And he had.
Meredith leaned closer. “Once,” she whispered, “I held a bomb inside a man’s chest while a soldier told me which wire to cut. The soldier didn’t make it. But I learned something that day.”
Bailey entered, drying her own hands. “The fire was a blown transformer. Nothing major.” bomb episode grey's anatomy
“Fear is just a wire. You can cut it, or you can let it detonate you.”
Halfway through the tendon repair, the overhead lights flickered. A nurse gasped. Bailey’s voice crackled over the intercom: “All ORs, standby. Possible electrical fire in sub-basement. Not a drill, but do not evacuate unless ordered.” And he had
“Was,” Leo said, his voice dry. “Until my disposal robot glitched. Had to go manual. Manual lost.”
The ambulance bay doors burst open. “Thirty-two-year-old male, EOD technician, blast injury to the left hand. Device detonated prematurely during disposal. He’s hemodynamically stable but missing two digits.” The soldier didn’t make it
In the scrub room, she caught her reflection. For a moment, she saw the terrified intern from 2006, hands shaking over a live mortar. Then she blinked, and the reflection was just a tired chief with silver-streaked hair.
