[ xiii. thirteen ]
❛𝙼𝙲𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙰𝙼𝙽𝚈'𝚂 𝚁𝙴𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙽❜

"𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐘 parents?", Megan questioned the two Interns, a concern look on her face, while Alex softly lifted her onto the metal table.

Alex made eye contact with the little girl, "That's not something you need to be worrying about."

"That's so stupid. I'm fine", Megan looked over at the male nurse, that currently helped Brianna to prep the room.

"Hey, punch me in the stomach. Right here", she pointed at her stomach, nodding at him.

Alex gave her a serious look and shook his head, "Stop telling people to punch you in the stomach! You need to lie down and not move. Which of the super friends can do that?"

Megan rolled annoyed with her eyes and Brianna gave her a sympathetic look, "We'll be right back." And with that she closed the door behind herself.

After Alex and Brianna had finished the girl C.T. they brought her back to her parents and checked in with Bailey.

The woman looked over the C.T. once more, before they decided to call Dr. Montgomer-Shepherd and Megan's parents into the room.

Dr. Bailey took the chart into her hands before she addressed the parents. "Megan's bleeding internally."

"What?", Megan's forster father questioned the woman shocked. Dr. Bailey tried to explain it differently, "It appears that there's some sever trauma to her abdomen."

There was a moment of silence between the parents and them, "If you're trying to ask us if we hit her, we've said ten times and in ten different ways-"

"Social services cleared you and I'm sorry that we suggested you were mistreating her. But she's hurt pretty badly, so we're gonna need to operate", Dr. Bailey explained to the parents patiently, while trying to clam them down.

"Oh my God."

Suddenly Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd spoke up, "Megan may have a chromosomal condition that causes her to not feel any pain when she's injured. It would explain why she gets hurt so often."

Bailey took over again, while nodding in agreement, "We need to do some genetic testing before we can be sure, but let's assume she'll need to be monitored very closely from now on."

Suddenly Alex entered the room, "We got O.R three."

"So surgery is the only option?",the mother questioned Bailey curiously, but a hint of fear laid in her voice. Bailey nodded at her, "Yeah, I think it is."

The woman seemed totally exhausted and Dr. Bailey tried to calm her down. "I know you've been put through the wringer already today, but I need to ask you to trust me on this one."

Brianna gazed through the large window, her eyes wandering over the empty sitting island and the wheelchair.

The brunette didn't even think before the words left her mouth, "Where is Megan?"

Everyone suddenly looked over to the wheelchair, immediately panicking when they realized that Megan was gone.

Brianna, Alex and George hurried through the hospital, calling out Megan's name.

"You know, it's not easy. If you think you're a superhero. You're bit gonna let someone come at you with a knife, there's no way to tell what it can do to your powers. I mean, if you take away Green Lantern's ring, Hal Jordan is still a hero, but it creates a crisis of confidence-", George rambled while Brie and Alex continued to call out Megan's name.

"Hey, just look at Batman, Robin just marches into the Batcave, and he says, you know, 'Here I am, I'm gonna live here too. Give me some thighs and I'm taking your towel'", the man continued while they walked into another room.

"Megan!?"

"I mean, Batman, he fought for his powers, you know, he owned his strength-"

"Dude, if you don't stop this, I'm gonna punch you in the face", Alex suddenly stated, his hands folded over his head.

"O'Malley!", Callie's voice then caught their attention. The woman was walking straight towards them and didn't seem happy at all.

Brie's eyes widened, before she stared walking backwards, "Oh, good luck with that."

"You're in trouble", Alex stated before he and Brie quickly walked away from him, continuing their search.

At one point the two spilt up, one taking the west corridor and the other one the east corridor.

The brunette had no luck after a while Alex paged Brianna, informing her that he had finally found Megan.

It took a bit of convincing from the two interns but at last, Megan had finally agreed to the surgery.

So Brianna and Alex immediately preped her for the surgery and an hour later the two stood in O.R three, operating next to Dr. Bailey.

"Wow, she wasn't kidding about the baseball bat", Alex sighed as he saw the damage that thing had done to the kids abdomen.

"I need more lap pads. Just keep'em coming", Miranda stated, not taking her eyes off of the girl.

"Dr. Bailey, are you gonna resect the liver?", Brianna watched the Doctor interisted.

The dark skinned woman sighed deeply, "I need to try and do a debridement. Look at this. Everybody wants a life without pain, what does it get you? She needs to be on a poster somewhere to remind people pain's there for a reason."

The two Interns continued with the surgery and only an hour later the girl laid in her bed, her parents taking care of her.

Brianna watched them for a moment, satisfied that they had accomplished to help the family.

After the brunette quickly changed into her normal cloths and went home.

Brianna made her way upstairs, throwing her bag onto her bed before she quickly shrugged off her jacked off. She put her hair into a messy ponytail and made her way down the hallway, peeking into Meredith's room.

The blond sat on her bed, ice cream and a spoon in her hand. The two exchanged a look before Brie slowly sat down besides her.

Meredith handed her the spoon and laid back on her bed in silence. Brie carefully took a bite from the ice cream and shoved it into her mouth, letting out a deep sighed.

After a moment, their attention was drawn to Izzie, who had just entered the room as well. "Hey."

The woman had a sad look on her face as she leaned against the door frame, "I didn't go in today."

Meredith shrugged at her, trying to take the pressure away from Izzie, "Maybe tomorrow."

The two made space for her, and Izzie joined them on the bed, taken a bite of the ice cream.

After a small moment George appeared in the door frame, pretending like he was gazing out of the window.

Meredith addressed him first, "Hey, George."

"Callie moved out. Which is a relief. Oh, I am so relieved", he sighed quietly to himself, not seeming relived at all.

Izzie held the ice cream up and crooked an eyebrow at him. "Strawberry?"

George flopped down onto the bed, taking the ice cream from her hand.

He hummed as he ate a bite from it. "It's good." He smiled slightly while holding the spoon up for Izzie to take, but she frowned at him.

"You left spit on the spoon."

"No, I didn't." The brunette man frowned and Izzie gave him a amused look. "You did a little."

Meredith and Brie chuckled in union while George stuck the spoon back into his mouth aggressively.

The three women laughed genuinely before George held the spoon with ice cream out for Brianna.

His brows were raised at her but the brunette shook her head, "I really like you, George. But there's no way I'm taking that spoon in my mouth."

The night went by quick and before Brie even realized she was back in the hospital.

The brunette sat on one of the benches in the locker room, putting on her light blue shirt.

"So Izzie left the house this morning, that's a good sign", George informed the others happyly.

His gaze stopped by Meredith, who looked terrible the whole morning. "Are you okay?"

The blond woman leaned against her locker, "Yeah, just not feeling like myself."

Alex joined them, shrugging off his leather jacket, "O'Malley seems to have that affect on women. Ask Dr. Torres."

George's head snapped towards the man, "What's that's supposed to mean?" Alex got out of his pullover, smirking at George, "Dude. You threw her out on her ass."

George begann to stutter while he grabbed something from his locker, "I did not. Who told you that?"

The man gave him a look, "Torres." George went silent, "Oh."

"Don't worry. I get it. She's hot but she's not for you", Alex stated as he got into his blue scrubs.

George shut his locker loudly, glaring at the man besides him, "Why's that?" He walked past Alex, who gave him a look, that said, isn't it obvious. "Because she's hot."

"Mhm." George spun around and walked out of the locker room without another word.

Brie shot Alex an annoyed look while she stood up, "You're such a jerk."

As soon as she was finished with getting into her Scrubs, Meredit, Alex and her left the locker room, meeting Bailey on their way to the nurse table.

"Let's go people. I've been in surgery since 2 a.m. I'm in no mood!", the dark skinned woman exclaimed as she lead the way.

The three quickly followed her, Meredith grabbing George by the arm when they made their way past him.

The group rounded the corner as Cristina joined them. "Yang, you're late!", Alex exclaimed smirking, making Brie roll with her eyes.

"Hey, I got here before George!", the dark haired woman exclaimed offended.

"I'm here! I was here!", the brunette man exclaimed quickly, while he still was occupied with getting into his scrubs.

"Nice of you to join us, Yang", Bailey said from infront of them.

Alex still had the large smirk plastered on his face and Cristina frowned at him annoyed. "What are you smiling about? Aren't you supposed to be on the Gynie brigade?"

"Yeah. Whatever", Alex still smirked as they continued their way.

Meredith suddenly placed a hand on her stomach and stopped walking. Brianna and Cristina looked at her with frowns on their faces, "Women Problems?"

The blond shook her head with a pained face expression, "Men Problems. I think this dating two guys thing is getting to me, it's stressing me. Finn, Derek, Derek, Finn. I think I'm getting an Ulcer."

"McDreamy and the Vet are making you sick?", Cristina questioned her, seeming annoyed by her rather unimportant problem.

"I really want to have your problems", Brianna state before Cristina and her contiued walking, making Meredith follow after them.

"I just need to make a choice and get it over with."

"𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐖𝐍 𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍, 62. 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐋 invasive bypass surgery two days ago to remove a blockage from his L.A.D-", George present Mr. Sullivan's chart to the others.

The patient suddenly interrupted him, "But I'm all better now. Thank you, George!" His gaze wandered off towards Miranda, "So what do you think, Miranda? Can I stop being a burden to you good people and go on home?"

His wife grabbed his hand softly, "You need to stop interrupting the doctors, Shawny. You just need to listen to what they say."

"I need to get back to the Dealership. They're gonna can me if I'm out too long", the man stated while he looked at the Interns.

"They can't can you, Sweetie. You're the best Saleman they got. Come on", his wife assured him with smile.

"What do you sell?", Dr. Bailey questioned her patient interested.

"Cars."

"My Shawny could sell- anything", the blond woman told them proudly.

"Yeah, I believe he can. What he can't sell me on is going back to work before he gets his oxygen Levels up. So you out that Oxygen back on, Mr. Sullivan before I even think about letting you out of here! You know, and if I do, I want your word- nothing fried, no alcohol and no cigarettes", Dr. Bailey told the man while she pointed her finger at him.

"Boy, you're tough, Miranda", Mr. Sullivan shook his head at her. "I need your word Mr. Sullivan, or I'm not gonna sign those discharge papers", Miranda stated, while she stared at the man infront of her.

"I give you my word", the man swore to her while he held up his hand.

"Hmm. All right, then. Mrs. Sullivan you need to go to the front desk to fill out some paperwork, and then you can take your husband home."

The group left the room and Meredith touched her stomach once more.

"You all right, Dr. Grey?", Miranda questioned the young Intern with a frown on her face.

Meredith followed slowly after the group, looking kind off sick, "Yeah, Dr. Bailey. I just-Oh."

She sat down onto the next chair she could find and took a deep breath. "I need to make a choice that's all."

Brianna was standing by George and Cristina when suddenly Dr. Shepherd and Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd rounded the corners.

"Dr. Bailey can I get a-", Dr. Montgomer-Shepherd questioned Bailey before she stopped in the middle of her sentence.

Brianna quickly followed get look and her eyes widened when she saw how no other than Mark Sloan shook Dr. Webber's hand, a large smile playing on his lips.

"Oh, my God."

Suddenly everyone followed her gaze, spotting Mark and Dr. Webber as well.

"Oh, my God!"

George seemed confused, "Is that-" Cristina smirked widely, "McSteamy."

Brianna was at a loss of words while she continued to stare at the man. She couldn't lie, he really had something that wouldn't let her tear her eyes away from him.

The brunette bit onto her lip, her eyes traveling over the man's body before Meredith suddenly bend over and vomited on the floor, catching everyone's attention.

George eyes snapped up and he spotted their patient sticking a cigarette into his mouth. "No, Mr. Sullivan! Don't light that!"

The man didn't hear his words and lightened his cigarette anyway, which immediately exploded, setting him on fire.

"Somebody get a fire extinguisher!", Derek immediately shouted as he run towards the patient.

"Call a code red!"

Brie hurried to get a fire extinguisher before she handed it to George. They made sure Mr. Sullivan wasn't on fire anymore and immediately went to examine the man.

At some point Mark had noticed the incident and joined them. He soon took charge of the situation, and started to examine Mr. Sullivan's burned face.

"Make sure he has an airway", Mark stated before he turned towards the patient. "Sir, can you hear me? Sir?"

"No, he's out. Hit his head. Small hematoma in the occipital region", Miranda stated while she gave the man Oxygen.

"Get him to the burn unit till he's stabilized, and then get a C.T.", Mark told Dr. Bailey, who didn't react.

"Go", he repeated before Miranda started moving, with the patient.

"Right away, Doctor. Come on", she nodded at the others and they started to make their way away from the Interns.

Brianna was standing outside besides Meredith and Derek while Cristina got Meredith a glass of water.

"You don't look fine."

Meredith grabbed the glass of water before they started making their way down the corridor.

"You look beautiful, but you don't look fine", Derek's stated as he walked in-between Meredith and Brianna.

Cristina suddenly sighed loudly, "Now I'm gonna throw up." Brianna gave her a look and couldn't stop a small smirk from forming on her lips.

"Go, you have aneurysm to clip and surgeons to confront", Meredith assured the man while they stopped by the nurse table.

"You're gonna be all right?", Derek questioned her, real sorrow in his tone.

"Yeah."

"Will you look after her, please?", Derek questioned Cristina and Brianna. "Mhm. Now go, Romeo", Brinnaa stated before she waved him off.

Derek left them behind and approached Mark and Webber, who were standing on the other side of the nursing table.

Cristina leaned into the table, "You'd think I miss this."

The group seemed to have a heated conversation before they splitted up. Derek followed after Webber up the stairs and Mark was joined by Addison.

The four seemed to continue their several arguments and Cristina had obviously very much fun to listen to them.

Suddenly Meredith pushed them aside, immediately vomiting into the bin.

"Holy crap! Are you pregnant!?", Cristina suddenly exclaimed a little bit to loud making Brianna slap her against the arm.

Everyone looked ober at Meredith, who was still vomiting while George and Brianna held her hair.

Derek immediately hurried down the stairs and approached the four Interns. "Meredith!"

"Unh-unh! You've done enough already", Dr. Bailey told the man before she grabbed Meredith by her arm and lead her away from Derek.

The others followed after them, when suddenly Mrs. Sullivan approached them, "Oh, uh, Doctor I finished filling out the paperwork. When do you think I can take Shawny home?"

The others contiued walking towards one of the empty trauma room and placed Meredith on one of the beds.

"So, who's the father?", Cristina questioned the blond interested.

"I'm not pregnant", Meredith hissed at her. Cristina shrugged at her and raised her eyebrows at her best friend, "I didn't think I was pregnant. When I was pregnant, either. But the abdominal pain, fever and the nonstop vomiting-"

"I'm not pregnant", Meredith just repeated her words, glaring at Cristina.

"You don't know who the father is, do you?", Cristina pressed again while she started smirking. Brianna shot her a warning look, "Cristina!"

"It would have to be Derek's. There's no way it could be Finn's", Meredith stated while she sat red onto the celling.

Cristina and Brianna's eyes widened immediately, "Oh, you haven't had sex with the vet yet!" The Asian woman scoffed, "Well, you gotta get outta that relationship, immediately."

"Oh I can't be pregnant, can I?", Meredith suddenly started to believe that there was a possibility that she could be pregnant.

"With McBaby!", Cristina started joking while she continued to put pressure on Meredith's belly.

Meredith hissed in pain. "Oh, okay."

"Was I this mean to you when you were pregnant?", Meredith questioned the dark haired woman. "Oh I thought your said you weren't pregnant", Cristina stated with a large smirk.

"She's not", Bailey's voice suddenly interrupted them from the door. "We'll have to run a few more tests", she stated while she entered the room.

"In that case, can I have some morphine?", the blond Intern questioned her desperately.

An hour later Meredith was in a real patients room, full with morphine. Brianna and Cristina had their break and decided to join her.

"You're such good friends", Meredith mumbled while she eyed the two women.

Cristina didn't even look up from her magazine, while she shook her head, "You're so high right now."

"Actually, you're by best friends I'm the whole entire world. Cristina a bit more than you Brianna, Sorry", the blond stated.

Brianna just chuckled to herself and Cristina looked up from her magazine, "Now I just feel sorry for you."

"Why? Because I could die today?", Meredith stated while she gazed up onto the celling.

"This is why I hate being around stoned people", Cristina stated while she exchanged a look with Brianna.

"And if I did die today, I'd only be remember as the slutty Intern who dated two Doctors", Meredith said while she stared into nothing.

"No, one Doctor, one vet", Cristina interrupted Meredith's rant, but the blond didn't seem to mind. "Derek, Finn, Finn or Derek? I'd die as the girl who couldn't make a choice, right?"

"Probably. But none of that matters, because You'll be dead", Cristina stated pretty bored and Brianna shook her head. "Cristina!"

"What?"

Suddenly Dr. Bailey entered the room, making Brianna den Cristina stand up. "Dr. Grey! You've got fever, high white count and tenderness over McBurney's point, which suggest-"

"Appendicitis!", they all answered her in union.

"Dr. Taylor, Dr. O'Malley, prep Dr. Grey for surgery. You're scrubbing in", Dr. Bailey stated, before she wanted to walk away from them.

Brie made a little happy jump before she looked at Meredith, "I'm gonna stick my hands into your abdomen."

George turned towards Bailey, "I'm scrubbing in on Meredith's Appendectomy?"

"I uh- am I the only one who remembers the last time George scrubbed in on am Appendectomy? He almost killed the guy", Meredith suddenly spoke up before she looked at George. "Sorry, George."

"I don't have to scrubb in, Dr. Bailey. I could just, uh- uh unless you want me to, which- no. It's not gonna happen again", the man stated while Dr. Bailey gave him a silent glare.

"That good enough for you, Dr. Grey?", the dark skinned woman questioned her.

The blond Intern just eyed their Attending before a large smile spread over her face, "You're pretty."

Miranda seemed taken back before Meredith scrunched her nose at her, still smiling.

Dr. Bailey rolled with her eyes before she soun around and quickly left the room, followed by George.

Meredith immediately called after him, before he could leave the room, "George! Ice chips!"