Part 4
By greyeyedgirl
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Scene 18.
INT hosp. room of Heath, Cristina's patient. He is sitting up, watching the news, when a girl comes in, about 15, comes close to his bed.
GIRL: (very tough-looking. Speaks slightly tentatively) You okay?
HEATH: (barely glancing at her. Looks slightly angry.) You shouldn't be here.
GIRL: I'm not staying.
GIRL: (cont. Looks uncomfortable) I'm sorry about Richie.
Heath looks pissed.
HEATH: Of course you're not.
GIRL: Hey! It's not like it's my fault---
Heath just looks at her, shakes his head.
HEATH: You should go. Your parents will be worried.
The girl looks at him for a moment, then walks out.
cut to OR, Burke is operating on Denny.
BURKE: Suction.
Burke is immersed in the operation for a few minutes. Camera pans up to the Viewing Deck, where Izzie and Cristina are standing on opposite ends, watching. Izzie looks weirdly angry, her eyes are glazed over. Cristina is just staring down at Burke.
IZZIE: You think you know somebody. You think they care about you.
CRISTINA: (very bitter) No kidding. They make you all happy and crap, and then, you find out it really is crap, because apparently all it takes is a hobbit-haired jogger to make them forget all about you.
IZZIE: (not listening to Cristina) You listen to them, give them advice, try to talk to them when they're upset. You live with them---
CRISTINA: (cutting her off, looks angry) You LIVE with them!
IZZIE: ---But they're willing to pick a freakin' surgery over you. (shakes her head, very angry, looks disgusted) It's sick.
CRISTINA: Pathetic. Disgusting.
CRISTINA: (cont) Men suck.
IZZIE: Boys suck. Real men are very sweet.
Cristina seems lost in her thoughts. Not really listening to Izzie, sort of is, but mostly abstractly.
IZZIE: (smiles) He got a heart. Denny's going to get better.
Cristina looks down into the OR, looking bored. Now REALLY not paying attention to Izzie.
IZZIE: George is an asshole.
CRISTINA: (turns to look at her as if she's finally listening, appears confused for a moment, then shrugs it off.) Right on.
There is noisiness in the OR. Slight panic, Burke is very into the procedure on Denny. Denny loses pulse
IZZIE: (running forward so she's JUST behind the glass, pushes her hands against it. Sounds panicked) What's going on?
CRISTINA: (coming forward also, not as disturbed, but interested) He's crashing.
(Izzie stares down in panic. Yells, horrified.)
IZZIE: DENNY!
(Izzie
rushes out of the Observation Deck, is seen running down the hallway
and then into the OR, barely grabbing a mask. Cristina has followed
her down the hallway and is trying to grab her back, looks shocked.)
CRISTINA: Izzie!
(Cristina frantically tries to pull Izzie out of the OR with one hand while holding onto her surgical mask with the other. Izzie is looking at Denny and almost crying, looks like she's caught a serious case of the crazies. The surgical team is split up, some of them staring at Izzie, the rest, including Burke, frantically trying to save Denny.)
BURKE: (yelling) Get her out of here!
CRISTINA: I'm trying!
BURKE: STEVENS!
(Burke is now working extremely hard trying to get Denny's pulse back. One of the nurse's tentatively speaks.)
NURSE: Dr. Burke…sir…Mr. Duquette is DNR.
BURKE: (angry) I'm not resuscitating! I'm saving my patient!
(Izzie is now crying hysterically, Cristina is trying very hard to pull her back but without luck.)
BURKE: (trying to operate and talk at the same time) O'Malley, GO! Help Cristina!
(George carefully steps back from the table, and him and Cristina work on getting Izzie out of the OR. They're just pulling her through the door when Denny's monitor starts beeping. His pulse is back.)
IZZIE: (yelling, seems deliriously relieved) DENNY!
CRISTINA: (yanking her back) IZZIE! Back off!
(Izzie pulls out of George and Cristina's grasp, hurrying back into the OR and staring, smiling, at Denny, as Burke starts to close him up. Cristina and George stare at her helplessly for a few moments, before George takes a few steps forward, and gently pulls Izzie back. Everyone is now staring at Izzie as if she were crazy. She is grinning at Denny, though, and doesn't seem to notice. Burke and Cristina exchange a significant look.)