Title: So not fair
Summary: Written for the ga_fanfic Character Challenge
Dr.Reed Adamson
Rating PG-13
Characters: Reed Adamson, mention of Charles Percy
Words : 928
Why me? Why now? I haven’t even started to live. And now I’m dead? That is so not fair! Who the hell gets shot and killed in a hospital for God’s sake? No-one that’s who. And who the hell was that guy anyway? Who gets shot and killed in a hospital by a random guy they’ve never seen before?
I’m only twenty seven . This is so not fair! I don’t want to be dead, not yet. I mean if I’d known this was going to happen I’d have done ... things, I’d have gone... places, oh I don’t know but I definitely wouldn’t have come into work today, that’s for sure. And I wouldn’t have let Percy come in either.
Oh April! I didn’t really believe I was dead but when I saw her looking down at me that’s when I knew it was true. Just for a minute I saw what she saw and even I was shocked. And of all people did it have to be April. I hope she’ll be okay. She’s the type to get PTSD after something like this. It would have been better if Yang found me.
And Percy? Oh Charlie! Did that son of a bitch get you too? I don’t know how this whole thing works yet ...will I be able to talk to you? Will you see me like I can see you? I mean I presume if you’re here you’re dead too? I mean you’re pale as death ...oh God that was just a thing people say...now it’s real.
Just after I got here...here...I don’t even know where here is except that it’s not there...anyway I heard all this screaming and what sounded like gunshots...it’s weird I didn’t hear a gunshot when he killed me. All I saw was a bullet, just one...in slow motion but I was frozen...but I didn’t hear anything...I guess a bullet travels faster than sound? Anyway just after all the screaming this nurse appeared, I don’t know her name but I’ve seen her in the Pit. She appeared really clear, out of the blue. She looked as confused as I had been.
Since then a few more people have appeared some I recognise others I don’t...I think they all work here, I mean there...maybe he’s only killing staff but why ...I’m a surgeon! Who kills surgeons? It’s not fair.
Some, like that nurse, arrive really quickly, others have sort of appeared and then disappeared and then re-appeared again. That’s what Charlie...I mean Dr. Percy did. Oh who am I kidding...he’s Charlie to me, my Charlie, my sweet big bear of a Charlie. Damn!!! If I’d known this was going to happen then...well I’d have done things differently...ha ha...I’d have done you, Charlie boy. I pretended I didn’t know but I did...we all knew...God I thought it was so cute...the way you tried not to show it...but you adored me...I thought it would pass but all these years, you being my friend, even through my brief fling with Avery...you were right...two self obsessed sons of...well that was a disaster. And even when I was pushing you towards April...secretly I was really glad that didn’t happen.
Can I tell you a secret, Charlie boy? I really liked you too. Really liked you. Like really really! I didn’t want a fling with you though. And I wasn’t ready for a serious thing with you, it’s so not a good idea to get serious when you’re an intern...yeah, seriously I liked you that far back...or as a resident...and I didn’t need to be dating you because we spend...spent...damn, past tense, so not fair....so much time together at work we might as well have been dating. Hell a little bit of casual on call room action and we really would have been dating.
If I’d known that...I, we didn’t have time, didn’t have a future then we would have been having as much on call room action as you wanted, Charles. That’s what I would have called you, Charles. Not Percy or Charlie boy or any of the nicknames those Seattle Gracers are so fond of. No when you were mine ...you were going to be mine...just not yet...you were going to be my future I just hadn’t planned on the future starting for a while...not till we were both attendings...I wish now I’d let you in on my plan.
The Chief’s been here too, in and out, I wonder does that mean he’s dying but not dead yet. McDreamy I mean not the old Chief. Wow, I bet Grey will be all Mc Twisted again.
Oh. God. He’s here. The Gunman. Why is he here?
He looks different now, confused? Who is that, that woman in the Hospital gown and why is she looking at him like that, like she is really disappointed in him, she’s shaking her head and now he’s breaking down and crying and saying sorry, why are you saying sorry to her and not to me? You killed me, man. She’s calling you Gary -Is that your name? Where are you two going? Wait!
Who is that? You look familiar but I don’t know you, are you a soldier? Sorry stupid question you’re in a uniform you must be, ha, ha, you’ll have to excuse me I’m a bit slow today, feels like I took a bullet to the brain. What? You want all of us to follow you but where are we going?
Oh, you’re George? Hey I heard a lot about you...oh and I took you’re locker, sorry ‘bout that.