Love of Her Life (A Love Story Between an OB and a Neurosurgeon)

The Brain Tumor

It's a cold, December night in Seattle. Lexie, Mark, Amelia and Carina are home.

Amelia had thrown up in the bathroom, she then walks downstairs, collapses and starts seizing.

They rush Amelia to the hospital and find out she has a brain tumor on her frontal lobe. Amelia then wakes up. Amelia's leaning into Carina, holding her hand. "Babe?"

"Yes?" Carina says looking at her.

"Why me...? Why us...?" Amelia sniffles. She's just so done with all the crap she's been through this year.

Carina sighs. "I don't know my love"

Amelia absolutely needs to get this off her chest. "Just...if I don't make it...look after our girls okay?"

Carina nods. "Of course I will"

Amelia starts tearing up. Her ears are ringing again. "I love you..."

"I love you too" Carina says.

Amelia sees Tom come in. "It's time to go huh?"

"Mhm" Tom nods. "I've just gotta find Lexie"

Amelia nods, sniffling. "Okay..." She watches Tom as he walks away. She leans back into Carina's side. "I feel dizzy..."

Carina has her arm around her. "Tom and Lexie should come back to take you to surgery"

Amelia starts getting woozier. "Mkay"

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Tom and Lexie get Amelia to the OR.

Lexie starts scrubbing in. "Are you nervous? I am incredibly nervous-you do know this is Amelia, right? We can't mess it up-we really can't-she has two kids...and a fiancé"

"I know her fiancé will literally kill me if I mess this up. Amelia Shepherd. Who the hell thought this would happen?" Tom says scrubbing in.

"I'm glad you know that already-and honestly? I don't know. It's a really bad joke from the universe" Lexie says.

"It is..." He finally wants to get off his chest and it's something that no one thought they'd hear from Tom. "-and yeah...I am kind of nervous"

"You know-in other circumstances I'd mock you" Lexie states.

"And in other circumstances I would joke about it" Tom says.

Amelia's just laying there, preparing for these to be literally her final moments alive. She's been in and out of consciousness so much lately. She's lived. She's happy with her life the way it was and she's not ready to go. She's refused to go down without a fight. She's gonna show this aneurysm who's boss.

"Let's just do this already" Lexie says.

"Where's Amelia?" Mark asks.

"OR 4-wait! Amelia's in surgery!" Callie says.

Mark nods. "Brain aneurysm"

"How the-? Know what? We should go" Callie says.

"She's what?!" Jo says.

"Mhm" Callie nods.

Mark and Callie starts running to the OR.

"Has anyone checked on her fiancé?!" Jo says.

"I don't know where the hell Carina is" Maggie says.

Maggie and Jo had eventually found Carina and started walking to the OR with her.

Jo notices Carina's walking a little slower. She hangs back with her. "Hey...you doing okay?"

Carina just shrugs. "The thought of her not being here anymore makes me feel sick"