Chapter 3

As Meredith was in a rush to get back to her patients, she was the first to arrive at the office. "Well c'mon then?" Cristina said. Meredith opened the door and they all went inside.

"Good morning, have a seat" The chief stood up and sat on the corner of his desk.

Izzie and George returned the greeting, but from the rest all that could be heard was: "Gddd mrninnggg"

The chief continued: "You must be wondering why I called you all for a meeting this early on a Monday morning"

There was some nodding and mumbling. Alex gave out a yawn, but nobody noticed.

"Well, the fact is.. I need your help. A resident called sick this morning and the replacement can't come till Thursday morning. So I need some people to keep an eye on her interns. I can't make you do this."

Meredith was frowning

"Even though I am your boss, this isn't in your job description so this is totally on voluntary bases. But I would appreciate this a lot."

Izzie was the first to reply: "We would be happy to help you chief."

Before the others could object the chief started to talk again: "Great! Well I need to go over some details with you.

There are five interns and you are a group of five as well, so everyone gets one intern.

There will be no trading, this is your responsibility and you have to accept that. You will have to meet them at 10 am in the cafeteria.

They had their morning duties assigned, but after you meet them at 10 it is your duty to assign them to cases you think are best for them.

Because you don't know anything about these people I'm giving you all a file with the necessary information. Please make sure you read the file before 10.

I'm going to check up with you this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon. If you have any trouble with the interns, don't hesitate to come to me."

The chiefs grabbed 5 files and handed them over to the group.

Meredith opened her file. At the top of the first page there was a name, it said Joanna Mayfield. There were some scribbles of the other resident. It said: "Very intelligent, but has trouble connecting to the others". Meredith looked at the photo. It showed a woman with dark blond hair. She had very bright blue eyes, but those were barely visible under her glasses.

The file that Cristina got was of Claire Millar. Cristina was instantly reminded of Izzie. Blond hair and very pretty. The resident had made some notes. They talked about good bedside manners, very cheerful human being. Just when Cristina was feeling discouraged she turned the page and found Claire's resume.. Cristina's mood turned instantly when she saw that Claire's education and grades, weren't even half as good as Cristina's.

Alex didn't even bother to open his file. He already knew that he didn't care about his intern. Whoever it was, he didn't want to know. It was either someone he could deal with, or not.

George hesitated a minute before he opened the file. He didn't know what to do exactly, so he wished with all his powers that it would be someone a bit like him. Someone he could connect with. He opened a file and after a minute or so he closed it. It seems that the wishing didn't help. It seems that Charles Thomas Henderson isn't the person he'd normally connect with. With the idea in his mind that he couldn't trade, the only thing he could do was hope and pray that the guy he will be meeting at 10 am isn't as bad as his file makes George believe.

Izzie took her file eagerly and opened it. It was the file of Kate Sanders, she looked a bit punky. Black hair, with some multicolour strands through it. Dark brown eyes. The comments on the bottom of the pages told about a rough girl, always tells it straight out.

"You can read the rest this morning" The Chief said. "The surgeries you have in the next couple of days stay the same. You can bring the intern with you or assign them to something else. Now get back to work, I'll check up on you this afternoon. Good luck and thank you!"

The residents stood up and greeted the chief before leaving his office. When Cristina closed the door she burst out towards Izzie: "We would be happy to help you chief." She said with a voice strangely similar to Izzie's. "As if I didn't have enough on my mind! Some of us have real jobs to do you know. I never saw "Babysitting" in my job description. Never saw it in yours either!"

Before Cristina continued Izzie wanted to make her point: "Has it ever occurred to you, with your Stanford degree, that this might actually be a test? If we had said no, it would be bad for our careers. Aren't you the one that takes on as much as she can, because it'll eventually look good on our resume? Instead of calling it 'babysitting' call it 'mentoring or coaching '!"

The George agreed. So did Meredith, kind of. Alex had already left, so Cristina was outnumbered. Even though she would never admit it, she did think Izzie had a point.

After thinking about the matter even more Cristina let it go and got back to her morning duties. As did the rest of them.