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Meredith groaned and tried to cover her eyes from the intrusive light of morning. "To bright." She groaned rolling over. Her hand hit something hard and she opened her eyes to see her husband lying next to her on the floor of her mother's house. Her eyes flashed to the clock. "Shit." She jumped up hitting her husband with the pillow. "Jackson wake up." She hissed.

"What what's going on?" He looked at her blurry eyed.

"We are going to be so late." She tossed her robe on and rushed up the stairs leaving him to ponder her words.

"Shit." His eyes landed on the clock and he jumped up following her up the stairs and into the hot steaming shower.

"No shower sex." She snapped as he walked in behind her.

"Fine." He held up his hands in defense as she lathered her hair in the strawberry scented shampoo that he loved on her.

"We can't be late on our first day of work "it's bad enough we're going to be working against our last names we can't be late to." she was panicking. He grabbed her arms and forced her to look at him.

"Mer its fine we'll be fine." He made sure she was rinsed off and shut the cooling water off. "Come let's get dressed.

He pulled her from the shower and dried her off before drying himself. They hurried to dress and rushed into the car. "How long do you think it will take them to figure us out?" Jackson asked jumping into the driver's seat.

"Which part?" Meredith asked buckling her seat belt.

"Both."

"Well the married part is easy no way they'd think we're related especially since I go by Grey-Avery I know that was probably stupid." Meredith crinkled her chuckled, "as for what Grey and Avery stand for I wouldn't hold your breath of keeping that one under wraps. Maybe we should have listened to Grandpa and stayed at Mass Gen."

"No way." Jackson shook his head taking her hand and lacing their fingers together. "We made this decision and it was a good one." He pulled into the parking lot and as soon as they were parked Meredith jumped out of the car. Laughing he followed her as they run towards the hospital. They snuck into the back of the intern meeting trying to blend in. the listened as Richard Webber gave his intern speech and hoped he wouldn't draw attention to themselves. They soon found themselves in the intern locker room.

"I feel like I'm back in gym class." Meredith sighed.

"What gym class did you take that was co-ed." Jackson joked pulling his scrub top over his head.

"Wouldn't you like to know." Meredith winked.

"O'Malley, Yang, Stevens, Grey-Avery, Avery."

Well that's us." Meredith breathed out and walked towards the man with the clipboard.

"Bailey?" a brunet asked walking past Meredith.

"End of the hall."

"I'm Christina Yang."

"Meredith Grey-Avery." Meredith didn't make eye contact as she reached her resident.

"That's the Nazi?" Jackson whispered leaning over her.

"Sush." Meredith tried to scribble her notes down as she followed the other interns around the hospital. "Excuse me." She raised her hand as Bailey stopped talking. "You said five rules that was only four."

"Rule five when I run you run." Bailey grabbed her pager off her waist band and went running the interns behind her.

"I'm starving." Meredith grumbled as she grabbed a salad.

"I haven't seen you all day." Jackson said as he paid for his own lunch.

"I've been stuck with the beauty pageant queen from hell." Meredith huffed as they walked towards the interns table. Silence seemed to descend over them. "Did we miss something." She slide into her seat looking at them.

"Nothing." Christina shook her head.

"So Grey-Avery and Avery any connection."

"Maybe." Meredith stabbed at her salad

"Ok then." Christina smirked.

Silence descended over them again as Doctor Preston Burke showed up.

"Can I have everyone's attention." All eyes turned towards the attending I've chosen the intern who will do the first solo surgery. George O'Malley."

Meredith winced at the look on George's face she'd meet him briefly at the mixer last night and he'd tried to flirt with her in the locker room but he wasn't ready for surgery that much she was sure of.

"He's going to mess up." Meredith hissed as she sat down next to Jackson in the gallery overlooking the OR.

"No doubt about it." Jackson nodded as the couple ignored the betting going around them.

"Remember the first time we watched an appy.

"How could I forget you throw your doll against the wall you were pissed you didn't want anything to do with Boston me or Mass Gen."

"Ah six year old me." Meredith remembered fondly. She'd hated Ellis Grey for bringing her across the country from Seattle and her father to Boston and loneliness.

" Yes she was darling." Jackson teased "When she wasn't trying to bite me."

"Hey that was once and you hide the Jelly pouch."

"What in the hell are they talking about." Christina hissed.

"No idea but it kind of sounds dirty." One of the other interns leaned over and whispered.

"Go away perv." Christina snapped.

"Shit." Meredith's eyes glued to the surgery below her.

"007 that one." the annoying intern cracked.

"Ugg you're annoying shut up." Meredith turned around to snap she'd already had one altercation with this man calling her a nurse earlier in the day.

"Oh does Princess Grey-Avery have her panties in bunch." The man hissed.

Just then her pager went off and she swore again. " 911 I have to go." She glared at the man as she raced off. "What's going on?" she rushed into Katie Bryce's room. She froze the girl was going through grand mal seziers and she just didn't know what to do. Voices were yelling around her and she was frozen.

"Doctor Grey-Avery." She finely snapped out of it and got Katie under control but tears were burning in her eyes and bile was raising in her throat.

She vagley heard her name being called behind her but she didn't care as she ran out the doors and threw up.

"Are you ok?" Christina looked at her.

"Not a word." Meredith shook her head as she walked back into the hospital.

"Mer." Jackson took in her chalky pallor and held her close. "You ok."

"mm yeah." She nodded "I'll be fine I almost lost her though.

"Lost who?"

"Katie Bryce pageant queen."

"But you didn't right."

"No I didn't."

"That's good." He rubbed soothing circles in her back. "You're fine you'll be fine." Neither noticed Christina watching from the sidelines.

"Shepard called a meeting." Izzy called out.

"Who's Shepard?" Jackson asked.

"The Attending Neurosurgeon on Katie Bryce's case." Meredith sighed and stood up from where she had been sitting against the wall.

"Conference room?"

"Yep." Izzy nodded.

They headed towards the room and crowed in. Shepard started to talk. At the end of his spiel they grabbed a file and headed out of the room.

"We might as well work together." Jackson came up to her.

"Sure." Meredith headed towards the research library and started to go through files.

"What could this be?" Jackson flipped through even more files.

"I don't know all I know is that does ribbons as a talent.

"Is that an actual talent?"

"I guess, she was blabbing about it because she fell during it.

"wait she fell?"

"Yeah." Then a look came over Meredith 's face. "She fell oh my god she fell."

"Where are you going?" Jackson asked as he watched his wife rush off.

"She fell what if she had an aneurism?"

"What if she had a what that's not possible that would have come up on the CT."

"Maybe not." Meredith turned around to see him rushing to catch up with her.

"Doctor Shepard, Doctor Shepard."

"Grey-Avery."

"Katie Bryce what if she had an aneurism and it burst."

"We did the CT nothing showed."

"But what if?"

"That's a one in a million chance." Shepard shook his head. As the elevator doors closed on him. Meredith sighed in defeat and turned around. Just as the door opened again. "Lets go."

"Where?"

"To see if she's one in a million. Grey-Avery you're scrubbing in with me."

"Yes." Meredith fist pumped before running off with Doctor Shepard.

Jackson watched her run away. "So your wife got into the surgery."

"Yes." Jackson turned around to look at Christina.

"So she is your wife but what I'd like to know is how closely are you related to Harper Avery?"

"You figured out the first part so I'm sure you'll figure out the second soon." Jackson clicked a pen as he charted.

"I will figure this out." Christina vowed walking away.

"I'm sure you will." Jackson called after her.

Meredith sighed in happiness and smiled at her husband. "I did it?"

"You did it?" Jackson smiled

"Lets get out of here?"

"Sure." Jackson nodded as they walked towards the locker room they heard Chief Webber yelling at one of the interns. Meredith stopped as she heard him ask if anyone could diagnose the patient.

She gave him an answer which she knew was right but watched with trepidation as he walked towards her. "Good job Doctor Grey-Avery." In shock she looked at him. "I would know you anywhere you're the spitting image of your mother. He walked away.

"I don't know if I should be offended right now or not." Meredith glared as they walked into the locker room.

"Your mother was brilliant so just take it as a compliment." Jackson said changing into his own clothes they walked out of the hospital. "

"I have to go see mom so I'll drop you off at home."

"Right" Jackson cringed are you going to be ok going by yourself.

"Well you can't go with me not after last time." Meredith sighed.

"I know." He got out of the car kissing her. She made her way towards the nursing home and sighing deeply she closed her eyes and walked in sitting down next to her mother she took her hand.

"HI mom." No one but Jackson knew the truth about her mother not even the great Harper Avery knew the truth about Ellis Grey it was a secret Meredith kept close to her heart. Her mother had Alzheimer's and there was nothing she could do. Her mother had Alzheimer's and she'd packed up her life and her husband's life and brought them across the country to be nearer to her for even if Ellis Grey wasn't the best mother she was still her mother. Meredith just hoped herself and her marriage could weather being in Seattle. "I'll see you later mom." She said an hour later. Making her way home she unlocked her door and crawled into bed.

"You ok sweets." Jackson asked wrapping his arms around her.

"I will be." She wiped a stray tear from her eyes. He rolled her over and kissed her salty cheeks.

"We'll make it through I promise."

"You can't promise that." Meredith shook her head. "Neither of our parents made it."

"We're not our parents." He pulled her head under his chin and kissed her head. "We'll make it I promise." He heard her breath even out he held her close. "Yes we'll make it." He whispered into the dark. He let his own eyes flutter close. He wondered what would happen in Seattle and as much as he wanted to believe they'd make it the names Grey and Avery carried a lot of pressure. They'd made it this far and hopefully they would make it the rest of their life.

A/N ok this is a Jackson and Meredith Story and if you don't like that it's fine but I don't want to hear that you don't like the pairing. Constructive reviews are welcome but Flames are not. I accept guest reviews but if it's a flame it will be erased and I always reply to my reviews. This is the story of Meredith and Jackson and what would happen if they'd met as Kids and came to Seattle Grace in Season 1 married.