Meredith POV
I just moved back to Seattle from Boston with my four year old daughter Allison. I am a general surgeon and Chief Webber of Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital gave me a job as one of the neurosurgeon attendings. Allison and I are moving into my mother's old house that I lived in as a child. My mother was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's about 10 months ago. The last time I saw my mother is when I told her I was pregnant with Allison. She told me that if I have this baby I am throwing away my career, but I knew that wasn't true. Allison's father didn't want her and so I left the hospital I was working at in New York and moved to Mass. Gen. in Boston and finished out my residency. My best friend, Alex, is going to live at my mother's house with me and my other best friend, Cristina, currently is working at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota but she might come back.
Today is my first day of work and I am excited to be working at the new hospital. I walked into the hospital and went to drop off Allison at the daycare And then I went to the Chief's office. Once I got into the Chief's office he gave me my lab coat and I walked to the Chief of Neurosurgery's office. I knocked on the door and he said, "Come in."
So I entered the room and said, "Hi I am Meredith Grey one of the new attending."
He looked at me with his blue eyes and said, "Nice to meet you Dr. Grey I am Derek Shepherd."
"It is so nice to finally meet you too Dr. Shepherd." I said politely.
He nodded and said, "Do you want me to show you around the hospital?" I nodded and he took me on a tour around the hospital. He was in the middle of saying something when we both got paged to the ER we both ran down there just in time to catch the ambulance's coming in. There was a car accident and Dr. Shepherd had to go into the OR for an emergency surgery and told me that I can have his patient that has a brain tumor because he wouldn't be able to make it to the surgery. I then told the patient I would be operating and took him up to get him prepped for surgery. The surgery was at least 5 hours long and it was almost time to go home just a few hours left before I had to go pick up Allison and I get to go home and have dinner with her. The last few hours of my work day were pretty calm I just finished up some charting and I was heading down to the daycare as Dr. Shepherd stopped me and said, "Hey would you like to go out for a drink?"
"I am sorry but I can't tonight." I replied even though I really wanted to.
"It's okay if you don't want to." He said.
"No it's not that. I have plans but maybe tomorrow night?" I said.
"Yeah that sounds great!" He said excitedly. We said our good byes and then I went to go pick up Allison from the daycare. "Hey Ally." I said.
"Hi mommy!" she said. I just held her hand and we made our way to the elevator to head down to the lobby. In the elevator we saw Alex and Ally was so excited to see him and she said, "Hey Uncle Alex!"
"Hi Ally!" He said mimicking her excitement.
I then asked Alex, "Hey can you watch Ally tomorrow night I am meeting a friend at the bar across the street."
"Yeah sure does he work at the hospital?" He asked.
"Yes but we are just friends and no I am not going to sleep with him I haven't gone on a date since Ally's father." I whispered quietly so Allison couldn't hear. Once we got down to the lobby Ally and I got in the car and we went to pick up a pizza and we brought it home and saw Alex watching TV. I got plates and drinks and went and sat on the couch by Ally and Alex. We let Ally pick a movie and she picked The Lion King and we watched the movie and we finished our pizza in the middle before I went and got three bowls of ice cream for each of us it was about 9 o'clock by the time the movie was over and Ally was already falling asleep so I carried upstairs to my room and helped her put on her pajamas. Ally's room isn't quite ready yet so Ally and I share a room like we did in our small apartment in Boston. Ally fell asleep as soon as she lied her head down on the pillow. I took a quick shower brushed my teeth and got ready for bed and fell asleep at about 10. I woke up in the morning to these green eyes staring at me and realized Ally was sitting on top of me and staring at me. She then yelled, "Good morning mommy!"
"Ally be quiet Alex is still sleeping." I told her.
Alex popped his head in and said, "No he's not."Ally just giggled and we went down and Ally and I both had a piece of pizza for breakfast like we do every morning after we have pizza the night before. After breakfast I got Ally ready and put a French braid in her hair and then got her ready. Then I changed and we got ready to head to the hospital. Once we got there I took Ally to daycare and I said, "Okay Ally be good."
"Okay mommy. I love you!" She said she kissed me on the cheek.
"I love you too." I said as she ran inside the daycare to play with the other kids. I then told the people at the daycare, "Dr. Karev is going to pick up Ally today."
"Okay." They said. I then left and got changed and was paged for a consult in the ER. I walked into the ER and a man was having seizures so I said to an intern, "Okay take him up to get a CT then come and find me." The intern did as I said and once I got the CT I saw that the guy had a large aneurysm that was causing him to seize. I then booked an OR and was getting ready to clip the aneurysm. The procedure went perfectly and I just finished up some charting and it was about lunch time. I then ate lunch with Alex and as I finished I said, "Hey I don't have anything to do so I am going to check on Ally." He nodded and as I was heading up to the daycare Dr. Shepherd stopped me and I said, "Hi Dr. Shepherd."
"Please call me Derek and are you still up for drinks tonight?" He asked.
"Yes I am." I told him. He then nodded and walked away and I headed to the daycare and once I got there the nurses let me in and said, "Hi Ally."
She turned around and sadly said, "Hi mommy."
"Ally what's wrong." I asked.
"Nothing." She replied.
"Allison Michelle Grey you better tell me what is going on." I told her.
"My tummy hurts." She said.
I looked at her and said, "Hey its okay how about I take you to go get a treat?"
Her eyes lit up and she said, "Really!" I nodded and I told the nurses at the daycare, "I am going to take Ally to lunch with me." They just told me it was okay and I took her down to the cafeteria and got her some ice cream. She finished her ice cream and said, "Mommy my tummy still hurts a lot."
I then said, "Okay well then lets take you to go see Uncle Alex." She just nodded and I picked her up and paged Alex. Once we got into a room I told Alex, "Well she has a fever and her stomach hurts and she just threw up."
"It's appendicitis." Alex said.
"That's what I thought it was." I said.
"Hey don't worry. You still have to go out for drinks tonight with that guy and I will stay by her side and I will make sure Dr. Robbins does the surgery." He told me. I nodded and knew that I should stay with her and I went to the Chief's office and said, "My daughter had appendicitis can I take the rest of the day off?"
"Yes absolutely. How is Ally by the way I forgot to ask you yesterday?" He asked.
"She is fine I just need to be with her and she is having surgery tomorrow." He nodded and let me go back to Ally. Once I got there she looked like she was really in pain and Alex said, "We moved her surgery up it's get worse and are afraid her appendix will rupture." I waited in the waiting room and changed after they took Ally up. They were still in surgery when Derek came down and said, "Ready to go?"
I nodded and said, "Yeah." I texted Alex that I was going out for drinks right now. Derek and I headed to Joe's and once we got there I said, "Can I get a shot of tequila?"
"I will have a scotch." Derek said. As we got our drinks Derek asked me, "So where did you move from?"
"Boston I needed a change." I told him.
He nodded and said, "I am from New York and moved here a few months ago."
"Really! Why did you move?" I asked.
"Well my wife cheated on me with one of my co-workers who happened to be one of my best friends." He said. I just nodded and he said, "Why did you need a change from Boston?"
"Well my best friend, Alex Karev, lives here and my daughter's father moved to Boston and I just couldn't stand seeing him." I said.
"You have a daughter?" He asked.
"Yeah I do her name is Allison but we call her Ally. She is actually at the hospital right now we found out she had appendicitis today." I said.
"Well you should be at the hospital." He said.
"I know but she is still in surgery and if I sit there I will worry to much and I couldn't handle that." I said.
"Why don't I go and wait with you." He said.
"You would do that?" I asked him.
He nodded and said, "I would be happy to. Why couldn't you stand seeing Ally's father?"
"Well when I told him I was pregnant he ditched me and didn't want anything to do with Ally." I said.
"That's to bad." Derek said.
I nodded and Dr. Robbins came out and said, "Hey Dr. Grey everything went perfectly and she is in the ICU I can take you to see her."
"Thank you and call me Meredith." I told her.
Dr. Robbins then said, "Okay and call me Arizona."
I nodded and turned to Derek and said, "Do you want to come and meet her when she wakes up?"He nodded and we followed Arizona to her room and Alex was there and I told him, "You can go thanks Alex." He nodded and I sat by her side and her eyes started to flutter open and she said, "Mommy?'
"I am here sweetie." I said. I then turned to Derek and told Ally, "Ally this is Derek Shepherd he is a doctor with mommy we work together."
"Hi Dr. Shepherd." She said politely.
"Call me Derek." He told her.
"I am Allison Grey." Ally said with confidence after Derek told her to call him by his first name.
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