I know that this is short and there isn't much action but i promise the other chapters will be longer. Next chapter or the one after will be MerDer!
She slowly exited her car, closing the door with care and then looking left to right. From a bystander's point of view she might look like some kind of psycho but really, she wasn't. She was Meredith Grey. She was the woman who divorced her husband 5 years ago, for a reason she didn't quite know. She is the woman who hadn't been in Seattle since that dreadful night 5 years prior.
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A week ago
"Dr. Grey, I know this may be of an inconvenience to you but we are cutting staff do to the economic downfall and unless you can find another job elsewhere we will need to let you go."
Meredith stood there with the phone pressed a little to hard against her cheek, shocked. She was the best neurosurgeon that hospital had ever seen. She had done wonders for their ratings.
"Dr. Grey we need an answer"
"I'll find another job, thanks." The words were still ringing in her head long after the line went dead.
As the reality of her situation started to settle into her mind she turned to her phone. She called hospital after hospital. They all had the same answer for her, 'we just can't afford it Dr. Grey.' After hours of avoiding that little thought crept up once more. She hesitated, she thought, she even felt tears threatening to come out. Then slowly, she reached for the phone and dialed a number she knew all to well.
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As the glass doors of Seattle Grace Hospital slid open, faces turned and jaws dropped. Gossiping nurses turned to their phones and familiar faces looked on kindly. Meredith now realized the reason she had left. A short black woman tore her from her thoughts.
"Grey, I heard you were coming to visit!"
"Not visiting Dr. Bailey, I work here now… again" Meredith looked at the woman as her face became skeptical and one of her eyebrows rose slightly.
"Please don't look at me like that." The realization was now clear to Meredith. This was her life, gossipy nurses and people who couldn't even take her seriously. She had to resist the urge to laugh at the irony. All that hard work and that was what she got.
"Not looking, not judging just, you know, pondering"
"Pondering?"
"Nothing it's just, Derek is the Chief and you two… you know what Grey?" Bailey said trying to dig herself out of her hole "I just hope you can do for this hospital what you did for Mayo!"
"Nice save." Meredith laughed, "Well as long as in the end you don't end up firing me, I'm all yours!"
Bailey laughed. She smiled at the woman who used to beg her for surgeries. The one who tried to drown herself. She saw the old intern in her still. She was scared and curious and eager except now she was also careful and wise. Bailey shook her head and smiled. Just give it time, she thought.
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