Ch. 25: Finding Out
Christina emerged from OR 3 with a good feeling. She had just spent 12 hours in the there, and the patient had lived. Now she knew all that ass whoopin when she was an intern had finally paid off. As she was scrubbing out, the door of the scrub room opened, and Burke entered with a tired look on his face, but with a smile.
"That was great babe," he said kissing her on the forehead. Christina rolled her eyes and grabbed the paper towel.
"What the hell bit you in the ass?" she asked
Burke smiled
"Well, in addition to my wife performing one of the best surgeries ever…"
"Burke if you don't cut the 'McDreamy-were-madly-in-love-sick-couple-people' act I'll kill you, literally,"
Burke laughed
"Well, looks like that surgery put you in a good mood,"
"Damn right it did," answered Christina getting more and more irritated as she walked out of the scrub room.
"Ok, I'll tell you...only because you asked so nicely,"
Christina gave him another death look
"Okay okay… While you were in surgery I got a page from Shepherd…"
"And??? Burke I swear, I will kick your ass here in a second if you don't tell me what the hell is going on!"
"Meredith's awake,"
Christina stopped dead in her tracks, glared at Burke, then ran down the hall, making a mental note to kill him later.
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Meredith lay fast asleep in her bed with Derek sitting besides her reading an article in 'Seattle's Medical Journal Magazine'. Ever since she had awaken, he had sat there, reading pointless medical journals to her to keep him busy. He hadn't been back to work in the last 3 days and he wasn't planning on it either. Derek had not left Meredith's side unless to go check on Audrey (which he spent 3 hours a day with her by either by her bed or in pt). He loved to be by his family, but it brought sadness to his heart. Jaccob was also feeling the blues with his mother slowly recovering and his sister struggling in physical therapy. He knocked once on Meredith's door and entered with Audrey in tow. Derek looked up and smiled.
"Hey guys. How did Physical Therapy go?"
Audrey smiled
"Aunt Callie said that my arm is healing and that I can get this stupid cast off in a couple of weeks,"
Derek hugged his daughter
"That's great and what did Jenny say?"
The smile was quickly replaced with a small frown
"I'm not making much progress. I need to continue with the ball and try to write everyday,"
Derek chuckled
"Recovery is hard Aud. It takes time. Trust me I know,"
Audrey nodded
"How's mom doing?"
Derek looked over at Meredith
"Nothing has changed. She's going to need another surgery if she doesn't show any signs of improvement by tomorrow. She just went back to sleep,"
The kids nodded and turned to leave
"Hey where are you guys going?"
Audrey and Jaccob exchanged looks
"Uh…to go see Aunt…uh Emily?"
Derek eyed them for a sec
"Fine, just page me when you're going to leave. If you need anything I'll be here,"
They both turned and left, exchanging guilty faces. They couldn't tell their father where they were going because technically they were supposed to be there, but they had never lied to him before, and that wasn't that easy to do. Derek watched his kids go. He knew they weren't going to go see Emily, but at that point, as long as they didn't go into an OR, Gallery, or get in any doctor's or patient's way, then he didn't mind. But he knew, if Mer had ever found out that he let their kids go run around the hospital, he would be sleeping on the couch. Laughing at that picture in his mind he returned back to his article, which wasn't that interesting. Suddenly the door flew open and slammed close.
"WHEN DID SHE WAKE UP AND HOW COME I WASN'T INFORMED!?"
Christina stood in the doorway enraged. She was Meredith's person and she hadn't been informed that her best friend had waken up? Derek sat there for a minute trying to get over the shock
"MCDREAMY IF YOU DON'T ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW…"
"SHUT UP! SHE'S GOING TO WAKE UP BECAUSE OFALL THE YELLING AND GO INTO SHOCK! SHE'S STILL VERY WEAK AND CAN'T HANDLE THIS!"
Christina glared at him
"Fine, but that doesn't mean that I'm not mad,"
Derek looked at her like she was crazy
"Well sorry but you of all people should know how fast gossip travels around here. We didn't want the whole hospital by her bed everyday. Only me, the kids, her doctors, and a few visitors are allowed,"
Christina softened up a bit as Derek explained
"Okay fine, but when did she wake?"
Derek sighed
"About 3 days ago. But she's only awake for about 30 minutes at a time. She's weak and gets a CAT scan and a MRI everyday to see if there is anything wrong. So far nothing, but if she doesn't get stronger soon, they're going to go in and cut…blind."
Christina stared at Meredith. She did look pale and weak. This wasn't the normal Meredith who was bright and shiny over the past 10 years. This didn't even look like dark and twisty Meredith. This was dead and lifeless Meredith, who was foreign to all of them.
"How's Chris and Amelia doing?"
Christina shook her head getting out of her daydream and faced Derek.
"They're getting over the shock. The school is reopening in a week, so they'll be going back. Amelia is being a little slow because of her condition, but she's recovering. How about Jacc and Audrey?"
Derek sighed
"Callie told Audrey that she could get the cast off in 2 weeks, but Audrey also said that Jenny told her to keep on exercising her hand with the ball and write more, so I have a feeling it will be more like 6 more weeks,"
Christina smiled
"Jacc will probably go back to school next week, but Audrey the week after so she can continue her pt without the first week of school stress,"
Christina nodded. Meredith began to stir and Christina's eyes and Derek's darted towards her. Meredith's eyes flickered opened and saw Christina standing there.
"Chris-"
Tears were coming to Christina's eyes
"Shhh, don't talk Mer. Everything's going to be fine. You'll be out of here soon, saving lives soon. Trust me. You're doing fine,"
Meredith smiled.
Will everyone stop telling me that I'm doing fine? If I was doing fine would I be laying here with my ass in this freakin uncomfortable bed, being prodded with all kinds of needles and being forced to go into 2 machines everyday only for them to find nothing wrong with me? If I was fine, you wouldn't be here on the verge of tears with Derek. You would be kicking some intern's ass and I would be right beside you! If I was doing fine, I would be able to talk, instead of only saying a word a day. So no I am not fine, SO STOP TELLING MET THAT I'M FINE!
Derek came over and stroked her hair
"Don't worry, we'll figure out what's wrong with you, even if I have to go in and kick everyone's ass so I can do it myslef. And nobody knows yet about you, except Christina Burke Audrey Jaccob, a few doctors, and me,"
Meredith nodded, and drifted back to sleep
Whenever I get the hell out of this place, I'm going to kick everyone's ass so hard, that they won't even know it.
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"Jacc we're not supposed to be up here. If dad ever found out, we'd be grounded….FOR LIFE!"
Audrey and Jaccob were sitting in OR 2's gallery watching Alex perform surgery with an intern. Luckily, there was no one in there so they were safe, until someone found out.
"Relax Audrey, this was your idea anyway, so why are you worrying?"
"Oh I don't know maybe because either Uncle Alex here could look up and see us, Bailey could come in, Uncle Richard could come in, or Aunt Christina could come in and report us to dad!"
Jaccob rolled his eyes
"Fine then lets go,"
He stood up and began heading for the door
"No wait. He's getting to the good part!"
Jaccob rolled his eyes
"AUDREY! Make up your mind! Do you want to go back to Dad and watch him be miserable or stay here?"
Audrey bit her lip
"I guess….stay here. I mean….what can go wrong?"
"Oh, lots of things can go wrong, starting with me reporting you to your dad!"
Audrey and Jaccob turned around to see George standing behind them.
"U-Uncle George what are you doing here?"
George eyed them,
"Shouldn't I be asking you the same?"
Audrey and Jaccob smiled sweetly
"C'mon let's get you back to your room Audrey. You know you're not supposed to be walking around,"
"BUT I'M FINE! Why do you guys keep me in that room when I'm fine?"
"We just want to make sure of that,"
The three of them walked down the stairs and started towards the hall
"You're not going to tell our dad are you?" asked Jaccob
George looked down at them and sighed
"You guys aren't allowed up there, but no I won't tell them. Just be lucky Bailey didn't catch you or else you would be answering to your father,"
Jaccob and Audrey smiled
"Have we mentioned how much we love you George?"
George rolled his eyes
"Lets just get you back to your dad okay?"
"Fine,"
The three of them walked into an empty elevator and slid against the wall
"So how's your mom doing?"
Jaccob sighed
"Not improving much. She wakes up for about 5-30 minutes, then falls back asleep. They still don't know what's wrong with her. Dad says that they'll have to do a blind cut surgery if she doesn't improve by tomorrow,"
George stared at Jaccob for a while, letting the elevator doors open
"Uncle George?"
"Y-Your mother is awake?"
Jaccob and Audrey exchanged looks as they stood up
"Ya, for 3 days now. Didn't you know?"
"NO! What the hell? I need to page Izzy, Christina, Alex, and Bailey! Why didn't your dad tell any of us?"
The kids shrugged
"We thought you knew,"
George ran out of the elevator doors to the nearest nurse's office
"Uncle Georgie, don't you think that our dad didn't tell you guys for a reason?"
George didn't listen,
"Can you page both Dr. Karev's, Dr. Bailey, and Dr. Christina Burke please and tell them to meet me in Dr. Shepherd's room?"
then nurse nodded and began dialing
"Uncle George!"
"Guys listen, we knew your mother since we were interns. We've always been there for each other and especially for her. Right now she needs us more than ever, and your dad should know that,"
The kids nodded, they just hoped they knew what George was doing.
A/N: Yes filler, not that exciting. Thank you for ALL your reviews! I love you guys...i just hope I didn't scare any of you away ( and I saw that I didn't D). I read all these other fanfics and they update like everyday. I used to be like that...but high school has taken over me. Midterms are coming up...so less and less updates. I've also had writer's block, that's why a lot of them are fillers. Um...X-mas break is coming up...so hopefully I'll have more updates by then...but for right now...once a wk is it. SORRY! PEACE, LOVE, and REVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
p.s: can u belive GA isn't going to be back till January 4th???? That like takes my life away!!! '(
pps: If you guys get a chance...check out my newest fic: Where did my life go? It's post 309 and kinda follows the show. I'll try to update that by the end of the weekend to!