No Time | Grey's Anatomy // Book 1 // COMPLETED |

47 | An End to a Stressful Day

 "Thank you for staying today, Cristina and Ellie." Teddy said she began continued to work on our patient, "I know it can't have been an easy decision."

Cristina and I nodded as we stood in silence. A part of me was mad that we had just saved the shooter's life, but another part of me remembered that he was someone's son. "You know what, though?" Cristina looked up, "It was."

"It was the right decision." I nodded.

As the day turned to night, almost all of the surgeries had finished so our gallery began to fill up with people wanting to see the last operation...or to see Cristina operating again. First, it was Chief Webber, Meredith, and Derek. But as time went by, Alex, Jackson, Lexie, and even Bailey joined, and before we knew it all the seats were taken.

"Thirty-seven degrees," Cristina said.

"Should be any minute now." Teddy sighed as we waited for the boy's heart to start pumping again.

The three of us stared down at it, willing it to start working again. Teddy reached down and gave it a poke, and then it began to beat again. Letting out a sigh of relief, Teddy looked up to the gallery and gave them a nod. "We saved him," I said as we looked down the boy's face.

Looking back up at the gallery, a few people had started to cry. But then, out of nowhere, they all burst out into laughter. Shaking my head, a smile spread onto my face as we began to close the boy up.

Once the surgery was over, people went home, or to Joe's, or to god knows where. But I made my way to an on-call room to spend yet another night alone. I hadn't spoken to Sam in days and I wasn't even sure if I had a boyfriend by the way Jackson's and my weird on-off relationship went, but one thing I did know was that I had a job, and I kicked ass at it.