Chapter 4

Grace's POV

As I walk down the hall towards the emergency room after fixing a boys broken arm, I hear a high pitch cry coming from the large waiting room. As I reach the large white area, I head over to the receptionist desk and I see a young teenager with the screaming baby in her arms yelling at Rebecca about not being seen.

I tell Rebecca "I'll take her back now,"

"It's about time, I have been waiting here for 2 dam hours!" The teenage girl spits at me.

"I apologize for that, I'm Doctor Grace Grey. What seems to be the matter with this little one," I tell her in my calm soothing voice.

"He has a fever, and has been screaming like this for over 2 hours," The teen tells me in a stressed voice.

"Why don't you put him on the table for me and I'll see what's wrong," I say to the distressed teen in a comforting tone.

She sat on the table holding the young child while I examined him.

"He seems to have a cold" I state to her "How old is he?" I inquire, so I have an understanding of what it could be.

"He's 1 month and 2 weeks old," The young girl tells me.

"Where is his parents, you should call them and let them know that their son is in hospital," I tell her knowing that if one of my kids were in hospital I would want to know.

"I am his parent," This young teenage girl tells me in a calm tone, with a hint of anger lingering in it.

"I apologize," I tell her in a surprised voice. She looks so responsible.

"Will he be ok?" She asks.

"He will be just give me a moment and I'll write a prescription for you," I tell her.

"Thank you," This young mother tells me with sincerity in her voice.

I go grab my prescription pad from my office and write the prescription for the young mother. As I walk in to the exam room I see my youngest son in the room, which is weird as he knows that it is not allowed.

"Oh Christian, what are you doing here?" I question him with a look in my eye that tells him to get out.

"I came in looking for you," he tells me, "I didn't know you were with a patient, I'll wait in the waiting room. Sorry Ana," Christian says as he walks back out the door and out of my line of vision.

"I was unaware that you knew my son," I say as I look at her trying to figure out how they know each other.

"I didn't know he was your son, although I only met him today," She replies.

I hand her the child's prescription and tell her how much she should give him and how often. As she stand up with the young child in her arms and walk towards the door, she tells me. "You should have a word with some of the receptionist staff, they were very rude. Next time I'm here and have to wait 2 hours for my son to get seen there will be a lawsuit coming,"

When she tells me that I am surprised at the way she said it and I could tell that she was truly angry that the staff were disrespectful to her.

I walk out into the waiting room and see Rebecca siting at the chair, tapping on the keyboard of her mobile phone. I walk over to her and it is when my shadow comes over the screen on her phone that she looks up. "Would you like to go into my office I'll get someone down here to take over while we have a chat" I tell her.

I pick up the phone on the reception desk and press 1 to get the reception of the unit above us. "Can I get a receptionist down here please?"

"Sure, he will be down momentarily," Nicole tells me.

"Thank you," I reply to her.

Two minutes after I had called Kyle comes out of the elevator and takes the spot I was currently at.

I walk towards my office in anger at how Rebecca had acted. As I enter I see her sitting on my chair texting on her phone not caring that she is about to be told off.

"Excuse me, Rebecca. One get of your phone. Two get your feet of my desk. Three get out of my chair," I scold her. She does as she is told and stands next the door.

"What is this about" Rebecca questions as she looks around my office trying to avoid my gaze.

"When a patient comes in to that waiting room you make sure that they get into a room fast. I just had to deal with an emotional mother who had a child screaming, who had to wait 2 hours to get seen. Why was that?" I reprimand her.

"I don't have the right to yell at me," Rebecca tells me in a sassy voice.

"I can, and I am. I am a senior doctor here and if my staff are being disrespectful to young mothers then I have to deal with it," I practically yell at her, trying to keep my anger in check but failing.

"You should control your temper, Doctor," Rebecca tells me while standing with her hand on her hip.

"I will not. So you are now on cleaning duty,"

"No, I will not be put on cleaning duty"

"You will be, this is your punishment for disrespecting both me and a patients other,"

I walk out and see Christian leaning on the wall across from my office as Rebecca walks out with a sulky face and defeated posture. "Christian, please come in,"

"Am I going to be told of too?" He jokingly questions.

"Yes," I tell him, with a serious face so he understands that I will not take his entry into an exam room lightly.

"Really," He surprisingly asked.

"Yes, you know not to enter an exam room no matter what. I can't believe you did that," I tell him with anger taking over my face.

"I'm sorry mum, I won't do it again." He looks at me apologetically.

"I know you won't otherwise you will be grounded. So what did you need," I ask, curiosity getting the better of me

"So I'm meant to be working at Elena's backyard right now. I was wondering if you could cover for me saying you needed me to do something." He look sheepishly at me.

"Why would I do that?" I playfully question.

"Cause I was maybe going to find Ana and hang out with her," He looks at the floor when he tells me this.

"Fine, only because you finally have interest in someone," I conceded.

"But please don't tell Elena, she'll think that work should come before a girl," He begs me, worry covering his face

"I won't I promise, I'll see you tonight," I tell him with sincerity.