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lydia robbins walked through the door of the newly minted seattle grace/mercy west hospital to get ready for her first day back at work. lydia had taken a leave of absence for a few weeks since she had just had a baby. the woman walked up to the coffee kiosk and bought her morning coffee. she made her way to the resident lounge where she saw izzie and made her way to say hi.

"izzie!" the brunette called excitedly running to hug the pixie haired blonde.

"lydia!" the blonde squealed. izzie stood up and hugged her friend.

lydia put her bag in her cubby next to meredith's and put her scrubs on.

"how's baby emily?" izzie asked the girl.

"she's perfect, except she barely sleeps, but that's expected." lydia told the blonde girl.

izzie noticed the bags under lydia's eyes and figured they were from the baby.

"god, every time i see you i feel awful about emily. so again i'm so sorry." lydia said, sitting on the bench next to izzie.

"stop feeling bad!" izzie hit lydia's arm lightly. "yeah we were together but i had a tumor and it was making me crazy. never apologize for having emily, i love her so much."

lydia always felt bad because she slept with alex when izzie was having hallucinations of denny. lydia and alex got drunk and spent a night together which resulted in baby emily. when izzie found out, she wasn't mad, she was actually happy that her friend was going to have a baby.

suddenly a small redhead with a pixie haircut put her stuff in george's cubby and immediately felt sad about the man's passing.

"oh, hey. you can't put that in there." izzie told the girl, who lydia assumed was from mercy west.

"oh, they told us to grab a cubby," the girl said innocently, looking at izzie.

"yeah, i know. it's just...we keep it empty for a reason." lydia told the new girl.

"can you just take your stuff out? there are some empty ones over there you can use." izzie asked politely.

the girl looked over to where izzie pointed out and said, "i don't think so."

"can you please?" lydia asked again.

the brunette girl next to the pixie looked at izzie and lydia, silently judging them.

"i said take it out." izzie commanded the red head.

"great. i got the crazy one next to me." pixie said to her friend.

they let out a laugh and izzie gave them an offended look.

"oh, you want to fight?" izzie asked them.

"cause we will. i may just be getting back from maternity leave, but you're tiny. i will crush you." lydia said, trying to intimidate the pixie. she stood up with izzie and got ready to pound the girl. she heard alex call their names but they ignored them.

"like she said, i'll fight you, you're pretty tiny. we could take you down in a couple of seconds." izzie said and with that the two girls lunged at the pixie haired girl.

alex came up behind them and grabbed izzie so she wouldn't hurt the girl. he gave lydia a stern look that made the girl back off. the three surgical residents left the room and met cristina and lexie at the main staircase. all six of them looked out and saw a sea of orange scrubs and it made lydia feel sick.

"they took george's cubby." izzie said to everyone, sadly.

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everyone was in meredith's hospital room, she was recovering after she gave her liver to her father. lydia was standing next to lexie grey, watching the mercy westers out the window.

"their locusts- comfortable locusts feeding on our surgeries." meredith said from the comfort of her hospital bed.

"it's rude." lydia said, staring into the sea of orange.

"there should be a couple of days where they act like guests before they put their feet up on the coffee table." izzie said, picking at something.

"and what's with the orange scrubs? what ours aren't good enough for 'em?" lexie asked everyone.

"we ran out. they're on back order. randall from the supply company says there'll be here in a week. that's what you learn when you lie here all day." meredith said looking out the window.

"why bother ordering new ones? we could just give these to our replacements." lydia said sadly, walking away from the blinds and sitting in a chair next to meredith's bed.

"we're not gonna be replaced by anybody." alex told the mother of his daughter.

"if I have to become a coroner." steve said sadly.

"no one is becoming a coroner." meredith said to steve. "cristina, tell him."

"tell him what? they're here. it's over." cristina said to everyone.

lydia looked around and picked at her finger nails.

meredith gave a big speech that didn't really inspire anyone but lydia enjoyed listening to her tell it. "hey. we are not some stupid hosts. they can't invade us. they can't attach themselves to our faces and then while we're eating spaghetti, explode out of our chests and skitter across the floor. this is our ship. this is our ship." 

"excuse me. are you ... are you quoting a sigourney weaver movie?" lexie asked her accusingly.

"shut up." meredith said and lydia laughed and stood up.

the girl walked around the room, feeling bored and leaned her head on lexie's shoulder.

"that's what happens when you live here. You watch a lot of tv." izzie laughed next to alex.

"we own this hospital. we were born in this hospital. and we will hold this hospital with our last gasping breath." meredith preached.

"i really don't want to be a coroner. i don't like dead people." steve said worriedly.

"don't worry, no one will be a coroner." lydia said to the boy, hoping to provide him with a little comfort.

"go out there and go get surgeries before they take them." meredith yelled. "go! and I want a full report by the end of the day."

lydia and the others left the room and walked with lexie towards the pit where she was stationed for the day.

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the group quickly made it down to the pit and cristina was the first person to speak up. "okay, where do you want us?"

"uh, at this point, anywhere is good." owen hunt, chief of trauma, said to her, clearly in a hurry.

"at mercy west we do zones." a man in orange scrubs said.

lydia looked away from owen and to her left where she saw the two girls from earlier and a guy. she'd be lying if she said he wasn't attractive but she put that thought aside.

"when it's super busy, we just give everyone a zone, a space. the nurses put a person in that space, you know it's your patient. helps you get to 'em quicker." the man continued.

"yeah, well, this is the e.r. not a school yard. we're not playing four square." cristina said, clearly annoyed.

"i like it." owen said, surprising everyone from seattle grace.

"what?" lydia asked confused.

"it's a good idea. let's try it. what's your name?" hunt asked the new doctor from mercy west.

"jackson avery." he replied.

"dr. avery. dr. hunt. it's all yours. zone away." owen said and left, leaving jackson and the mercy westers to start and the doctors from seattle grace not knowing what to do next.

lydia got a page from miranda bailey and made her way to her.

"hey dr. bailey." lydia said to the woman.

"yeah hey, i don't actually need you, it's just that you are really close to callie and callie's dad is in the lobby." bailey told her, running her hand through her hair.

lydia looked over to the lobby and callie's dad was just sitting there, no doubt waiting for his daughter.

"well did you tell her her dad was here?" lydia asked bailey.

"i was just about to and i wanted you to come with me. let's go." the woman said and walked over to where callie was standing at the nurses station.

"did the gentleman from the waiting room ever find you?" bailey asked the orthopedic attending.

"what?" callie asked her confused.

"your dad's here callie." lydia told the woman, pointing to him.

"what?" callie said again, this time more prominently.

she walked to the waiting room and went to talk to her dad. lydia didn't follow her because she didn't want to invade her privacy. she saw things where getting out of hand when a priest stood up and started walking toward the two.

"you can't pray away the gay!" callie shouted and walked away with lydia's arm around her shoulder.

"hey, are you ok?" lydia asked callie giving her a hug.

"yeah i'm fine, go get a big surgery." callie told her and walked away.

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lydia was paged to the pit and was assigned to a criminal with lexie and a mercy wester, one of the girls for this morning who she now knew was april kepner.

"hi, i'm dr. kepner." april introduced.

"oh handcuffs. i'm dr. robbins." lydia pointed out walking up to the patient.

"i'm not an ax murderer. i just broke in to someone's house. dude came after me with a golf club, beat the crap out of me. look, you don't need the cop. i can barely move." their patient told them, desperate to get rid of the cop.

"oh, we'll keep the cop." april said nervously.

the man groaned loudly. lexie, lydia, and april rolled over the man and looked at his back.

"he's got multiple contusions and ecchymosis over his back." lydia said, examining his back.

"he's gonna need lumbar and thoracic films. down." lexie finished and her and lydia rolled him back down.

the man exhaled deeply and lexie looked over at april, the latter writing something down in a little red notebook, and said, "okay, and by the way, it was one organ, an appendix. it wasn't a psycho cabal."

lydia looked over at the two, confused and april said, "oh. good to know."

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