As Old as time, second part

Family Time

Skià pov

I get called in on my day off for a mass casualty incident. Apparently there are over fifty people that were found in a park overdosing. I leave the girls with Clint and head in. I look over some of the patients and give them narcan but the drug in their systems is not one that I recognize so it must be new or a mixture of multiple.

I treat quite a few people when I feel a life force getting smaller a few rooms over. I run out and open a closet door to find a teenager with a needle in his arm. I am able to treat him quickly and he ends up okay. I make sure that he has 24/7 watch and head back to the ER.

We make it through the day with very few deaths and Meredith set the new hospital record for longest surgery. I head home and see my kids safely asleep in their beds and Clint asleep on the pull out couch.

Many more days pass at the hospital but nothing particularly noteworthy happens with me involved. I just got called into Bailey's office.

I walk into the office and notice that there are three teenagers there. "You called Dr. Bailey?"

"Um, yes. Dr. Holtzman you will be taking over the STEM leadership program for these kids."

"If I wanted to spend time teaching children I would do it with my own."

"Please. Karav didn't fill out any of the forms that were supposed to be filled out."

"Fine but you owe me."

"Fine. Fine."

"Come along then." I say to the teenagers and they follow me out of the room. "Now then I am the head of fetal and pediatric surgery. Do you know what that means?"

"You fix babies and children."

"Yes, including babies that are still inside their mother's."

"Cool."

"Very much so. But I am not the only one who does these surgeries and I am the leader of all the others."

"That sounds important."

"It is but you have to remember that when you are a leader you also are in charge of the actions of your followers. What does that mean?"

"If they get in trouble, you get in trouble?"

"Exactly." I stop when an intern comes up to me. "What do you need?"

"The daycare says they need you to go get your daughter."

"Did they say which one or why?" The intern shakes their head. "Well thank you for informing me." They nod and head off. "Well who wants to see the daycare?" I say as if they have a choice. They all just stand there so I start walking.

"How many children do you have?"

"Three. Two are at the daycare and one is at school."

"Does that mean you're married?"

"I am but the oldest was adopted before I got married." I say as we enter the daycare.

"Oh Dr. Holtzman, thank goodness, Lori won't stop crying no matter what we do."

"It's fine, I will take her." I pick up Lori and give Cynthia a kiss before leaving the room. I place Lori on my hip and continue to walk. "Some new calming rooms are being tested by neurology, lets have a look at those." I say as we walk that way.

I give Clint a call and tell him to come here to pick up Lori. He tells me that since he is coming anyway he will get Cynthia too. I agree and he says he will be here in a half hour because he was getting lunch at a restaurant a bit farther from the hospital than the apartment.