⇢ CHAPTER 15

laughed as the other residents poked Steve after the epidural kicked in.

"Can you feel that?" Ryan asked as he flicked Steve's foot, "Can you feel that?"

"There's no need for you to be doing that." Steve shook his head at Pierce, who was flipping his ear, "I can feel that."

"Okay," Sadie walked inside, "the residents are here, all of them. They're in the hospital, so whatever you're doing..." She looked at Steve, "what are you doing?"

Holly smiled, "We gave him an epidural."

Sadie frowned her eyebrows, "And you didn't call me?"

"It just happened." Ryan defended.

"Epidurals don't just happen." Sadie refuted, "I'm staying at Death's. I could've been here in ten minutes."

"You're staying at Meredith's?" Lexie asked, frowning her eyebrows.

"Lexie." Steve's eyes popped out of his face.

Lexie turned her head at him, "What?"

"Oh, crap." Holly noted as she saw Steve wet the bed, "We forgot the catheter."

"No," Steve shook his head, "no catheters."

"You want to pee yourself again?" Lexie questioned.

Steve scrunched his face up, "No."

Megan, Steve's girlfriend, lightly laughed, "It's okay."

"An epidural," Sadie started, "hmm? Wow. I'm impressed." She looked at Lexie, "Death is so wrong about you."

"Why?" Lexie's smile dropped, "What did she say?"

"That you're a priss." Sadie noted, clasping her gloves on, "Too bad he's not pregnant. You could do a c-section." Steve sarcastically laughed before stopping and giving Sadie a bland look.

"We could take out his appendix." Lexie challenged.

Ryan joked, "Or amputate his foot."

"Seriously." Lexie looked at her intern friends.

Holly frowned her eyebrows, "Seriously?"

Lexie reasoned, "He doesn't need his appendix."

Sadie smiled, a plan manifesting in her brain, "We could take out his appendix. We'll find an empty O.R. We'll be in and out in an hour."

Steve scoffed, "I'm sitting right here."

"Oh," Lexie added, "you could watch. We wouldn't even have to put you under. You'd just stay on the epidural."

"I'm off tomorrow." Ryan continued, "I'd trade and take his shift so he could recover."

"This is crazy." Holly chuckled, "You're--You're suggesting an unnecessary All we have done are procedures--"

"And they're all here." Graziella noted.

"They're busy chasing solo surgeries." Sadie brushed off.

"It's a genius idea." Lexie assured Holly, "We would be rock stars."

"Or killers." Holly stressfully added, not wanting to get in trouble.

"No." Steve shook his head, "I draw a line at a tube in my penis. Line drawn."

Lexie sighed as Sadie suggested, "Fine. Do me." She pointed at the interns, "As long as I can do one of you guys next."

Lexie smiled, taking off her glove and stretching a hand out, "Done."

Sadie took off her glove, smiling as well, "Done."

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"Okay," Lexie started as she pointed to the O.R. board and Holly held her stomach in pain as she chugged pepto bismol, "Bailey's got an appy in O.R. two, so this floor is out, but outpatient surgery is totally open."

"Okay," Sadie smiled, "let's go."

Meredith rolled her patient towards surgery and stopped once she noticed the group, "Looking for something?"

"Hi," Lexie greeted, "um, uh... we were giving Sadie the tour. Uh," She chuckled and showed the O.R. board, "this is the O.R. board."

Sadie nodded, "Yeah."

"And--And--And this is a patient. Um, you're in good hands. Dr. Grey is an excellent doctor."

Meredith looked at the group, "What's next on the tour?"

Ryan shrugged, "Back to the skills lab?" 

"Skills lab." Lexie smiled, "Great idea."

Meredith nodded, squinting at Holly, "Kepner, you okay?"

Holly smiled through the pain, "Never better."

Lexie looked at her friend before glancing back at Sadie and Ryan, "You guys prepare everything for the appy. I'll stay back for Holly." The duo nodded as Lexie jogged up to Holly, "You okay?"

"God hates me." Holly groaned as she held her stomach, "I honestly think he hates me."

"Holly," Lexie shook her head with a smile, "you're being ridiculous."

"Am I?" Holly stopped walking as the breeze that hit her made her feel more nauseous than she already was, "I think I'm being punished for having premarital sex."

"That was a few months ago. You're being--" Lexie stopped talking as Holly ran to the trash can near the Nurse's station and threw up, "ridiculous... could you be pregnant?"

Holly glanced at Lexie worriedly before throwing up again.

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Lying down in an exam room, Holly stared at the ceiling as she waited for Lexie to come back with her blood test results before George burst in.

"George--"

"Are you okay?" George asked, placing a hand on her forehead, "You're burning up... Lexie told me you--"

"Might be pregnant?" Holly finished, placing a hand on her stomach as it hurt again.

"...She told me you were sick." George corrected, his eyes doubled in size, "You're pregnant?"

"No." Holly shook her head and then stopped, "I think."

"You think?" George paced around, trying to contain his level of wanting to freak out.