Season 5 Episode 4 ~ Switch from English to Spanish/Italian mid-fight. - I'm so so so sorry if google translate has the translation wrong, please forgive me. I don't speak Spanish or Italian, even though I am ¼ Italian, ironic, I know.)
"So why don't we just, uh, jump right in with some role-play?." Diane said. "Okay, lucky for us, we have our very own married couple in the house." Andy was looking down and all of a sudden her head snapped up, shocked. Meanwhile, Robert looked over to Andy and then faced forward, a gaping mouth. "Herrera and Sullivan, why don't you come on up here and we'll start on page 7 with the "marital dispute" scenario." neither Hererra nor Sullivan get up or say anything.
Meanwhile a series of "oh man" went through her teammates and her friends.
Diane looks up when she doesn't see any movement while Vic and Dean, who were at the front of the room were looking at each other. "Oooor….we could take volunteers-"
Sullivan cut Diane off. "No, I'm game. I"m game. " he said, standing up. "Herrera?" Sullivan called as he walked passed her.
Herrera hesitates for a couple of seconds. "Fine. Yeah." she stands up confidently but also feels nervous but thinking, maybe we can finally have the fight we should have had months ago. "Let's do it."
Robert and Andy are at the front of the barn with Diane standing in between them. "We're gonna be role-playing scenarios that you may encounter while on Crisis One calls. Your job is to secure the scene, build trust and rapport with the patient, and find a solution if you can. Now, I will be the first responder for this first one. And you two are the married couple. The wife has locked the husband outside and is throwing his stuff out onto the sidewalk. Someone called 911 because the husband is screaming and threatening her."
All the firefighters in the barn watched on, concerned when Vic spoke up. "Okay, Diane, I think maybe we should not-"
Robert holds his hand up and cuts Vic off "Are you crazy?" Vic looks at Travis and they both look nervous. "Hm?" Robert asks when Andy doesn't reply right away.
"Rob- Roberto, do not call me crazy. You screwed my best friend!" Andy said, awkwardly.
"I did no such thing! You believe what you want to believe!" Andy looks shocked and Diane speaks up.
"Hey there, sir. Uh. What seems to be the problem?" Diane interrupted. Travis brought his hands to his mouth and Emmett shook his head.
"My wife, she has locked me out and she is trashing my stuff and throwing ONE year of marriage into the garbage."
Warren whispers "I can't look away"
"That sounds frustrating." Diane calmly said, oblivious to the situation.
"That's not the word I would use," Robert replied.
"We often hurt the ones we love the most." Diane tried.
"Lady, I don't need your counselling. I just need my wife to stop throwing my stuff out the window." Robert shouted.
"If he hadn't betrayed me-"
"Betrayed?-"
Andy continues after Robert almost cut her off "I wouldn't be doing it!"
"And she doesn't listen," Robert said, calmer.
"Oh my god" Andy let said, while letting out a sarcastic chuckle.
"She's not even willing to have a conversation. It's like talking to a brick wall"
"Says the concrete wall." Andy immediately said.
Diane starts to realize there's something more going on than just the role-playing. "Okay, I can see that you're both really angry-" Diane tried to get between them but Andy cut her off, raising her hand.
"You know maybe if he didn't always act like he knows me better than I know myself."
"You don't even know- She doesn't even know herself."
Andy scoffs.
"Fighting with her is like fighting with a teenager."
Diane closes her eyes, knowing there's nothing she could say to stop the fighting between them.
"It's like you're permanently stuck at age 17."
Andy is finally able to say something "Oh for someone who's never been a parent you sure know how to condescend like one."
Robert, confused, ends up slipping into speaking Spanish. "Condescenfer?(condecend?)"
"Me tratas como si fuera incapaz de tomar mis propias decisiones!(You treat me like I'm incapable of making my own decisions!)" Andy replied
"Lo lamento-.(I'm sorry)" Robert was going to continue but Andy cut him off.
"No seas Estoy siendo egoísta y terco y te mereces algo mejor que eso.(Don't be. I'm being selfish and stubborn and you deserve better than that.)" Andy said, running a hand through her hair. "No tengo excuasas solo quiero que sepas que lamento mucho como me fui y ni siquiera nos di la oportunidad de hablar sobre eso. O tu para explicar tus acciones.(I have no excuses, I just want you to know that I am very sorry for how I left and did not even give us the opportunity to talk about it. Or you to explain your actions)"
Robert sees the way her face changes and gets worried. "Andy, que esta secediendo?(Andy, what is happening?)"
"Cancro. (Cancer)" Andy whispered while looking down, switching to Italian hoping no one else would understand. She hears Robert gasp.
"What's happening?" Robert hears Maya ask but he was too caught up in the conversation to be bothered by anyone else. He continues the conversation, switching to Italian as well, knowing that Theo speaks Spanish.
"C'e dell'altro, vero?(There's more, right?)" Robert asked.
Andy nods. "Otto mesi fa sono andato da un medico.(Eight months ago I went to a doctor.)"
"E?(and?)"
"Ero incinta. (I was pregnant)" Andy continued to look down while Robert continued to look shocked.
"Cattica amministrazione?" Robert asked while tears filled his eyes. He brought a hand to Andy's chain and made her look at him. "Quindi hai avuto a che fare con il cancro e un aborto spontaneo? Da solo?"?(so you've had to deal with cancer and a miscarriage? Alone?)"
Andy nods, trying to hold tears back.
"Quale tipo?(which kind?)"
"Cervello. (brain)" Robert gasps again.
"Trattamento?(treatment?)"
"Amelia, ha detto che hanno trovato il tumore nel mio lobo frontale nelle fasi iniziali, quindi posso fare L'operazione e poi la chemio o iniziero la chemio domani. Oggi sara ilmio ultimo turno per un po.(Amelia said they found the tumour in my frontal lobe in the early stages so I can have the surgery and then chemo or I start chemo tomorrow. Today will be my last shift for a while)" Andy rushed out in a whisper, trying to make sure no one heard or understood that. Andy was looking into Robert's eyes and saw tears well up. "Per favore non odiami.(Please don't hate me.)"
"I could never, Andy," Robert told her, stepping closer to her and brushing a loose hair behind her ear.
"What's going on?" They heard Maya ask.
"I guess now is a good time seeing as both houses are together to tell you what's going on." Andy sighed and felt Robert wrap an arm around her as she turns to face the Station 19 and 23 firefighters. "Captain Aquino knows what's going on but I haven't told anyone else, well except for Robert now."
"Told us what?" Vic asked, concerned for her friend.
Andy scoffs. "I don't think any of you deserve to know this with how you've been treating me since I got transferred to 23, but you are still the house I hope to go back to since 19 is my home" Andy pauses. "2 months after I got transferred I was feeling sick almost every morning, had constant body aches and-"
"-And let me guess, you found out you were pregnant?" Maya questioned, interrupting Andy.
Andy looks down. "I had it all planned out. I was going to tell him after the first trimester." Andy looks at robert "Mi sono preso cura di me stesso. Ho mangiato bene. Non so cosa diavolo sia successo. (I took care of myself. I ate well. I don't know what the hell happened.)"
Robert grabbed her hands. "You know what. I think this is a conversation that I should just have with my wife." Robert told the group and then turned to Diane "I am so sorry Diane. We were due for a fight between us and I guess it's kind of happened at the worst time."
Diane shakes her head. "It's fine. Don't worry about it."
Robert nods and takes Andy up to the conference room so they can talk.
"Okay, Andy. Tell me everything." Robert said, closing the door.
"Well, as soon as I left and started working at 23 I kind of stopped taking care of myself." Andy looks down, feeling ashamed. "I ended up fainting during a call." Robert sucked in a breath. "I woke up in an aid car with an IV in my arm, was on my way to the hospital and when I got there they took me for some tests. Apparently, they check if you're pregnant when you enter the ER. Meredith told me I was pregnant, Carina was my OB. Even with the patient/doctor, I made her promise to not tell Maya or anyone else about it."
"Andy, please tell me you're taking care of yourself now?" Robert asked Andy.
Andy continues to look down "We'll come back to that, Robert." Robert just nods. "After I found out I was pregnant I talked to Carina about how to stay healthy for the baby and I was doing everything right. I was listening to her but on my way to a shift a couple of months later when I felt some cramps coming on and looked down I saw that there was blood on the car seat so I drove myself to Grey Sloan." Andy looked up at Robert, tears running down her face. "Robert, I am so sorry. I was staying on the aid car, or I was on desk duty. I was being so cautious. I-" Andy couldn't stop the sobs from coming and Robert pulled her into a hug and Andy just melted into it.
Robert ran a hand over the back of Andy's head, straightening out her hair in the process. "Breathe, Andy. I need you to breathe." Robert told her.
It took Andy a few minutes to get her breathing under control. "I'm just so sorry, Robert. I was going to tell you and then it happened. And then a month after finding out about the tumour happened and I just didn't want to burden you."
"Andy," Robert said, tucking a loose hair behind her ear. "You could never burden me."
Andy just nods, not being able to say anything.
"So, can you tell me what's going on with your cancer?" Robert asked and Andy sighed.
"Well, like I said earlier, Amelia said they caught it early so there are options. One is to have the surgery and then do chemo to make sure it won't come back, or she suggested chemo to shrink it and hopefully, it'll go away."
"Which option are you thinking about?" Robert asked, holding Andy's hands.
"Not gonna lie, my job is what came to my mind first." Robert went to speak but Andy continued "I thought about how if I went with just doing chemo it would take longer to get back to work but how doing the surgery and then chemo would take less time."
"So where did that thought process get you?"
Andy looks into Robert's eyes. "I need your support, Robert," Andy told him, squeezing his hands. "Please tell me I'll have it."
"You'll have it," Robert confirms.
Andy nods as a few tears slide down her cheeks. "I thought it over." Andy breathes out, "I want to have the surgery and then do chemo. I'll do whatever it takes to get healthy again." Andy told Robert.
"Okay. that's good." Robert said, pulling Andy into a hug and placing a kiss on her forehead. "Andy, I think we need to cover a few things before we leave this room." Robert paused as he let go of Andy to look her in the eyes, "we need to talk about what happened with Bishop."
Andy nods. "I know I haven't given you a chance to talk, say what you've needed to, Robert. But please let me get through this?" Andy asked and continued speaking when Robert nodded. "I was going to talk to you after the training today. I stayed with Miller for the first couple of months after I left but then I got my own apartment. I was talking to Michelle a lot, we hung out on my days off and since no one at 19 really even tried to get in touch with me, she was pretty much the only person I could lean back on." Andy saw Robert try to speak but raised her hand. "That thought process is what led to me wanting to talk to you, but I wasn't sure how to come up to you and talk to you after so long."
"So you just didn't? You decided to not come and talk to me when you knew I was willing to talk, Andy!" Robert saw Andy about to interrupt but thought that he should continue. "You chose to go through the loss of our baby and finding out you had cancer by yourself! I would've been there for you Andy. Always. You know I've seen you at your worst and you've seen me at mine too."
"I know."
"You know? You know now?" Andy bows her head. "Andrea, I will always be here for you. I will always be in your corner but do you know how lonely these months have been?" Robert asks rhetorically "While you've had people to lean on, I've been cast out." Andy raises her head. "I can't ignore that, Andy. Even when I first started at this house it wasn't like this. I always had you trying to get passed the walls I built around myself after Claire but after you, no one was even trying. I apologized to the team, to Maya after the engine fire when we got back to the station." Robert looks at Andy. "Andy, I am so sorry for going over your head. I am so sorry that I just had myself in mind when talking to McCallister."
"You're tired of being a probie, it's understandable Robert and I am so sorry I didn't give you a chance to explain yourself months ago, and yeah, I know we can't just forget it. but-" Andy stopped talking suddenly and raised a hand to her forehead and stumbled.
"Andy." Robert rushed to her side "Andy. Andrea, are you okay?"
"Rob-Robert." Andy tried to speak, gripping onto Roberts arm.
"What can I do, Andy? Tell me what I can do?" Robert giuded Andy to a chair.
"Call Vic and Trav up here, get me to an aid car." Andy tried to get her breathing under control. "Amelia said to get to a hospital if I started to feel like this."
Robert nodded and called for Vic and Travis. "Andy, stay with me okay? We're going to get through this. I love you."
I don't think my transitions in this first chapter were great. I don't know if I did the fight that needed to happen to justice and I don't know why I'm choosing to put Andy through so much but I do know she won't have her 19 "family" to lean back on, at least not at first.
