Title:
And The Ability to Know the Difference
Author:
The Evil Pink Squirrel of Doom
Who One Appears to be
"So do you know what's wrong with my son Doctor?" The short Greek women asked staring hopefully at Dr. Shepard as she grasped her husbands hand in fear. Derek looked around the room, there were two men and three women, outside of the elderly Greek couple. His eyes came to rest on the a thin, tall short blond haired women. She sat holding the unconscious mans hand, according to Richard, the man had woken up for a couple seconds and told Alex how much he loved his wife and to tell her. Alex who stood off to the side had been instructed by Richard to tell the mans parents. From what Alex had told him the family had immediately called the mans ex wife Michelle. Alex did say that he asked if perhaps it wasn't the ex wife but a girlfriend. The teachers mother had then rudely informed both Alex and himself that her son hadn't dated since the marriage broke up four years earlier, and she thought he was so heart broken over it he never would again. So the ex-wife was called and now laid at the man's bedside as if she had never left, never hurt him. 'Boy who does that make me think of?' Dr. Shepard shook his head and continued on with explain things to the family.
"Your son is going to need surgery, there's pressure on the brain and if I don't relieve it soon he will be comatose for the rest of his life, if not die. I don't think it's wise to take anytime at all. It will be a long surgery. But I'm confident…" He stopped and gave a sad smile to his parents. The elderly women 'Sharon was it' he thought shaking his head, just stared at him.
"Your going to saw into my son's skull and poke around in there, couldn't that kill him? " She either didn't notice she interrupted him or didn't care. Derek was used to it, but still he hated it when people talked to direct about his life's work. It made it sound like he was Dr. Frankenstein.
"Well there's always a danger with brain surgery but I think we should be able to help Nick." He sighed inwardly something just wasn't right about all of this. He nodded to the family and left.
"Dr. Shepard's the best of the best, if anyone can help you son it's him. A couple weeks ago I he saved a co-workers spouse, while there was bomb down the hall." Alex smiled at the parents hoping to convey the sediment that everything would be fine.
" Yea, I heard about that bomb scare, it's rather creepy." One of the teachers sisters stood looking at him, her curly black hair falling in her eyes.
"It's not that bad, we all survived." he clapped his hands together and look at the gathered family.
"So do you want to go now and explain it to the team, or after lunch, I'll go catch Dr. Shepard I'm sure he wouldn't mind going and answering there questions right now, I'm sure those kids would love to know how there head coach is sooner rather then later, I know when I was on sports, coach was just like…"
"Actually Dr. Karev, we as a family feel those students have no right to know what's going on, and we don't plan on telling them. This is a family issue and we would be very unhappy if they were to find out without our permission." The man's oldest brother stood, serious about what he was saying. Alex looked at them, they were nuts they had 43 kids in the surgical waiting room, wanting to find out. Looking once more at the family Alex walked out of the room, in know mood to argue, maybe he should go ask Dr. Shepard what to do.
Sam walked quickly off he elevator and towards the waiting room. As she entered she spotted the wrestling team over in a corner. One of the boys raced up to her.
"Your Sam Roslyn right?" she nodded, and went to speak but the boy talked faster.
"I had science with one of you brothers my freshman year, that was a while ago though. Anyhow Terrence keeps saying that if anyone can scare up information on coach it would be you, he, Terrence I mean, went to the cafateria to go get something to eat, but.."
"You mean they still don't know what's wrong with Mr. Mackenzie?" She pursed her lips together, this could be very bad. And general hospitals and her loved ones to not bode well. Badness, badness, badness was bad, yes, very bad. Her mind seemed stuck on that one thought till the young boy Bilko? Was that his last name? She calmly made a note in the back of her mind to ask Nick as soon as she could talk to him. Taking a slow breath she couldn't believe what came out of the 125 lb. boy. When he finished she took a deep calming breath, spun on her heel and headed for the nurses station without even looking at the boy.
Dr. Derek Shepard walked through the hallway of Seattle Grace, he was trying to figure out what had happened an hour earlier in the room of one Nicolas Mackenzie, he had spoken to the man's family which oddly enough or perhaps not so much included his ex wife. His eyebrows creased as he tried to figure out what had just happened. They seemed standoffish, and although normal sometimes when talking about brain surgery, not once had they mentioned anything about the teacher's students in the waiting room being told. Then Alex had come to him telling him the family was vehement not to tell the teachers students or even his friends.
As he turned the corner towards the nurses station, his ears perked, he heard first, rather then saw the 5'7 slender, blood red haired beauty as the nurses stations. As he came closer he could hear the argument.
"I need to know, why the hell wont you just tell me? One of the boys said the doctor already saw his family. A member of the team saw two of them go in. I need to know, his name is Nicolas Mackenzie, he's forty six years old." The young women was begging and pleading. Derek watched as the nurses rolled her eyes.
"Yes young lady, I know who he is, but I can't give you any information on patients, your not family, and I'm sorry no matter how close you are to your teacher" the nurses eyes swept over the young women obviously annoyed she just wouldn't leave well enough alone.
"He's not my teacher, you bloody bint, I'm…" He watched as the young women shoved a couple papers into the nurses hand. The nurse look down at them, and if possible looked even more annoyed only now she looked upset.
"Listen, I don't know who you think you are? But this is a hospital we don't just give information out to any child looking to play…" The nurse quieted down as Derek came up next to the pair, and placed the chart on the counter. Turning to the young women his breath caught in his throat. She was probably 5'7, but had on black stilettos, allowing her to look him in the eyes. She had deep blood red hair, a curl hung loose over brilliant jungle green eyes. Her eyes were sparkling as tears rain down her fair skinned face, over deep red lips. She had two lower ear piercing, one was a set of ruby studs the other a set of onyx, there were two upper piercing in her left cartilage one sparkling diamond, the other a deep sapphire. She was wearing a deep green v-neck sweater, the pushed up the swell of her breast. It showed just a bit of her abdomen, which was flat, and taunt. She was also wearing an ankle length dark blue denim skirt. Her arms were thin, with signs of muscle and strength underneath. She wore a sterling silver necklace, with a small ruby heart surrounded by tiny diamonds surrounding it hanging of the chain.
"I'm Dr.Shepard, is there something I can help with?" The young women looked at him and took a deep breath. Looking him in the eyes, she handed the paper the nurse had rudely crumpled back into her hands.
"I don't know are you as ignorant as this women?" She looked at him expectantly. Dr. Shepard raised his eyebrows at the girl.
"I like to think, I look at all the angles first." Looking down at the paper in his hands he almost fell over, his eyes got very wide as he looked at the young women.
"Your, Your, Your, Mr. Mackenzie's.." He stopped and looked into the green eyes and took a much needed breath, his heart pounding in his ears.
"Mrs. Mackenzie" Sam finished, holding her hand out to Derek. Only one thought was sliding through McDreamy's head, 'oh shit, oh shit, Richard really going to have that heart attack with this one.'
Author Note; No this is not Derek OC, Sam is very much in love with her husband, dumb dumb dumb, dumb… Nick, the teacher. I was just trying to get the point across she is like a absolutely drop-dead gorgeous young women. This was not a student teacher relationship, it will be explained in the next chapter. Plus more of the surgical interns. Please Review… if you have any ideas on how Derek should tell Richard let me know.
Thanks to mel60 and trunina for the reviews, those are what keep me going.
