This story is set almost 17 years after prom when Meredith's Daughter Grace heads to Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital after a cheerleading accident. She may bump into a few familiar faces and even her father, which she has never meet before. How ill this all unfold. Lexie is in this story. Will Meredith and Derek reunite? Will they become one big happy Family or will there be too much water under the bridge and whatever.
All rights of this belongs to shonda rhimes and the show Greys anatomy. I don't own the characters I just enjoy writing about them.
Rated T/M
Chapter 1: The Weight Of Us
Song – The Lader Andrew Belle
"Sometimes the past is something you just can't let go of. And sometimes the past is something we'll do anything to forget. And sometimes we learn something new about the past that changes everything we know about the present."
-Meredith Grey
Grace's POV
I didn't know why I was so nervous. Its not like anyone really knew me. Well...Except for Cristina, George and Izzie. But they have only seen me a few times. Why couldn't they bring us to any other hospital. I've never been here before I've only heard from what my mother told me. This place gave her so many sad memories. Just brining up Seattle would send her into depression. I remembered the stories that aunt Cristina told me, about this place. About my father. She told me my mother moved to Boston after Prom. She didn't tell me what happened at Prom, but if I used my imagination I'm sure I could put the two pieces together. I was 16 and that was almost 17 years ago, so it didn't take a genius to figure that one out. Mom found out she was pregnant with me three weeks after she moved to Boston. She wanted to tell my father. She tried. He just had hurt her so much. He broke her. She raised me by herself, well...My aunt Lexie help and Cristina was over once a month. She was strong. No matter how broken she was, she was the strongest person I knew. I felt uncomfortable being here thought. Why did the stupid Cheer leading nationals had to held in Seattle? Why did the crazy bus driver have a heart attack and crash right into a 2 ton truck, injuring our team and sending us to this hell hole? Thank god my aunt Lexie volunteered to come with our cheerleanding group. Mom would of but she was busy with her surgeries, plus the Idea of going back to Seattle frightened her.
"Seriously Aunt Lexie I'm fine!" I said as I sat on the bed in the ER.
"How are you feeling?" She asked cheeking my vitals and my eyes sight.
"My head huts a little, but I'm sure that normal when you've been in a car accident." I said shoving the light out of my eyes. "Where is Dakota?" I asked with a sudden realisation.
"Grace stop being so stubborn!" she yelled at me.
"I'm Fine!" I yelled trying to escape my bed.
"Does this hurt?" She asked squeezing my left wrist. I let out a little cry. "It looks like a fracture. You will need an X-Ray." she said writing on my chart.
"Cant it wait. I'm sure there is pleanty of more life threatening injuries out there that need your attention?" I said trying to get the hell out of this place.
"Grace you will listen to me. I could call your mother and see what she would like to say?" she said eyeing me.
"Fine I will get the stupid X-Ray." I said crossing my arms and poking my tongue out at her.
"Excuse me what's going on here?" I stranger asked pulling back the curtain.
"Hi I'm Dr Lexie Grey. I was travelling with the cheer group when the accident occurred. I'm an Nero attending at Boston General." Lexie said shaking the stranger hand.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't know you were a surgeon. My mistake. I'm doctor April kepner nice to meet you." she said smiling.
"Ummm, you might want to help that patient over there. He's vomiting blood." Lexie said pointing to the patient over in bed five.
"Hello I'm Dr Owen Hunt. Chief of surgery. You are Dr Grey, Is that correct?" a strange man in dark blue scrubs asked Lexie from behind.
"Yes." She replied nervously.
"Would you mind giving us a hand. We are short staffed and your surgical skills would be greatly appreciated." He asked.
"I'm fine lexie. I'm sure I can manage getting an X-ray and cast by my self." I said looking at her giving her the all okay to leave me.
"If you are sure?" she asked.
"Go. Go and save some lives!" I said shoving her out of the way.
"Fine! But page me after you get the X-Ray." she said starting to walk away. "I mean it Grace!" she yelled. I sighed as I slowly got up. I pulled out my cell phone. It was 8.44pm and no missed phone calls from mom. She must be swamped tonight at the hospital. I looked around me. People were everywhere it was like a war zone. "Dakota." I called out looking for my best friend. She was sitting next to me on the bus before the accident. She didn't look to injured when they brought us in, but we got separated.
"Grace!" I heard someone call out my name from behind me.
"Oh..., its you Ruby." I said turning around to see the red head beauty in front of me who went by the name of Ruby. She was a little weird for my liking.
"How are you?" she asked staring at me.
"Umm.. okay I guess, my arm hurts a little. Do you know where Dakota is?" I asked panicked.
"She broke her leg. I think she is surgery." She said looking down at her watch.
"Surgery! What! Why didn't anyone tell me this!" I yelled at her throwing my hands in the air in anger.
"Sorry Grace. I thought someone had already told you. Are you sure you are okay? You seem a little Distraught." she said placing her hand on my arm for some comfort.
"Yeah I'm Fine." I said moving so her hand slipped from my arm. " I just need to see Dakota Okay!" I said starting to walk away.
"Your hand looks pretty bad. Maybe you should get that check out first?" She said following from behind.
"My Aunt saw it. Said it was fine!" I said having no time to waste. I had to see if Dakota was okay. I couldn't loose her. She was my Person. I needed her.
"Grace you need to calm down. She is going to be okay, Just relax!" Ruby said yelling behind me.
"Don't tell me to be fine. My best friend might die!" I said yelling at her.
"She is just in surgery. No one said anything about her dying. She is going to be okay. Now lets go and find out some more information so you don't chew my head off okay?" she said pulling my arm back.
"Fine!" I said in a huff.
"Where are we?" Ruby asked as we came to a sudden stop.
"The OR board." I said frantically looking up and down.
"Come again?" she said looking confused.
"It will tell us what OR Room Dakota is in." I said sighing.
"How do you know this stuff?" she asked looking with me.
"My mum is a surgeon." I said relieved as I found Dakota name. "Yes here it is!" I said pointing to it. "OR 3, Dr Torres." I said to Ruby.
"Where the hell is that?" She asked.
"We will take the elevator and see." I said looking around.
"There's one." Ruby said pointing to the left wing.
"Awesome." I said as we sprinted towards it.
"What level?' she asked as we stepped inside the large red elevator.
"Umm... level 4 I think?" I said looking on the hospital map on the wall on the back of the elevator. Ruby pressed the button. The elevator binged and stared to move.
"I should probably call my parents. You know how worried they can get. My dad especially. He's go over protective! You know who they are?" She asked turning her head around to look at me. I didn't know how to answer the question. The truth was I didn't have a dad. Well... I real dad anyway. "Yeah." I said leaning against the wall. I gave a fake smile as she looked back at me.
"My dad still calls me his little Princess." She said laughing. "What about you?" she said giggling.
"What about me?" I said confused.
"What embarrassing nick name does you dad call you?" she asked laughing.
Oh crap. What was I going to say. I didn't want to tell her I didn't have a dad and for her to feel Pitty for me, and give me a giant hug. I hated hugs.
"His little Ferry" I said lying. Mom always said he liked ferries. I hoped Ruby believed that lie.
"Aww how cute!" she said the elevator doors opened.
"Yeah." I said sighing. I shock my heads from my thoughts and exited the elevator with Ruby.
"So we are going to sneak in and watch the surgery?" Ruby asked shocked.
"Yeah. Don't worry I watch my mom perform surgeries all the time." I said calming her nerves. " only for a few minutes okay. I just want to see how Dakota is doing. I cant just stand around here and do nothing Ruby!" I said looking at her.
"Fine okay! Only for a few minutes." She said sighing.
"Thanks." I said smiling.
"What if we get cough?" she asked terrified.
"Just say we are first year med students and we need to see a live surgery for our Exam" I said grabbing her shoulders.
"Med student got it." she said nodding.
"Okay." I said opening the door slowly. Thank god only a few people were inside.
"And what do you think you are doing?" A man asked as we walked inside.
"Sorry,This is Ms Hale and I'm Ms Grey we are first year med students come to see our very first performed surgery for one of our assessments. Dr Hunt said we could." I said awkwardly trying not to act sixteen.
"You look a little young?" He question us.
"Are you saying young people cant be intelligent ?" I asked acting all mature and up my self.
"No. of course not." he said taken off guard.
"May we sit down then sir." I said looking him directly in the eye.
"umm.. sure. " he said moving out of our way. "I'm Dr Avery by the way." he said trying to move past the awkward tension.
"Nice to meet you." I said grabbing a sit with Ruby right at the front. He sat at the back just over took by what just happened.
"What are they doing?" Ruby Whispered next to me.
"Metal plates and screws are attached above and below the fracture. Dr Torres will then line the bone up in its normal place and attach screws to metal bars outside the skin. The metal bars are fixed together to form a frame and this holds the bones in the proper position so that they can heal." I said a little out loud.
"Well done." I blonde haired lady said from behind us. "Quiet impressive for a fist year." she said smiling back in her chair. "I'm Dr Robbins Paediatrician Attending." she said extending her hand out to shake. I nervously shock her hand. I slowly turned back to focus on the surgery. Dakota was doing well. The surgery was going successfully so far. I let out a relived sigh.
"How did you know that?" Ruby whispered shocked.
"I guess you could say its in my blood." I said winking at her. She laughed.
"Is your hand Hurting?" she asked.
"A little. Why do you ask?" I said turning to face her.
"Look at it! It looks painful. It's like black and blue. I really think you need a second opinion." she said looking down at my hand.
"Its fine!" I said trying not to wince in pain. The truth was my hand was killing me. I wish Dakota surgery would just hurry up and she would be okay.
"She's going to be fine right?" Ruby asked looking down at Dakota.
" There is always a risk of complications. Her nerves or blood vessels may be damaged when the fracture happens or during her operation. Damaged nerves may cause some loss of movement or feeling in her arm or leg. Damage to her blood vessels may affect the blood supply to her arm or leg. A fracture can lead to compartment syndrome. This happens when your muscles swell. Your muscles sit inside a capsule of tissue called fascia, so they don't have much room to expand. When your muscles swell, the pressure increases and blood can't flow into the muscle properly. This causes severe pain. An operation called a fasciotomy may be needed to release the pressure on the muscle. But she sound be fine." I said sighing. Ruby just stared at me in shock. Her mouth wide open.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Someone may be an ortho Surgeon." Dr Robbins said from behind with a pound smile on her face.
"Well she is a Grey." I heard a familiar voice call out from the back.
"Alex?" I asked puzzled. I haden't seen him for years.
"Look who is all grown up." He said all Smirking.
"Who know each other?" Dr Avery asked very confused.
"Yeah She's...Ellis Grey's granddaughter." He said not wanting to say my mothers name.
"Shut up!" Dr Avery said shocked.
"Not kidding." Alex said winking at me. He knew I wasn't a med student. He didn't tell tho. Probably thought I was a bad ass just like him.
"No wonder she knows so much." Dr Robbins said smiling.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. A mysterious hansom man with curly tussled back hair and ocean blue eyes stood at the door. He caught my immediate attention.
"Yes Dr Shepherd?" Dr Robbins asked.
I knew from his eyes. My eyes. Mom use to show me pictures of them together.
What he looked like. He looked just the same. A little older and more tired looking. But it was him. It was my dad.
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