99. No Good At Saying Sorry (One More Time)
Another day. Which meant another day of making Iz happy with wedding planning. "Chicken!" Alex said, we were all eating in her room.
"It's good chicken." George said to us.
"You can say that again." I said to George.
"Yeah, it's chicken." Mer and Cristina said at the same time.
"I know it's chicken. I want to know what it tastes like." Iz said to us. It tasted it like chicken.
"Tastes like chicken." Alex said while eating what was left on the skewer.
"I'm having surgery today." Iz said to us, we didn't know that for sure.
"Maybe. If the Mets have shrunk." Bailey said to her.
"I am maybe having surgery today and as such cannot taste the chicken for myself. So I really need you guys to tell me what it tastes like. I need to narrow down this dinner so I can announce it one Meredith and Derek's wedding website." Iz said to us, I'm sorry but Iz made a website.
"There's a website?" Mer asked but didn't get an answer.
"So, can you please be a little more articulate than just 'chicken?'" Iz said to us, after that we heard the bathroom door open. "Yay." Iz said as Derek walked out. I had to suppress my laughter. "Oh! That's the one!" She said while taking a picture of him.
"Very dapper, Dr. Shepherd." Bailey said with a smile.
"You're serious about this? It's not some cruel joke?" Derek asked us with a smile. I mean he did look good in that suit.
"And you look fantastic. He looks fantastic, right?" Iz asked us.
"Yeah." Mer said to her.
"Whatever." Cristina said to her. He then went back into change. "Good luck with your scan." Cristina said to Iz.
"Good chicken." George said to her.
"I will come and check on you later." I said to her before the 3 of us left. I didn't know who's service I was on. I was then paged to the ER. Where someone had broken all her limbs. Callie wanted me to help. "Now this is gonna be good." I said to Callie when I entered.
"Ow!" Willow shouted.
'Ok, Willow, I'm afraid your cheekbone looks broken, too. I'll need to wait a few weeks. Until the swelling goes down to repair that." Mark said to her, all her bones really were broken.
!in a few weeks, I'm gonna be up a tree in Utah. Those corporate bastards, the same ones who just bulldozed me out of Kaili? They wanna clear-cut acres to build another ski condo complex. Sons of bitches." Willow said to us, I may not have understood what she was saying but I could tell she was doing it for a cause.
"There is so much about that sentence I do not understand. You were 'bulldozed' out of something?" Mark asked her, I take it the tree was called Kaili.
"Kaili. She the tree that I was living in for the past six weeks. She was a beautiful 200-year-old oak. In a grove full of beautiful 200-year-old oaks." She told her, Kaili was a beautiful a name.
"You named a tree 'Kaili?'" Mark asked her, me and Callie looked at him.
"Kaili is Hawaiian for 'divine beauty and wisdom.' And she was all of those things. She was all of those things and now she's gone. They're all gone. And for what? Yuppie housing? Those corporate bastards." Willow said to us, it was all a move for capitalism.
"I'm really sorry but you're not gonna be climbing up any trees for a good long while." Callie told her the unfortunate news.
"How does one exactly live in a tree? I mean, how exactly does one, say, eliminate waste?" Mark asked her.
"You thinking of living in a tree?" I asked Mark with a smile.
"Not at the minute." He said to me.
"He's asking where your poo goes, which may not be the most sensitive question while she's mourning the death of her...tree friend." Callie said while trying not to laugh. I was trying not laugh as well. We continued to try and fix her bones while she was mourning and shouting about the corporate bastards. We moved her into another room.
"My name is Willow!" Willow shouted at someone outside.
"I told you...I told you this would happen. I told you to come down out of the damn tree, Karen." Willow's sister I'm guessing said to her. Willow then got a lecture from her sister. We started putting casts on Willow while her sister was on the phone. "Thank you so much. All right, I'll call you back. Listen, I have great news. I have an associate who has a contact at Schuster and Werner." She said to Willow.
"More like Dirtbag and Felon." Willow said to her.
'They've agreed to pay your medical bills and to not sue you for trespassing if you sign a contract saying you won't sue them and you won't trespass on their properties ever again." Her sister said to her.
"Do you know how many acres of forest they have single-handedly destroyed? How many ecosystems will never be restored? The bees are dying, Julie. The temperature is rising!" Willow shouted at Julie.
"I'm sorry. Is it possible I could have a moment alone with my sister?" Julie asked us, the three of us looked at each other. We all left the room then.
"Cant say I'm sorry I never had siblings." Mark said to us, some days I wish I didn't have siblings.
"They're yelling because they care." Callie said to Mark as we watched them.
"That how it works?" Mark asked us.
"Most of the time." I said to him.
"Yeah, it is, in some families. It is. I expected them to yell, you know? I didn't expect silence." Callie said, she was talking about her family cutting her off.
"You should call them and claim temporary insanity. You don't have to end it with Roller-girl. Just say you did." Mark said to her, I agreed with that.
"Yang said the same thing." Callie said to us, well they were both right.
"That's because it's none of their business. There's no reason you should have to hurt this much." Mark said to her.
"They shouldn't care who you date as long as they treat you right and that you're happy." I said to her with a smile, who cares if she was dating a girl or not. After a while we went back into the room.
"If you don't make the deal who's gonna pay your bills? Whose gonna take care of you?" Julie asked her sister.
"They tried to kill me, just like they killed Kaili, just like they kill all of those defenseless trees, all of the defenseless creatures that live in those trees." Willow said to her sister, well she had a point.
"You are not a defenseless tree-living creature, Karen. You are an adult woman who made a conscious decision to trespass. It was unbelievably stupid, unbelievably naive, just unbelievably irresponsible." Julie shouted at her. But Willow was actually standing up for a cause she believed in.
"What about the part where it was unbelievably brave?" Callie asked her.
"Excuse me?" Julie asked, I'm guessing she didn't hear properly.
"Trees may not be my thing, but...even if I thought it was stupid, it was still brave. I mean she slept in a 200-year-old tree and watched as a bulldozer knocked her off of it. Because she was standing up for what she believed in. You have to admit, she's unbelievably freaking brave." Callie said to Julie, I agreed with everything Callie said.
"How can trees not be your thing?" Willow asked, she then started crashing.
"Karen? Karen?" Julie asked concernedly.
"Damn it. Pulse is weak. Let's start her on O2. See if you can get a femoral pulse. 'Cause she's bleeding our from her femur, we need to get her stabilized." Callie said to her the pulse was slowing fading in her femoral pulse.
"What's happening to my sister?" Julie asked us.
"Alert the OR and tell them that we're coming." I said to the nurses I'm the room.
"Julie, you need to clear out." Callie said to her.
"Can someone please get her out of here." I said to them, a nurse then took her out.
"Karen? Karen?" I heard Julie say over the beeping.
"Put the LR on a rapid transfuser and hang P-RBCs. Get her ready for transport and tell the OR we're on our way, now!" Callie shouted before we started prepping her to move down to surgery. "Hang more blood." Callie said to someone in the OR.
"Right away." A nurse told her.
"Come on, Willow. Come on. You lived in a tree. You crapped in a bucket, for God's sake. You can do this." Callie said to her, I heard the door open when she was talking and it was Arizona.
"She crapped in a bucket?" Arizona asked us.
"I know it's crazy." I said to her.
"What're you doing here?" Callie asked Arizona confusedly.
"Saw it on the board. Never seen an intermedullary rod put into a femur. So...bucket?" Arizona said to us, I mean this was an interesting procedure.
"Yeah. Bucket on a pulley. She's up in the tree, right, so she lowered a crap bucket to her friend every day, who empties it, cleans it, puts food in it and then sends it back up the trees." Callie said to us, I don't think I would've eaten the food just in case.
"Oh, that's friendship." Arizona said to her, I guess it was.
"Yeah." Callie said before we both laughed.
"You know, they teach us in med school how not to care so much. We drape the patients so we don't see faces. We do a thousand different things to care a little less. But you care like crazy and I love that. And I'll keep loving that even if you decide to lie to your family." Arizona said to them, I wish to have a relationship like theirs. After the surgery Callie went to go and talk to Julie about how the surgery went. When it got to the end of shift and I decided to go and see my sister to help her study for her upcoming test.
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