Chapter 8:
-+-+ Izzie -+-+
Seattle
The hospital was loaded with emergency trauma patients because of a bull rodeo competition. The bull went mad and trampled the matador, almost killing him and he also managed to destroy the gate where the audience were, so yes. Disaster.
Izzie was checking on a patient with minor wounds, suturing the wounds.
"Stevens, when you're done, help Dr. Torres in Trauma 3, she doesn't have a resident there with her." Owen Hunt ordered and the blonde nodded.
She then look around, seeing Jackson Avery, April Kepner and the other Mercy Westerns resident, this merger did change the hospital but it was for the better.
She finished suturing and went in the Trauma 3 as Owen instructed. She gloved up.
"Dr. Torres, where do you need me?" Izzie asked. She knows that Callie was somehow still mad at her about the George thing but she has Arizona now anyway.
"Let's get Mr. Bill to x ray." Callie said without looking up the chart she was writing.
"Okay." Izzie pushed the gurney out of the trauma room and into the elevator. Callie was about to get in but Hunt asked for a consult.
"I'll meet you there Stevens." Callie said as the door closes.
They were in the x ray preparing Mr. Bill but she let the radiologist take it and she decided to wait outside. It's for the best.
Callie approached her as she enters the room once again looking at the image on the screen. "How's the patient?"
"Femur fracture Dr. Torres, nasty one." Izzie said with a smile.
Callie looked at the results. "Oh wow. We'll need to give the papers to Mr. Bill's wife since he has Alzheimer's. Scrub in." Callie smiled.
'Maybe I was wrong, maybe she was over it.' Izzie thought.
Izzie paged Meredith 9-1-1 to meet her in the tunnels.
Not a while later, Meredith sat next to Izzie on an unused gurney in the tunnels.
"You paged 9-1-1?" Meredith asked. "Where's the patient?"
"I'm the patient." Izzie said, looking at Meredith. "I need you to do a blood test for me. I'm 2 weeks late."
Meredith sat stunned. "Does Alex know?"
"No, but I brought a pregnancy test yesterday and it was positive but you know they can sometimes give you false results."
"Alright. I brought the materials." Meredith said as she rummaged in the small blue bag. She then put a band on Izzie's arm and insert the needle.
"This is gonna be a disaster, Mer." Izzie said nervously as she watched the blood get sucked inside the syringe. "Alex and I are almost in good terms. Me being pregnant is..." She trailed off.
"What if he doesn't want the kid?"
"Don't panic just yet Iz." Meredith said as she pulled out the syringe and put the blood in the test tube. She then threw the syringe on the trash can. "Maybe you're just really really late."
"I'm never late, Mer." Izzie fidgeted her fingers as she speak.
"Well maybe, this time, you are." Meredith said and went to send it to the lab.
Izzie was alone on the tunnels, her only company was her thoughts.
"Mer, you got the results?" Izzie nervously asked as she approached her friend.
Meredith's face was grim, but she can't tell if it's about her or something else.
Meredith handed her the results.
Positive.
Izzie felt the need to sit down for a while so she did. On the floor.
She started to cry while Meredith comforted her.
"You need to tell Alex." Meredith suggested.
"I know that. I'll tell him tonight since he'll be home tomorrow."
"No. He won't." Meredith said.
"What?"
"He won't be home until wednesday." Meredith looked at Izzie. "I was with Derek in the office when the president of the University of Iowa called, Derek went to the restroom so I answered it. Derek called Alex."
"Well should I call him?" Izzie said, her heart's racing so fast.
"I think so, but it can wait until wednesday, but it depends on you." Mer suggested and Izzie gave her a nonchalant nod.
Izzie went to an empty on call room and paces for awhile then she decided that she'd call him instead of waiting till wednesday.
He picked up. "Hello Iz?"
"Alex, I need to talk to you." Izzie said firmly trying so hard to cover her shaking voice.
"I'm all ears Iz." Alex said.
"I'll come visit you in Iowa tomorrow. This isn't something you talk about over phone."
"Alright. Text me when you arrive so I could pick you up."
She ended the call.