After The Storm (Sequel)

Not Ready

Liliana's pov

"Garcia, you okay" Owen asks as I sit down at the front desk. I had just finished a surgery and I felt completely drained. I've been feeling completely drained these last couple of days, which I blame on my lack of sleep since my schedule has been super busy lately. To make matters worse ever since I woke up this morning I haven't felt the best, but I had a busy day ahead of me and I wasn't going to take the day off just because I felt a little sick.

"Yeah, I'm fine" I sigh

"Are you sure? You don't seem like yourself today" he frowns

"I'm just not feeling the best. I think I'm coming down with something"

"Maybe you should relax and take the day off to get some rest. You know Amelia will take over for you if you need her to" he says

"No. Honestly I'm fine. I really don't feel that sick. I definitely don't feel bad enough to leave work early" I sigh

"Well if you do, I'm sure that Bailey will understand". I nod my head before both of our pagers go off because an incoming trauma is coming in. We rush out to the ambulance bay to unload the patient and rush him to an E.R. room.

"Belly is soft, signs of internal bleeding and possible rib fractures" Owen says as we examine him

"Possible occipital bone fracture and probable brain bleeding. We definitely need to get him up to C.T. immediately. Blake page C.T. and let them know that we're heading up" I say

"Yes ma'am" she nods, before we rush the patient up to C.T., where it's confirmed that me and Owen's initial diagnosis was correct so we take the patient up to the O.R. for surgery

"So I noticed you and Amelia walking into work together this morning. Things seem to be going good between you two again" I smirk

"They are. We agreed to start over fresh and try to forget all the drama that's went on these last couple of weeks" he smiles

"That's great. I'm really happy that you two are giving it another chance. You both deserve to be happy" I say before we focus back on surgery.

"Bleeding is under control and fracture is repaired. How are we doing over there" I ask

"I still have some damage to repair, but the bleeding has stopped" he says

"Okay, well we'll leave you to finish up. Page me once you're through and I'll meet you in recovery to do his post op check. Come on Blake" I say signaling for Penny to follow behind me before we scrub out. I've had Penny on my service a lot lately, because she really did impress me the other day. She's still not my favorite person, she never will be. But I can't deny how talented she is and it's my job to teach her even if I don't like her.

"Blake go check in on Ms. Jefferson's vitals for me" I sigh leaning against the front desk. I thought I would feel better by now, but honestly I felt way worse then earlier. I hate getting sick.

"Dr. Garcia, are you okay" Penny asks

"Stop asking questions, just...just go do post-ops" I say before sprinting away to a nearby bathroom making it there as I threw up everything I had ate this morning into the toilet. After I finished I still remained in the bathroom stall waiting for the nauseous feeling to leave.

"Lily, are you okay" I hear Amelia call from the other side of the stall

"Yeah. Just... give me a minute" I sigh flushing the toilet and walking out of the stall.