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

82 | One, Two, Squeeze

Victims of a sudden impact are some of the hardest to treat. It's not just the collision that injures them. It's everything after. The centrifugal force keeps them moving, tossing them from vehicles, throwing them through windshields, slamming their internal organs into the skeleton. Their bodies are injured over and over again. So there's no way to know how much damage has actually been done...until they stop.

"Sir?" Alex walked over to the first body laid out on the road, "Can you move? We need to get you off this road."

The man groaned in response, "Honey. Jessica. Answer me."

Putting the bag down, I rushed over to the second body just as a girl climbed out of the vehicle. "Mom?" she moved to the third body, "Mom. Mom, wake up. Mom, wake up!"

"I don't feel a pulse." I announced, "Or it's just very low."

The girl stood up and ran to Meredith, "Help them, please. You have to help them! My mom, my dad, the van...and I just stepped in blood. I-I just stepped in blood."

"Hey, what's your name?" Meredith asked the girl.

"Lily," she answered.

Meredith nodded, "Okay, Lily, I need you to calm down and take the baby. Hold the baby."

"I don't even babysit." Lily cried, "I can't hold a baby."

"Lily, do you want me to help your family or not?" Meredith asked her, "Hold the baby."

Nodding, Lily took the infant. "Okay, I need you to squeeze." Meredith showed her how to manually give oxygen to the baby with the oxygen-breathing bag, "One, two, squeeze."

"What if I mess up?" Lily asked.

Meredith shook her head, "You're not gonna mess up, Lily. One, two, squeeze. Count out loud so I can hear you."

"Okay, one, two, squeeze." Lily started to calm down, "One, two, squeeze."

"No matter what you do, don't stop squeezing," Meredith instructed before moving over to one of the other bodies, "Ma'am, Ma'am, I'm a doctor, can you hear me?"

"You got any tape in there?" Meredith called to Alex, "I have to do adhesive dressing."

Alex handed out the large red bags to us as he moved along the side of the road where we had moved the bodies to, "Probably. I just grabbed whatever."

"Is my mom okay?" Lily asked, "Mom?"

Meredith turned to her, "Lily, keep counting."

"Why isn't-why isn't she talking?" Lily began to cry again.

"Lily!" Meredith reminded her.

"One, two, squeeze." Lily continued.

"How's she doing?" Alex called over to Meredith and I as we both tried to help the mother.

"Not good." I replied, "We may have to intubate. Don't you have to do a pressure dressing?"

Alex groaned, "Uh, I see gray matter. Brains are on the ground."

"Wait, that's Nana." Lily told Alex as he stood up and moved to a different body, "That's my Na-"

"There's nothing we can do," Alex told Lily as Meredith and I started using the tape.

"Oh, crap." Alex looked down at the other body, "This kid's got a shard of glass in her eye. She's unconscious. Her pulse is low."

"That's my sister." Lily sniffled, "That's Abby."

Meredith sighed, "Lily...just see the blinker on the van? Just watch that blinker and keep counting. One, two, squeeze. One, two, squeeze."

Just then, the man started to wake up again, "The kids. The kids."

"Your girls are okay, all right?" Alex told him, "I just helped one and the other one's right over there."

"And Micheal?" he asked, "What about Micheal?"

"There's another kid?" Meredith asked.

The man fell silent as I got up to look for the other kid. "Ah, crap. There's no pulse." Alex huffed.

"Dad!" Lily called, "Dad!"

"Lily, keep counting!" Meredith yelled.

Lily looked back at the van's blinker, "One, two, squeeze. One, two, squeeze. One, two, squeeze."

"Micheal?" I looked around.

"Help." a soft voice called out.

I walked around to the back of the van, "Micheal? Micheal?"

"Help." I locked eyes on a boy trapped underneath the back door.

I leaned down beside him, "Okay, Um, I'm gonna check your pulse." I felt for his pulse, "Pulse is a little weak. All right. I'm gonna try to free your legs, okay?"

Micheal nodded and I slowly started to lift the door up and off of Micheal. "Guys, there's a car coming!" Alex yelled.

"Oh, crap." I groaned before turning to Micheal and placing a hand on his now partially free legs, "Can you feel your legs?"

"You gotta get out of there!" Alex yelled at me.

"Micheal!" I heard Lily cry out.

"He's trapped." I yelled back, "I have to get his legs free!"

I could hear Alex getting annoyed, "There's no time!"

"Oh, my God." Lily kept screaming.

"Kid, just keep counting." Alex ordered, "Ellie! You gotta get off the road!"

"Come on! Come on!" I tried pulling Micheal free.

"Ellie!" Alex yelled.

Sighing, I let go of Micheal and ran onto the road. "No, don't leave me." Micheal pleaded.

"Ellie!" Meredith ran out with me.

"What the hell are you-" Alex screamed, "They're not even gonna see you! Ellie, Meredith, what are you doing?!"

"STOP! PLEASE!" Meredith and I waved our arms around as the backup ambulance drove around the corner and stopped in front of us. Meredith and I stared into the glowing red lights of the ambulance and took deep breaths.

"Thanks for being insane with me," I smirked.

"Don't mention it." Meredith sighed.

Not long after we were all on our way back. The family that had hit us were coming back in separate ambulances that were also sent to the scene. As soon as we arrived back at the hospital, everyone rushed around. Meredith got out of the ambulance with the family member in our rig, and I could hear Alex with the baby as he got out of one of the others.

As soon as I stood up and got out of the ambulance, I became light-headed. "Whoa." I tried not to fall as I stumbled into the E.R. but quickly shook it off. "Forrest." Owen walked over to me, "Please tell me out of the three of you, you'll be the reasonable one and go get yourself checked out."

Smirking, I shook my head, "Sorry, but nope. There are a bunch of traumas here and, like I said, I choose trauma." Taking off my coat and giving myself a quick look over, I put on some fresh trauma scrubs and walked over to where Meredith and Bailey were checking out Micheal.

"It-It hurts." Micheal moaned as Meredith used her stethoscope, "My stomach really hurts."

Meredith nodded, "Okay, Micheal, we gave you something for the pain. It should kick in in a minute."

"Abdomen feels rigid." Bailey said as we used the ultrasound to get a better look, "Yep. Free fluid in the right upper quadrant."

"So that could be a liver lac." I pointed to the screen, "We should order a C.T."

"No, keep trying! That's my mom!" we heard Lily yell.

"Okay, Micheal, I need you to stay still, please," Meredith told Micheal as he sat up upon hearing his sister's screams.

Micheal started to panic, "What-what-what's going on?"

"You can't give up! You have to keep trying!" Lily yelled through the window.

"She already watched her grandmother die," Meredith said.

Bailey nodded, "Yeah, go, go."

Meredith took off towards Lily. I watched as she ran into Lily's mom's room and frantically tried to revive her, but after many failed attempts, I saw her call the time of death as she stared out the window at Lily.