Season Two, Episode Eleven
Owner of a Lonely Heart

Maggie and the other interns that were on baby duty sat and watched them in the NICU for as long as they were needed.

"I have the best quint. Lucy- she just smiled at me" George looked at his baby and then turned around and gloated.

"She's 9 hours old, George" Izzie reminded him.

"I'm sayin there are five babies here, and clearly mine is the advanced one"

"Charlottes smart. She's got wrinkles on her forehead- very serious" Meredith said, not letting George win.

"Okay, A) This is not a competition and B) My quint kicks your quints asses. Emily's strong, won't let go of my finger"

"Whatever, Julie has her organs on the outside of her body and she's still alive. Say whatever about your quints but mine is a fighter and is way stronger then your guys'" Maggie quipped, looking down at Julie.

"Kates the best one" Alex says as he enters the room, giving Maggie a sneak kiss before heading over to his baby.

"Izzie" Alex looks over at her but she paid no attention.

"Leave"

"Can we please just talk?" Alex asks her.

"You know what you did wrong so why do we have to talk?" Izzie argues, "Just get out"

Maggie turns her head to each of them, not understanding what the hell was going on, "Hi, I would like to know what's going on here" Nobody said anything, just ignored her. When Maggie looked at George he was already staring at Alex, like he had done something bad.

"Will someone make sure that Kate's vitals remain stable?" Alex asks no one in particular.

"I will" Meredith volunteers.

Maggie watched as Alex walked out of the room, not even bothering to say goodbye it to even look at her, "Izzie?"

"I don't want to talk about it Maggie" Izzie snaps, turning back to her quint.

"I could careless about what you don't want to talk about, just answer the fucking question Izzie" Maggie got up from her chair carefully, making sure not to disturb the baby.

"Who's on call tonight?" Bailey walks in just in time.

"I am" Izzie is the only one to answer.

"All right, the rest of you go home, sleep. All five quints are still alive, it's a good day"

It was certainly not going to be a good day unless someone tells Maggie what the hell was going on.

"It would be the most idiotic thing for that man to cheat on me, I mean look at me and then look at him. Yeah, sure, the sex is great and he's actually very intellectually simulating but that man is nothing. nothing" Maggie ranted to George as they took their morning stroll around the hospital.

"Nobody is cheating on you, Maggie" George sighed for the third time, "Besides like you said, you're you and Izzie is just eh"

Maggie stopped and turned her head gtowards Geroge "So you admit that there is something there"

"What? No! I never said that"

"I don't like this person he's making me into" Maggie leaned her back againist the wall and closed her eyes.

"And what person is that?"

"The kind that would beg him to stay, to choose me" Maggie gave George a tight lipped smile before shaking it off and heading to the locker room.

"Does anybody have any decent food?" Christina asked as soon as they walked into the locker room.

"Yeah its called breakfast, you should try it sometime" Maggie snarked, before sighing, "I'm sorry"

"You sound like Burke. You know, sometimes i think we'd be better off with dogs" Chrsitna says, ignoring Maggie's mood while taking the breakfast bar from her.

"Prechin to the choir. Im over men"

"Real nice. You know, a dog is not a replacement for a human being" George reminds them.

"You guys ebtter wake her" Alex says from out of knowhere, "If Bailey catches her sleeping shes dead"

"I could careless what happens to her" Maggie shrugs, "You're her boyfriend, you do it"

"Okay, what do we got?" Bailey walks into the paitents room with 5 interns strolling behind her.

"Uh, Karl Murphy, 52. Multiple Skin Melanomas underwent multiple reconstructive surgeries to his nose, his right ear, as well as a skinn graft of the left index finger" George prepped.

"How's the capillary refill?" Bailey asked.

"It's slow. About four seconds"

"What do you recommend to get that blood moving again, Dr. O'malley?"

"At this stage, out best option is probably a biotherapeutic agent"

"Wh-what is that?"

"We put leeches on your face" George answered

"Leeches? Huh, you dont say?"

"They secrete blood thinners, they help break up pooled blood so it can be evacuated. It's sort of like a big drain. Look, is this makes you uncomfortable-"

"No, no, no. I've been a hiker for 40 years. Almost 40 years, yeah, and mother nature hasnt come up woth anyting yet I haven't found a reason to love"

"So you're a big outdoorsmen"

"How do you think i got all these melanomas in the first place?" Karl asks looking over a George, making him very uncomfortable.

"Alright, Mr. Murpthy. We'll get everything set up and have one of our nurses check on you, if you have any firther questions, we'll be here to answer those for you" Bailey tells him before her and the group walk out of the door. "We've got two more patient on our rounds, after that you'll be with your attending for the day"

Miranda looks at the group and begins to walk down to the E.R, "So what do you think about getting drunk" Maggie whisperes to George.

"In general or are you asking me to get drunk right now?"

"I meant tonight, Gerogie. We're all going out and no plans have changed as of late, what do you? What some action?"]

"In more way then one"

"Oh, Dr. Shepherd you're in early. If you'd like us to come back-"

"No, go ahead" Derek tells her, looking back at his chart.

"Robert Martin, 45. Collapsed and hit his head which caused a small subdural hemorrhage" Meredith begins presenting.

"That was the problem" Derek says giving Maggie a disapointing look.

"Mr. Martin was found to have a Rathke's cleft cyst on his pituitary and surgery was postponed when..." Meredith stops and looks at Maggie.

"When I told Olivia the correct dosage and she did something else" Maggie steps up and says, although Derek wants to act like it was all her fault, Maggie did what she was supposed too, where was Derek in all this? Wasnt this his pateint too?

"Essentially dehydrating Mr. Martin's brain" Derek scoffs at Maggie, thinking shes the most immature person on this planet.

"There's still a chance he could pull through and be fine"

"If theres a chance"

The group are all raeady to walk into the quints NICU, wearing there blue scrubs, they watch as Bailey walks in first, none of them wanted to be here, especially Maggie.

"Oh, good. Here you are. Mom and Dad are anxious for an update, Dr. Yang?

"Uh, We've done the initial surgery on Julie's omphalocele. A primary closure was attempted, but there was pulmonary compromise, so we couldn't contin-"

"Yang, how about we do this in plain English?" Miranda said interrupting Christina.

"Oh, um, we operated on Julie's external sack of organs, and we pushed in as much of the bowel as we could, and we think we can push in the rest, with a second operation" Yang said to the parents a second time but with a term that they both could understand.

Dorie sighed "She has to have a second operation?"

"Yeah" Yang said simply but when Miranda gave her a look she continued "Oh, well, not for a few days"

Addison  nodded her head as she followed along "Okay good Dr. Yang. Uh, Dr. O'Malley?"

"We put in Lucy's brain shunt yesterday, and she's doing very well. We just have to keep monitoring her to make sure that the spinal fluid doesn't back up" George told the parents giving them all the information he had.

"Good, Stevens?" Addison said calling on Izzie to present after George.

"Dr. Collazo used a catheter to open Emily's atrial septum last night. Today we're gonna go in and try to reconstruct the left chamber of her heart, we're very hopeful" Izzie said, looking a tthe patients with sympathy.

"Dr. Grey?" Max called out.

"Charlottes lungs were a little more underdeveloped than the rest of the quints. So we put a special mask on her to help her breathe, and we're monitoring her closely"

"And that just leaves Kate" Addison said looking at Alex. Maggie's eyes bounce from each intern as Addison calls on them, leaving her behind.

"She seems to be pretty healthy. No major issues have been identified, but we're gonna keep her in the isolette until she makes it to four pounds" Alex said finishing the last update they had.

"You hear that, honey? Kate's doing really well" Tom said trying to reassure his wife.

"I'll be in my room" Dorie told the group and wheeled away.

"Dr. Shepherd" Tom called out desperately trying to understand what was happening with his wife.

"Tom, she's just had five babies. Her hormones are all over the place, you've just got to give her some time, she'll come around" Addison said guiding Tom out of the room.

"Shepherd, Grey. Keep an eye out on the mother of the quints. Make sure her hormones dont get the best of her" Bailey directs them as they walk up the stairs.

"I can look out for Dorie" Izzie steps up.

"No, you have Emily's heary surgery with Dr. Collazo"

"But I have a relationship with the mother" Izzie argues back.

"Why are you argung with me?" Mirnada looks back at Izzie and gives her a look. Maggie looks over at George and raises her eyebrow, in which she earned a shrug in return.

"Because I don't understand why I'm being pushed off this case-"

"Hey- Stevens I don't know what you're so angry about but I don't care and you better keep it to yourself" Bailey turned fully to look at Izzie, resulting in a smirk from Maggie to George which she got an elbow in the rib for.

"On top of every other patient we have under our care, we have Quints to worry about. Understood?" Earning a few nods, "Look these are preemies people, they were supposed to have spent another eight weeks in the womb. Just like interns they're not ready for the real world"

Maggie gives a small point at Izzies back, specifying that Dr. Bailey was absolutely talking about her the most but George grabs Maggie's hand as Baileys pager starts to beep.

"Oh it's the pit. Shepherd come with me" Bailey tells her as she heads back down the stairs.

"Yes!" Maggie sighs happily before being brought down by Alex's stare. Deciding to ignore the figure that is making Maggie go into this spiral, she followed Dr. Bailey into the pit.

"Constance Ferguson, 40, inmate at Henderson. Swallowed a razor blade-"

"Attempted suicide?" Maggie questions as the SMT opens the door to a flailing women.

"Attempted field trip. Worked, too"

"Solitary?" Maggie questioned.

"Yep, seems to be her way out" Bailey agrees, walking with the patient as they push her inside the building.

Once they got the patient into the room, Maggie went to one side of the bed while Bailey went to the other. Doors were open, obviously, in case the many cops outside needed to intervene.

"Mrs. Ferguson, are you experiencing any discomfort?"

"You mean apart from these snazzy handcuffs you've got pinchin my wrists?"

"Did you at least put tape on the blade?"

"I'm not an idiot"

"You swallowed a razor blade" Maggie bluntly points out, "so you're not going to tell us what hurts?"

"And shorten my vacation?" Constance scoffs, "But hey, since you're just standing around, why don't you get me some chocolate pudding? Make the blade go down smoother"

"Shepherd, get an x-ray and make it portable. With prisoners we have to minimize flight risk" Bailey hands Maggie the chart.

"Cool. But I've got my quint to look after too, I can check after this?" Maggie looked at her boss in confirmation.

"Sounds good, Shepherd"

"Oh come on, baby. Not even a little scared?" Constance pokes at her.

"Of someone who committed murder and couldn't get away with it?" Maggie chuckles, "I'm more scared of myself"

"Oh I like you"

"Most people done" Maggie deadpans before leaving the room to grab the x-ray machine.

After doing the x-ray, Maggie went off to find dr. Bailey. Unfortunately, the inmate swallowed a few more blades then suggested.

"Mags, we need to talk" Alex strides right next to her.

"Okay. Are you fucking Izzie?" She stops walking and looks up at him.

"What?" Alex scoffs unbelievably.

"Are. You. Fucking. Her" Maggie slows it down for then man.

"And risk losing you? Yeah, absolutely never" Alex chuckles, "I kind of, accidentally, maybe told people Izzie was the one who gave George syphilis"

"How does one accidentally do that?" Maggie ponders, looking at this child with all the obvious flares she can muster.

"He thinks she's cute, I don't know. I was just messin around" Alex shrugs. "Look, I'm incredibly stupid and immature, I know that but when it comes to you, im not"

"Being with you shouldn't be this hard" Maggie sighs, leaning her back onto the wall.

"Coming from 2 people who have never done this before, I say we're doing a helluva job. It'll get easier and it'll pass because it's worth it. We're worth it"

Maggie slowly nods her head in agreement because it was true, it was worth it and even if this were to turn into a blimp in their lives, Maggie knew feeling this way right now about him was worth it.

"You're making me insane" Maggie chuckles, pulling Alex closer to her chest.

"Baby, I think you were born that way" Alex tells her as his lips are fanning hers with his breathe. Closing the gap, Maggie groans into the kiss, "And don't you forget it"

Pulling away as she hears her pager beep, Shit, she lets out. "I gotta go but I'll see you later" She takes off running to the room with the immate who likes swollowing razor blades. Meeting Cristina down the hall, they both enter the room at the same time.

"What the hell happened?" Cristina asks the nurse.

"SHe was fine. She just started seizing"

Maggie rushes to the side of the bed and forcefullt opens COnstance mouth, "She's not seizing, she's choking" Maggie says harshly before grabbing something to hold her tongue down to have a better look at the back of the throat. Fuck, Maggie hisses before sticking her hand in Constance's mouth and pulling out a piece of glass.

"She swollowed a light bulb" Cristina annouces in shock, looking down at the ground when the broken lamp was.

Maggie shakes her head before grabbing Constances face again to look for any other pieces, "We're losing her"

"Obviously" Maggie rolls her eyes at the nurse before looking down at COnstance again. "We need an airway"

Cristina goes to the side and lays down the bed so Maggie has a better view, she takes one look down and notices that she wont be able to intubate.

"How long has she been unconscious?" Dr. Callazo asks as she enters the room.

"She just went down"

"Prep O.R. 2. Emergancy Thoracotomy. Lets go!" Callazo rushed out trying to get the nurses to do the same.

Maggie didnt know how to comfort people, she hated it in fact. The feeling of not knowing what to say to someone when they're sad or going through something and the awkward silence that follows when you dont know what to say.. but here she was, leaning against the locker behind Izzie because George said it was the ribht thing to do.

"My baby died"

"We know"

"She just...died"

The silence began but after awhile Maggie was greatful when Meredith spoke up, "I have an idea" holding her hand out to Izzie before guiding her out of the locker room.

"Okay, I'm gonna find Alex" Maggie pushes off the locker and walks out to find her boyfriend.

A few minutes later she spots him sitting by Karl Murphys side, "I knew I'd find you here" She says while she pulls up another chair, placing it right next to Alex.

He looks over and gives her a lazy smile, "What are you doing here? You hate this part"

"Yeah but I don't hate you" She looks over at him and places a comforting hand on the side of his face which he leans in to. She notices her brother walk up behind them so she moves her hand to rexst comfortingly on the back of Alex's chair.

"The first perosn I killed I was a second year resident. James Hanson" Derek tells the intern, "You should go home, Alex. There's nothing you can do here"

Alex swallowed back his emotions and stared at Karl Murphys body, "Nobody should die alone"

Derek looks over at his sister and gives her an understanding nod before walking back out.

Maggie hated this part but it wasnt about not being able to comfort Alex, It was becasue she didnt know how to take him pain away. So she leaned her head on his shoulder and curled up into his arm, sitting with him for however long he needed her.

Maggie is sometimes so annoying but she cant help it lol sry