Tears were falling silently down Meredith's and Cristina's face as they started blankly ahead. George looked as if he was in shock, eyes wide, mouth slightly agape and tears threatening to fall. They could hear Bailey coming up behind them telling them to move. But still they didn't move a muscle. Bailey now stood in front of them.
"What the hell are you doing? Get moving!" She yelled at them. She studied her interns closer. Yang is crying! Now I'm worried. Bailey turned around to see doctors performing CPR on a familiar blonde. She walked slightly to the right so she could see her face. Oh God. Bailey turned back to her interns, showing no emotions but breaking inside. "None of you are to go into her OR when she gets up there NONE of you! All of you come wait outside with me for the next ambulances." She turned around and began walking soon realizing the interns weren't following her. She turned around to find them standing in the exact same spot even though Izzie had been wheeled to the elevator. She sighed as she walked back up to them. "She'll be fine, now come on." Bailey grabbed Cristina's wrist softly to pull her away. Almost like a chain reaction Cristina grabbed George, who grabbed Meredith knowing that they none of them would move on there own. Bailey immediately let go of Cristina when they got to the ambulance bay. Meredith could faintly hear the ambulance sirens coming nearer and nearer. She had a very bad feeling in her stomach. Cristina noticed the sudden change of Meredith's expression. She walked over to her and touched her shoulder softly. The ambulances were nearly in the ambulance bay. Meredith jumped at Cristina's touch.
"What's wrong? I mean apart from, you know." Cristina indicated to inside. Meredith was about to answer when the doors of an ambulance burst open in front of them.
"Male, 28 years, internal bleeding, fractured ribs, broken arm, was in the same car as a female bought in earlier, needs immediate surgery." The paramedic told Bailey. Meredith took a deep breath in, she saw Cristina, George and Bailey do the same. They knew what was going to happen. They knew who was on the stretcher. Bailey forced herself not to look down at the patient. She didn't know what it was about this group of interns, she'd just become attached to them. This made her job tonight all that harder. She nodded at her interns to grab the stretcher and help her push him to the elevator up to OR 4. The elevator ride was one of the longest in Cristina's life. She looked at everyone in the elevator. Meredith with a tear slipping down her cheek slowly no expression visible on her face. George has his eyes closed and head hung low. Bailey is leaning against the elevator wall starring blankly ahead. And she, Cristina Yang, is facing the man laid out on the stretcher lost in her own thoughts. Everybody seemed to snap back into reality as the elevator doors opened suddenly. They wheeled him down to the OR where the nurses took over for now. Dr.Burke walked past them into the OR nodding as he went past.
"None of you are to step into this OR, none of you are to view this surgery, none of you are to aloud to cry from this minute. Do I make myself clear?"
Meredith nodded as she brushed away a tear.
"Good. Now go…find people that need help." Bailey turned away from them and into the OR leaving them standing in the middle of the hall. Cristina was the first to move, slowly taking some steps towards the elevator. She turned to George and Meredith. "Come on there's going to be some good surgery's to get into tonight." She grabbed Meredith's hand and pulled her to the elevator with George following close behind.
"I think I might take the stairs." Meredith told them as the elevator doors opened in front of them.
"Ok Mer but make sure you meet us down there don't decide to leave ok?" Cristina eyed her friend knowing her too well. Meredith turned around and began walking to the stairs. "I'm serious!" Cristina called after her. Meredith threw up her hand in response.
She pushed open the stair well doors walking down a level before sitting. She stared blankly ahead taking in everything that had just happened. She eventually felt warm tears trickling down her cheeks. She didn't know how long she sat in the stairwell crying. She suddenly felt a jerk in her stomach. "Ow! Stop kicking mummy its hurts." Meredith didn't notice someone watching her as she talked to her unborn child. "Can you please stop. How would you feel if someone kicked you in the stomach?"
She heard chuckling from behind her. She watched as Derek came and sat next to her still laughing. "We'll see if you're still laughing after I kick you in the stomach." She told him. "Shouldn't' you be going off to a surgery somewhere?" she asked him.
"I've still got about 15 minutes until there ready for me. Plus shouldn't you be downstairs helping people?"
Meredith looked up at him. "Do you know?"
He nodded "Yeah I'm going up to Izzie's OR now." He looked down.
"Well we better get going then." She stood up "I'll see you later." He stood up after her and kissed her on the cheek.
"Are you going to be ok?"
"Probably not." She smiled at him and began walking down the stairs waving back at him.
Cristina finished some stitches on a man s forehead and checked her watch. Where is she? Meredith had been gone for 15 minutes. She did a 360 around the room. Focused on the swinging door of the stairwell down the hall. There she is. Meredith came walking up to her. "Jeeze Mer I thought you did a runner on us."
"No I just stopped for a while. The little one was giving me trouble. So I guess I should start working." She walked over to a young woman around mid- twenties. "Hi I'm Dr.Grey what seems to be the problem?"
"I've got this gash in my arm. It's really hurting." She said holding her arm out for Meredith to see lifting the cloth off it that was covering the injury.
Meredith frowned. "You should have gone up to the nurse's desk and told them to get you a doctor. It's really deep."
"I know I just didn't want to cause a fuss."
"Its our job your meant to cause a fuss!" She reached into the tray beside her and began cleaning up the wound. "So were you with anyone else in your car?"
"No just me. Ouch!"
"Sorry. Should have said it s was going to hurt." She smiled at the woman.
"I just feel sorry for the people that were the ones that got originally hit. They must be in a bad state."
"They are." They were silent as Meredith stitched up her arm.
"I hear they work here." She looked at Meredith with questioning eyes.
"Who told you that?"
"A nurse."
Meredith smiled. "They do, work here. One of them lives me."
"And there making you work?"
"Yeah." She put a patch over her arm. "Ok you're all done. Come back in about two weeks and you can get your stitches out." Meredith stood up, the woman following her actions.
"Thank you."
"No problem."
Off to the next patient
Three hours and twenty one patients later Cristina and George came up to her.
"Alex got out of surgery half an hour ago. Do you want to go see him?" George asked her. She nodded a silent reply and followed them to the elevator. As the doors closed George started up a convosation to remove the awkward silence between them on the long ride up. Meredith listened to them silently not joining in. She caught them both sharing a glance at her, instead of saying her normal 'I'm fine' she stayed silent staring at the door infront of her.
Cristina was glad when the door opened any longer in there she thought she may actually have started crying. She couldn't deal with it anymore, any of it. She needed Burke, she could let her defense fall. She was sick of playing the tough one. Sometimes she wished she could be like Meredith and cry, but she couldn't if she did that people would look at her so differently. She the one with the tough skin, the hard ass attitude. She was there rock. Jeeze I need Burke. She shook her head in frustration.
As they made there way down to Alex's recovery room George made a silent prier that everything would be alright. After all of this everything would be back to normal. Him and his optimism. But still he hoped. He was the only one that would. Meredith would lock herself somewhere or disappear. Cristina would work. He would hope. It was just the way it was.
They stopped and looked at each other, each taking a deep breath before opening the door to Alex's room.
OMG! I actually updated! Here are my reasons for not updating in like years! Our computer crashed and we had to use a lap top that didn't have word on it. The when we finally got our computer back the internet stopped working because…well I don't know. But my smart ass brother fixed it somehow! Then I was stuck with what to write! And im so very sorry for not updating in so long throw whatever abuse you would like at me! I can take it! I'm still stuck with what to write for New start and im considering updating Its been a year since they've seen each other I kinda gave up on that one but im gonna bring it back! Or altleast ill try to! And ive had another idea floating around in my head for a while!
Well although it took forever its not a bad update for me I wrote I think about five pages on word! That's pretty good for me! Lol! Anywayz plz review! You guys rock I loved ur last reviews and im looking forward to hearing some more fantastic ones!
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