Couple's Therapy

WEDDING BAND & BIRTH MARK

Miranda pouted and folded her arms. "You maybe be taller than me Torres, but you're not stronger", Miranda said pissed.

"You wanna bet. I got all the strength in the world right now because my Godson is out there crying, hurt and worried about you."

"Tuck situation was an accident. I love my son, I would never-....."

"But you did Miranda and what about the lying and drinking. You just performed a surgery. ARE YOU CRAZY?", Callie yelled. "You could lose your license Miranda!"

"I wasn't drunk!", she rolled her eyes sitting down on the floor in the scrub area.

"You're sitting on the damn floor in the scrub room. I would think you're drinking something. Let's go!", she said trying to help her up.

"Leave me alone. Why are you always involved in my shit Torres?!!"

Callie could smell the alcohol coming from skin and rather it was new or old she had to stop her friend from wrecking everything else left in her life. "Miranda you're going home. And because you're always self sabotaging your own damn life, relationships and etc. Shall I go on?", she said feeling bad.

"Then stay out of my life then Callie, since I self sabotage shit so much."

"Then what you have no one; me, Tuck or Ben", and Miranda looked up like her heart had just shattered into pieces. "Don't you say his name. You don't know what happen. It's your fucking fault that we even went on that trip in the first place. Now my husband is gone off somewhere raising his twins because I told him to leave our marriage and be a father to them to avoid any bullshit with their mother", she cried.

"Miranda?!!!", Callie sat down in front of her. "Twins? Are they his?"

"They act and look just like him Callie!", she said hurt.

"I'm confused. Did Ben che-..."

"No he never would do that. His ex didn't tell him about being pregnant and having his babies when their hospital merged with ours. She kept it from him all these years and was dating someone else at the time and told him that they were his."

"Miranda I'm sorry, but you need to get your shit together. Don't let this break you nor let it ruin what you and Ben have. You're stronger than this and you know it!"

"Not without him!"

"TORRES! WE NEED YOU IN O.R. 2. WE HAVE A FRACTURED FEMUR AND TIBIA ON A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL. ARIZONA NEEDS YOUR HELP!", someone said busting in the door.

"DR. BAILEY WE HAVE A MALE WITH A LIVER LAC AND PERFORATED BOWEL COMING FROM A HEAD CT NOW. WE NEED YOU TO SCRUB IN, HE'S COMING TO THIS O.R."

"Miranda?!", Callie said second guessing herself wondering if she should say something.

"I'm fine! And what's going on anyway?", she said getting up as she saw people running by.

"An 18 wheeler turned over on the freeway hitting about 10 other cars. There was a lot of fatalities, but I think we got some of the lucky ones.

They brought the unknown male down right away and started immediately on his surgery. His face was swollen and kind of unrecognizable.

"Dr. Grey are you going to help or just keep staring at our patient and hope that saves him", Miranda said annoyed.

"Sorry Bailey. I just got this feeling that I know him."

"Well you won't know if he doesn't make it. I can barely see anything, there's so much blood. His liver is literally almost in half. I need another unit on stand by, NOW!", she yelled as she grabbed more lap pads placing them above and below the organ. "More, more, more. I need more lap pads!"

An intern called down to lab to rush two units of blood up. They hung the first bag after the other one that was already hanging finished and made it through the liver repair after it finally clotted and she was able to mend it back together after an hour or two, then they started working on his perforated bowel.

The monitors started beeping again.

"SUCTION! SUCTION! WHERE IS ALL THIS BLOOD COMING FROM NOW? THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER SOURCE SOMEWHERE", Miranda said trying to move things around in his abdomen to find the problem without ripping any of the work that she had already completed.

"Run that unit other of blood now!", Miranda said as they all looked at the monitors beeping. 

"His BP is steady dropping Dr. Bailey!"

"KEEP SUCTIONING! JUST KEEP SUCTIONING. I NEED LAP PADS!"

"BAILEY WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE OR HE IS NOT GOING TO MAKE IT!"

Miranda paused for a minute because she couldn't focus.

"BAILEY!", Grey yelled.

"Think Miranda! Think!", she said to herself as her hand rested on his body and she felt an instant connection and a voice inside her head. "You can do this. You can save me. Picture what else could be bleeding and clamp it. Save me Miranda!", a voice said in her head that almost scared her.

The monitor flatlined.

As someone was getting ready to shock his heart Miranda had her hands inside the body feeling around. "Dr. Bailey clear!"

"NO NOT YET."

"BAILEY?!"

"I GOT IT!", she said clamping it and the room went silent for a few seconds and his heart beat was back and BP was rising back to normal.

Everyone cheered and felt relief while Miranda was frozen. "Let's double check for any other repairs and etc. then close once we're good", Miranda said while putting water in to see if any bubbles or holes appeared, but there was nothing.

His vital signs were normal and stable and his injuries were all repaired. "Time to close!", Miranda said.

"Dr. Bailey are you good? We need Dr. Grey", a surgical nurse walked in saying.

"Go Grey. I got this, he's good now", Miranda said stepping down from her stool.

As the Nurses got him ready to head to post op Miranda looked at the man's hand as it fell to the side. "STOP!", she yelled.

Miranda walked over to him and grabbed his hand turning it over to see his wedding band. "Why wasn't that taken off?", a intern asked.

"When they are rushed in straight to the O.R. there isn't always time to remove all jewelry", Miranda said teary eyed as she turned his ring around on his finger and gasped grabbing her chest.

"Bailey you okay?", Dr. Knox asked.

"BEN!?", she whispered scared.

"Bailey?"

Miranda snatched the sheet down that separates the surgeons from the Anesthesiologists and looked at his face. "Benjamin!!!!", she held her breath trying to see, but her eyes were so filled with tears and his face was swollen from glass cuts and covered in blood.

She pulled everything up to see his left hip and saw his birth mark. "It's Bennnnnjaammmiinn. I operated on my husband!", Miranda cried before fainting.

"Dr. Bailey!", Knox and the others yelled as she hit her head on the tray before hitting the floor.

"Someone go get a stretcher!", a Nurse said as she placed a cloth on her head wound to stop the bleeding.

"WHAT HAPPENED?!!", Callie and Webber rushed in.

"It's Ben Warren on the table!", Knox said. "Bailey identified his wedding band and his birth mark, then she fainted after realizing she operated on him and almost lost him.

"OMG those are his kids!!!!", Callie said out loud to herself.

"Kids? What kids? Warren has kids?", Knox and Webber both asked.