A/N: So am doing as I said I would: update! Well here's the 5th chapter, which in my opinion is one of the better... Enjoy!
Chapter 5 - The Meeting of Dr O
Zadie looked at the big letters on the building. 'Seattle Grace Hospital'. Meredith had told her a lot about the place, and especially about her friends; Christina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O'Malley and Alex Karev. How they got tortured by the Nazi, and all the crazy stuff they did. Zadie could tell she missed them, a lot.
"You're sure it's here?" Skye said as they entered the doors to the hospital. "Are you sure he's still working here?"
Zadie nodded. "This hospital is the best in Washington so I think this is the only hospital one of America's best surgeons would work in. And besides, this and her friends are the only things mom talks about from her past. I'm pretty sure it's here."
"Okay, you're probably right... So were do we start looking?" Skye asked, looking around.
"I don't know..." Zadie had no clue of where they should go. She looked at Skye. "Where do you think?"
Skye bit her lip. "He's a surgeon right? And your mom's friends too?"
Zadie nodded. "Aha you mean the..."
"...Surgical Wing." Skye said and started to walk towards the desk.
"Exactly what I thought... I don't know what they look like just so you know, and I don't know my dad's name or what he looks like..."
"Hi, ehm where can we find the Surgical Wing?" Skye asked and the nurse, pointed up the stairs.
"...then just follow the signs..."
"Thank you..." Skye turned to Zadie. "We'll just go up there and look around a bit and see if we recognize someone with your eyes and smile, and Yang must be like Chinese or Korean or something."
"Yeah, probably..." Zadie looked up at the signs in the ceiling as they got up the stairs. "And Izzie's probably a tall blonde or something..."
They gave out a laugh.
"Let's see now the; Surgical Wing..."
"Are you girls looking for the Surgical Wing?" a voice said behind them and both Skye and Zadie spun around in surprise.
"Eh, what?"
"The Surgical Wing... You just said 'let's see now the; Surgical Wing'." the man explained.
"Yeah, right..." To Zadie he looked like pretty much the same age as her mother. All of a sudden it struck her, and she looked at the right side of his chest. Zadie smiled at Skye who immediately got what she meant. "Yes, Dr O'Malley. We're looking for the Surgical Wing."
"I'm Skye," Skye politely said and shook George's hand. "And this is Zadie."
Zadie shook his hand, and smiled. "If you could show us there would be great." she said.
He nodded. "Yes of course, I was just heading back after lunch anyway." they started to walk. "I'm George by the way, O'Malley but that you have probably red on my coat already."
"Yes." both Zadie and Skye said.
"So what are you doing here, visiting someone?"
"You could say that." Zadie answered, full of questions of her own. After all it was George O'Malley they were talking to. From the things she had heard form Meredith about him; he was sweet and he'd probably spill everything she asked him about. "How many surgeons are there on the surgical staff?"
"Ehm, there are many but the ones I most often work with are Chief of Surgeon; Dr Burke, and then there's Dr Yang, Dr Stevens, Dr Shepherd, Dr Montgomery-Shepherd and of course I myself, but of course I don't work with myself you know..." he answered and smiled, continuing to walk.
"So there's no Dr Grey?" Skye asked, smiling at Zadie, who rolled her eyes.
"No, no there isn't..." George looked down. "Why do you ask?"
"No, nothing special really..."
"We used to have a dr Grey, but that was a long time ago. Just over 15 years." George looked strangely at the girls walking on each side of him. "How old are you?"
"Ehm, fifteen..." Zadie answered, seeing a bit of suspicion cross George's face. "So what happened to her?"
Both George and Skye looked at her with their eyebrows narrowed, as Zadie knew what she just said.
Crap! I said her!, Zadie thought, and the she looked up at George, smiling. "So anyways, are they married, I mean the interns? No! Crap! I mean the surgeons?" Zadie rambled, making George even more suspicious. "Are they married, some of them?"
George nodded slowly. "Yeah, it's a bit like doctor-cest here." he said and gave out a laugh. "Dr Burke is married to doctor Yang and Dr Shepherd is, yeah obviously married to Dr Montgomery-Shepherd... And I'm married too, well not to a surgeon, but to a nurse."
"Olivia..." Zadie said quietly, obviously not being heard by George as he just kept on walking.
Though Skye heard it.
"You do know more things than I thought," she whispered as she pulled Zadie closer to her by the arm. "You know the name of your mother's ex-best friend's wife, but not your father?"
Zadie just smiled, giving out tiny laughs of, at the time, controlled happiness. "Crap..."
"Hello? Earth to Zade! Hello..."
"Seriously..." Zadie said and there was a beat of silence.
"Seriously what?"
"Seriously... I know who my dad is now... or you know, well I think I know who he his... If he still works here, but I think he does so…" Zadie said and turned to George, ignoring Skye's will to know it all. "So George, I mean if I can call you that?" he nodded. "Well I was just wandering you know since we're here at Washington's best hospital and all; who is Dr Shepherd?"
"Ehm... well he's... eh... our head of neuro. A very good man and surgeon, for that matter." George explained, and then stopped outside the elevator and pushed the button. "What's up with the pop-quiz? Why do you want to know all these things?"
"Eh..." Skye started off trying to be the one to figure that out but had to realize her defeat.
"Well, we plan on going to med school when we're old enough..." Zadie said quickly.
We do? Skye mouthed and Zadie nudged her in the side as George looked at them.
"You do?" he said and smiled.
"Yes we do!" Zadie and Skye said in unison.
"Oh, great." he exclaimed as they entered the elevator. "So what do you want to be?"
"Obstetrician, I think..." Skye said and looked at Zadie who nodded as she used the right term.
"And I want to be a neurosurgeon..." Zadie said, and she didn't lie. Every since she got to know that her mother was one, she also wanted to be one. Zadie admired her mother for making herself a career at the same time as raising her on her own, even though they had their differences about rather many things. But Zadie loved Meredith, highly and she knew she'd get a hell when she'd see her. "So anyway, is dr Shepherd working today?"
"Ehm I think so, and this is his wife." George said as a fairly tall woman with red hair entered the elevator just before the doors closed. "Hi Addison!"
The woman smiled. "Hi O'Malley." Addison looked at the two girls beside him.
"I was just telling future obstetrician Skye..."
"...Thompson..." Skye filled in.
"... and future neurosurgeon Zadie... eh..."
"... Gr ...oan. Groan..." Zadie rambled, not knowing what to say and taking Addison's hand. "Nice to meet you." she said and smiled slightly.
"… about our surgeons…" George continued.
"You too." Addison looked strangely at Zadie. "Okay… So are you in med school?" she asked.
"No, but thanks anyway." Skye said. "We're fifteen."
"Okay... Well then..." Addison said as the doors slid open. "Bye girls, and see you later O'Malley..." she said and exited the elevator.
"So, that was my dad's wife…" Zadie said quietly to herself.
"Now, that's enough!" George exclaimed with his arms crossed over his chest, staring at Zadie and Skye. "I have heard you whispering about stuff that you shouldn't know about! Maybe I have been like blind the last 16 years because as far as I know Derek and Addison Shepherd don't have any kids! And how could you know my wife's name?"
"So that's his name…"
"You did it again!"
"George, I wasn't whispering this time. Look, I am, just by talking to you, doing my mother a huge favour that she's to coward to do for herself." Zadie sighed. "And I'm a pretty good random guesser."
"Ehm…" George looked strangely at Zadie. "I'm not following here really…"
Zadie looked down. She couldn't explain everything, everything that had happen in the past 15 years. Especially not in an elevator. George would probably get a heart attack when hearing Zadie state herself being his lost best friend's 15 year-old daughter. The elevator tinkled and the doors slid open revealing a busy surgical division with people running back and forth. She really couldn't tell him. "I'm just going find my dad, that's all…" she said and smiled as the sadness struck her face. "I'll let my mother deal with you, 'cause I'm pretty sure she's on her way… Bye Georgie!" Zadie dragged Skye out of the elevator leaving a dumbfounded George behind.
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After a walk without a real destination, Zadie and Skye sat down on a bed in a hallway not knowing what to do.
"I can't believe you didn't say anything. I mean, you were like this close to." Skye said and held up her fingers making a tiny space between her fingers. "Seriously Zadie. Your dad, who we in fact aren't sure of being your dad, may not be here today. I mean seriously. I think this situation is starting to become pretty morbid."
"The only thing that's morbid is my mom, and she's not even here yet." Zadie said and jumped of the bed. "How could she leave her friends, I mean George seems really nice and I can only assume Izzie, Christina and Alex are too. Who would leave them? My mum wouldn't do so…"
"Maybe your mum isn't the same person she was 15 years ago… I mean a lot can happen in 15 years; just look at us…" Skye smiled.
"Kids are supposed to change; dramatically. Of course we're not the same persons who went searching for Mr Honeybutt, 'cause if we were we would still be 8 year-old girls… without boobs…" Zadie stated and Skye gave out a laugh. "I mean grown-ups shouldn't change. At least not like that."
"And how do you know that? We haven't really tried being adults... The closest we've been to adulthood is drinking tequila at Matt's house, which wasn't that good of an idea by the way, and taking this trip alone to Seattle." Skye said, bringing up the unforgettable night with their five closest friends; Matt, Heath, Kelley, Willis and Radley. "I don't think that a badly uncontrollable hangover even qualifies for first base…"
Zadie gave out a laugh over the chosen words for Skye's sermon, but she was right. "I know…Though Heath was so much worse than me after night…" she said and they broke out in a fit of laughter. "Now I think I should do a real attempt of finding my dad now that I know who he is…"
"Yeah… I'll just go down to the cafeteria or something and maybe talk to some obstetricians now that I all of a sudden am going to be one." she said and gave Zadie a glare. "Call me when you've found him or just want to eat some crappy hospital food…" she said as she walked away. "Until that I've got my iPod to entertain me…"
"Have you ever thought about becoming a reverend?" Zadie shouted just before Skye rounded the corner.
She stopped. "No… Why?"
"The closest we've been to adulthood is…" Zadie started to preach, in a try for Skye's voice. "You wouldn't cope with the celibacy…"
"You don't have to be celibate to be a reverend nowadays… Haven't you seen the 7th Heaven re-runs? They've got like 300 kids!" Skye shouted to remind. "Tough you would be the one not coping!" she said and disappeared out of sight.
"Go eat some Jell-O or something!" Zadie shouted after her but the words just bounced against the wall. "So…" she looked around. "… Where are you dad…"
A/N: Hope you liked it, cause I have to admit I did. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter... Trying to make an older version of the George we know, who I think turned out good (?). The dialogs between Zadie and Skye in the end was the most fun writing... and I just had to write that thing about 7th Heaven, no offense though to the ones who like the show... Well, please tell me what you think of it, whether good or bad... Just let me know! Next chapter I'm planning on introduce Izzie and Christina, and for all of you who like Alex; I've got a little speciale twist about him, cause as you all hopefully noticed he wasn't mentioned by George over the suregons he worked with...