Chapter 6: Concussion

"Ready to go, Lynn?" Mark asked coming up to her in the lobby of the hospital. She was now 9 years old, and already looking and acting so much like her mother, but she had a few qualities that she took after Callie. Video games, for one. Lynn was extremely good at video games, better than her mom, but not quite as good as Callie. Another thing was Lynn's sarcasm. She sure as hell did not get that from Arizona.

Lynn shrugged, "I guess a day with you beats sitting here in this hospital."

Mark rolled her eyes, "Gee, thanks."

Lynn smiled, "Sorry Mark, but I'm under strict orders to keep your ego to a minimum."

Mark laughed, "Come on, kiddo," Mark said pushed teasingly toward the front doors of the hospital.

Once in Mark's car, Lynn turned to Mark, "So where we going?"

Mark shrugged, "We can go to the park."

Lynn looked over at him with Izzie's "Seriously" face. "Seriously?" She said.

"Yeah, do you want to go somewhere else or something?" Mark asked.

"Mark, I'm nine. Nine year olds do not go to the park." Lynn stated in a 'duh' tone.

"Well, excuse me, what do nine year olds do? Enlighten me." Mark joked.

Lynn shrugged, "Actually, we don't do much of anything. Too old to go the park with our parents, and too young to do anything without them."

"Well, I'm not your parent, I'm your cool friend, Mark." Mark smiled.

Lynn looked at him sympathetically, "Sorry to break it to you Mark, but I'm not sure the other parents at the park will like the fact that you are a 40 year old man friends with a 9 year old girl. Doesn't look right." Lynn shrugged.

"So what are you saying?" Mark asked getting frustrated, "Do you want me to hang out here in the car by myself?" Mark asked.

Lynn sighed, "No, no, no, Mark. No need to get huffy. You can come and get down."

Mark smiled a little, "Good, because I like the slides."

Lynn rolled her eyes, "God bless the poor baby."

Mark feigned hurt, "Hey, I'll make a terrific father."

Lynn smiled and nodded, "I know. Are you excited. Just four more months."

Mark shrugged, "I think we're ready. We waited long enough."

"Yeah you did!" Lynn laughed, "Cristina and Owen had a baby before you two!"

"Just by a year, Lynn." Mark pointed out, "Hey, we're here."

"Terrific." Lynn replied sarcastically as she climbed out of the car.

"Let's go swing." Mark suggested as he walked up beside her.

"Yay!" Lynn threw her hands up mockingly.

"Stop mocking me." Mark said as he grabbed her head and messed up her hair.

"Quit it, Mark!" Lynn said pulling away from his grasp and running toward the swings. "Hurry up, old man."

"Old man?" Mark said in disgust. "Old man? Listen hear young lady..." Mark trailed off, "Oh god, I'm turning into my father."

Lynn bursted out laughing. "I've met you're father, too. You totally are!"

"Shut up." Mark mumbled as he began swinging higher and higher. "I'm not old. I'll prove it. Who ever can go higher on this swing and jump off, wins. If I win, you drop the whole 'old man' bit, and if you win, well, we know you won't." Mark said laughing.

Lynn shook her head, "I'm not stupid Mark. If I win, you have to show up tomorrow with really high pants, suspenders, bifocals, and walk around to everyone saying "pull my finger." Lynn said seriously.

Mark laughed, "You've got to be kidding me." Mark's laughing quickly subsided when he noticed her straight face. "You're not kidding." Mark's face went white.

Lynn shook her head, "I'm serious. Deal or no deal, old man?"

Mark sighed, "DEAL!"

Lynn reached over and slapped his hand, "great! Ready?" Mark nodded, "1... 2... 3... Go!" Lynn screamed as they both jumped off the swings and went hurtling in the air.

Mark landed on his knees and looked up to notice that Lynn was maybe just a foot in front of him. "Damnit." He hit the ground. When he finally noticed that Lynn was still lying on her stomach not moving, he quickly walked over to her on his knees. "Lynn!" Mark said softly. "Lynn. LYNN!" He yelled as he began checking her vitals.

"SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE." Mark yelled out to the park. Within 10 minutes the ambulance had arrived and the paramedics were by her side putting her on a stretcher.

"Take her to Seattle Grace." Mark said as he followed them into the ambulance. "I'm a doctor there."

"Sir!" One of the paramedics yelled as Mark tried getting into the ambulance, "You cannot come in."

"I sure as hell am getting on this ambulance." Mark said seriously.

The paramedic sighed, "Fine. Hurry up and get in."

7 minutes and 35 seconds later, Mark counted, they pulled up in front of the hospital and was greeted by Meredith Shepard.

"Oh my god, Lynn." Meredith said as they pulled the stretcher. "Mark what happened?" Meredith asked.

"She fell off the swing and must've landed wrong." Mark said not really knowing what was going on.

"Page doctor Torres, she has a broken wrist. Page the other Shepard, we're going to need a CT." Meredith shouted toward an intern who nodded and scurried off.

"How long has she been unconscious?" Meredith asked.

"Uh... maybe twenty minutes now." Mark said nervously as he looked down at Lynn.

"Damnit, okay." Meredith said, "Let's first get her down to the CT, and then get Dr. Torres to check her arm." Meredith said.

Mark stopped Meredith, "Should I page Arizona?"

Meredith sighed, "Not this second. She's in surgery and should be done in 30 minutes." Meredith said. "We'll page her after her surgery. Lynn isn't in critical right now, but if anything changes then we will page her." Mark nodded in agreement as he took a seat outside of the CT room. Meredith could tell he was scared.

"Mark it's going to be okay." Meredith said softly before entering the room.

About 10 minutes later, Mark saw Callie coming around the corner.

"Mark." Callie nodded, "What are you doing here? I thought you were taking Lynn out for the day." Callie said in confusion and then noticed the tears that were forming in Mark's eyes.

"Mark..." Callie said softly, "What's wrong?"

Mark said the two words that Callie never wanted to hear, "It's Lynn."

Callie pushed through Mark and walked into the CT room where Meredith and Derek were looking at the computer screen.

"Where is she?" Callie asked in frenzie.

"Callie, she's stable." Meredith said calmly.

"Stable?" Callie asked as she sunk into a chair.

"She has a pretty bad concussion, and has been unconscious since the fall. If she doesn't wake up in 3 hours or so, we are going to run more test to see if there is any damage that isn't picking up on the CT, but according to the CT, it's just a really bad concussion." Derek said calmly placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"We paged you because she needs a cast on her wrist. They just took her down to get an X-Ray." Meredith explained, "We were about to call Arizona out of surgery, do you want to go tell her?" Meredith asked.

"Yeah, I should go." Callie nodded. "Page me when she's out of the X-Ray, and make sure they run them right away so that I get the films, now." Callie said strongly.

"Okay." Meredith nodded. "She will be taken to room 354"

Callie walked out of the room and saw Mark sitting against the will with his face in his hands. "Mark." Callie said softly sitting next to him.

"I'm going to make a horrible father." Mark's voice broke.

"Mark, you're going to make a fantastic dad." Callie told him grasping his hand and giving it a squeeze.

"No, it's my fault Lynn is in here. We had a bet who could jump farther off the swings. I should've known it was dangerous, I just..." Mark wiped his eyes.

"Mark listen, this wasn't your fault. This was an accident. You want to know how many times Arizona and I take Lynn to the park and she jumps off the swings? About a thousand. Sometimes she lands it, sometimes she falls flat on her butt." Callie whispered, "It just so happened that this time she landed wrong, and she's learned her lesson. It's not your fault."

Mark nodded, "Is she okay?" he asked quietly.

"As of right now yes, but they don't know for sure. She still hasn't woken up. Go to room 354 and wait there for her. I am going to go talk to Arizona." Callie said getting up and pulling Mark up with her.

"I'm sorry, Callie." Mark whispered.

"Mark, it's okay." Callie put on a brave face and gave him a weak smile before she turned around and walked quickly to the OR.

Arizona just scrubbed out of surgery and was ready to go home and spend he rest of the evening with her beautiful girlfriend, when she noticed Callie coming toward her.

"Just the woman I was looking for." Arizona grinned, but her smile quickly fell when she noticed Callie's watery eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Arizona everythings going to be fine." Callie said slowly grasping Arizona's hands.

"Calliope what's wrong? You're kind of scaring me." Arizona said softly.

"It's Lynn." Callie whispered handing Arizona the chart.

Arizona quickly opened it and read over it over and over again as tears spilled out of her eyes. "She hasn't woken up yet?" Arizona asked with her voice cracking.

Callie shook her head, "She should be back by now." Callie said pointing toward the hallway.

Arizona nodded, still holding onto Callie's hand, they walked into room 354, where Meredith and Derek were checking her vitals and Mark was standing at the foot of the bed.

"She woke up during the X-Ray. She's really out of it right now, just make sure she doesn't fall right back to sleep." Meredith told Callie and Arizona as she and Derek walked out.

"Hey baby, you doing okay?" Arizona asked quietly as she sat by her side.

Lynn nodded softly, "Everything hurts." She whispered.

Arizona smiled, "Well, Calliope is going to fix your arm right now, what color cast do you want?"

Lynn smiled, "Can I have lime green?"

Callie nodded, "Of course, I'll be right back." Callie walked out of the room to get the supplies.

Lynn looked up and noticed Mark, "Who won the bet?"

Mark smiled a little, "You did, kid. Better enjoy it because we're never playing that game again."

Lynn laughed a little but quickly grabbed her head with her good arm. "Ow."

"What's wrong?" Arizona asked quickly.

"Mom, stop worrying. It just hurts when I laugh." Lynn was still pretty hoarse.

Arizona let out a sigh of relief, "Stop scaring me like that. I swear you just gave me 10 gray hairs."

"Oh, Can I see?" Lynn asked.

Arizona quickly put her hands over her head, "No, I have to go home and dye my hair now."

Lynn laughed softly, "Weirdo. So Mark, I expect to see you back here tomorrow asking me to pull your finger."

"What is she talking about? I think Meredith and Derek doped her up with too much drugs." Callie laughed as she walked into the room.

Mark laughed softly too, "Yeah... I have no idea what she's talking about." Mark said trying to get out of the room quickly.

"Uh-huh. Sure, Mark. A deal is a deal, old man." Lynn said as Callie began wrapping up her wrist.

Mark walked into the hospital the next morning with a long trench coat over him.

Derek saw him walking down the hallway and walked up to him with a strange questioning look, "What's up Sherlock?"

Mark rolled his eyes, "I lost the bet yesterday with Lynn, so now I have to pay." Mark said, pulling off his trench coat revealing his disgusting brown pants that were worn way too high because of his red suspenders. He also had an unpleasant long sleeve shirt on. To top it all off, he was wearing his glasses instead of his contacts. Derek bursted out laughing.

"You look like your father." Derek laughed,

"Shut up." Mark grumbled.

"Say it, Mark." Lynn smiled as she came around the corner in a wheelchair pushed by Nurse Olivia.

"What are you doing out of bed?" Mark asked.

Lynn shrugged, "I am just coming back form a CT and heard you just came into the building, so I asked Olivia to bring me to see you." Lynn smiled, "Say it."

Mark sighed and turned to Derek, "Pull my finger."

Derek, Lynn, and Olivia broke into a bit of laughter.

"Getting a concussion was so worth it!" Lynn smiled.

"Brought you coffee, just the way you like it." Callie smiled as she walked into Lynn's room where Arizona was sleeping on a cot that they had brought in for Arizona and Callie.

"Thanks hon." Arizona smiled kissing Callie on the cheek.

"Where's Lynn?" Callie asked.

"They took her down for another CT." Arizona said nervously.

"I'm sure everything is okay." Callie rubbed her arm comfortingly as Arizona leaned into her embrace.

"Yesterday was the scariest day of my life." Arizona said softly.

"Mine too." Callie nodded giving Arizona a quick kiss on her forehead, "It's all over, and Lynn's fine."

At that moment Lynn came into the room, being pushed.

"Mom, Callie, you've got to see Mark, it's hilarious!" Lynn laughed hysterically.

"Lynn calm down, you don't want to over do anything."

"Mom, I'm fine." Lynn smiled.

"She's right, Arizona. Lynn's doing just fine. She might have some headaches over the next couple weeks, but she's doing just fine." Meredith smiled as she came into the room as well.

"Thank god." Arizona sighed in relief as Callie hugged her tightly.

"Oh, and I agree, you two need to go see Mark. There is no way he's every getting laid after today." Meredith giggled giving Lynn a high-five.

"Get some pictures for me!" Lynn smiled,

"Oh, we will!" Meredith nodded deviously.

TBC...