"Disappearances happen in science, disease can suddenly fade away, tumours go missing. We open someone up to discover the cancer is gone, it's unexplained, it's rare, but it happens. We call it misdiagnosis, say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. But life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn't know we had disappears, do we miss it?"
"Dammit Meredith! Why can't you ever do anything right? I'm so ashamed to call you a Grey sometimes!" Meredith's mother Ellis Grey said.
"More like all the time" Meredith grumbled.
"I'm sorry, what was that? I've told you time and time again that if you have something to say speak up, so do you have something to say?"
"No, mother" Meredith replied while looking down at her tatty old dance shoes. Ellis scrunched up her face making lots of tiny wrinkles form across her forehead.
"You are so ungrateful, you know I don't have to stay back with you after class to try to make you into a decent dancer" her mother said. Meredith could feel the words cutting through her skin and into her heart as her mother continued speaking.
"I know mother, I'm sorry" Meredith tried her hardest to make her apology sound sincere. Ellis looked Meredith up and down before replying.
"Meredith, have you put on weight?! What have I told you about self control, you will never follow in my footsteps if you look like that!" none of this was new to Meredith, she had heard it time and time again, at least this time it wasn't in front of her usual dance class. Meredith wondered if her mother would ever approve of her as a dancer or even worse as her daughter. Not only was her mother an amazing dancer but she was also a talented neuro surgeon which meant that Meredith rarely got to see her.