With My Last Breath

by greyeyedgirl

update 2

Scene 7

INT. SGH ER. Meredith, Cristina, and George all come running around the corner into the ER, followed by Izzie, Burke, Derek, Bailey, and Webber progressively

EMT 1 (man): (scared, breathless, shaken) Doctors.

The surgeons all look at him apprehensively.

EMT 1: There was a bomb.

All the doctors look scared or confused, and as they stand there more EMTs are pushing gurneys in.

EMT 2 (woman): Two-part explosion at Seattle Academy, at present time there are 38 injured students.

All the doctors stare, Burke looks sad, Bailey looks slightly nervous/tired, Cristina watching carefully, her eyes sliding over various patients. Meredith and George are both frowning, Izzie is very shaken, Webber just sighs.

WEBBER: Everybody grab a patient. Let's move.

BAILEY: (take-charge voice) Grey, get the brown haired girl in the corner. There. The one with the brick imprint on her face.

Meredith hurries to do as she's told.

BAILEY: O'Malley, get the one on the left. Black boy, around age 16.

George hurries to the boy laying unconscious about thirty feet away from them.

BAILEY: Stevens, get the pregnant girl. Page Karev, Shepherd'll want him down here for this.

Izzie rushes to the young, obviously four or five months pregnant redhead in the corner.

BAILEY: (calling to her as an afterthought) Page Shepherd as well, Izzie!

Izzie nods over her shoulder.

Cristina turns to Bailey, eager.

CRISTINA: What about me? (is eyeing a young boy in the corner who has his face screwed up in pain)

BAILEY: (seeing where she's looking and nods) Go ahead.

Cristina rushes off, and for a minute Bailey, Richard, and the attendings stand there, before each running to a different patient in need of assistance.

Scene 8

INT. SGH HOSPITAL ROOM. Redheaded pregnant teenager is laying on the bed, with Addison, Alex, and Izzie all present

PREGNANT TEEN: You should really call my mom. Have you called my mom?

ADDISON: We found her number in your purse. Don't worry, we have contacted her at work and she is on her way.

TEEN: Good.

TEEN: (cont.) You should probably call my boyfriend, too. (laughs awkwardly) Fiancé.

IZZIE: (looking at chart) We really need some more information from you, before we take you in for your CT, MRI, and NEAS. Full name?

TEEN: Anaxandra Rose Martin.

IZZIE: Date of birth?

ANAXANDRA: November ninth, 1990.

IZZIE: (looking up) You're only 15?

Addison clears her throat warningly. Izzie glances at her.

IZZIE: Right. Well, we really need to get some tests done, Dr. Karev here will be bringing you to the fourth floor, all right?

ANAXANDRA: Sure. (smiles at Alex, who gives a half-hearted smirk, obviously really annoyed)

ADDISON: (pleasantly) Dr. Stevens, may I speak to you for a moment?

Izzie looks confused, but follows Addison into the hallway.

IZZIE: Dr. Shepherd?

ADDISON: 'You're only 15?'

IZZIE: (looks down) I'm sorry. I'll apologize to her if you want me too. I'm just...tired, today.

ADDISON: Well, you'd better wake up. And by the way, since when was it your job to assign duties?

IZZIE: Excuse me?

ADDISON: 'Dr. Karev will be taking you to the fourth floor'?

IZZIE: (sighs, tired) I'm sorry. But I knew you wouldn't be doing it, and I really need to be getting back to another patient.

ADDISON: (looks slightly angry) Well, Dr. Stevens. You better be getting back to him, then.

IZZIE: (smiling) Thank you.

Izzie goes to leave. Addison calls after her.

ADDISON: Dr. Stevens!

IZZIE: (turning) Yes?

ADDISON: (nodding, speaks softly but firmly) Don't be expecting to scrub in on any of my surgeries for the rest of this month.

Izzie looks upset for half a second, then turns and finishes sprinting down the hall.

Scene 9

Seattle Grace Hallway by a nurse's station. Meredith is standing by it, talking on the phone and grinning.

MEREDITH: (lazy smile still on her face) Yeah, there were 38 students injured so far. (smile disappears completely) Sixteen of those have died already. (Pauses, listening) The news says 17?

Changes to see Finn Dandridge, who is holding his cell in one hand to his ear from the inside of a patient-room in the veterinary clinic, using his other hand as he's inspecting a large dog.

FINN: Let's change the subject. To, say, me, you, dinner, tomorrow.

Changes back to Meredith in the hallway at SGH.

MEREDITH: (smiling again) You're on. And afterwards we could, you know, go to my place, watch a movie.

Cut back to Finn.

FINN: Your place?

Back to Meredith, who is grinning as she's walking down the hallway.

MEREDITH: Yeah. I got a copy of "The Ringer," it looks really funny.

Cut back to Finn, who is checking the dog's throat.

FINN: (distracted, smiling slightly.) Yeah. Right. That sounds good.

Cut to Meredith

MEREDITH: (grinning) Okay. So, uh, I'll talk to you tomorrow, okay? I get off at...(thinks for a minute, and laughs) Seven. Pick me up at my house at eight-thirty?

Cut back to Finn, who is now smiling, and the dog lets out a hoarse bark

FINN: I'll see you then.

Scene 10

Izzie, heading down SGH hallway. Alex comes behind her

ALEX: (slightly annoyed) Thanks for sticking me with the fifteen-year-old whore.

IZZIE: (mad, but also distracted. Mad because she herself got pregnant at 15.) Don't call her a whore. You don't know anything about her.

ALEX: I know she should have either kept her pants zipped or her boyfriend's banana in a hammock.

IZZIE: (looking at him as she stops outside the door of a patient's room) You know, for someone who has so many issues, you are surprisingly judgmental.

ALEX: And for someone who is also pretty judgmental, you're pretty good at breaking the rules. Like making out with patients?

Izzie looks really pissed and opens the door to the patient's room, which is Denny's. Alex watches for half a second and then storms on, angry.

IZZIE: (closing door behind her, speaking softly) Denny.

DENNY: (extremely hoarse) Izzie, you don't even know.

IZZIE: (extremely sad) Denny, you have to make a decision. You have to get this heart.

DENNY: Iz...

IZZIE: (crying) Denny, please.

DENNY: Izzie!

IZZIE: (hysterical) Denny, please.

There is a long, long pause.

DENNY: (quietly) Fine. Yeah, Izzie, I'll do it.

Izzie looks up, shocked, and then almost runs to the bed and gets in with him, giving him a hug before giving him soft, quick, deep kisses.

Scene 11

INT. SGH HALLWAY, Cristina is seen with Burke a while behind her. Cristina stops outside a door to an on-call room, and Burke opens the door and enters behind her a few seconds later.

CRISTINA: (as she goes to sit on a bottom bunk bed, she is turning around and jumps when she sees Burke. Smiling,) Oh! Hey.

BURKE: Good morning.

CRISTINA: How's your patient?

BURKE: The bomb victim?

CRISTINA: (nodding) Yeah.

BURKE: I saved her. She was unconscious when she arrived, the impact from the explosion had thrown her back enough to severely damage her heart from the collision, but I performed a cardotionicis avendecamy and managed to get her going again.

CRISTINA: (smiling) That's excellent.

BURKE: Mmhmm.

CRISTINA: (realizing he's not going to ask) Mine's really nice. His name's Heath, he got a minor head injury and needed some sutures, he's going to need a nitroclineranal mitonomy from Dr. Shepherd later and then we're keeping him for observation, but he's relatively stable.

BURKE: That's...good.

CRISTINA: (smile falling, looks crestfallen) Yes. It is.

CRISTINA: (cont.) How's Denny?

BURKE: Denny Duquette...his heart will be arriving shortly. They ended up sending it when Stevens sent the okay. I was distracted with Miss Vanhover.

CRISTINA: Your bomb patient?

BURKE: Yes.

CRISTINA: So, I was thinking, when we had time, maybe we could go out again. We really don't do it enough, we could just go to dinner or a movie or something.

BURKE: Mmm. (extremely distracted)

CRISTINA: Burke?

BURKE: (jumping) Hmm?

CRISTINA: (mouth in a tight line) Nothing. (tries to smile.) Never mind.

BURKE: (now smiling tightly, still seems extremely out of it) Well, okay. I need to be going, I've got a heart transplant to do, but I will...speak to you later. (goes to turn)

CRISTINA: (quickly) Do you need assistance?

BURKE: (turning back) Hmm?

CRISTINA: With the transplant.

BURKE: (comprehending) Oh, oh! (pause) Well, I was going to ask O'Malley...

CRISTINA: (very fast, annoyed) George has a guy with multi-organ failure.

BURKE: Do you have any other patients?

CRISTINA: (looks at him like he's just a little slow. Laughs tiny laugh.) Um, yeah. Heath.

BURKE: Who?

Cristina just stares at him.

Scene 12

INT. SGH HALLWAY, Derek is walking when Meredith comes up to him.

MEREDITH: Derek!

Derek ignores her, keeps walking, flipping through a chart as he does so.

MEREDITH: (catching up to him, touching him on the arm to get his attention, he jerks away angrily) Derek!

DEREK: (looks up, angry) Dr. Grey, what is it?

MEREDITH: I need a consult. My girl got hit in the head with two bricks, from when the wall blew up.

DEREK: (distracted) What room?

MEREDITH: 407.

DEREK: I'll be there later.

MEREDITH: Should I order CT? Or an MRI?
DEREK: Her insurance cover it?

MEREDITH: (confused) What?

DEREK: Don't waste the tests if they're not needed. Some patients can't afford it.

Meredith doesn't speak for a minute as they keep walking, Derek looking through his file again.

MEREDITH: So I shouldn't have told you about George. Fine! But we were friends. And I was scared, and lonely, and George said everything right that I needed. He was there. And you...you weren't. And, as you put it, you had no right or reason to be. You have a wife. But I needed someone, a friend, and George came, and told me he'd always loved me. I needed someone to love me! (is breathing fast and hard, face is turning red) You didn't love me, and he did. I just wanted to make him feel okay, because he made me feel so much better. (is trying desperately to stop crying/not start crying, bites lip) And then Finn...

DEREK: Meredith, I don't want to talk about it.

MEREDITH: Have you heard any news about Doc?

DEREK: (even more angry) Well, if I had, I'm sure you'd already know about it. (walks away, angry.)

MEREDITH: (heartbroken, angry, pushing away angry/sad tears) Don't forget about the consult!
Derek is walking away, angry, and doesn't hear her.

Scene 13

INT. PATIENT ROOM, Bailey is there with Cristina. A teenage African-American boy is there, hooked up to several patients and staring at his stomach as Bailey speaks.

BAILEY: (uncharacteristically gentle) How ya holdin' up?
HEATH: My friend died.

Cristina takes a step back, looking uncomfortable in the situation she's in.

BAILEY: I'm sorry.

HEATH: We were at our locker. We shared one. Her name was Rashelle, she was only 14, but a sophomore. Like me. It was before third hour. We were going to AP Chemistry. She got her books and her special calculator. A TI 91. We were about to go to class, when she remembered- (Heath broke off, his face emotional, biting back tears) (whispers) She had to go talk to a teacher about a test. Mrs. Michaels, fifth hour English, on our Odyssey final. (voice gets even quieter) I offered to go with her, but she told me to go ahead. She almost didn't go, she didn't think she'd have enough time before Science...

Bailey is looking heartbroken, Cristina is watching, slightly horrified and mildly fascinated.

HEATH: (whispers) The first explosion was 12 and a half feet away from where room 1. Mrs. Michael's room. (nods at television) It was on the news. Richie must have been about 10 to 20 feet away when it went off. The second explosion wasn't too close to me, but when it exploded the whole school blew, bricks went flying, walls collapsed, the tiles were falling off the ceiling...(voice gets hoarse) People were crying, screaming, dying, there were four people who just exploded all together. Pink mist. That's what the news guy said the bomb squad calls people, the ones who explode. There was blood on the wall, when the EMT picked me up. I don't even want think about what happened to Richie.

Cristina is staring at him. Bailey looks like she might cry.

BAILEY: You were very lucky. You're going to be okay. This surgery is a minor one, and Dr. Shepherd is very good at what he does. You'll be in good hands.

HEATH: (smiles weakly.) I know.