Disclaimer: The almighty Shonda Rhimes owns the amazing show Grey's Anatomy, not me. I just own all of the DVD's :)
This chapter is Carly's first day as an intern at SGH and guess how lucky Carly is.... who do you think is her resident????? I think this will be a long one again...
"Carly!" she heard her brother and sister exclaim as she walked into the door of her house.
"Hey kiddos," Carly laughed as Lucy and Logan, now eleven ran towards her to give her a hug.
"We missed you!" Logan said.
"I saw you on Easter silly," Carly teased.
"That was MONTHS ago," Lucy emphasized and Carly laughed. But she did feel her heart tug a little. She had been accepted to UW for med school but Nat hadn't. The two had gotten extremely close over at Dartmouth and had even shared an apartment with Jill, Brooke, Olivia, and Sam. Lauren and Ali had shared their own apartment with their boyfriends. So instead, they went to Columbia, and being med school, Carly had been home so little between studying and felt as if she had lost the the last seven years of her younger siblings lives.
"Well I am here for good now," Carly promised.
"Really?" Logan asked.
"You got accepted!" Lucy squealed and hugged her sister again. "Are you coming to live here?"
"No," Carly shook her head. "I got an apartment in the city near the hospital with..."
"I thought I heard munchkins in here... but these kids seem way to big," a new voice said.
"Natalie!" Logan and Lucy exclaimed and ran towards Carly's friend.
"Hello... how old are you guys now... what... 20?" Natalie teased.
"We're 11," Lucy said proudly.
"Last time I saw you, you were up to here," Natalie laughed and put her hand right in the middle of her stomach.
"Can you stay here?" Logan asked.
"Nah," Nat shook her head. "I need to keep your sister in line." Logan and Lucy giggled.
"Are you gonna stay till Mom and Dad get home?" Lucy asked Carly.
"We just got here today, we need to get our apartment ready... we're here for two weeks until work starts," Carly said, and then looked around. "Can you guys not tell Mom and Dad I am here yet?"
"Why... they don't know," Lucy said, shocked.
"No," Carly shook her head. "And I don't want it to be too awkward so do we have a deal?"
"Deal," Logan nodded his head and spit on his hand. Carly reached out her hand but pulled it back and shook her head.
"Not worth it," she laughed kissing him on the head instead. "You can tell them next week okay..."
"Okay," Lucy said hugging her sister once more.
"Bye!" she and Natalie called.
"Bye Car! Love you!" the twins echoed as they left the house.
"Why don't you want your parents to know you're here?" Nat asked as they got in the car and drove off.
"Because," Carly explained. "I figured that everyone is going to make a fuss about me being the chief and head of neuro's daughter when we start in two weeks so... if I don't talk to them till my first day... maybe it will be less awkward and they won't think I cheated my way into the program."
"Good idea... since I am like the surrogate daughter as well... and your best friend," Nat said. "Speaking of best friend.... have you seen Lex, Maddie, or anyone else yet?"
"Nope," Carly shook her head.
"Then how did you get Lex and Maddie's portion of this month's rent?" Natalie asked,
"Haven't yet..." Carly said. "I have a huge trust fund I used to pay the first... they can pay me back when we see them... which will be soon, we are supposed to meet them at the train station in one hour."
"So Maddie is still at U Dub," Nat said and Carly nodded.
"Two more years of med school," Carly nodded.
"And Lex is what...." Nat questioned, forgetting.
"Elementary school teacher," Carly answered.
"Wow," Nat laughed. "Can't wait to see how that works out."
"Agreed," Carly laughed. "And Em, Sarah, and Hailey have an apartment next door to ours."
"I still don't know why we trusted Lex to pick out the apartment... we've paid for it and haven't even seen it," Nat teased.
"We can trust her," Carly shrugged. "Wanna go see it now or wait for Maddie and Lex."
"Let's wait," Natalie reasoned and they drove to the train station. About a half an hour later they heard...
"CARLY ELISE SHEPHERD!"
"NATALIE MELISSA HAYES!"
They turned around to see Alexis and Maddie running towards them. Mia, Sarah, and Hailey trailing a few steps behind.
"God I missed you guys!" Carly exclaimed and hugged all her five friends.
"Us too," Mia said catching up.
"I still can't believe that Ava and Em moved across state as soon as Car and I move here," Natalie shook her head.
"We have sooo much catching up to do," Carly sighed and linked arms with her friends. She couldn't believe how close they stayed after all the years away and even with Nat joining the group.
"First we have to show you guys the apartment," Maddie gushed. "And my mom threatened to steal it so it has to be a great place."
"Aunt Iz," Carly shook her head. The apartment was not far from the hospital like Alexis and Maddie had said, and when they opened the door, Carly's mouth dropped open. It had hard wood floors, a fireplace, a large flat screen, couch's galore a four bedrooms. It was huge and amazing.
"Oh my god," Natalie exclaimed. Carly thought that college was a new life, she was easily mistaken.
Two weeks later....
"So you seriously haven't seen your parents yet... or any of your family," Mia asked, surprised. She was standing in Carly's room as Carly looked for a dress in her full to the max closet.
"Nope," Carly smirked. "Except for tonight if I don't manage to avoid them.... it's the mixer."
"Good god," Mia shook her head. "So you seriously want us waiting at Joe's."
"Yes... I don't want to become my mom," Carly laughed. "You guys need to make sure I don't get too too drunk because I know I am leaving that mixer early..."
"What about Nat?" Mia questioned.
"She can do whatever she wants," Carly shrugged and pulled out a long pink dress and kicked silver shoes out from the bottom of her closet. "What do you think?"
"Perfect girl... go kick ass," Mia laughed.
"This ought to show anyone who thinks I cheated my way into the program who's boss," Carly giggled as she slipped the dress on.
"You look hot girl," Nat said walking in. "You ready?"
"Almost," Carly said as she slipped on her shoes and ran to the mirror to check on her make-up. "Check... let's go." The two girls hopped in Carly's car and went over to the hospital.
"How do you get to the cafeteria?" Natalie asked.
"Follow me," Carly laughed as they walked through the mazes of hallways known as Seattle Grace Hospital. Their new home for the next 5 years of their life. When they walked in, they were overwhelmed by the amount of doctors crammed into one room. Carly spotted her Aunt Izzie, Uncle Alex, Aunt Addie, and Aunt Lexie so began to avoid that corner of the room. She walked up to the food table with Nat.
"Hey," a guy said. "I'm Andrew Graham... surgery. What about you two?" Carly put on her flirty eyes. He was cute. With really dirty blond hair that was almost brunette.
"I'm Carly S-... and this is Natalie Hayes," Carly said pointed to her and Nat. "We're surgery too."
"So I guess we are gonna get tortured together... you know which one is Chief Shepherd?" Andrew asked. Carly shrugged.
"Can't see him," Carly said, her eyes darting around the room.
"Oh well... there are some of us over there... all surgery... we're supposed to meet our competition," Andrew told them.
"Okay... can you..." Carly began but Andrew interrupted.
"What did you say your last name was?" Andrew asked her.
"I want to go meet those other people you mentioned," Natalie saved her. "Can you take us?"
"Sure," Andrew said, forgetting his question. "Come on..." He brought them to the other side of the room, Carly looked around and there was none of her family there.
"Andrew right," one of the girls said. Andrew nodded. "Who are they?"
"This is Carly and Natalie... they are surgery too," Andrew said.
"Hi... I'm Ellie," the girl said, she had red hair.
"I'm Dan," a guy next to her said, he had red hair.
"I'm Greg," a dark haired guy said from next to him.
"And I am Kacie," said a blond haired girl.
"You all surgery," Natalie said, shocked.
"Yeah," they nodded. All of a sudden, Carly heard a very familiar voice.
"Interns," he scoffed. Carly turned around, being face to face with Tuck Bailey Jones, known as Bailey in the hospital like his mother.
"Is that Dr. Bailey?" Kacie asked.
"I heard he's a Nazi," Dan said and Carly fought the urge to laugh. It seem Tuck inherited his mother's nickname too.
"That's the chief," Ellie said all of a sudden and Carly spun around. She saw her parents now near her Aunt's and Uncle's she spotted before.
"Who's that next to him?" Greg asked.
"His wife... the other Doctor Shepherd... she's the head of neuro," Andrew explained. He turned around to find that Carly and Natalie disappeared. He shrugged and kept talking to everyone else.
"That was close," Carly breathed as she was about to leave the room and go to Joe's.
"Carly!" she heard someone call. She looked around to see her Uncle George, her Aunt Callie and Uncle Mark close by.
"Run," she giggled and pulled Natalie out of the room.
"Is she even here?" Meredith asked Derek when they approached their friends. "How you seen Carly?"
"Not at all," Addie answered.
"Have you been to the apartment?" Derek asked Izzie and Alex.
"Yeah... but... I only ever saw Alexis, Natalie, and Maddie... plus Mia, Sarah, and Hailey," Izzie answered.
"Never Car," Alex agreed.
"Are we sure she is here?" Meredith fretted.
"The twins saw her remember... she only ever saw the twins," Derek told his wife. "Twice... maybe more... you know... if she told them not to tell... they won't...."
"But why is she ignoring you guys?" Lexie asked.
"I don't know... you think it has something to do with the fact that she is the chief's daughter?" Derek asked.
"Who knows," Meredith shrugged. "All I know is that when I see her."
"Carly!" they heard George call. Everyone looked towards the door to the cafeteria and saw a pink dress disappear behind the doors.
"She was here," Addie concluded. "That's the dress I bought her when she was here last."
"I told you to stop buying her things," Meredith shook her head.
"We were out and she didn't have any money left," Addie shrugged.
"That was weird," Callie said as they approached their friends.
"Carly?" Meredith asked.
"Yeah," Mark said. "She completely ignored us and ran away."
"At least you aren't her parents and she's ignoring you," Derek said.
"That girl still hasn't gone over when you were home," George said, shocked.
"Nope," Derek shook his head.
"Zoe and Steve have seen her," Mark said. "Maybe even Abs... Archer hasn't clearly since he is in college..."
"So did Brendon and Kay," Izzie added.
"Erin, Trev, and Becca even said they saw her... she stopped by when they were all over our house," Callie asked.
"What has gotten into that girl," Addie shook her head.
"Maybe it's what Der said," Iz shrugged.
"Hey Joe," Carly smiled as she sat down at the bar.
"Carly Shepherd," Joe smiled. "Long time no see. What are you doing in town?"
"Officially time for me to take over the family buisness," Carly laughed.
"Congrats," Joe said. "First rounds on the house then girls." He nodded to her and Nat.
"Thanks Joe," Natalie smiled. "Vodka and tonic."
"Tequila," Carly smiled.
"You are your mother's daughter," Joe chuckled as he poured them their drinks. "You're gonna be sorry in the morning..."
"Proud of it," Carly laughed. "To becoming surgeons!" Carly held up her glass to Nat.
"You guys are interns," Alexis teased coming up from behind them.
"Car, you weren't joking about the whole ditching it early," Mia laughed.
"When do I ever joke about things like that?" Carly laughed.
"Hey girls," Joe said. "So Maddie... when you joining them?"
"Not for two years if I don't flunk out first," Maddie groaned.
"You won't," Carly nudged her. "You have me and Nat to help ya study...."
"I wonder who our residents will be?" Natalie asked.
"Yeah... knowing my dad he probably split us up," Carly sighed.
"Probably," Natalie said. All of a sudden, the bell on the entrance to Joe's dinged. Carly turned around and saw Addie, Izzie, Mark, Alex, George, Callie, and Lexie walk it.
"Oh shit," she hissed and turned around.
"Way to avoid them Carly," Hailey teased. "Your plan seems to be working well."
"Shut up," she hissed and turned around. "Have they seen us yet?" Just as she said that their eyes traveled to their corner of the bar.
"They've seen us," Lex said. "Bye!" Lex, Maddie, Mia, Hailey, and Sarah all left Natalie and Carly alone.
"I'm gonna ki-" she began.
"Hi Carly," Alex said and Carly rolled her eyes. "Long time no see." Addie sat next to her.
"Hi," she muttered.
"Now, would you like to explain to us why you have been avoiding us all for the past two weeks we know you've been here," Addie said.
"I'm gonna follow them," Natalie said.
"Oh no," George said stepping in front of her.
"Now how does it feel to be the surrogate fourth Shepherd child," Carly chided and Natalie hit her.
"Seriously Carly... you're parents," Izzie began.
"I know... I know," Carly put her hands up. "But how do you think it feel to be working somewhere both your parents work at... one of your parents is the boss of, and many of your collegues, your competition will think that you cheated your way into the program."
"Ah... Derek was right," Mark said.
"You were discussing me?" Carly snapped.
"We're your family," Lexie argued. "And..." She couldn't finish what she wanted to say, seeing as Carly never told any of her college friends about her rape, even Nat.
"The less I see of them... the less awkward... if it wasn't for me being a surgical intern and having such competition, I would have spoke to them tonight... but it's best if I wait for tomorrow," Carly told them.
"As you wish Car," Mark shook his head, knowing very well it was the most he would get out of his niece.
"Now you two... go home..." Alex teased. "It's your first day as an intern... and as the child and surrogate child of Drs. Shepherd... none of us, if you are on our service, will give you any special treatment." Carly laughed.
"Love you all too," Carly said dryly and skipped over to her friends to get them.
"What have we gotten ourselves into," Nat joked.
"I guess we'll find out," Car laughed.
"Hmmm," Carly groaned as she hit her alarm clock beside her bed. "What time is it?" She looked over. Five in the morning. Carly and her friends had done anything but go home and sleep, well they had gone home, but ended up breaking open beers and bottles of tequila. Now Carly had a pounding head ache.
"Ugh... why... oh why did I choose to become a surgeon," she muttered to herself.
"Get up sleepy head," Natalie said coming to her door, her toothbrush in hand. "I already got my shower..."
"Good for you... you went to bed," Carly hissed.
"I was wondering why Maddie is passed out on the couch, Mia is on the floor, Hailey seemed to make it to Maddie's bed, and Sarah and Lex are in Lex's bed," Natalie chuckled.
"Why can't you be more convincing," Carly said, remembering when her friend told her to go to bed too.
"Because your a stubborn little bitch, now come on," Natalie pulled her up. "Get a shower... I will make you coffee and get tylenol."
"Thanks," Carly mumbled and walked towards the shower. She got out as soon as she could, slipped on a pair of jeans, long sleeve purple t-shirt she stole from Maddie, and pulled her hair back. She walked into the kitchen and grabbed the black coffee Nat had prepared for her, downed it and the tylenol.
"Ready chica?" Nat asked.
"As I'll ever be," Carly shrugged, put on sneakers and grabbed her purse.
"Let's go," she said and grabbed her keys, not trusting Carly to drive. "So... um... intern locker room?"
"No..." Carly shook her head as she lead her friend into an empty OR room. There stood her father in the middle, the rest of the interns were standing around. He met Carly's eyes and she looked away, but she didn't miss the hurt that flashed through his eyes.
"Good morning," he announced. "A month ago you were in med school studying to become doctors, today, you are doctors. This is the beginning of your surgical careers. Each of you come here today hopeful, but not all will leave that way. Some of you crash and fold under the pressure, some will choose another specialty, some of you will be asked to leave, and some of you... some of you will excell. It all depends on how you play the game. For the next five years... this, this is your playing field... how you choose to play.... that's up to you.... and I wish all of you the very best of luck.... You're dismissed."
"So... um... intern locker room," Natalie repeated.
"Follow me," Carly laughed. "I'd think you'd know how to get around here after... like... how many summers?"
"Car... you were practically raised in this hospital... me... 8 years... maybe less...." Nat said.
"Well here it is," Carly said and walked into the door. There was a flurry of people in there already rushing to get changed. Carly found her locker and opened it.
"Carly right," the girl named Kacie said.
"Yeah... Kacie?" Carly questioned and the girl nodded.
"So... what resident do you have?" she asked as Carly slipped her scrub top over her purple shirt.
"Um..." Carly began and looked at the sheet of paper. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw the name on the sheet. Dr. Bailey. Andrew looked over her shoudler.
"The Nazi... me too," Andrew said.
"Same," Kacie nodded along with Ellie, Dan, and a girl named Anna. Carly clenched her teeth.
"Guess we were right," Natalie shrugged.
"Guys," Ellie said. "Did you here we have an inbred this year?" Carly's stomach dropped.
"No duh El... a lot of children whose parents are surgeons usually become surgeons," Dan said.
"I mean royally inbred," Ellie continued. "As in the Meredith and Derek Shepherd...."
"No... our chief and our head of neuro," Anna gasped.
"Creators of the Shepherd method," Dan added.
"Yeah," Ellie rambled on. "And that means she's the granddaughter of Ellis Grey."
"Shut up!" Anna gasped. "The Ellis Grey!"
"I mean isn't that like cheating your way into the program?" Dan questioned. Carly cleared her throat.
"I don't ever think I got to introduce myself properly," Carly said. "Hi... I am Carly Shepherd... yes.. I am who you are talking about. My parents are Meredith and Derek Shepherd... I do consider most of this staff my family like the heads of most of the departments.... my grandmother.... never met her, she died before I was born... and no... I did not cheat my way into the program... I was top of my class in high school and at Dartmouth, and in the top three in med school at Columbia so I deserve to be here as much as any of you.... now.... any more questions about my life or are we good?" Everyone stayed silent.
"Shepherd, Graham, Andrews, O'Brien, and Fassbender...... Bailey, he's down the hall," one of the residents barked.
"Great," Carly muttered.
"Is the Nazi really that bad?" Anna asked.
"Tuck... a Nazi?" Carly scoffed. "That's funny."
"You know him?" Ellie asked scornfully.
"Know him... I consider his mother my Aunt... and he's an ex-boyfriend from high school," Carly hissed and walked up to him.
"Really," Ellie whispered, shocked.
"Dr. Bailey," she nodded.
"Dr. Shepherd," he hissed. "I have five rules.... memorize them...."
"Excuse me," a new voice said before Tuck could get on with his speach. Everyone froze, that was the chief's voice.
"Chief Shepherd," Tuck said surprised. Carly turned around. Sure enough, her father was standing there.... her mother close behind.
"Before you continue... could we ask that we borrow Dr. Shepherd for a second," Meredith asked, narrowing her eyes at Tuck.
"She's all yours," Tuck hissed and stepped back.
"Dr. Shepherd, Dr. Shepherd," Carly nodded in a serious tone.
"Dr. Shepherd... you are enjoying that way too much," Meredith joked.
"Mom... Dad... you don't get to do this," Carly said. "I love you... I really do. But I ignored you for the past two weeks to stop this from happening. You can not do this... you can not take me away from my resident.... and you can not make my colleagues think that I am getting special treatment when I am not.... you can't act like I am your daughter here... because here... I am the third Dr. Shepherd, not Carly, not Car, Dr. Shepherd... the intern Dr. Shepherd if you will now..."
"It's clear you understand what we were just about to say," Derek murmured.
"I have been well aware of what I would have been facing... I may be your daughter outside the hospital, but inside, I am your employee, someones doctor," Carly said confidently. "And this... is messing that up. Tuck already hates me as a person, I don't need him to hate me as a doctor to."
"As you were Dr. Bailey," Derek said stepping back. Carly walked toward Tuck when her mom grabbed her hand and whispered in her ear.
"Kick ass baby girl." Carly smiled and walked back to everyone else.
"Where was I..." Tuck began.
"Five rules," Carly answered.
"That's right..." Tuck said confidently. "I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change. Trauma protocols, phone lists, pagers. Nurses will page you... you answer every page at a run. A run! That's rule number two." Carly, Andrew, Ellie, Dan, and Anna scurried to gather everything Tuck had pointed to. "Your first shift starts now at lasts 48 hours. Your interns, grunts, nobody's, bottom of the surgical foodchain. You run labs, write work ups, work every second night till you drop and don't complain!" Carly followed Tuck around the halls amused. Everyone was trying to memorize where they were but Carly already knew. "On calls rooms. Attendings hog them. Sleep when you can, where you can... which brings me to rule number three... if I'm sleeping, do not wake me unless your patient is actually dying. Rule number 4, the dying patient better not be dead when I get there. Not only will you have killed someone, but you have woken me for no good reason... any questions." Carly raised her hand.
"What?" Tuck snapped.
"You said five rules... that was only four," Carly pointed out.
"Rule number five," Tuck snapped as his pager went off. "When I move... you move.... MOVE!" He pushed them out of his way and began running down to the ER.
"What have we got?" he asked as he grabbed the from the guy in the ambulance.
"Car crash, 4 victims, three cars.... he's the worst...." he nodded to the patient on the gurney. "Low breath sounds on the right side, pupils dialated, head trauma, broken ribs, broken arm...." Carly watched him list off the injuries in awe.
"Graham," Tuck growled. "Go to trauma room 3... wait for Dr. Shepherd, the female one." The next gurney held a woman.
"Fassbender... trauma room 4, wait for Dr. Sloan." The next gurney held another woman. "O'Brien, trauma room 1, wait for Dr. Peters... male." That left Carly and Ellie.
"You two... Shepherd, Andrews... trauma room 2, wait for Dr. Shepherd, male." Carly's eyes widened at trauma room two. It was the exam room.
"Um... D-Dr. Bailey," she stuttered.
"What is it?" he snapped.
"Tr-trauma room 2," she breathed and looked into his eyes with fear. For a brief second they softened.
"Andrews... go alone... Shepherd... go with Graham." Carly and Andrew stood back as they watched her mother work on this patient. Harry Phillips.... she would forever remember his name... her first patient. There was more interns in there... probably from other groups.
"Graham, Shepherd," Meredith barked. "Take Mr. Phillips up for CT... the rest of you, find your residents." Andrew and Carly nodded and grabbed the gurney holding Mr. Phillips and did as they were told. He had a severe brain injury that required surgery right away so as soon as they had a patient, they didn't have one and they were all waiting for Tuck. At one point it was just her and Andrew.
"So... the chief and head of neuro are really your parents... that's just... amazing," he breathed.
"It wasn't always," Carly shrugged. "Now... you know I am older... it's awesome... but when I was younger... it was more about getting attention from them... and it was hard when they had such demanding jobs."
"I never thought of it that way," Andrew said.
"Yeah... it happened when I was about 5... when my Uncle Richard retired," Carly said. "That's when I started going to the day care here every day."
"Really," he said shocked.
"Don't get me wrong... my parents jobs are amazing... but its hard to have such amazing jobs and have a kid," Carly told him. "Now my younger brother and sister, they have it easy now... they have me to look out for them and my parents aren't here as often as they used to."
"You have other siblings?" Andrew asked. "You made it sound as if you were the only..."
"I was," Carly laughed. "Until I was 14 when my mom had fraternal boy girl twins Lucy and Logan."
"14 years older... ouch," Andrew said.
"I love the little squirts..." Carly said.
"So... um... why did Dr. Bailey reassign you to my trauma room?" Andrew asked and Carly shook her head. Luckily, Tuck came out of the ER before he pressed on.
"What are you fools doing just standing around," Tuck snapped.
"We don't know what to do," Anna answered.
"Save people," he hissed. "O'Brien... patient work-ups, Graham... labs, Andrews... stay with your patient, Fassbender... with O'Brien... Shepherd... re-."
"Bailey," Izzie said out of no where. "I need an intern."
"Shepherd... go with Dr. Karev... move," Tuck barked and everyone scurried.
"Hmmm..." Izzie smiled as Carly approached her. Carly rolled her eyes.
"Dr. Karev... why did you need an intern because..." Carly began.
"Carly... you're on babysitting duty hun," Izzie laughed and handed her a chart. "4 year old Danielle Jacobs... room 2408... fell off of her parents balcony and fractured her skull and had severe internal bleeding... she need surgery and may not wake up when you are with her but if she does... you need to keep her still and call a nurse for meds... you need to keep her still anyway because if she bursts her stitches... it won't be good... can you do that?"
"Yes ma'am," Carly nodded.
"If she bursts them until I relieve you, it is on you... This may not be what you thought your first day should be like..." Izzie began.
"Dr. Karev.... Dr. Bailey was just about to give me scut... I know it... probably rectal exams because he was saying re- before you interrupted... this... this is much better then that... I mean..." she smirked. "I wouldn't want to become the next Izzie Stevens would I? I believe that's how she started her internship."
"Dr. Shepherd!" Izzie boomed down the hallway as Carly winked at her and ran towards her patients room. Carly sat down next to the girls bed and read her chart. She went through a whole lot being just a young girl. Much to Carly's dismay, this little girl woke up around a half an hour after her babysitting started.
"OW!" the little girl wailed. "I WANT MY MOMMY WHERE IS MY MOMMY!"
"Honey," Carly said hastily as the little girls body thrashed. "You need to calm down.... your gonna hurt yourself."
"I WANT MOMMY!" she screamed. "WHERE IS MY MOMMY! MY TUMMY HURTS! WHERE AM I!"
"Danielle... your in the hospital," Carly said gently as she grabbed the young girls hands and tried to calm her down. "Your Mommy isn't here right now..."
"MOMMY!" she shrieked and Carly called out into the hallway.
"I need help in here!"
"We are here Dr. Shepherd," a nurse said. "What do you need?"
"Sedative, morphine... something to calm her down, if she keeps moving like this she will burst her stitches and then I will lose my job on my first day," Carly said as one of the nurses grabbed something off of one of the carts and pushed it into Danielle's IV. Still thrashing, Carly watched as Danielle's eyes grew heavier and eventually fluttered shut. With her eyes, her body also stopped thrashing as well.
"Thank god," she murmured, now alone in the room again. She checked the bandage on Danielle's stomach and was relieved that it was not disturbed at all. This silence did not last long when Danielle's parents came in demanding what had happened and what went on, which led to Carly having to page Izzie and as soon as they left, Danielle woke up again, screaming for her Mommy. This time, they were only right down the hall still with Izzie so Danielle saw her and stopped moving. Luckily, at this point, Izzie relieved Carly of her duties. She caught up with Natalie, Andrew, and several other interns trying to find a place to eat.
"So hows your first day been?" Nat asked. "I've been running labs."
"I've been babysitting this little girl who isn't supposed to move but every time she woke up... she moved," Carly sighed.
"Poor baby," Ellie hissed overhearing. "Guess you called your Mommy and Daddy to help."
"Is it only me or do you feel as though we are in high school again," Natalie asked Carly.
"I agree," Carly said.
"Same here," Andrew said and smiled at Carly. Carly blushed and Nat pulled her away.
"Omg... those are your flirty eyes," Natalie gushed. "You like him."
"I barely know him," Carly rolled her eyes.
"But the eyes... those are what you had on the day you met Jake," Nat said referring to her Columbia boyfriend.
"And what does that say..." Carly hissed. "Jake was an ass."
"But this Andrew is nice," Natalie said. "He was looking at you the same way."
"We were talking," Carly admitted.
"And..."
"And... he wasn't accusing me like that Ellie girl," Carly murmured.
"So that's one good thing... go ahead girl," Nat said and pushed her. Carly only glared at her.
"You know what... this is stupid," Carly exclaimed. "Follow me... I know where we can eat."
"Where is this?" Anna asked as Carly led them to the tunnels.
"They are called the tunnels... they run underneath the ER... perfect place to eat lunch.... and its pathetic, but this food in here," she pointed to the vending machine. "Is better than the cafeteria."
"She'd know," she heard Ellie hiss at Dan and Greg. She couldn't believe that they were all 25, yet some of them were acting as if they were 15 or younger. Sometimes Lucy and Logan acted more mature then that. Carly rolled her eyes and sat on one of the gurney's next to Natalie, Anna, and Andrew.
"So... you've been down here before?" Anna asked.
"Yepp... usually my Aunt Izzie or Aunt Cristina used to take me down here," Carly smiled. They all looked at her. "Dr. Yang or the female Dr. Karev..." She didn't hear the snicker Ellie had this time, but she knew she said something.
"Don't listen to them," Anna said looking over her shoulder. "It does seem like they are reliving their high school days."
"My Aunt Callie... or Dr. Torres-O'Malley, says that anyone who goes into a medical career is socially stunted because they had to go through 8 years of college and by the time they are actually doctors it's too late for any of them to have a chance doing anything but medicine," Carly joked.
"Woah," a new voice said. "Fresh meat... outta here!" That was her Uncle Alex. She turned around to see Alex, Mark, Izzie, George, Lexie, Cristina, Caleb, and Addie walking towards them.
"This place is for attendings... get lost interns," Cristina hissed. Although she wasn't afraid of them, Carly scurried away with everyone else, but was the only one who threw a quick warning glare at them that said 'I know where you live.'
"Way to go," Ellie hissed. "Let's find our own place to eat lunch.... not Shepherd's place.... she probably knew that her 'family' would come down." Natalie just fought her way above her voice.
"Here," Natalie pointed. There was a window with a ledge on the outside. "It's not raining... let's go there."
"Okay," everyone agreed and even Carly enthusiastically followed, that was until they reached the door. Carly had probably not realized that this was the place because she had never gone to this portion of the hospital again after that day. Anna, Greg, Dan, Andrew, Ellie, and Natalie walked through the automatic door out the back entrance and kept going until Natalie realized Carly did not follow.
"Car... come on," she urged but Carly was standing at the door, frozen, too scared to move. She stared at around the spot she was standing 12 years ago probably around that very day. "Car, what's wrong?" Carly couldn't hear her friend, she was desperately trying not to get whisked away in the nightmare she had been trying to get rid of since the day it happened. her breaths became quick and shallow. "Carly!"
"Dr Shepherd... what is going on?" Tuck's voice cut in. "Dr. Hayes."
"I... I don't know what happened," Natalie fretted. "She just..."
"I know what's wrong," Tuck said all of a sudden and disappeared towards the tunnels.
"Dr. Bailey," Mark muttered cooly.
"It's Carly..." he said.
"I believe you are supposed to call her Dr. Shepherd in the hospital," Cristina spat. None of them have ever forgiven him for what he had done to Carly and Tuck knew it.
"I know what I am supposed to call her... she is my intern!" Tuck growled. "But she... she's in one of her states... in the back... all her friends were going to the back entrance to eat lunch or something and.."
"Crap," Izzie muttered and got up from her seat and ran to her nieces aid. Lexie, Addie, and Cristina followed.
"Natalie we got this," Izzie told her and took a hold of Carly's shoulders. Natalie backed up, clearly scared. She didn't notice Andrew and Anna were behind her as well. "Carly honey... you need to breathe."
"It was a long time ago," Addison's voice cut in. "It's not happening right now."
"B-but..." Carly stuttered in her haze.
"Shhh..." Lexie murmured rubbing her back. Natalie watched as Carly's eyes all of a sudden cleared, she shook her head, and then gasped.
"You're okay," Cristina said. Carly ran her hand through her hair.
"Great," she muttered.
"Car... I think it's time," Addie told her.
"Yeah... I know," she said as Natalie ran up to her. So did Anna and Andrew, clearly concerned for her.
"Okay... what the hell was that!" Natalie exclaimed. "You better tell me Carly Elise Shepherd or so help me..."
"Come on..." Carly said to her friend and two new ones. "Just not here." They settled on lunch in the cafeteria.
"So... um... what happened," Anna said nervously. "Back there I mean..."
"Okay... so here it goes," Carly sighed, she looked at Andrew. "Remember what I was saying earlier... about the attention with haviung parents with such important jobs?" He nodded. "This is part of that..."
"Okay," Natalie nodded.
"When I was 13... I resented my parents a whole lot... and... we were really distant... We used to go camping the beginning of every summer and that's about all I used to see them," Carly explained. "This particular day was the start of this camping weekend where I would hang out at the hospital until my parents got off work. Usually, I spent the earlier part of the day with my mom, but instead I spent it with my Aunt Izzie and my cousins so I wasn't in the best mood. My Aunt Izzie dropped me off alone at the back entrance, because its close to my Mom's office, and left after I was inside... but I lost my phone outside so I went back out to look. I wasn't really alone..."
"Carly," Nat gasped.
"I was raped," she murmured. "And it was my estranged, drunk grandfather who aparently did it before and... I have never gotten over it." She looked up in Nat's eyes, she saw the hurt there. "I... I never told you..."
"You never told me," Natalie muttered. "I'm you're best friend and you never told me."
"It was a part of my life I thought was over... I... I didn't think of..."
"That's right... you didn't think!" Natalie snapped. "I am your best friend... or so I thought! We told each other everything! For eight years you never told me! We... we...."
"Nat... I thought you'd understand," Carly said desperately.
"Clearly I don't," Nat hissed. "What else are you keeping from me! Were you just pretending to be my friend all along or something..."
"No," Carly protested.
"This isn't like some little thing Carly.... it was a big part of your life that you never shared with me... I... I can't even look at you right now," Natalie huffed and stormed away.
"Nattie!" she called her by her cute nickname that Carly had called her the first time they had gotten wasted together. She looked at Andrew and Anna who were both a little shocked. "I just met you two yesterday... you don't hate me do you?"
"She's upset," Anna reassured her. "She'll be okay... she'll forgive you..."
"I hope you're right," Carly sighed and heard her pager go off. It was then she was reminded she was at work, she was becoming a surgeon, she had to push her personal life and problems out of her head.
"It seems the Nazi keeps pairing us together," Andrew joked as they walked down the hallways of Seattle Grace. They were beginning the second half of their first shift, running labs.
"Well now you know why I came to you the first time," Carly said sadly.
"Has she talked to you yet?" he asked.
"Nope," Carly muttered.
"It's gonna be okay.... she's probably just upset you never told her, she'll get over it," Andrew reassured.
"I hope so," Carly sighed.
"How did you two meet anyway... you two seem really close," Andrew said.
"We were roommates in college... close from the start, we both were in pre med and had a lot in common. And then we shared an apartment for the next three years with other friends we met," Carly reminisced. "And by the time we got to med school, the two of us were inseperable."
"So... where are you two living?" he questioned. "Cause I live downtown in this one bedroom apartment."
"Oh... we live close by.... almost right across the street," Carly said. "We share an apartment with each other and two of my friends from high school who stayed close. And three of my other friends live across the hall from us."
"Oh... cool..." Andrew said.
"Yeah... it's a pretty good spot... right near Joe's," Carly explained.
"What's Joe's?" Andrew asked.
"The Emerald City Bar... it's across the street. We call it Joe's because that's the bartenders name... he is the nicest guy ever," Carly told him. "It's the hotspot for all the doctors and nurses at Seattle Grace."
"How do you know that?"
"Well I grew up here... been going there everynight since I moved in... and that's where my parents met years and years ago on my Mom's first day," Carly said.
"So... um..." Andrew stuttered.
"What?"
"I was thinking... I don't know... would you like to go get a drink... after our shift is over I mean," Andrew mumbled. Carly's eyes widened. "That's if you want to." Carly smiled.
"I don't know," she joked. "Drinks after a 48 hour shift." Andrews face fell. "How about coffee instead." It brightened right back up making Carly giggled.
"So coffee..." Andrew nodded.
"I know this great place down the street... pretty good coffee... nice place to hang...." Carly smiled. "Meet in the lobby once hell is all over?"
"Sounds good."
"It's a date." Carly said that as soon as her mother happened to be passing by. She stopped, turned around, and then went to her husbands office.
For Carly, the last 24 hours of her shift went smoothly. Or as smoothly as it could go with a barking resident, your parents as your bosses, jealous coworkers, and your best friend pissed off at you. All in all though, Carly thought she would sort of enjoy being an intern. Anyway, she already made two friends. Soon enough, the end of the shift wa there and everyone was in the lockerroom. Natalie had ignored Carly and left as soon as she possibly could. Luckily she had the date with Andrew otherwise she would have had to walk home. While she was getting changed into street clothes, she overheard Ellie and Kacie.
"So you really went into surgery with the chief... no way!" Kacie said in awe.
"I did," Ellie smirked. "I didn't do anything... but I stood there the whole time and the chief asked me questions!"
"You are so lucky!" Kacie gushed. Carly watched as Ellie looked at her.
"So... Shepherd... how was running labs?" she hissed.
"Fine actually," Carly shrugged nonchalantly. "I did my job."
"Bet you wish you were in surgery with your dad though," she teased and then turned to Kacie. "Our resident, Dr. Bailey, took her off the case that I was on and left me alone with it, he must've thought she couldn't handle it and was better for that kind of work... and earlier she was babysitting... her dad probably couldn't even handle her..."
"What is your problem?" Carly snapped and slammed her locker shut.
"Um... you," Ellie hissed. "Some of actually had to work to get this job.... not get it handed to them by their Mommy and Daddy. Just face it... no one wants you here." Andrew and Anna stood up.
"I do," Andrew said before Carly could say anything.
"Me too," Anna said confidently. Carly was actually happy that Nat had left, she wasn't sure which side she would have taken.
"You may think I had it easy, but it's the opposite," Carly continued. "I had to work twn times as hard as you just to get considered! My parents gave me hoops to jump through so I wouldn't get scorned by people like YOU! You should have seen how upset they were when they thought I didn't apply here. I did... but as someone else so no one could accuse me of cheating. I believe my dad and the board accepted... um... Nicole Peters, not Carly Shepherd, before I told them... So... you would be doing me a huge favor if you could just let me do my job!" With that, Carly grabbed her purse and stormed out, Andrew and Anna following.
"Can you believe her," Ellie gasped dramatically.
"I can," Dan said, and ran to catch up to Carly, Anna, and Andrew who were giving each other their cell numbers.
"Well I have to go," Anna said. "Really don't want to feel this crappy for the next shift."
"Same," Dan chimed in.
"Bye!" Carly and Andrew called.
"So.. do you want to..." Andrew began but was cut off by Carly's pager telling her to go to the chief's office.
"I'll be right back," Carly vowed turning around and looking back. "Just stay there."
"Okay!" Andrew laughed as Carly ran up to her father's office where both her parents were waiting for her.
"Dr. Shepherd," Derek greeted her. "So how's my favorite intern?" Carly shook her head and laughed.
"Exhausted," she admitted.
"I remember that feeling well," Meredith reassured her. "And if I were you, I would feel very happy with yourself. Both you Aunt Izzie and Tuck gave us excellent reports." Carly was shocked at the mention of Tuck.
"I feel we are in for yet another Shepherd in the neuro department," Derek joked.
"How do you know I want to go into neuro," Carly smirked.
"Fine," Derek sighed and opened his arms up for her. "Come here though.... I never got to give you a proper welcoming back into the rainy city." Carly giggled but obliged.
"So how was it... really?" Meredith asked her daughter.
"Anyone give you trouble?" Derek asked, putting his, I may be chief but I'm your father too face on.
"This one girl... Dr. Andrews... but I took care of her," Carly shrugged.
"Andrews.... I believe she scrubbed in on my surgery..." Derek pondered.
"Yes and she told us all ab out it," Carly rolled her eyes. "It's a bit like I am back in high school."
"And I heard about the incident," Meredith told her daughter. "Are you okay?"
"Is Nat still mad?" Derek asked.
"We've had worse fights," Carly sighed. "She'll get over it eventually... I mean.... we were practically fighting the whole time we were backpacking in Europe last summer and we came back closer then ever."
"As long as you're okay," Derek said.
"Yeah... and um..." Carly trailed off and looked at the clock.
"Let's leave her go Der... I know for a fact she has a date with a certain Dr. Graham.... am I right?" Mer smirked.
"What?" Derek asked harshly.
"Daddy... don't go all caveman... he's nice and... he's easy to talk to and..." Carly rambled.
"And he's pretty hot... go dear," Meredith smiled. Carly giggled, shook her head, and kissed them both on the cheek before running back out to meet Andrew.
"Shall we go then," he smiled and took her hand and led her to his car. They arrived at the bistro, drank coffee, ate a light breakfast, and talked a lot. They had to keep ordering coffee. At one point, Carly's phone vibrated.
Car... I am still mad at you but don't not come home because I am.... I still love you no matter what... We are best friends and... Lex and Mads explained things to me and the whole thing is fucked up so I forgive you... You kno I get cookoo mad over nothing all the time - Nattie 33
Nat... I am not not coming home because you are mad at me... I am with someone... - CarQuee
OMG! I knew it ha! That's awesome Car! - Nattie 33
Not like that sicko... but we are just talking and... he is so nice... - CarQuee
Gotta tell me deets later... - Nattie 33
I will... you, Lex, and Mads would kill me if I didn't - CarQuee
I kno lol! And didn't I tell you.... I sooooo kno you baby girrrlllll [= - Nattie 33
You do... I will be home soon... - CarQuee
Kayyy [= - Nattie 33
"Who was that?" Andrew teased.
"Nat," Car smiled.
"Ha... I told you she'd forgive you," he laughed and Carly giggled. Carly looked into his eyes. They were chocolate brown, very sexy.
"You did," she smirked as she took another sip of her coffee.
"So... I should probably get you home seeing as though you don't have a car," he joked.
"Probably," Carly shrugged and got up. Andrew refused to let her pay and paid their bill. He helped her into his car and she showed him her apartment building.
"Here you are," Andrew said.
"Thank you," Carly smiled. "It was very nice to meet you Andrew Graham."
"Likewise Carly Shepherd," Andrew said.
"And Andrew... my friends call me Car," Carly smiled.
"Well Car... my friends call me Andy or Drew," Andrew said.
"Which do you prefer?" she asked.
"Either," he shrugged.
"Well Andy," Carly laughed. "I'll see you soon."
"Okay," he nodded. Before Carly knew what she was doing, she inched forward in her seat and kissed his lips quickly and jumped back.
"Um..." she said nervously but Andrew only grabbed her face and began kissing her passionately. Finally they broke apart. "Wow..."
"Wow..." he repeated.
"Bye," Carly said and got out of the car.
"Bye," Andrew said as she shut the door and he drove away. Carly watched him leave and touched her lips briefly.
"Wow..." she breathed.
This story is coming to an end, there are only a few chapters left...
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A/N: Okay, I am going to update as much as possible but I forgot about my research paper that is due the Friday I go back ro school so either tomorrow or Saturday I will be working on it so no updates that day probably.....