Home is where the heart is (Berena)

Chapter Nine

It had now been a month since Serena and Bernie had split due to Bernie cheating on Serena back in Ukraine, Bernie had been trying to stay clean which she had found hard as while she worked on the AAU she had bandages up her arms to cover the scars as all of her long t-shirts was in the wash or was waiting to get washed,If anyone asked her about the bandages she would lie and say that she fell over while drinking,Only David and Serena knew the real reason.

Serena was also finding the break up hard as when the pair would be the same shift, she would ask Bernie if she was okay and still attending her meetings , which Bernie would say yes, and tried  to tell her that she was sorry for sleeping with Alex. Serena didn't know from the moment she walked out Bernie had stopped cutting. But each time Bernie tried Serena would walk away from her.

Bernie had swapped cutting for drinking as she thought it was the only way she knew how to cope, Bernie was on an early shift which meant that she would be needed,the night before Bernie had gone out drinking so the following morning she had a slight hangover which wasn't to bad that would stop her from working , if she got asked she was going to tell them that she had been up all night with paperwork.

few minutes in her car before getting her bag and getting out walking into the building grabbing herself a coffee, Slowly sipping her coffee she made her way to AAU unknowingly knowing that she would  come face to face with Alex who had been called in to cover as AAU was short on staff, she walked on to the AAU heading straight to the office, she noticed that some of Serena's things had gone. She sighed to herself before leaning back in her chair not knowing that Serena was taking a few days off from working.

Bernie looked around the empty office taking the last few sips of her coffee before stepping outside the office and headed over to the desk looking at Fletch and Donna "where's Ms Campbell?"

"Ah about that, she's taken a few days off.. said she needed some time on her own.."

"Oh, So she's left me in charge?"

Fletch nodded "Yeah, She said that you'll keep it in safe hands until she gets back"

"And it will be" Bernie Replied

Bernie nodded as she picked up a patient's folder before going over to them checking on them before hearing her pager go off, she called Fletch over to continue checking the patient, Bernie made her way to the MRI and CT scan room looking at Dom "you paged?" She asked

"No not me but someone else did..." Dom replied with a little pause as Alex came walking through the doors and spoke "no but I did"

"What are you doing here?" Bernie asked raising her eyebrow while looking at Alex in an unwanted way.

"Heard the hospital was low on staff... So I said i'd would love to help..." Alex replied with a smile just to wind up

"We don't need you" Bernie scoffed knowing what Alex was a trying to do"why did you need me for? Looks like you have it all under control.."

"Well not quite... The patient well, she keeps fitting..." Alex explained to the blonde.

"What do you mean fitting?" The blonde asked walking to the patient , feeling her chest to see what could be making her fit

"Like she be fine but once she starts going into the MRI scanner she begins to fit..." Alex said watching her Ex girlfriends movements

"There's some sort of blockage in her airways... she needs to be in theatre right away... you can join us if you like Alex.."

Alex nodded as they moved her down to theatre, Dom,Alex and Bernie all scrubbed in and started to operate on the female, Alex started telling Dom about how they would operate on the sand and in the heat, the blonde just listened while she opened the females airwaves beginning to look for the blockage but kept getting distracted by what Alex was talking about and accidentally cut into more of the patients windpipe while trying to remove the blockage "Shit!"