The next day Meredith, Christiqan, Alex, and George were sleeping in Izzies room waiting for her to wake up. They slowly woke up when Bailey entered the room, disappointed to find that Izzie still hadn't woken up. Christian and George were paged so they left the room. Then Adam walked in asking Meredith to join him out in the hallway.
" Hey, how is Izzie?" Adam asks as him and Meredith walk down the hall.
" No change, it is horrible. I am so afraid that she wont wake up, or something else." Meredith says taking a deep breath.
" Well today you are on my service today, so I have nothing right now but.." Adam says being cut off by their pager going off.
" 911 in the pit," Adam says as they both run down to see what trauma they were gonna come across.
As the two of them enter the trauma room they see doctors hastily working on a man who was said to be crushed by a bus, he was at the moment a john-doe. They spring into action.
Meredith says, " He's back"
" Okay let's get a trauma series, trauma labs, and o-neg blood in here. Severe avulsion injury to the left forearm" callie says in a professional manner as everyone continues to work.
As they uncover the cloth cover his face Meredith is taken back at the damage the bus caused.
" Okay, skull is bashed in, page shepherd and Sloan" Owen says.
" Get antibiotics so we can clean the wounds," Adam says.
While they are working on the trauma Izzie has woken up and is getting an examination form Derek with Christina and ALex in the room. They are thrilled she is communicating and acting normal, but she seems to have problems with her memory, she forgets what she talks about every minute or so.
In The trauma room Dr. Sloan walks into the room.
" Woah," Mark says, examining the patient.
" Man vs. bus" callie comments
" The bus won" Sloan says
" Check out the left arm," Callie says, revealing a bloody, swollen mess, with flesh ripping off.
" he's crashing again " Meredith and Adam says at the same time.
" What do we got," Derek says, entering the room.
" roadkill" Mark says receiving glares from others in the room.
" You mind," Owen says offended.
" He stepped out in front of a moving busso he could pull a women out of the way: Adam says, with owen fishing, "he's a hero"
" can you fix the arm?" callie questions.
" fingers are already blue if it's gonna happen, now is the time" Sloan says working on the arm.
" Pupils blown. Stop cpr. Okay give me a cranial drill please." Shepherd says creating burr holes in the man's skull. A she does so the pressure is revealed and the man wakes up.
" I'm gonna go get some bacitracin for that face." Sloan says
" All right, let's get his head rotated," SHepherd says.
" welcome back sir. You had us worried there for a minute." Meredith says smiling at the man on the table. The man looks at her trying to get her to realize something, but Merdith recognizes nothing.
As they continue to work Dr. Bailey walks into the room and looks at Owen and Adam, but mostly Owne, "What did you do to O'malley?"
" excuse me?" owen asks confused.
"Uh, somebody else around here liley to convince someone to join the army and be a trauma surgeon in Iraq?" Bailey says enunciating clearly so he realizes her anger.
Meredith goes pale when she hears Bailey's words, when her brother became a surgeon for the army, she encouraged him. She supported him as well, and in the end he was presumed dead. Meredith did not want something bad to happen to George, like something bad happened to her brother. She heard people make shocked comments around her but she could not find words. Instead she focused on continuing on helping the patient. She looked towards Adam, seeing he was shocked as well, but continued to monitor his heart.
" V- fib" meredith says.
Charge the paddles to 360" Adam shouts grabbing the paddles and shocking the man.
"Uh, George? George O'malley?" Callie asks Owen.
" It wasn't my idea," Owen said.
" No change," Meredith shouts talking about his heart.
" charge again! CLear!" Adam shouts, shocking him again as he hears OWen talk.
" I did what I could to give him a decent education in trauma.I didn't know he was gonna go and enlist.' Owne says to Bailey as her and Callie shake their heads.
" He keeps coding," Adam says.
" here's why - - Open-book pelvic fracture. He needs an OR now." Callie says
" sinus tach, we barely have a rhythm" Adam says.
" Let's stabilize the pelvis," Owen says.
As Bailey lectures him while her and Callie angrily leave the room.
Why then continue to take him up to the OR hoping he survives.
While in surgery on the John DOe people start talking about George. The people in the room are Meredith, Adam, Owen, Derek, Mar, and Callie.
"I'm almost done with major internal crush injuries, pelvis will be all yours in a minute," Owen says to callie.
" you think you could do it? Stepped in front of a bus for a perfect stranger?" Mark asks the room.
"We all like to think we would…" Callie says, shaking her head at the thought.
"That's more or less what major Hunt and Grey have been doing for years." Shepherd says, making Meredith cringe at the thought of her bother putting himself in danger again.
" We just came in Behind 'em with a dustpan and a broom and swept it up." Owne says nonchalantly.
" You sewed up soldiers under fire. You guys don't sweep up" Derek says putting everyone in silence until Adams speaks as they continue to work.
" How do you think O'Malley is going to do over there? You think he could handle it?" Adam asks, noticing Meredith look at him, with eyes pleading for him to shut up.
"No, I don't," Callie said sadly.
"I think he is gonna surprise us all," Derek says. Adam looks over at his little sister and sees that he is about to blow.
" I think he's coming back in a body bag," Sloan says.
That is when Meredith explodes, "I think you should all just Shut up!"
" Meredith…" Adam says trying to calm her down even though he knows he should have stayed quiet.
" shut the hell up! Please shut up," Meredith says with a tear forming in her threatening to steam down her face. That puts everyone in silence.
Hours later.. Izzies memory is fully recovered, when she collapses and codes in Alex's arms. While Meredith is checking in on the John Doe before his next surgery. When in there he grabs her hand.
"You want to try and write again?" Meredith asks as he traces his finger on her palm.
Meredith goes to grab a pen and puts it in his hand but it just falls to the ground. So he continues tracing his fingers in her palm, so Meredith concentrates on what he is writing.
"OKay. O...O...7?... Double O...7," Meredith says locking eyes with the man registering what he wrote, as he grasps and squeezes her hand. That is when Meredith's face turns ghostly pale, knocking the life out of her realizing who she saw laying before her gasping she cries, "Oh, God! Oh God!" Her shock overcoming her, she spins out of the room screaming, "It's George! It's George! John Doe is George!" The attendings spring into action taking Meredith word for it.
Both Izzie and George are crashing as they rush to revive them. Luckily in Izzies room, she eventually steadys out, her heart beat returning and her eyes opening. Sadly in the OR everyone is tensing hoping to save George's life. The monitor turns off, and he dies. Callie starts heaving for air, as tears stream down her face. Meredith's eyes are head tears threatening to fall. Everyone hangs their heads somberly.
Later, they stand outside the ICU with all of their friends standing there looking at him.
"He wrote in my hand," Meredith says explaining to everyone what happened.Everyone starts firing questions at her so she said, "No, he grabbed my hand and squeezed it, and he wrote with his finger."
" he wrote with his finger? What did he write?" Adam questions Meredith calmly.
" With his finger he wrote OO7" Meredith says.
People start firing things out along the lines of " what if you read him, wrong?" " This is not enough proof" " we need to be sure"
" he has a freckle on his hand, It is shaped like Texas. I will check" Callie says,a s she strides into the room. She grabs his hand and looks at it, everyone watches as she hangs her head and starts crying. That's when everyone knows for sure that there dear friends died.
A week later Izzie is recovering from her surgery,and she is doing well. Everyone is trying to deal with their grief. Christian and Meredith have not cried yet they keep putting it off by doing something else. Today is the funeral, so everyone is nicely dressed in black listening to the priest, as he says, "There is an appointed time for everything. In a time for every affair under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to tear down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together. A time to embrace…" that is when Izzie covers her mouth and hurries away. Christna, and Alex follow, and Merdtith leaves her brothers embrace to follow them as well.
As they head over there they see Merditih hiding her face in her palms. Izzie then look up as Christina and ALex sit on either side of her. Meredith standing up in front of everyone.
" I'm sorry" Izize says laughing.
Meredith looks at her like she's lost her mind and says, "You're laughing?"
Alex looks at her and grimaces saying, " She's laughing."
Christina looks dumbfoundedly confused on what is going through Izzy's mind at the moment.
Izzie Laughs and says, "George is dead! He's dead! They're about to put him in the ground and the priest is doing classic rock lyrics! And that girl, that redhead, is crying harder than his mother and she never even met him!
Christian then says, " You are far more twisted than I ever realized."
Izzie then says, " I got cancer! We got married!" everyone is now cracking up
Alex says, "Dude! O'Malley got hit by a bus!" They all laugh hysterically. Catching their breath, still extremely sad though. Then they hear the redhead walk by continuing to cry, when they burst back into a laughing fit.
After the funeral Adam walks Meredith in, because they had to grab some things as they walk by the residents lounge about to enter, they see Lexie crying in Mark's arms, as he comforts her. Adam looks at his little sister and says, " You okay kiddo"
"I'm fine, I am doing okay." Meredith says looking at him, " i Have been through worst"
Adam watches as she walks away knowing that she is hiding her pain, and wondering when she will fully express her feelings.
At the house everyone is acting weird. Izzi cooks and rests constantly. Alex is always trying to find a new task to do. Lexie cleans a lot, and Meredith. She is always asking people to do things like playing games, going drinking, helps clean, cooks, and watches movies. Adam and Mark watch them all do this unsure on how to help them, but the house is constantly clean, and filled with wonderful aromas so they don't complain much. Christina just acts cranky because she cant have sex with Owen, so she puts all her energy on focusn gon that instead of George.
A month after the funeral they are starting to return to normalcy. Lexie had finally moved in with Mark, and Izzie and Alex were in a better place. Adam and Merdith carpooled that morning and she was taking a while so he decided to go check on her. He enters the residents lounge to see her staring inside Georges empty cumby sniffling and trying not to cry.
" Meri?" He asks. As soon as he speaks, she lets the tears fall beginning to sob. Adam then sits down next to her and she buries her head in him as she cries, while he comforts his little sister.
The next day everyone is in the main nurses station listening to an announcement from Chief Webber when he says that Mercy west hospital will be merging with seattle Grace, and that people will lose their jobs
