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She stood up feeling shaken; she'd completely forgotten how to be a doctor.
"Dr Grey!" They'd reached the floor for radiology and everyone was waiting for her to move forward. Instead she stepped back from the gurney.
"'Page me before you go into the OR." She said and then she watched as they exited the elevator.
She caught the elevator back to the roof; the chopper was just about to leave when she arrived.
"Wait!" she called out. She ran over to the pilot. "There was a woman in the car. Do you know which hospital she went to?"
"No, sorry." The pilot replied. "I've got to go." He closed the door and waited for Meredith to get clear and then took off.
Meredith stood alone on the roof. "Shit" she thought to herself. She was trying to remember what to do next, what the correct procedure was to find someone. She caught the elevator down to the main floor. She grabbed the hospital directory and a map. She knew where Alex and Izzie had been staying. She traced a line between there and Seattle and then systematically began phoning every hospital along it.
"Hi. I'm looking for my friend. She was in a car accident. Has she been brought to your hospital? Her name is Isobel Stevens." She asked the first operator.
"No sorry." The operator replied. Meredith thought for a moment.
"How about Isobel Karev?"
"No sorry she's not here."
Meredith had the same conversation with five hospitals before she finally found the right one.
"Yes, she's here." The woman on the other end of the phone said. Meredith felt her insides tighten up.
"How is she?" She asked. In the background she could hear the woman moving papers around.
"Her injuries are relatively minor." The woman began. "But we had to give her a sedative to calm her down."
"Okay." Meredith nodded to herself. She was trying to work out what to say next. "Her husband is at Seattle Grace. Can I organize for her to be transferred there?"
She heard the woman shuffle more papers around. "That shouldn't be a problem but I'll need a request form from Seattle Grace." She finally responded.
"Thank you." She replied and she hung up the phone and ran as fast as she could to the OR floor.
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Alex lay spread out on the OR table. His films hung on the walls around them. Meredith didn't look at them but Alex had seen them. He knew exactly what kind of state he was in. His body was running on adrenalin. He'd convinced Christina to give him another shot of it and allow him to wait for Meredith to come back before they operated. He needed to know that Izzie was okay.
"I found her." Meredith began as she knelt down beside him. "She's okay. She's at another hospital. They're going to transfer her here."
"Good." He felt his mind begin to relax a little."Meredith, if something happens, tell her I love her. Tell her I want her to be happy. Tell her I want her to find someone who loves her as much as I do." The words came out much stronger than he thought they would. Meredith looked back at him; her eyes were starting to glass over. "Promise me you'll tell her."
"I won't have to." Meredith whispered and she stepped back from the table. "You're going to be okay." Then the anesthetist stepped over and within two seconds he was out cold.
She didn't know if he'd be okay. They're words which as a doctor you're never meant to say because you never know for sure what's going to happen. But she had to say them, for herself.
"Save him." She said and she walked out the room.
As she walked away she looked down at her hands, they were shaking, she felt like she wanted to be sick. She couldn't fathom what was happening. She knew it happened every day but it wasn't supposed to happen to them. She walked in a daze down to the nurses' station. She collected the form she needed to arrange Izzie's transfer and began filling it out. She concentrated on her hand writing and when she was finished she walked to Chief Webber's office.
"I need you to sign this." She said handing him the form.
"What is it?" he asked as he put his glasses on. He looked down at the paper and read what it said. "Is this…"
"Yes." She answered before he could say her name. "They were in a car accident. Karev's in OR three now. It doesn't look good." The words came out of her mouth completely flat. She couldn't afford to let her emotions get the better of her. But she couldn't hide the way she was feeling. Chief signed the form and handed it back to her. "Thank you." She whispered and then she just stood there. She didn't know what to do.
"Dr Grey." The Chief asked after a minute. "Do you need some time off?"
"Thank you." She whispered again and she walked out the office.
She faxed the transfer form off at the first fax machine she found and then she sat down in the chairs in the waiting area and waited. It would be more than an hour before Izzie would arrive and she had no idea how long Alex would be in surgery. She felt very flat and drained. It had been less than twenty minutes since Alex had arrived but the relaxed feeling she'd felt before then seemed like an eternity ago. Her mind was already preparing her for bad news. She was subconsciously detaching herself from the situation. She didn't think about how she felt, instead she thought about Izzie, how she would react. She put her head down in her hands and concentrated on her breathing. She sat there for a long time, everyone else went about their business around her, it was just another day to all of them.