Chapter 4: in and out control
Authors Note: Hello there. This is the next chapter and well it has drama and is even more out there than the last one and is… well you have to read to find out! Don't forget to review! oh and Lisa is a nurse.
Now where were we? Oh yes… Izzy has a gun to her head and Cristina is bleeding out…
"PREP OR 3 RIGHT NOW!" yelled Webber as Meredith was checking Cristina's vital signs.
"Ok Grey let's go!" said Burke with panic arising in his voice.
The three ran off to the OR.
"PAGE O' MALLEY!" screamed Webber, "GREY ORDERED AN IVC FILTER AND 5 UNITS OF O NEG! SCRUB IN AND GET ME A PORTABLE ULTRASOUND!"
Meredith went off with her task and the moment that she and George walked into the OR; Cristina's monitor went flat.
Izzy panicked. She forget every bit of self-defense that she learned over the years. The feeling of the gun to her head calmed her for some reason. It reminded her or how she was young and her father would come and try to beat her up. It helped to know that there was a gun in the 'hallway closet' of their trailer.
"Dr. Stevens…"
Izzy slowly opened her eyes only to see the man whose daughter, Izzy treated yesterday..
"Y…es?"
"YOU KILLED MY DAUGHTER!" The man shoved the gun deep in her temple as Izzy felt the warm blood roll down the side of her head.
"WHY! SHE WAS OK WHEN SHE LEFT THE HOUSE. SHE WAS ONLY 20! SHE HAD HER WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF HER. JUST BECAUSE SHE WAS HIT BY A CAR AND NEEDED TO GO TO THIS DAMN HOSPITAL, SHE DIED."
"Sir, her injuries were extremely severe. There was nothing we could do. She was not only going to be paralyzed but she had 5 fractured ribs, hemoragging on her abdomen, blindness in the left eye, a collapsed lung, major head lacerations, and she had her spleen removed and needed her liver to be removed but there was no time. If the slim chance of her survival existed, she would be in a great deal of pain."
"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN! SHE COULD'VE LIVED."
"Sir, I assure you that there was no possibility that she would have survived it in the first place."
"You killed her. You murdered my daughter! I'll kill you now. No wait! I could let you rot in prison and everyday I would visit you and torture you."
"Sir, please." Izzy opened her eyes and looked into the empty stairwell.
"I DON'T CARE." Izzy felt the man's breath on her neck. She felt his fingers squeeze the trigger and Izzy heard the gun go off.
"CRISTINA!" screamed Burke as he glanced nervously at the monitor.
Meredith blinked a few times and felt her voice disappear. After a second, she found it while everyone else stood there.
"GET ME AN INTUBATION TRAY! LISA START THE ULTRASOUND! GEORGE SQUEEZE IN 2 UNITS OF O NEG! BURKE PLEASE WAIT IN THE SCRUB ROOM. DR. WEBBER GET ME THE PADDLES!"
Everyone snapped back into reality and got to Meredith's orders.
"CHARGE TO 200. CLEAR"
"Spiked Sinus."
"Dophemine 10 mikes. Charge to 300"
"Drug admistered."
"CLEAR."
"Returning Sinus."
"George intubate! Let me see the ultrasound."
"What do you see Dr. Grey?" asked Webber as he returned to his normal state.
"Delayed miscarriage. We must have missed something in the surgery. She needs immediate evasive abdominal surgery."
"Well, Grey. You lead. I'll assist." Said Webber wearing a proud smile.
"I would love to but I would only like to save Cristina's life."
"Then do it."
"Ok." Said Meredith with uncertainty in her voice. "Lisa, give me a 10 blade."
Izzy opened her eyes. She looked around she saw that the man was dead. Izzy felt that she had a minor head laceration. She ran out of the stairwell and called for helped. 'Things are going to be okay…' Izzy kept repeating that phrase in her heard as tears fell down her face.
Cristina awoke with an intense pain in her stomach. She looked around to find that Meredith, George and Burke were sitting at her beside.
"CRISTINA YOU'RE AWAKE!" exclaimed George.
"Lay off Bambi. What happened?" Cristina looked at Burke's grave expression.
"Meredith performed an amazing surgery!" exclaimed George until he realized that wasn't exactly what Cristina wanted to hear.
Meredith was the first to answer, "You passed out in my kitchen. It turned out that your fallopian tube burst. While you were in recovery, you started bleeding out again, and well…"
"Well, what Meredith?"
"We couldn't save the baby." George blurted out.
Cristina felt the hot tears come to her eyes.
"WHY ARE YOU LYING TO ME!"
"Cristina, they aren't lying." Said Burke as Cristina saw his tears fall down onto her sheets.
"George, I think they need a minute." Suggested Meredith as she grabbed George by the arm and exited the room, only to run into Izzy.
Cristina looked at Burke for reassurance.
"Burke, I…"
"Shh. It's ok."
"How can it be? I lost my child. I was going to abort but I lost the child anyway!"
Burke climbed onto the gurney with Cristina and gently embraced her.
"It will be okay. You are able to have kids again."
"But Burke, I only want to have a baby with you."
"Then we can try again. When the time comes."
"I feel so bad. I drank alcohol."
"Cristina. Everything happens for a reason." Cristina felt Burke's tears falling into her hair as well as hers onto her gown.
"I want a baby. At first I was scared. But after I told Meredith and George. I thought that I could give this a chance."
"Don't worry. You will make a great mother. Go back to sleep. I'll bring some pasta over okay?"
"Okay. But I want the eggplant in it. It's a Korean favorite."
"Okay. Do you want me to wake you?"
"Yes."
"Sleep well Cristina. I love you."
"I love you too." Cristina put her arms protectivley around her stomach hoping that this was all a horrible nightmare.
"Izzy? What are you doing here?" asked Meredith and George nervously in unison.
"I work here."
"Are you okay?"
"Yes. I'm fine. What were you doing?"
"I'd rather not say." Answered George.
"Why not?"
"I don't think you want to know." said Meredith.
"I do."
"Meredith and I were um. You know…" said George.
"Yes. That…" said Meredith as she kissed George on the cheek.
"Okay then."
None of the three knew that Derek saw everything.
Meredith walked out of the hospital tiredly. George was waiting by the car. On her way to her car, Meredith was pulled over by Derek.
"Meredith, we need to talk."
"I don't want to. I won't either."
"Why are you with George?"
"I have nothing to say to you. Now I have a bottle of Tequila and a bed with my name on it."
"You are blowing me off again with Tequila."
"Yes. I would choose Tequila over you anyday. Goodbye Dr. Sheperd."
Meredith walked on and greeted George as Derek jumped into his car and drove off.
Derek looked around at the street lights. He spotted a 24 hour bar and pulled over. He walked in and saw scotch.
"Give me that bottle of scotch." Derek said to the bartender.
"Alright."
Derek downed the bottle of scotch and went for another. By the time he finished his third, he ordered one to go and left.
Derek dizzily, walked to is trailer. He spotted a figure standing at the door, which he recognized to be Addison.
"What are you doing here?" Derek asked as he took another drink.
"Talking to you."
"Come in."
Derek and Addison walked inside and Derek shut the door.
"So what do you want? I need my sleep."
"You." Addison leaned over and kissed Derek.
He, being drunk was not aware that this was happening. He believed it was Meredith. He gently took off her clothes and laid her down on the bed.
Meredith was tired. She was glad Izzy had to work another shift.
"So George, why did you say that we were together?"
"Izzy would have suspected something else otherwise."
"Yeah. You know George, if I didn't want to ruin our friendship; I'd date you."
"Really?"
"Yep."
"Meredith, I think I might love you."
"Well in that case." Meredith leaned over and kissed George gently. Again the two were drunk and the alcohol made it tough to focus. They had barely made it up to Meredith's bedroom, when they had relieved each other of any garments.
Derek awoke with a major headache and felt someone in the bed beside him. He looked over.
"Mer? ADDISON? What are you doing here?"
"You slept with me remember?"
"NO I WAS DRUNK! GET OUT!"
"Fine then but tell your idiotic girlfriend that you cheated on her with your wife."
"Just leave." Addison quickly got dressed and left the trailer.
"What have I done?" asked Derek as he leaned against his bathroom.
Meredith's eyes fluttered opened. She barely had a headache and remembered every detail of the previous night.
"Meredith, are you awake?"
"Yes." Meredith turned facing George.
"I'm sorry about last night, Mer."
"Don't be. We were drunk and we're good friends. We can't let this get to us. I know that you love Izzy too."
"You know?"
"the way you look at her tells all."
"Oh."
"Tell Izzy okay. This wasn't a mistake. We just have to think that this was just casual. Too much to drink and a rebound with our relationships right?"
"You're right Mer."
"Oh and George?"
"Huh?"
"I know that you liked me before."
"Oh…"
"Don't worry. We had our fun. Now leave before you blow it with Izzy."
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it. And Bambi… you aren't half-bad." George blushed as he slid out of bed and into his room.
Meredith walked into the shower and made breakfast.
"This is going to be a long day." Meredith said to herself as she hopped into the car with George.
Izzy was extremely tired and Alex was getting on her nerves. She just wanted to go home. Izzy felt hated at the moment.
Meredith walked out of the locker room and into the hallway when she saw Bailey running toward her, full-speed.
"Grey, you're mother has been admitted."
I'M SORRY! The Meredith/George and Addison/Derek just had to be done. It's in the preview… I'll see if they get back together! I want them too but I'm not sure. Usually the couples that I wish to be together aren't! (Take Carter and Abby from ER for example. I'm STILL mad about that…) But this story was defineatly out there. I'll work on it. Please review. The next chapter will be out soon. After labor day, there will be a block period for me because of school so bear with my chapters now. I will take any suggestions.
--GreyMoose
(You just have to love Abercrombie and Fitch.)