Chapitre 42: Chapter Forty-One
"I am telling you, once we got those doctors talking, it was a horror show." Callie told all of us as we sat around Meredith and Derek's house, talking about her and Webber had gone to check out one of the other hospitals that Pegasus had bought.
"Ssh. I just got Sofia back down." Arizona hushed her.
"Yeah, I'm not wanting to deal with a crying baby right now either." I added, gripping my cup of coffee tightly as Meredith's baby monitor sat in my lap, listening in case Mark woke up from where he was sleeping in the crib that Derek and Meredith had let me lay him down in.
"Oh, and, uh, Portland Gen has quotas now." Callie went on in a hushed voice. "Yeah. It's unspoken, but it's understood that you have to churn out a certain number of procedures."
"And no research?" Meredith frowned as she looked over one of Pegasus' brochures.
"Nope. Pegasus is only interested in high-volume, high-price-tag procedures." Callie shook her head. "Barely any patient interaction. So no research, no innovation, no opportunity to do what it is we got into medicine to do."
"Well, we won't let that happen to us here." Derek said.
"Oh, yeah?" Callie scoffed. "That's what they said at first. And then the people that fought management got fired, and the rest wore down or they left."
"I'm not afraid to be a martyr." I volunteered myself. "If they think I've given them reason to worry already then they're in for a rude awakening. I've already been fired from one hospital for speaking my mind, I'm not afraid to make it two."
"Now, I don't want to leave, I don't want any of us to." Callie shook her head. "Come on, we have to do this. We have to buy the hospital."
"Whoa. Hold on." Derek told her.
"Maybe she's right." Meredith suggested.
"Just wait." Arizona shook her head at all of us. "What if we don't want to?"
"What are you talking about?" Callie looked at her wife as though she were crazy.
"I'm sorry, it's never been my dream to run a hospital." Arizona defended herself.
"Okay, well, you might not have to run it." Callie pointed out.
"Shouldn't Yang be here?" I pointed out. "She's the other fourth person who won the lawsuit, not me. I don't even understand why I'm here to begin with."
"You're here because you're not afraid to speak against Pegasus." Callie told me. "You're not afraid to let them know exactly what you're thinking."
"Besides, I know that you have enough money saved up to help us." Derek added, causing my eyes to snap onto him. "Mark told me that when Dylan died you were awarded a lot of money, both from his life insurance and a settlement."
"A settlement?" Meredith questioned.
"After my brother died I lashed out, I sued a bunch of people." I informed all of them. "I lost a couple of the lawsuits, but I won more than I lost. But, Derek, that money is supposed to be for Abby and Mark, for when they both go to college or if there's ever an emergency."
"An emergency like a bunch of idiots trying to buy out our hospital?" Callie asked.
"Anyways, I just got back to work and, Derek, you just got your hand back." Arizona pointed out. "And Bria just had a baby. Don't you guys want to just work?"
"Work where?" Callie asked. "I don't want somebody telling me which patients I can and can't treat."
"Or putting a stopwatch on how much time you can spend with them." Meredith added.
"Yeah, if we ran the place, we could make policy decisions based on experience." Callie tried to convince her wife. "Do y-"
"No offense, but that is a naive way of putting it." Derek cut in. "The job is much harder than you think. I wanted it once, and I hated it. We should stay the course. I made a deal with Pegasus that apparently will help the sale."
"What deal?" Meredith questioned him before I could.
"Nothing, it's stupid." Derek shook his head. "But maybe that's how we make it work, from the inside."
"What about Hunt?" Arizona asked. "I mean, he's pushing for the Pegasus sale. He thinks it's a good deal. So what's he gonna say?"
"We can talk to him later." Callie told her.
"What are talking about, like one hundred million, two hundred million?" Arizona shook her head.
"You know what we're talking about." Derek told her.
"We have more than we're ever gonna be able to spend anyway." Callie tried to point out to everyone. "We have more than we'll ever be-"
"No, that's not true." Meredith disagreed.
"But I don't know." Arizona said as everyone just spoke over one another as I stayed seated on the couch, simply letting them all hash it out with one another.
"This is a massive undertaking." Derek tried to get the point across. "Nobody knows what it's gonna cost."
"So what are you saying?" Arizona asked. "Are you saying that they take everything? I mean, everything from the lawsuit, from all of us? Everything that Bria has saved since her brother's death?"
"I have no idea what it's gonna cost to buy Seattle Grace, but I can guarantee you it's more than the five of us have combined." Derek said. "That's only sixty million with us, plus whatever Bria has."
"Nine and a half million." I told him.
"So sixty-nine and a half million, it's not enough." Derek shook his head.
"I had some money before all this." Callie commented. "I've got about...seven hundred grand I can get to right away."
"It's true. We have money in the IRA and we have about-" Meredith began.
"No, let's not get ahead of ourselves." Derek cut her off.
"Well, just the lawsuit damages then." Callie sighed. "And, uh, we've got Mark's share, too."
"Mark's share?" Arizona and I questioned at the same time.
"Yeah, and Lexie's maybe?" Callie nodded. "Is that rude of me-"
"I mean, I would have to ask her f- our- our father-" Meredith told her.
"Don't worry. Excuse me. Yes, this is rude of you." Arizona told her wife.
"Okay, I'm sorry, but we can't waste time on politeness here." Callie pointed out.
"And Mark's share is not our money." Arizona argued. "It's Sofia's. You should've talked about this with me-"
"Um, that's what we're doing." Callie shook her head.
"I mean privately with your wife." Arizona clarified for her.
"Where's Cristina?" Callie asked Meredith, changing the topic.
"I don't know." Meredith shook her head. "I keep texting her. She would say yes to this."
"How do you know that?" Arizona frowned.
"She knows." Derek and Callie both assured the blonde.
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