[ vx. fifteen]
❛𝙳𝚁. 𝚂𝙻𝙾𝙰𝙽❜

                         𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐃 passed by, meanwhile Izzie had started working again. Honestly Brianna was a bit surprised, after the M&M she didn't believe that there was any chance that Izzie would be coming back to the hospital. But her return wasn't easy for her, she had to work under the other Interns, constantly being put in her place by Bailey.

Currently the four female interns, stood in front of the surgery bord.

"Derek's camping. Taking time. Getting space", Meredith suddenly stated while she awkwardly smiled at Brianna, who stood between her and Cristina.

"Prestons do not go into the woods. A guy named Preston is gonna get his ass kicked by a squirrel", Cristina then spoke up while she gave Izzie a look, completely ignoring Meredith's statement.

Izzie shrugged while she looked at the three, "Basically a slumber party. They do it outside. We do it inside. That's really the only difference."

Suddenly Dr. Sloan appeared infront of them, he had a confused look on his face."You seen what's his face?"

Izzie raised her eyebrows at him, while questiong, "Alex Karev?"

"Poor bastard seems to get a thrill out of tagging along after me", Dr. Sloan stated while he placed his hands on his hips, eyeing them all one after the other.

Brianna bit back a sarcastic comment about this statement, remembering the many times Alex had complained about her over Sloan arrogant behavior.

Mark seemed to have noticed her face expression changing slightly, because his gaze was now fixed on her.

"He's camping", Brie answered him as she stuck her hands into her pockets. Marks eyebrows raised immediately, "Well, in that case, how'd you like to get a thrill out of tagging along after me?"

"Dr. Bailey makes the assignments", Brie immediately excused herself with an obvious fake smile. "Dr. Bailey says it's fine", a familiar voice suddenly came from besides them.

Dr. Bailey looked at the brunette challenging before she nodded her head into Sloan's direction, "Go!"

Glancing over her shoulder while walkimg away, Brianna gave her a death stare. The brunette then turned fully and followed after Sloan, who seemed very amused by her attitude.

The two had just reached the elevator and while the man pressed the button he glanced over at her. "You know, this could grow into a great friendship." He had this smug smirk plastered on his face, that was telling Brianna that this prediction wasn't meant to be innocent at all.

The brunette gave him a side eye before they entered the elevator. For a small moment she remained silent, but then she decided to play along. "Well, okay, but before you start, there are rules to this friendship thing your talking about."

Mark let out a low chuckle, but Brianna didn't let herself get distracted by him. The brunette stared up into his blue eyes, a serious look on her face. "Number one, no flirting. Number two, no talk about sex, metaphorically or not. And Number three, no giving me the face."

His head immediately snapped to look at her, a confused frown on his face. "The face?"

"The Mcsteamy face. It doesn't work on me anyway. I'm immune to such sort of things", Brianna stated simply.

Mark had crossed his arms over his chest, "You know, if I'd gone of to the woods, I would've invited you to keep me warm." Brianna turned towards him, realizing that he was giving her the face, "Wow, already breaking rule number one, two and three."

The elevator doors opened and Brie was the first to step outside into the busy hallway.

"I often see you hanging around with Karev. Is there something going on?", Sloan questioned her casually while the two were strolling down the corridor.

Brie immediately frowned at the surgeon besides her, "No— no there is definitely nothing going on there." Her mind was going back to their first couple of weeks here at the hospital. There may have been a little crush, but nothing serious. As soon as Alex and Izzie started a thing Brie forgot about her silly crush and had moved on.

"He's just a good friend", she added while she smiled slightly before meeting Sloan's gaze again.

The man next to her nodded his head slightly, humming. "Mhm." He then motioned for her to enter a room while holding the door open.

"My knight in shining poly-cotton", one of the women inside greeted Dr. Sloan with a smile on her face.

"Good morning, Donna."
He looked at the other woman and shook her hand as well, "Vicky. How was the trip?"

"Smooth. Perfect", Donna answered him immediately. "Speak for yourself", Vicky interrupted her, seeming kind of upset or annoyed.

Donna gave Brianna an apologetic look, "She's still having some penis issues

Brie frowned immediately, being confused by the situation, "I'm sorry. Am I missing something?"

"I believe that you are missing the fact that Dr. Sloan is planning to remove my husband's penis this afternoon", the woman told her, Brianna's gaze snapped back towards the other woman and suddenly realization hit her.

"Oh."

She then quickly went around the bed and got the chart. She gave Donna a look, who had sat down onto the bed.

"Donna Gibson, I suppose?", she raised her eyebrows at the woman and Donna nodded her head in confirmation. Brianna then continued, "34, in for a sexual reassigned surgery. So essentially today we are inverting her— penis."

Donna nodded and Sloan didn't look at Brie as he questioned, "You know the steps for a vaginoplasty?"

"No, not exactly."

Mark looked at her sceptical,  "Well, if you want to get in on this operation, you better learn."

"Don't pay any attention to him. You're doing very well", Donna immediately intercepted their conversation, a warm smile on her lips.

Vicky was now the one to speak, "Better than I did when I first found out."

"We need to run pre-op labs. Make sure everything's in working order", Mark told the couple, while placing his hand reassuring on Donna's shoulder.

Vicky watched Mark closely, "And then surgery? Today?"

Mark held eye contact with Donna while he smiled at her, "Yeah. Big day, Donna. You excited?"

"Excited doesn't begin to cover it", the brunette woman answered him before Dr. Sloan took her hand in his own.

"You're gonna do great." The two smiled at each other and Donna placed her hand on theirs.

After witnessing that scene Brianna was excused and immediately went of to study for the operation. On her way to their new quiet place in old guys room, she spotted Cristina and Meredith standing by the nurse table in the lobby.

The brunette immediately rushed down the stairs to meet them, a large smile on her face. "Guess what I'm doing today?" But she couldn't wait for them to guess, so she blurted it out, "Removing a man's penis!"

Cristina immediately put down her chart and stared at her with her mouth open, "You got an SRS? Seriously?"

Brianna nodded at her, "Seriously! She's one of Sloan's patients." Cristina immediately scoffed loudly, "Oh God! That should be me! I should've turning a penis into a vagina. That should be my penis." The woman shook her head to herself in frustration.

Brianna exchanged a glance with Meredith before Izzie caught their attention. "I have to hide! Sydney is my peer counselor!"

The other's gave her questioning looks. Izzie's eyes widened before she exclaimed, "Heal with love Sydney?!"

They all immediately scrunched up their faces in disgust. "Oh, eww."

"Yeah, I'm supposed to be shadowing her and dialogging all day. Unless I can come up with a medical reasons not to?" The blond looked at them, her gaze pleading. "Anybody? Anything?"

Brianna immediately went to excuse herself, hurrying to get the tests down to the lab. Waiting for the results she was suddenly addressed by a female voice coming from behind her,"Trade you."

The brunette turned to find Vicky sitting on a chair, a formula resting on her lab.

"Vicky", Brianna went over to her and sat down on the womans opposite, who held up her paper. "Insurance forms. Donna gets the surgeries, I do the forms. Super fun."

"Well, you seem to be handling it very well", Brianna smiled at her slightly as she spoke to the woman.

There was a small silence between them, but Vicky seemed somehow deep in thoughts. "Well, I left at first. When he told me— we planned a life together, you know? Kids and suddenly that's all out the window. Suddenly your husband is this other girl in your house,  who's borrowing your eyeliner and waxing her legs."

Brianna nodded at her to show that she was indeed listening to the woman, a small smile was still on her lips. "But you came back to her. Why?"

"Honestly, right now? I have no idea", Vicky answered her honestly, which made them fall silent again. "I'm really gonna miss the penis", the brunette woman stated after a while, leaning back in her chair.

Brie then saw the guy from the lab wave her over and she got up from her chair. "I'll see you later, Vicky."

She then hurried her way over to the labs, thanking the guy before she looked into it. The brunette intern let her eyes scann over the results and he'd face immediately fell when she saw the results for cancer.

Brianna didn't waste any time afterwards and immediately was on her way to find Sloan. Spotting him walking down the corridor on the other end of the hall, she started sprinting, the chart still in her hand.

"Dr. Sloan?!"

The man stopped in his track and turned to face her. "Easy, Troy."

Brianna exhaled deeply while she handed him the chart. "The lab results came back." She pointed to the end of the page, "Donna has tested positive for breast cancer."

That was the hard part off being a surgeon. Telling your patient that if they were going to pursue their dream, there was a chance of dying.

Mark had a sorrowful look on his face, while he stood in front of Donna. "I'm sorry, Donna. The lab's don't lie."

"Breast cancer?", the woman questioned him, a sorrowful look on her face.

Mark didn't look any more optimistic than the two woman on his opposite, "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. The needle aspiration showed abnormal cells in your breast tissue. Rare, but it happens."

Donna didn't seem to fully understand the extend of this. "So, the hormones I've been taking are essentially giving me cancer?"

Dr. Sloan nodded at her in confirmation, "Yes, that's why we need to stop the hormone therapy and start the treatment."

Donna then questioned him curiously, her face expression was slowly changing. "Or the cancer will get worse?"

There was a long silence laying over them, before Mark nodded at her in silence. "The operation?", Donna then questioned them both, a hopeful look on her face.

"There'd really be no point. Once we stop the hormones your breast will shrink, your facial hair will grow back", Mark explained to her carefully.

Brianna couldn't really read Vicky's face expression as the brunette woman spoke, "She'll become a man again." 

"What if I do the operation, keep taking the hormones, what happens then?"

Mark didn't seem to be very happy about that question, "Donna you really want to treat this now while it's in it's early stages."

Donna raised her eyebrows at him, "So if I keep taking the hormones—?"

Brianna was now the one who answered her, because Donna was looking at her, "You'd be feeding the cancer."

Donna frowned deeply, growing more and more frustrated by the second."I could die? Are you saying if I become a woman, I could die?"

Brianna bit onto the inside of her cheeks, looking the woman in her eyes as she nodded her head in silence.

As soon as Mark and her had reached the nurse table Brianna sat down on a chair.

"So, what happens with Donna now?", she questioned the Attending curiously, while filling out a chart.

"She goes back to being an unhappy man who's stuck with a penis", Mark told her, while he leaned onto the counter infront of her.

Suddenly his left eyebrow shot up, "There's millions of us out there."

Briana decided to make it a bit fun for her, "Oh, so you're unhappy with your penis?"

"I could be a lot less unhappy." A smug smirk made it's way onto his face, while Brianna's small smile dropped from her face.

The brunette then looked past him and spotted Vicky, who was approaching them.

"Dr. Sloan, you have to talk to Donna. She wants to go through with the operation", the brunette informed him, which made them all look at each other in surprise.

         "𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈 can remember. I've waited forever. I'm not stopping now", Donna explained to them while Mark was sitting right in front of her.

"Donna, listen to me", Mark tried to talk her out of it, but the woman immediately interrupted him. "If you don't do the operation, I'm gonna go to New York and find another doctor."

Brianna watched the woman closely, "You're gonna have a really hard time findiya surgeon who—"

"I'll find one."

Mark stared at her, "Donna, I'm trying to safe your life."

"As a man m. I am not a man. I'll fight the cancer. I'll just fight it as a woman", Donna stated while he gave him a stubborn look.

"For God's sake! Wake up, Daniel!", Vicky suddenly exclaimed, the tears forming in her eyes.

Donna seemed completely composed as she answered her, "My name is Donna."

"I'm not gonna stand by and watch you kill yourself", Vicky told Donna before she grabbed her jacked and left the room.

Donna didn't showed any reaction, she just looked at them calmly, "I need Vicky to love me. But I need her to love me."

There was nothing more that Brianna and Mark could do about Donna's decision. If she wanted to decide to do the surgery anyway, she could.

So Brianna grabbed a book she could find about the vaginoplasty and dug in.

"So your getting paid to look at penises all day?', Cristina questioned her interested, while peeking over her shoulder at the pages.

"I'm studying for Mcsteamy's reassignment surgery, Cristina", Brie told her as she glanced up at the woman besides her.

Cristina seemed hesitantly before she slowly questioned, "You like Mcsteamy?"

"Yes. Well I mean, no. At least not in that way—", she paused before she looked at the woman, annoyed. "Anyway don't you have poo to search through, Cristina? I'm trying to study."

The asian woman gave her a death stare before sticking out her tongue behind her.

Briana  just chose to ignore the woman behind her and focused back on the pages. She hadn't much time and the surgery came sooner as she thought.

It felt like five minutes went by and then she stood with Sloan in the O.R. operation on Donna.

"Troy, what's our next step?"

"Continue the primary incision of the ventral side of the shaft", Brie answered him while she watched the surgeon do his thing.

Her eyes wandered up to his face, "I must say, I'm surprised that you agreed to do the surgery." Mark met her gaze, "People don't come to me to fix what's on the outside. They come to me to fix what's on the inside. So if that means giving someone a straighter nose or bigger breasts, or if that helps the person get by, I don't run. I don't hide. I don't take space."

Brianna knew that the last part was probably meant to hint at Meredith's and Derek's complicated relationship. the brunette pulled her eyes slowly away from him and back on the patient, a fizzy feeling spreading in her stomach.

The surgery went in for another two hours after that, but everything went according to plan and Donna would be waking up in the next couple of hours.

Brie was just heading into Donna's room, to check if she was alright when she spotted Vicky, sitting next to her bed on a chair.

"Oh, you came back", Brie smiled at the woman.

"I was on my way to the airport— You know you asked before why I came back the first time", Vicky addressed her as she watched the sleeping Donna. "You know, I tried not to. I went on dates. I had a lot of great first dates with guys who were planning to stay guys. But you know, you have a great date and you wanna go and tell your best friend about it. And my best friend is Daniel— Donna."

Vicky still lookd down on Donna lovingly. "And then you have a few bad dates and— she's my best friend. She knows me. She loves me. She's— my husband. At the end of the day, it's Donna. Even when she hurts me. Even when I hate her." Vicky had took Donna's hand in her's and circled her finger over their rings.

Brianna smiled at her, "She's who you want to talk to." The brunette then said her goodbye and as she walked through the busy halls of the hospital, the brunette thought about the fact that she could only hope that someday she would experience the kind of love that those two had for each other.

The brunette had just pressed the button of the elevator and when the doors opened, no other than Mark Sloan was revealed to the brunette Intern.

The silver haird man looked up at her, a smile immediately forming on his lips.

Brie shook her head at him, "No." Mark frowned at her confused, "What, no?"

The brunette woman gave him a pointed look, a smile making it's way onto her face. "I'm taking the stairs."

Mark scoffed while the elevator doors closed. "Such a lack of self-control!"

Brianna smirked to herself while she made her way downstairs and immediately hurried across the parking lot, over to Joe's bar.

She was quick to take a seat by one of the sitting booths and order a beer before she would go home and fall into her bed.

A couple of long minutes had passed by and Brie had just finished her beer when someone suddenly sat down on her opposite.

"So, this could be just a drink or this could be more than a drink", Mark told the brunette that was currently sitting on his opposite, his signature, smug smirk plastered on his face.

Brie let out a deep chuckle as she shook her head at him, "I can't start something with you. You're my superior, Dr. Sloan. I know how things like this turn out." She intentionally emphasized the words Doctor, making sure that she reminded them of their work situation.

"Oh, come on. You could start something with me—", the man raised an eyebrow at her, not seeming to car about their work relationship. Brie could feel the pulse suddenly beating in her throat while a warm feeling spread through her gut.

Suddenly his pager went off and he quickly grabbed it from his jacket. Glancing at it, he smirked slightly.  "Saved by the bell."

The brunette chuckled awkwardly while she held onto her glass, completely confused by her body's reaction to him. Mark smiled at her while he got up from his seat and winked at her. "Get me another beer, please." And with that he went to find the restroom.

Brianna gluped heavily while she leaned back against the back of her chair. Sighting deeply, her thoughts wandered back towards the man that had just sat on her opposite.

He was extremely good-looking, Brie couldn't deny that. His intelligence and his skills in the O.R. were also making him a lot more irresistible than he already was. And he new that he was irresistible, that's what made him appeare so confident.

The brunette woman shook her head to herself while she bit down onto her lower lip. Mark Sloan would be the death of her, that was for sure.

When Brie looked up from the table, she saw how Mark was approaching her.

His pager was still in his hands and when he reached her, his face expression was a bit annoyed. "Emergency. I have to go back."

Brie immediately nodded at him while she stood up from her chair. Still having to look up at him, her eyes wandered over his chest towards his face.

A small smirk played on his lips, while he eyed her slowly up and down. Briana bit down on her lips once again, trying to fight the urge to jump at him right there in the bar.

Suddenly Mark leaned forward, his hot breath brushing her ear, he whispered, "My offer still stands. Come, when your ready to take me up on it."

He then gave her another wink before grabbing his leather jacket and walking out of the bar, leaving Brie to herself and completely flustered.