Ch. 6: Lean On Me

A/N: Real quick this takes place rt after the last episode with the expection of the 17 yr old girl. Also the italics are Christina's conscience and the italic bold is her talking inside her head. ENJOY!!!!

"Hey Meredith are you…okay?"

Meredith entered her kitchen the next morning fuming mad. Going over to the refrigerator she wrenched the door open and grabbed some milk before slamming the door again.

"Okay, little angry much this morning?" asked Izzy amused.

"When did he leave?" she hissed. Izzy put down her paper and stared at Meredith.

"When did who leave Meredith?"

"DEREK!"

Izzy looked away trying not to laugh

"IZZY!"

"Okay okay Mer, calm down. He tried he really did, but then about 2 o'clock he snuck out and drove home. He wanted to tell you that he was very very sorry and that well, he needed his sleep for some big surgery today,"

Meredith rolled her eyes as she poured her self-some coffee.

"Oh he's going to be sorry when I get done with him,"

Izzy laughed going back to her paper. After taking a few sips of her coffee, Meredith looked around.

"Where's George?"

"He stayed the night at the hospital again to make sure his dad is alright," said Izzy in a monotone voice from behind the paper. Pouring the rest of her coffee into a thermos Meredith headed for the front door

"You coming?" she called.

"I'll be there later," answered Izzy still reading the paper.

Shaking her head Meredith headed for the car wondering how to get Derek back.

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Christina sat in the intern locker room dead tired. She was up half the night staring at Burke who, in return, was staring at her. Taking a long and deep yawn, she closed her eyes enjoying the piece and quite of the room.

"I'M GOING TO KILL DEREK!"

"Nice to see you too," mumbled Christina opening her eyes "You destroyed my nap,"

Looking away from her locker combination Meredith looked at Christina

"Something wrong? Or was I keeping up the whole FREAKIN CITY WITH MY SNORING?"

Christina looked at Meredith strangely

"Derek hasn't been sleeping with me ever since we met because my 'snoring' keeps him up. Asshole,"
"Well at least he's talking to you,

"Who said I was talking to him?"

Christina rolled her eyes

"Well Meredith if you're going to kill him, I think that might involve some talking or yelling…or both,"

Meredith smiled a fake smiled

"Thanks,"

Christina walked over to her locker and opened it.

"Why did we have to get in relationships with our bosses?" asked Christina hiding her head in her locker.

"Actually our bosses boss,"

"Ok don't go all hypethical on me,"

Meredith slammed her locker shut and clipped her pager onto her scrubs.

"Well, I still have some time before I go and kill Derek so I think I can do a quick therapy session. What's wrong with your life?"

"I slept the night in Burke's room and we spent half the staring at each other,"

Meredith sighed

"Christina-"

"Meredith there is a better chance of you having sex with McDreamy tonight, wait no that's not a good one. Hold on…ok, there is a better chance of McDreamy spending a whole night in bed with you than for me to go talk and ask Burke how his hand is,"

Meredith rolled her eyes

"Then how am I supposed to help you if you won't talk to him? AND NO I will not ask Derek! I'm going to go kill him now remember so I can't ask him if I'm killing him"

Christina rolled her eyes

"Ya good luck with that,"
Glaring at Christina Meredith ran out the door. Christina sat back down on the bench and thought of what she was going to do. After a few minutes the interns started to filter in and Christina couldn't hear her self think. Getting up, she headed for the door only to turn back around and headed back towards her locker acting like she forgot something.

Go, go talk to him

NO!

Why not?

Because he doesn't want anything to do with me!

If that was true don' t you think he would of kicked you out last night?

No…yes…uh I DON"T KNOW!

You still love him SHUT UP

"ROUNDS PEOPLE! C'MON GET A MOVE ON!"

Christina was pulled back into reality by the sound of Bailey's voice. She just hoped that she got on a good case that would take her mind off of Burke.

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"Dr. Bailey may I speak to you?"

Bailey and the interns were about to enter George's dad's room when the Chief stopped them.

"Sure Chief. Uh, the rest of you go uh…"

"They need to be here too Dr. Bailey,"

Bailey looked up and the Chief and saw sorrow in his face.

"I need you guys to keep this on the down low for a while. This is pretty serious,"
The interns exchanged glances

"Harold O'Malley died this morning at 2:51 a.m. from multiple organ failure. His family is taking it pretty hard. I sent Dr. O'Malley home for the day but he didn't move. All of them are in there now. So if you could, skip this room for the time being and if you guys could go in there later one at a time I would really appreciate it. Thank you,"

The Chief nodded at them walked away from the silent group. Tears were running down Meredith and Izzy's face. Christina was staring off into space and Alex was shaking his head. Bailey took a minute to collect her self then proceeded

"Okay well you heard the Chief, we'll come back later. If you see O'Malley in the hall, don't go all medical on him. Comfort him but don't treat him like a baby. Now if we're all ready, lets continue with our rounds,"

Walking down the hall, Bailey, Alex, and Christina walked away from the door. Izzy and Meredith stayed and looked inside the window. Mrs. O'Malley was crying hysterically and George was comforting her while his brothers were leaning again the wall shaking their heads.

"GREY STEVENS!"

Taking one last look inside the room Izzy and Meredith jogged towards the group, not getting the sight of George's family out of their minds.

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"George!"

George walked out of the bathroom with red and puffy eyes. He was about to head down to the coffee cart to pick up some coffee for his family and head back to his dad's room. He turned around to see Callie running towards him. Starting to walk away, he felt her tug at his arm.

"Hey George, how's…. Oh no,"

George looked away

"George I'm so sorry," she whispered. George shook his head.

"I don't know what happened. I mean he was fine wasn't he? They proceeded with the surgery so that means…"

George couldn't finish his sentence. Callie put her arm around George

"I'm sorry," she whispered again. A lone tear ran down her cheek.

"You-You wanna come in with us? I mean with my family? We're about to say…"

Callie shook her head

"No it's okay. Your dad just…passed away. You should spend it with your family,"

"But…you are my family,"

Callie looked up at George and smiled.

"Really?"

George nodded

"You, Izzy, and Meredith. You may not be my immediate family, but you're the second best thing. You were always there for me when I needed you. I was going to invite Meredith and Izzy in, but then I thought of you. You were there all throughout out his admittance even though you had patients. You cared about my family and I think that you should be there with us while we…"

Callie nodded

"I would love to come with you George,"
Putting his arm around her, the two of them headed down the hall. George didn't care if anyone saw him and Callie together, he was just happy that he had someone to lean on.

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