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Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
A lot of people hate hospitals, many of them associate hospitals with death and pain or even with something else like birth and doctors. But the woman who stand in front of this hospital, feels like she’s coming home. This woman was born in this hospital and grew up here. Not because she was a sick kid, but because her parents are doctors, surgeons, in this hospital. She wore an old leather jacket, blue jeans and blue shirt, she put her long dark hair in a messy bun. Wide smile and excitement written all over her face. She take a long deep breath before walking into the hospital.
Miranda Bailey, Chief of Surgery in Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, frown as a young woman with dark hair and dark eyes practically jumped into the elevator she’s in. The woman roll her eyes, annoyed because the young girl keep bouncing on her feet like a five years old.
“Would you stand still?” Bailey snapped at the young girl.
The young woman turn her head at the shorter, older, woman with a wide smile on her face. “I’m sorry. I’m just excited, it’s my first day!”
Bailey put her hand on her left ear as the girl squealed beside her. “I know it’s your first day but you don’t have to scream on my poor old ear.”
“Ooh, I’m sorry Aunt Mir—“
“Dr Bailey.” Bailey cut her off with a look. “In this hospital, you will refer to me as Dr Bailey, are we clear?”
“Yeah. Of course Chief Dr Bailey, Ma’am.” She said, still grinning ear to ear.
Ding!
The elevator stop moving and the doors slowly open. Bailey walk out the elevator then stop in front of it, she turn around and give the young woman a warm, motherly, smile. Which make the whole ‘Stern Chief’ look disappear completely.
“Congratulation Sofia. Good luck on your first day.”
Sofia nodded, smiling at Chief. “Thanks, Aunt Miranda.”
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The locker room is total chaos. People changing their clothes into light blue scrubs while talking to each other. Sofia already changed into her scrubs, stethoscope around her neck, she sat on the long bench and she bend tying her shoes. The door open abruptly, Sofia glance at the door and grinning as another woman walking to the locker room. The woman glared at Sofia.
“Wipe that smirk out of your face, Torres.”
Sofia chuckled and sat up straight, finished tying her shoes. “Late on your first day, Shepherd?”
Zola Grey Shepherd mumbling furiously under her breath as she take her scrubs out of her locker and run into bathroom. A minute later she come out of it and shoved her clothes inside her locker then close it with a loud thud.
“Whoa. Someone’s in a bad mood.” Sofia raised her eyebrows.
Zola groans. “My alarms didn’t work this morning and no one even try to wake me up! I mean, sure my Mom got an emergency so she already left hours before, but Ellis was there! She was eating her cereals!”
Sofia snorted a laugh.
“That’s not funny Torres!”
“Oh it is.” Sofia said with a laugh. “My offers still stand you know. We could live together in my apartment. It’s right across the hospital.”
“I know,” Zola sighed, leaning slightly to her best friend. “I just—I miss that house, you know.”
Sofia pat her friend on the knee. “I know you love the house, but we’re intern now. We’re on the bottom of surgical chains—your mother’s word, not mine—and next year we’ll be resident. It will get us a lot of good cases if we stay near the hospital.”
“I know.” Zola sighed again.
“Hey, you two.”
Sofia and Zola turned their heads to their left. Both raised their eyebrows at the short, petite, woman with red pixie hair who smile awkwardly at them.
“I didn’t see you two at the party last night.” She offer her hand to the confused duo. “I’m Jane O’Malley.”
Sofia took her hand and shake it. “Nice to meet you Jane. I’m Sofia Torres and this is Zola Shepherd.”
Jane’s eyebrows furrowed. “Torres? As in—“
A voice from the door cut her.
“O’Malley! Torres! Shepherd! Fields! Smith! You’re with me!”
The three women instantly forgotten about their conversation and approach the man with fade light blue scrubs, walking slightly behind him with two other men. Zola whispered something in Sofia’s left ear, the two of them giggling quietly but not unnoticed by their resident.
“Something’s funny Torres, Shepherd?”
Zola cleared her throat. “Nope. No. Nothing Dr Jones.”
He raised her left eyebrow but don’t say anything. They stopped at the nurse station.
“So, welcome to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, I’m Dr William Jones, also known as Tuck but all of you will refer to me as Dr Jones.” Tuck gave his interns his lopsided grin. “So here’s the rules...”
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Jane O’Malley bite her fries with a moan. It’s only been few hours since they started their internship in this hospital and Jane have never felt this hungry. The two men in her table chuckled at her moans.
“That hungry, O’Malley?” asked Ashton Smith who sat right in front of Jane, next to Thomas Fields who’s busy looking at the cafeteria line.
“I didn’t get to eat breakfast this morning.” Jane bite another fries.
Ashton shake his head and look at his left, where Thomas Fields busy looking at the cafeteria line. He followed Thomas’s gaze and found Zola Shepherd talking with Sofia Torres. Ashton snapped his fingers in front of Thomas, make him jump and smack Ashton’s shoulder. He just laughed.
“Fields, you have a crush on Shepherd?” Ashton grinning.
“What? No!” Thomas rolled his eyes. “I just heard they’re inbred. Torres and Shepherd.”
“What do you mean?” asked Jane.
“I heard from a nurse, she said their parents work here. Torres’s parents are Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins.”
“What? The Callie Torres? Two times Harper Avery Callie Torres?” Ashton eyes wide. Everyone on the table knows he wants to be an Ortho surgeon.
“And Arizona Robbins? Man, talking about pressure.” Jane shake her head.
“Yap. And Shepherd came from a long line of surgeons. Her mother is Meredith Grey, her grandmother is Ellis Grey, and she’s also a Shepherd. We all know the reputation of Shepherd doctors.” Thomas shrugged his shoulders. “What about you two? Any doctors in your family?”
Zola look around the cafetaria, she could feel the stares and fingers pointed at them. She glance at her bestfriend, but Sofia is more focused on the menu. She lean closer to Sofia to whisper. “Do you think people talking about us?”
Sofia laugh. “I’m more surprise if they haven’t talked about us. You know this hospital and it’s drama, we grew up in this hospital. That’s why Aunt Cristina offered us to take our residency in Switzerland, less drama and more focus she said.”
“I kind of wish I take her offer.” Zola mumble under her breath.
“I don’t think it would matter, you know. People will still talk about us and our legacy whatsoever.” Sofia sighed. “Being a doctor is our dream, Zo. We knew what we’re getting into when we chose med school.”
“Being our parents’s daughters is hard.”
Sofia smirked. “Yeah. But it came with lots of perks.”
“What perks? Your Mom hate new interns.”
“Yet she was married to an intern.” Sofia laughed.
Zola laughed with her friend before they walk to their table. Both of them realised the conversation on the table stopped when they approach them. Sofia just smile and say hi to them as she and Zola sit beside Jane. Zola just huffed.
“Ask away, I know you guys want to.” Zola said as she bite her salad.
They start firing a hundred questions per second at the same time. Both girls look at their new coworker with wide eyes, surprise and amuse at their obvious curiousity towards Sofia and Zola. They stopped talking as Tuck approach their table.
“Hey guys, how’s your first day?” Tuck’s grinning ear to ear and stand beside Thomas. He didn’t wait for their answers before talking again. “I just want to tell you that the honor of performing the first surgery today goes to Dr Torres. You’ll scrub in for an appendectomy this afternoon with Dr Grey.”
Sofia’s eyes went wide.