Hi! Sorry this one took a while to post; I found it really hard to write. The first bit is a little out of character for this story but I really wanted everyone to realise how Bailey felt about George's death. I've got one more chapter planned after this and then an epilogue (which I've already written and is waiting to go!) hopefully I should be able to update tomorrow night (night for me in the UK so if you're elsewhere in the world I have no idea what time it'll be for you). Read and Review. Marie X
There are seven women whom George O'Malley ever loved.
"I have five rules, memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change."
But it did change. The annoying interns became her babies as they wormed their way into her heart. She took five unprepared children and turned them into a family, taught them to be surgeons. She dealt with their intern drama; the relationships, the illness, the failures but now she only has three interns left, because even though their residents now they'll forever be her interns. One of them jumped in front of a bus to save a stranger then bled out on a gurney in the OR; the combined skill of SGH not enough to save him. The other was diagnosed with stage four skin cancer and survived before leaving out of the blue. Now all that is left is half a family; a husband without a wife, a post-it bride and a workaholic with no people skills. They'd lost the heart of the family, the glue that kept them together.
'Each one, teach one'
Bailey was a unique kind of mother figure to George; she could be abrupt, cold and at times furious but underneath the bluster she cared and everything she did was to help him, to teach him.
George came to her occasionally now; the breakup of her marriage combined with his death, and when all is said and done he was almost a surrogate son to Bailey, is a lot for one person to handle.
There were times when Bailey wanted to give in and break down but without her knowledge, George reached out and gave her a push in the right direction; causing her common sense to take over again.
He felt sorry for Bailey and wishes there were something he could do to help her but he does not worry about her. Even with the pain and the loss she is still Doctor Bailey and Doctor Bailey can do anything.