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"dr. yang, is it?" to be honest, the fact that a second year resident came up in an interview for a chief of cardiology position...it was new. very new, but webber had said something about her being especially excited to finally have a chief of cardio to work with so that must have been a good thing. hopefully, that was a good thing. "someone told me you're kind of good with hearts. so, are you on my service today or not? i would like to go fix a heart or two and if the resident who likes hearts would like to join me, that would be great." ( @lostatseattle )

"i just got zola her first fishing pole," a fishing pole. a fishing pole for a kid who could barely sit up on her own, but it was her first fishing pole. next thing derek knew, she would be old enough to actually fish. "it's pink." april kepner wasn't his usual person to disclose this type of information to, but she was the one in the room.

when she did finally wake up, his cologne was the first thing she had recognized. her head turned to the side to see him half awake, curled up on one of the chairs that the hospital provided for long term visitors. he looked tired, worried, but the football game playing on her tv was distracting him enough. that was good, really good. catalina knew what tommy had gone through with bev, she didn’t want or need him to worry about her the same. she tried to shift herself against her hospital bed, hoping to sit up a little bit more. that was when the uncomfortableness hit, hand grabbing at her stomach with a delicate groan. right, she was in an accident. a bad way, at that. “water,” she whispered before turning back to look at him, “can you ask them for water?” 

“lets not..?” hand zipped her own mouth shut, finger then pointing down to the young boy in front of them. he may have been asleep, but things could get through. at this point, dr. devi did not want the kid to know that he could lose his leg. at least, not until they spoke and he could been seen by dr. sharma. corners turned to a smile, head shaking in hopes of breaking her own anxiety dripping at her chest. it was hard, to keep a cool and level head. catalina was comfortable having her hand inside of an open wound, but waiting out in the middle of the street? with a kids life on the line? not her idea of fun. “neither do i, kepner. but knowing seattle grace, they’ve already probably sent an ambulance for us.” she could have called tommy, but catalina knew that he was off of shift tonight. “it definitely shouldn’t be long, i promise. we’ll be fine and so will he, alright? we’ve already paged ortho to be ready for us for when we get back. they’re prepping or2.” 

it had been a very very long day. she was hour 23 or 24, there was her fourth coffee in her hand and the remnants of her donut from a couple of hours ago laying against the collar of her scrubs. there was a rumor that there was a new head of the residency program, but delta didn’t even have time to consider who it was. surprisingly, she hadn’t even heard whispers between the other residents and interns on what she was like. all she had heard of was that she was tall and a redhead, but that could mean so many different things. the tall redheads that she knew were great, but - “colette?” it made her stop in her tracks. her second older sister, the woman she had gone to with her problems when her actual sister wasn’t available. when her sister had died, colette became the only sister she knew. it was - well, it had been a while since they had seen each other but god. it was great seeing her. “what are you doing here? are you -?” tall and redhead, oh my god! “holy hell, are you my new boss?” probably not the most professional way to say it, but this was basically a dream come true. 

“are we..?” the ambulance was slowing down. they were in the middle of basically the high way, but they were slowing down. when she peered out of the back window, she couldn’t see any traffic. there were two knocks onto the open between them and the person who was driving and when it opened, they told both april and catalina that something was wrong with the ambulance. she’d called the hospital, so hopefully someone would be there as soon as possible to transport them all soon. “at least we still have power,” dont freak out too much. knowing april, things could become a freak out pretty quickly. if catalina kept a cool head, so would the resident. “you’re okay, right? someone should probably already be on their way. lets just keep up with his vitals, keep pumping him with the morphine for his leg and he’ll be okay.” 

he was standing in an elevator, something he did every day. he was on the way to grab a coffee when the doors opened on a different floor. again, something that happened every day. this time, his ex-fiance was standing on the other side. eyes dipped to the necklace that she was wearing, turning back to meet hers before taking two steps backwards to give her room to walk into the elevator. 

“do you still have the chart from our john doe last week?” weirdly enough, it wasn’t too rare to have someone come into the emergency room without any sort of identification on them. you usually called the police (depending on the situation) or figured it out through medical records, but before then the hospital would claim the patient as a john doe until they woke up and were coherent enough to explain who they were. connor was professional enough to work with eleanor, but that didn’t mean it was one of his favorite things to do. yeah, him and his sister argued over the smallest of things. her happiness and well being wasn’t one of them. 

without a thought, catalina kissed tommy before even considering what she was doing. her mom used to always laugh about how cat was meant for the medical field, seeing as she rarely ever got sick. now that she was older, she spent her life around sick people without getting any of the germs she came in contact with. knock on wood that this would be the same. “they’ll be excited to see you,” the owners of the bakery down the street loved tommy. even she would go on her own, they’d ask about where he was. if he was at the fire house, they’d even sometimes give her extra pastries to drop off for him as a present. they had been together for as long as catalina could even imagine and every time she saw them, they seemed even more in love than the day before. it was a dream, having that kind of life. 

“so sorry,” there were two knocks on his office door before dr martinez finally made her way in, “i know your assistant told me you had a question for me about 45 minutes ago but there was a very weird case that came in. some guy came in with a  - ” there was a pause, hand shaking away the story realizing that mr convington probably did not care about a guy with a tree stuck in his leg. why was she apologizing? andrea had no idea, but that’s what came with randomly being called to a board members office. “did you still have a question?”

“are you breaking the law?” it was a stupid question because the answer was obvious. she was. she had stopped working at the hospital a while ago, so seeing her rummaging through a supply closet like a raccoon seeing food for the first time was a bit more than surprising. alex wouldn’t tell anyone, obviously. that didn’t mean anything about him being nosey and getting answers to any of the questions that he wanted to ask. “looks like the princess lost her throne,” he let out a laugh, searching through the closet for his own necessities. when jo left the hospital, he had asked around for a couple days to see if he understand what happened. it wasn’t some ulterior motive, but he has always admired her skills as a surgeon. she was a younger resident, but that didn’t mean alex couldn’t see skill when he saw it. “bailey’s outside,” he admitted, “you may want that phone call to last a little bit longer than you need it to.” 

it had been one hell of a day. all he wanted to do was go get his girl, get a six pack of beer and spend the night at home. he didnt need to talk to anyone, say any sort of medical term or make sort of decision involving someone else. “you ready to go home?” he found her in one of the many attending lounges around the hospital, an immediate smile forming on his face when he did. 

“ten bucks and a coffee next time you come to the firehouse,” there was a quick yet nonchalant shrug, “take it or leave it.” weirdly, beverly could see her and brooke actually being friends if tommy had never been in the picture. maybe, just maybe, they could at some point find a way to be friends with tommy being in both of their lives. it had been a long time since she had called herself a donovan. deep down, she was just happy that tommy had found someone that could give him what he wanted. “would you be okay if we stopped doing this?” kind of a weird question, bev knew that. it was still something she wanted to ask. “i’m kind of over this being weird with you when it doesn’t have to be.”