Sorry it took so long to update this story, I was just busy learning for school...i have to write a test in french, german, math, physics and latin... and i suck in each of these subjects... so yeah i spend the whole last week learning and now (finally!!) I found time to update this story!!! So enjoy reading now!
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Chapter 4
He had to admit, it was good hearing her voice again. He'd been longing for it since he'd left Los Angeles, leaving her with a broken heart. His one wish was that she listened to what he had to say, but then again...he understood why she didn't. Every time she's ever listened to him he's ended up breaking her heart in one way or another. So at this point asking her to listen was asking for too much. He knew that had he been in her shoes, he would have done the same.
"Hey, I think she's waking up..." Derek interrupted his thoughts. At first Mark didn't know what Derek was talking about but then he noticed the girl beginning to stir.
"Oh, the kid you mean..." he went back into the patients room followed by Derek. The girls eyes were still closed but you could see her moving and hear her groaning. She slowly regained consciousness. When her eyes fluttered open they revealed the same blue green eyes Addison had, she looked just as beautiful as Addie. She looked around the room and finally her eyes stuck to the two doctors.
"Where am I?" she asked weakly.
"You're in the hospital. There was an accident and you have been injured." Derek explained.
"An accident?" apparently she didn't remember.
"Yes, don't you remember?" Mark asked.
"No, should I remember?" the girl shook anxiously her head.
"Don't worry, after an accident it's possible that you've got temporary amnesia. It should slowly start coming back to you." the neurosurgeon tried to take the fear off of the girl.
"Okay... but I'll get better right? I'll be able to leave the hospital, won't I?"
"Of course:" Derek smiled comfortingly.
The girl took a deep breath of relieve and smiled back.
"So may I ask what's your name?" he asked while Mark stayed silent. He knew he couldn't be as patient as Derek was. If he was to talk to the girl the first thing he'd ask would have been something like Do you know an Addison Montgomery? Are you her daughter, her sister... who are you? And that wouldn't have been helpful. The girl had to feel comfortable and she had to know what had happened to her.
"I'm Alyssa..." she answered.
"Alyssa? And your last name?" Derek asked wondering why she didn't tell him her full name. When she didn't say anything he added: "We need to know your full name so we can inform your parents..."
"My parents wouldn't care..." Alyssa looked away from the two men, feeling ashamed of the fact that not even her parents cared for her. Derek looked at his best friend, both men didn't know what to say. Since they'd met Addison they'd understood what it meant to have parents like that but Addison had seemed tougher, not like this girl who apparently didn't knew how to deal with it.
"Okay, so we don't inform your parents... is there anyone else you want us to call?" Mark asked, feeling sorry for her. Now every thought of asking her about her relation to Addison was gone and this need to comfort her had replaced it.
"I came here with two friends... oh god were they also involved in the accident? How are they?" Alyssa started to panic and sat up quickly, too quickly. Her sudden move had caused a huge headache and so she fell back onto the bed.
"You okay?" Derek asked, taking a single step closer to her. She nodded her head in response.
"We'll ask if there were other people in the car okay? And you rest now, try to sleep a bit and we'll see you later..." Mark smiled and left the room together with Derek.
When he looked at Derek he saw that his friend couldn't hide a grin.
"What?!" Mark asked confused.
"Oh, nothing... " the surgeon shook his head still grinning. "I think I've got patients... and you should check who else was in this car accident." then he turned around and walked away while Mark was standing in front of the room watching him walk away. Just when he was about walking around the corner Mark shouted: "Shepherd what did she tell you on the phone?"
"The same thing she told you... and that we should call her when we know who the girl is." Derek shouted from the other end of the hallway and smiled, then he went around the corner and was out of sight.
So now Mark had to search for Alyssa's friends, not that he would rather do anything else, he really wanted to do this for her but there was this fear to have to tell her that something bad had happened to them. Only the thought had let her panic, he didn't want to be the one who confirmed this fear. He had to be able to tell her good news when he entered her room the next time.
"Mark." he could hear Callie shout down the hallway and interrupting his thoughts. The woman went down the hallway with concern on her face.
"What is it?" Mark met her on half the way.
"How's the girl?" she asked.
"She can't remember the accident but Derek says the amnesia won't last, so... I guess you could say she's fine..." Mark explained.
"Thank god..." she took a deep breath of relieve.
"She said she's here in Seattle with two of her friends... and I've promised to find them. Look if they were also in the accident, you know..."
"I can tell you this, she was with my patient in the same car... so you can tell her that her friend is fine, she's just has a broken arm."
"Thank god... I was already afraid that I would have to tell her something bad."
"Well... Julie, that's my patient, said there was also a guy in the car... Alyssa's boyfriend..." she said slowly.
"And where is he?"
"That's the thing... I'm not sure, I've heard that Hunt is in the OR with a boy... and it looks really bad..."
"Oh no, please... I can't tell her that." Mark was desperate, there was a reason for the Fear he had.
"Hey, Hunt is an amazing surgeon... let's wait, maybe the surgery turns out well..." Callie tried to give her friend some hope.
"It has to turn out well, otherwise I would have to break this girl's heart by telling her she lost her boyfriend..." he could only imagine how hard this would be, he'd lost Addison but that was different. The woman he loved was still alive and he could at least hope to get another chance and see her again, but Alyssa wouldn't be able to hope that she maybe will see her boyfriend again if he's dead.
"So we'll wait... and we won't panic until we have to." Callie answered reassuringly. Mark glanced her way and nodded. She was right. There was no point in him to lose is sense before he knew what was really going on...and something had to be going on.
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What do you think? Now the girl has a name, Alyssa... and now we know a little more about her. So tell me what do you think about this chapter? Do you like it or do you dislike it? Is it okay that there is so much dialogue or would you rather read chapters with less dialogue? Just tell me I wanna know your opinion! REVIEW!!!
