Chapter 11
Present time
Derek is still at security when his assistant comes running with a phone. Derek's phone has been ringing but he wanted this camera matter out of the way so he turned his phone to voicemail.
"It is the head of the board" his assistant says.
"Hello Sir, this is Dr Shepherd."
"Are you having unauthorized personal operating on our patients?"
"What?"
"A journalist just called me for confirmation on his scoop! He said it was three foreign surgeons in the OR and they have photos to prove it."
"How do photos prove nationality?"
"I'm right now looking at a photo of an Asian woman with a different Id hanging from her front pocket."
"Oh" Derek says "it is Dr Cristina Yang. That means that the other two is Dr Meredith Grey, daughter of Dr Ellis Grey, and Major Dr Owen Hunt. Yang and Grey started as interns here six years ago, transferred five years ago to Doctors without Boarders or as they also are named Médecins Sans Frontières, the MSF. They are both attendings after an extensive program. Yang in cardio thorax and Grey in neuro, both are also general surgeons. Hunt is a trauma surgeon who also worked for the US army. They are all here to celebrate their friends' graduation and they offered to help out during the school shooting. They have been to a tremendous help and have probably saved more people then the rest of us. If they wanted work here I would hire them on the spot."
"OK, this changes the picture. The MSF are authorized to work all over the world. I want to meet with them in an hour in your office."
"I will see if they are available. I don't know if they are sleeping. We haven't got that many hours the last 48 hours. I will see if my assistant can get hold of them."
"Good, whatever, I want to speak with them as soon as possible."
"Sir, I have another problem with journalists or more precisely a cameraman here at security right now." They continued their conversation for a couple of more minutes.
They were all sitting in the cafeteria discussing the last 24 hours.
"You had the best graduation party ever" Cristina says "full of blood and surgeries."
"Joe's tonight?" Karev asks.
"OK" everybody but Meredith says. They look at her.
"You're not coming?"
"I have other plans."
"Plans that include McDreamy?" Izzy teases Meredith.
"Yeah, he wants to talk and I think it is long overdue."
"Are you dating anyone?" George asks and gives Owen a look.
"No, how come?"
"It is the hospital gossip that says that you and Owen are in a sexual relationship and were seen kissing and making out outside OR 2."
"We are caught, Mer. I know we should have hid in a closet." Owen laughs and gives Cristina a long lingering kiss.
"He was giving me a backrub and I thanked him as I always do. With a kiss on his cheek" she leans over and gives him another peck on his cheek.
"You dirty boy" Cristina slaps him on the head before snuggling under his arm.
"Jealous?" he asks Cristina and kisses her on the cheek. "We can have jealously hot sex tonight" he continues whispering in her ear.
"We can leave now, before the rest and have some sex before Joe's" she whispers back.
"Now you really got the gossip going" Alex exclaims as Derek's assistant walks up to them.
"The chief needs to see you in 30 minutes in his office" he says to Meredith, Cristina and Owen and walks away.
"It feels like I'm going to be yelled at, at the headmaster's office. We didn't kill anyone, did we?" Meredith asked.
"I pronounced nine death on arrival and three more in the pit" Owen says. "The total count this far is seventeen deaths and eleven badly injured and eighteen with minor injuries here at this hospital. We got all the major traumas and the major part of all injuries. I didn't cause any death."
"Me neither" Cristina says with a cocky smile, "patients are all in recovery."
They all rise and leave the cafeteria. Three of them went to the chief's office; the rest to do rounds on their patients. They were to meet each other in the lobby when finished.
Cristina knocked on the door and heard Derek answer.
"Come in."
The head of the board, which they saw yesterday at the ceremony, was sitting in front of the desk with Derek behind it.
"Please sit down." Derek says with a smile at Meredith. He continues with the introductions. We would like to inform you about an incident that has occurred. They were told about the scoop and the journalist and then asked to show their Id from the MSF. Derek handed the head of the board some papers that just arrived to his fax.
"To stop this story, we would like our PR department to set up a press conference. Would that be OK for you?"
They looked at each other and then Owen answered.
"As long as it is OK with our head office in Geneva it is OK for us."
The president of the board looked at Meredith and asked.
"Are you the daughter of Dr Ellis Grey?"
"Yes"
"Would you accept to do an interview with the local news paper?"
"As long as the MSF agrees, I agree."
Derek looked at her with a stunned expression. He would never have believed her to be so graceful about her mother.
