He took her hands, carefully trying to pull her up.

Please let her be ok…

Andrew hoped to himself as he helped Amelia sit up. The hope didn't last long when she whinced in pain.

"I'm sorry Doctor Shepherd, I know it hurts but you can do it." He encouraged while pulling down the side rail of her hospital bed. She cried out as he pulled her legs over the side of the bed, putting her hands around his neck.

"You can do this. Let's just get you into the chair." He said in a comforting voice.

He knew that she wanted this. Before her tumour surgery he had had to promise her that he would do the early ambulation protocol with her. Her patients had an extremely high recovery rate because of this. But even knowing all the positive facts about it, it still hurt, putting patients through all this pain even though it was for their best. It was hard with any patient but this was even worse. Since they couldn't give Amelia any potent painkillers the amount of pain she was in seemed insurmountable.

She screamed as he carefully lifted her out of the bed, her head rested against his chest, her arms limp around his neck. He placed her into the chair next to the bed.

"Good job. You did great." He tried to comfort her but she just cried almost silently.

All of the sudden the door to the room opened and Doctor Koracick entered. As he saw what was going on he just raised an eyebrow.

"Do you enjoy this DeLuca?" He asked in a nonchalant voice as he checked Amelia's chart.

The questin had caught Andrew off guard. "What? No!" He answered confused and a little angry that Koracick would ask such a question. He knew he didn't hink much of the early ambulation protocol but he also knew that Shepherd's patients had a higher recovery rate than his.

"Well when you're done torturing her for the day, I want you to come down to radiology for a consult." He said with a brief glare towards Andrew, before leaving the room again.

Andrew wasn't sure what to make of this guy. He was an arrogant ass, sure, but he was also a brilliant surgeon and something told him that deep down under all that arrogance, he still seemed to care about his patients.

He kneeled down to Amelia. "Ok we are gonna get you back into bed Doctor Shepherd, alright?"

The only answer he got was a little whimper. He hated seeing her like this.

"Ok you can do this, you hear me? On three." He said, placing his arms around her.

"One… two…" he lifted her out of the chair "three!"

She screamed in agony as he lifted her, crying out for the pain to pass. Andrew placed Amelia back in her bed, trying to make her as comfortable as possible.

"You did great." He comended in a soft voice, tucking her back into her covers. For a moment he looked at her. "Doctor Shepherd I know you know this, but this will pass. You will make it through this." He adjusted her IV.

She barely responded but he noticed that she found comfort in his presence.

"I'm sure Meredith or Owen will be here any moment." He reasured her with a gaze to the clock above the door. "I'll be back soon." He said softly before leaving the room to get to the consult Koracick had ordered him to.

Please let this be over. Please let her pain stop. She has to get better because this world needs people like her.

He thought to himself as he walked towards the elevator.

This world needs brilliant minds like hers.

Editors note: Yaaay! Finally an update! My body is giving me all kinds of troubles right now and life is just super stressful but I will still try to get you somewhat consistend updates :)

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I really enjoy exploring the relationships between the different characters. Let me know what you think :)