Chapter Ten
"In order to properly treat a problem, a surgeon needs as much information as she can get. So we ask questions. Questions like, "When did the pain begin? Have you experienced these symptoms before? Do you have a family history? Are you currently sexually active? Have you recently undergone surgery?" If you're unwilling or unable to answer these and other questions, we're forced to rely on tests for insight. Until those test results come back, there's nothing we can do but wait. The next time you're in your doctor's office, remember- she's not asking all those questions for her health. She's asking them for yours. Tell her everything. The small details aren't trivial. They actually make the story. There's no rush. Take all the time you need. Start at the beginning"
"you say you will love me if i have to go"
Everyone was waiting at Bailey's wedding. "Wasn't this stupid thing supposed to start already?" Alex asked, checking his watch.
Aurora and Owen were kissing. She undid his tie, unbuttoning his shirt. He laid on the couch and she got on top of him.
"It's possible that I may have made a mistake, said that if she had any doubts, she should flee", Callie said to the other bridesmaids. "What?" Lucy questioned.
"She was nervous"
"How nervous?" Ben said from the doorway. "How nervous was she, Callie?"
Aurora and Owen were lying naked on the couch in the lounge together. "What does this mean?" she asked him.
"I don't know. The lawsuit is..."
"Maybe... Maybe we'll be fine. Maybe we can..."
"Look, just, could we not talk about that? Not right now"
She nodded and he kissed her, placing his hand on her cheek. They stopped as his pager went off and sighed.
Ben stepped up in front of the guests. "Could I have everyone's attention, please?" he asked. "My beautiful wife-to-be has been pulled into an emergency surgery, so things are gonna be delayed for a little while. Those of you who are doctors will understand. And those who aren't... Well, they're setting up the buffet, the bar's open in the back. Drink, eat, and just as soon as we're able, we'll have a little wedding".
"That poor handsome fool", Callie commented. "Bailey's probably hopped a boxcar to Mexico by now. I am the worst maid of honour ever". "Who made you maid of honour?" Lucy asked.
"I called it. And then I tanked it. I'm gonna go to the hospital"
"Right now?"
"I'll go", Meredith offered. "I'm the general surgeon. Maybe I can tag her out of surgery. Put this in water till I get back". "You really told Bailey to run?" Arizona questioned Callie once Meredith had left. "I didn't say she should run. I said she could run", Callie explained. "And I was joking. I was... Funny... Funny me. No? Okay. Who needs a drink?"
Aurora and Owen were in the ambulance bay. "I can stay", she offered.
"We'll be fine. You should go"
"I don't really feel like going to a wedding if I'm gonna be signing divorce papers"
Suddenly, a whole crew of motorbike riders followed by the ambulance arrived. "Wow", she commented. One of them stopped in front of them. "I don't know what happened. I heard a crash, checked my rearview", he explained. "Half the club is eating asphalt, banging around like tenpins. I mean, it's real, real nasty". "Bowling for bikers?" Aurora questioned. "Maybe you should stick around", Owen suggested.
"Yeah"
Aurora and Heather were putting a chest tube in a wounded biker. "I've always wanted to try riding a motorcycle", Aurora stated. "Really? Why don't you?" Heather asked as the biker groaned in pain.
"Chest tubes hurt like a bitch"
Shane, Beck, April, Alex, Lucy and Jackson were eating. "According to the article, the doctors discovered that her hair follicles had actually been growing nails instead of hair", Shane said. "Like fingernails". "Cool story, bro", Jackson commented. "Yeah, really goes well with my food," Lucy added. "Can I get anybody a coffee?" Shane asked them.
"No"
He left the table. "It's like having dinner with Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" Beck stated. "So you're starting to regret this whole "let's bring dates" idea?" Jackson questioned.
"Okay, first of all, the idea was for you to bring a date, not me, and second of all, shut up. You know what, I love Ripley's Believe Or Not!"
The pagers went off and they approached the interns. "Did you just get paged?" Shane asked Stephanie. "All of us", April replied. "Big trauma back at the ranch. You kids coming?" Jackson said. "Yes, indeed", Stephanie answered, getting up. "Lucy and I are staying here", Alex said. "Why?" Lucy said.
"You can't practise medicine with booze in your system. You've had two drinks"
"Damn it"
"Shane, you can ride with me", Beck offered. They all left and Alex and Lucy sat down at the bar.
Jackson, Beck, April, Stephanie and Shane arrived in the ER. "Chief, where do you need us?" Jackson asked Owen. "Just a second, Avery", Owen replied. "Guess Dr Bailey beat us to the fun", Shane commented.
"Dr Bailey's here?"
"She and Dr Grey are working on Adele Webber in OR 1", nurse Ruth informed them. "So, not fun", Beck stated. "Dr Webber's wife? Should we...", April said. "You have a degloving injury in trauma 1", Owen interjected. "Take care of your patient. Let Bailey and Grey take care of theirs".
Lucy and Alex got another drink. "Are we gonna talk about what I said, at all?" she asked him.
"Lucy, I don't know what else there is to say"
"You didn't even say anything then. You must have something you want to say to me"
"I don't"
"Why aren't you mad at me?"
"Mad at you? Why would I be mad at you?"
"Because, Alex, I'm letting you down. I'm letting our family down. I'm failing"
"You're not failing. Hey, listen to me. This is normal. You're not supposed to have it all down straight away"
"You do"
"No, I don't. You just think I do. I panic about screwing this up constantly. But we're in this together. It's you and me, and it always will be. You just have to work with me. We have to talk to each other, okay?"
"Okay. I'm sorry"
"Don't be sorry"
They kissed and leaned their foreheads against each other's.
"Emily Bennett?" Cristina said to one of the bikers as she, Beck and Heather approached her. "The last person that called me that is somewhere choking on a tire iron", Gasoline replied, sitting up. Heather showed Cristina the chart. "Excuse me", Cristina whispered, reading it. "Gasoline? I'm Dr Yang and this is Dr Jacobs. Dr Brooks, here, found that you have some fluid around your heart. So I would like to do a pericardiocentesis to relieve that pressure". "No, thanks. You've seen my x-rays", Gasoline said. "My body's 85% metal. I get over stuff".
"Well, you just don't get over this. Untreated, you could die"
"Treated, I'm stuck in a bed. No die, Dr Yang. I can't be out of commission, not when my body needs me to take care of business. Actually, they brought a guy in with us, Stuart. Have you seen him?"
"No"
"I'll tell you what, you find him, you take me to see him, and then I'll let you do whatever you want"
"Okay, I'm sick of moping, we should do something fun", Lucy stated. "This wedding isn't gonna go ahead for hours".
"What did you have in mind?"
She suddenly started crying and put her head in her hands.
"Hey, whoa, what happened? What's wrong with you? Is it about Mia?"
Then she started laughing. "I got you". She wiped her tears away with a napkin.
"What?"
"Tears, baby. You turn on the waterworks, you can get out of anything"
"Wait, wait. You can just cry like that?"
"That's how I got away with everything as a teenager. It worked on everybody. Teachers, my mom, my sisters, even Derek"
"What's that got to do with us having fun?"
She looked at him pointedly
"Oh, come on. That's not fair. Chicks can get away with junk like that. That would never work for me"
"You're wrong. A girl crying is one thing, but a guy crying freaks everybody out"
"Really?"
"For sure"
"Show me how"
He ordered another round.
Beck found Owen. "Owen", she said, catching up to him.
"Look, I don't know what Aurora told you yet but I don't really have time to talk about it right now"
"Dude, what? We can talk about whatever weirdness is going on with the two of you later. I actually wasn't looking for you. Is Avery still in there with Stuart?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Oh, well, Yang's patient needs a pericardiocentesis, and she won't let us touch her until we take her to see him"
"Let me guess. We're talking about Gasoline?"
"You know Gasoline?"
"Oh, we go way back. A couple of hours ago, she threatened to have me beaten senseless"
"Sounds like her. What a doll"
"Wait. She wants to get close to Stuart?"
"Yeah. What?"
He looked at a nearby nurse. "I need you to page security and have them meet me in the ER as soon as possible", he ordered before running off. "Owen, what?" Beck questioned, running after him.
Security arrived and they took them to Gasoline's bed. It was empty. "Where the hell did she go?" Cristina asked. "Stuart's the reason they all crashed", Owen explained. "You screw with one of them, they all screw with you". "We don't keep any tire irons around, do we?" Beck questioned them.
"We need to find her. Now"
Alex and Lucy were at the reception of the hotel. "What did you do with the room key?" Alex asked her.
"The room key?"
"Oh, come on! I gave you the room key before we left the freakin' room"
"No, you didn't. Did you?"
"You do this all the time. You did this last week with the check for Becky's piano lesson. What is wrong with you?"
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry"
"What's the problem?" the receptionist called out to them.
"I lost the key to our room"
"Look. I'm sorry", Alex said, approaching the desk and tearing up. "It's been a very long day. And obviously we are both very drunk". "Oh, no. What's your room number?" the receptionist replied. "220", Lucy answered.
"Jordan Shouse?"
"That's it", Alex said.
"There"
"Thank you"
"Thank you so much", Lucy added. They walked away. "Becky?" she questioned.
"Maybe we'll name the next one, Becky"
"I'll keep it mind, Jordan"
They started laughing.
Heather, Beck and Cristina were inserting a needle into Gasoline. "Insert the needle just below the xiphoid", Cristina instructed them. "That's good".
Jackson and Beck stepped into his car. "And we missed the ceremony", he stated, looking at his phone and showing her a picture of the newlyweds.
"Are you kidding? Well, I guess there's no point going now. Besides, we already ditched our dates"
"Yeah. I could take you home"
"We're not sleeping together"
"That's not what I was..."
"It wasn't?"
"I mean, you're great. You know you're great but after everything that happened, it's just too complicated, right?"
"I totally agree"
"Yeah, it's messy"
"100%. We are entirely on the same page"
"Great"
"Good"
He leaned over and kissed her.
Aurora met Owen in the lounge. "The lawyer sent over the divorce papers", he stated, holding a piece of paper in his hand. She closed the door and sat down. "We don't have to do this right now", she said. "Let's just... Let's just take a minute and think about what this means".
"I'm done thinking about it, Aurora"
"And?"
"We should never have gotten married in the first place. When we did, we took something beautiful and we put it in this box. And for the last two years, all we have done is beat against these walls and tear each other apart. Now we sign these papers, that ends. We get out of that box. We don't hurt each other anymore"
She reached across the table and grabbed a pen, signing the papers. She passed the pen to him and he did the same. They looked at each other, tears streaming down their faces. He wiped his tears away, trying to smile and reached for her hands. He leaned over and kissed her, placing both hands on her face.
In Jackson's car, Jackson and Beck were making out. He took off his shirt as the windows began to steam up.
Jordan Shouse entered his room. Alex was ransacking the mini-bar. "Oh, sorry", Jordan said, startling Alex. "Wait". Lucy came out of the bathroom with a robe over her dress and holding up another one. "This is so soft", she commented. "It's like it's made out of polar bear". "I think this is my room", Jordan stated, alerting her to his presence. She picked something up and threw it at him. He ducked and ran off. They both started laughing.
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