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Chapter 10: fallen to piece's
Owen didn't know what to do, his mind kept focusing on the fact that the little girl that he had watch grow up, who he had babysat,who was like a daughter to him was now laying on one of his hospital beds severely injured. He quickly snapped out of it, if he was to do the right thing and save her he would need to be properly focused. He asked the paramedic who was just standing around stunned and told them to put Ridley into trauma room one, then turned to the one of the nurses sitting at the desk.
" I need you to page Dr,Grey and Dr,Shepherd to meet me in the conference room, tell them it's important and that it has something to their daughter. Also page Dr Torres to meet me here" he said before turning around to see a tearful Miranda Bailey.
"Owen what are we going to do?" Miranda asked knowing this wasn't like every other case, it far more complicated
" We need to keep this on the down low otherwise it's going be a riot, do you think that you'll be able to be her general surgeon?" He asked as they went into the room where Ridley was currently lying unconscious
"Yeah I mean I'm only one that can, seeing as Meredith is her mom and Richard is practically her grandfather. I'll start my exam just now while you deal with everything else" she said putting on the correct gloves as Owen went to go outside to deal with Callie who had just arrived, but he tuned around then went up to Ridley and leaned down and kissed her forehead."Ridley it's Uncle Owen you stay with us,do you hear me? Stay with us just hand in there". He walked out of the room only to be greeted by Callie.
" Hey what's going on! I got a page about a secret surgery" she said wondering if the patient was an important political figure or a famous singer.
" Come with me ... She may have a broken leg, I can't exactly ask Mason to do it. I know this is going to be a hard case, but please we need to do our best" he said leading Callie into the room to show bailey pressing down on Ridley's abdomen.
"Oh God Ridley! Fine I'll do it but we're going to need a couple of interns to help us out" she said as she pulled a chair over so she could check out her leg, also reminding Owen of something.
" Okay hold on I think there's a few in the clinic that I could pull out to assist you" he said making his way to the clinic.
" Hello Chief Hunt, is everything okay? You don't look so good" Katie said trying to suck up to the Chief as a way of getting better surgeries seeing as Ridley and Matt were getting all the good ones
" I'm fine Dr Adams, actually can see you and Dr... Peterson? Dr Torres and Dr bailey need two interns for a surgery" he told them, beginning to walk back into the ER where he saw things happening as normal
"Hey guys I brought you two interns, how's it going Miranda?" He asked once he saw the look on her face, one of pure panic.
"Dr Nelson came down once I paged him and he doesn't think anything is wrong with her brain. However she does have some internal bleeding so I'm going to need to go in and fix that" she told trying to down play it slightly.
" Okay, since the cause was a trauma then I will help out with that side of it maybe the two of us could find it better together" Owen said knowing that there was more to it than what she was saying.
"Yeah and the fact that one of her bones has actually pierced the skin a little makes me thinks she has at least three broken bones in her leg plus there is a piece of the car lodged in there too. I can repair them while Miranda fixes her internally, I mean we shouldn't interfere with each other" Callie told him, trying to image the type of therapy she was going to need on her leg after the surgery.
"Okay Dr,Adams I need you go and book an OR right away, if there's none free then kick out one of the surgery which is less important and if anyone ask why tell them to come and see me. Oh and list the patient as Jane Doe" he told her before she left the room.
"Why? We all know its Dr Grey Shepherd" she said showing them the fact that none of the interns really knew her enough to call her Rid or even Ridley
"If it got out that she was in surgery,the majority of my attending staff would want to be involve and it would create mayhem. Plus I'm not sure her parents know yet so I don't want them finding out through the OR board. Which means you two don't say anything about this to anyone!" he warned the two interns before leaving the room
Owen had checked with the nurse who was tasked with paging Meredith and Derek, although she had told him that they had both called to see what the problem was and told her to pass on the message that they would be in the conference room waiting for him. As he headed to the conference room he saw that everyone around him was preparing for the worst case scenario with the snow. The weather man had suggested that it may become a snow storm so he had ordered the nurses to gather extra blankets and other supply that might run short in case the worst happened. As he looked through the conference window he could see that both Meredith and Derek were anxious about what could be going.
" Hey Owen is everything okay?" Meredith asked while nervously playing her coffee cup with her fingers
" Is this about the whole her and Mason thing? Because I really think he's at fault more than she is and since he was the attending, he have should known better" Derek said blindly stick up for his daughter
"No it's not about that,I'm not one that can really judge. Ridley was involved in a car accident" Owen said as he watched his best friend's and his best friend's wife hearts break at the news of their only child being hurt.
"Is she okay? She's okay right?Owen?" Meredith asked as she began to sob ever slightly while Derek went closer to Meredith so he could comfort her better
"She has some internal bleeding that Bailey and I are going to take care of that and she has a couple of broken bones and a small piece of the car in her leg that Callie is going to fix. She's due in surgery in ten minutes, which means you guys have time to get changed out of your scrubs and go watch from the gallery. You have to be parents and not surgeons today okay?" Owen told them trying to both gently and chief like
"Owen how bad is her internal bleeding?" Meredith said to him knowing what could happen if the bleeding to sever, she couldn't ignore her experience of accidents like these
"What happened exactly? I mean how..." Derek said not being able to finish his sentence due to his own sobs that began
"The police are still investigating, but all they know is that two cars hit her in either side. They don't know why yet but don't worry okay? I'll deal with the police you guys just be with Ridley" he told them, knowing that that would be hard enough
"Thanks Owen, ummm Derek I'm going and get changed okay?" Meredith said before running of the room and heading to the attending changing room as she lost control of her tears
" Derek is there anyone you want to call like your mom or your sisters?" Owen asked trying to lighten their load
"No I'll call my family once I have actually news about Ridleys condition otherwise you'll be thrown a big party that no one wants. Can you just tell Matt? He's her best friend and he should know, plus our friends" Derek said knowing that he would break down if he had to tell them
"Yeah of course I will, go and get changed you don't want to miss her surgery" he said while Derek left the room looking more defeated then Owen had ever seen him
Owen quickly left the room to find out where Matt was so that he could inform him about Ridley, realising that he was probably with Mason and Derek's spinal patient since Ridley gave him the surgery. He checked to see which recovery room that patient was in, there was high chance that Matt was there or around there taking notes on the patient. Unfortunately he wasn't there, Owen quickly ran to the intern locker room trying to catch him before he left the hospital since his shift was over a few hours ago. Just as he got to the locker room he saw Matt leaving the room and starting to head to the lobby so Owen yelled in the young boy to stop him in his tracks
"Owen?! What's going on?" Matt said a little curious as to why the chief of surgery was shouting on him in the middle of the hospital hallway
"Hey I've been looking everywhere for you, it's Ridley..." Owen began to tell everything that he had learned about her current condition so far since he last checked in
However before he finished telling him, Matt began to run towards the gallery where he found Derek and Meredith cuddling into each other for comfort. He walked up to the window where he saw everyone preparing for her surgery just she was being wheeled in on a gurney completely unconscious and unaware of what was happening around her. He went to where Meredith and Derek were sitting and silently sat next to them, while trying to dry his waterfall of tears.
"If the internal bleeding in a patient is so sever it can lead to a hematoma or hemorrhagic shock which can cause brain damage or ... Death" Matt said breaking the silence as he began treat the situation than as a normal case rather than dealing with the truth
" Matt..." Derek said sympathetically, he knew what Matt was trying to do and he knew it wasn't going to work
"Then again, if the break in the patient's leg isn't clean or if it has an infection due to the foreign object in it then the patient could lose their leg or having difficulty walking for the rest of their lives" he said as if he was reading it from a text book, with the same monotone voice
"You know what I'll be right back" Meredith said suddenly getting up and leaving the gallery
" Meredith... Derek I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that, I don't know what got into me" he said beginning to break down slightly in his seat
"Hey it's okay we understand trust me we do, Ridley is like your sister and she's your best friend it's hard when something like this happens" Derek said trying his best to comfort the young man while trying to control his own emotions
"She's my person you know, she's cant die okay? She just can't" he said as his voice began to break with how much he was crying
"Hey shhhh... It's okay she's going to be fine, Ridley is a fighter like her mom okay? She is going to fine" Derek said repeated trying to convince himself as well as Matt while he cradled the boy into his chest for comfort
They sat like for at least five minutes before Meredith came back into the room just as Callie, Owen and Miranda were starting their surgery on Ridley. When Meredith saw how upset Matt was since she left, she went to sit next to him and took his hand as he laid his head onto her shoulder while Derek took his other hand and gave Meredith a look. They all silent let the tears fall while watching Miranda tried and control the bleeding till they were interrupted by someone entering the room in a hurry
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Derek demanded as he stood up so he could become more intimating to Mason however mason couldn't take his eyes off Ridley lying defenceless on the surgical table.
" Derek calm down okay? I called him" Meredith told him knowing that it was the right thing to do
" Why? This is for people who love Ridley, you know her friends and family not for casual sex buddies" he said harshly although it still disgusted him to think of his daughter as a sexual being more so with a child of mark Sloan's
" I don't care what you think about me but we're more than just sex buddies okay? She's my girlfriend...And I'm in love her..." Mason confessed while submitted to the overwhelming urge to cry
In the surgery
Miranda and Owen were having a hard time trying to locate where the blood was coming from due the amount of blood she was losing, they had both the interns using clamps and suction to try and clean some of the blood out of the way.
" Miranda if we don't find what's causing this much blood then she will bleed out, she's already went through three blood bags and is nearly on her fourth!" Owen told her as they tried to act normal so they didn't worry Meredith who would know something was wrong
" I know but there is just so much blood, Oh my God Ridley is going to die on my table. The little girl who tried to dissect her juice box when she was two is going to die on my table!" She said beginning to panic as all rational thoughts went further out of her head
" You know what? Bokey can you pass me one of those cloths please? ... Thank you... Now I want you to forget who the patient is if it helps you then I want to think of this an exercise and completely fake" he said placing the cloth gently on Ridleys face so that no one could see her
" Okay just give me a minute to feel around, no one speak or move. So... That's fine...okay... Yup... Wait I think I have it... Yeah it's the her spleen that's ruptured" she said relived that they had finally found the bleed
"Okay so tell me what you need" Owen said trying to make what had to be the hardest surgery of her life just little be more easier
" I'm sorry but I need fewer people inside, I only need to one intern. You can help Callie or do something else" she said trying to be as rational as she could be
"Ok Peterson hand over your instruments to a scrub nurse and go see if Dr Torres needs you, Callie how you doing?" He said taking a step away from the table and heading towards Callie
"She has a comminuted fracture and one of those is because of a mental fragment for the car which has cut into the bone so hard that it broke. So far I've fixed the majority of the bone" she said sounding a little stressed out, partly due to worrying about later complications.
"What's left?" He asked hoping for any good news at this point
"I just need to take out the mental fragment and fix that part of it then that should be me, when I'm done I can go and tell Meredith and Derek how it went okay?" She told him as she got to work
" Yeah that's fine, guys I know that it's hard trust me I do but you're doing so well, page me when you're done or if you need me. I think I should go and inform her extended family" he said as he went to scrub out
Elsewhere
In the conference room some of the other attending's who had all gathered together in the room waiting for Owen to either confirm or deny the rumours that were currently spinning in the rumour mill of the hospital. No one was really talking to anyone, they were most comforting each other as they thought the worst
"Are you sure that you didn't see Ridley's name on the OR board maybe they put down her full name?" Jackson asked Alex who went to checked the board as soon as he heard the rumours
"No there's no mention of her, there was two females her age. A patient called Anna Potter who was having a c-section and a Jane doe who had internal injuries and a couple of broken bones" he told them although he wasn't sure what Ridleys injuries were meant to be
"Maybe she's at home completely fine and is sleeping in her own bed" Jo said through her tears while Alex gently stroked her knee to comfort her
"Has anyone tried to call her?" April asked as she fixed the blanket around Adam who was curled up in a chair fast asleep, she wanted to be near him as soon as she heard the rumours about Ridley
" I tried her cell and home a bunch of times, and all of the calls went straight to her voice mail" Richard said making coffee and tea for everyone, he liked to keep busy while waiting for news like this
"That just means shes not picking up there could be a thousand reasons why she isn't picking up" Cristina said picking up Lilly so she could hold her closer to her
"Meredith and Derek aren't answering theirs either or their pagers so who knows the answer, but surely someone would have told us by now. We're her family" Arizona said taking the coffee from Richard as he passed them out
"Unless Owen didn't want to so that we would focus more on our work, I mean it wouldn't be the first time" Cristina said referring to the whole Henry,Teddy surgery that she went through
"You know I'm surprised Mason isn't here" Jackson said out of nowhere while he looked around
" Maybe she's with him, although does anyone know the real story with them? I only know the rumours which vary from them trying some kind of social experiment to she's pregnant with their love child" April said as Jackson wrapped his arms around her waist as she leaned into him
" They're sex friends... Sorry they're dating or were, I'm not sure if its changed now after today's events" Alex said although he quickly changed his statement once Jo hit his arm
" Which is why Derek and him were fighting, god it's like the whole Mark and Lexie thing all over again but much worse" Arizona said understanding now what was going on between her fellow doctors
" Did you know Ridley was thinking about getting tested for the Alzheimer's disease along with various different types of mental illnesses ?" Jo said absent minded bringing everyone's attention to her
" What? Why" Richard said not knowing what good could come off knowing if you had a disease that could destroy everything that you are, he should know. However before anyone could reply Owen walked through the door
" Owen! Where have you been? I've been paging and calling you like crazy, have you heard the rumours about Ridley?" Cristina said as soon as he walked in and closed the door
"That's why you're here isn't?" Jackson realised by the look in his face
" Is that blood on your scrub top? Owen what's going on?" April asked suddenly becoming upset, the blood on the top could have been anyone's but in the current circumstance it was likely that it wasn't a good sign
" Ridley was in a car accident a couple of hours ago..." Owen began to say before everyone interrupted with their mountain of questions, although he soon hushed them down by a single motion
"She's the Jane doe right? The one in the OR due to internal injuries and a broken leg, I went to check and see if she was on the board... Which she was" Alex said defeated as he slowly sat down on the seat next to him as the realisation slowly started to settle in.
" Yeah she is, I didn't want to worry anyone till I had a chance to speak to you myself plus I didn't want it getting out before Meredith and Derek knew" Owen said as he walked around the room till he stood next to Cristina
"That means that Miranda and Callie are doing the surgery, how are they doing?" Richard asked knowing that he would put the best surgeons on the case however difficult it maybe
"Guys I'm not going to lie to you it's not good...Miranda couldn't control the bleeding for a long time, Ridley went through three bags of blood and she was on her fourth by the time she found the source it. Even then I..." Owen said before his emotions got the better of him
By the time that they all made their down to the gallery to see the progress that Miranda and Callie were hopefully making in Ridleys surgery. However when they went in rather than seeing Meredith and Derek and whoever else was meant to be there, they saw Miranda and Callie silently crying as they looked down into the OR that it over looked. Miranda was still have covered in Ridleys blood which almost immediately told them that something was wrong
"What happened?!" Arizona asked as she walked towards Callie so she could comfort her, however as soon as she came near her Callie crumpled into her arms
"Is she okay?!" Cristina asked as she quickly gave Owen Lilly to hold as she and Alex walked up to the gallery window to see for them self's.
" I repaired the spleen but she... She lost to much blood and her stats just kept dropping and dropping then she..." Miranda tried to tell them although her voice kept breaking with the amount of tears that began to fall as she relived the experience
"She flat lined?" April asked almost desperately as her vision became blurry with the tears that began to form as Callie silently nodded.
Cristina and Alex knew that it was true by what they saw down in the OR. Derek was barely able to hold up Meredith as they both fell to the ground as if the pressure of their grieve of their only daughter had weighed them down, they were both heavily crying. Matt quickly ran out of the room holding his mouth as if he was going to be sick at the sight of his dead best friend and his only person lying very still on the OR table. Masons actions were the most heartbreaking of all, instead of crying by her side he began to climb on top of her so he could have a better chance to succeed as he tried desperately to revive her by using chest compression's and mouth to mouth. In between the mouth to mouth they could hear him shouting.
"YOU DON'T GET TO LEAVE ME! NOT WHEN I'VE JUST FOUND YOU! RIDLEY PLEASE COME BACK BABY, COME BACK!"
Ridley
Ridley woke up on a rather cold OR table in the OR where she had last been, she couldn't remember why she was there. The last thing she remembered was driving home from her shift at the hospital then suddenly there was a sharp white light then all went black, she guessed that she probably dreamed it. When she got up she realised that she wasn't wearing the clothes she had gotten changed into after shift, she now wore a white crochet dress, white heels, matching sliver and white jewellery She got up from the table to look into one if the cabinets which she knew from experience was reflexive, she noticed that her make up was ever slightly more soft and gentle than it had been before since she now had slightly smoky eyes and pale beige lip gloss on. Even her normal mass of wavy hair was different since it now had a double plait around her head starting from the sides, the rest sat in soft waves.
"What's going on?... Hello? ...hello?!" She said while walking into the halls which would lead up the main reception of the hospital, a shortcut she had learned a while a go. Although she noticed that the hospital was unusually quite
" Hi Ridley" said a voice that she had never heard before, she slowly turned to see a woman that she had only seen in photos before.
" Aunt Lexie? What are you doing here? Am I dreaming" she said slightly rambling due to nerves about what this could mean if it wasn't a dream
" Ridley you were in accident, you had sever internal bleeding plus you had a comminuted fracture in your leg" she informed her as she walked towards her
" Had as past tense? Aunt Lexie am I dead? Because normal people can't usually see their dead aunts when they get hurt" she said venting slightly knowing that couldn't be good
" No you're not dead stupid, you think the after life looks like the hospital come on. You're in what they like to call limbo or what I call the land of the misguided" said a very handsome man who wrapped his arms around Lexie's waist.
" Mark I'm guessing? Nice to meet you, so if I'm not dead, then why am I here? Am misguided?" She asked remembering what her dad said about the famous Mark Sloan wit
"Not yet but you could be if you don't figure out that you need Mason like you need your heart because they're much the same thing" Lexie told her as they began to walk towards the famous love elevator.
"I have to tell you that I like the fact that my son and Derek's daughter are a thing, it's very cute I must say" mark said laughing slightly at the thought that their families were still being intertwined
"The point is you two could go two ways right now, one way is you could break up with him to please Derek and the other men in your life and spend your life with a bottle of tequila" Lexie said making it sound like the least appealing option
" Or you could forget about your dad, admit your real feelings for mini Sloan and complete fall head first into you're love for each other. But if you do that then you can't do what you're mom did because it ruined you're dad and Mason is too fragile for that" Mark said sounding very protective of his son
"What do you mean fragile?" She said not fully understand, Mason and fragile weren't words she would put together
" I'm not sure what he told you about his childhood but he never had any real examples of stable happy relationships. I mean I was never there, his mom had so many different boyfriends none of them really that serious. Him falling for you is a big deal so don't break his heart" Mark told both warning her and informing her
"Listen I know that us Greys are a dark and twisty bunch ,but sometimes when you find the right guy then you could have a little bit more shiny and bright in your life. I know it's easy to push people away when things get tough but don't it makes things harder when you have your way back to each other. Neither one of you will survive that" she told her speaking from both her experience and from Meredith's
Suddenly everything became very bright as a voice began to boom into Ridleys ears, at first it was just a mass of sound. As for the light it became so bright that it blinded her.
Back in the OR room Mason was still trying to bring back Ridley, refusing to accept that she was gone. Despite everyone around him trying to get him to stop, at first it was just pleads till Owen and Alex arrived and began to pull him off her so that he could see and feel that she was really gone. However once he stepped away knowing that he wanted to be alone he heard something that he never thought he would hear again, the sound of her breathing...
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