This is my first fanfic that has more than one chapter so sorry if it sucks ass!

If it is bolded and italicized it is Regina's thoughts.

It was 3:55am, and Regina had been at the hospital for over 24 hours. She was on the overnight, or infamous "Graveyard" shift, as all the doctors called it. It was the worst shift, only given to those who had either just started working, or fucked up something big time. Luckily for her, she had just started her internship 2 weeks ago, so she hadn't fucked up….yet, although she didn't have much time to do so anyways. Paperwork, post-ops, and minor procedures took up the majority of her days.

When she wasn't working, she was sleeping, and when she wasn't sleeping she was studying. It was exhausting, but worth it. Just think, in 5 years I'll be a fellow. She repeated this to herself as many times as she needed a day, and today, she needed it a lot. That was until her life changed forever. Right as she was getting ready to sign off on her last chart for her shift, a strange looking man covered in sweat and blood ran up to her and grabbed her arm.

"REGINA PLEASE HELP!" the dirty man cried out as she turned around. A look of pure shock crossed her features. How the hell did this man know her name? She went as Dr. Mills to patients…not as "Regina". In an instant she forgot about it as her brain processed the sight in front of her. He was covered in blood. It was literally everywhere.

"Sir you need to come with me, we need to get you into a bed immediately." Regina tried to remain calm, but she had never seen someone with this much blood. Where the hell was it all coming from? She began to lead him to one of the exam rooms when he stopped her.

"NO! I don't need the help, its em-my…daughter! She was shot, please help!" The young man look eerily calm. He seemed to be more angry than worried, but who was she to judge.

"Where is she?!" This time, Regina didn't care if she sounded calm. She needed to find this girl.

"This way, please hurry!" The man huffed out the words before he ran off towards the front entrance. Without hesitating Regina followed, catching up to speed with the man easily. Thank god she was a runner, because this man was running full speed ahead…although she couldn't blame him. She noticed as they were running that he had a slight limp, and it was weird. Almost like she knew the man in a different life. They ran in silence until they got to a crowd.

"OUT OF THE WAY NOW!" Regina yelled out to all of the people, crowded around in a circle. They moved quickly and the young doctor's heart sank into her stomach when she saw the young blonde. She couldn't have been more than 25 years old. She was so small, but at the same time muscular. The type of person who you wouldn't expect to be able to throw a punch. Yet there she was, covered in her own blood and clutching at her abdomen. At the sight of all of this, Regina jumped into doctor mode. She shut off her emotions and got to work.

"Whats your name, hun?" she asked the blonde as she crouched down onto her knees to get a better look.

"Emma…" she paused to take a deep breath, "Emma Swan."

"Ok Emma, can you tell me what happened to you?" Regina asked as she summoned over a nurse to get her a gurney. Emma cringed at the question, so instead of prying Regina applied pressure to Emma's abdomen while she waited. Within seconds the gurney was at her side, and the nurse was helping her place Emma onto it.

"Please help me" she whispered out with pleading eyes. She winced when she was lifted up, "Please." Her eyes said it all, Regina knew something wasn't right here and she was determined to figure out what was up.

Regina shivered as she thought of all the possibilities. She applied more pressure to the wound, but noticed that the blonde was getting paler, and was having trouble breathing.

"GET THE O2 IN BAY 403 READY NOW, AND PAGE OWEN HUNT." Regina yelled out to the nurses station as herself, the nurse, and Emma's father travelled by.

"Hunt isn't on call, Kepner is." the nurse at the desk replied.

"WELL THEN FUCKING PAGE KEPNER!" The young brunette called out. She couldn't handle this on her own, and she was determined to keep the blonde alive. Even if she was sleep deprived and way out of her depths. She looked down to the blonde and noticed she was starting to lose consciousness.

"Emma don't you dare pass out on me." She tapped the woman's shoulder and started to panic, "Emma…" nothing.

"Get a crash cart ready! And put her father in the waiting room!" Regina cried out, panic evident in her voice. When she looked back she saw the nurse from the desk escorting Emma's father to the waiting room. She reached out across the blondes neck to find a pulse, but couldn't get one.

"CODE BLUE!" she looked over to the nurse who was helping her, i'll have to thank her later she is saving my ass right now, and shot her a questioning look. The nurse understood immediately.

"Intubate her, and then attach a 12 lead and see if she has a shockable rhythm, I'll do CPR, but you'll want some more hands in there." the nurse whispered to Regina.

"Thank you" She mouthed back as they wheeled the gurney into the exam room. She quickly locked the gurney in place and pressed the blue button on the wall which alerted the whole floor that they needed help with a code blue patient. She found an intubation kit and got to work quickly, intubating the small blonde within seconds.

"Not bad for an intern." The nurse winked at Regina as she continued compressions. Another intern named Kathryn ran into the room.

"Kepner's been paged, she's on her way. What can I do to help?" she asked.

"Take over respirations, I'm getting a 12 lead on her." Regina replied as she began to cut open the blondes shirt.

She had never been nervous about cutting people's clothing off. It was life of death, and she was pretty sure that 99.9% of the population would rather be breathing and alive than have their shirt or pants in good condition. This though…this was different. It wasn't like she thought the blonde would miss her shirt, or her bra it just felt…different. Like she was uncovering something that she wasn't ready to get involved in. She tried her best to hide her emotions as Emma's shirt and bra were cut open, revealing everything. Regina started placed the electrodes for the monitor, until she saw the deep purple bruising all around the woman's ribcage and the bullet hole wound on the woman's lower abdomen. She stared at it all, mesmerized by the colours, and by the various reasoning that could be behind it all.

She resumed placing the electrodes onto the blondes chest. When she had placed the last electrode and hooked up the monitor she took a second to read it, praying she had a shockable rhythm. Ventricular fibrillation, shockable. She sprang into action.

"GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR AND CHARGE TO 300!" she called out, to no one in specific, but being in a hospital she knew someone was there. Seconds later the defib paddles were passed to her, charged and ready to go.

"EVERYBODY CLEAR!" she yelled, this time to everyone in the room. If anyone was touching Emma when she shocked her…well lets just say that she'd have more than one patient. When she saw everyone was standing back, she reached across the blondes chest and administered the shock. It sent the blonde's body upwards with electricity, hopefully stopping the woman's heart so it would re-start at a normal rhythm.

Regina looked to the monitor and saw a normal sinus rhythm return. She sighed in relief and placed the paddles back into the hands of whoever had handed them to her. She took a quick pulse and was advised, by the nurse of course, to take out the incubation tube, as Emma was regaining consciousness. Regina did as she was told, and right when she was finished taking the tube out, April Kepner (the trauma surgeon on call) ran into the room.

"Whats going on give me a sit rep."

"Emma Swan, came in with a GSW to the lower abdomen. Coded, down for approx. 3 minutes but revived on 1 shock at 300 jewels." she sighed, but to her surprise April was waiting for more.

"Thats all."

"Thats all?" April looked mad. Fucking hell I just saved her life and you're mad of course.

"Thats everything I know. Her Dad's in the waiting room." Regina took off her gloves and threw them in the garbage. She started to walk out when April stopped her.

"Mills! Where do you think you're going?" she asked, her voice stern.

"To change? I finished over 30 minutes ago."

"I want you back here in-" she looked to the clock "-9 hours. I'm taking her into surgery but you're going to monitor her afterwards. Is that clear?"

The brunette sighed. Of course she would be stuck babysitting Kepner's post ops instead of scrubbing in on surgeries. She was pissed…but at the same time she had this weird need to get to know the blonde who's life was in her hands just minutes earlier. She felt oddly connected to the woman…just like the man who had brought her in. It was like she knew them from somewhere.

"Yeah thats fine. Page me if you need anything, I'm just going to crash in an on call room." the intern replied and walked away towards the locker room. It was moments like this where she was happy that she always had a pair of pyjamas at the hospital, just incase. It was going to be a long day…but somehow, Emma was worth it.

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