"There's been an accident."
"NO!" Mellie screamed. She felt like the whole world stopped spinning. "Is he..." Mellie couldn't finish her sentence.
"No, but he's in surgery right now. You need to get to London right away. It's not good, Mel."
"What happened?" Mellie stuttered.
"His car was slammed into, and it flipped. I don't know the specifics. Just get there."
Mellie felt like she was going in slow motion. She hurriedly threw herself together. She put on a sweater, leggings, and threw her hair in a messy bun. Addison was rushing around trying to get Teddy ready to go. She had heard Mellie scream, and she rushed into the room right as Cyrus told Mellie what happened. Archer rushed into the room just as Addison handed Mellie Teddy.
"Addison, go with her."
"You're coming too. She's going to need us all."
"Even Bizzy and the Captain?"
"Well we sure as hell can't leave them here alone."
"Mels, have you told them?" Archer looked at Mellie waiting for a response, but she didn't say anything.
"Archer just go get them."
Once they were all ready to go, everyone was on Air Force Two and off to London. Mellie silently watched Teddy sleep, and Addison walked over to Archer.
"This isn't good. She's not saying anything. She's not even crying."
"He's still alive, Addie."
"But she won't talk to me at all."
"I'll go talk try to get her to talk," Archer said. He got up and walked over to where Mellie was.
"Mels, do you need anything?"
"I just need him to be okay," Mellie whispered.
"I know you do. We don't know anything yet, so just breathe and keep praying."
"He can't leave me. Not now. Not when everything between us was finally going right. He's the love of my life."
"I know, Mel," Mellie laid her head on Archer's shoulder and cried herself to sleep.
Mellie woke up a few hours later, and Bizzy was holding Teddy. Mellie looked at Archer confused, and Archer laughed.
"She's quite taken with him. They've been like that for about an hour."
"I think hell has frozen over," Mellie laughed, but immediately stopped when she thought about Fitz.
"You've been asleep for a while. We're almost there," Archer told her.
"We're not even married again yet. He can't die."
"Melody Marie Grant, stop that right now. He is still alive."
The plane finally arrived in London, and Mellie rushed off the plane into the awaiting SUV. Mellie was shaking the whole drive to the hospital. Addison held her hand the whole way. They walked into the hospital, and Mellie felt her knees buckle. Archer and Addison held her up. Mellie smiled at them thankfully. They walked to where Cyrus told them Fitz was, and Bizzy saw Mellie falter, so she walked up to a nurse.
"We're here for President Grant," Bizzy said sharply.
"Are you family?"
"See her over there? That's the First Lady, and I'm her mother."
"Mrs. Grant, the President is still in surgery," The nurse said sidestepping Bizzy. "He has extensive injuries. He has a major brain bleed, and his lungs collapsed. There was also severe damage to his heart," Mellie closed her eyes and tried not to let the tears fall.
"Hi, I'm Mellie's sister, Addison Montgomery," Addison said and the nurse's eyes got wide.
"Hello, Dr. Montgomery. I've read all your papers and articles. You're brilliant."
"Yes, I'm great. Anyway, do you mind if my brother and I take a look at Fitz's charts and his CT scans?"
"I'll get them right away!"
Addison and Archer took a look at Fitz's scans and charts, and Archer shook his head.
"Addison those don't look good."
"Should we page surgeons that we know are capable of handling this? Cristina Yang is the best in cardio, and I can call Amelia."
"I'll go ask the nurse how the surgery is going before we make any calls."
Archer came back to Addison looking somber. "He's lost a lot of blood, Addie. Amelia and Cristina wouldn't get here in time for this surgery. They're doing the best they can. They said they're going to get it under control for now, and go back in later, so maybe it would be good to call them. I don't operate or else I'd go in there myself."
"I'm calling them."
Mellie sat staring at the ceiling. Teddy was sitting next to her playing with his toys. He had no clue what was going on. Mellie was thankful for that. She had already talked to Karen, and Karen was being brought to London.
"Mommy, when can we see daddy?" Teddy asked. Mellie panicked and Bizzy thankfully answered for her.
"Teddy, dear, your dad is being taken care of right now, but when the nice doctors come out and tell us that we can see him, then you can go and sit with him."
"Okay," Teddy said and went back to his toys.
A few hours later, Cyrus arrived with his daughter Ella.
"Mellie, I got here as soon as I could. I didn't have a sitter for Ella, so I had to bring her."
"That's fine, Cy. I'm sure Teddy will love the company."
"Any word?"
"About half an hour ago one of the surgeons came out and told us they were going to close him up soon. They repaired what they could, but they have to go back in later to do more."
"What are his chances?"
"Not very good," Mellie broke as soon as she said it. Cyrus nodded and his eyes began to water.
"He can't die on us, Cy."
"Whatever happens, we'll help each other through it," Cyrus said rubbing her back.
"Madame First Lady?" one of the surgeons said as she came over to Mellie.
"Yes?" Mellie didn't stand up in fear of falling right back down.
"The President is out of surgery. We repaired what we could. One of his lungs collapsed in the accident, and the other one is struggling. He's not breathing on his own at the moment, so he's on a ventilator. We're going to wait 24 hours before we go back in to finish repairing his heart. The bleed in his head was stopped, but we have to watch for any others that may pop up."
"That won't be necessary. We'll manage everything from now on," Mellie turned to see Amelia Shepherd standing next to someone that she didn't recognize.
"Hi, I'm Doctor Cristina Yang."
"And I'm Amelia Shepherd. I'm head or neuro at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle, and Dr. Yang here is director of cardio at the Klausman Institute. We're here to step in. We've already gotten privileges from your chief, so if you could take us to President Grant, that would be great," The surgeon was at a loss for words, so she just nodded at Amelia's request.
"Amelia!" Mellie said as Amelia turned to follow the surgeon.
"Yes?"
"Thank you. How did you get here so fast?"
"I was already in Europe when Addie called. I've been taking some time off, but when you're requested to operate on the President, you don't say no. Especially not when it's your friend's husband."
"Thank you. Tell Doctor Yang thank you for me as well."
"Of course," Amelia said and left.
"You should call Olivia. She'll want to see him," Mellie said as she sat down.
"Mellie..."
"Just call her. She loves him too. If Addie brought out Amelia and Cristina Yang, Fitz needs all the help he can get."
"If you're sure."
"I'm positive. Call her."
