Unexpected Love (Editing)

Chapter 83

Liliana's pov

"Derek, why is there suddenly an order for carbamazepine in Eric Schneider's chart?" I ask walking over to the front desk where Derek is standing.

"He needed a good anti convulsant." He says.

"And I know that. That is why I had already written him one for valproic acid. You can't just go around writing orders on my patients." I say sternly.

"I'm doing my job." He smirks.

"No, you're doing my job. I am the Chief of Neurosurgery now and if you have a problem with that, call a board meeting but until then, do not go around changing my patients prescriptions." I say before walking away. Derek has decided to stay in Seattle, because he doesn't want to move across the country while his wife and children are in Seattle. I'm glad that he's staying, but we've definitely been bumping heads more than usual because he acts like he's still the head of neurosurgery and undermines what I want for the department. I get that he's used to running the show, but it's my job to run this department now and I need him to follow my rules like all of the other surgeons in this department so I can do my job efficiently.

I go check in on my post ops from earlier, before I'm paged 911 to the E.R. As soon as I get to the patient's E.R. room to start examining him, Derek is already in there working on him also, which he's did on pretty much all of my big cases lately.

"I need to assess his GCS." Derek says.

"Sir, can you tell me your name? What's your name?" I ask.

"Steve." The patient answers.

"Forget your helmet today Steve?" I ask.

"Aah, it hurts." He winces as Derek examines his head injury.

"I'm giving you something for the pain. You might start to feel sleepy now." April tells him.

"It's a depressed skull fracture. It is pretty deep. We're gonna need a C.T. and because of the position probably an angio." Derek says.

"You know, this is my patient. I can make that decision if you'll give me room to look." I say walking over to get a better view of the fracture before Derek stops me.

"Lily, I don't think he's gonna make it and it's gonna get ugly, so let me do it." He whispers so that the patient can't hear him.

"Derek, you're not the only one who can operate on cases like this. I am just as capable as you, now let me tend to my patient please." I say.

"Maybe you can both take him. Like a team or like best friends, who actually like operating together." April smiles.

"I have him Kepner, you'll assist. Now let's go up to C.T." I say before we take the patient up to run test on him. While April runs the scans on the patient, I go grab a granola bar before meeting Jackson at the front desk.

"My best friend keeps trying to steal all of my surgeries." I say as I chew on my granola bar.

"At least, you have surgeries worth someone trying to steal. Between picking someone to fill Yang's seat on the board and monitoring all the projects around this hospital, I'm down to three procedures a day if I'm lucky and not even long procedures. I'm sucking fat, lifting boob's, butts. Butt implants are huge. I just want a good, intense, smart surgery. The ones where your feet hurt because you've been on them for hours or your mind hurts because you've had to improvise and paint surgeries of joy, but I can't have those because I'm head of the board." He sighs.

"Poor thing. If it makes you feel any better I have a little bit of free time until Kepner finishes running scans on my patient." I smirk.

"That does make me feel better." He smiles before taking my hand and leading me to a on-call room, where we have a little fun until I'm paged by April because it's time for me to operate on the patient. Because of how badly his skull is fractured the operation takes longer then normal, but I manage to repair the fracture before taking the patient to recovery.