CHAPTER 8
Derek and Mark make it to the second floor and Derek runs to find Bailey comforting a crying and bloody Christina. His heart sinks when he realizes that Meredith is still under the rubble.
He runs forward to help but a fireman grabs him to stop him.
"That's my wife god dammit let me go I want to help"
"Let us do our job to get her out safely" Derek realizes what he is saying is right but he feels helpless. Mark appears with Callie and places her on a nearby gurney. Bailey turns around and sees her.
"What the hell happened, where's Arizona" Mark has tears down his face over his best friends condition.
"Callie got shot and Arizona was pushed out the window"
"WHAT" Christina yells?
"She landed on the fire escape but one of the gunmen jumped out and is using her as a hostage again, they were making their way down the fire escape"
There is some chatter on the radio and an officer comes to them.
"She's safe, Dr Hunt tackled him down, they are requesting 4 OR's"
"Owen did what" Christina said.
"The OR's are going to be UN useable as the explosion took out part of that floor" said one of the firemen.
They all looked at each other trying to figure out where they were going to operate to save all their friends.
Webber, April and Lexi came up the stairs with Owen who was carrying Arizona.
"Jesus" Bailey said as she looked at the state of her friend.
Webber rushed to Bailey and hugged her tightly. Bailey was momentarily stunned then returned the hug gratefully. Owen placed Arizona on a bed next to Callie. Christina ran to him and they hugged. Lexi rushed to Mark and hugged him tightly.
"How is Meredith" Lexi asked
"Still buried," Derek said whilst not taking his eyes from the rubble.
"Chief we cant use the operating rooms, where they hell are we going to operate on them all"
"The canteen" April said and they all looked at her.
"Its on this floor away from the fallen floor, I will get a whole team of nurses and get is it as sterile as possible and get all the equipment that I can find that we will need, give me the nod chief and leave it with me" Webber was impressed with her idea. The room was large enough to operate on them all at the same time.
"Great idea Kepner, go do what you need to, let me know when your ready" April smiled and ran out down to the waiting doctors and nurses outside.
Outside all the Doctors and nurses were waiting at the assumedly point all talking to each other and when April tried to get their attention they couldn't hear her. She looked at the Police Captain who has a loud speaker on him.
"May I borrow this please" he nodded and watched as April stood on top of one of the police cars. She put the mega phone to her mouth and whistled. Everyone stopped and looked at her.
"I NEED EVERYONES ATTENTION," she shouted through the speaker
'WE HAVE A REALLY BAD SITUATION WHERE 4 OF OUR OWN DOCTORS ARE IN SERIOUS CONDITIONS, THE OPERATING ROOMS ARE UNAVAILABLE TO USE AND THEY NEED SURGERY'S NOW. WE ARE GOING TO USE THE CANTEEN AND MAKE IT INTO A HUGE OPERATING ROOM, I AM GOING OT NEED NURSES, CLEANERS, ANETHSITISTS, DOCTORS MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FOR EVERY SITUATION AND I NEED YOU ALL TO GET MOVING NOW. 30 OF YOU REPORT TO ME NOW AND LETS GET MOVING AS OUR OWN ARE IN NEED OF US NOW, NOW WHOS WITH ME" almost all of the staff put their hands up and Kepner felt proud.
"Alright lets go" She handed back the speaker to the Captain and organized who needed to do what and where.
Back on the 2nd floor the fireman had managed to uncover Meredith. She had a massive piece of concrete on her head and there was a huge deep cut on her head and Derek could see part of her skull and knew that it was bad, brain damage was a possibility.
Mark put his hand on his shoulder whilst hugging Lexi who cried at the state of her sister, Christina just looked in shock. Owen embraced her as she cried.
Bailey looked around at her friends.
"How could this happen to so many of our friends" Webber hugged her again.
April came up the stairs followed by an army of people.
"Right you all have your assignments now move we don't have much time"
Webber was impressed by her leadership and organization skills.
"Only you Kepner could organize this," he said smiling at her.
"Thank you sir, the OR canteen should be ready in about 20 minutes, how's Meredith have they got her out yet" Bailey looked at her with a sad look on her face, she looked around and saw Christina crying and Derek being comforted by Mark, whilst Lexi cried.
"What, what's wrong"
"Severe head trauma" Bailey said. She knew what they were all thinking, brain damage.
Tears fell from her eyes as well but she had to get everything ready for them.
"Sir, I need a complete list of their injuries so I can get the right equipment and tools" April asked as she wiped away the tears.
"Of course, good idea, give me 2 minutes"
Webber walked to each of his staff members, Alex first and wrote down briefly where the stab wound was and what organs it could of pierced, then Callie's bullet wound in the top left shoulder, possible heart problems, Arizona with a multiple of injuries, severe stab wound on the top right arm nicked artery, broken leg possible internal injuries, Meredith with severe head trauma and deep penetrating wound on her thigh. He read over the injuries and gasped at the amount of damage on his friends.
April came back and took the list. She read it and looked up open mouthed to him.
"I'll get everything ready"
The fireman gently immobilized her head so that her skull was secure; they lifted her up onto a bed. Derek was there immediately. Meredith was totally unconscious. Lexi kissed her cheek.
"I love you, please be ok" she said into her ear.
Alex who was still unconscious was also placed on a bed and all the doctors were now side by side in the hallway. All their friends were there waiting to operate and save their lives.
Each one lay motionless.
April came back in 10 minutes later.
"Ok, I have managed to get some of the cameras from neuro for Meredith's head wound, I also have a portable x-ray machine, I have checked and the cat scan is working so I suggest we get her there first and you can get a look inside her head. I have covered just about everything I hope, lets go"
Webber smiled at her and pulled her into a hug. April was too surprised to hug him back.
"Kepner, great job" Christina said.
"Amazing" Derek, said.
"Fabulous" Mark said.
"Your just brilliant" Lexi said.
"Kepner I think you just got a pay rise" Bailey said with a smile
Kepner smiled at them all the grabbed Arizona's bed and started to push them towards the canteen.
The rest of the doctors followed whilst pushing their friends and loved ones.
When they got to the canteen Webber was stunned. Kepner had managed to put up plastic dustsheets.
"Where the hell did you find them and how"
"They were on the top floor, I'm afraid I have nail gunned them to the floor but I needed to keep them air tight, if you go to the left the sinks in the kitchen are ready for you to scrub in, there are nurse in their to help you get scrubs and gloves on"
Bailey was open mouth looking at what Kepner had managed to do.
Derek, April, Mark, Lexi, Bailey, Webber, Christina and Owen all scrubbed in. Nurses took the doctors in on the beds.
Kepner had separated the room into 4 mini operating rooms, she had grabbed extension power cables to plug in the equipment they needed and got all the tools and equipment everywhere.
"Hope this is going to be sufficient"
"Kepner, this is fantastic" Webber said.
All the surgery's started together, the operating doctors had to swap patients to help each other out.
Alex's stomach was an easy fix for Bailey; he was finished first and stitched up. The nurses took him out and placed him in another part of the second floor they were using for the recovery room.
Callie's bullet wound was the next to be fixed, Owen managed to get the bullet out with no trouble, she was stitched up and sent out to the recovery room next to Alex.
Arizona's operation was next to finish, her leg was reset and casted, her artery was repaired, and her wound stitched. She had lost almost all her blood and had to have 6 pints of blood pumped into her. Her broken ribs were strapped up and she was wheeled out to the recovery room next to her wife.
Meredith's was the last and longest surgery. When they removed the metal from her leg it bled severely, she needed 4 pints of blood to replenish her body. Derek took a long time to deal with her swollen brain, her head was stitched up and she too was wheeled out in the recovery room.
All the doctors waited in the recovery room for their friends and loved ones to wake up.
Alex felt warm, but sore like he had had a bad sickness bug and he stomach ached. He opened his eyes slowly to see Callie lying on the bed beside him.
"Alex" Bailey asked. Alex looked around to find, Webber, Bailey, Derek, April, Mark, Lexi, Owen and Christina staring at him.
"What happened to Callie, how's Robbins, where's Meredith" Bailey lifted her hand up.
"Callie was shot, Meredith saves our lives by pushing us out the way, she suffered a severe head injury and we are waiting for her to wake up to see if there is any damage" Alex grabbed his stomach and looked over to his right to see Callie, Arizona then Meredith in the beds beside him.
"Thank you" he said to them.
"Its April you need to thank, if it wasn't for her genius of getting the canteen turned into a giant operating room, then I don't know what we would of done" Christina said. Alex raised his eyebrows; praise from Christina was not very often.
"Thanks Kep…April" she smiled at him.
Next to wake up was Callie; she could see Alex awake and looking at her smiling.
"Alex, wheres..Wheres" she was about to ask for Arizona but turned to see her lying beside her.
"Arizona, Arizona" she called
"Callie, how are you feeling" Mark asked. Callie looked at her friends standing in front of her.
"What happened"?
"That bastard shot you" Mark said and Callie stroked her shoulder.
"How's Arizona" Mark looked at his best friends wife.
"She was bad, broken leg in 3 places, broken ribs, multiple contusions, and her stab wound has sliced into her artery, she needed 6 pints of blood"
"Jesus" Callie said and couldn't help the tears flow.
"That bastard Billy"
"I hate the man too but he saved your life"
"How did he do that I got shot"
"Yes you did but before you got shot he was aiming for your head and Billy jumped in front to take the bullet" Callie was still angry at him for hurting his wife but was a tiny bit thankful that he came good at the end and saved her life.
The doctors had not moved from that room whilst the fire department and police worked around them in the hallways. Staff and patients were allowed in but only to certain areas and the rest were transferred to another hospital.
An hour after Callie had woken, Arizona began to stir. Callie had asked Mark to push their beds together so she could hold her hand. Callie was looking over all her bruises, desperately wanting to kiss each one. She knew that physically she was going to be ok but was unsure how she was going to deal with this mentally, she had been held hostage by two killers and thrown out a window after been shot at. Finally Arizona's eyes opened and the first thing Callie saw was fear, she was terrified for a few seconds until she layed eyes on Callie.
"I'm right here baby," Callie said.
"I was so scared, I thought I would never see you again" Arizona said and burst into tears.
"When you fell out that window" Their words were flowing over the top of each others trying to tell each other how scared they were.
Callie gently leaned forward and kissed her wife.
"How's Alex"
"I'm here and I'm fine"
"Alex you tried to save my life, thank you" Alex smiled.
"I'm just glad your ok"
Arizona finally looked around to see Meredith in the next bed and all their friends in the room.
"What happened to Meredith?" she asked Callie who filled her in. She was just as horrified as everyone else.
They all waited now for Meredith to open her eyes, Derek knew that the longer she was unconscious the worse it could be. Christina and Lexi were beside her.
Finally, four hours after everyone else had woken up, she began to stir. Her hand began to twitch and Christina stood in anticipation waiting for her friend to say something coherent.
"Meredith its Derek, can you open your eyes for me" All her friends waited against the bottom of her bed for her to speak and put their minds at rest. She began to mumble a few things that they couldn't understand and Derek was beginning to panic that she had brain damage.
Christina refused to believe that anything like that could happen to her person. She took her hand and leaned over close to her face.
"God Dammit Meredith, you put some words together and speak properly or so help me I am going to kick your ass"
"God I feel like a building fell on me" all the room let out a breath of relief and they all started to smile.
"Jesus Christ my leg hurts too" Christina laughed and hugged her friend as Lexi and Derek hugged each other. Derek kissed his wife.
"Don't you ever do anything so stupid again?" Bailey said to her trying to be stern.
"What you mean save your life" Meredith said with a smirk.
"Exactly" Meredith looked at Christina's bruised face.
"What happened to you?" she said stroking her face.
"I got buried too trying to save your life, don't be that stupid again, you're my person, what would I do without you, do you know how hard you would be to replace" Meredith smiled and wiped Christina's tears away,
"I love you too" They hugged and Derek kissed her hand.
"How is Arizona" Meredith looked to the side and saw all the others in beds.
"Oh my god"
"All of you have been through an amazing traumatic day this hospital is going to need major renovations on the second and first floor. Stay in here together today and we will allocate you all special rooms tomorrow but for now just rest and get better I need you all back to work"
"I'm happy to stay in here together if that's ok Chief" Callie said, Meredith nodded then grabbed her aching head so instead she just raised her thumb and Alex nodded.
"Ok then"
Webber came over to Meredith and stroked her face. She had always seen him as a father figure and as touched by his caring.
"I'm glad that you are safe" with that he left to help in the hospital.
"Callie, what happened to you"?
"I got shot"
"Wow that's crazy"
"Not as crazy as having a building fall on you"
"Hello, stabbed here" Alex said raising his hand.
"Oh please being shot is way cooler than being stabbed" Callie said.
"Err, hostage twice, stabbed, broken bones and falling out a 6th floor window" Arizona said. They all looked at her.
"Okay I think you win" Alex said.
They all laughed the tension away but they all knew that it was going to take a long time to recover from this both mentally and physically, but they each knew that they had great friends that would always be there for each other.
THE END
FOLLOW ON STORY COMING SOON
Soo you think this is the end ? Well no its not. i am writing a part 2 story which involves Arizona and Callie and I'm affraid there in mortal danger from Mr Vincent. If you want to know why then you will have to wait and see. Nearly finished the first chapter, keep your eyes out.
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