Authors Note: AU OF WHAT AM I? (3x04)
Two months Later.
(Everyone gets ready for the day in the locker room, and Meredith, looking very sickly, swallows down a big gulp of Pepto. The screen changes to Cristina and Owen doing a surgery)
OWEN: Time me.
CHRISTINA: I've been timing you.
OWEN: My last time was off by 6 seconds.
CHRISTINA: Well it's not about speed, it's about accuracy. And your sutures are
OWEN: My sutures are textbook. The edges are perfectly aligned.
CHRISTINA: You're ready to take the patient into recovery.
GEORGE: So Izzie left the house this morning. That's a good sign.
ALEX: Yeah.
GEORGE: Are you OK?
MEREDITH: I'm just... not feeling like myself. I think I may of caught something from the twins.
ALEX: O'Malley has that effect on Women. Ask Dr. Montgomery the second.
GEORGE: What's that supposed to mean? You dated her while you dated Arizona.
ALEX: You threw her out on her ass.
GEORGE: I did not. Who told you that?
ALEX: Little Montgomery. Don't worry. I get it. She's hot... but she's not for you.
GEORGE: Why is that?
ALEX: Cause she's hot.
GEORGE: Avah!
AVAH: Hmmm?
GEORGE: Come on, Wait. Before you start yelling...you were right. I should have told you about how I felt about you moving in. Not that you were moving in. Its just.. I'm not good at the whole talking about feelings thing.
AVAH: I bet you told Meredith how you felt though, didn't you? And Izzie? You don't seem to have any trouble talking to them George, but me?
DOCTOR BAILEY: Let's go people. I've been in surgery since 2 AM. I'm in no mood.
MEREDITH: George... George. (as he's walking away) I miss you...
(He runs off to join the group)
CHRISTINA: No cutting... No cutting!
ALEX: Yang you're late.
CHRISTINA: Hey I got here before George.
GEORGE: I'm here! I was here!
BAILEY: Nice of you to join us Yang.
CHRISTINA: Oh what are you smiling about? Aren't you supposed to be on the Gynie Brigade with McSteamy's wife and Little Montgomery's sister?
ALEX: Yeah, whatever.
CHRISTINA: (to Meredith's pained expression and hand on her stomach) Woman troubles?
MEREDITH: Kid troubles. I think this wanting another child thing is getting to me. The stress of it. Elizabeth, Bailey, Elizabeth, Bailey, New baby. I think I'm getting an ulcer.
CHRISTINA: McDreamy and the twins are making you sick?
MEREDITH: I just need to think it over and get it over with.
GEORGE: Shawn Sullivan. 62. Had minimally invasive bypass surgery two days ago to remove a blockage from his LAD.
MR. SULLIVAN: I'm all better now, thank you George. So what do you think Miranda? Can I stop being a burden to you good people and go home?
MRS. SULLIVAN: You need to stop interrupting the Doctors Shawn. You need to listen to what they say.
MR. SULLIVAN: I need to get back to the dealership. They're going to can me if I'm gone to long.
MRS. SULLIVAN: They can't can you sweetie, you're the best salesman they've got.
DOCTOR BAILEY: What do you sell?
MR. SULLIVAN: Cars.
MRS. SULLIVAN: My Shawnie could sell...anything.
DOCTOR BAILEY: I believe he can. What he can't sell me on is going back to work before he gets his oxygen levels up. So put that oxygen back on Mr. Sullivan before I even think about letting you out of here. And if I do, I want your word: nothing fried, no alcohol and no cigarettes.
MR. SULLIVAN: Oh you're tough Miranda.
DOCTOR BAILEY: I need your word Mr. Sullivan or I'm not going to sign those discharge paper.
MR. SULLIVAN: I give you my word.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Alright then. Mrs. Sullivan you need to go to the front desk to fill out some paper work. Maybe you can take your husband home.
ADDISON: (walks in her patient's room, already starting to show) How we doing guys?
ALEX: She's at 8cm. But the baby's still at minus 3 statio.
HUSBAND: So what do we do? Pattern breathing? Squatting?
ALEX: Dude... Squatting?
ADDISON: Dr. Karev, how do we normally proceed in a situation like this?
ALEX: We monitor the baby's progress, If the descent stops entirely during active labor, then we perform a c-section.
WIFE: Not on me you don't. I'm sorry Dr Karev, but Jeff and I have a natural birth plan. And Dr. Montgomery-Sloan promised us...
ADDISON: I promised we would do what we can. But if your labor intensifies and the baby doesn't descend...
WIFE: Well then we wait until he does. Right? I'm not having a c-section.
ALEX: A c-section is actually the safest way...
WIFE: To what avoid a lawsuit.
ADDISON: We don't have to decide right now.
WIFE: I'm not going to miss out on an experience my body was made for just because it's more convenient for you.
DOCTOR BAILEY: You alright Dr. Grey?
MEREDITH: Yeah, Dr. Bailey, I just need to make a choice is all. (She looks to an approaching Derek)
DEREK: Karev. Dr. Grey, I am clipping a basilar tip aneurism. Any interest?
ADDISON: Dr. Bailey can I get... (And she sees Mark holding their younger daughter, Danielle) Oh my God. (Derek follows her view and also notices Mark who is showing Danielle off)
DEREK: Oh...my...God.
MEREDITH: Oh my God...
GEORGE: Is that...
CHRISTINA: McSteamy holding a baby. (Meredith throws up on the floor and Doctor Bailey runs to her)
DOCTOR BAILEY: Grey?
GEORGE: No Mr. Sullivan don't light that! (Mr. Sullivan has lit a cigarette, which causes an explosion as he is on Oxygen. Thus, the top half of his body is set on fire.)
DEREK: Somebody get a fire extinguisher!
DOCTOR BAILEY: Call a code red!
MARK: Make sure he has an airway. Sir can you hear me?
DOCTOR BAILEY: No he's out. Hit his head. Small hematoma in the occipital region.
MARK: Get him to the burn unit until he's stabilized and get a CT. GO!
DOCTOR BAILEY: Right away Dr. Come on.
DEREK: You're burning up.
MEREDITH: I'm fine.
DEREK: You don't look fine. (Christina hands her a glass of water) You look beautiful but you don't look fine.
CHRISTINA: Now I'm going to throw up.
MEREDITH: Go. You have aneurisms to clip. And surgeons's daughters to fawn over.
DEREK: You going to be alright?
MEREDITH: Yeah.
DEREK: Will you look after her, please?
CHRISTINA: Mmm hmm. (Derek goes after Mark and Baby Danielle) You think I'd miss this?
CHIEF: What kind of idiot lights a cigarette in a hospital.
DEREK: Apparently people do idiotic things all the time. (Derek, Chief and Mark exchange a glare and Chief walks away, going up the stairs. Ellis follows then Derek follows) Chief. Chief!
ADDISON: (about their second daughter) I thought you were taking her back to Daycare.
MARK: I thought it was time for a change from the Daycare. (handed his baby girl to Derek who walked back upstairs)
ADDISON: You can't do this. She can't be here.
(Meredith, Christina, and George watch, pointing and giggling)
MARK: Sure I can. It was easy. Go to the hospital daycare. Asked them to hand her over to me and I wanted to see my baby. (placed his hand on her growing bump)
ADDISON: I love you.
MARK: (grinned) I love you too. (played with her engagement and wedding rings) How's the morning sickness?
ADDISON: Not so good. (they interlock hands and continue to talk about their baby, as Meredith throws up in a garbage can)
CHRISTINA: Holy crap. Are you pregnant? (Everyone takes a break from arguing to stare)
ADDISON: Oh this is just perfect. (Derek runs down the stairs with Danielle still in his arms to get to Meredith) Another love child.
DEREK: (to Addison) Who are you to talk? Here, take your kid back. (hands Danielle back over to her. To Meredith) Meredith...
DOCTOR BAILEY: Uh uh, you've done enough already.
DEREK: Meredith...
MRS. SULLIVAN: Oh Dr? I finished filling out the paper work. When do you think I can take Shawnie home?
DOCTOR BAILEY: (looking rather nauseous herself at all that's going on) Uhhh...
CHRISTINA: (who is poking around Meredith's stomach. Jokingly) So who's the father?
MEREDITH: I'm not pregnant again.
CHRISTINA: I didn't think I was pregnant when I was pregnant either. But the fever, abdominal pain, non-stop vomiting?
MEREDITH: I'm not pregnant again.
CHRISTINA: You don't know who the father is, do you?
MEREDITH: It would have to be Derek's. There's no way it could be anyone else's. I can't be pregnant again, can I?
CHRISTINA: With another McBaby! (She pokes too hard and Meredith squirms)
MEREDITH: Was I this mean to you when you were pregnant?
CHRISTINA: I thought you said you weren't pregnant.
DOCTOR BAILEY: She's not. We'll have to run more tests.
MEREDITH: In that case can I have some morphine?
ADDISON: I want you checking the foetal monitor every thirty minutes.
ALEX: What's the point? The baby's no where near where he needs to be and you know you're going to have to cut her open. So why not get it over with.
ADDISON: That's not what the patient wants and it's our job as doctors to balance the desires of the patient against the risk of complication, so if the patient wants a natural birth...
ALEX: So if the patient wants a natural birth, it's not surgical. So why not just cut me loose and let me in on a surgery I might actually learn something in.
ADDISON: Like Sloan's burn case?
ALEX: I'm going into plastics anyway.
ADDISON: Do you think that Mark Sloan has anything to teach you? He's just like you. He's only looking out for himself. He's my husband and father of my children, but he's only looking out for himself.
ALEX: So what? The patient's looking out for herself. You're looking out for yourself...
ADDISON: No I'm not actually.
ALEX: Well maybe you should be.
ADDISON: Go. Go find Sloan. Do whatever you want just get out of my face Karev. Go! Go find my husband!
(Derek is examining Trenton's arm after he broke it at gymnastics, but just gracing through it, not really paying attention)
DEREK: I'm not saying the new intern is a bad doctor.
OWEN: Of course not...listen...
DEREK: I'm saying he's a bad person. The man has no morality. No ethics.
OWEN: But there's no pain, no numbness but um...
DEREK: The question is do we really want our other interns learning from someone like that?
TRENTON: Derek my arm?
DEREK: Oh, yeah. It's good. It's great. You have great range of motion. I can clear you for surgery.
TRENTON: Really? You're sure?
DEREK: Yeah. Absolutely. Complete recovery. (Christina walks in) You're not having any problems right?
CHRISTINA: No! we've been doing his physical therapy with him every night. He's perfect. He's Trent.
DEREK: Good. Glad to hear it.
TRENTON: Yeah.
CHRISTINA: Dr. Bailey wanted to know if you still needed an intern.
DEREK: No I'm fine. How's Dr. Grey? My wife?
CHRISTINA: Oh, she's not pregnant...with another baby... so... yeah. (she leaves)
ALEX: Dr. Sloan?
MARK: You my intern?
ALEX: Yeah. I'm your intern. Your wife dumped me on you.
MR. SULLIVAN: My face...
MARK: No need to talk Mr. Sullivan. Now, it's going to be painful for a while.
MR. SULLIVAN: My face...
MRS. SULLIVAN: He wants to know that you can fix his face. He needs to know that you can fix his face.
MARK: I'm going to remove the burned tissue and bandage your face with a dressing of live cells.
MRS. SULLIVAN: And that'll do it? His face will be back like it was. Cause his face...such a nice face...He's a salesman.
MARK: I'm going to do absolutely everything I can Mrs. Sullivan. We'll need a neuro consult before we operate.
ALEX: Anything else? I mean I can do debriedment or...
MARK: Actually, there is one more thing...bone dry cappuccino. Make it a double.
MEREDITH: You're a good friend.
CHRISTINA: You're so high right now.
MEREDITH: Actually, you're my best friend in the whole entire world.
CHRISTINA: Now I just feel sorry for you.
MEREDITH: Why? Cause I could die today?
CHRISTINA: This is why I hate being around stoned people.
MEREDITH: If I did die today, I'd only be remembered as the crazy intern who's mother married the chief.
CHRISTINA: One surgeon. One chief.
AVAH: Dr. Grey, you've got a fever, high white count. And tenderness over McBurney's point which suggests...
CHRISTINA AND GEORGE: Appendicitis.
MEREDITH: (a little behind the rest) Appendicitis...
AVAH: Dr. O'Malley, prep Dr. Grey for surgery. You're scrubbing in.
GEORGE: I am? For Meredith's appendectomy?
MEREDITH: Uhh... Am I the only one who remembers last time George scrubbed in on an appendectomy? He almost killed the guy. Sorry George.
GEORGE: I don't have to scrub in, Dr. Montgomery. I could just... uh... unless you want me to... not going to happen again.
AVAH: That good enough for you Dr. Grey?
MEREDITH: You're pretty and leggy. (They all go to leave) George! Ice chips.
CAMERON: Hey.
CALLIE: I heard Meredith's having an Appy.
CAMERON: It wasn't my idea to scrub in to my sister's surgery.
CALLIE: Cam...i just thought maybe we could have a late supper at the Archfield.
CAMERON: Why would we have dinner at a hotel?
CALLIE: Cause they bring it to your room.
CAMERON: You're staying at the Archfield. How are you affording that?
CALLIE: I still have some secrets Grey. And if you come see me tonight, I might just show you one or two.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Dr. Sloan. I was just checking on the Sullivans, and... how is he doing?
MARK: What are you doing here?
DOCTOR BAILEY: I was the resident on Mr. Sullivan's bypass.
MARK: Well I don't need a resident on this case.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Excuse me, I wasn't asking to be your resident. I was asking how my patient was doing.
MARK: He's not your patient any more and if you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way to relieve Kepner and Avery off baby-duty.
CHRISTINA: Congratulations. I told you, Son.
TRENTON: Yeah.
CHRISTINA: What?
OWEN: Shepherd shouldn't have cleared him.
CHRISTINA: What?
OWEN: He just... shouldn't have cleared him.
NURSE: Another contraction, Dr. Montgomery-Sloan.
ADDISON: You're fully dilated, but the baby is only at minus 2 station.
REBECCA: We just need more time.
ADDISON: We don't have it Rebecca. His heart rate is slowing with each contraction. If he starts having late decals...
REBECCA: Is he having late decals?
ADDISON: Not yet but...
REBECCA: Then stop trying to scare me into having a surgery I don't want. I have a birth plan. Look I...I'm not going to be one of those weak-ass women who give all that up the minute things start to get scary.
ADDISON: Rebecca, a birth plan is just that...it's a plan.
JEFF: I think she's just trying to be cautious...
REBECCA: Get out! Get out get out!
DOCTOR BAILEY: Since when do you get out?
ADDISON: Apparently I'm not myself today. With the pregnancy hormones and all.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Never would have figured Mark Sloan to be the dad-type.
ADDISON: He's not...he's not! What is our second daughter doing here? She's not supposed to be here. I can't have her here. She's supposed to be at the hospital daycare. I can't...I can't function with her here. I'm professional here, people respect me here. But when she's here I'm just... I'm...
DOCTOR BAILEY: A woman who gets the hots for her husband and turns to a mother from a teacher?
ADDISON: That is rude. And unkind, and completely true. What am I going to do?
DOCTOR BAILEY: For starters, you can keep your knees closed in his presence, after your baby is born. So you won't get pregnant again so quickly.
ADDISON: Miranda...
DOCTOR BAILEY: You asked. And also, you can remember that nobody, defines who you are. Your family and children do.
DEREK: Well let's see. Your complexion is flushed. Abdominal wall is tender. Aren't you happy to have a husband who works in the hospital?
MEREDITH: Oh yes.
DEREK: Really?
MEREDITH: I love you...
DEREK: I love you too. (Derek's pager goes off)
AVAH: Doctor Shepard, If you need to take off it's...
DEREK: No, I can stay.
AVAH: Great.
MEREDITH: Great.
DEREK: Great.
GEORGE: OK let's get you prepped and ready for surgery...Oh. Dr. Shepherd. Hi, Doctor Montgomery.
MEREDITH: Now all the people I love are here? Montgomery, O'Malley loves you.
GEORGE: (at Avah's confusion) She's on drugs.
MEREDITH: (about Derek) He's an excellent kisser.
GEORGE: Oh..I can't..be here.
DOCTOR BAILEY: None of you can be here, this woman's being prepped for surgery. Which means all of you need to leave.
GEORGE: Gladly.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Now! Not you O'Malley and Little Montgomery.
MEREDITH: Dr. Bailey, all my friends are here.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Not for long. Say goodbye Dr. Grey.
DEREK: I'll be here when you wake up. (placed a kiss on the top of her head)
DOCTOR BAILEY: Now!
DEREK: Mr. Sullivan...I want to recommend a night of observation in the ICU before Dr. Sloan proceeds with your surgery.
MARK: Is that really necessary Dr. Shepherd? The longer we wait, the higher the risk of infection.
DEREK: I think it's important that we attend to potential life threatening injuries before moving on to cosmetics, Dr. Sloan.
MARK: He's not here for a face lift Derek. He's a burn victim.
DEREK: Why did you ask for a consult if you've already established a course of action.
MARK: Because I thought you were good enough at your job to put aside the personal and do what's best for the patient.
DEREK: My job? You're telling me how to do my job?
MRS. SULLIVAN: Please, I'm sure it's complicated. And I know Shawnie's sorry for lighting that smoke. He was trying to keep his word to Dr. Bailey. He told her he wasn't going to smoke when he got home. And he was just trying to keep his word. He knows he did wrong. But he's...he's a salesman, that's who he is. So could you just fix his face? Could you do that for us please?
MEREDITH: Addison? Dr. Montgomery-Sloan?
ADDISON: You bellowed Dr. Grey.
MEREDITH: Hi, Bestie.
ADDISON: You're certainly aren't you? (Addison looks at her chart) But you're not pregnant.
MEREDITH: No. Are you OK? Is the baby OK?
ADDISON: Fine. It's fine. How are you? (placed her hand on her belly)
MEREDITH: I'm trying to choose between more kids.
ADDISON: OK...well good luck with that.
MEREDITH: How did you and Mark know you wanted kids in the first place?
ADDISON: Excuse me?
MEREDITH: I know you are hyped on pregnancy hormones, and you don't owe me anything. Nothing. No... thing. What was I saying?
ADDISON: Kids.
MEREDITH: Right. I want to have more kids. But I would know he wants another one right? You two knew, right?
ADDISON: You don't.. I didn't know...I just...it just happened...We were young and stupid and I was in love with Mark, and I thought he loved me which he does. (flashes her diamond wedding ring)
MEREDITH: How come we never talked like this before?
ADDISON: The only reason we 're talking like this right now is because I know you won't remember a single word of this when the drugs wear off.
NURSE: Dr. Karev, you need to see this.
ALEX: I'm off the case, page Dr. Montgomery-Sloan.
NURSE: We did... but...
ALEX: Oh man...
DEREK: Were you just talking to Meredith?
ADDISON: Yeah.
DEREK: What?
ADDISON: Where um...where is my kid?
ALEX: You planning on killing a woman today?
ADDISON: What?
ALEX: The C-section you should have performed on Rebecca this morning? At this point it may be too late. For her and the baby. Nice work Sloan.
ADDISON: Get an OR and an anaesthesiologist. We're doing a crash C-section right away. He's in distress. We have to get you into the delivery room and get him out right now.
REBECCA: No...
ADDISON: This is no longer a conversation. I am your doctor and I am responsible for your life, and your baby's life. And I am not about to lose either one of you. Are we clear? (to Alex) You just going to stand there Karev or are you going to do this? (Alex follows her to the OR)
MEREDITH: Ohh on the table keep me draped. Too many people have seen me naked already. I'd like to keep whatever dignity I have left. McSteamy. McSteamy. WOO HOO.
MARK: Is that what they're calling me besides McDaddy?
MEREDITH: Yeah, but I don't think you're supposed to know that.
MARK: How's my favorite dirty mistress?
MEREDITH: Haven't you heard? Now I'm an skank!
REBECCA: (her son has just been born and handed to her) He's so beautiful. So beautiful. Thank you.
ADDISON: You're welcome.
REBECCA: How far along are you and which number is it?
ADDISON: Four months and this is my third child.
CAMERON: The appendix is out. Now what do I do O'Malley?
GEORGE: You invert the stump into the cecum and pull on the purse strings.
CAMERON: Show me.
GEORGE: OK. Clamp.
MARK: Where's my coffee Karev?
ALEX: I got pulled into an emergency c-section by your wife.
MARK: Too bad. I was going to let you scrub in on a real surgery. Maybe next time. If my wife can spare you. I'm getting Danielle from Altman and Burton. See you.
AVAH: Hey. Ready to go?
GEORGE: I'm sorry I have to do this. I have to go home. It's Izzie.
AVAH: It's always Izzie or Meredith. It's never me.
GEORGE: That's not true.
AVAH: Who am I to you George? Am I your girlfriend? Am I somebody you mess around with to make Alex jealous? Do you even know? Well guess what? Now you don't even have to bother to figure it out.
CALLIE: How's he doing Mrs. Sullivan?
MRS. SULLIVAN: We're just getting an update now, Dr. Torres.
MARK: Surgery went well. We removed the necrotic tissue, applied the live cells and if his body responds in three to four weeks.
MRS. SULLIVAN: He'll have his face back.
MARK: Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan...your face may never be exactly what it was. Even if everything goes perfectly well, there will be scarring.
MRS. SULLIVAN: But he's a sales man. He has such a nice face.
CALLIE: You have an incredible wife, Mr. Sullivan. And half a dozen car salesman in the lobby waiting to visit you. Your face may be different. But you know as well as I do, it's not about what you look like, or your job or how successful you are. Its about having people in your life who you love, and who love you. That's all that matters.
CHRISTINA: (to Owen chopping up chicken) Chicken surgery?
OWEN: I'm making us dinner.
AVAH: (at Joe's) Captain of the Vajayjay squad right?
ALEX: (they are reintroducing each other again) You must be a friend of Meredith's.
AVAH: Not really. Dr. Montgomery. Avah.
ALEX: Alex Karev.
AVAH: Bad day?
ALEX: You could say that. You?
AVAH: Oh yeah...
ALEX: So what have you heard about me, exactly?
AVAH: Mostly things that involve the words dirty and bad and cheater.
ALEX: Right. I guess there really is no starting over, is there? Can I buy you a drink Little Montgomery? (She finishes off her drink, and walks toward the door)
AVAH: Only if you have it delivered to my hotel room 'cause I'm off to bed.
CAMERON: Sometimes you have to make big mistake to figure out how to make things right.
AVAH: You coming?
(Screen flashes to Mark lying in bed with Addison)
MARK: At least now you don't have to feel stressed any more.
ADDISON: Shut up.
CAMERON: Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are.. (George opens an envelope mailed out to Isobel Stevens from the Duquette family. Inside is a letter and a check to her for $8,700,000. George is trying to words something out but he can't seem to)
Authors Note: OK, that's the end of the chapter. Sorry it took so long. I will try to do 3x05 revamp also but there are just so many plotlines that I have to change. Another opportunity to do 1x09 and S2 for my Maddison fanfiction starting at 1x09. Thanks for the reviews even though I was hoping for more. Tell me what you want for the next chapter. I'm thinking it should be a George/Avah chapter but I don't have a clue about what it should be. Ooh Alex/Avah are heating up. I bet you guys are gonna wonder what's gonna happen with him and Arizona and her and George.
Responses to recent reviews:
Patsy: (chapter 19) Will do! I don't like Addek very much myself.
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Guest #1: (chapter 25) I don't even like Addek very much so I'm glad there is someone is who doesn't like them together. I'd rather ship Addison/Meredith over Addek, I'm not joking. Thanks for your motivation. It helped a bit.
Guest #2: (chapter 25) Erm...this is an English story but everybody is able to review. Thank god I still remember Spanish. Here is the translation: More maddison please and I love how you write do not stop. I'm glad people love Maddison and love my writing. Yep in case you haven't noticed, I am the hugest Maddison fan ever.
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