Chapter 9: McDreamy and Meredith to the Rescue

All the nurses, doctors on hand came running right past Harrison, Quinn, Huck, Stephen and Abby. Huck knew it was her and quickly ran after Fitz.

Fitz heard the announcement and was almost out of the hospital.

"MR. PRESIDENT WAIT!" Fitz and Cyrus turned. By the look on Huck's face they both knew.

"No it can't be I just left her. SHE WAS FINE! OH GOD NO!"

Fitz, Huck, and Cyrus ran up to the surgical wing with his detail. There was no time to clear the area.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!" Fitz screamed.

"We don't know Sir. Olivia is the only one in there." Quinn said.

A nurse came out. "Mr. President. Miss Pope just coded on the table. Dr. Grey and Shepard are trying to get her heart started and then she will be rushed into emergency surgery."

"What happened?" Cyrus asked.

"Not sure Sir. One of the doctors will try to talk to you as soon as she moved into the operating room. I am sorry but I have to go and help. Someone will be back in a few minutes."

Fitz could feel himself start to shake. He felt so helpless. Olivia was technically dead in the next room and he couldn't do anything to save her. All these emotions started to come likes waves crashing during a storm. He collapsed into the wall. He was having shortness of breath and becoming lightheaded. Quinn and Abby saw him and sat next to him. They looked at each other, nodded, and grabbed Fitz's hands in theirs and squeezed.

"She's going to be okay. She's not going to leave us. You." Quinn answered.

"Mr. President. Have faith. She will come back to us. She's a gladiator and isn't going down without a fight." Harrison said.

"I can't think. I can't breathe. She can't die. I won't survive without her. Oh, god no." Fitz cried.

"Squeeze our hands Sir and breath. Slow your breathing down. Breathe in. Breathe out. We don't need you having a heart attack or stroke too." Quinn and Abby responded.

Gradually Fitz started to calm down. His mind was racing. Why did he walk away from her? From this moment on he was not leaving her side for anything. He talked to Cyrus and asked him to grab some clothes for him from the White House, and to cancel all his appointment the next few days. Until Olivia was in the clear, he was not leaving.

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Dr. Shepard, Dr. Grey and a team of nurses were frantically working to get Olivia's heart started in the MRI room. They moved her lifeless body of the MRI table onto a stretcher.

Her gown was pulled down to expose her heart. Dr. Shepard took the defibrillator's paddles and charged it to 200 joules. He then placed it over her heart and said "STAND CLEAR CHARGING!" Everyone moved away and Olivia's body jumped off the table. Her heart still was not beating.

"Okay! STAND CLEAR CHARGING. Charge on 200 joules. Everyone clear." Yelled Derek again. The defibrillator "zapped" and her body rose off the table.

"Derek we have a heartbeat. It's weak but we have one." Said Meredith.

"Let's get her out of here and into the OR now?" Derek yelled.

"Wait we have to let the President see her." Pleaded Meredith, giving Derek that look.

"Meredith we can't. She has to get to the OR now." Derek was looking at her, as if she was joking.

"You think I don't know that Derek. Listen. You can hear him outside those doors crying. He LOVES her Derek. I mean really LOVES her. If she dies on the table and we can't bring her back, God I don't even think about how that would affect him. What would you do if it was me? Wouldn't you want to see me?" Meredith said with tears in her eyes.

"Dr. Shepard, I need to see Fitz. Please." Olivia opened her eyes and looked at Derek. "Please I have to see him. He needs me. I need him." She was so weak.

"Olivia. You have to get to the OR. But I'll allow it." Derek said.

They moved her to the adjacent room.

/

"Mr. President," said Huck "someone is coming. It's Dr. Shepard."

Fitz leaped to his feet. He was still physically and emotionally worn out. "Is she, is she, alive?" Fitz asked fearing the worse.

"Mr. President, Mr. Beene, Mr. Wright, Ms. Whelan, Miss Perkins, Mr. Finch, and Huck please follow me," motioned Derek.

"Is she alive? Oh god please let her be alive?" Fitz said as his body began to shake again.

Derek opened the double doors and Fitz was the first to see Olivia. "OLIVIA, Oh Dear God you're alive." He ran over to her, sat on the bed, and pulled her into his arms. Fitz didn't care about the wires, or monitors. He just had to hold her in his arms again.

"I am so sorry I sent you away. They brought me into the MRI and next thing I am in here. Dr. Shepard said my heart stopped." Olivia said. Her voice was weak.

By this time everyone was surrounding her bed. "You scared the crap out of us Liv? I almost started praying." Said Cyrus. "You know what that would do to my pagan flesh?"

Olivia chuckled. "Cyrus if you start praying I want to see it, and I am going to sell seats." Cyrus knew she was feeling a little better.

"Look the doctors are only giving us a little time. I have an aneurism in my brain. That is what caused me to flat line on the table. They are bringing me to surgery now. It can't wait till tomorrow or I could die. I want all of you to be my gladiators and take care of one another while I am in there. Please be there for each other." Fitz sat there looking at her. He was still holding onto her not wanting to let go.

"Fitz, I love you and no matter how I come out of this surgery don't let me push you away. Even if I kick, scream and yell at you. Even if I don't know who you are, or what we are together. Don't let me do it. I need you." Olivia said with tears pouring out of her eyes.

"I won't let you Livie, I promise. I am not going anywhere. I will be here with you all the way. I. Love. You too." Fitz kissed her again.

"Huck, what you made for me for Fitz is in my purse. Please give it to him after I go?" Olivia said.

Fitz gave her the strangest look. She took his hand, kissed it, and held it on her heart.

"Miss Pope we have to get going?" Said Meredith. "It's time." Meredith walked over to Olivia and put a scrub cap on her head. Fitz smiled and said "It looks good on you."

Olivia gave him a funny look. Fitz got up and told her that he would be waiting her in her new room. "I love you Liv." He said.

"I love you too, Mr. President."

/

Everyone kissed her and said that they would be waiting for her when she got out. She was wheeled out of the room into the OR. Fitz felt like he was never going to see her alive again but he trusted the doctors.

"It's going to be okay Fitz. She will come back to us all. You have to have faith." Said Cyrus. This surprised Fitz because he hadn't called him by his first name in such a long time. And Cyrus talking about "faith" was freaking him out.

"Cy if you start praying I swear I am going to have a heart attack." Fitz bumped his arm.

"Well at least you'd be in the right place." Cy said smiling at him this time.

"Ha, Ha very funny. Come on everyone let's go out into the waiting area." Fitz finally said.

/

Dr. Grey and Dr. Shepard had everything ready for the surgery. They would be fixing her aneurism first, then the tumor.

Once Olivia was knocked out Derek said "Okay people. It's a beautiful day to save lives." (He says this before every surgery on Grey's.)

The scrub nurse handed him a shaver and he shaved off a section of her hair. She then handed him the drill and started to cut into Olivia's skull. He lifted her skull off and placed it into a sterilized surgical bowl. He then carefully found her aneurism and repaired it. Luckily for Olivia they caught it early and it had not done too much damage to her surrounding tissue.

After this part of her surgery, Dr. Grey went out and gave everyone an update. She stressed that Olivia was stable and the Derek was able to fix her aneurism fairly quickly. Fitz, and her fellow gladiators were over their first hurtle.

Dr. Shepard and Grey prepared the virus cocktail for her tumor. One the solution was in both fiber optic tubes they were slid into her brain, down into the tumor. At the count of three they would begin injecting it.

"One, Two, Three." Said Derek.

Each tube was shown on a computer screen with a decreasing amount of the cocktail. Meredith and Derek were in perfect sink as it went into Olivia's brain. They pulled both tubes out and luckily nothing went wrong. (You can breathe now ladies.) Derek made sure there was no swelling, any bleeding and placed Olivia's skull back onto her brain. He placed sealant over the cut skull and bandaged her head. It had been an overly long surgery.

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By the time they wheeled Olivia into recovery it was late. Practically everyone was asleep or dozing off in the waiting area. Abby woke up and saw Derek and Meredith coming towards them. Fitz and Cyrus were talking on the other side of the room. Abby figured it was something important because it sounded like it was about the First Lady.

"Mr. President. Everyone. The doctors are coming." Said Abby.

"Is she alive? I mean is she okay?" Said Quinn.

"Yes she made through both procedures fine. She did not code on the table and her brain did not swell at during either procedure. However she is not out of the woods. She is still intubated (tube down her throat) and in a medically induced coma. We placed her in a coma so her brain would get a head start on healing. We will bring her out of it in the next 10-12 hours, if she survives." Said Derek.

"What do you mean if she survives?" Fitz said finally.

"The brain is a very tricky organ and extremely complex. Yes her surgery went smoothly but we do not know the tumor is going to react to the virus. We will re-do a scan and if it's shrinking it's a good sign. Then after her scan we'll gradually let her come out of the coma and hopefully she will wake up. We won't know that till tomorrow. Mr. President you have my permission to go and be with her now. No one will disturb you unless you tell us." Derek finished.

"Thank you to both of you. We'll see you in the morning." Fitz said as he prepared himself to see Olivia.

/

"Mr. President, Olivia wanted me to give you this. She had me make this for you." Huck said handing him a CD.

"What is it?" Fitz asked.

"I promised her I wouldn't tell you. After you get into her room there is a laptop set up. Place the CD in the drive, and it should play automatically." Huck finished.

"Thanks Huck." He got up the courage to walk into her room. As he opened the door he braced himself for his first view of her. There was his Liv on the bed, with a tube in her throat, wires everywhere, and her head bandaged. The monitors were showing her breathing and heart beat. He knew it was going to be bad but he was not prepared to see her looking for fragile.

He sat beside her bed where Huck had the laptop set up. He kissed Olivia on her forehead and placed the CD in the computer. The screen prompted it began to play. What he then heard and saw brought him to tears….

/

Okay my little pumpkins, how'd I do? I tried to describe her surgery the best I could. So you know she survives and get s to see Fitz and her gladiators before surgery. But when/if she wakes up how will she be? Will she know who Fitz is and will be her "old self?" Now that is something you are going to have to wait on.

Before I forget a few people have asked me why Fitz didn't go with her on the helicopter. I chose not to have him go because "only one" could ride with her. Fitz could not because he would need a secret service agent or more. Not enough room. Plus since he is the President the area needs to be cleared before his arrival. ;-) Cyrus is like a father to her, which made him a good choice.

OH and this CD Olivia had Huck make for Fitz. Well it's something special and it should bring you too tears. I promise I won't make you wait too long.

Leave me tons of goodies please…..Peace, Luv and Pumpkins…;-)