Bridge Over Troubled Water

Goin' Down the Road

Goin' Down the Road- Roy Wood

Meredith's POV:

The moment I got out of the rig, the first thing I thought of was Derek. I know he loves ferry boats and that this was definitely going to be hard for him. We all just stood outside the rig staring for a good thirty seconds before Bailey finally started talking.

"You fools don't just stand there! Go be a doctor and help people!" she shouted at us as she started walking around to look for a place in need of help.

Everyone else continued to simply stand there so I took the liberty of following Bailey through the large crowds of people. Eventually, we both heard someone nearby start screaming and Bailey told me to go over and help them.

The person turned out to be a girl who had a few minor lacerations on her arms and head.

"Hello Miss, what's your name?" Meredith asked while she put on a pair of gloves.

"M-my name's C-Catherine" the girl stuttered as she continued to shiver.

"Okay Catherine, I'm a doctor, can you tell me what happened?"

"I was on the ferry and then all of the sudden there was this big blast. I remember people screaming and my mom telling me to get down. I guess I didn't get down soon enough because I started seeing black and then the next thing I remembered was being in the water. Someone saw me as soon as I started screaming and jumped in to save me. The water was so cold and I-I was so s-scared." Catherine started to say before she started having shortness of breath.

"Catherine, look at me. You're okay, what happened is over and you're safe now alright. Just try to stay calm and I will help fix you up okay?" After I saw her nod I opened my kit and started to suture her lacerations.

"You know you're being a very brave girl. I remember this one time when I didn't know what was going to happen next and I started panicking," I said remembering back to the day with the bomb. "I remember being frozen, almost like I couldn't move. Everyone kept telling me to stay calm, but I couldn't process a single word I was being told." I started to realize that I was rambling and almost done with the stitches.

"Anyway, I just wanted to say that you're a very brave girl and that you are doing a great job of staying calm." I tied off the last stitch and put a bandage over the now sutured laceration.

"Well I'm done, let's get you to triage so that you can find your family okay?" I walked Catherine to triage and found someone watching over a group of children.

"Hey sir, this girl can't find her family, I sutured her laceration, but she said she lost consciousness earlier. When she finds her family let them know she should probably go to the hospital." I told the man before I went in search of another patient.

I found another patient very quickly. It was a man walking while bent over grasping his stomach. I went up to him and asked him his name and what hurt. I learned that his name was Griffin and that he had abdominal pain.

"Griffin, can I lift your shirt so that I can take a look?" After he consented I lifted his shirt enough to see lots of bruises and red splotches, a clear indication of internal bleeding.

"Can I get a gurney over here?" I shouted knowing Griffin needed to get to the hospital and fast. The gurney came over and some EMTs helped me get Griffin on to it. Once he was on there I did a more thorough exam and concluded that the internal bleeding was most likely from his liver since most of the redness was on the upper right-hand portion of his abdominal cavity.

"Get him to the hospital ASAP, he has internal bleeding, most likely from his liver!" I shouted as the EMTs started to take him away.

"Hey, Grey!" I heard someone call. It turns out it was Bailey and she was walking along the side of a gurney. "Can you go over to a patient back there?" Bailey asked me as she jerked her head in the direction of the dock area. "I was asked to help, but I'm kind of busy as you can see. Just go over there and see what that man is screaming about."

"No problem Dr. Bailey," I replied as I started to head over to a man who was screaming his head off. 

A/N: Can you guess who the person screaming their head off is?

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