Shadows

My favourite Mistake

We were all in Jane Doe's room. Mark was talking her through a facial reconstruction surgery to get her face closer to what it was before the surgery.

"This is a computer approximation of your original facial structure. Based on the 3D CT scans we did, it's what you could look like after reconstructive surgery. Or you could look like this...or this. You don't like them?" Mark asked.

"It's not that..." Jane Doe looked at Alex. "How does this work exactly?"

"He'll make an incision along your hairline and then..." Alex started.

"It's ok, I can take it," Jane Doe said.

"He'll literally pull your face off," Alex said causing Addison to look at him.

"It sounds a lot worse than what it is. Your face is extremely elastic and pulling it down will allow Dr Sloan to correct the bone fractures underneath without any scarring. And once you've healed, no one will ever know you had the surgery," I said.

"I'm that good," Mark said.

"He is! It's annoying," Addison said.

"The surgery won't affect my baby?" Jane Doe asked.

"I'll be monitoring the baby throughout, ok?" Addison said before she left.

"Ok. So...then I just have to pick one. Do I have to pick one now?" Jane Doe asked.

"Take a couple hours and think about it," Mark said. We left and began walking down the hallway. Chief Webber stopped us.

"Dr Bailey," Chief Webber said.

"Chief, Jane Doe's getting a new face today," Dr Bailey informed him.

"Well, that's exciting," Chief Webber said before he turned to Meredith. "How are you doing, Meredith? You didn't take too much time off after..."

"I'm fine, sir. Really. I think working's the best thing I can do," Meredith said.

"Like mother, like daughter, huh?" Chief Webber asked.

"Dr Grey, what can you tell me about reconstructing the orbital floor?" Mark asked.

"Uh, you can create a new base from the eye socket by harvesting bone from the skull," Meredith said.

"Dr Bailey, Dr Grey will be scrubbing in on the Jane Doe case," Mark said before he turned to Meredith. "Come on, I'll show you how to do it without breaking the bone graft into a million pieces," He began leading Meredith away.

"Congratulations, Dr Grey," Chief Webber said following after the pair.

"Come on, let's go people," Bailey said leading us to the nurses station where Callie was.

"Wait, wait, wait, I need to talk to you," Callie said stopping us from entering the patient's room.

"Why?" Izzie asked.

"To prepare you guys for what you're about to see," Callie said.

"You meant...you meant you like us, not me. You don't want to talk to me. You wanna talk to us, about a patient," Izzie said.

"That what I just said. This patient has a disease so rare that you'll probably never see it again. F.O.P," Callie said.

"Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. It's a skeletal disease. It turns muscle into bone, it turns you into a human statue. Right?" I blurted out a little too fast. "Shoot sorry," I mumbled flicking my fingers in my lab coat pocket.

"Yeah. Just try to learn and not to stare. Ok?" Callie asked. We walked into the room as 3 hospital staff were lifting a lady from her wheelchair into the bed.