Code Blue • Jackson Avery

Chapter Eleven

I walked into the hospital for the evening shift to find Izzy had cut Denny Duquete's L-VAD wire so he could be bumped up the transplant list to receive a heart. While on the other side of the hospital, Burke was going into surgery to try and regain feeling in his right arm after being shot.

"Damn it don't just stand there Bella help" George yelled as he and Meredith tried to help Izzy.

"Burke is coming" Izzy kept repeating to herself.

"Um...Burke isn't coming" I said making all eyes fall on me. Just as I was about to repeat myself Cristina walked in.

"Meredith you paged me- what the hell is going on?"

"Cristina, Izzy cut Denny's wire" Meredith informed her.

"Why isn't Burke coming?" Izzy asked as she continued to pump the heart.

"Burke was shot and he's in surgery with Shepherd" Cristina said as she and Meredith ran around trying to help Izzy.

"Guys, I cant be here.... if I get caught helping I'm out of the program" I said trying to back away but it was too late Bailey was standing in the doorway and she wasn't happy looking.

"What is going on?" Bailey sternly asked. She looked around assessing the situation.

"Grey, Shepherd, O'Malley and Yang outside now and don't say a word" Bailey instructed. George went to say something but Bailey shut him down.

"What did I say, don't say a word. I don't want to have to testify against you. Now just listen to me carefully. What you guys did was illegal, you can get released from the hospital and we could lose our license from UNOs"

Bailey made us sit against the wall in timeout form as Bailey rushed Denny into surgery.

"I'm going to come clean" Izzy said.

"No, no one confesses, no one says a word" Meredith demanded. I sunk my head into my lap, I had barely even there for a minute and I was already in trouble.

After surgery the surgery was complete Bailey must have told Chief Webber who must have told my dad. It was almost like I was waiting to meet with the principal with my dad.

My dad walked over with a stern look on his face and motioned for me to follow him.

"I'm done for" I said to the group as I got up.

"He can't be that mean can he?" Cristina asked

"Oh you'll here the yelling in about a minute" I said as I wandered into the empty conference room.

"What the hell were you thinking Bella?" My dad yelled as he paced around the room.

"I didn't do anything, I swear just hear me out"

"No, you listen to me... what you did could put both my job and your job on the line. What were you thinking Isabella, I'm so disappointed in you" he continued to yell

"If you would just listen you would know I didn't do anything. I didn't touch a damn tool in there. I know better and I would never put your or my life, career, job on the line" I yelled back. I was becoming frustrated with how he was treating me. "You talk about jeopardizing our jobs, what about jeopardizing your marriage, what about jeopardizing our relationship. You didn't seem to care to then why should you care now?"

I walked out of the room probably leaving my dad stunned. I've never talked back before, I always respected my parents but at this moment I threw everything out the window, especially my respect towards him.

"Bella" Alex yelled as he got up from the wall. Tears were streaming down my face. He grabbed my arm pulling me closer to him. I tried pulling away but it was no use, instead I melted into Alex's body giving into the tears.

"Look if you have an issue with me-" Meredith began. I immediately pulled away from Alex.

"I have no issues with Meredith, my issue is with my dad's secrets" I then turned my attention to my dad who had a soft, upset look on his face.

"You've never kept this many secrets before, never, you had no problem telling grandma you were having a child at 16. You had no problem telling my mom you didn't love her anymore but you couldn't tell Addison you were done and you couldn't tell me you think you found someone. Two wrongs don't make a right, I believe you're the only who's told me that my whole life" I said before walking away.

"In my office now" Chief Webber sternly said as I walked by. I turned around and walked in afraid of what was going to come out of his mouth.