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𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧
"AND IM A CHICKEN"
Chapter Eight
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WATCHING DEREK pull his shirt over his head getting ready to for the day, I smile up at him,Derek looks down and gives me a small smile, picking up his bag before walking to the bathroom
Following him to the bathroom I lean against the door way as he looks at me through the mirror with admiration in his eyes."So let's go sleep at your house tonight"
"What?" Derek asks turning around brushing his teeth
"I mean why are we always sleeping at my house? Do you even have one?"
"One what" Derek asks genuinely confused, Smiling at one another through the mirror
"A house, with a bed and a closet,With your stuff in it, Your personal stuff in it, Do you even have on of those?"
"Hmm" Derek hummed turning around cupping my chin gently, Slinging his bag over his shoulder."Good morning" Derek greeted the three other inters in the kitchen
"Hey, You guys want a cupcake, Izzie made them" George asked politely, Holding the tray of cupcakes, grabbing a chocolate cupcake I sit down at the table taking a bite
"You know I like it here, Hey, you said it yourself, you like having your things around, sleeping in your own bed" Derek argued grabbing a bow and cereal out of the cupboard
"Your like a health nut aren't you, you eat musli every morning" George said watching Derek grab the milk from the fridge, Walking to the table Derek responds."no I don't"
"Okay the muesli thing you do, the last 7 days at least" Izzie added cleaning up her dishes
"I haven't been here for a whole week, Have I?"Derek protested
Raising my eyebrow at the man sitting across from with a shrug."See even they think it's weird"getting up I go grab a bowl for cereal sitting back down across from Derek.
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I was Looking through the patients charts with Meredith as Christina talked to the doctor."This guy belongs in psych, What are you doing turfing him here?"
"He's my gift to you, Had a seizure two days ago and another one this morning" The doctor said raising his eyebrows, Holding a clipboard close to his chest
"What are you talking about, it says right here, He talks so dead people, His family thinks he's dangerous, and they had him committed, that's psych not neuro" I explained to the doctor standing in front of me showing Christin the the patients charts
"Didn't you go to med school" Christina asks rolling her eyes
"Yes, unlike the corresponding school you attended" The doctor argued giving attitude to Christina
"Oh, right that would be Stanford, right?" Christina said one upping him, Chucking in the background the doctor give me a look
"I learned not to jump to conclusions"
"Sorry ladies we can't take him back till he's cleared" the doctor explained
"So your dumping him in is?"
"He thinks his seizures are visions" the doctor explain led walking away
"Hello! They're not seizures, I'm psychic" the patient blurted out in a loud tone
"Of course you are and I'm a chicken" I said giving Meredith a look rolling my eyes,Looking around the i see the doctor talking to a nurse calling out to him."Hey genius" with no response coming from him we walk into the patients room
"Okay, Me.Duff" Meredith said taking the charts from my hand.Were gonna start our work up now"
"Work me up, Work me dow, I'm telling you it's a waste of time" The patient said with a sigh escaping his lips, grabbing my flashlight from my coat I open the patients eyelids and shine the light in his eyes
"Oh humour is" Christina muttered under her breath."Can you grip my fingers, Please"
Mr.Duff stopped moving staring right at Meredith , his head started to barely move, Meredith called out Christina and my name.."Mr.Duff" I asked in worry
Mr.Duff shakes his head a little, letting out a big sigh he looks at Meredith beforehand starts explaining."Someone,Someone's gonna check out,bye,bye"
Rolling my eyes at Meredith I put my pen in my coat pocket."Man...He's nuts"
"I'm dizzy not deaf, and I'm telling you someone on the fourth floor is gonna die" Mr.Duff argued
"Code blue fourth floor, Code blue fourth floor" the intercoms spoke throughout the whole hospital, Looking at Meredith and Christina with shock written all over my face, we exit the room after standing in a moment of silence
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"It's jus that I hardly know anything about you" I said talking to Derek walking down the unoccupied hallway
"You know I'm from New York, you know I like ferry boats"
I let out a scoff."will you quit with the ferry boats, that's two things about you I need more than two things, give me like 10 more things,what about your friends?"
"I'm a surgeon, I don't have friends" Derek answered
"Everybody has friends, I mean who do you hang out with, What do you do on your days off" I bombard him with questions."These are important questions"
"Ah, important for who"
"We're having sex every single night, I think I deserve details" I said I little louder than I should have
"You have more details than most" he said not helping with my wonders
"This is going somewhere weird" I said stopping in the middle of the catwalk, Derek turns around with a smile on his face putting his hands on his hips
"I want facts and until I get them my pants are staying on" I said with a nod of my head
Smiling down at me Derek suggests."or you could just roll with it, Be flexible see what happens"
"I'm not flexible" I said shaking my head with a smile, Derek's pager starts going off."There I disagree" Derek's said with a little chuckle
"Mmm, I got to go" Derek said with a sigh."We will find these things out, that's the fun part, you know, that's the gravy" Derek called back running off the catwalk
"That's what I'm talking about, I don't want to be your gravy" I said cringing at what I just said looking at the doctor walking beside me
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Looking at the M.R.I scans of Derek's patient, he pulls up the M.R.I scans on the computer screens."See? This the guys films are clear, there's no reason I can see for his creeping paralysis"
"It's just so surprising, I expose intrusion into the spinal space, or a bony spur in the nucleus pulposus" Derek said typing on the computer
"Well, you were wrong, you don't always get what you expect do you?" I retort
Derek turns around with an offended look on his face."what is your problem?"
"Give me something to go on, anything" I said shrugging my shoulders
"What are your grandparents names?" I ask trying to learn more about him
"I don't have grandparents"
"Where'd you grow up? What's your favourite ice of cream, I like cookie dough ice cream, I recommend it, where did you spend your summer vacation?" I ask invading Derek with questions
"Lighten up...it'll be good for your blood pressure" Derek said quickly exiting the room, looking back to see if the woman followed him
"Oh don't you tell me to lighten up, I'll lighten up when I...feel light"I exclaimed pausing a little at the end
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Walking up to Derek and his patient, the patients wife looks at me as she asks Derek a question."Whats wrong with him"
"I don't know, the paralysis is moving very quickly and there was nothing in the M.R.I to explain it" Derek said glancing at me before looking that patients wife
"Has Tommy Ben under any stress lately?" I question the married couple in front of me
"You know what's making me stressed, being in here and not being able to move" the patient blurted out looking at me annoyed
"Dr.Grey" Derek said leading me away from the patients
"Emotional trauma can be converted, into something physical right?" I ask Derek as he stand directly over me
"Yes it's possible" Derek responded crossing his arms over his chest
"Like hysterical numbness or paralysis, Maybe there is no physiological reason and he's just having a conversion reaction" I suggested
"It's psychosomatic" Derek said as the psychic patient from earlier opened the curtain and called out to our patient."It is not in your head man, I believe you"
"Mr.Duff, Please" Izzie said grabbing the patient gently by his arms pulling him back to his bed,closing the curtain behind her
"Who was that?" Derek asks curiously
"Psych sent him down, He has visions" I explained shrugging my shoulders
"Is that it, am I crazy" Derek's patient blurts out leaning on his elbows
"No, no, I'm gonna order a higher-level M.R.I, we're gonna figure this out" Derek informed the couple in front him before rushing out of the room, looking at the patient I sigh before leaving the room
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Sitting down at the desk area beside Christina doing some paper work, Alex and George walk over to us as George looks at Christina's sandwich."I'd that's turkey can I have some?"
"It's soggy" Christina said with care in her voice
"Maybe it'll kill you, Solve everything" Karev said looking at George with a smirk on his face
"I could have gotten that intubation. I am good at intubations" George defended himself, walking in front of George I grab Christina sandwich taking a bite before walking away
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Standing in the pit doing some files I hear Derek talk to the nurse."Nurse cancel the second M.R.I call down and prep O.R stat"
Walking towards me I look at Derek with a surprised face."Your operating? On what, if there was something to fix wouldn't we have seen it"
"I think the M.R.I missed a clot in his upper spine, I'm gonna cut him open, I'm going in" Derek said writing stuff down in the patients charts
"What if your wrong? Couldn't unnecessary spinal surgery do more damage?" I ask trying to understand why he wants to do surgery
"If we wait any longer, and this thing expands into his brain stem, we have a paralyzed man who can't breathe, I'm trusting my instincts, sometimes you gotta take a chin he to save a life" Derek said looking at me before walking away to go prep his patient for surgery, I let out a sigh before rolling my eyes
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In the O.R Derek instructed me on what he wants me to do."we've got to save this cord, this guys built like the rock of Gibraltar,I'm gonna cut here from the base of the neck to the rib cage, I want you to hit the bleeders"
Grabbing the large tweezers from the nurse I wait for Derek to start before voicing my thought."I still don't think we should be doing this"
"This guy has a spinal hematoma..."
"We don't know that" I said shaking my head
"Which left untreated are almost always fatal" Derek explained focusing on the surgery
"You're cutting blind, whatever happened to being practical?" I ask raising my eyebrows
"I need to see more here, retractor" Derek asked the nurse, Handing him the retractor Derek puts it on the patient spreading the incision to get more access
"Wow, the spine" I said looking down at the patients wound
"There's is no 'wow' in practical" Derek spoke, looking up at Derek I scrunch my eyebrows, focusing back in the surgery
"Third thoracic laminae, nothing, I think I see the dura pulsating here" I said looking up at Derek
"No, it's not keep looking" He said bluntly
"We have been at this for four hours, Maybe he just injured his spinal cord and there's nothing to fix" I said with a tired voice and a sigh
"Grey, when you read your books, make sure your reference them correctly, progressive paralysis implies a pressure lesion" Derek said focusing on the patient, rolling my eyes I look up at Derek before responding to him
"My books got made here..."
"Pressures up to 180/111, the pulse is in the 40s" the male nurse said looking at the patients monitors
"What is it?" I ask curiously, with worry laced in my voice
"I'm pushing 70 milligrams of diazoxide"
"Okay, autonomic dysreflexia" Derek said grabbing a different medical tool
"Damage to the sympathetic nervous system?"
"B.P and the heart rate are unstable" Derek said in a hushed tone
"We're in trouble aren't we?" I asked looking up at him expecting an answer
"We've got the find the clot" Derek said sternly
"I can see the cord below the dura, is he going to struck out?" I ask looking up at Derek, the patients monitors stopped beeping leaving the room in silence
"Focus, Grey we're gonna find the clot, it's there" Derek said with confidence in his voice
"Clean up please"
"B.Ps still up, heart rates at 44" the male nurse spoke informing the two doctors performing surgery
"Get on those bleeders"Derek ordered
Looking for the clot I look up at Derek with a sigh almost ready to give up."Keep looking Dr.Grey"
Derek looks closely at the patients insides."what is it?" I ask curious on what he's looking at
"See for yourself, the second thoracic vertebrae" Derek said telling me where to look, Moving some muscle out of the way I see the blood clot
"Oh my god, I see it , it's really there" I did with some excitement in my voice
"Of course it is, Let's suction and pack this baby, shall we?" Derek beamed looking at me
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After the surgery me and Derek walk out into the
hall to go wash our hands."You were right"
"Is he gonna be okay?" I ask putting soap on my hands, turning on the sink I start to thoroughly wash my hands
"I think so" Derek responds
"I know we stopped the paralysis from advancing" Derek said washing his hands
"But you don't know if the paralysis he already has will be permanent" I said lathering my hands together
"No"
Letting out a sigh."you keep taking everything on faith, how do you know what's real and what's not?"
"I just do" Derek said looking at me
You know some people would call this a relationship"Derek said changing the subject."The kind where you exchange keys,Leave your toothbrush over"
"Who, who would call it that" I ask shaking my head with a quiet chuckle
"Me, I would" Derek said drying his hands and leaning against the metal sink behind us, sitting down beside him I ask." and I'm supposed to believe you?"
"Show me something, give me a reason to believe" I plead looking at home with a small frown, Getting up here grabs the binder and walks away without saying a word
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Sitting in the basement level of the hospital with the other interns I start telling them about the surgery."I tried talking shepherd out of that clot surgery, what is wrong with me?"
"Basically, you tried to kill the guy" Alex retorts
"Basically your an ass"Izzie said rolling her eyes defending her friend
"You know you want it, come to papa baby" Larev teases from where he is on the ground
George walks in with a drink in his hand and a smile on his face."This, uh is George, George has a hot date"
Letting out a laugh."Oh that's great George" Meredith said smiling sat her happy friend
"Left pocket of my lab coat, Georgie, No glove no love " Alex informs George getting up from his seated position, walking past George. Grabbing onto Alex's coat George pulls him back, taking the condom out of Karev coat putting it in his scrubs pockets, sitting down in the wheel chair Izzie lets out a sigh
"My psychic had his surgery"
"Yeah?" I spoke to the blonde woman sitting beside me in a soft voice
"I wonder what happened with his...Gift" Izzie said with a sigh
"Come on we all know he's crazy" Christina states in a tired voice looking through her medical books
"I thought you didn't believe that stuff" I ask Izzie sting up into a cross cross
" I got lived in a trailer park. I waited tables which was supposed to put me through college, but my mom called on physics all the time and the bill started piling up so I had to pay. I had to use my money to pay,when I turned 18 I left and never looked back, this guy has been saying things to me, things he couldn't possibly know anything about, so I just wonder" Izzie explained a part of her past talking a drink from her mug, looking around at us
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After checking up on Derek's patient we did surgery on, I wait by the entrance of the hospital waiting for Derek, He walks up to me leading me outside to his car unlocking the car doors, he opens the passenger door for me, getting the car I ask Derek a question."Where are we going?"
"Trust me" Derek responded with a small smile closing the car door behind me
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We get to a big open space with a trailer and a couple of trees here and there."Where are we?" I ask taking in the view
"Shhh,Shh,Shh, I'm going to tell you,alright, my mothers maiden name-Maloney, I have 4 sisters, I she uhh 9 nieces and 5 nephews, I like coffee ice cream, Single-Malt scotch, Occasionally a good cigar, I like to fly-fish, and I cheat when I do the crossword puzzle on Sunday, and I never dance in public"
I smile at him taking in all the information about himself
"Favourite novel, the sun also rises, Favourite band the clash, my favourite color is blue, I don't like light blue, indigo, the scar right here on my forehead, that's why I don't ride motorcycles anymore, and I live in that trailer" Derek said pointing to the silver trailer sitting on my right, looking at him I smile
"All this land is mine, I have no idea what I'm gonna do with it, so that's it, that's all you've earned for now, the rest your just gonna have to take on faith" Derek said looking at me with a smile, Looking around admiring all the land he wins I turn around walking towards his trailer with my hands in my pocket, I stop walking looking at him with a big smile on my face, I put out my hand for him to take, he walks up to me grabbing a hold of my hand leading me to us trailer.
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