OH MY GOSH IM SOOO SOOO SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT SCHOOL SUCKS AND I CAN'T UPDATE AS MUCH AS I WANT TO! here's chapter 11 and i hope it was worth the wait...
As soon as Meredith was escorted out of the trauma room she started to shake from side to side. "Let go of me!" She barked at the nurses, and they quickly let go and went back into Ellis' room. Meredith spotted her two eldest children sitting on a bed in the ER across from the trauma room Ellis was in. She looked at them with her sad eyes walked slowly over toward them.
"M-" Zola was trying to ask her mother a question, but was unable to get her attention.
"Guys-" Meredith choked out. I-I need you to...go wait in the waiting room-y-you can't be in here..." A few hot tears rolled down her face. "I-I'm going to go change out of my scrubs-and I'll meet you in there." She turned around and starting walking toward the attending lounge.
"Mom...Mom?" Zola tried to get her mother's attention again.
Meredith bit her lip as a few more tears rolled down her cheek.
"Yes, Zola?" She tried to keep calm and wiped her tears quickly, then she turned to face her children.
"Is Ellis okay in there? W-we heard you screaming and-"
"No Zola, Ellis is not okay. That's why I need you both to go to the waiting room...now...please." With that two children stood up and made their way to the waiting room and Meredith to the attendings lounge.
Ellis slowly opened her eyes. She was in an unfamiliar room where she had never been before.
"Hiya!" A wide eyed smiley little girl stood over Ellis.
"AH!" Ellis sat up quickly. "W-wh-who are you?" She stammered.
"I'm Carolyn! Nice to meet you!" She stuck her hand out toward Ellis. She reluctantly shook the girl's hand. "What's your name?"
"My name is Ellis…" She did not make eye contact with Carolyn. She was too busy looking around the room trying to figure out where she was.
Carolyn started talking again, but Ellis ignored her.
After a couple of minutes Carolyn realized that Ellis wasn't looking at her. "Are you even listening to me?" She questioned Ellis who snapped out of her trance.
"Um..uh..sorry. Can you please tell me where I am?"
"Oh! That's why you're not listening? I probably should have told you this first, but I didn't want to freak you out, but since you're asking…"
"You're dead." A boy said bluntly.
"Samuel!" Carolyn barked. "You needed to let me tell her! I found her first!"
"Wait- I'm dead? There's no way I'm dead. It's got to be a brain thing, or a really bad dream. This is a really bad dream...that's all it is...right?" Ellis said.
"Nope. You're dead." Samuel stated.
"Hey! I wanted to take it easy on her and that was not easy!" Carolyn scolded.
"Remember being pushed in the pool the second time, and you hit your head?" Samuel asked.
"Yeah, that sucked." Ellis replied.
"You died and all you have to say is that sucked!?"
"Yeah, because I'M NOT DEAD! Because if I were the first person I would want to see is my dad, and I'm pretty sure neither of you are him, and...I'm no doctor, but you can't die from just hitting your head."
"Well you did! No sense arguing with me."
"Whatever." Ellis rolled her eyes. "This is just a nasty dream and when I wake up I'll be at home in my bed. So nice meeting you two!" She grabbed the sheets and covered herself in them and closed her eyes and faced away from them and drifted asleep.
April looked at Owen. "Dr. Hunt, I know the hypothermia is protecting her vital organs, but I'm not sure how much longer we can go like this…"
"Dr. Kepner are you in charge of the ER tonight?"
"No b-"
"We need to save her! This is Meredith Grey's little girl she will kill us if we don't do everything in our power to save her! I have seen many people stay four hours like this, and it has only been about twenty minutes." Owen said as he looked at his watch.
"I understand but-"
"But nothing April! If this were Harriet wouldn't you want us to do everything we can to save her?"
"Yes."
"Then imagine this is her so we can get the job done or get out!"
April just nodded her head.
"Her body temperature is 86 degree right now, and she is not dead until she's at 98.6 degrees, when she is back to the normal body temperature we can start her heart. Everybody got it?"
"Yes sir!" Said the rest of the doctors in the room.
"Good, let's save her life!
Ellis woke up from her sleep to hear two people whispering. She continued to face the other way with her eyes closed afraid of where she was at.
"When do you think she's gonna realize this isn't a dream? It's real it's death. It's all over!"
"You have to give her some time! You can't just expect her to be all happy that she's dead!"
"I mean-I was happy."
"You were a baby when you died! You didn't know anything!"
"So were you!"
"I didn't say anything! And you hurt your parents! How can you be happy about that?"
"I was suffering my bones were breaking! I had a disease that made me suffer! I was glad I didn't have to live like that!"
"Well at least you lived!
"I didn't even live for a day, so shut your mouth!"
"You both need to shut your mouth!" A boy hissed as he walked into the room. "She is trying to sleep over there!" He pointed toward Ellis. "She is trying to wrap her head around this whole situation that has just happened to her! So leave her alone for a little and when she's ready to talk she will!
"Fine…"
Samuel and Carolyn sighed in unison and started to walk toward the door. Then they turned toward each other "This argument isn't over yet! Jinx! Double jinx!" Then their voices disappeared into the distance.
"Hey." The boy whispered. "I know you are awake they are gone now."
Ellis sat up and sighed. "I'm still here? I really thought I was dreaming…"
"Yeah sorry about that...I might be able to help you though...as long as it's not too late…"
"Not too late? You mean you can get me out of here!?"
"Maybe…"
"Then what are you waiting for?" Ellis jumped out of the bed. "Get me out of here!"
Dr. Bailey bursted through the doors of trauma room three.
"What the hell is going on in here that we need two attendings, three residents, and two interns in here for!? We have more incoming traumas and-" She stopped as she noticed the face of the girl. "IS THAT WHO I THINK IT IS!?" She shouted.
"Dammit!" Bailey shook her head as she noticed Ellis was still flatlining. "WHAT ARE YOU ALL STANDING HERE FOR Y'ALL NEED TO SAVE HER LIFE!"
"Dr. Bailey, what do you think we are trying to do?!" Owen yelled back.
"Well y'all aren't doing a very good job of it are you?!"
"We are trying, Miranda." Owen argued. "Tell her, April."
"We really are its-its just um…this is a strange case...and the poor girl is practically dead and-"
"I don't want to hear another word!" She stepped into the room then shoved Owen and April out of the way. "You… Uh… intern!" She said, snapping her fingers and pointing at a short, jittery girl who was holding a clipboard and taking notes.
The girl's head snapped up and she jumped. "Uh… Peterson! Sir!"
"I am going to pretend I didn't just hear you call me sir, Dr. Peterson… Now hand me a 36-40 lavage tube! We have to do gastric lavage with warm fluids immediately!"
The girl stood there for a moment staring at Dr. Bailey with a petrified look on her face.
"GO! NOW!" Dr. Bailey yelled.
Dr. Peterson ran off.
"Now where was I…" Dr. Bailey asked.
Zola and Bailey were waiting impatiently for their mother to come join them and give them an explanation of what is going on with their sister. They felt like they had been waiting an unusually long amount of time.
"Maybe we should go look for her…" Bailey suggested.
"I think we should wait…she should be here any minute." The two sat in silence for a few moments.
"Um…" Bailey broke the silence. "Where's Harriet?"
"Oh my gosh!" Zola gasped.
"What?" Bailey raised his eyebrows.
"We forgot about Harriet!" Text her! Make sure she is still at the party! What if someone gave her drugs and then kidnapped her! Or if-"
Bailey grabbed Zola. "Calm down you're overreacting I'm sure she's just fine, but I will text her just so you know she is safe…" He pulled out his phone and began to text her.
Bailey: Hey Harriet u still at the party? Zola is being paranoid.
Harriet: Yah...y? Is everything ok?
Bailey looked up from his phone as soon as he got the message from Harriet.
"I told you she's fine!"
"I was just taking precautions! Can't be too safe!" Zola smiled and then sighed remembering the real reason why she was being so overprotective.
Harriet: ? everything ok? have u seen Ellis at all? She's not answering my txts or calls
"Oh no…" Bailey breathed
"What is it?" Zola asked
"She just asked about Ellis…how do I just say oh by the way she's not answering your messages because she drowned and is unconscious at the moment..." Bailey was about to text Harriet something when their mother appeared.
"Mom!" Bailey shoved his phone underneath his leg.
The two of them looked at their mom.
Her eyes and face were red and there were still a few tears rolling down her face. She quickly wiped them.
"Mom…" Zola stood up "whats wrong? I mean like with Ellis...you didn't tell us why you were screaming…"
"Please tell us…" Bailey added.
"Hello? Helloooooo? Bailey I know you're there! Wait is this a booty call?" Harriet's voice rose from the phone underneath Bailey's leg. "Bailey I don't like talking to your butt! Bailey's butt can you hand the phone to Bailey's hand so Bailey can use his EAR to listen to me?"
Meredith took a deep breath.
"Ellis is flatlining…" she whispered
"What!?" The two stood up and screamed and everyone in the waiting room started to stare at them.
All the sudden you heard a screaming voice from Harriet on the phone.
"WHAT!? DID YOU JUST SAY ELLIS IS FLATLINING!? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?"
"Oh shoot…" Bailey looked over to the seat and saw it was on a call with Harriet. He quickly picked up the phone. "How much of that did you hear…"
"All of it! Now you tell me what is going on right now!"
"Bailey started to explain the situation."
"WHY IN THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS! I-I COULD BE THERE WITH YOU RIGHT NOW! Where are you? I'm coming!"
"We are at Grey-Sloan...and I-I'm sorry I didn't know how to tell you...I was going to...I was planning on it." Bailey stammered.
Zola slapped the phone away from him. "Don't tell her where we are we don't need any more chaos than there already is!"
"I can hear you Zola! Well… At least it's better than Bailey's butt…I'm coming up now DON'T MOVE." And with that Harriet hung up the phone.
"Good job Bailey!" Zola snapped.
"Well it's too late now. Maybe Harriet will be able to wake Ellis up..." He said as he eyed his mom who was now sitting in a chair still crying hysterically.
"Mom...mom…" Zola rubbed her moms back. "She'll wake up from this...she has too…What's her body temperature?" Meredith had her head buried in her lap with her hands covering her face she lifted her head up just for a moment and stared into space not looking at Zola and said,
"I-it was 86.7 I think-I can't re-remember."
"Th-that's good then mom! It means when her body temperature is back to normal she can still wake up!"
Meredith looked up again, but this time at Zola. "Y-you know the possibility of her waking up perfectly fine with no brain damage it would be a miracle." Meredith then continued to cry.
"Ugh!" Bailey stood up. "I can't take this anymore, mom there is nothing we can do about the situation now! We have done everything we can at the moment now all we can do is sit and wait and maybe say a prayer or two! So please stop your crying and see what happens. She's not dead until her body temperature reaches 98.6 degrees. Her turned to Zola. "By the way, genius, I did learn something in school." He turned back to Meredith. "I'm going to go get some coffee." He started to walk away when Zola stood up.
"I'll come with you! Do you want anything mom?" Meredith simply shook her head.
Hi y'all! and thanks for reading! I brought Samuel in! :) Where is Ellis at? and who is Carolyn and the mystery boy? thanks for your reads, follows, favorites and reviews! I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM (so if you have a few mins you could leave one I would be very happy!) I only got one last time and I would like more because it tells me if you are enjoying it or not and helps me to stay motivated to write more! love y'all and until my next update,
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