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So, this chapter is about Alex. I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 4

Alex's eyes fluttered open only to close them again because of the bright neon light which was shining down on him. It was giving him a headache.

He felt the cold scissors on his skin, gliding up his leg, carefully cutting his pants and then his shirt. An oxygen mask was placed over his nose and mouth to help him breathe.

What the hell? I don't need that stupid mask! I can breathe just fine! I AM fine! Seriously! he thought to himself.

Meredith put gauze on his head, trying to still the bleeding wound with that process.

Why would she wrap my head with that? My head is fine! I only have a little headache! he thought.

He slowly lifted his left arm to remove the oxygen mask from his face.

"Just a headache" was the only thing he was able to mutter into Meredith's ear before Dr. Bailey moved the mask back over his mouth.

"You need to keep that on Alex!" She ordered in a tone that made him surrender immediately. They kept wrapping him with gauze. His head, his hand and his chest, but the bleeding around the metal just wouldn't stop.

"He probably needs to be transfused, he's lost a whole lot of blood so far." Bailey told Meredith when she placed her stethoscope on Alex's chest to check on his heartbeat.

Alex felt Meredith's fingers wrapping around his wrist, checking his pulse.

That was the first time he realised how serious his situation was.

He could see it in their eyes as he fought to keep his own open. They couldn't hide the worry. Their faces may have looked emotionless, or even hopeful, but their eyes didn't. They looked at him like he was already dead meat. And even through all the pain meds he'd been administered so far, he felt his head pound harder with every heartbeat.

"It's gonna be okay Alex." Meredith put her cold hand on his forehead, stroking it slightly with her index finger. "You're gonna be okay."

"You don't know that." He whispered through the mask, barely audible for them.

"I know, but it's just what you say."

Alex shut his eyes again until they came to a halt and the doors were opened.

Damn it, I was just about to fall asleep and now they have to move me AGAIN? What's wrong with you people, why can't you just leave me alone? He rambled to himself.

He couldn't think rational anymore but he didn't know whether it was due to the drugs or the terrible headache that seemed to get worse with every passing second. It gave him a hard time.

He kept his eyes shut when they lifted him out of the ambulance, wishing he could just disappear.

"It's Karev!" He heard Bailey's calm voice telling the person who was approaching them. He guessed that, from the sound of the footsteps running towards them, he was surrounded by no less than 6 people by now.

"Jeez, what happened? Alex?"

Great, don't tell me that O'Malley's the Intern on my case! So he gets to play the hero again I guess! But I don't wanna be stuck in an elevator with him ever again, especially not when I'm the patient! Alex was still too embarrassed about the heart-in-the-elevator-thing. He couldn't admit that he actually chickened out.

"A motor engine exploded right in front of him. He's lost a lot of blood, has at least one fracture and a dislocated shoulder from what I can tell and some burns on his arms and face. Page Callie! Oh and that metal plate might be penetrating his heart, so page Burke too!" Bailey shouted at a nurse, who helped them guide the gurney into the same trauma room Addison had been examined in only minutes earlier.

"Clear head trauma too, you want to take a look at that Dr. Shepherd!"

Derek leaned over him. "Can you hear me Alex? Can you open your eyes for me?"

He focused hard and opened his eyes only to see a concerned looking attending

Oh yeah, that had to be Shepherd, only he has that much hair! I still don't get why the girls call him "McDreamy" I mean come on, he's not that hot……. Oh my god! Did I just think that? I'm loosing it! HELP!

"Pupils are reactive." Derek called out when he finished his examination.

Alex could feel someone placing electrodes on his bare chest. The cold material sending shivers through his whole body.

"He needs a blood transfusion! George, hang 2 units of B positive! Do it O'Malley!" Bailey commanded. George took the two bags full of blood and started fiddling with Alex's IV, allowing the blood to access his body.

Alex started to panic now. Blood? I don't need a transfusion… I am fine!

Meredith noticed how Alex's eyes started gliding from one side of the room to the other and quickly moved to take his left hand into hers while Bailey examined his right one.

"The cut on your knuckles is deep, you're gonna need stitches there, but I don't think that anything's broken. We need an x-ray though, just to be on the save side." Bailey told him, but he didn't hear her and the didn't care. He focused every ounce of energy that was left in his body to ask

"Addison?" He turned towards Meredith who was still squeezing his hand. Telling him that she was there for him without even speaking the words.

"No Alex, it's me! Meredith."

I know!

Derek realised that that wasn't the answer he wanted.

"Addison's fine Alex. She only has a minor concussion. Her CT shows no internal injuries and we're still waiting for her x-ray to see whether she needs surgery or not."

There it is! Thank you!

"But we have to focus on you now!" Derek told him when Burke entered the room.

"God, how did that happen?" He asked. Bailey quickly filled him in.

"We need a CT as soon as possible" was Burke's statement after he finished examining Alex himself.

"I can hear a heart murmur, which means the metal is pressing on or puncturing his heart."

Thanks to the transfusion his blood pressure had risen again. However, his stats were still anything near good, but they couldn't take him to the OR without the said CT. They would be flying blind without it and he wasn't going to risk that.

"Grey, take him! GO!" Burke ordered.

"I'll go with you." Bailey told her and they started moving the gurney towards the elevators without Alex's protest. He decided that he wasn't gonna fight to stay awake anymore.

He knew she was safe and not too badly injured. That's all he wanted: To know that she was gonna be okay.

"Man, he's in bad shape. " Burke said looking at Derek.

"Yeah, Addison said he stayed behind and didn't come in with her because he wanted to help, and that's what he gets! Karma was definitely not on his side tonight! Let's just hope he pulls through."

"Yeah!" Burke replied, knowing that he was gonna hold this young surgeons life in his hands. It made him feel a little bit uneasy. It was always different when the person lying on the table wasn't a stranger.

Ten minutes later they all met in the CT room to look at Alex's upcoming scans. The tension in the room could easily be cut with a knife. They all knew they had to get him into the OR as fast as possible. Even though everyone wanted to say something, nobody dared to speak. It was dead quiet in the little room. Only the tense breathing of the surgeons could be heard. They just waited in silence, everyone drowning in their own thoughts until the scans appeared on the screen.

"Okay, looks like his head got lucky. I can't find a bleeder on his head CT!" Derek announced to crowded room. "Good thing he's always that stubborn I guess!" he added with one of his most charming McDreamy smiles and nodded towards Meredith. She was hiding behind Burke, trying to stay as far away from him as she could. Their relationship was still undefined. They hadn't really had a chance to talk and Meredith wasn't sure whether she wanted to have that talk or not, because she was an avoider. And the fact that she chose to hide behind Burke, who wasn't really in her good book either, ever since he dumped her person at the altar, spoke for itself.

Derek's smile widened even more when his last comment about Alex's stubbornness earned some chuckles from the others. Bracing himself again he continued.

"But there'll obviously be a massive concussion. He's gonna need to be monitored very closely after surgery."

"Yeah that's ……" Bailey broke off her sentence when she saw what she had hoped not to see.

"It's going directly into his heart." Miranda stated and felt a big lump in her throat.

"Okay, let's get him into surgery people! Move!" Burke said, rising his voice over all the chattering that was going on by now.

"Who's scrubbing in with me?"

"I am" Bailey said "Grey is too emotionally involved and O'Malley's a friend too. Plus Alex was my intern until just a few days ago. I still feel responsible for him."

Even though they gave Miranda a hell of a time during their internship, Karev, Grey, Stevens and Yang were always like really annoying, bad-behaved kids to her. They still did stupid things sometimes, but they had grown quite a bit over the last year.

She gave Meredith and George a sympathetic look and went on.

"Come on Grey, let's tell our patient what's going to happen."

Meredith nodded in agreement and they went in to get Alex out of the CT very carefully.

"Alex? Alex can you hear me?" Bailey asked. Alex's eyes flung open, tearing him out of his reverie about a certain redhead he just couldn't get out of his mind. But that seemed to be the only thing distracting him from the still persisting headache.

"What?" he murmured. He thought his head was gonna explode any second now.

"Your CT showed no head bleed…"

Well that's just great, I hoped they were gonna cut my head open to tread that freaking headache!

"But you do need surgery! The metal plate is going directly into your heart, which is why we have to take you to the OR immediately! Dr. Burke is going to operate on you, so you're in good hands and I'm gonna assist him." Bailey told him while rolling the gurney into the elevator to get to the surgical floor.

Alex turned his head a little and looked up at Meredith. She hadn't spoken a word since Bailey informed him about his condition.

"It's gonna be okay Alex, we're gonna take good care of you, promise! I'll see you when you wake up! She assured him when she saw that his puppy-dog eyes had widened. Meredith gave his hand one last squeeze before she let go of it. She stood back when Bailey pushed the gurney into the OR.

They gently lifted him off the gurney and on the operating table. Whilst they prepped him quickly for surgery, his eyes flew over the various equipment of the OR, knowing exactly what each an every one did and also knowing what was going to happen in just a few minutes. He saw Burke and Bailey in the scrub room getting ready.

He wasn't supposed to lay on this table surrounded by nurses. No, he was supposed to do the cutting!

At least now I know how our patients feel like, when they're lying on the table." He thought and was glad that he was at least gonna learn something from this experience.

He was hooked up to all the monitors and turned his head away, when he saw that they prepped his intubation. Just then Burke walked into the room. His arms held out in front of him, signalising that he was sterile.

"Okay Karev, you know the drill. Breathe in the happy-gas and count backwards from ten for me. " He gave Alex an assuring nod.

He felt someone taking his left hand. It was Dr. Bailey.

"Do it Alex and we'll see you when you wake up!" She said sympathetically

He nodded and began.

"10"

The mask was placed over his mouth and nose.

"9"

He looked up at Dr. Bailey.

I think I've never seen her that nice and caring before!

"8"

His eyes started blinking whilst he fought the urge to sleep.

"7"

"Addison?" He uttered

"6"

He locked up at the gallery.

"5"

I this a dream already?

"4"

There she was, sitting in the gallery, starring down at him.

"3"

Wasn't she supposed to be in surgery too?

"2"

What the….

Alex stopped fighting and fell into a deep sleep.

TBC

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