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"It's now or never. Boki, scalpel."

Teddy's heart stopped beating as Owen made the first cut, right above the girl's stomach. Jane Doe's heart rate was still falling fast. She was running out of time. Owen plunged the knife into the girl.

Nothing exploded. Teddy thought. Her BP didn't plummet. That's a good thing.

He made the cut. The hard part's over.

Not likely.

Owen began to cut more, and he, with the help of Arizona, who ran in at the last minute, opened her up so that most of her organs were visible. Jane Doe's abdomen was a mess. Free fluid was everywhere. Blood was pouring out from behind her liver. The top of one of her kidneys was shredded a large hole was visible at the top of her stomach. Shards of metal were stuck all around. One was lodged in her liver, one in her stomach, a few in her large intestine, and a large onThane in her right kidney.

This was going to be the most difficult and intense surgery of Teddy's life.

This is going to be impossible and they were losing time. Much longer, and this girl would die. Teddy was scared.

Bailey got to work right away on removing the shards of metal from her organs, carefully pulling out the one in her stomach, than her liver, than her kidney. Hunt began to patch the large hole in her stomach.

"She's been bleeding internally for an hour. She's already lost at least half her blood volume." A nurse ran up and hung another liter of o-neg blood. "All we can do right now is damage control." Owen grimaced as he tried once again to patch the hole.

"All we can do now is remove the top of her skull." Derek informed the group, he and Meredith had begun to drill around her head. "After that, we have to wait for the swelling to go down before we can fix anything. All the work you guys do could mean nothing if her brain is damaged."

Teddy was scared of that thought. What if they could actually save this girl, but she stayed in a coma forever? Teddy had seen soldiers better off than this Jane Doe die from brain damage. It was a harsh reality.

"There is nothing we can do for this kidney." Dr. Bailey sighed, interrupting . " I'm going to have to take it out. Luckily, she can live without a kidney, but she can't live without a liver." Teddy looked at her liver, and it was already going brown. "I.." A loud beeping sound interrupted her.

Jane Doe's BP was dropping fast. 60/30, 55/27.

Damn it. Teddy couldn't think. Her mind was blank.

"Her pressure's dropping." Owen yelled. "She's lost too much blood. Her organs are shutting down."

Blood began to pool in her abdomen.

"Where is this blood coming from?" Bailey was flustered. She was digging all through her abdomen, trying to source the bleed.

"I found it." Arizona hollered. She pointed to a hole in Jane Doe's right kidney, the same one had said they had to take out. "It's her right kidney. Miranda, we have to take it out now." They two women made eye contact.

"Alright. Let's go." Bailey started to take out the kidney.

They had that kidney out in 5 minutes flat. That had to be a record! Teddy thought.

"Her BP is still dropping!" Mark screamed. He and Callie had just set the girl's right leg and had wrapped it in a mold for a cast. "What can we do?"

Teddy scanned the girl's body. Owen had patched the hole in her stomach. The kidney was out. What were they missing? What were they missing?

The shard next to her aorta.

"Teddy! Get that shard out of her chest, but don't slice the aorta." Owen yelled at the exact same moment that Teddy had thought of it. Her hands were trembling when Boki handed her the tweezers. Owen must have seen that because at the next moment, he addressed the rest of the surgeons. "Everybody. Get your hands out. If someone's bumps Teddy or the girl while she pulls out the shard or she will hit the aorta and the girl will bleed out and die. Hands out."

The other doctors obeyed, and pulled their hands out. All eyes were on Teddy as she moved in with shaking hands. Calm down. She told herself. Calm down. Teddy grabbed the top of the shard, and gently pulled it out.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The heart rate monitor began to beep loudly. Jane doe was falling fast.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Crap. Teddy thought. Did I hit the aorta? Did I kill this girl?

Owen thought the same thing.

"Teddy did you get the aorta?" He yelled at her crazily.

"No. There's no blood. I don't know what's happening!" Arizona butt in. Why was she falling? They got the kidney, liver, aorta, stomach. Kidney liver, aorta, stomach. What were they missing?

"It's her brain." Derek leaped up. "It's swelling to fast. We need to get her skull off now. It might even be too late." Derek and Meredith began to pull off the top of the skull. Her BP was dropping faster. 50/29, 47/27, 40/19. "There. I'm done." Derek and Meredith carefully placed her skull in a chilled box. "We'll put it back when the swelling goes down."

Jane Doe's BP was still dropping.

"Why is she still falling?" Bailey asked, turning to Hunt. The ginger shook his head.

"I don't know. I don't kn..." A loud noise interrupted him

Jane Doe flatlined.

"Damn it! Damn it!" Teddy yelled. "Get me the internal paddles." A nurse handed her the device. "Charge to 300. Clear!" She shocked the heart. Nothing happened. "Charge to 350. Clear!" Again, nothing happened. "400! Clear!" Teddy screamed this time as she shocked the heart. Nothing happened again.

Jane Doe was gone. This kid, this savior, was dead.

Callie began to cry. Derek just shook his head. Meredith leaned her head on Derek's shoulder. Everyone was in shock. This girl didn't deserve to die. Teddy looked up at the gallery. They had collected quite a large crowd for the short time they had been in there. Word travels fast in this hospital. Everyone in the gallery looked just as distraught as Teddy's fellow surgeons. Obviously they were pulling for the girl to.

"Time of death," Owen struggled to get the words out. They seemed caught in his throat, like he was choking on them. "Time of death 2,"

BEEP!

"2:4..."

BEEP!

There was a slight lift on the heart rate monitor. It showed a rhythm.

Jane Doe was alive. She had a heartbeat.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

Everyone just stared at the screen, refusing to believe it. She couldn't believe alive, could she?

"She's alive. Sh..sh..she's alive!" Arizona was hyperventilating. She was trembling in the corner. The entire gallery was clapping, whooping, and hollering. Meredith and Derek gave each other a quick 'mask' kiss.

Jane Doe's BP began to equalize. Hell, it was stronger than when she first came in.

"What just happened?" Mark looked at Owen. Owe looked just as perplexed as he did.

"I have no idea. I, I truly don't know." Owen was still staring at the heart rate monitor, dumbfounded. "Sometimes, things like this just happen. The bleeding stops, and their heart starts beating. It's like a..a..a.."

"A miracle." Teddy finished his sentence. Everyone looked at her and nodded in agreement. Just for this moment, all the doctors forgot about everything that made sense, everything logical. It was a miracle. Nobody cared if it wasn't true. It was the only logical explanation.

Owen looked so happy that he could cry. He was smiling from ear to ear. You couldn't see it on his face, but it was in his eyes.

"Let's sew her up and take her to the ICU. If she stays this stable," Owen started, but was interrupted by Callie.

"If she stays this stable, I'll have to amputate her left leg." Callie said. That put a slight damper on the mood. "I am sorry, but there is absolutely nothing we can do. Her tibia, fibula, and not to mention her knee joint are all torn apart. We can salvage the femur, but nothing else."

At least she didn't die. Teddy thought. You can live without a leg. You can't live if you're, well, if you're dead.