McDreamy meets McRussian

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

Dr. Derek Shepherd, watched as the intern left the room. Derek hated to see them fail but he had know the woman wouldn't make it, just as he had known that he had to try...

She had been old. Very old. Time had a way of making things die. Derek waited for them people from the morgue to come up and get the woman.

[brthrarnold]

Dimitri had been phoned to come and collect yet another body from a surgical room. Oh, those surgeons oft made a fine mess of things, didn't they? Although, it was completely likely that the surgeon could not be to blame, as little old women died all the time, especially when they were sick enough to require extensive surgical attention.

Humming a strange song to himself (perhaps one that he invented as he went along), Dimitri nodded to a devastated looking intern who was heading in the opposite direction and then cheerfully entered the surgery room to spot Dr. Shepherd and . . .a dead old lady.

Quickly checking her charts and getting right to the paperwork, Dimitri said "Mrs. Haversham, it seems this vill be your last visit to Seattle Grace Hospital."

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

Derek had always wondered what made people go 'I want to deal with dead bodies all day'. Derek had rather save lives then dispose of the dead ones. "She was a grandmother of 12. She went out fighting." Derek said not really taking offense to the man's words. Whatever helped them deal...

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"She's had more surgeries than grandchildren," Dimitri replied, tapping the chart. "Thousands of dollars and hours of vork -- to prolonk life for only year or so."

Dimitri took a moment of silence, not to honor the dead woman, but rather to concentrate on the form he was filling out just to make sure he didn't write in something incorrect. Although the multitasking center of the Russian's brain did not allow him to continue speaking while writing this important information, humming was another story entirely. Continuing his song from earlier with an expression on his face that was almost a smile, Dr. Karloff scribbled his way down the page.

Finishing with a loud punctuation mark, Dimitri looked up at Derek and said "So. Make my job easier? How you kill this voman?"

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

"Even it it keep her alive a week, then would it not have been worth it to her children and her grand children?" Derek asked.

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Dimitri looked up at Derek and said "So. Make my job easier? How you kill this voman?"

"We didn't. Her heart wasn't strong enough. There was no way the intern could have saved her." Derek wasn't sure he liked the way Dimitri phrased that last question, but he keep his voice calm.

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When Derek asked whether or not it as 'worth it' to Mrs. Haversham's personal relations for the old woman to go through so many surgeries in order to prolong her life, Dimitri gave a theatrical shrug and said, "Meh. Is not for me to say. I . . . am only sayink death is inevitable. She comes to see me eventually, you know?"

What a morbid thing to say, but that was Dimitri for you.

In response to Dr. Shepherd's little speech about Mrs. Haversham's weak heart and how there was nothing that poor intern could have blah blah blah, the Coroner nodded, turned his attention back to the paperwork, and said "Mmm-hmm. So you say bad heart? Not bad intern? Da? Just makink sure I hear you right."

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

"Da." Derek said copying the man. "You heard me correct. My interns are not bad." There were a few however that did things to try to prove that statement wrong. "She was just old, and past her time. Life happens to all of us." Derek said in his grand 'I'm-a-brain-surgeon-and-all-knowing' voice.

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If Dimitri registered that 'high and mighty' tone-of-voice, he did not show it in any way. Rather, he just gave a scholarly nod and marked a few things on the paperwork in a manner as if they had been talking in large medical-words.

In a slow and drawn out voice, as if speaking to an amphitheatre full of people, Dimitri replied, "And death happens to all of us too. --Surgery can only prolonk life for so lonk. So. . .I guess life is not so permanent as death, eh?"

Giving a very small laugh at his own statement (Dimitri thought he was funny, you see), the Coroner made sure that the body was not hooked up to any machinery and also made sure it was covered up all nice and respectfully. Motioning for Derek to come closer, Dimitri said "you help me get her to morgue. Come-come-come."

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

"Some people think death is not forever." Derek said then the Morgue Lord asked for help getting the lady to his kingdom.

"You need help? How?" Derek said wondered how he got lowered to the help.

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"Unless you believe in zombies. . .then this is end of the line for dear Mrs. Haversham," Dimitri replied. Of course, he was referring to the corpse as Mrs. Haversham, assuming that the spirit of said woman would go by another name should it achieve a state of reincarnation.

When Derek asked how he could be of help, Dimitri replied "Beam her avay like Scotty on Star Trek." After a sarcastic eye-roll, he added, "You help me push. . .eh. . . you know," he patted the gurney, on which the corpse would need to be wheeled to the elevator in order to be taken to the morgue.

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

"Don't you have a Intern?" Derek asked REALLY not wanting to go...down there. Derek hated to be reminded that he lost people, and that place would be full of reminders. Derek wondered where all his interns where. Surely someone else could help out here.

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Dimitri gave a very sharp sigh and lowered his eyebrows at Derek. Dimitri was the kind of guy who liked to do everything the fist second he had time to do it. He was not the sort that let an idle second go by. When there was work to be done, Dr. Karloff saw that it was done right away. Why was Dr. Shepherd arguing with him now?

Dimitri suddenly considered something that may have been making Derek unwilling to assist him. "Okay, I say 'please!' I have no interns. None, none at all. You help me now, yes?"

It turned out that few interns wanted to hang around corpses. That is to say no interns wanted to hang around corpses. Who knew?

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

Damn it. Derek could not say no now or look like the biggest Jerk. "OK." He said and walked over. Derek would just, help the man and get it over with. Derek hated to be reminded of his failed at temps at saving people. This was only a reminder. "I was not trying to be rude, I just don't like being reminded that we fail sometimes." Derek admitted ONLY because he did not want to insult the man. Russian were vengeful people were they not?

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[[ooc. LMAO! Vengeful Russians! ]]

Hanging onto the gurney, Dimitri began to push it for the door, motioning Derek to open the door so he could get through. After that, he'd call the Neurosurgeon's assistance in actually pushing the corpse to the elevator. Upon Derek's explanation that the dead reminded him of his failures, Dr. Karloff looked at him with understanding.

Nodding, he solemnly spoke, "Nobody can be perfect and nobody can live forever. You should not look at it as failink. Perhaps it vas just her time to go, etcetera, etcetera."

[Dr. Derek Shepherd]

Derek was helping him push and talking to the man. "Yes, but if you think that was when trying to save people, it could cause you to do less then your best." Derek explained the mentally behind them. Surgeons often got a 'God Complex'. Derek was one of the luck ones to not have one, or not have one that showed up as arrogance.