Chapter Eight

Peggy walked into the Er with the rest of her intern team watching as Christina walked sluggishly into the room. "The E.R.Can be a candy store. You've got car crashes, impalements. What do you got?"

The nurse looks over, "Sprained ankle and an infected bunion."

Christina looks over at the interns sadly, "It can also strip you of your will to live. Okay, go troll," She looks at Lexie, "find me something good. Come, Peggy!"

Lexie follows after them, "Dr.Yang. Has Meredith said anything to you about me? 'Cause, she's been avoiding me for days."

She rolls her eyes at the intern, "You know, what did I say to you about talking to me about your personal life?"

Just then a woman runs into the room yelling out, "Help! My...my baby." Christina rushes over to put gloves on handing some to Peggy and Lexie, "I-I was carrying her down the stairs and I fell, and she hit her head. She was crying in the car, and now she's not crying anymore. I'm too scared to look. Someoneplease tell me my baby's alive."

Yang walks over to try and grab the baby, "Okay, let me have the baby..."

The woman was in shock though, "She can't be dead, right? You don't die from just falling down the stairs. She's..."

Leaning forward to grab the baby Christina calms her down, "Please, let me help. Let me help. I'll take the baby. That's fine. Okay." Grabbing the baby Christina rushes over to lay her in a bed.

"Oh, my god. Oh, my god." The mom panics as they watch Christina look for a heartbeat.

"She's breathing. Her fontanelle feels tense. She's lethargic. Take her to trauma two and page shepherd." She hands the baby to Peggy who rushes off to the room as Lexie pulls out her pager.

They now stood at the nurse's station speaking to the babies father about her status, your baby has a slight brain contusion. "Her brain's bruised. It's minor. But I'd like to keep her here for observation."

The man sighs in disbelief, "I-I gotta tell you, Dr Shepherd, I'm listening to you, but I'm not hearing anything you're saying. Dr Hahn is taking my wifeinto surgery right now, and I need to go be with her.You know what you're doing. G-go ahead and do it. I need to go be with my wife."

Lexie steps forward stopping him, "Wait. Um, what's your daughter's name?"

He shakes her head, "She doesn't have one yet. We just adopted her a week ago, just been trying to get to know her." They nod their heads as the man then walks away.

Peggy was now standing in the stood in the ICU watching over the baby when Alex came into the room looking around, "You paged me?"

She nods smiling, "Yeah, um, I was wondering, do you think I could pick her up?" Seeing the confused look on his face she explains further, "The baby? I mean, the father hasn't been down here, and she's been through so much already."

He laughs shaking his head, "That's not why you paged me."

Peggy smiles slightly tilting her head, "It's not?"

"No." He moves closer gripping her hips, "You paged me because your legs are still shaking from the other night, and you don't want to make the first move after what happened. So you wanted me to come in here and persuade you into sex in a closet."

Giggling she shakes her head, "Actually, I paged you so I could hold this baby because no one has come in to see her." Pulling out of his hold she motions to the crib, "Now will you take her out of here for me?"

He nods moving to pull her out of the crib and lays her in Peggy's arm making her smile at the baby holding her close. "So, the closet sex?"

"I'll see you in the closest on-call room in five minutes?" She asks him as she doesn't take her eyes off of the baby.

He laughs walking out, "See you in five minutes." She nods rocking the baby before setting her down in the crib and rushing off to get to Alex.

When she and Alex were finished they went back to their respective patients, with her going right back totake care of the baby. She stands there holding her for a few minutes when Lexie comes into the room looking sad. "The mom is awake and wants to see the baby."

She nods laying the baby back into the crib before pushing it out and to the mom's room. The two talk before they see the commotion in the room, Lexie moves over to talk to the dad. "Her heart stopped again, They got it started, but look, I can't deal with her right now. Could you just take her back?" Lexie doesn't move just stands there staring into the room making the man angry. "Now! Could you take her away now?"

Peggy immediately turns the crib around and takes her to the ICU where she's told the baby is ready for discharge. She sighs before deciding to find Dr Torres to figure out what she's supposed to do, walking down the hall she finds Dr Bailey standing in front of the OR talking to Alex and Izzie, "Dr Shepherd's ready to discharge Teresa Brotherton's baby, but when we just brought her to the room to see her parents. The mom crashed and the dad said that he can't deal with her right now."

The chief walks up behind them concerned, "Okay, is there a problem?"

Dr Bailey shakes her head, "Uh, just a littleadministrative traffic jam. Dr Torres has it under control." He nods his head before walking away, the second he was gone she jumps into action. "Okay, here's what's gonna happen," She looks at Alex, "take crap man and put him in the same room with lazy face-lift. They can abuse each other." She then turns to Peggy, "The baby can stay another night. Now get out of here. And if anyone asks, none of this was my idea." They all nod before walking away.

Peggy stood in the ICU holding the baby when she noticed the dad standing outside the window watching. Setting the baby down she walks out of the room to talk to him, "She's doing good, She's sleeping right now, but we can go in there if you want to."