Hello! Yes, I know its been awhile since I've updated. I've gotten really busy as the school year is coming to an end but not to worry Im back! I've had some serious writers block with this story but I think I finally figure out how Im going to continue with it. I'll most likely cut it off after 25 chapters but we will see how far I can get. As always let me know what you think!
3 weeks later
Emma was practically dying in missed the beach and the practice. She missed the rush hour and city lights beaming. She missed her friends, she missed the tiny little boutique she worked at (the one she absolutely hated at certain points). She missed her family. Of course she had her family up here but it wasn't the same, the sad rainy area wasn't like the sunshine.
"I don't understand why my mother is being so picky about me going back to LA for the weekend. I just don't get any of it." Emma complained picking at her food.
Meredith and Amelia had been off for lunch and invited the girl to eat with them. They figured she was spending too much alone in the house and it was starting to get unhealthy for Emma.
"Em you have only a few more check-ups with Maggie and then you'll be home. When do you get to watch world class surgeries happen nearly everyday? You're nearly an adult, maybe being here will help you decide what you want to do, where you want to go." Meredith suggested shoving another bite into her mouth.
Emma looked up with a face of discomfort as she glanced at the two sitting in front of her. Amelia was the first to realize what the girl was signaling.
"You don't want to be a doctor." Amelia stated more than questioned. Emma's face went red with embarrassment as she was stared down by her step mom and aunt. She sat silent for a while. Whether she liked it or not she was going to have to tell her family at some point.
"No I-" Emma hesitated to explain, "Listen, I love you guys and I love that I've grown up in an environment where everybody saves people all the time but I don't want to be a doctor. I've spent the last twelve years in and out of hospitals and I just don't think I want to spend the rest of my life in hospitals."
"Emma you've wanted to be a surgeon since you were 5. Your dad used to never be able to get you to shut up about it. I watched you and Mark Sloan stitch a chicken at christmas one year. Now you just don't want to?" Amelia was in shock. They both were actually, Amelia was the only one expressing though. "You used to say that all you ever wanted was to save kids and all of a sudden you don't?"
Meredith followed right behind with Amelia's questioning. "Is it because of Derek? Mark? This is pretty drastic all of a sudden don't ya think Em?"
Emma rolled her eyes and became defensive. So what she didn't want to follow in the family steps? Did it really matter if she was going to be the black sheep of the family now? "Nothing about this is drastic." She rose her voice. " Maybe I want to do something else to save lives. Ever think of that? My god you're all a bunch of surgery strung junkies. I don't want to be that. I grew up in this damn hospital and view of new scenery would be nice. Haven't you seen the shit that goes on here? After all the crap I've been through I've seen there's more to just cutting."
"Does your mom know? What has she said? What would Mark and Derek say?" Amelia blurted out in the moment. Both Emma and Meredith brows furrowed at the question.
"I don't need to have this conversation right now. You both are as bad as mom." Emma bickered gathering her things. "I've got an appointment with Pierce, I'll see you both at home for dinner." Was the last thing the teen said as she walked out of the cafeteria.
Meredith and Amelia both starred as Emma stormed off. "We really need to teach her to stop running away from a conversation." Amelia nodded.
"It's the only thing she's ever known to do. Ran to Seattle, Ran to LA, ran away from all of this. Seems like a Shepherd thing" Meredith spoke causing Amelia to whip around.
"Shepherd thing? You're really playing that card right now?"
"I'm just saying" Meredith rose her hands in defense.
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"You're late." Karev didn't raise his eyes from Emma's chart in his hands as the girl stormed into the room where both Alex and Maggie stood looking over medical charts.
"I know, I was having lunch" Emma grumbled tossing her bag down and crawling up onto the table. "Just make it quick so I can go home."
Maggie and Alex both looked up at each other not understanding the negative mood Emma was in. Alex knew he'd be the one who should push it out of her.
"Alright you know the drill." Pierce started putting the ear of the stethoscope into her ear as Emma sat up straight, shivering when the scope hit her back. They did their routine of breath in, breath out then the mile long list of how she was feeling.
"Well, Emma it looks like you're getting better but I'm still really concerned with the valve." Immediately Emma's smile went from huge to a frown. "We may need to go back in sooner than I had hoped."
"I thought you said I was fine. That I wouldn't need another surgery." Emma spoke like a small child whose candy had just been snatched away from her.
"Em it's what we thought. But for the better I think Pierce agrees that your heart isn't going to last forever. You're going to need a new one sooner or later. It's time to start preparing in case you do need a new heart Em. We've replaced the valve so much the new heart is the only thing that'll fix you." Alex explained.
"Yang told me that I would never have to have a heart transplant. Christina promised me I would be fine."
Letting out a sigh Alex shook his head looking between a clueless Peirce and an emotional Emma. "Yang isn't here anymore. It's Pierces call. You've grown up, doctors can't predict the future unless there here and Yang is gone. Your mom and your doctors agree this is the path we need to start looking at if your condition gets any worse."
Wiping her tear stained cheeks Emma became distraught. "My mom knows? I thought I was getting better?"
"Your condition is great one week and terrible the next. You've gotta understand that we never know what's going to happen especially when your vitals are everywhere." Maggie stepped in explaining.
All Emma could do is nod wiping away her runny nose and her dripping tears. "Okay." she spoke quietly as she gathered her stuff. "Thanks for the check up Maggie. I'll see you guys for dinner? I heard mom invited nearly the entire hospital."
Both nodded. "Cool. Well I gotta go, I promised mom I'd get Henry from the daycare and take him home before her surgery gets done. He hates being there. I'll see you guys later" Emma smiled walking out the door.
"She's not going to do anything before the dinner right?" Maggie looked concerned.
"Na, Emma just is a kid who likes to think. Maybe I'll go over early and talk to her. Make sure she isn't gonna go crazy and say something to Addison or Meredith." Alex got up trailing in the path of Emma. "I'll see you tonight pierce. Lets hope this dinner party goes better than the last."
As she made her way towards the elevator Emma dug out her phone searching for a number, pressing dial as the elevator doors opened.
The phone rang as she stepped in, someone picking it up after a few moments
"Hello?... Hi I was wondering if you could help me out….. Yes I was wondering if I could speak to your Chief… Tell her it's an old friend please…..No, friend from Seattle…. Can you let her know it's Emma please…. Christina?... I know it's been awhile… I need your help Yang."
Yang is one of my favorite characters and I figured it'd be fun to bring her back. As always let me know what you think! After a few bad reviews I'd like to just say that this is Fanfiction, meaning not everything is going to go the way it does in the series. I do this for fun and if you don't enjoy something I do in this story please don't read and I politely ask you take your sour comments else where.
Thanks for reading, xo