Chloe stood pacing down the hallway. She knew that she couldn't sit by izzie bed like the rest of them. She knew that she felt like a hypocrite. She rubbed the back of her neck and sighed. She knew all that had happened with her and Alex. She knew how Chloe and issue had those izzies when it came to Alex. And izzie didn't like that he choose Chloe and Chloe didn't want to sit and act as if they were besties
Chloe looked to see Maddie as she walked over to her and smiled "are you okay" Maddie asked as Chloe sighed
"I'll be okay i don't know I just can't sit there and scared if we're friends I know she has cancer and I feel bad for her I do but.." Chloe said as maddie looked to her and smiled
"Hey I get it. I'm your sister I know you. You don't need to explain it to me besides it's not as if she makes things easy either" Maddie said as chloe looked to her and smiled
"Yeah well I don't even care. I just need to stay away" Chloe said as her pager beeped
"There's a trauma let's go" Chloe said as Maddie nodded. They headed down to the ambulance bay as they saw an ambulance come up.
Chloe and Maddie held a look as they saw the gurney and looked to see a pretty mangled body
"Unidentified male, dragged by a bus.He's clamped down, so we couldn't intubate."
"Didn't they stop when they hit him?" Maddie asked
"bus driver didn't know he was there until he got halfway down the block."
"oh, is he gonna be okay?" Someone from the other ambulance asked
"Okay, i'll take over c. p. r." Callie said as they rushed inside
" push 20 etomidate and 100 of sux." Owen said
"He saved my life.The bus was gonna hit me.he threw me out of the way."
"Grey, get her out of here." Callie said to Lexie
"it was supposed to be me under the bus. he's all alone.
They don't even know who he is. please."
"all right, stand over there and just don't move."
"He's back." Chloe said as she looked to the monitor
"okay, let's get a trauma series, Trauma labs and o-neg blood in here." Callie said
"Severe avulsion injury to the left forearm." Chloe said
"Whoa." Maddie said as they looked to his face
"okay, his skull is bashed in.Page Shepherd.and Sloan.
Start antibiotics and start cleaning out those wounds." Owen said as the girl vomited
" uh ... Now can you get her out of here?" Callie asked as she looked to Lexie
•••
Chloe looked to see mark as he walked in
"whoa."
"Man versus bus.the bus won.Check out the left arm." Callie said as the monitor started beeping erratically
"he's crashing again!" Chloe said
"What do we got?" Derek said as he walked in
"we got roadkill." Mark said
"You mind? he stepped out in front of a moving busSo he could pull a woman out of the way. he's a hero." Owen said
"can you fix the arm?" Callie asked
"Fingers are already blue. if it's gonna happen, It's gotta be in the next few hours." Mark said
"pupil's blown. stop c. p. r.Okay, give me a cranial drill, please.grey, want to practice your, uh, burr holes?" Derek said to Chloe
"Well... yeah" Chloe said as she walked over
"stabilize his neck, please, nurse." Derek said As the monitor continues beeping erratically
"Okay, hand her the drill.Okay, go in slowly." Derek said as chloe held the drill
"when you feel it grab, stop, 'cause otherwise you're gonna be hitting the brain." He said as she nodded
"okay, let's go. quickly." Derek said as Chloe started to drill
"right there!" Derek said
"pull back, pull back! that's it."
"Nice work, robbins." Owen said as Chloe smiled. It felt exhilarating that she had done that
"I'm gonna go get some bacitracin for that face." Mark said
"All right. let's get his head rotated. easy. Watch ... watch his neck."
"welcome back, sir. you had us worried there for a minute." Chloe said as she looked to John Doe as he came around
•••
"What did you do to O'Malley?" Bailey asked as she walked in and looked to Owen
"excuse me?"
"Uh, somebody else around here likely to convince someoneTo join the army and be a trauma surgeon in iraq?" She asked
"what? !" Callie said
"the army? !" Maddie said
"What?" Chloe said
"v-fib.charge the paddles to 360." Owen said
"Just call who you have to call and undo this." Bailey said
"Dr. Bailey, little busy here." Owen said
"Clear." Maddie said
"George?George O'Malley?" Callie asked
"It wasn't my idea." Owen said
"no change." Chloe said
"Charge again."
"clear."
"I did what I could to give him a decent education in trauma.I didn't know he was gonna go and enlist." Owen said
"He keeps coding." Chloe said
"here's why ... open-book pelvic fracture." Calle said as she looked to the scan
"There's too much bleeding.We take him to an o. r. now, he'll die on the table." Owen said
"He needs to go to angio if we're gonna stop
The pelvic arterial bleeding." Callie said
"sinus tach.we have a rhythm.It's barely there, but it's there." Maddie said
"let's stabilize the pelvis." Owen said
"I know what goes on in this hospital.I know you're messed up from that war, And not in a small way.get him out of it." Bailey said
"Page me if you need me. i've got other patients." Callie said as she walked out
"How'd you piss off all the women?" Mark asked as he walked in
"um, let's get our guy to angio."
"Angio?he's barely got a pulse." Chloe said
"it's now or never if we want him to live. let's move.Sir, I know it's tough, But i'd personally be very grateful
If you'd try and stay alive for the next few minutes." Owen said as they rushed out the room heading to an or
•••
Mark finds Maddie doing sutures on Amanda.
"You think he's gonna make it? "
"I hope so. " Maddie said
"He really has to make it "
"Oh. Dr. Sloan" Maddie said as Mark checks madides sutures.
" There's gonna be too much tension. Start over and do a layered closure. " mark said as Maddie and Mark distance themselves.
"Um, c ... uh, c-can I ask a question about that? "
"Okay."
" You brought up moving in together and marriage, and I put it off. And now you're embarrassed and you won't make eye contact with me because you feel that I have all the power in the relationship, but I don't want all the power in the relationship. I ... I'm happy to share it. Can we just skip this part? " Maddie said as Amanda has been listening, as Mark ignores Maddie and continues to treat Amanda.
"Get some 4-0 vicryl so you can redo your patient's sutures." Mark said
" I'll totally pretend I didn't hear any of that. "
" Women do this to me. I don't do this. "Let's get a house together." Mark said
"Sucks being the girl, huh? "
"I'm not the girl. What do girls do? " mark said
"Well, uh, we start with the cold shoulder, So you're right on track. And we go to our girlfriends and we bitch, And our girlfriends say, "you want to build a future, "build it yourself. "you don't need a man to give you that. "so you want to buy a house? Buy a house."
"Huh. You're good at this. " mark said
" I ought to help someone get a love life. I suck at my own. He jumped in front of a bus ... for me."
•••
Chloe stood in the canteen with Maddie "you know that toy and mark will make it work don't you?" She asked as Maddie sighed
"He's pissed at me"
"Your a grey your scared of commitment mer was the same its what having a mother like ours does mark has changed because of you and Alex hurt you in the past it's fair to be the way you are" Chloe said
"And you? Are you scared of it" Maddie asked as Chloe looked fi her and nodded
"Oh more than ever I know what Alex has done and I know how he is all evil spawn and that. Loving him scares me as I don't want him to hurt me but there is part of me that is scared to open the door and want it all. I want kids with him I want to marry him" Chloe said as Alex stood by and smirked hearing it all as he sat with the others at the table
"Twin greys, over here" bailey said as the two of them walked over to the others
"Okay, uh, at 6:00 p. m. , Your idiotic colleague George O'Malley will finish his surgery with the chief. and at 6:00 p. m. , You will be standing beside us in the o. r. hallway, Prepared to join in an intervention." Callie said
"what polite company might call an intervention, Though I'm not sure interventions Involve whooping people on the behind with a belt." Bailey said
"What, he's got a drinking problem now?" Alex asked
"he joined the army." Chloe said as Alex looked up at her as they held a look
"What? !007? he can't go to army." Cristina said
"He's the guy that gets killed." Alex said
"he's that guy who gets killed cleaning his own gun" maddie said .
"Grey, Meredith is going to coax him back as a loving friend.You are going to use logic and reason. Chloe your also In on that and the what would we do without you
To point out the idiocy of his ways. Stevens will make sad cancer eyes. Maddie you can make sad eyes as you down right depressive at the minute And if all of that doesn't work, Karev, you're gonna pull outYour "i was raised out back with the trash cans" roots and just beat the crap out of him." Bailey said
"6:00." Bailey said as they nodded
"6:00."
•••
Chloe walked down the hallway as she was grabbed and pulled to the side as she saw Alex and looked to him and grinned "what are you doing" she asked
"I like to check in with my girlfriend now and then. You okay" he asked as she smiled
"I'm good" she said as he leant in and kissed her. He placed hand in her cheeks snd smiled as she saw the way that he was looking at Her
"Your looking at me weird" Chloe said
"Sorry it's just. I heard what you said to Maddie in the canteen I know what I have done in the past I hurt Maddie, I have been a jerk and I have messed a lot of people around and it still surprises me that someone like you even gave me a chance. I'm so lucky I get to love you and you make me a better person Chloe and I can he er let you go" he said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her forehead against his
"I love you" Chloe said as Alex smiled
"I love you. So what do you think? You me and babies. Married the normal American dream not so bad for two people who were so fucked up by the parents?" He asked as she smirked
"One day"
"One day" he said as he pulled her to him and kissed her
•••
Chloe stood in the hallway with Maddie and looked to see Meredith as she came running down
"it's George! it's George!It's George! john doe is George!" She said as the monitor beeping erratically As they rush into the room
"we have you, O'Malley. you hear me? we have you. We'll fix this. just stay with us." Owen said as they rushed him off to surgery
"O'Malley, it's Shepherd.You're not going anywhere. you understand me?" Derek said
"B. p. 's dropping." Chloe said
"all right, let's put him out, now." Derek said
•••
"we're losing him!" Owen said as Chloe and Meredith continued to use the defibrillator
The defibrillator whines, and monitor beeps. Chloe and Meredith held a look. They both knew what was happening...
TO BE CONTINUED