Hi, I hope you like this, please comment on any improvements I can make. Also, I changed this chapter so, yeah there's that.
Disclaimer: I sadly don't own Grey's.
A young woman stood, frozen, at the entrance to the large hospital in front of her. No matter what she did, she couldn't seem to move. She frowned as she thought of its sad history. She started to walk when she bumped into somebody.
"Sorry!" She said hurriedly, helping the other woman up.
"No, it's my fault. I'm in such a hurry. It's my first day here and I didn't want to be late." The other woman said brushing herself off and picking her bags up.
"It's my first day too. I'm Ellis." She said offering her hand to the woman.
"Gianna." The woman said shaking her hand.
Well, I suppose it was her first day working at the hospital, but she had grown up at the hospital. She knew most of the attendings by their first names. Her mother also worked there, you might have heard of her, Dr. Meredith Grey, Catherine Fox award-winning surgeon. Her father was also a surgeon, a neuro god, but he died before she was born in a car accident. She loved hearing stories about her parent's great love story. Her sister and brother were also surgeons. Zola, her eldest sister thought she would be a neurosurgeon for as long as Ellis can remember, but she fell in love with trauma and was starting her fellowship today. Her brother Bailey was only a resident, but he said he wanted to revolutionize ortho. Ellis, on the other hand, wasn't sure yet, but she knew whatever she did you'd be great.
"You said your name was Ellis, right?" Gianna asked as they walked through the entrance together.
"Yeah, I'm guessing you've heard of my family?" Ellis stated bluntly. Gianna nodded.
"I'm just hoping I can make a name for myself away from everything," Ellis said. Gianna nodded again.
"Listen, you seem pretty nice and you're probably really smart so, let's make a pact. We will be each other's stronghold, no matter what, whether it's surgical, boy related, or familial. Because the real world isn't going to be filled with pillows to help us if we fall, so we need to be each other's pillows." Gianna said turning towards Ellis. Ellis thought for a second, she was right.
"So, can I call you my pillow?" Ellis smirked. Gianna giggled as the elevator dinged open. They walked into OR 1 and Ellis smiled at the familiar room. Cheif Bailey stepped into the room and threw Ellis smile.
"Each of you comes here today hopeful, wanting in on the game. A month ago, you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today, you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. You will be pushed to the breaking point." She paused to look around the room. Ellis knew every word of the speech. "Look around you. Say hello to your competition. Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty. Five of you will crack under the pressure. Two of you will be asked to leave. This is your starting line. This is your arena. How well you play...That's up to you." She led the interns up to the next floor and into the locker room.
"You will get changed into your scrubs and wait for your residents. Good luck, you are the future of medicine." With that, she left the interns alone to change. Ellis put the light blue scrubs and lab coat on and everything felt right.
"Heard we got one of the Hollywood rejects here." A guy said shutting his locker. He said it loudly making a brunette cringe.
"That would be me, and I decided saving lives was more important than getting on a TV show or movie. I'm Trina Keys." She offered her hand to the few people that we're there.
"I'm Ian, Ian Lain." A small, skinny guy said shaking her hand and giving everybody a smile. She went around the small circle before stopping at Ellis and Gianna.
"I'm Gianna Messina," Gianna said opting for a curt nod instead. Trina gave her a look.
"Ellis Shepherd." She said as most people turned to look at her. She called this the Harry Potter effect.
"Shepherd huh, bet you're going to get favored. By the way, I'm Kevin Dunn." The guy that Ellis had deemed as a jerkface said.
"Just so you know, I graduated four years early with honors and as valedictorian. I got accepted into Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, and Dartmouth. I chose Johns Hopkins because of its amazing surgical program. So tell me one more time that my last name is what got me here." Ellis said slamming her locker shut and glaring at said jerkface.
"I heard you got a photographic memory, I bet you used that to cheat on every sort fo test there was." He said with a smirk.
Ellis stood up and shoved him against the lockers. "Listen here you little hick, say it one more time, that I cheated my way into the program and I'll show you what hard work looks like." She released him and sat back down, Gianna gave her a smirk.
"You're hot, are you single?" He asked, receiving glares from around the room. Ellis lunged towards him and slammed him against the locker again. She would've had him too scared to even look at her if their resident hadn't come in.
"Woah,woah, woah what is going on here? Get her off of him!" The resident said as two guys pulled Ellis off of Kevin. She tried to lunge at him again, but the men held her back.
"Of course I get the interns that start fights on their first day." The resident said with an eye roll.
"I have five rules. Memorize them."