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"Damn."
"Should I call down Dr. Candelosi?"
"No, not yet." Mark held out his hand for the suture.
"We'll notify her after we close. Then we'll tell the patient."
Meredith nodded. The surgeries in her new "plastic case" had been going perfectly up until now. When they were placing in her breast implants, they noticed a tumor that hadn't been there before. They weren't sure, but the probability of it being cancer, was at least 75, because when they had taken the history earlier, they had discovered that her Mother, Aunt, Grandmother and Great-aunt, had had the cancer, Grandmother and Aunt both succumbing to it. They had tried to stop the surgery, mainly because of the patients health, and also because it would be harder to spot a tumor through the silicone if one occurred. Unfortunately, Mrs. May had been adamant about getting the surgery, insisting that she checked regularly for tumors, she knew all of the risks of having it done, and demanded they do it anyway. The chief had had her sign a waiver but after that there was nothing they could do. "Something wrong, Dr. Grey?"
"It's just….Why would she put herself at that much risk? She knew that if the silicone was put in, there would be no easy detection method…."
"Sometimes we want to do whatever we can to regain the attention to the person we love, whether it be ignoring them, or altering our appearance." Said Mark.
"But she has a family, people who love her."
"Perhaps she felt unloved, because she felt like she was invisible. Perhaps all she ever really wanted, was for someone to just notice her again, and she figured this was the best way to go."
His words echoed in her head. She had done that with Derek in a way. When she had told him about Finn asking her if they were together, she had meant to say the "vet" had asked her out on a date, and that she was going to take him up on it. But she couldn't. It had been on the tip of her tongue, but she decided on something else instead. They were friends, but she had a feeling that something bad would happen. And she was right after all, he called her a whore, which led to a fight, which led to them sleeping together, which lead back to the choosing thing….Again.
"Dr. Grey!"
"Sorry Dr. Sloane."
"It's alright, we're done here." He turned to one of the scrub nurses. "Take her to recovery, notify me as soon as the anesthesia wears off. Completely!"
"Yes Doctor."
He exits the O.R, Meredith on his heels. They wash up in silence and when they finally get out, they walk their separate ways. Meredith walks to the cafeteria, where she grabs a tray and some food, not really noticing what it is, nor caring. She sat down at the table where George, Callie and Alex were already eating.
"Where's Cristina?"
"She's eating with Burke." Answered George.
"How's he doing?"
"We don't know, apparently Shepherd found out that he's having tremors in his right hand. They had to run some labs and they're waiting for them now."
"Seriously? And they didn't find out until now? Did Cristina know?"
"Yes, I did know." Says Cristina sitting down next to Meredith. They all look at her.
"What?" They continue staring and she rolls her eyes. "Burkes down in CT, Shepherd just took him, he's going to be down there for awhile, so I figured I might as well come out here."
"So Burke told you to come out here?"
"Yeah."
Just then Callie gets up. "Alright I have to go, I have a shattered shoulder I need to see to." She kisses George goodbye. "I'll see you later?"
"Yeah."
"At the house or…?"
"Wherever."
"Ok." She smile at him and walks away. George gazes after her smiling. "Isn't she great?"
They look at him, like he's gone crazy. Finally Alex gets up saying "Dude…." Before walking away. Just then, all three pagers go off. "911. I've got to go." Says George getting up. "That's Shepherd, Burkes out, they've found the problem and they're going to operate." Says Cristina. "My patient's coding." Says Meredith as she reaches for her tray. "I'll take care of it go!" says Cristina. Meredith sprints through the cafeteria, and once inside the hospital, she runs for the stairs. When she get's to Recovery, the Code Team is there, doing compressions. "What happened, where's Dr. Sloane?"
"We don't know, she was waking up one minute, the next she's coding. We think it might be an allergic reaction to the silicone in her left breast. We just paged him, he should be here any minute."
"I'm here what happened?" Shouts Mark running down the hall. They explain and finally after using the paddles they manage to get her to let out a gasp of air.
"She's back."
"Everything stable?"
"Yes, everything's good."
"Alright, keep a close eye on her, let me know if she codes again, we need to run labs to figure out exactly what went wrong. Meredith, see if you can get Dr. Candelosi down here, we still need to talk to her about the tumor. And notify the husband that he needs to get down here as soon as possible."
Meredith nods and jogs lightly down to the nurses station.
"I need an outside line, and the number for Mrs. Mae, Ruthie May, room 3437?"
The nurse hands her the phone. "Here you go, the number for Mrs. Ruthie May is 1-345-555-6745"
The phone rings, and finally…."Hello?"
"Hi, Mr. May? It's Dr. Grey, from Seattle Grace Hospital. I'm calling because we...need to speak, with you and your wife. So we would appreciate it if you could get down here as soon as you can."
"Well, is anything wrong, were there any complications?"
Meredith pauses. "We just need to speak with you both."
"Ok, I'll be down there as soon as I can get to the car."
"Thank you." She hangs up and pauses for a moment. She feels someone staring at her, and when she looks over her right shoulder, Derek is there. Looking at her. Watching her. But the look he is giving her is different, it's full of betrayal, hurt, and she knew then. "He knows." She sighed, as she watched him walk down the hall to the elevator.
A/N: Soooooooo sorry about the long update, but, and yes I'm going to pull this card again, even though I know it's NO excuse, but….My life has been really busy lately. This chapter was kind of hard to write, because there were so many ways I could have done it and I couldn't decide on which one I wanted, and then I also wanted it to be reasonably lengthy for you guys, because you deserve it and because it's been so long. Oh, AND I ran out of ink I know I can use any pen, but this one reminds me of one she's used on the show, I really don't know why lol, I had a literal JKR moment….If she can run out of paper writing the seventh book, I can run out of ink writing my…woah, creepy, seventh chapter!
I'm sorry that there's not much Mer/Der in here, but I wanted to have more med stuff, plus I think the part at the end is kind of, well ok, it's a tiny bit of a cliff, but it's more of a "Clifflette" actually (lol) and it also leaves you open for a LOT of Mer/Der in the next chapter I PROMISE.
I want to thank everyone who reviewed last chapter. So far my story has 11 favorites, 43 alerts, 48 reviews and….Drum roll PLEASE! 9644 hits! Woohoo! But that's a lot for only well, not ONLY, it's still a lot! 48 reviews. So maybe you could find it in your big, big, hearts to leave one? Or many? Even if it's just one worded or two, and I DO accept anonymous reviews (but not flames! Lol, I know, I say that everytime) and I can't wait to see what you guys say! (My friends right, I CAN turn a paragraph into a sentence, look how long this note is!) Thank you so much for reading!
-Meredith
