AN:
I do not own Grey's Anatomy.
A couple hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You would think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off but if I had to guess I'd say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of pain, and fear of rejection…Sometimes the fear is just making a decision because what if you're wrong? What if you make a mistake you can't undo? Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true. That by the time the pain of not doing the thing gets worse than the fear of doing the thing; it can feel like we're carrying a tumor.
Meredith had just pulled off her dark purple scrub cap when her pager went off. She quickly read it and ran towards the pit. Shouting occasionally at people as they blocked her path and screaming once at Dr. Joe Wilson to follow her as she might need an extra set of hands that had already worked with her once. Meredith watched in amazement as she finished tying her trauma gown and raised a questioning eyebrow at the paramedic wheeling her patients into trauma room one.
"His BP is looking steady at 90 over pal. She's had 2 hypotensive episodes to the low seventies." Jill, the paramedic, told Meredith as interns and residents help move the two patients. She looked into the room at the two patients sitting there with a rod through them, before glancing around the ER and noticing other causalities and fatalities caused from the train accident that must have happened while she was in surgery.
"Wow." Maggie Pierce, head of Cardio, spoke up as she finished tying her trauma gown and taking a look at the case. "You couldn't get a saw in there?"
Jill shook her head. "Not without moving them."
"That would have been a very bad idea." Meredith bit her lip and sighed, thinking how of all the cases in her life, the ones at Grey Sloan Memorial were interesting. Meredith nodded her head before turning and smiling softly at Maggie. She turned to head into the room to assess the situation when she heard Bonnie, the female sitting on the gurney, asking Dr. Wilson questions that Wilson couldn't answer.
"Hello, Bonnie and Tom." She smiled at both younger patients as she acknowledge them. "I'm Dr. Grey, head of General, and this is Dr. Pierce, head of Cardio, and we are the two head surgeons on this case." She paused as they nodded their heads at the info they were getting.
"This is a very delicate situation and we must be extremely careful when removing the rod." Dr. Pierce spoke softly and continued explaining as Meredith stepped outside, stripping the gown off her and heading over to the nurses' station for her phone that she left there in her rush. She sent a quick text to Callie asking if she could bring Lucas with her to the hospital. Meredith turned around and smiled walking towards the trauma doors.
"Ignore the text I just sent. I didn't know if you had been paged or not but apparently you have." She crouched down as she spoke to Callie, picking up a tired looking Luke. He instantly laid his head on her shoulder. "Thanks for watching him. I can keep Sophia this weekend if you would like a get away with Arizona."
Callie smiled, looking at the women who was a stranger no less then a year ago. "And that's my friend, is why Meredith Grey is my best friend." She spoke loudly, drawing attention to them as Meredith just laughed. Mer glanced around quickly before calling Dr. O'Malley to them.
"Are you busy right now George?" Meredith asked him quickly. He froze when she spoke to him, a knowing smile gracing her lips when he did. He came to his senses and shook his head, before using his words to confirm he wasn't doing anything. Callie and Meredith held back their laughs before Meredith continued.
"Would you mind taking Lucas to my office? There is a pillow and blanket to the right of the big couch." Mer smiled, watch him nod before turning and setting Lucas down. She told him to go with Dr. O'malley and to stay in her office. She reminded him that if he needed her to just pressed the purple button that would page her to her office and not to leave until either her or another doctor went to get him.
"Ma," the small four year old, tilted his head and smiled tiredly the Sloan smirk.. "I know what I'm doing." He placed his hands out slightly bent and shrugged softly. "But can I get a bedtime story." Mer smiled at her son, shaking her head at his antics that his father had no doubt taught him. She pointed a finger at George telling him to be good for the Dr. and to stay in the office. She thanked George before saying bye and leaving with Callie.
Dr. George O'Malley walked the halls slowly, periodically looking down at the young boy who had been tired only minutes ago. He was now proceeding to talk his head off and asked to see more of the hospital. When George tried to decline the proposal, the four year old pull all the big guns from watery eyes and a pout, to beginning to sniffle and ask for mommy. George agreed quickly then, and the four year old went back to smiles. At the moment they had just passed the OR board and Lucas proceeded to tell George what the sinks outside in the hall was for. George was surprised he knew this an also noted how he spoke some medical Terms.
"Did your mom teach you all that?" Lucas half nodded and then shook his head.
"Momma and daddy. Did you know daddy worked here, momma said so." The bold four year old continued on as George froze, processing this info, not realizing that the kid had used a past tense.
"What type of Doctor is your daddy?" Lucas smiled as he turned around.
"Momma works on peoples inside. Right here," He rubbed his stomach. "Daddy was a face doctor. And skin." George nodded but was confused.
"Where is your dad now?" Lucas got a huge smile on his face.
"Daddy had to go visit God with Auntie Lexi. Momma said God needed Doctors and when he asked Daddy and Auntie, they just couldn't pass up the offer." Lucas ran ahead, as they completed the tour of the OR Floor and landed in the waiting room. Lucas never noticed George's face when it dawned on him that the kid was Sloan's son, and how he finally had a one up. George in fact was so out of it, he never realized the doctor moving up to him till a hand clasped his shoulder.
"Good evening, Dr. O'Malley. Are we babysitting this fine evening?" George nodded and went to speak but the four year old beat him, running to the Doctor beside him. Lucas had met Dr. Shepherd a couple weeks back, but finally had a chance to talk to him.
"Are you my Uncle Derek?" Lucas asked and Derek was confused why the kid thought he was an uncle. When no one talked and a few seconds of the two doctors looking at each other then Lucas, he spoke again. "Daddy told me you were his best friend, and how you two would always get into trouble. Momma hit him after that, play fighting of course. But he told me that you were the coolest person ever. Except me, of course." He rolled his eyes at the end. Derek couldn't help but smile at the kid. He nodded and told Lucas that he was Uncle Derek, and no one could be cooler then him, pleasing the kid with his praise. Derek turned to O'Malley, leaning in to whisper.
"You tell anyone the Dr. Grey's kid is Mark Sloan's, we are going to have problems. Got it?" George nodded and told Lucas that is was time to head to his mom's office. Lucas said goodbye to Derek before skipping beside George to his mom's Office.
The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, and heard the damn poets urging us to cease the day. Still. Sometimes, we have to see ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep todays possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understands for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering. That waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intr5actable mistakes beats the hell out of never trying.
An: I know nothing big happened in this chapter, but I thought it would be good to get to know Lukas without Meredith around. He's obviously an outgoing kid, and I will definitely be using his as a buffer and/or a distraction to the two lovebirds. Please Review.