is going to happen, I can feel it." George says. "The emergency room is never that quiet, it's so spooky and unusual. It's definitely not a good sign."
"Do you really believe that?" I ask, frowning.
"You don't need to believe it if it's true, Alexa. Trust me on this, something's going to happen. Anyway, how come you're not with Addison Shepherd?"
"We haven't chosen our field yet and we have to do everything here, that's literally the whole point." I laugh a little.
"You do spend a lot of time with Addison though." George states and looks at Meredith.
"Yeah, well, we're friends. She's okay with it." I gesture towards Meredith. "And she's a good teacher and doctor. She knows exactly what she's doing and I learn from her easily." Alex's pager beeps and he gets up to get ready to leave and I decide that I should probably go and prepare for surgery too, so I get up, say goodbye and throw my trash away before following him into the building and towards the elevator. "Who paged you?"
"Addison Shepherd." He smirks a little because of the conversation we'd had. "She seems to hate me, how do I get on the right side of her?"
"Just do what she tells you to do and do it right. Don't go against what she says because she's always right. She's good at what she does but she expects you to figure things out instead of asking her straight away." I explain as the elevator doors open and he begins to leave. "Good luck."
When it turns six fifty I make my way to the locker room and change out of my scrubs and I become so excited to go out tonight and actually spend some decent time with my fiancee. The whole prospect was overwhelming me with excitement already. I waved goodbye to Meredith on the stairs and Cristina wished me a good night on my way out of the doors, but just as I stepped foot onto the car park my pager began beeping and my name was called multiple times.
"Alexis!" Bailey exclaims, walking out of the hospital doors and gesturing for me. I sprint towards her and follow her inside.
"What's going on?" I ask.
"I hate to ruin your plans, but we need you here. There's been an accident; there are a lot of casualties, multiple injuries and major surgeries. I need you scrubbing in with me, alright?" I nod, my excitement from before having completely vanished and I was now completely filled with adrenaline. "I need you to go and get ready and be in OR 3 in four minutes, okay? We don't have a lot of time. Okay, Green? Go."
I'm already halfway down the hall shrugging off my jacket with my phone pressed against my ear to call my fiancee to apologise for not being able to go tonight, but my work comes first. It goes straight to voicemail and I begin leaving him a message.
"Four minutes!"