Dana's Breakdown

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Written by: Erin & Lola



Dana sat at her office desk, re-evaluating everything and letting it sink in, she realizes what she said. She quickly stands up letting her chair crash to the ground behind her, she makes a bee line for the door, she pulls it open and marches out straight to Lu's office.

Dana stops dead in her tracks, only inches away from Lu's door, instead of knocking, she yells, "Lu, we need to talk".

Lu was currently on the phone, "Dana, I have a call"

"now, Lu" Her voice was stern and strong

Lu hung the phone up and walked outside her office where Dana was standing, "well, Dana what seems to be the problem?"

"The problem Lu?, I think you know what the problem is". Dana clearly stated

"Dana if this is about Alexis, you need to take it up with her" Lu answered back

"no, Lu it's just not about Alexis, it's about Marc and you too".

"Dana, I think you need to calm down"

"Calm down?, no Lu, I don't think so, my daughter, my teenage daughter is pregnant, I can't calm down, This is your fault you know that? Marc should have never been let out of the house that night"

"How was I suppose to know he was sleeping with your daughter?, I trust my son but, and he messed up and he's not totally off the line either".

"Yeah, well, I don't want Alexis near Marc, or you, that will solve this whole problem".

"No, Dana, what would have settled this whole problem was if you would have paid attention to your daughter in the first place"

"I do pay attention to her, I gave her everything" Dana stated definsively

"yeah, Dana everything but, a mother" Lu said harshly.

Dana gasped, "Thank you, for your imput, Lu, god knows you're the worlds perfect mother"

With that Dana turned around to go back to her office, everyone was staring directly at them and had been listening to every word they said,

"Show's over, everybody" Dana announced as she walked back to her office, shutting the door behind her only to be opened behind her and Nick coming running in.

Lu stood outside she stunned that everyone at Rittenhouse had seen and heard every word that she and Dana had said to each other, she went into her office once again but that really didn't help she knew that she had to help those kids somhow but how she thought.

Lu knew that Dana probably wan't going to come around to Alexis anytime soon so she went the school got Alexis and they started to talk just then Lana had walk over to where Lu and Alexis were talking and saids

"Do u guys need anything right now?" Lana asked

"No not right now but thanks anyway Lana, I'll let you know when we do"

"alright Lu" with that Lana went back to the receptionist desk and Alexis and Lu sat just talking for the next hour and a half.

"Alexis, Dana and I had quite a scene hear this morning, she was really upset and I said things I did'nt mean and I'm sure she did too, it's that you've only been back with her for a few months and she thinks this is your way of getting back at her for her not being there"

"But, Lu it was'nt her fault that she was'nt there"

"It was'nt?" Lu asked

"No, she wanted to be there and she was when I was a a baby but, her parents forced her to finish medical school, she still came around for a while but, it was too hard for the both of us for her to just come and go so, Dad decided it would be best if he took full custody".

"Alexis I'm sorry, I did'nt know, it's just that, Dana never mentioned she had a daughter until a few days before you arrived and she had problems with Nick because she was baby crazy and then I just thought this was adding to the tension"

"Dana baby crazy?, proves that I don't know her at all"

"It's okay Lu i know that you want to help out and you may if would like to" Alexis says

"I really would like to help you guys but still you two are going to have to help yourselves also" Lu replies

"Oh I know we will help out I promise we will do whatever we can" Alexis says

"I know that you will" Lu replies again "Well Alexis I have go to get back to work so you may stay in my office until I get back if you want"

Dana sat in her office trying to calm down but nothing seemed to work, she got up from the couch and walked out into the clinic where she spotted Alexis, "Alexis, what are you doing here?, are'nt you suppose to be in school?"

"I was just talking to Lu"

"Alexis, you have to listen to me, you need to go back to school"

"I know I need to get back to school but as I was just explaining to you I was talking with Lu since she seems like the only who will listen to Marc and I and plus she knows what she's talking about she has been through this before" Alexis stated

"Yes I know she has Alexis but." Dana pauses as she sees Lu coming right towards her and Alexis she asks "Dana is there something wrong?"

"Umm no Lu I was just telling Alexis that she needs to get back to school before she gets into trouble with her teachers" Dana replies not wanting her partner to know what she and Alexis were really talking about.

"Ohh well if there's anything else that you two need please feel free to ask" Lu says as she walks back into her office to try and do some paperwork before her next patient arrived.

Dana stood there with Alexis, "let me take you back to school"

Lana rounded the cornor, "Dana, you're 12 o'clock's here" "

okay, thanks Lana"

"I thought you were going to take me to school?"

"Um, Alexis," Dana spots Nick walking down the hall, "Nick?"

"Yeah?" he answers

"would you drive Alexis to school for me?"

"sure, can I drive the Jag?"

"sure, why not, the key's are in my office"

Nick takes Alexis to school Meanwhile back at the clinic Lu is hurrying out of her office because she's paged to the E.R. she almost runs into Dana as she's racing down the hallway "sorry Dana trying to get to a patient in the E.R." she says quickly as she continues to run down the hall

"ohh it's okay Lu I understand" Dana says softly

On the way to school, Alexis try's to strike up conversation with Nick, "so, you're dating Dana?"

"yeah"

"do you love her?"

"yes, I do"

"is she baby crazy like Lu says she is?"

Nick laughed, "well, somewhat"

"oh, so you know Dana well, do you think she'll come around to the fact I'm pregnant?"

"well, right now, I think she needs time and space to calm down, she'll probably through some fits now and then but, she'll adjust"

"hopefully"

"okay thanks Nick for the ride" Alexis says she gets out of the car and walks up to the door of the school.

Nick says back "no promblem Alexis have a good day at school"

" okay I will bye see you later" Alexis says

Back at the hospital things are heating up both Dana and Lu were paged to work on the same patient, Dana was the first one there, Lu arrives several minutes later, "I've got it Lu, you can go"

"no, Dana, I was paged too, I'll help"

"Lu, I can handle it"

"and I said I'll help"

"just because you don't think I'm a good parent, does'nt mean I'm not a good doctor, back off Lu, I've got it"

"okay, miss Harvard degree, take it"

Lu storms out of the E.R. doors and into her office she slams the door behind her. A few minutes later Dana comes out of the E.R. and asks Lana if she's seen Lu, "well I have actually she's in her office Doctor Stowe, I think she should go and talk with you" Lana suggests

"Why should I Lana she's her fault and her son's fault that my teenage daughter is now pregnant so I have nothing to say to her", she continued "now if you'll excuse me I have another patient to exam" Dana says as she goes to exam her patient.

Later on that evening, Dana and Nick are enjoying their dinner when the doorbell rings, Alexis comes out of her room to answer the door, she opens the door, "Hi, Marc"

"Hi, is now a bad time?"

"I guess not"

"Alexis, who's at the door?" Dana asks.

"Alexis turns around to face Dana, "Marc"

"Marc?"

"yeah, do you mind if he comes in, we need to talk"

"dammit Alexis"

"Please, Dana"

Dana let out a sigh, "It's not like there going to do anything, she's already pregnant" Nick says. Dana gives him a cold look.

"sorry, honey, just trying to lighten the atmosphere"

"I guess there's no harm in them talking"

"yeah" he answers.

"Alright Alexis, you've got 15 minutes"

"15 minutes"? Alexis repeats

"yes 15 minutes" Nick says

"but why we are just going to talk" Alexis states

"I know but still all you need is 15 minutes to talk with him so just talk to him and then he leaves nothing more nothing less do you understand Alexis" Dana says

"Yeah I do I promise he'll leave after 15 minutes" Alexis says as she and Marc go into go into Alexis's room to talk.

"so, Marc, what's up?"

"well, I just thought I'd stop by and see if everything was okay"

"no, everything's great"

"Dana did'nt say anything?"

"anything about what?"

"well, she and my Mom had another shouting match today"

"oh, really" she asks.

"yeah, in the ER"

"we've only made things between them worse, have'nt we?"

"I don't know but, it certainly did'nt help things"

"well, Lu came around, Dana will sooner or later, at least that's what Nick said"

Marc smiled, "well, sooner better than later"

"yeah"

"I mean in the beginning I didn't know exactly how my mother would take the news about your pregnacy" Marc says

"Really you thought that she'd be mad didn't you" Alexis asked

"Yeah I did, but then I was shocked when she didn't get mad and just became calm I thought she'd kill me , but thank god she didn't and I'm grateful to you for keeping her cool even though I think she's really upset with me about this whole thing even thought she says she's not, I have a feeling that she is but just not showing it"

"I think they have every right to be disappointed, because they truely only want what's best for us but, being angry towards us all the time is only going to make things worse"

Marc hugged her, "I'll always be here for you and the baby, I love you, Alexis"

Alexis smiled, "I love you too"

Then there was a soft knock at the door. "yes?" Alexis asked.

Nick poked his head through the door, "Hey, if you guys need more time to talk, I can distract Dana for a while"

"Okay" Marc answered.

"That's great, Nick, thanks for sharing" Alexis added

"No problem" Nick answered

"well do you think we need more time to talk Marc?" Alexis asked

"well I guess we could have abit more time" Marc says.

Meanwhile outside Dana and Nick are talking about Alexis and Marc just then there's a knock at the front door Nick replies "Hon i'll get it"

"okay thanks I'll be in the kitchen doing the dishes" Dana says as walks to the kitchen.

Nick opens the door to find Lu standing there "hey Nick is Marc over here"? She asks

"um Lu why don't you come in and yes he is he's in Alexis's room talking her.

"oh, you mean, Miss Havard Med let is letting Marc and Alexis talk to each other?"

"yeah, they're in the bedroom, there"

"behind closed doors?"

"sure Lu, would you like to talk to Dana?"

Lu nodded, "no, that's okay" at that time Dana walked out from the kitchen to the living room.

"Lu, what a surprise" Dana says.

"well, I just came to get Marc"

"oh, you knew he was here?"

"no, it's just when I got home and he was'nt there I just fiqured, well, I put two and two together and ended up here"

Lu sat down on the couch waiting for Marc to return from Alexis's room. A few seconds later the door to Alexis' room opened and both Alexis and Marc came out of the bedroom.

"Mom what are you doing"? Marc asks

"well i figured that you were over here since when i came home you weren't there and I know that you Alexis are well dating so...." Lu says

"ohh well mom okay then you want to go now" Marc asked his mother

"yeaH I guess we should" Lu says back

"bye Marc I love you" Alexis says as Marc and Lu go out the door

"I love you too Alexis see ya later" He says.

Later in the evening Lu and Marc are at their apartment, when the phone rings Lu gets up to get it "Hello" she says

"hey Lu can i talk with Marc"? Alexis asked

"yeah sure you can i'll go and get him he's in his room hold on" Lu says

"okay i will"

Lu knocks on Marc's bedroom door "hey Marc"? She calls

"Yeah mom what is it"? He asked

"Alexis is on the phone she wants to speak with you" Lu says

"ohh okay i'll talk to her" he says.

As Marc talks with Alexis Lu hears every word they say as she's in kitchen making lunch for herself. She then goes into her bedroom and lies down for awhile to rest as Marc and Alexis are still talking on the phone together she can still hear everything that their saying.

Later on at night Lu comes out of her bedroom she can't sleep so she decides to watch some television finally after watching T.V. for 2 hours she falls asleep on the couch.

The next morning she suddenly awakes from her sleep she goes into Marc's room she discovers that he's no where in the house she figures that he may have went over Alexis's house in the middle of night to see if she was alright.

She calls over at Alexis's house "hello"? Nick says still not fully awake

"hey Nick it's Lu sorry to be waking you but is Marc over there by chance? I can't find him anywhere I was thinking that maybe he had come over there during the night to see if Alexis was okay can you please check if he's over there for me? I'd appericate it" Lu says

"yeah sure Lu i'll check hold on"

Nick goes into Alexis's room and finds Marc there with her asleep so he doesn't wake them He goes back to phone and says "Lu he is here but he's asleep with Alexis" Nick replies

"Oh well umm can you tell him to call me when he wakes up the morning" ?Lu asked

"sure Lu I can have him call you then" Nick says

"thanks so much Nick" she says

"I'm happy to help Lu see ya tommorrow"

Lu hung up the phone and went right to sleep without another worry in her mind. The next morning Dana is awaken by the sunlight, she turns over the oppisite way only to discover that Nick was already up. She gets up out of bed, put's on her robe and walks out into the kitchen.

"good morning" Nick says.

"good morning" she replies as she heads straight to the bathroom. When she reappears Nick is making breakfast.

"Is Alexis up?" she asks

"No, not yet"

"okay" suddenly Alexis' bedroom door opens and she and Marc come out

"good morning" Alexis replies

"Marc"? Dana says confused

"yeah"? he asks

"What are you doing here? I thought you were home with your mom. Does she know that your here?" Dana asks all at once

"yes she does know and plus I wanted to see if Alexis was okay" He says

"well that's fine but why did you stay in her bedroom with her" Dana asks

"well becasue I wanted to make sure that she was safe" He said

"okay fine you had your say " Dana says rudely

"By the way, Marc, I talked with your mother last night and she had said that she wants you to call her when you get up" Nick says

"okay I will"

"what?" Dana asks, "you knew and did'nt tell me?, Nick?"

"well, Dana she called late last night and I did'nt remember until just now"

"Okay, maybe you guys just need time together, and I need time away from this so Alexis, why don't you go get dressed, and I'll give you some money to shop for the day"

"okay, Dana thanks" Alexis says happily

"But, you have to stop by Lu's first and tell her you're moving in with her, because I can't handle this" Dana's words were cold and unexpectedly

"but, Dana?" Alexis asks

"no but's Alexis, go get dressed" Dana walks back into the kitchen followed by Nick, "Dana, do you realize that you just kicked her out?"

"Yes Nick, I realized that but she needs to go and live somewhere else right now because this pregnancy isn't helping me at all it's just ruining my life" Dana says

"Okay Dana whatever you say but if Lu comes over here mad because you kicked your own pregnant daughter out of the house and go made her live at her boyfriends mother's house dont come crying to me about" Nick says as he leaves to go take Alexis for Lu's.

Dana hands Nick 2 hundred bucks on his way out the door, "give that to Alexis"

"Sure thing, I'll be back shortly is there anything you need while I'm out?"

"no"

"okay" Nick says as Dana shuts the door behind him.

Nick drives the two of them to Lu's, Marc and Alexis get out and Nick drives away, "here's the hard part" Alexis replies.

"Yeah I know" Marc says as they continue up the stairs and into the apartment. As they finally make their way up to the apartment they start thinking that maybe Lu wouldn't let them stay with her but, then again maybe she would, since after all she didn't yell at them when she found that Alexis was pregnant but, now Alexis moving in that was probably going to be a different story.

They quietly walked up to the apartment door and knocked "who is it"? Lu asks as she walks towards the door

"it's Marc, Mom please open the door"

The door opens Lu and sees Alexis and Marc standing there, she asks "what are you two doing here" aren't you supposed to be at Dana's?"

Marc looked at Alexis and then at Lu, "Mom, Dana was really upset"

"well, what else is new?" Lu answers matter-of-factly

"No, Lu, I mean really really upset" Alexis said

"What? what happened?" Lu asked fearing the worst

Marc spoke up, "Dana kicked Alexis out of the house"

"What?" Lu asked stunned

"She kicked me out" Alexis repeated.

"oh, god, where is Dana now?" Lu casually asks

"She and Nick are at home" Marc answers

"okay, you guys stay here, I'll be back" Lu replies

"What are you going to do?" Alexis asks.

"I don't know yet, just hope you don't see me on the six o'clock news."

Lu went out the door and was headed straight towards Dana's. When she got there she knocked on the door . Dana opened the door revealing Lu. "Lu what's wrong? What are you doing here"? Dana asks

"You know why I'am here, you kicked my son and your daughter out of your own house just because you can't handle your daughter's pregnancy" Lu angrly states

"well" Dana started

"no, Dana, this is reality, and it's always going to be here as long as you live and you need to get that"

"Lu, I can't handle this alright, not you, not Alexis' pregnancy I need time away, time to think, time to clear my thoughts"

"Dana, one day you'll realize that you're making a mistake, it may not be today or tomorrow but one day, I promise you that"

"yeah, Lu, maybe" Dana says coldly

"You need to be there for Alexis or else you will loose her and your grandchild is that what you want"? Lu asks and then answers her own question "Because Dana I don't think it is, Listen I know that your hurt and angry and frusterated right now but you've got to get over it and start giving some help to Alexis, I've been there before Dana it wasn't easy for me either but I came through, it was hard but still I got through it do you understand what I'm saying"? Lu asks Dana

"You don't think I know what's it's like, Lu?, god I interned when I got pregnant and had to continue until the week before I gave birth and I had to work twice as hard to be where everyone else is" Dana said full of emotion

"well, Dana, then have sympathy"

"I will not, Know one, gave me sympathy and I'm not giving ot to her"

"Dana, that's " Lu was interupted by Dana

"I'm not trying to be hard on her but, this is the real world, Lu.

"Well you two have got to face reality one way or the other, think about what I said, try figure out how to handle this" Lu says as she walks away.



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