Sleeping Monsters

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Ava sat on the edge of the couch as she yawns listening to the other board members.

"We are throwing Bailey under the bus." Callie says as she looks at each of them.

"Come on. That is not what we're doing." Jackson tells her as he makes himself a coffee.

"Yeah, it seems like that's exactly what we're doing." Cristina tells them.

"Two of our patients are dead of the same post-op infection.A third one's barely hanging on.
It was time.We get the CDC In here and figure this thing out." Jackson says to them.

"By treating Bailey like a criminal?She hasn't done anything." Meredith says to Jackson.

"I hope that you're right.The truth is, we don't know that yet. CDC is simply asking us to temporarily freeze Bailey's files." Jackson explains to them.

"Oh, come on." Derek mumbles.

"And that we not discuss this investigation with her.So today, just keep your distance." Jackson tell them.

"That is ridiculous." Cristina says to him.

"Also I think now's the time to put out a statement." Jackson tells them

"No, no.No. About what?" They all says apart from Ava.

"I mean, we don't even know if Bailey's the source of this thing." Arizona says to him

"If one of ours is at fault and we just sit on this information,we look like we're trying to cover something up. The only way to let the public know that we can be objective is by being transparent." Jackson explains to all of them.

"Vote?" Callie suggest to them.

"I'm just saying, people should learn the news from us." Jackson says to them.

"There's no news." Derek says to him.

"Okay, vote?" Callie suggest as Ava shakes her head.

"No vote look Bailey is one of us and maybe we are throwing her under the bus but this needs to be done so that we can prove she did nothing wrong and the only way is to cooperate with CDC. And as for the statement it's not happening we have no facts or proper information so in that we're not covering anything up so when we get all the facts and information we'll talk about a statement but for now just go about your day normally and don't say anything about this anymore." Ava tells each of them as they nod at her.
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Ava walked over to Mason and Jackson as she saw April walk off.

"What's got her all angry?" Ava asks them as Jackson looks at Mason.

"The paramedic dumped her because she lied about being a virgin and now she's blaming me because I'm the reason she's no longer a virgin." Mason explains to Ava.

"Oh she'll get over it. I have to rebuild a leg want to tell help me?" Ava asks Mason.

"Yeah sure." He says as he hands the tablet back to the nurse as they go into the trauma room to check on their patient.
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"So how is the new house?" Mason asks Ava as they scrub in.

"A mess and complete chaos between being a surgeon and running a hospital doesn't allow you much time to set up your house now with everything going on." Ava says to him.

"Where do you stand on the whole Bailey situation?" Mason asks her as they get gowned before starting the surgery as they all look at her.

"We are not saying anything about Dr Bailey until we know what is happening. So everyone just leave it." Ava says to all of them as they go back there work.
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"Bailey..." Arizona says as they all look at the door.

"Oh, Dr. Bailey, you should not be here right now." Jackson says to her.

"This is about me.I'd like to hear it." Bailey says to them as Ava smiles at her.

"That's your call." Ava tells her.

"We have a protocol for a reason." Jackson says to his wife as she glared at him as he nods. "Fine you can stay." Jackson says as they all return to the conversation.

"Staph aureus usa600 is an antibiotic-resistant infection with a range of symptoms from simple skin rashes to fatal sepsis.We have traced the source of the infection to one doctor.Dr. Miranda Bailey is a carrier of mrsa usa600. But the real culprit here is the gloves.Records show the surgical gloves in use at the time of outbreak, March 15, shipped from the manufacturer Hemming Synthetics Incorporated." He explains to all of them.

"We switched to Hemming's gloves when Pegasus was here." Owen tells them as they all look over at him.

"Our testing reveals manufacturing defects.Microscopic tears in the gloves, which facilitated the transmission of staph usa600
to Dr. Bailey's patients.It is the CDC's determination, were it not for the defective gloves, the patients in question would not have been infected.As for Dr. Bailey, we recommend
eradication measures before she can go back to any kind of patient care." He explains to them as they all smile at each other with relief for Dr Bailey.

"All right.Thank God.Best possible outcome." They all say as Bailey walks out of the room.

"Here are copies of our report. The CDC thanks you for your time and cooperation.And please...Feel free to call my office if you have any questions." He says as he hands the files to Jackson.

"Thank you." Owen and Callie say.
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Ava was unpacking boxes as Jackson walk in as she smiles up at him. "Hey." She says to him.

"Hey." He says as he puts his bag away as he goes over to sit beside Ava as he rubs his hands over his face as he exhales deeply.

"Are you okay?" Ava asks him as she moves behind him and massages his shoulders.

"How are we both in-charge yet it makes me the bad guy?" Jackson asks her.

"Your not the bad guy Jackson and honestly you were right on the most part because you were able to separate work with your friends. Today was just hard because we all care about Bailey and we didn't want the outcome to be bad. But it's over now so don't worry about it." Ava says to him as she leans over his shoulder and kisses him.

"Do we have to unpack these boxes?" Jackson says looking up at his wife.

"We do but once you've done it they're might be time for something else." Ava says smiling at him as she kisses him.

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