Lover // g. o'malley

A Change is Gonna Come

In the practice of  all sorts of medicine, change is inevitable. New surgical techniques are created all the time, procedures are updated, levels of expertise increase over time. Innovation is everything. Nothing remains the same for too long. We either adapt to change or we get left behind.

As my new interns walk up to me, I give them Dr. Bailey's famous "five rules" speech. "I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up, I already hate you. That's not gonna change," I tell them as they follow me around the hospital.

Once I get to the final rule, I'm showing them the on-call rooms. "The dying patient better not be dead when I get there, because not only will you have killed someone, you will have woken me for no good reason. Are we clear?" I ask them. An intern raises her hand. "Yes?" I ask her.

"That was only four rules. You said five," she says.

"Rule number five, when I move you all move," I tell them. They still don't move when I say this. "Go!" I yell.

After the interns leave, Alex, Cristina, Meredith, Izzie, and I all meet upstairs in the empty hallway, sitting on the old gurneys. "I hate them," I mutter.

"You don't hate them. They just hate you," Meredith says.

"That was hideous. I feel like a total fraud," Izzie says.

"I think I actually rocked it. I think I'm gonna be the new Nazi," Alex says with a huge grin on his face.

"Oh, you are so not the new Nazi," Cristina says, letting out a slight laugh.

George walks upstairs to find us. Turns out, he actually did fail his intern exam. "Meredith, I need to talk to you real quick," he says.

"George, hi," Izzie says, trying to get his attention. I roll my eyes and Alex notices, nudging me for it.

"Hey," he mumbles to her.

"How was your vacation?" she asks him. I raise my eyebrows, what is she thinking?

"Um it was fine. Meredith, I really need to talk to you," George says again.

"Because mine was... well I didn't really get to do too much. I hung out alone in Meredith's house for 17 days. Which was the last time I saw you and Rachel, the day of Cristina's wedding, which was... well you know... then Mer and Cristina went on Cristina's honeymoon to Hawaii without me," she complains.

"Girl-on-girl honeymoon," Alex says, smirking. This makes me laugh a little bit.

"And then Alex took a road trip to see Ava without me too," Izzie complains again.

Alex stops smirking at this. "I did not go out to see Ava. And her name is Rebecca now. And I didn't go to see her. I just drove in that direction," he tells her.

"Oh, why is everyone so tingly and hurt today? I mean, I'm the one who was left at the altar at my wedding. I'm fine, by the way. I honeymooned in Hawaii and I snorkeled in the ocean," Cristina tells us.

"What'd you do on your vacation George?" Izzie asks him, crossing her arms.

"Oh just shut up Izzie. He's clearly not interested in talking to you right now, let him breathe for a minute," I tell her.

She looks offended but before she can say anything, George speaks up. "Um, Meredith, I really do need to talk to you."

Before she can talk to him, all of the interns walk in the hallway we are sitting in. "Uh, hey, this is for residents only. No interns allowed," Cristina tells them, shooing them away with her hand.