As Alex and I check up on all of the patients from the accident, things stay fairly quiet between us unless he's telling me something to write down or I'm telling him to something to change their levels or increase their anaesthesia.
"Aren't you mad that I figured it out without you?" I ask as we make our way into the final patient's room. He looks at me and rolls his eyes as though I'm being childish. And maybe it is a little childish, but if we're working together and we spend most of our time together, I'd rather we were friends than enemies. Despite all of the bad things people might say about him, I prefer to see the good side. I'm a glass half full kind of person.
"No, why would I be mad about it?" He shrugs and I shrug back as I check the patient's heartbeat and he picks up their file. I begin saying some things to Alex to right down on his board before I put my stethoscope back around my neck. "You can go if you want, I can finish up here. "
"No, it's okay. We're almost done here and it's the last patient. Why, do you want me to go?" I joke, and I think he takes my comment a little too seriously.
"It's not that I want you to go, I don't want you to go. It's that I'm sure you'd rather be preparing for a c section surgery than here, I didn't mean it like -"
"Alex, it was a joke, calm down." I laugh a little and I see him smirk in the corner of my eye, although he tries to hide it. "Besides, you already told me that you don't want me to go."
"Don't take what I said out of context, you know what I meant." He defends, putting the file back in its place as we began leaving the room and heading towards the elevator so that we could both go and prepare for two very different surgeries.
"You know, I'm not sure I know what you meant. I think you're going to have to elaborate and explain it to me." I see him smile and it's the first smile I think I've ever seen of his, and it makes me feel a little weird knowing that I made him smile. "Are you on call tonight?" I ask, swiftly changing the subject as we get into the elevator.
"Yeah, are you?" The elevator doors close and begins travelling down and I look at my pager to find Addison Shepherd's location.
"Yes, but not officially. I have a c section patient and somebody who is literally about to give birth to twins, so I'm probably going to be asked to stay overnight. I really don't want to go home, anyway." I quickly realise that I have said a little too much and I don't know why it bothers me so much, because it's not really like Alex cares enough to question me. But before he can, the elevator doors open and I quickly get out and wave to him, wishing him good luck with his surgery before I go to find Addison.
"Hi, sorry I'm late." I say as I walk into the room. Addison was explaining the c section and the complications of the surgery to the patient who was laying comfortably on her bed.
"No problem. Mrs. Miller, this is Doctor Alexa Green, she's going to be assisting me with your c section and making sure that your daughter is delivered healthy and safely. She's also going to give you some anaesthesia which is going to numb the lower half of your body so that you won't feel anything during the surgery." She explains as I begin giving her the anaesthesia. "Just let us know when it begins kicking in and we'll take you down to the OR."
"Alexa, right? That's a pretty name. Is it short for anything?" Mrs. Miller asks.
"My parents were initially told that they were going to be having a baby boy, and they were going to call him Alexander, until the birth when I turned out to be a girl." We all laugh a little. "They changed it to Alexandra but people call me Alexa or Alex, which can get a little confusing because there's another intern and he is called Alex."
"It's a pretty name." She smiles and pats her stomach. "I can't feel anything."
"Alright then, let's get going." We begin to take Mrs. Miller to the OR and she rests with her eyes closed rather comfortably. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I spent the morning with Karev looking after some of the patients from last night and I'm feeling a lot better than I did this morning. I'm just dreading the going home part. Meredith said I can stay with her if I don't want to go home, though. But really, honestly, thank you for everything." I thank her. She smiles and shakes her head.
"Don't even worry about it, you know I'm here for you. That's what friends are for, right?"
When I got out of the c section surgery and had taken care of the baby, the brain tumour surgery was almost over so I decided against scrubbing in and filled out some paper work and watching the baby. I had always loved being around children because they always knew how to brighten your day up without even trying and they always knew how to put a smile on your face. I sat with my head resting in the palm of my hand, watching the baby - born just a few days early - sleeping intently.
"Hey," Alex says, walking into the room and looking around. The only other person in the room was a nurse, who was filing some paperwork and getting ready to leave. "The surgery was good, he's going to be okay."
"That's great, congratulations." I smile. "Look at how adorable she is." He walks a little closer and leans over the incubator.
"Hey, Alexa - oh, Doctor Karev," Addison says, walking into the room. She walks towards me with a file and hands it to me on an open page. "Her results are back and the mother is awake, do you want to tell her that the test results came back? The baby is going to be fine and answer any of her questions."
"Sure, I'll come and find you afterwards." I say to Alex before leaving with Addison.
At dinner I sat with Meredith, George and soon, Alex, as Cristina was in a heart surgery with Burke, who she was dating and trying to keep it a secret. George however, was still madly in love with Meredith and had only just gotten over the fact that Alex had indirectly given him syphilis, so Alex was treading on thin ice around him.
"So, is it okay if I stay at your place for a few days while I sort things out at home?" I ask and Meredith smiles, looking at George. I had tried to call Jack multiple times throughout the day and it just went straight to voicemail.
"Of course you can! I'll fix up the spare room when I get a chance." She replies. "So, what's happening with you and him? Are you moving out? Is he moving out?"
"You should come and live with us!" George suggests and Meredith's face lights up. "You should! The rent is good, it's not far from here and it'd be great having another person to live with."
"I'll definitely think about it, thank you. I just need to sort things out with him first, maybe I'm wrong, there could be an explanation." I smile and Alex approaches us and sits between me and George. "So, I had a c section this morning, the baby, she's the cutest thing in the world, you have to come and see her. It'll make you feel so much better if you're having a bad day."
"I could use that. I have a heart transplant patient who is waiting for confirmation on whether or not a heart we're waiting for is good enough for him and things don't look good." Meredith explains.
"You think you're having a bad day? I have a patient who may or may not wake up from a coma after the car accident last night and I have to tell his family that if he wakes up, he's probably not going to remember any of them or anything at all. I think mine is worse." George says, sighing.
"George's definitely takes the cake."