p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Alexis!" Addison Shepherd exclaims, walking as fast as she could to catch up with me. I was on my way to the locker room and she began walking with me. "Sorry, I just thought that I should let you know that your sister, Louise, she was admitted this morning. She's hopefully going to be giving birth later today. I tried to get you on the case but doctors aren't allowed to be assigned to family."/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""That's okay, thank you for telling me. Who is she with?" I question./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Her daughter is here, her fiancee and your Mother is here, too." She replies. Oh, wonderful. That's a conversation to look forward to. "I'll come and find you later. But, is there anyone in particular you want in on this?" I think about it for a moment. It had been almost two weeks since I'd spoken to Alex because he'd been avoiding me and well, I'd been avoiding him a little bit too. Maybe this would be a great way to try to make it up to him./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Karev?" I question and she nods./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Alright, it's done. Come and see your sister, though, Bailey will go easy on you today."/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;"She then leaves me and I go inside the locker room, avoid Alex and get changed into my scrubs while snacking and listening to Cristina talk about a surgery she was getting in on today. Bailey then walked in and began signing us cases./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Alright... Cristina you're in with Burke, Grey, there's a patient in 109 who needs an MRI scan, he's yours. O'Malley, you're on charts. Green, you have permission to go and see your sister, then I want you with me in ten minutes, I'll be in the pit. Karev, Addison Shepherd has requested your assistance, you're her intern today." She /br /br /br /"Louise!" I exclaim, walking in to her hospital room. "Where are the others?" After I hug her I sit down on a /br /"Tom went to get coffee, Mom just went to take Isabella to to the bathroom." She replies, holding her hand against her stomach. "I can't wait to get this baby out of me, I'm so uncomfortable." br /br /"Well you have Addison Shepherd, she's incredible. She's very good at her job and she's the best, quite literally. You're in very good hands." I assure her. "I can't stay for very long, I'm needed in the ER, but I'll check on you."br /br /"That's okay, go and do your job! I'll be fine. But I will warn you, Mom does want to talk to you about your engagement. How are you doing?" She questions, patting my wrist. br /br /"It's been a weird couple of weeks, but I'm okay, I'm dealing with it." I assure her, and a few moments later, my Mom and Isabella come into the room. My Mom instantly gives me the emwe need to talk /emeyes and I nod at her before giving my full attention to my /br /"Alex! Alex!" Isabella exclaims, running over towards me to give me a hug. "What are you doing here?" br /br /"I work here." I reply and she has a shocked look on her face that makes everyone laugh. "I have to go and do some work, but I'll come back in a few hours, okay? Be good." She runs back over to the window and climbs on to the seat. I get up and get ready to leave. "I'll come back in a few hours, but I have to work."br /br /br /br /I stand with Bailey in a trauma room as she examines a twenty two year old male with shards of glass stuck in his hand. She had his x ray results on the wall and she was making sure that they weren't hitting a nerve and that there were no smaller shards inside of his /br /"Alright, there's no internal damage so we can proceed... Dr. Green, would you like to do it?" She questions and I nod, taking a /br /"This might hurt a little bit, but it'll only hurt for a few seconds and it won't take very long." I assure him as I pick up the tweezers and begin to remove the bigger shards of glass. "How exactly did this happen?"br /br /"I tripped and fell, I know it sounds ridiculous." He laughs. br /br /"You'd be surprised, the kind of ridiculous things we have here, this seems normal." Bailey smiles and hands me the antiseptic gauze so that his cuts don't get infected. I wipe his hand down a few times and he flinches when it stings, then I put on a sterilised gauze. br /br /"Okay, you're all done." I say, throwing the waste into the trash and discarding of the /br /"That quickly? Thank you." br /br /"That quickly. You're welcome." br /br /br /br /After we finished up in the ER, another resident was called and Bailey went off to prepare for surgery with Burke, so she sent me off to join Meredith who was doing an MRI for Derek Shepherd. I walked in and sat down next to Meredith who was staring at the computer screen and sipping on her /br /"Hey, are you okay?" Meredith /br /"Yeah, I'm fine. Bailey said I could spend the rest of my day with you. I think she's just going a little easy on me today because my sister's having her baby later. And my mother's here, too." I reply, sighing. br /br /"No, I mean, how are you? With everything that's been going on, I know it hasn't been easy for you." She assures and I don't know what to tell her. br /br /"I'm okay, I'm dealing with it... Meredith, if I tell you something, can you promise not to judge me or tell anybody?" I question. She frowns at me and /br /"What is it? How bad can it possibly be?"br /br /"It's... It's pretty bad." I admit, chewing my lip. br /br /"It can't be that bad. Go on, just tell me. I won't judge you or tell anybody. I slept with my attending and he has a wife, how bad can it possibly be?" She asks and I laugh, she's right. br /br /"I, uh, I...kissed Alex." She looks at me for a few seconds, /br /"Alex... Karev?" I nod and look away from her. "Alex Karev. You kissed Alex Karev." She clarifies. "When? How?"br /br /"Remember the day when Jack came to the hospital and he ended up fighting Alex? The day that we broke off our engagement? It happened then. I was giving Alex some sutures and it just...happened." I somewhat explain, the memory of it replaying in my mind /br /"What was it like? The kiss? I'm sorry about all of the questions, it's just, you kissed Alex."br /br /"I don't remember much... I was very vulnerable and it was warm and soft and inviting... It was so wrong but it felt so, I don't know what it felt like. And now he's avoiding me and won't talk to me because I don't know what I think of him and we argued about it, he got really mad about it and I felt so bad for hurting him like that. I don't know what to do." I /br /"Well, you won't exactly be getting any decent advice from me." She laughs. "You'll figure it out. You'll figure out what you want and what you think about him. How does he even feel about you?" And that was when it hit me. I completely zoned out and began getting so wrapped up in my own thoughts; he never told me how he felt about me, so how was I supposed to know he wasn't setting me up? That the whole thing, him ignoring me, wanting to know how I felt about him, that it wasn't a trick? "...but you'll figure it out eventually. Don't worry about it."/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""That's okay, thank you for telling me. Who is she with?" I question./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Her daughter is here, her fiancee and your Mother is here, too." She replies. Oh, wonderful. That's a conversation to look forward to. "I'll come and find you later. But, is there anyone in particular you want in on this?" I think about it for a moment. It had been almost two weeks since I'd spoken to Alex because he'd been avoiding me and well, I'd been avoiding him a little bit too. Maybe this would be a great way to try to make it up to him./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Karev?" I question and she nods./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Alright, it's done. Come and see your sister, though, Bailey will go easy on you today."/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;"She then leaves me and I go inside the locker room, avoid Alex and get changed into my scrubs while snacking and listening to Cristina talk about a surgery she was getting in on today. Bailey then walked in and began signing us cases./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.479999542236328px;""Alright... Cristina you're in with Burke, Grey, there's a patient in 109 who needs an MRI scan, he's yours. O'Malley, you're on charts. Green, you have permission to go and see your sister, then I want you with me in ten minutes, I'll be in the pit. Karev, Addison Shepherd has requested your assistance, you're her intern today." She /br /br /br /"Louise!" I exclaim, walking in to her hospital room. "Where are the others?" After I hug her I sit down on a /br /"Tom went to get coffee, Mom just went to take Isabella to to the bathroom." She replies, holding her hand against her stomach. "I can't wait to get this baby out of me, I'm so uncomfortable." br /br /"Well you have Addison Shepherd, she's incredible. She's very good at her job and she's the best, quite literally. You're in very good hands." I assure her. "I can't stay for very long, I'm needed in the ER, but I'll check on you."br /br /"That's okay, go and do your job! I'll be fine. But I will warn you, Mom does want to talk to you about your engagement. How are you doing?" She questions, patting my wrist. br /br /"It's been a weird couple of weeks, but I'm okay, I'm dealing with it." I assure her, and a few moments later, my Mom and Isabella come into the room. My Mom instantly gives me the emwe need to talk /emeyes and I nod at her before giving my full attention to my /br /"Alex! Alex!" Isabella exclaims, running over towards me to give me a hug. "What are you doing here?" br /br /"I work here." I reply and she has a shocked look on her face that makes everyone laugh. "I have to go and do some work, but I'll come back in a few hours, okay? Be good." She runs back over to the window and climbs on to the seat. I get up and get ready to leave. "I'll come back in a few hours, but I have to work."br /br /br /br /I stand with Bailey in a trauma room as she examines a twenty two year old male with shards of glass stuck in his hand. She had his x ray results on the wall and she was making sure that they weren't hitting a nerve and that there were no smaller shards inside of his /br /"Alright, there's no internal damage so we can proceed... Dr. Green, would you like to do it?" She questions and I nod, taking a /br /"This might hurt a little bit, but it'll only hurt for a few seconds and it won't take very long." I assure him as I pick up the tweezers and begin to remove the bigger shards of glass. "How exactly did this happen?"br /br /"I tripped and fell, I know it sounds ridiculous." He laughs. br /br /"You'd be surprised, the kind of ridiculous things we have here, this seems normal." Bailey smiles and hands me the antiseptic gauze so that his cuts don't get infected. I wipe his hand down a few times and he flinches when it stings, then I put on a sterilised gauze. br /br /"Okay, you're all done." I say, throwing the waste into the trash and discarding of the /br /"That quickly? Thank you." br /br /"That quickly. You're welcome." br /br /br /br /After we finished up in the ER, another resident was called and Bailey went off to prepare for surgery with Burke, so she sent me off to join Meredith who was doing an MRI for Derek Shepherd. I walked in and sat down next to Meredith who was staring at the computer screen and sipping on her /br /"Hey, are you okay?" Meredith /br /"Yeah, I'm fine. Bailey said I could spend the rest of my day with you. I think she's just going a little easy on me today because my sister's having her baby later. And my mother's here, too." I reply, sighing. br /br /"No, I mean, how are you? With everything that's been going on, I know it hasn't been easy for you." She assures and I don't know what to tell her. br /br /"I'm okay, I'm dealing with it... Meredith, if I tell you something, can you promise not to judge me or tell anybody?" I question. She frowns at me and /br /"What is it? How bad can it possibly be?"br /br /"It's... It's pretty bad." I admit, chewing my lip. br /br /"It can't be that bad. Go on, just tell me. I won't judge you or tell anybody. I slept with my attending and he has a wife, how bad can it possibly be?" She asks and I laugh, she's right. br /br /"I, uh, I...kissed Alex." She looks at me for a few seconds, /br /"Alex... Karev?" I nod and look away from her. "Alex Karev. You kissed Alex Karev." She clarifies. "When? How?"br /br /"Remember the day when Jack came to the hospital and he ended up fighting Alex? The day that we broke off our engagement? It happened then. I was giving Alex some sutures and it just...happened." I somewhat explain, the memory of it replaying in my mind /br /"What was it like? The kiss? I'm sorry about all of the questions, it's just, you kissed Alex."br /br /"I don't remember much... I was very vulnerable and it was warm and soft and inviting... It was so wrong but it felt so, I don't know what it felt like. And now he's avoiding me and won't talk to me because I don't know what I think of him and we argued about it, he got really mad about it and I felt so bad for hurting him like that. I don't know what to do." I /br /"Well, you won't exactly be getting any decent advice from me." She laughs. "You'll figure it out. You'll figure out what you want and what you think about him. How does he even feel about you?" And that was when it hit me. I completely zoned out and began getting so wrapped up in my own thoughts; he never told me how he felt about me, so how was I supposed to know he wasn't setting me up? That the whole thing, him ignoring me, wanting to know how I felt about him, that it wasn't a trick? "...but you'll figure it out eventually. Don't worry about it."/p