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had one leg thrown across Cristina, hugging her friend that was hidden beneath one of her blankets. Her and Meredith had bombarded their friends apartment after Callie called them with concern, stating the Cristina hadn't gotten out of bed since she got home from her shift, which had been four hours ago.

Eleanora was in charge of the physical affection while Meredith just spoke and tried to get Cristina to engage. "Do you want to dance it out?"

Cristina popped her head out from under the blanket, Eleanora lifting her own to look at her. "No." Cristina burrowed under it again, Eleanora sighing and snuggling back into her friend as Meredith continued.

"Do you want to drink tequila?"

"No."

"Do you want to call me names, mock me endlessly?"

"No."

"Do you want to mock Eleanora for sleeping with Sloan?"

It was quiet for a moment, indicating Cristina was actually thinking about. Finally, her friend sighed from underneath the red blanket. "."

"I'm trying to cheer you up." Meredith sighed out. Cristina scoffed, moving slightly.

"Yeah, well stop it, it's annoying. And it's not working. I'm deep in the wilderness here."

Cristina tried to bounce Eleanora off of her, but the smaller girl just tightened her hold on her friend. "Having Sunshine attach to me like a Koala is also effective!"

"I'm comforting you." Eleanora argued. "And it normally takes some time to work, you know this."

After a moment, Eleanora felt Meredith shift on the bed. Soon enough, Meredith was peeking over Eleanora's body to look down at Cristina and offer her what was in her hand. Eleanora let out a pained gasp, her head shooting up at the sight of what was in Meredith's hand.

""

"Do you want the Sparkle Pager?" Meredith asked, raising a brow. Cristina throws Eleanora off of her body in her haste to sit up. Eleanora lets out a squeal, moving her Koala hold to Meredith so she doesn't get thrown across the room.

"That's not funny." Cristina deadpanned, looking between Meredith and the Sparkle Pager. Eleanora pouted, un-Koalaing herself from Meredith and just sitting between her two friends with her arms crossed.

"You're sad, actually . Do you know how I know it's the right thing to do to give you the Sparkle Pager?Because you're so sad, you're not even me for it."  Meredith hands it to Cristina, who just stared at it with awe in her eyes. "So, I'm giving it to you. Shiny, shiny pager with lots of shiny, shiny surgeries."

Eleanora whined, throwing herself down on the bed so she could burrow into the pillow with an aggravated noise. "This is so unfair!"

"If I were the kind of person who kissed people," Cristina started, looking at Meredith with a shocked expression. "I would kiss you."

Meredith gave a disgusted look, throwing herself down beside Eleanora and shoving a pillow overtop her face. Eleanora felt Cristina lay down so she threw one leg on her lap, huffing out.

"I was second place, I should at least get with the Sparkle Pager!"

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are the most promising set of Clinical Trial patients yet, and I don't want any mistakes." Meredith told the group of interns in front of her. Eleanora giggles from her seat on the other side of the nurses station, looking through the discharge request forms in front of her.

"Hardass." Lexie teased her sister, Meredith giving her a playful glare. Eleanora shook her head, looking up when she heard Izzie's 'mama bear' voice.

"Where were you two last night?" She demands, putting her hands on her hips. George is right behind her, giving Eleanora a smile which she returns. Meredith gives Izzie a look, turning to face her fully.

"We had to stay with Cristina, she needed us."

Eleanora voices her agreement, leaning back in her chair. She takes a few new forms George hands her, going back and forth from reading over those and paying attention to Izzie.

"That's so nice," Izzie tells them, her smile slipping from her face. "But Rebecca is at the house and I needed you."

"Rebecca's still here?" Eleanora asks, tilting her head. "Huh, interesting."

"Apparently she's crazy." George added, leaning on the nurses station with a grin.

Meredith turns to him, her voice fake-serious. "Now George, we've had this discussion, and we decided that it's not appropriate to call Izzie crazy. She's....."

Eleanora laughs, George looking at Izzie with a smile of his own as he teases her. "Spirited!"

Izzie gives a fake, sarcastic laugh, shoving George to get him to stop laughing. "Ha ha, yeah, not ! I'm not crazy, Rebecca's crazy. An-and Alex is pretending she's not." Izzie turned to Eleanora, leaning towards her. "Can't you just....fix him? You always know how to make Alex listen."

Eleanora shook her head, giving her blonde friend a sad smile. "Sorry, I don't think I can. If it gets worse, I'll take a stab at it, but Alex is a grown man who can make his own decisions, and seeing as we are no longer a couple, I cannot just fix him as I please."

Eleanora felt her pager vibrate, looking at it to see it was the ER. She was running it today, and she let out a sigh, standing up and grabbing her forms. "I gotta run, trouble in the ER."

Eleanora gave Izzie a thumbs up as she jogged off, calling out to her friend. "But good luck with the Rebecca and Alex situation, Iz! He's stubborn."

Eleanora pushes into the trauma room she was paged to, not looking up from her clipboard for a moment. "Someone paged for the person running the ER- oh."

Looking up, Eleanora sees Search and Rescue surrounding a boy. A boy who was trapped in what seemed like a ton of cement. Eleanora slowly set down her clipboard, speaking to the nurse without taking her eyes off of the boy.

"Page...um, well, page

Eleanora walks towards the boy, seeing that he was obviously scared out of his mind. She tried to give him a reassuring smile, her voice soft but slightly shaky.