After giving Brielle a kiss goodbye Rumor heads for the hospital to start her shift. She approaches the group of interns hearing Izzie ask Meredith, "Why do you put up posters for roommates if you don't want roommates?"

"I do want roommates, we're together a hundred hours a week, you want to live together too?" Meredith asks the blonde.

"No." Christina replies, "Oh, you're bringing bribes now?" She asks looking at the coffee Meredith has in her hands.

"I need a place to live. My mom irons my scrubs. I have to get out of there." George says to Meredith, hoping to convince her.

"It's not a bribe." Meredith says to Christina, "I don't think it's a good idea." She then addresses George.

"If it's not a bribe then why are you giving the coffee to Bailey? She's not going to fall for it anyway, so what's the point?" Rumor asks, taking a sip of her own coffee.

"It's totally a bribe." Christina nods at Rumor the two girls agreeing even though Meredith tries to deny it.

"But I can put down last, first and deposit." George adds in, still trying to convince Meredith.

"I can cook. And I'm an obsessive cleaner." Izzie speaks once more.

"No. I just want two total strangers who I don't have to talk to, or be nice to, and it's not a bribe, it's a mocha latte." Meredith says to the group.

"George, you're running code team, Meredith, take the trauma patients, Christina, deliver the weekend labs to the patients, Izzie, you're on sutures, Rumor, you're on Callie's duty today."

Meredith speaks up before the group disperses, "Dr. Bailey. I was hoping to assist you in the OR today, maybe do a minor procedure? I think I'm ready. Mocha latte?"

"If she gets to cut, I want to cut too." Christina quickly replies.

"Yeah, me too." Izzie agrees.

"I wouldn't mind another shot, I mean if anybody else is..." George shyly adds. All of this causes Rumor to roll her eyes, knowing that them begging isn't going to do them any good.

"Stop talking. Every intern wants to perform their first surgery, that's not your job. Do you know what your job is? To make your resident happy. Do I look happy? No. Why? Because my interns are whining. You know what will make me look happy? Having my interns do as I say." Bailey grabs the mocha latte, "No one holds a scalpel until I'm so happy I'm Mary freakin' Poppins."

Christina mumbles out, "Mocha latte my ass."

"Why're y'all standing there? Move!" Bailey scolds the interns, causing them to head to there tasks.

*_*_*_*_*_*

"Hey Callie, I'm on your duty. What do we have?" Rumor asks as she approaches the woman. 

"10- year-old male with a broken leg. Ready to help me fit a cast?" Callie replies.

"Definitely. I'm excited to see what Orthopedics' is all about." Rumor smiles. 

"Great, let's go." The two walk into the room as Callie hands Rumor the boys chart to look over. 

Rumor listens closely as she hears Callie talk with the boy and his parents about what she's about to do. Callie quickly gets to work with Rumor helping when asked. 

Throughout the day Rumor helps Callie with her patients and running labs but nothing too exciting happens. Finally she walks up to behind Meredith. "What are you carrying around?"

"A severed penis." Meredith bluntly replies.

Rumor pauses, "Well, that's fun." The two girls walk up to George who is doing paperwork. 

George notices the cooler and asks Meredith the same question, "What's that?"

"Don't ask, you don't want to know." Meredith replies.

"I do want to know. Really."

"No, Mer is right. You really don't want to know." Rumor says.

"I do. I really do."

The two girls share a look but Meredith answers, "It's a severed penis."

"Okay. I didn't really want to know." 

The three interns turn their attention to Christina and Alex as they approach. They catch the end of Christina's sentence, "Since when has the possession of ovaries become an insult?"

Before Alex, or anyone, could answer the question, George speaks up, "Meredith's carrying a penis around in a jar."

"Oh, from the rape surgery?" Christina asks as she goes to look.

"Yeah, and it's not a jar, it's a cooler." Meredith says.

"Talk about taking a bite out of crime." Christina mumbles to the group, then proceeds to leave.

Rumor follows behind, needing to get back to Callie for the rest of the day. 

*_*_*_*_*_*

"Good, you're back." Callie says upon seeing Rumor walking up to her. "We have a trauma patient coming in. They injured their arm while playing baseball and the EMTs said the guy will probably need surgery, so get ready to join me in the ER."

"Great!" Rumor smiled brightly at Callie, moving quickly with her down the hall in order to keep pace. 

Once the patient, a 16 year old female by the name of Libby, was brought in, Rumor quickly brought her to get an x-ray. "Are you sure you're a doctor? You look young." Libby asked, concerned. 

Rumor lightly smiled, trying to ease the young girls worry. "I promise I'm a doctor. I graduated top of my class from Harvard. You have nothing to worry about." 

Finishing up the x-ray, Callie and Rumor look on together. "Do you know what's wrong here?" Callie quizzes Rumor.

"It's a displaced fracture. You can tell because the ends of the bone have come out of alignment." Rumor replies, pointing at the x-ray.

"Very good." Callie praises. "What's the treatment?"

"She needs to have surgery so we can do a reduction."

"Which is?" Callie prompts more.

"It's when the broken bone is set back into alignment so it will heal properly. After that's done we'll need to put a brace on for as long as it takes for the bone to heal."

"Awesome, now I need to check on a couple more patients. While I do that I need you to talk to Libby's parents and prep her for surgery." 

Rumor nods and heads out to do as she's told. 

*_*_*_*_*_*

Right before the surgery, Christina and Rumor walked to the lobby in search of Meredith. 

"What're you doing down here?" Christina asks when the two girls spot Meredith.

"Just sitting here with my penis. What about you two?" Meredith replies.

"Hiding from Alex." Christina answers.

"I'm preparing myself for surgery." Rumor says.

"I kissed Derek." Meredith randomly admits.

"You kissed Derek." Christina agrees as Rumor nods.

"In the elevator." 

"Oh, you mean after the time you slept with him?" Rumor asks for clarification.

"I was having a bad day. I am having a bad day."

"Oh, so this is what you do on your bad days. Make out with Dr. McDreamy." Christina says as the three girls get up to leave.

"Well, that, and you know, carrying around a penis just makes everything seem so shiny and happy."

"Yeah, Georgie said Alison was wearing your shoes." Rumor says.

"Yeah. It's weird, right?"

"Not really." Rumor says.

At the same time Christina says, "It's weird that you care."

"I think it's weird." Meredith continues.

As the three talk they hear a car swerve and the girls rush outside. A man staggers out of his truck, his clothes are soaked in blood, mainly around his crotch. He collapses before any of the girls have a chance to react. In seconds the girls, along with other doctors and nurses start checking on him. Meredith stands to the side and calls security. 

The rapist has turned himself in, seeking medical help.

*_*_*_*_*_*

Scrubbing in for the surgery with Callie, Rumor helps as much as she can. Callie seems to see how much potential Rumor has and quizzes her throughout the whole surgery on what to do next. 

Once the surgery is finished and the brace is on Libby's arm, Rumor takes a break and makes her way to the spare beds in the empty corridor that the interns like to spend their free time in. 

She enters just after Izzy, hearing George say, "At least you're helping people."

"At least you get to practice freaking medicine." Alex retorts.

"I had to send one Chinese lady away. She was like, camped out down there." Izzie replies.

"Oh, poor Izzie, turning away patients, boo-hoo." Christina snaps.

"Why is everyone so upset? I've had a great day." Rumor speaks up, with a smile on her face.

"Says the girl that got to scrub in on a surgery." Alex grumbles. 

Meredith enters the hallway right after the words leave Alex's mouth. "So the police say that they can't send down the crack crime scene guy for hours. So I have to spend the night with a penis. Alex, don't say it."

"Ah, it was too easy anyway." Alex replies.

"Who here feels like they have no idea what they're doing?" George randomly asks the group. Everyone except for Alex and Rumor raise their hands.

"I wouldn't be so confident, Alex. Wasn't I the one that had to tell you what to do the other day because you couldn't remember the five Ws?" Rumor smirks at the boy.

Alex glares but doesn't say anything so George continues, "I mean, are we supposed to be learning something, because I don't feel like I'm learning anything."

"Except how not to sleep." Izzie says.

"It's like there's this wall, and the attendings and the residents are over there, being surgeons, and we're over here, being..." Christina says trailing off.

"Suturing, code running, lab delivering, penis-minders." Meredith finished.

"I hate being an intern." Alex states. Right after this is said Dr. Bailey comes in and looks at the interns. The group quickly gets up and return to their duties. 

*_*_*_*_*_*

Finishing up for the day, Rumor checks on her last patient before heading back to the locker room. "I need a drink, a man, or a massage." Christina says as Rumor enters. "Or a drunken massage by a man. What's wrong with you?" She asks George.

"Lost five patients on the code team today. I feel like the angel of death." He replies.

"George, 95% of all code patients can't be revived. Most of them are seriously dead before you even get there." 

"She's right, you can't let the deaths get to you. If you do you need to find a new career." Rumor adds.

"What?" George sounds upset, "Why didn't you guys tell me that when I was going on and on about how great it was going to be?"

"Because. You're George, and I'm Christina." Christina replies, leaving before he can reply.

"I just thought that you knew or at least you wanted to believe you would be able to save more people. I figured it was something you were going to have to learn for yourself. Sorry Georgie." Rumor gently smiles, laying a hand on his shoulder.

Once back home, Rumor smiles as she sees Grace helping Brielle with her homework at the dinner table. "Auntie!" Brielle runs up to Rumor when she notices the older woman.

"He Bri, how was school?" 

"Pretty good. We have a field trip next week to the science museum. You need to sign the paper for me so I can go."

"Yeah, of course. Finish your homework first while I get some food, then I'll sign it." Brielle nods and moves back to the table.

Rumor looks on as her niece does her homework, happy that the young girl is smiling even after all that she's been through.

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Hello all!
I'm excited to slowly be getting my motivation back. I still don't have a set posting schedule but I hope you enjoy this chapter and as always constructive criticism is appreciated. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my motivation stays so I can keep updating my stories for you guys.