ariana martinez

[arianamartinez]

mediiicals​:

there it was. the real reason she moved across the country. being around andrea and jamie seemed like a good enough excuse, but a broken relationship was bigger than that. “oh ariana,” she whispered - waving her sister closer to her. andrea gave the plastic bench two pats, hoping she’d sit next to him. while her sister spoke, she could see the evident pain in her eyes. joe and ariana had been together for so long, they had built this beautiful life together and for it all of a sudden just be gone? that couldn’t have been easy. andrea had made her mistakes, but she didn’t know what she would do without caleb in her life. at one point, that was the same for ariana and her husband. “first of all, you can always talk to me about anything in your life. no matter what is happening with me, i’m still your sister.” she placed her hand onto her knee, hazel eyes focusing in on a pair that looked the exact same. “and second, falling out of love happens. we’ve seen it with our own two eyes, right? what is joe saying?” how was she supposed to go about this? it was hard to think about. “are you happy like that? sleeping in separate rooms, barely seeing your husband, living with someone that you dont love anymore? can you live the rest of your life like that?” andrea couldn’t be. “you deserve everything, ariana. you have to remember that your happiness is more important than his. it’ll be hard, but you and your kids will get through it. like you said, you’re here now so you’ll me and even jamie to help you. i know why you dont want to leave him, but look how we turned out. if you ask me, we’re pretty great.”

Ariana nodded as she sat, she knew that her sister would be there for her through anything and she felt silly for not telling her sooner but maybe it was because she was ashamed. “Joe barely says anything.” Her hands flew out in a sign on exasperation. “If he says anything it’s him undermining me or having the last word. He won’t talk about this properly apart from when we had a therapist and he said he’d work on it but it just went straight back to normal. He’ll spend time with the kids and he’ll play with them while I’m doing the housework and then he’ll go out with his friends and leave me to do the girl’s bedtime routines by myself.” She felt herself getting annoyed just as the thought of it. “Of course I’m not happy but the girls are oblivious to anything that is going on. Gabriella is four years old, she’ll want to know why daddy isn’t there to play with her when mommy’s too busy doing the housework.” A resigned sigh left her lips and she looked her sister in the eyes. “I don’t want to be like dad. I don’t want to be the person who rips my family apart. I’d be okay, I’d be fine, but they’re still so little. They need us together. Say we wait until Gabriella’s eighteen and off to college, that’s still fourteen years from now and then it’ll be too late for us to really find anything else so we’ll just stay together until we die, unhappy. I want to be with someone who loves me, but realistically speaking, who’s going to want to be with someone like me, someone with this amount of baggage. Everyone knows that girls with kids don’t get the guy.” A silent tear slipped down her cheek, she wasn’t usually one to show her emotions but sometimes it just got the better of her and she felt like around Andrea she was able to let her guard down.

[arianamartinez]

mediiicals​:

“other than the accident, but i’m pretty sure jamie almost put me in bubble wrap instead.” that was one thing that andrea loved about their family. no matter who it was, they were close. even if it was a cousin or an uncle or even a step uncle, they were close. “do you think we should? okay okay, well i’ll give you the summary. shepherd siblings, a little scary. mcdreamy - or derek shepherd, he’s like this neuro god and you can tell he knows it. but he has four sisters, all doctors - “ could you imagine? “kathleen, i think she’s almost one of the youngest. she’s a psychiatrist and definitely kind of scary, but she means well. just let her talk and she’ll probably like you. onto the next, but mark sloan. they call him mcsteamy. definitely a manwhore, but he’s a refined one. we got close pretty quickly after we did surgery in the dark and he’s great. i think you’ll like him.” okay, onto the next one. ‘teddy is my best friend, she’s the head of cardio. amazing woman, super beautiful with a husband who might be dying but he’s my patient so i get the job of saving his life. also a lot of weird sexual drama around this place, but again. i’m thankful for caleb being outside of the hospital most of time, you know. some intern might fall in love with him and i cant have that.” andrea shook off the thought, but kept going. “oh! also, dont really get along with the head of the legal department. his name is john who has a jawline that could cut someone in half, like weirdly too hot for his own good but given the surgery in the dark thing we didnt really get off on the right food. his paralegal savannah though is a good friend of mine and they were hooking up for like years, but john is married. it was a whole scandal in london, i think? and they brought it here. also mind you, he’s married to a shepherd lady. it’s a lot, ariana. i dont know about the wellness centre, but the hospital is too much sometimes. anyway i could keep going, but you talk first.” 

“Shepherd’s mostly good, right. Sloan good, right. Teddy, yes, I remember hearing her name many times from you, she’s made an impression, clearly. Kinda sad about her husband though, that must be hard. Gonna be harder if you let him die though.” She grimaced a little and shook her head, she wouldn’t want to have the responsibility of her best friend’s husband’s life in her hands, that would just be too much. “A jawline that could come someone in half...sounds like my kinda guy, but not the whole cheating on his wife part...that’s mean.” She furrowed her brow slightly thinking about her situation and how it may have been easier for her if her husband had cheated then they could split and that would be that, but people look at you strange when you tell them that you just fell out of love, as if it makes you some kind of monster. After hearing everything that had come out of Andrea’s mouth, she was sort of glad that she would be working more alongside the hospital at the Wellness Center instead of there. She sighed a little, she was ready to tell Andrea to just carry on and forget she had said anything, but they knew absolutely everything about one another and Andrea would be able to tell that she was holding something back even if she tried with all of her might to hide the fact. “Joe and I have been going through some stuff. I didn’t want to say anything because of what happened with you and Caleb. He didn’t cheat or anything but I just don’t love him anymore. We constantly argue, I go by Martinez again now because I find that I don’t want to be associated with him and I’ve taken my wedding ring off but I can’t bring myself to leave him. I know I don’t love him anymore, I just don’t want my kids to have a broken home, I don’t want them to have to go through that. I don’t want them to feel how we did.” Ariana was fiercly faithful, almost to a fault and stubborn too. If anyone was going to leave it would have to be her husband but he didn’t have the backbone to do it and while that pissed her off, she was glad, she didn’t want to screw her kids up. Her and Andrea had gotten through what their father had put them through, but there was no denying that it had left them bruised and broken in a way that couldn’t be repaired and if she put her children through that kind of pain she would never be able to forgive herself. “I wanted to move here so I was closer to you if anything happened. People always said that getting married at nineteen was a mistake and that we would regret it and now here we are fifteen years later proving them right. I thought they’d be wrong, I thought we would honestly be together forever. Maybe he was my only love, I don’t think I could ever love anyone in the way that I loved him ever again, but I also don’t think that this is something we can fix, we’ve tried counselling, both together and separately and that didn’t seem to help, we sleep in separate rooms, we barely see one another...I almost wish he had cheated, it would make my decision so much more simple.”

[arianamartinez]

mediiicals​:

“shut up and come here,” she explained with a laugh, arms wrapping around her sister to pull her closer. it was true, andrea had basically packed up and moved to seattle without any warning. the only warning she had given was to caleb with the divorce papers. “it is, but thankfully none of it is with me.” to be honest, she was quite proud about that. except the accident, but there was absolutely no reason to get into that. “i’m really happy you’re here, ari. seattle was a little too far away for me.” after their hug, andrea dug into her locker and tossed her sister an extra pair of scrubs. “honestly you in blue is going to be even funnier than i thought. i might not have told a lot of people we were twins,” she admitted with a shrug, “so the fact that we’re going to be in the same scrubs? it’s like middle school again.” 

Ariana smiled. “You mean to tell me you’ve got into no trouble at all since being here? I don’t believe that for a second.” She accepted the scrubs from her sister gratefully but knew that she was probably going to be called Andrea about a hundred times until she could at least get some  new pink scrubs. “We could have some fun and really freak people out. I know back home there were a few times when we were together that my girls weren’t sure if I was really their mom so we must look alike even if we don’t see it all the time.” She put the fresh scrubs on without caring who saw, she’d already lost her dignity and she couldn’t help the laugh that escaped her lips. “Wow. This colour is not flattering. How do you wear this every day?” She scrunched her face up a little teasing her sister before smiling again. “Give me all the gossip and then I have things to tell you. I need your help in figuring out what to do, I’ve never made huge decisions without you and this will be no exception.”

[arianamartinez]

mediiicals​:

“is it not weird that you didnt even call me before showing up? last time i checked, you probably needed to look for a house or an apartment. let alone, you had an interview and no one even told me.” this was too much, but she was excited. andrea waived her sister in the direction of the hospital, making their way to one of the attendings lounges. “okay before you talk to literally anyone, i have to tell you every single thing thats happening in this place. like from the top to the bottom, the gossip is too much. if the nurses catch onto you like they did to me, they’ll tell you everything. even stuff you didnt want to know.” 

“You didn’t call me when you decided to run away and come here...and besides, surprises are good aren’t they? I knew you’d find out sooner or later so there was no reason to tell you.” Ariana followed her sister and walked to one of the attending’s lounges and raised an eyebrow. “Is there a lot to tell? I’m kind of scared now.” She laughed and sighed softly. Being in the company of her sister again felt right, she had been stressed for so long about her marriage and everything going on at home with her husband that she hadn’t been able to take even so much as a second to just relax and be herself but she knew that she would be able to do that with Andrea. She’d be able to get off her chest everything that she was feeling and she was ready for that. “It’s so good to see you again and not just over a screen.”

[arianamartinez]

drbadass​:

Walking through the front doors of the hospital had finally begun to feel like a habit rather than something out of place. Jo had finally begun picturing Seattle Grace when she referenced her place of employment. No matter what else she had going on, at least she had stopped feeling so much like the new kid in school. Waltzing into the hospital, Jo had an incredible vantage point to watch the disaster unfold for the woman a few feet away from her. Like a train-wreck, she couldn’t tear her eyes away as the woman’s beverage went from hand-to-shirt in a matter of seconds. “Ouch.” Jo remarked to no one in particular, chuckling a little bit to herself. She looked around, wondering if she should be a nice person and offer some assistance or shrug it off like the rest of the world was doing. She decided some karma points wouldn’t be the worst thing for her. Jo stepped over, about a foot away from the woman furiously scrubbing her top. “Yeah, that’s not going to do it.” She straightened the strap of her bag on her shoulder. “Well, welcome to Seattle Grace. You’re off to a great start.” She pointed over the woman’s shoulder. “And there’s a bathroom over there if you want to try and save the shirt. Or at least, maybe a little bit of dignity?” Jo joked. 

Ariana could see everyone around her chatting between themselves and just knew that they were talking about what had just happened to her so her levels of embarrassment just continued to rise as she tried to wipe at the coffee as best as possible. She bit her lip to stop herself from cursing again. “I think I’ve lost every single part of my dignity already, I mean look at me, I’m stood here with coffee all over me in the place that I’m going to be spending most of my time.” She huffed a little as she gave up the scrubbing, it wasn’t making it any better. “Do you know where I can get hold of some scrubs so I can change out of this before I meet any more of the people I’ll be seeing on a daily basis.”

[arianamartinez]

sgmwesters​:

Gabriela didn’t have too much to do with the Wellness Centre, but occasionally there was a need for her to meet with their lawyers. That, and she liked to pry a little to see if some of their processes were on par with Seattle Grace’s, and her strong relationship with their lawyers gave her the opportunity to pry a little more than she might be able to otherwise. Her heels clacked against the floor before she came to a stop in the centre of the entrance, her eyes looking for the individual that she was meant to be meeting. “There’s a store not far down the street, you might have time to pop out and get a new blouse. Nobody would know any different. You can’t exactly meet your new bosses covered in coffee now, can you? And it’s either that or turning up in a bra and I don’t think I need to tell you that’s not a good idea.”

“I would love to, but I really don’t think I have time, I’m already running late because I had to get my kids ready first. I bet I have a kids top in my bag, but nothing for me.” She laughed a little as she tried to wipe the coffee up as best as she could but it seemed pointless, maybe she would have to run to a store. “You think I could get there and back in ten minutes? I really don’t want to make a bad impression on my first day, my second maybe, but not my first.”

[arianamartinez]

epiphanics​:

cooper had been there before, having a crappy first day wasn’t any fun. “oh, don’t worry about it. everybody’s been there once before.” he said putting his mug down on the kitchen counter and handing her some more dry paper towels. “lucky for you, i’m pretty sure there are some extra scrub tops in the supply closet at the end of the hall. there should be some in your size, seeing as how addison and charlotte also wear them sometimes. that way you won’t be stuck wearing a white coffee stained shirt all day, unless you want to.” 

“Here’s to hoping there is some, nothing sets a good impression on your new colleagues like wearing coffee soaked clothes on your first day. Thank you though, I appreciate your help.” She smiled gratefully at the man in front of her and held out her hand. “I’m Ariana, Ariana Martinez. I’m your newest OB.”

[arianamartinez]

mediiicals​:

“and you’re in seatle why?” and in scrubs? was no one going to let her know that her twin sister was here? was there a surgery she was asked to help on? did jamie know? how come her mom didnt call her? “i have extra scrubs, but they’re blue. they’re not going to match the pink - ‘ she motioned to the pants, “are you going to tell me what you’re doing here or should i call mom?” 

“I’ll take anything at this moment in time Andrea, I’m not going to impress anyone on my first day with coffee soaked scrubs am I?” She tried to tone down the sarcasm that coated her words, this was her sister after all, her very best friend in the world. “I’m here to live and to work. I just got a position at the Wellness Centre. I think being here will be better for my research, the people here know more.”

[arianamartinez]

break up with your husband we need you SINGLE around here

Hm. I’d rather not be single with two kids though. I’m too old to be single and playing the field. My kids need both their parents...together. Even if that means I’m staying with a man I’ve fallen out of love with. 

[arianamartinez]

have you and andrea ever played tricks on people about who is who

When we were kids, sure.

[arianamartinez]

a quote to live by

“Live slow, die fast.”

[arianamartinez]

do you think that if you slept with caleb he would know it was you and not andrea

I would hope so, but I certainly wouldn’t sleep with my sister’s husband any time to find out.

[arianamartinez]

top 5 people in seattle grace

Me, my sister, my cousin, my sister’s husband, fifth yet to be announced.

[arianamartinez]

best and worst thing about having a twin

Best thing is I could blame her for a crime I committed and worst is she could blame me...

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[arianamartinez]

honesty day

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[arianamartinez]

mediiicals​:

andrea had her daily routine. get to work, go to the coffee stand right outside of the hospital and then get on with her day. as she made her way to the coffee stand in question, nurses and doctors alike began to look at her differently. it was like - well, it was like they were confused. when she got closer, she heard a voice that she had only heard on the phone. it couldnt be. was it? “ariana?” there she was. her twin sister, staring right back at her. “¿qué haces aquí? están todos aquí?” maybe she wasnt quite vocal about the fact that there two of them running around. two doctors on top of that. 

“The one and only.” She shot her sister a smile and looked down at herself with a laugh. “I would give you a hug but me and my coffee are clearly having a moment. It’s really good to see you, though.” She nodded, “We’re all here. Te extrañé. The girls missed you too. I need a new top, have you got any with you? I can’t walk into my new job like this.”