falling for you [m.s.]

sixty

the evening before thanksgiving

gwen was in the o.r as a cardio surgeon again. what happened? richard asked gwen to be head of cardio again. and gwen took the offer immediatly. gwen loves peds and fetal but the most she feels home in cardio. so here she stood, at night, operating on a heart with cristina and avery.

"oh my god! that is the biggest pseudoaneurysm i've ever seen." cristina says.

"it's at the suture line of the transplant. her new heart is dying." gwen discovers. "damn it."

"poor guy that brought her in, i think they were on their third date." jackson sighs.

"doesn't look like a heart anymore." cristina shoke her head.

"that's because it's not. it's a chunk of useless flesh that has to come out right now." gwen states.

"you're taking the heart out? what are you gonna replace it with?" cristina asks looking up at the attending.

"i don't know." gwen shrugs. "we're gonna have to figure it out as we go."

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after the surgery on kelsey, the patient, gwen, jackson and cristina talked to kelsey's boyfriend mike since kelsey was still unconscious.

"okay, wait, let me get this straight. you removed her heart?" mike asks.

"yes." gwen replied.

"and she can live that way?" mike asks worried. "like, what? like a vampire?"

"usually you'd connected a ventricular assist device to the heart, but since she doesn't have a heart..." jackson start to explain but cristina cuts him off.

"dr.shepherd attached two, um, devices to her blood vessels. this machine now pumps the blood through her body, wich is basically, um, a miracle." cristina explains as she briefly smiles at gwen.

cristina was more than happy that gwen finally was doing cardio again.

"i really like her... i like her a lot, but we've only had four dates. i'm supposed to have thanksgiving with my family, you know?" mike says looking between the doctors slightly panicked. "and she was gonna join us, and now she's like a... she can really live without a heart?"

"if you don't want to stay, we have a great nursing staff, great doctors." gwen assures him. "she'll be in good hands."

"no, you know? she doesn't even have a family. and if it was me, i would want somebody here, so i'll stay." mike says.

"ok." gwen smiles.

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a blond woman was walking through the ambulance bay. searching for someone.

"excuse me." the teenie walked up to alex. "i'm looking for dr.sloan."

"um, you see the dude who was burned trying to deep-fry a turkey?" alex asks poiting to mark treating a patient. "sloan's the guy making him scream like a girl."

the blond one nods and walks over to mark.

"dr.sloan?" the young woman asks.

"yeah." mark replies looking up eyes widening.

"hi. uh, so this is a little weird, but, um... my name is sloan reilly, and my mom's samantha reilly. and, um... i'm pretty sure you're my dad." the blond blurts.

mark looked at her with wide eyes but his eyes wide more when he saw gwen standing there hearing everything. gwen just shoke her head and walked away. but mark followed her.