Life Without You
A/N This is my first attempt at Grey's / Bones fiction so hopefully this will be decent. Let me know what you think of it!
Major events impact on everyone. Everything changes, nothing is unaffected. In a perfect world we wouldn't need to overcome anything, challenges wouldn't faze us and we certainly wouldn't be affected by things that have almost nothing to do with us. Sometimes things happen that change everything and can't be simply avoided or brushed off. They change you; possibly for the better, maybe for the worse – but you'll be different. It will never be the same again.
Derek's face fell as he placed the receiver back into the cradle, "Meredith, I have to go into work."
"Unfortunately we both have to, I'll only be about fifteen minutes," she replied brushing her hair before clipping it back.
"No, they need me now. All the attendings have been called in early," he explained to her, walking round the bed to where she was perched.
"Oh, really? Why?" she asked as curiosity took over her mind.
"I don't think I can say – it's not my place. You'll find out later, I'm sure," he answered her, kissing quickly to prevent her asking more questions. He wanted to answer them, keeping things from her irritated him and he knew she'd always be able to get the information she wanted eventually. He could never say no to Meredith.
"Don't think that gets you off the hook! You better tell me later," she laughed after his disappearing figure, before turning back to the mirror and pondering on the reasons for Derek's sudden rushing off.
"Cristina!" Meredith called down the corridor, speeding up her walk drastically, "Something is going on."
"Something's always going on, why do you care this time?" she raised her eyebrows, allowing her eyes to scan the area around where they were stood for signs of anything suspicious. Nothing out of the ordinary appeared to be happening – people were crying, surgeons were walking round, interns were running after them; all was well in Seattle Grace or at least it appeared to be.
Pulling her to one side, Meredith whispered, "The strangest thing happened this morning. All the attendings got called in early about something Derek was being really secretive about. He was saying how it wasn't his place to comment and that we'd find out soon enough."
Dismissing her immediately, Cristina joked, "He's probably just having an affair."
"Seriously not funny," Meredith sternly replied.
"You have to admit that it is sort of-" Cristina trailed off after seeing the face of her colleague, before continuing, "maybe someone died?"
"People die every day, we work in a hospital – this is a place where you actually expect death to occur."
"But maybe it wasn't just any old patient…" Cristina began, before being pushed into the closest exam room by Meredith, "What the hell?"
"Shush, Derek and the Chief are coming," Meredith replied placing her hand over Cristina's mouth as they both crouched under the level of the window.
"It's just shocking, I never thought anything like this would happen here," Richard shook his head in amazement.
"What makes it worse is that it's one of us – not just some stranger who's wandered in from the streets. It was one of the family," Derek continued with the same amazed and devastated tone Meredith and Cristina had heard the Chief using just moments later.
Suddenly a new voice was brought into the conversation, one they'd never heard, "Chief Webber you'll need to let the staff know. We need to be certain they're going to co-operate with the investigation."
"Right away Agent Booth, whatever you think is the best step forward," Richard duly replied.
"I need to check Meredith's alright- I left pretty abruptly this morning and you know what she's like if she's annoyed at you," Derek explained, before turning and heading off down the corridor.
"I'll page them all the staff to the conference room. Feel free to call me if either you or Dr. Brennan needs anything," the Chief started, before following the way Derek had just gone.
"Agent Booth?" Cristina repeated, "That means the FBI's involved – this is some serious stuff."
"Well, I'm positive we're about to discover what's been going on…"
A/N Chapter 1 is sorted then - bit of a cliffhanger there. Please comment about what you think of it! Thank you