Paper Rings| m.s

[twenty-eight: tiny]

4x11
[off script but still within the plot of the episode]

Daphne woke to her phone ringing.

She was still at home and off work due to the crash a couple of weeks prior, yet she's been going into the hospital every other day to check on Liana and work on some charts at the young girls bedside.

Today was not one of those days, but now it was.

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After getting a phone call from Meredith, Daphne found herself pulling a pair of leggings and one of Mark's old     t-shirts on to run to the hospital.

As she ran into the building she looked around for her friends, "Where are they?"

Meredith spoke up, putting her hand on the other girls back to guide her, "Tuck's in a trauma room right now by Bailey is right outside the room." She stops and points to the woman that is standing a couple of feet in front of them, "There."

Daphne walks over slowly, not wanting to scare her mentor but also wanting to show her presence, "Miranda?"

The woman just shakes her head, her eyes not peeling away from the little boy that is being treated on by Cristina and Derek at the moment.

"Miranda? Do you want to sit with me?"

The woman shakes her head, now quickly looking over at Daphne before turning back to the room, "N-no. I-I can't leave him, he's too tiny."

Daphne looks over into the room, "O-okay, what if I just grab you some water, something to cool you down."

"I don't want water right now little Torres, I want my son to be okay."

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After Tuck is finally calmed down, and lightly sleeping in his small bed, Miranda finally calms down as well.

"He's too tiny."

Daphne sits next to her, "Miranda?"

"He's too tiny. H-he shouldn't be alone."

Daphne furrows her eyebrows, "What do you mean Miranda?"

"His surgery. He needs surgery and I can't be there." He turns to the young girl, "I've always been there even when I'm not. I know I work a lot but I always try to be there, and right now, I so badly want to just be there and hold his hand, but I can't. I can't be there. I can't be there Daphne."

The woman begins to break down, her body falling over onto her sons bed, her head no resting on his tiny leg.

Daphne reaches forward, her hand laying on the woman's back as she lets out sobs, "Miranda, I will sit in the gallery with you. We will sit in the gallery. You will be there Miranda."

"Someone needs to hold his hand Daphne. Somebody needs to hold his hand. He's too tiny."

Daphne nods a couple of times before getting up, "I'll be right back, okay?"

The girl walks out of the room on the watch for Cristina. After finally finding her at the nurses station on the third floor, Daphne lets out a breath.

"Oh thank god I found you, I've been looking for like fifteen minutes."

"What's wrong?"

Daphne shakes her head, now hunched over and panting, "Sorry, I just ran up and down stairs pregnant because the elevator takes too long, give me a second." She finally stands up straight and gives a small point to her friend, "I need you to hold Tuck's hand during surgery."

"What?"

"I need you to hold his hand, if you can't, find somebody who will, but I need somebody who Miranda knows and trusts to hold his hand. She's gonna freak out if nobody holds his tiny little hand Cristina and honestly I understand why. He's her baby, her only child, he needs to be okay, but she can't be in there to make sure that happens."

"So I need you to hold his hand."

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Daphne and Bailey are sitting in the gallery, Bailey standing right in front of the glass while Daphnes sits behind her.

The two of them watch as Hahn performs the tiny little boys surgery, with Cristina holding his hand.

As the surgical team finishes up and begins to close up the small boy, Bailey lets out a big breath and sits down, almost defeated.

"Thank you."

"Hmm?"

She turns to her former intern, "Thank you Daphne."

Daphne gives her a small smile, "You're my friend and family Miranda, you don't have to thank me."

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A/N

Hey y'all... I'm back:)

I am so sorry for the veryyy long break but I am back now, I can't promise that I'm gonna update weekly but I promise that a break that long will not happen again (hopefully).

I hope you guys like this chapter, we're almost done with the season, and we're going to be ending with a banger... or shall i say baby?

That was so cringey, I'm sorry.

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