Bella hated how Mark had slept with Callie. She was sick of him saying how he wanted her. But then he slept with someone else.
She hated how she was almost always falling for everything Mark had said to her. She felt like an idiot. She felt like Mark knew how to make her want him and then she found out something that broke her heart.
Bella sighed as she walked downstairs. She saw Grace there. "Hey. You okay?" Grace asked as she looked to her.
Bella nodded. "I'm not interested in seeing Mark today. He thinks he can fuck the people I care about and then wants me back? No. It'll be you next no doubt," she said as she looked to her best friend.
"No thanks. I'm not into McSteamy."
"Yeah. You want my McDreamy McBrother," Bella said with a smile.
****
Bella sat in the locker room with the other interns. She looked up as Meredith walked in. They were talking about Cristina and the fact she and Burke had covered up his hand tremor.
Izzie sighed. "Maybe she'll be on look but don't touch patrol too. At least I'll have some company," she said as she put on her white coat.
Alex nodded and spoke. "Whatever she gets, I hope it's bad. Really bad
Meredith rolled her eyes and sighed. She turned to Alex. "She made a mistake."
"A mistake? She was going to let Burke, Burke with the shaky hand operate on my father," George said.
Bella was about to speak when Cristina walked in. George said nothing as he looked to her. Cristina rolled her eyes. "Could you stop looking at me like that? It's creepy. And makes you look like you haven't been fed," she said.
Bella sighed. "Cristina, I don't think you're in a position to talk smack today. You fucked up," Bella said.
Both Izzie and Alex left the room. George behind them. Meredith turned to look at Cristina. "So how's it going?" She asked.
"How's what going?"
"You and Burke?"
Bella and Grace looked between each other before they both left the locker room.
****
The interns apart from Meredith were doing their rounds on patients. They were currently in Harold O'Malley's room. George smiled as he looked to his mom. "Hi mom."
"Honey. I put out some breakfast in case you were all hungry," George's mom said.
Alex turned and smiled. "Score!"
"Karev!"
Bella rolled her eyes and sighed. She couldn't get Mark off her mind. She hated how he was always the one on her mind.
Dr Hahn walked in. She sighed. "Alright. Let's make this fast people. I don't have all day," she said. She looked around. "Which one of the interns is mine?"
Alex shot his head up. "It's my case. He's family. She's on Shepherd's service. The others I don't care. Izzie is a candy stripper," he said.
Izzie rolled her eyes but smiled. "I'm ready."
Grace scoffed and shook her head. "No you're not. Dr Bailey. I've been on this case since he was admitted at the request of George."
"What if you did pick me?" He asked as he looked to Dr Bailey. "What if you picked me?"
"Ooo. Pick me!" Mocked George's brother.
"Guys. This is serious," George said as he looked to his two brothers.
Dr Bailey looked over to the interns. She looked to Cristina. "Yang."
The other interns all looked up. "Wait... what?" Bella said as she looked between Cristina and Bailey. "How is that fair?"
Dr Bailey ignored Bella. She looked to Dr Hahn. "Dr Hahn. Cristina is very good with cardio. I'm sure you could use her for the day," she said as she turned to look at Cristina. "What are you waiting for Yang. Present the case."
Reluctantly, Cristina took a step forward. "Harold O'Malley. 63. He was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. And severe aortic regurge. He's scheduled for an aortic valve replacement this afternoon."
****
Dr Bailey and the interns were walking along the corridor. "Dude that case was nine. And she gives it to Yang. I haven't had a cardiac case in ages."
George frowned. "But it's not just any case. It's my father," he said.
"So. There's a double standard. Yang does something wrong. And she gets rewarded. That's fair," Izzie said.
Bella rolled her eyes. "I don't think cutting an LVAD wire counts as the same thing," she said as they walked along.
George looked to Bella. "I don't see why you're defending her."
Again Bella rolled her eyes. "I'm not defending her. I'm not defending either of them. Izzie fucked up too."
Alex sighed. "this is so not fair."
Dr Bailey turned to glare at them. "If you six thumb suckers don't stop whining, I swear I will not show you what's behind this door. And trust me, you want to see what's behind this door," she told them.
Dr Bailey opened the door. The interns eyes all widened at the sight of conjoined adult twins. "Excuse me doctors. You're going to have to wait a few minutes."
"He has to go pee! Every five minutes, he's got to pee."
"I've always had a small bladder. Oh I can't live like this any longer."
"You?! I'm the one who has to put up with your whining!"
"Like the whining you're doing now? If you don't move, it's going all over your leg."
"So what else is new?"
Bella and the other interns all stood there in shock. Bailey smirked. She looked to them with a smug look. "So, who thinks Yang got the better case?" She asked. Smirking as no one replied. "That's what I thought."
****
Jake and Pete Weitzman. 35 year old pygopagus conjoined twins. Attached at the lumbar sacral junction."
The interns were all shocked as they looked at them. Jake, one the twins spoke, "but not for long, right Dr Webber?" He said.
Chief Webber nodded. "The Weitzman brothers came in about six months ago for a separation procedure. They opted out because of the risk," he told them.
"Pete chickened out."
"Well forgive me for wanting to live longer. Even if meant living with you," Pete said.
Jake scoffed. "Yeah. Well you wasted six months of our lives. Thank you very much," he said.
Alex smirked. "You guys came back at the right time. We just scored New York's top plastic surgeon," he said.
Bella turned to see Mark and Derek walking in. "Mark Sloan. Plastics. And you remember Dr Shepherd. Neurosurgeon."
Bella sighed. "Dr Shepherd is one of the best doctors here. Dr Sloan too. You're in good hands," she said with a smile to the twins.
Mark looked to Bella. He turned to the twins. "We used to work together. As a team actually," he said.
"We worked together. We were never actually a team," Derek said, looking to his little sister.
"Mr Weitzman-."
"Call me Jake."
"Call me Paul," both twins spoke at the same time.
George cleared his throat for a moment. "Jake, uh Pete. Do you mind me asking why now? When you thought the procedure was too risky six months ago?" He asked.
Before anyone could answer, the door opened. A blonde woman walked in. "Guys? Wow. That's a lot of doctors. I will come back."
Jake shook his head. "No. Elena. Come in," he said as he turned to the interns. "You want to know why now? This is why. The love of my life. Elena."
Bella rolled her eyes but smiled. Elena smiled. "I told him not to do this for me. Because that's crazy. Pete said they could end up paralysed? They could end up dead?"
Jake scoffed as he looked to his brother. "Why do you tell her stuff like that?"
"I wasn't telling her. I was telling you. She just happens to be the only one who listens to me," Paul said.
Derek nodded and sighed. "She happens to be right," he told them.
"Do you know what it's like to be stuck to the same person-."
"Here we go-."
Jake rolled his eyes. "Yes here we go. To be stuck to the same person every minute of everyday? To not have anything that's just yours? To never be on your own? Well no one should have to live like that."
Bella blinked as she looked to Pete. "And what do you think about that?" She asked.
Pete shrugged and looked away from his brother. "I think why would I want to be attached to someone who doesn't want to be attached to me?"
****
As soon as they left the room, everyone started on Dr Bailey. "I'm calling it. It's mine," Alex said.
"I have two brothers. I feel their pain."
Bella scoffed. She shook her head. "I have four sisters and one brother. I relate more," she said as she looked to Dr Bailey.
Izzie shrugged and smiled. "I'd be great at watching this."
"Quiet. All of you."
Alex looked to her. "We're all on the case right?" He asked.
Dr Bailey nodded. "Right. Stevens, you are to-."
"Look and not speak. Or touch or breathe. I got it," Izzie said.
Bella was about to speak when Mark walked over. He stood directly behind Bella. But she soon moved. "So this is the crack team?" He said.
"Feel free to take one."
Mark nodded. "Angel. Let's go," he said as he took hold of Bella's waist.
Dr Bailey shook her head. "If you're taking one, you're taking another," she told him.
Mark smirked and nodded. "I'll take the one who doesn't speak or touch or breathe," he said with a shrug.
Bella smirked. She looked to Mark. "Two blondes? Clearly your lucky day," she said as she turned and walked off.
****
Lunch time came and so Bella was sitting outside with the others. They were discussing everything that had gone on. Izzie smiled. "I think it's romantic. Two guys fighting over the same woman."
Bella rolled her eyes. "You would think that. You've got no one giving you a good time," she said.
Izzie turned to Bella. "Oh go back to Mark Sloan. He's the only one who would touch you."
"Really? Because that's not what Alex thought at the prom. Yeah that's right. Alex and I hooked up at the prom."
Izzie looked between Bella and Alex. "You and McBarbie? What the hell?" She said.
Bella winked. "I guess you're just not fuckable Isobel."
Izzie smirked as she looked to her. "Well, did you know Sloan hit on Grace? He has a thing for your brothers sloppy seconds," she spat.
"Listen up Isobel. You're lying. Mark wouldn't do that after Addison. And who are you calling sloppy seconds? You need to take a look in the mirror. You only got here cause you sold pictures of yourself. You're not even that good. Mark only chose you because you can't do anything. He took pity on you."
Grace sighed. "Bella, calm down.. She's telling the truth. He did hit on me. And I told him no."
There was tension at the table. Alex cleared his throat and spoke. "You know what's freaky though? Conjoined twins. Having sex in front of the other one. How do you do that?"
Cristina sat down. Everyone looked to her but Alex spoke. "You're still here? You haven't been kicked out of the program yet?" He asked.
Meredith looked to him. "Alex."
Cristina shook her head and smiled. "No. Not yet. I'm still here," she said.
Grace blinked a couple of times. "So how did you manage it? Did either of you have secret signals in surgery? So no one would know?" She asked.
"Grace!"
Grace shrugged and smiled. "What? I'm just wondering how to get ahead round here. I mean, Alex has to fetch coffee for Mark Sloan. Yang, she gets surgeries none of us would get," she said.
George looked to Cristina. "Got a head count on how many patients you two have lied to in the past month?" He asked.
Bella rolled her eyes. "I've had enough of this. Someone come find me when you're all over this," she said as she stood up and walked off.
She was heartbroken at finding out Mark had tried it on with Grace.
****
Bella stood by the nurses station. She looked up as Mark walked towards her. "Bella?"
"How's it going with Isobel?" Bella asked as she turned to look at him.
"You're there too. You know how it's going," Mark said as he smiled.
Bella shrugged. She sighed. "Yeah. But I'm not paying attention," she said with a smile. She looked to him. "I'm not going to keep doing this. I'm not going to let you flirt with me all day. And then I find out you slept with someone else. I can't keep doing it," she told him.
Mark looked to her. He sighed. "Angel, you don't understand do you? I only want you."
"Then why do you sleep with everything with a vagina? Who's next? Dr Bailey? Addie again?" Bella asked.
"No. Why don't you let me prove it?" Mark said as he took a step towards her.
Bella noticed how there was no one around. Mark grabbed her waist but she pushed him away. "If you want me, earn me."
"Angel. Come on."
"No. Stop with the angel. Oh. I need you to answer me one thing. Did you hit on Grace?" Bella asked.
"Bella-."
"It's a simple yes or no answer. Did you, or did you not hit on Grace?" Bella asked as she looked to him. She was scared of the answer.
Mark sighed. He nodded. "I did. It was before the Callie thing," he told her.
Bella nodded. She sighed. "Well I appreciate the honesty. I hope you find what you want in life. I will always love you Mark. But I can't be with you," she mumbled.
****
After an unsuccessful test run, Derek had ended up doing the surgery on the conjoined twins. "The saphenous vein in place?"
Mark nodded. "Yeah I'm ready."
"Bailey?"
"I'm good."
"Chief?"
"I'm ready when you are," Chief Webber said.
Derek nodded. "Alright. Moment of truth. Removing the clamps," he said.
"Little Shepherd. Check the nerve stimulator."
"SAPs are falling," Bella told them all.
Derek nodded. He sighed. "Alright. Pump up the blood pressure. We need as much blood through the area," he said.
"I'm going up to 2 milliamps," she said. She sighed as she saw nothing was working. "Up to 3."
Grace frowned. "I see something. A flicker on the hamstring of twin A. Pump it up Bella," she told her.
Bella nodded as she did what Grace said. "Up to four," she said.
"I've got a twitch. A twitch in twin B's gastric."
Chief Webber. "It's small. But it's there," he said.
"We have a signal," Bailey told them as she looked around.
Everyone cheered and clapped. "Congratulations ladies and gentlemen. We have four functioning legs. It would be nice if every love triangle could be fixed with a scalpel," Derek said.
Mark smirked as he looked to Derek. "If so, you'd have stabbed me with a ten blade a long time ago," he said.
Bella looked between her brother and Mark. Hoping that they could all move on from everything that had happened.
****
Bella sat in the locker room. There was an awkward tension. Alex and Izzie were being bitter. George was upset.
Bella rolled her eyes as everyone was still giving Cristina funny looks. Meredith stood up after a few moments. "I can't take this anymore."
"What?"
Meredith's hands were on her hips. "Let her off the hook," she said.
"Mer."
"No. You know what, I'm done. Izzie, you cut the LVAD wire. She stuck by you and did the echo. Alex, you cheated on Izzie with syph nurse and she helped you study for the boards. Bella, Grace, she helped you out on stuff you didn't understand. George, when everyone was calling you 007-."
"She was calling me 007."
Meredith sighed. "Just let her off the hook," she said as she looked to her friends and sister.
****
Bella was sitting outside the trailer. She saw Derek and smiled. "You okay?" He asked as he sat with his sister.
Bella nodded. "I'm good. I'm just thinking about how fucked up everything has become lately. And I just... I don't know. Part of me regrets coming to Seattle. I miss mom."
Derek smiled. He took his sister's hand and sighed. "No one would be mad if you went back to New York. I know it's hard. Mark and all."
Bella shook her head. "No. It's not Mark. I just don't feel like I'm meant to be here. I feel like there's something different out there for me," she mumbled.
Derek looked to her. Not knowing how she was about to suffer with her own hidden demons.