Capítulo 44: Chapter Forty-Three
"Jackson Avery really has a bigger say than any of us in running this hospital?" Arizona asked as we all sat around the conference room of the hospital on our first day back after buying out the hospital, out bidding Pegasus.
"That can't be true." Yang shook her head. "Can it?"
"Well, he's a voting member of the management team and he also represents the Harper Avery Foundation." Derek pointed out.
"And their one hundred and seventy-five million bucks." Callie added.
"As opposed to our fifteen million dollars apiece." Arizona sighed, taking a seat across the table from me.
"According to Stan, not only does he have the deciding vote, he can veto ours." Derek informed all of us.
"That is ridiculous." Yang snapped. "He's a fellow."
"So are you and Grey." I reminded her.
"But he's a plastics fellow." She pointed out. "And I'm me."
"Well, let's not overreact." Meredith shook her head. "I mean, it's Jackson. He's not some corporate stranger. He's one of us."
"No, you're right. He's a smart kid." Derek nodded in agreement. "He's gonna follow our lead."
"No. No." Callie shook her head. "We made this plan. We pulled it together. Look, I'm grateful to Harper Avery for an infusion of cash, but I'm not gonna let some- some..."
"Plastics fellow?" Yang supplied.
"Plastics fellow tell me how to run my service 'cause his mommy said he could." Callie finished.
"Preach." Arizona agreed.
"Come on guys, he's not going to try and tell all of us what to do." I tried to reason with all of them. "He's our friend. He's not going to try and steamroll all over us."
"Maybe not you, but we can't all be screwing him." Callie muttered under her breath.
"What?" Derek's eyes widened.
"Callie!" I hissed at my friend.
"Hey, if you didn't want it announced then you shouldn't have worn the same outfit two days in a row." She shrugged.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen." Catherine Avery smiled at all of us as she walked into the room, not allowing anyone to get another word in about Jackson and I. "Shall we?"
"Please," I nodded.
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"Okay, so we're agreed that the peds and adult ERs will be combined to save on personnel?" Arizona asked after an hour of discussing decisions on the hospital.
"Yeah." Yang nodded as Jackson came into the room, late.
"I'm sorry, guys." He apologized. "I was running on time, and then my rounds' patient turned into a crier."
"Uh, we were discussing the reopening of the ER and the trauma department." Meredith caught him up.
"Oh, yes." He nodded as he looked through some papers. "Um, I'm not ready for that just yet."
"If you need more time with the material, we can go ahead-" Derek started to tell him.
"No, no, I've read it." Jackson assured us. "Uh, it's just that the foundation feels that the ER is not a forgone conclusion. They need a site visit, a chance to look over the numbers. It could be a month before a decision."
"Okay. The foundation knows we plan on getting our level one trauma designation back, right?" Arizona asked him.
"They know that's the idea, yeah." Jackson nodded.
"Uh, it's the fact." Callie corrected him.
"That was the main factor in our decision to keep Pegasus from buying the hospital." I added.
"I think we should table this until we can bring in Owen." Yang suggested. "Uh, he'll have a lot of thoughts on this, too."
"That's the other thing." Jackson said.
"What thing?" Derek frowned.
"Okay." Jackson told a deep breath before he began to explain it to us. "Since we are starting fresh the though is that new leadership would be good for morale."
"What, like, uh, chief of surgery?" Yang asked, her voice hard, clearly not liking what she was hearing. None of us were.
"Oh, no way." Callie shook her head.
"Firing Owen?" Meredith questioned.
"Okay, we're not firing Owen." Yang shot the idea down.
"Okay, well, the foundation thinks that-" Jackson began.
"You mother." Callie cut in.
"The Harper Avery Foundation-" Jackson tried again.
"Your mother, Avery." Callie cut in once again. "Just say it."
"It's a recommendation." Jackson told us.
"It's a inappropriate one." Yang shook her head.
"Oh, tell you mom that." Callie told Jackson. "This is bull-"
"And this is going nowhere." Arizona spoke up. "I have surgery."
"Yeah. Me too." Derek said as they all began to get up from the table. "We should get back to this."
"You know, I don't care who's giving you your marching orders, this thing with Owen is not happening." Yang told Jackson as she and Meredith followed the others out of the room.
"Well, say what you want, but without the Harper Avery Foundation, none of us are here." Jackson reminded them.
"And we appreciate that." Meredith assured him. "But no one expected them to come in and start dictating policy."
"Yeah, well, no one asked you to sue the hospital into bankruptcy either." Jackson fired back, causing all three of us to tense, our eyes narrowing at him.
"For the plane crash that killed Lexie?" Meredith frowned at him. Jackson stayed silent as he looked around at the three of us, clearly realizing that he'd said the wrong thing. Meredith and Yang both left the room without another word, leaving Jackson and I alone.
"Bria, I-" He started to say.
"Don't." I shook my head, cutting him off as I got to my feet. "Just don't Jackson."
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"What are we going to do about Jackson?" I asked Derek as he and I walked through the hospital together later that morning, talking about this morning's meeting.
"I thought you were backing him, saying that he would work with us?" Derek raised his brows at me.
"Yeah, that was before he talked about trying to fire Hunt and saying that this was all our fault for suing." I shook my head. "Derek, it was like he didn't even care that Lexie and Mark died, that he didn't care about what we've all been through this past year. I've never seen him act like that before."
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