Slow Night, So Long
The night shift, every doctor has done it. Your days start with darkness and ends when the sun comes up. There are stories of doctors falling asleep while working, and who knows some might be true. But the worst part about the night shift isn't the whole night aspect but the fact that it feels like it could go on forever.
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"Ahhh!" Jackson screams in his sleep. This has been going on since the shooting, he would wake up screaming from the terrible nightmares he has.
"Jackson! Jackson I am sorry but you have to take something." Meredith yelled going into his room thinking she had woke him up.
"Where's Charles? Charles!" Jackson screamed still half asleep, It wasn't until Meredith hit him that he actually was fully awake.
"Jackson it's time to get up." Meredith said to him again once she knew he was fully awake.
'Time for work?" Jackson question a little ashamed that Meredith had to wake him up from a nightmare.
'Yeah it's time for work." Meredith said looking at the clock. It was seven at night and they were just starting their shift. Everyone but the lucky attending had to work tonight and by the way the night had started it was going to be a long shift.
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"Hey what's new?" Derek said finding Meredith getting ready in the bathroom. That was a huge down side of her working the night shift. They barely got to see each other, they were like two pashing ships.
"Nothing much. What's happening at the hospital?" Meredith asked him, she wanted to be prepared to do what she had to do in order to get through this shift.
"Let's see, I did three shunts which all went fine, I think some nurses were in a fight, we got the funding for the trail, and the soup of the day was pea soup." Derek said smiling as he told Meredith the great news about the trail.
"Are you serious?" Meredith yelled spitting out the toothpaste in her mouth to the sink in front of her. She jumped into his arms as Derek spun her around in the bathroom.
Now all we have to do is get some patients, the FDA to approve and this trail will be on the cutting edge." Derek said to Meredith as he was getting ready to go out to celebrate.
'Where are you going?" Meredith asked when she saw him getting ready beside her.
'I'm going out with Mark, Callie, and Bailey to celebrate. I'll be home before you don't worry." Derek joked as he kissed Meredith's cheek and left.
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"So Dr. Kepner I just wanted to tell you that I've noticed how well you've been doing on my service lately." Dr. Stark said to April just as he was leaving for his late dinner plans.
"Looks like someone's flirting with April." Alex said behind her as he witnessed what had just taken place between the two doctors.
'Get your mind out of the gutter Alex, Stark is just my boss nothing more. So he's nice to me it doesn't mean that he is flirting some people are just kind unlike you." April said to him but she was going over all the encounters she has had with Dr. Stark lately and maybe just maybe Alex was right. Sark was flirting with her. The very thought of it made shivers run down April's back Stark was definitely not her type.
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"First rounds on me!" Bailey yelled as the doctors walked into Joe's bar to drink to Derek's accomplishment.
"Is that...No it can't be." Callie said when all the doctors looked towards the bar.
"It's Cristina." Derek said stunned that Cristina was behind the bar. At the moment it appeared that Joe was trying to teach her how to pour a drink and it wasn't going over very well.
"Some one call Hunt." Mark said unable to stop staring at the sight before him.
"I can't look away as much as I want to." Bailey said shocked that her most promising intern was now behind a bar serving people drinks.
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"Dr. Grey, please you have to do something. My son is in so pain, do something for him. I'm a nurse I hear about the stories about the night shift but this isn't gas please I'm begging you." A desperate mom begged Lexie as she held her son who was crying out in pain.
'I can see that this is not gas. I will bring in Dr. Stark and see what he says. I'm sure he'll be here as soon as he can." Lexie said exiting the room. Truthfully she had been paging Stark all night and he wasn't answering any of them.
"Still no answer from Stark?" April questioned, she too had seen the boys and she knew that something was going on and it wasn't gas.
"No and I have been paging nonstop for over two hours. I don't understand where he is. This kid probably has a blockage in his stomach and needs surgery but no one else is on call." Lexie said to the third year resident who was in charge of PEDS for the night.
"Well if he needs surgery we should do it. I know what to do, and we can always page someone else if anything goes wrong." April said, the race for chief resident was coming up and if she pulled this off she'd be the one winning it.
"Are you sure we can do this?" Lexie was unsure that they were doing the right things but they had gotten a very angry message from the chief who said that the mother called him and now they were to do whatever had to be done to help that little boy.
"Sure as I'll ever be. Ten blade." April said sticking her hand out and a scalpel was placed into it then she made the first cut.
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"Let me get this straight you to glued yourselves together because she's moving away and you don't wanna be apart." Izzie asked the young couple on her table in the pit who's arms were stuck together with super glue.
"Our love can't be broken." The young boy said as he stopped kissing his girlfriend for a second to answer Izzie.
'Great just great. What am I supposed to tell your mom? She's gonna kill me. Please just get them apart." The boy's father said to Izzie sounding angry and defeated at what his son and girlfriend had done to one another.
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"I told her to get a job, I thought maybe at a lab or something but not this." Owen said to Derek as Cristina set down some drinks in front of them.
"I call his early onset, because you won't remember anything after!" Cristina said forcing a smile on her face.
"Wow that's strong, I'll take a single malt scotch." Mark said after taking a sip of the drink Cristina set before him.
"Make it two." Derek said still worried that Cristina was really working here.
"Do you want a beer?" Cristina asked Owen kissing him hello, she really didn't expect him to be here.
"No I just got a page from the hospital; we'll talk about this later." Owen explained looking at Derek who nodded his head as if to say that he'll look out for her.
"Aren't those a little strong?" Callie asked Bailey when she saw that Miranda had drank all the Early Onset drinks that were at the table.
'Hey my son is with his father tonight I can have a few drinks. Yang you keep these drinks coming." Bailey slurred already feeling a buzz from drinking the four drinks. Then stumbled in a very angry looking Tedi.
'Well hello there Tedi, are you here to congratulate Derek?" Mark questioned when he saw how dressed up Tedi was.
"No...but congrats, why are men so ugh!" Tedi threw her hands up and then she saw Cristina pouring some drinks.
"Wait is that Cristina Yang? Ew what is this?" Tedi asked after taking a sip of one of the Early onsets before Bailey slapped her away.
"Yes it is. Owen said not to worry about it though./" Mark said to her as Tedi started to drink his drink instead.
"Where are you coming from?" Derek questioned he knew that Tedi didn't know about the gathering so why was she so dressed up?
"Oh I had a date, worst date ever I might add. He still lived with his mother this is what I get for dating people on the internet." Tedi complained, at this point she was desperate to find anyone to date after Andrew left she was left feeling empty.
"Don't worry you'll find someone." Derek said trying to brighten the mood.
"You can't say that since your married okay?" Tedi yelled taking another drink.
"Does she ask about me? I know she emails you and I want know if she asks about me." Callie said to Tedi about Arizona, as hard as she tried there was no getting her mind off her.
'Well...she very into the medicine." Tedi said sighing, she could see how much Callie was hurting and it broke her heart a little too.
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"Tell them that he'll hate himself for a while. And he won't talk to anyone about it because he'll think that he deserves to suffer. And he'll question everything that happens, but most importantly he'll question why his brother died and he has to live in pain without him. Tell the parents to look for that." Jackson said to Meredith as they were standing outside of a young boy's room. He and his brother were brought in and the brother ended up dying while he lived. The case reminded Jackson of Charles because he always thought of them as brothers.
'Okay good to know, and Jackson 'm here is you need to talk about anything." Meredith smiled at him, but instead of saying something back Jackson just walked away.
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"I can't get this couple unglued!" Izzie stormed into the resident locker room finding both Meredith and Alex there.
"Have you tried acid tone?" Alex questioned, sometimes being pregnant made Izzie forget to try the little things like this.
'I love you!" Izzie yelled to him as she raced to find some acid tone to get this couple unstuck.
'So how are things with the baby?" Meredith asked when Izzie left, she was really trying to be happy for Izzie and Alex.
'It's been hard, Izzie is sick all the time, and then she craves weird things, and then she started bleeding so we can't have sex but all she wants is sex and then she blames me. So it's harder than I thought it would be." Alex sighed, he wasn't sure if he could do this but it was too late for second thoughts now.
'You'll be a great dad Alex trust me." Meredith smiled but she couldn't help but picture what a miniature Derek would look like.
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""Thanks for calling me, where is she?" Owen asked after Derek called him letting him know that Cristina was very drunk and dealing with a group of men.
'She's over there, good luck with that." Derek smiled as he left the bar and to get home for a few hours of sleep before he had to go to the hospital again.
"Cristina come on let's go home." Owen said picking her up from some guys lap.
'Oh crap it's my boyfriend." Cristina slurred, she reeked of alcohol and things Owen didn't want to think about.
'I'm your husband and we're going home." Owen said to her before he slung her over his shoulder and carried her home.
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"Dr. Bailey is that you?" Alex asked finding Bailey yelling at a vending machine and swaying back and forth.
'Karev, why won't this things take my damn money?" Bailey slurred, Joe had sent her here after asking her keys and instructing her to sleep it off.
"Okay let me take this for you and then we'll get you a banana bag." Alex said reaching down to get Bailey's food from the vending machine and walked Bailey to an open room.
"Dr. Bailey is that your phone?" Alex asked when he heard something ringing.
'You answer it." Bailey said quickly shoving the phone in Alex's direction.
'Hello, no Iz I don't know why that didn't work, yes this is Bailey's phone, no she'll be fine." Alex said into the phone and looked at a giggling Bailey who was having a ball seeing Alex talk to his wife on her phone.
"Tell me to try soap and water and just a tad of acid tone. Now hand me my phone and let me call Ben" Bailey said grabbing for her phone.
'Who the hell is Ben?" Alex questioned, it was kind of amusing to see a very drunk Bailey before him.
"He's my ex and I want to call him and tell him about how I miss the things he used to do for me." Bailey sighed remembering the great times she had with Ben over the time that they were dating.
'I don't think drunk dialling is a good idea." Alex said taking the phone away from her before she could do any real damage.
'Listen Karev, you already found a guy like Ben. You found Izzie who is not a man and not named Ben but she is your Ben. And now you're having a baby with her and that's okay." Bailey said before she dozed off finally sleeping off the drinks she had.
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"Mark I want to feel something." Callie said in the middle of the night when she spotted Mark.
'Callie I don't get it." But before he could continue she was kissing him and one things lead to another, leaving the two of them with certain things to deal with in the morning.
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The night shift turns your whole world upside down, you sleep during the day and are up when you should be in bed. Many can't handle it but it isn't just because of the lack of sleep. It's the slowness of it all, the feeling that it could go on and on.
