Season 1 Episode 6
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Juliette woke up quite early in the morning. She definitely didn't feel like working, but she understood that if she didn't get out of bed, Bailey would be angry with her. Juliette was afraid of Bailey.
Izzie: "Wouldn't it be easier to just ask her out?" Juliette hears walking down the stairs from the attic.
"Good morning guys" Juliette says.
"She's gonna be late." George says, ignoring Juliette.
"Maybe not." Izzie replies.
"We should wait for her." George says.
"Definitely not. I'm not her mother, Juliette isn't her mother either, and you are not her boyfriend. Not yet, anyway. " Izzie says.
"Stop, ok? I told you I'm not interested. " George replies.
"Life is short, George. Do you really want to die before you ever ask her out?" Izzie replies.
"I do not want to ask her out." George says.
"Do you really want to die a liar?" Izzie asked.
"I'm not...I'm not dying."
"Yet."
"Cristina, you're late." Bailey said as they come rushing towards the group as they did rounds.
"So is Meredith." Cristina pointed out.
"When we walk in this door, you will maintain decorum. You will not laugh, vomit, or drop you jaw. Are we understood?" Bailey says as they walk into a room.
"Why would we laugh?" Izzie whispered.
"Oh, just you wait." Alex said, making Juliette roll her eyes.
"Good morning, Miss Connors." Bailey says, as everyone gets into the room.
"Good Morning." Miss Connors replies.
Everyone's eyes widened at the sigh of the tumor, which was a big tumor.
"What is it?" George asked.
"Tumor." Cristina replied looking at him as if he were dumb.
"Big tumor" Juliette whispered to George.
"Good morning, Annie. How are you?" Alex says. "This is Dr. Bailey and these are my fellow interns."
"Dr. Karev, we refer to patients as..." Bailey began before Annie cut her off.
"I told him to call me "Annie. "Miss Connors" makes me feel old and fat, which I am, but why feel that way?"
"Good morning." Burke says as he walked into the room, looking at Cristina for a second.
"Annie, this is Dr. Burke" Alex says. "Awesome surgeon."
"Dr. Karev." Bailey says.
"Annie Connors is a 43-year-old woman who presented last night with progressive shortness of breath for the past three months. Found to have a very large tumor of unknown origin pressed against her diaphragm. Stable vital signs. Scheduled for CT this morning, sir."
"Thank you, Dr. Karev, Are you at all claustrophobic?" Burke asked Annie.
"I've been housebound for the last year. How claustrophobic could I be?" Annie replies.
"All right then. Dr. Starks is going to take you up for a CT. It'll give us a better look at the tumor, and we'll know how to proceed." Burke says.
"Could someone tell my mom? She'll worry if she gets back and I'm not here." Annie replies.
"Yeah, of course. Of course."
"And would it be possible for Alex to take me instead?" Annie asked. "I mean, he...He's just so fun to look at."
"Annie." Alex replies laughing.
"Sure. Sure, Ms. Connors. Excuse me." Burke said.
Everyone walked out of the room into the hallway. "How much do you think it weighs?" Meredith asked.
"60 pounds."
"80 pounds"
"More. She's carrying a whole extra person." Izzie replied.
"This one's going in the books. I've got to get in." Cristina says.
"I almost did." Juliette says. "Have you ever seen Alex like that? He actually seemed sincere."
"Seemed being the operative word." Meredith replied.
"He was on call last night when she came in. I am never leaving this place again." Cristina said.
"Let's move, people. Ms. Connor's surgery, should we choose to proceed, will take most, if not all, of the surgeons off the floor, which means you people will have to work extra hard not to kill anyone, cause we won't be there to fix your mistakes." Bailey says as the interns follow her around.
"Mr. Harper had a coronary bypass yesterday. His blood pressure, currently 100/65. It was running low overnight down to 70/30, but responded to medication. Postoperative labs show a crit of 30 and normal coagulation. Chest-tube output has halted over the last two hours." Izzie says.
"What's your plan?" Bailey asked.
"Chest x-ray and check the tube for possible occlusion." Izzie replies.
"Good." Bailey replies, than looks at the wife, "He's doing fine."
"Thank you."
"Morning." Bailey says walking into a patients room.
"Mr. Levangie, this is Dr. Bailey and her fine staff of surgical interns." Derek says as he exchanges looks with Bailey and Meredith.
"Welcome to hell, kids." Patient said.
"Who's presenting?" Bailey asked.
"Edward Levangie is a 63-year-old man admitted for pain management for Dyskinesia. He's been stable since last night, and responding to the bolus injections." Juliette presents.
"Izzie, possible treatments?" Bailey asked.
"For Parkinson's disease? Um, deep brain stimulation has shown..."
"Not for Parkinson's, for spinal pain." Derek says.
"Oh, um..."
"Intraspinal catheter. That way, he can have constant pain medication." Meredith says.
"Excellent." Derek replies. "This is Dr. Grey. She's gonna prep you for the procedure and assist."
"Excuse me" Derek says as his pager rings.
"You make yourselves busy, I'll catch up with you." Bailey says following Derek.
"Unbelievable." Juliette heard as she was walking by the ct room.
"Oh, I know, right." Alex replied.
"I've never seen anything like this. God." CT Tech says.
Alex: "Well, what I don't understand...is how a person lets it get like that." Alex says. "I mean, man, that is a whole lot of nasty."
"Maybe she's afraid of doctors. Poor thing."
"Poor thing? Please. If you're afraid of doctors, you take a pill. She's just sick, like, warped, you know? Seriously, I don't know how she lives with herself."
"Alex!" Juliette says walking up to the two. "Shut up."
"What?" Alex asked.
"One, your being disrespectful, you are to never talk about a patient like that no matter what they've been through and two the patient heard the whole thing" Juliette says walking away angry at Alex.
"It's just that he blatantly favors me in front of her and then blatantly dismisses me." Meredith says eating lunch with Cristina and Juliette.
"How do you know he was favoring you? Look, you've got a brain. You got into this program. Just because Shepherd wants to munch your cookies doesn't mean you didn't deserve what you worked for. " Cristina replies.
"But he's making me look bad. I have to end it." Meredith says.
"Right."
"It's over."
"Uh, huh."
"Yeah right"
"Is it true you get to scrub in on that tumor?" Alex asked coming to the table.
"Don't sit here." Juliette says.
"You get to scrub in? How psyched are you?" Izzie asked.
"On a scale of one to ecstatic, ecstatic." Cristina replies.
"It's unbelievable. You know what I think? I think Burke wants to get into your scrubs."
"Why are you sitting here?" Cristina asked
"He kicked me off that surgery for the same crap you pull every day." Alex replies.
"You know what. If I stuck this fork into his thigh, would I get in trouble?" Cristina asked.
"Not if you make it look like an accident." Meredith replies.
"Do it, I'll even help you hide his body" Juliette says, earning a glare from Alex.
"Hey!" George says, coming to the group.
"Hi." Izzie says.
"Thank God, man. I'm drowning in estrogen here." Alex says.
"You look...is everything ok?" George asked Meredith.
"Shepherd's a jackass." Meredith replied.
"Really?" Izzie asked. "I think he's kind of great."
"He reamed her out in front of Bailey." Juliette says.
"Why?"
"Cause he's a jackass."
"Oh. Well, bad days are...bad. Maybe tonight, uh, if, you know, if you drink alcohol, I mean, we could all of us, I mean, go out and drink alcohol...because of the bad day."
"I got to go." Meredith replies.
"Dude."
"Yeah that was a little embarrassing" Juliette said.
"Shut up." George says.
Heyyyy guys, Here's chapter 5 hope you enjoy. First chapter of 2024 which is crazy. I'll hopefully have the next chapter up sometime this week or next week. I start school again next week so I'll try to get chapters up when I can. Thank you for reading.
Have a great New Years.