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After the successful surgery, Belle rushed to the nearest bathroom and emptied her stomach out, a cold shiver going down her spine as once again the memories of her rape flashed in front of her. A sob threatened to climb her throat and escape but she bit it down, forcing herself not to cry.
She then quickly recomposed herself and left the bathroom, walking back to the O.R. to grab the box containing the severed penis. She walked to the chief's office looking ahead, trying and failing to ignore the thoughts and images that passed through her head, she couldn't help it, her walls crumbled to the ground and she was left with the same feeling she felt throughout the whole thing, fear, self-hatred, disgust and paranoia.
The second she arrived at the chief's office, the ginger woman knocked and opened the door, coming to sight with a woman sitting on the couch with a few files in her hands, "Hi, is the chief in?" she inquires politely, giving nothing away as to what her mental state is. "He's on his way. Is that it?" the woman replies, her eyes locking with the container, prompting Belle to hum in reply and the woman to inquire again "Can I see it?"
Disgust and horror quickly flash through Belle's face as she look at the woman, her mouth opening to reply as the chief suddenly, and thankfully, appears behind her "Belle, it's good to see you." he says as he makes his way to his desk and sits down making the ginger give him a grim smile, "Listen, so they said to bring this to you, so..." the ginger began awkwardly.
"Yes, for the police." the chief replied before turning to his secretary and inquiring "When did the police say they'll come?" the woman turned to him and replied "You know how slow they are. So, she'd better take it with her." At her words Belle paled completely, the little colour she had regained after rushing to the bathroom flooded away leaving her as white as a sheet, as she stuttered "Wha-What?" she couldn't possibly carry the container with her until the police arrived, she wasn't mentally prepared for it, the little time she'd been on the case was already driving her insane.
"You have to take it with you." the secretary repeated as she walked toward the chief and gave him a few files, "Chain of custody rules. All medical matter and array must stay with the person who collected it, until it's placed in police custody." Chief Webber explained to the ginger woman, noticing her paling while his secretary finished "You collected the specimen, so you have custody." Belle gaped slightly before turning around and leaving the office.
She knew that arguing wasn't going to get her anywhere, it never did so instead she just walked towards the intern station where everyone gathered around waiting for their pagers to go off, she sets the container on the station desk where George is working making him ask "What's that?" to which she replies "Don't ask, you don't want to know. Trust me." he however insists by saying "I do want to know. Really." The ginger raises a brow at him for a moment before telling him "It's a severed penis." this gets the appropriate reaction as George O'Malley shivers almost as if he feels the pain and murmurs "Oookay. I didn't really want to know." as Belle walks inside to sit down.
"I don't know why I have to be the one who gets hugged." Cristina complains as she and the new group intern arrive at the station, earning the answers "Because. I don't do that. Besides, you're the ovarian sister here." his tone filled with rudeness and arrogance that make Cristina turn to him gobsmacked and stutter "Did you just call me an ovarian si- an ovarian - since when has the possession of ovaries become an insult?" while he walks away leaving her to lean against the door.
George takes this chance to turn to his fellow intern and tell her "Belle's carrying a penis around in a jar." of course this gets the Korean woman's attention as she nearly jumps forward saying "Oh, from the rape surgery?" as she pulls the container to her and peeks inside while the ginger intern is left to say "Yeah, and it's not a jar, it's a cooler, you should really learn how to distinguish them." Once having looked inside, Cristina chuckles dryly as she mutters "Talk about taking a bite out of crime." before leaving.
Belle also left, going back inside the station, with the cooler container and sitting on the chair, leaning back and running her hands over her face. O'Malley followed her inside, leaning against the doorway and as he watches her actions he dares ask "You okay?" he half expected Belle to lie to his face and tell him she was completely peachy, but Belle didn't do such thing, she told him the honest, cold, brutal truth.
"No.... This case.... it-it brings back memories of my uni years, I was raped by one of my teachers and I ended up having his child. And I normally never let my past affect my work but I just can't help it with this case, maybe it's the fact that my rapist is in Seattle with my daughter and I'm scared beyond belief and maybe it's just stress and recurring nightmares that don't let me sleep." she told him, with shaky and breathy voice, her eyes watering.
George was the first person in Seattle Grace to know of her past situation and she intended to keep it that way, she couldn't let anyone else find out, much less Alex Karev, that intern would use it against her. "You know what you need?" George told the ginger, his tone soft but when she looked at him, he widens his eyes and looked slightly creepy but it transmitted the idea. Belle completely understood what he meant and so she merely grabbed the cooler and allowed O'Malley to lead the way, to lead her to the maternity ward, more specifically the room where babies were kept under observation when they weren't with their parents.
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