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George begins to baby talk through the window with the babies making Belle smile, George was right, watching sweet innocent babies did cheer her up slightly, it reminded that not everything in the world is bad, that there are somethings that are actually pure, and babies were one of those things. "You are such a woman." the ginger teases as she continues to look at the babies with adoration, making George open his mouth to retaliate, however as he opens his mouth to reply his pager goes off twice making him leave without a word.
Not that Belle minded, watching babies was very medicinal for her, she couldn't remember how many times she just sat in her daughter's nursery back in London and watched her sleep when she was feeling anxious about any and everything, it was just soothing, especially when she would pick up her daughter and place her on her chest as she studied, it worked even better than a tranquilizer pill.
"You are really cute." she found herself whispering at the babies in general, until she catches the sight of a specific baby, a baby boy, he's crying his lungs out and as he's crying he turns blue and purple as if he's being asphyxiated, prompting Belle to look around worried before walking inside and checking on the baby. Then as she's done checking him another intern walks in, a proper maternity nurse, who at the sight of Belle in the nursery room inquired accusingly "What are you doing in here?"
Belle whirls around to face the nurse blushing from embarrassment, "I'm so sorry, but he turned blue and there was no one around, so I came in here to check on him and I checked his file and saw that there were no tests ordered but the baby has a murmur." she rambled, wringing her hands in front of her, shifting her weight from one leg to another while avoiding to look at the maternity intern, "I know. You're surgery, you're not authorized to be in here. Do you know how much trouble you can get into for this?" the maternity intern countered, ignoring the fact that Belle was actually apologetic.
"Are you going to do any tests?" Belle inquired lowly, "It's a benign systolic ejection murmur. It goes away with age." the other intern told Belle before the ginger looked up at her, finally looking her in the eyes, and while she was still shifting from leg to leg, she said "I'm a mother myself and I'm so very sorry for barging in here like this but you have to understand that when a mother sees a child, her child or other turning blue we tend to become overly worried. I need to know as a mother, are you sure the murmur is benign because he keeps turning blue very quickly and that's usually not benign."
Her rambling began to annoy the other intern to walked past Belle and opened the door to the corridor saying annoyed and completely angered "I'm a doctor too, you know. He's not your patient, he's not even on your service. You should get out of here." Belle's maternal instincts were telling her to stay and take care of the newborn but her rational side was telling her that she needed much more than just her words to get the other intern to listen. And as much as she wanted to talk to the parents behind the intern's back she was going to have to get more information and an attending on her side.
Seeing as she couldn't exactly stay watching the babies while the other intern was in the room, Belle decided, against her better judgement to sit in the rape victim's room, next to the bed whispering low encouragements and saying that she was going to get through the events better than ever, her long ginger hair was out of it's bun and was now a mess with knots as Belle didn't sit still in the chair.
"Belle. I've called every hospital in the county. Sooner or later, the guy that did this is going to seek medical attention, and when he does, that penis you're carrying around is going to nail him." Dr. Shephered as he entered the room and interrupted Belle's encouragement words, making her look at him as he checked on the victim and inquire "Where is her family?" earning the answer "Doesn't have any." from the man she let sleep at her house a few days prior.
"No siblings?" she pressed, turning around in the chair, continuing to look at the doctor while he walked out of the room with the patient's chart and wrote something in it "No. Both parents are dead. She just moved to Seattle three weeks ago. Welcome to the city." he said, chuckling dryly at the end before looking at the ginger over his shoulder and inquiring "Belle, you okay?" once again Belle's bad day brutal truth escaped her lips, only this time she didn't spew the whole truth. "No, I'm not. I just...have to do something. I have to go." She told him before jumping to the balls of her feet, grabbing the cooler and rushing out of the room, completely missing what Dr. Shepherd said afterwards.
The ginger intern ran after an attending she hoped that could help her with the murmur baby until she found him and called out "Dr Burke? There's a baby up in peds, I saw him have a tet spell, and I think I hear a murmur." she told him as she reached him making him hum and reply "Did peds call us for a consult?" to which Belle countered "Actually, no, they're not doing anything about it. I was just hoping you'd be able to go up and take a look at him."
Burke stopped at the bottom of the stairs for a moment and told the ginger "Not without a peds consult. I'm a busy man, Howard, and there are rules. Look, it's not like I'm the Chief of something." before he continued his way making Belle more frustrated with everything. Her feet carried her to the vending machines where she grabbed a snack before leading her to the entrance of the hospital where she sat in one of the waiting chairs by the door, munching her food in silent anger.
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