Meredith kept staring at her phone. She had been staring at it for a good hour now, wondering whether or not to press send. Cristina had left only a week before, and even though she had told her they would text each other all the time, she still wanted to give her time to adjust to the new place and the new job. The text on her phone said "You wouldn't believe what I just found out. The head of cardio is my sister. My biological sister. Ellis and Richard's love child." She was laying on Alex's old bed, Cristina's old bed actually, with a bottle of tequila. She didn't really want to go home and start yet another fight with Derek. Not tonight. Tonight she just needed a break from everything… and most importantly, she just needed to talk to her person. She took another sip of tequila, thought "Screw it" and pressed send.
"It's 8 am in Zurich now, who knows how long it will take Cristina to see my text…"
Cristina had just finished an 8 hour long surgery. She had been paged at 1 am, just as she was about to leave after a 48 hour shift. She could never say no to a cardio surgery, no matter how tired she was. It was a little past 9 am now, and the only thing she needed was her bed, food, and a shower, but she wasn't sure in what order. "I'll decided when I get home." she thought. She was about to leave once again when she saw Mer's text on her phone. She couldn't wait to get home to call her. She headed back to her office and turned on her computer…
Mer was sound asleep, holding on to the now empty bottle of tequila when her iPad started ringing. It was Cristina calling her on Skype. As soon as she answered, even before Cristina's face appeared on her monitor she heard:
"No way!"
"Yeah!"
"No freaking way!"
"Right?"
They looked at each other… Mer was trying to let her understand how she was feeling with just a look, but it wasn't the same through the camera. Especially with all the delays and problems Skype always had.
"The new head of cardio is really your sister? or you and Alex are just trying to pull a prank on me?"
Meredith moved the iPad around the room to show her where she was.
"Mer? Are you in my old room? Tell me exactly what happened."
"The new head of Cardio, Maggie, told me she was Ellis' daughter. I couldn't believe her, so I told Alex, because I can't talk to Derek right now. We are still fighting and you are right, I am the sun. I am. And you are over there, I couldn't just call you. Alex made me look at Maggie's date of birth on the Hospital's database and…" she was suddenly interrupted by Cristina saying "Mer. Slow down. You did what?" Meredith was so relieved she could finally get everything off her chest that she hadn't really realized she was talking unusually fast. The tequila bottle she had downed didn't really help the whole process either.
