Disclaimer: Dont. own. this. that. and all. that. jazz.

Note: Song used, "Heavy" by Holly Brook. Have fun. )

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HEAVY

"Help, someone please help my daughter!", a man dashed in carrying a girl, with his wife sobbing behind him. The attendants rushed to take over and Emily Sloan happened to be there at the time. She dashed over,"Lay her down, check her pulse", She asked the father, "What happened?"

"My daughter, she suffocated and she fainted, please save her", the father was puffing with exhaustion.

Sloan said, "We're going to do everything we can", and proceeded to hook the girl up with wires and oxygen supply. Vanessa got the page and when she went inside, she realised that it was the girl from yesterday. "Oh my God, Molly"

The nurse led the parents out of the curtain room, "Sir, M'am, please wait outside".

The attendant said, "The oxygen supply is not doing anything"

"Her heart's failing. Call Dr. Shepherd. NOW!"

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Luke rushed down after he got the call and before they could perform any machine checks on her, he could tell what was wrong, by the symptoms he found. Rash, white patches on tongue, fever and her parents' complaint of her suffocation. He headed over to her parents without wasting any time, "Mr and Mrs Jones, your daughter is suffering from bacterial endocarditis"

"What- what is that?", her father was clueless.

Luke explained. "It's a kind of heart infection and we need to perform a surgery on her, and I'm afraid that it might hit her heart valve"

"I don't care what you do, just save my daughter", the woman yelled, and her husband led her away to calm her down.

Sloan turned to Vanessa,"You handled the girl yesterday. How can you even send her home?"

"When I sent her under the machines, she was fine", she confirmed.

"So you're telling me that she just isn't fine anymore 24 hours later", Sloan reprimanded, "You misdiagnosed a patient, it's the one mistake that doctor mustn't make. With that mistake I could literally kick you out of the programme"

Vanessa tried to explain her stand, "I checked everything and.."

"Your incompetency is killing that five year old kid in there", Sloan continued and Vanessa was so close to strangling her.

"Dr. Sloan, enough!", Luke yelled at her, before she makes matter worse, then he turned to Vanessa "Geller, scrub in"

"WHAT?", the two women was in awe as they looked at him like he'd just made the biggest mistake of his life.

Sloan had wanted to be on the case with him and she quickly disapproved, "Luke you cannot be serious. She should be lucky if she's even on probation by now and you can't ask her to scrub in!"

"I know what I'm doing Dr. Sloan", he declared, and he rushed Vanessa, "What are you waiting for?"

Vanessa was shocked by his decision, but nevertheless hurried to the operation theatre, leaving Luke and Emily behind.

"Luke she's my intern", Emily said sternly.

He retorted, before walking away. "And I'm your attending"

Emily stood there, on fire, and wanting to kill someone.

At the operating theatre, Vanessa got ready, when Luke came in to put on his scrub uniform. "I want you to be honest with me. It was my fault wasn't it?", Luke was scrubbing his hands pre-op when she suddenly asked him the question.

The thing is, he knew it wasn't her fault, but then again, he knew she wouldn't buy it if he had said so. "You're not going to believe me if I told you it wasn't, right?"

"I just want to know if I almost killed a five year old little girl", by this time, her voice turned mellow and upset, like petals of flowers crumpling before his eyes.

"Dr. Geller, I can tell you that it wasn't your fault. The bacteria, some bacteria like that, it could be untraceable under certain machines. You just picked wrong the ones.", he explained, and he was honest, so he reassured her,"Honest". He looked into her smoky dark eyes, to let her know that he wasn't lying to make her feel better.

"Okay.", she nodded. "I trust you"

They entered the operation theatre and everyone who's heard about what happened was watching from the main gallery, including Aaron and her other fellow interns, along with Emily Sloan who was obviously bitter from what happened, because she believed that she should be the one down there next to him. Vanessa could feel a million pairs of eyes looking over them.

"Scalpel", he asked for his tool, and instructed his scrub nurse, "Check her pulse, make sure it's consistent at all times"

Vanessa stood behind him, watching his every step, and he called for her, "Geller, come over here, hold this"

"What?", she was dumbfounded.

"Hold the scalpel and use it in this direction", he directed with his finger.

"I.. don't think..", she stammered.

"You can do it", he told her sternly, until he realised why she was doubtful about it, he commanded, "Someone shut the gallery". Then he told her again, this time, with confidence. "Okay, just do it. It's okay, I'll be here"

So she did, she used the scalpel for the first time, on a five year old patient. Luke was impressed, because he got to admit that she did a very good job with her incision.

He finished the whole surgery, she saw the way he concentrated, she saw the other side of Luke which she never thought she would. He wasn't the charming and flirtatious Luke when he's under the lights, he was a surgeon, who made sure that he gives a 150 when he's doing his job. She saw Luke, the team player who was supportive to his team of comrades standing by him.

"Good job people, thank you very much", Luke said out loud, his team patting his shoulder as they walked by him.

"She's going to be fine right?", she asked, with her voice mellow.

"Yes she is.", he confirmed, while gettting rid of his mask. He then turned to her, with a wink, "And you helped save her live"

Her dimples were visible when she smiled. Luke suggested, "Now let's go tell her parents the good news", he continued, "You do it"

"Me? I'm not the surgeon here", she treated it as a joke, because truth be told, she still feels slightly guilty for what happened to Molly.

"Yes you are, go do it, just relax", he placed his hands on her shoulder, to calm her down, and it certainly gave her confidence.

They headed to the waiting hall and found Molly's parents sitting down nervously. Her mother's eyes were sore from crying, and the marks were visible. Vanessa walked up to them, "Molly is going to be fine. Dr. Shepherd did a fantastic job", She turned to him, who was standing behind her.

Her parents sighed with relief. "Oh my God, thank you.". Molly's mother hugged Vanessa tight, and it gave her the gratefulness and warmth of a mother and for a moment it cast away her doubts of ever entering the medical field. Mr. Jones shook Luke's hand. "Thank you both so much"

Vanessa stood by Molly's room and watched over her for the rest of the day, she wanted to see Molly open her eyes. Luke knew she wouldn't let it off easy, so he went over to Molly's room and he was right. He saw her standing there, looking at the glass window, with a contented face as she bit her bottom lip, which Luke realised by now, is a habit. He stood beside her, as they both look at Molly with her parents, happy as before, through the glass window.

"Thank you, for allowing me to make up for my mistakes today", she said to him.

"My pleasure", he simply replied.

Vanessa observed Molly and her smile. "She's very pretty"

"Yes she is",he agreed, then he turned to her. She had her hair tied up in a messy bun like she always had, her lashes were long that he could see them flutter with her eyelids each time she blinked. "And so are you".

She didn't say anything to that, she kept herself quiet. Then Luke broke the silence when he asked, "How about a drink? there's a bar across the street from here and it's after hours". He was keeping his fingers crossed that she won't reject him, because as weird as it may sound, he enjoys her company and having her around makes him feel good all the time.

Then she turned to him, when he locked his gaze on her with his deep blue eyes,"Yea", she paused,"sure"

"You can go heavy on me
And I will not weigh you down, down, down"