xxviii. the interns stole a heart
2.26

Oliver knew he fucked up the second he touched some kind of medical equipment in Denny Duquette hospital room.

George is looking at a computer while Izzie is manually pumping Denny's heart. Meredith enters the room and shuts the door behind herself.

"George's page said it was an emergency." She stated as she took in what was happening.

"You paged Meredith?" Izzie looked good George.

"We need more help!" George raised his voice.

"What the hell is going on?" Meredith asked just as Christina entered and said, "What the hell is going on?"

The twisted sisters sent each other a glance, "Exactly what I said."

"She cut his LVAD wires!" Oliver cried.

"What do you mean you cut his LVAD wires?" Meredith quizzically looked at Izzie who was pumping Denny's heart.

"Are you trying to kill him?" Christina scoffed.

"We are all going to die." Oliver muttered as he moved closer into the wall.

"I'm trying to save him. All I have to do is confirm that his condition is worse, then Lee or Burke can call UNOS and he'll move up on the list and he will get his heart." The blond snapped.

"Guys...about them." Christina said quietly, having seen everyone in the ER treating Atlas, Burke and Atlas's father.

"She's gone insane, right? It's not just me?" George looked at everyone in the room.

"About them..." Christina raised her voice a little more but no one heard her over the yelling and beeping.

"Everything will be fine!" Izzie angrily told them, tears running down her cheeks.

"Izzie!" Meredith yelled at the blond.

"When Atlas or Burke gets here, everything will be fine. They'll know what to do."

"About them..."

Wide eyed George looked to Christina, "What!"

"They've been shot!"

Oliver dropped the small glass bottle of medication he held.

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Venus and Bailey stood side by side in the operating room, the two being prepared to operate on Atlas. Burke was in his own surgery and there were no other cardiac attendings that could help or do the surgery.

"Scalpel." Dr. Bailey held her hand out waiting for the tool to be placed in her hand, once it was she moved the blade closer to Atlas's chest and made the first cut.

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"What do we do? What do we do?" Izzie muttered to herself.

"I'm starting dopamine and dobutamine drips. We can use those together, right? What about milrinone?" Meredith asked the room.

"I don't know." Izzie told her.

"You know, none of us do. Just start the dobutamine and dopamine." Christina snapped, done with what was happening.

Oliver was sitting against the wall with his knees against his chest, still having a hard time coming to term that his brother and Burke had been shot. He still didn't know that his father had been shot as well.

"What about...what about...gluceratide? That might help." George

"I feel like my chest is running away." Denny breathlessly announced once he opened his eyes.

"His heart rate's 217."

"He's in SVT."

"No, no. Izzie, stop pumping. Stop."

"No, there's no change."

The words were mumbled to Oliver. In one ear and out the other. He was too focused on his brother than Izzies boyfriend.

"We need that medicine?"

"What medicine?"

Oliver looked into Meredith's pleading eyes, and he looked back down at his lap before getting up. "I'll, uh, grab it."

"Cristina, come over here. Lift up his arm. The nurses always lift the arm when they push adenosine. It gets to the heart faster." Oliver told the Korean intern.

"Ok, Denny. You're gonna feel, um..." Izzie coaxed.

"Izzie!" Denny cried outx Oliver wasn't sure if it was from pain or being scared.

"No, it's ok. It's ok. It just feels like..."

"I'm gonna die." Denny told her stubbornly.

"You're not gonna die, I promise. It's the meds." The blond intern soothed.

"Yeah, we're heading back to flatline. Are you sure we used the right drugs?" Christina looked to Oliver.

"Yeah. That was the right one."

"He's not going to die, right? Right? Right?" Izzie panicked.

Denny flatlined for six seconds then heart begins beating again, that's when Bailey enters.

"You fools better have a good explanation for this..." Everyone looked back at their resident shocked.

"Step away from the patient." Everyone steps back except Izzie, causing Bailey to repeat herself. "Step away from the patient."

"I can't. I have to pump his heart." That's when Bailey notices the cut LVAD wire. She lets out a small sigh.

"Olivia, take over for Dr. Stevens. Izzie, you're done here. I need you to leave the room." Bailey told Olivia who walked closer to Izzie.

"Izzie..." the nurse trailed off.

"No! Do not touch me!" Izzie freaked.

"Olivia, stay with Dr. Stevens. Help her if she'll let you. You four. Outside. Now!" Bailey told her interns, once they were outside she started to yell at them, "Where was rational thought? Where was cognitive thinking? First do no harm? The morals, the ethics? Where was sanity when you four decided to help that girl?"

"We didn't..." Meredith goes to say only for Bailey to cut her off.

"No, no. No speaking. Nobody speaks. I do not want to have to testify against any of you in a court of law. Not one word. She cut his LVAD wire." George clears his throat and Bailey snaps her head towards him furiously. "Look, I said no speaking!"

"I didn't say anything!"

"Then no moving! Cristina. Burke is asking for you. Go! I'm assuming you ran labs? I'm asking a question. Answer me!"

"Dr. B. You said no talking..."

"I know what I said."

"We did."

"O'Malley, get me the lab results. Do not pass go. Do not even talk to another living soul. Get the labs! Get back here! Grey, Lee...come with me."

A few minutes later, Bailey had shown Oliver to his brothers hospital room after explaining everything that had happened to Atlas.

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Derek walked into Atlas's hospital room. Miranda Bailey and nurse Venus Bardot had successfully completed Atlas's surgery with no complications.

Derek sat down in the chair beside Atlas's bed and grabbed the unconscious mans hand in his own. Atlas's upper body was bandaged and his hospital down was practically falling off his body. The steady beep of the machines were all that Derek could hear.

"You gotta wake up okay? Your family needs you. I need you." Derek placed his head down on the bed, right beside Atlas's limp hand.

Atlas had woken up not to long after Derek had fallen asleep himself. His hand weakly lifted and he placed his hand on Dereks head, threading his fingers through Dereks soft, slick back hair.

Derek jumped at the feeling and lifted his head off the bed.

"Your okay?" Derek asked right away.

"I'm okay." Atlas smiled weakly.

Atlas looked around, "where's Lilla and the twins? My dad?"

Derek looked down at his lap and paused. He went to speak but hesitated. Atlas knew what it meant, he knew what they were gonna tell him.

"No."

"Lilla told them that he was an organ donor, he's in the surgery right now. Lillas asleep in the next room, she had panicked and passed out." Derek told Atlas softly.

"H-he's gone?"

"I'm so sorry, Atlas." Derek moved to sit up beside the crying Atlas, he wrapped his arms around him and pulled him into him, hugging him as he cried.

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this was rushed, so im sorry. i plan of having act one done with by tonight/tomorrow.