Grey's Anatomy.
Old school Disclaimer: As much as I'd love to, I don't own it :'(.
So, this is actually based from this idea of a story had when I started watching Grey's online a few months ago. See, this disclaimer isn't even a sarcastic comment or something of that sorts! Well... based off of that story ;)
SEQUEL TO NEVER GROW UP.
Lexie - 17. Meredith, Cristina, Alex, Izzie, Callie, Arizona - 18. Mark, Derek, Owen, Teddy, Henry - 19.
Title Song By The Pretty Reckless, Chapter Song By La Roux
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I may do more of them! :D
My Medicine.
Chapter One: Growing Pains
Year 1(Part 1).
Late July(After YEAR 10 CAMP).
Meredith walked into her home, carrying a huge box labeled 'Mer-Clothes'. Some stuff toppled out of it, in the effort to retrieve it, she dove her hand out, dropping the box, after the box splurged out all over the floor, Meredith tripped on a bra and landed in a pile on the floor. Izzie walked inside holding 'Iz-Clothes' and tripped over her best friend. She dropped her box, the clothes spreading out on the floor. Callie came in with a box named 'Cal-Sexy Underwear 1' and toppled over Izzie's head.
"Ow! My thongs!" Callie yelled.
"Sorry.." Izzie held back laughter.
"Why the hell are you two sitting in a pile of clothes at the front door?" Callie shouted.
"Because it's a great house, karma has to ruin it for us eventually." Meredith giggled. She picked up an item of clothing and furrowed her brow. She stretched it across her chest, showing it to her roommates.
"That's mine." Callie took the garment and looked down, embarrassed, Izzie copied Meredith. Callie snatched it and started rifing through the piles, making sure she got everything.
"I'm just saying, you don't need two rooms!" Lexie told Cristina, walking in holding a box labeled 'Cristina's crap'. She tripped over the piles and fell onto Callie's lap. Cristina followed suit, landing with her head in the pile.
"LEXIE!"
"That wasn't me!"
Derek and Mark came up the steps and opened the door. They both tripped, landing on top of Cristina.
"Fat asses!" Cristina pushed them off.
Owen walked in and collapsed onto Cristina. She chuckled.
"We should go to our new room if you wanna do this." Cristina smirked.
"Ew. Did not need that mental image, Cristina." Lexie winced. Arizona came into the house and saw the clothes pile. She saw Callie sitting at the side, waist covered in Lexie.
"You're having fun without me?" Arizona asked, looking at Callie, who was holding a pair of her underwear. Suddenly, Arizona was lying on top of Derek, looking at Henry.
"Sorry!" He yelled, trying to help her up, dropping his box and tripping onto the group. Teddy remained standing, unamused.
"You better clean this up." She told them. Arizona looked at her best friend (her best friend's boyfriend's head dangerously close to her breasts) and laughed.
"Join the party!" She grinned. Teddy shrugged her shoulders and dumped the box onto her friends. She jumped on Mark, squishing him slightly.
"Hey, Henry, better watch out, your girlfriend just tried to manhandle me." Mark smirked.
"Should we clean this up?" Lexie asked, still on top of Callie.
"No... we should all find rooms and the last person upstairs cleans up!" Cristina yelled, standing on Izzie on the way out.
"Ow! Crist-" Izzie stopped and looked at everyone. "She's right!" Izzie stumbled up and ran up the stairs. Owen relaxed in his position on the floor.
"I'm not worried- Cristina and I will share." Owen smiled.
"I get the best room because I bought the house!" Meredith yelled upstairs.
"Damnit!"Both Izzie and Cristina yelled from above the group.
"This place is really nice, Grey." Teddy said, standing up. She glanced around quickly. "I'm assuming we have to share?"
"Yeah, five-ish bedrooms, a study and an attic, so we'll all have plenty of room."
"And imagine the space when people move out on their own." Lexie reminded them. Everyone stood up and ran to find rooms. She and Mark remained, he looked at her. "We aren't doing that now." She smirked. "Hey, wait a second!"
"What?"
"Five-ish bedrooms.. everyone else is already up there!" Lexie and Mark climbed up and ran to the stairs.
Meredith stood at the front door, looking onto the pile of clothes before her. Everyone else had gotten their rooms and put the rest of their boxes in, unharmed. She looked at her house and grinned.
It was a large detached house with a big wooden-glass door. Upon entering, you were greeted with an open hallway, at the end, opposite the door, was a large staircase. To the left of the door was the archway to the living room filled with cosy furniture that Izzie thought would compliment the stone fireplace. Beside the staircase to the left, a large kitchen with archways leading to the living room and hallway, in a medium size room beside the kitchen was a dining room and a laundry room. To your right, you found a set of french doors, with the same wooden frame as the front door. There was a small bathroom beside it and a perfect place for a mantel piece of everyone's photos.
"Geez, that sounded like something Izzie would say!" Meredith thought.
Upstairs, there was a slim hallway leading to rooms on both sides. A hallway away, was the big bathroom. In the room beside the bathroom, Alex and Izzie would be sleeping. Next to their room was a tiny bedroom that noone occupied. Directly opposite the top of the staircase was a door. When opened, a skinny hallway led to the attic where Mark would be living.
On the other side of the hallway, after the bathroom was another hallway. Beside the bathroom was Cristina and Owen's bedroom. Opposite and slightly to the right of that was Callie and Arizona's bedroom. At the very end of the hallway was Meredith and Derek's master bedroom and on suite bathroom. Opposite their bedroom was another tiny bedroom big enough for a single bed and a closet.
It was now 7PM and Meredith had just collected her box from Lexie, who had to clean up the clothes up from in front of the door and hand the boxes out. Meredith walked downstairs, still not used to her home. She looked into the living room to see her cosy home dark and eerie. She sighed and walked towards the one light in the entire house. She smelt something delicious and walked faster towards it, her stomach grumbling like it hadn't eaten in days.
"Iz?" Meredith asked seeing her friend in front of the stove.
"Oh, hey, Mer." Izzie pulled something that smelt delicious from the oven and put it on the counter.
"What'cha doing?"
"Making dinner." Izzie turned from the tray and looked Meredith. "I love our new house, but it's not very homey. I'm trying to make something that everyone can sit round our dinner table and enjoy."
"Sounds nice, Izzie." Meredith smiled.
"And also, Alex is coming home in ten minutes, so I have to look like I haven't sat here worrying he's not coming home from Iowa."
"Oh, right, he took Sarah to meet his mom?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'll go tell everyone to dress for dinner and be here in ten." Meredith grinned a goodbye and ran upstairs.
"When's Karev getting here? I'm starving." Mark whined.
"I'm hungry." Lexie sighed. She really just wanted to get dinner over with. She still lived with her dad, to take care of seven year old, Molly. She looked at her watch, 7:30PM.
"Alex will be here." Izzie put her hands on her lap. "He has to be here."
"Did someone say my name?" Alex asked, walking through with his daughter.
"Yay!" Lexie cheered, grabbing a slab of meat and eating it as fast as she could.
"Geez, Lex, slow down." Meredith said.
"I promised dad I'd be home by eight." Lexie replied, her mouth full.
"Can we eat yet?" Mark asked.
"Of course!" Izzie grinned. "Tuck in!" She looked at Alex. "Alex, I set you up a plate next to me, Sarah's chair is up next to me."
"Okay." Alex put Sarah in the chair and sat beside his girlfriend. "This place is nice." He said, grabbing food.
"I know, right!" Izzie grinned, again. She loved playing house.
"Oh my God, Izzie, this is good!" Arizona smiled, eating her food.
"It is good." Callie shrugged her shoulders, still not all that happy with Izzie- there was something about that girl she just didn't like.
"Thanks guys." Izzie smiled, putting her hand to her boyfriend's shoulder. He smiled at her and continued to shuffle food on his plate.
"So, how were the Spawns?" Cristina asked.
"Uh... great." Alex lied.
"I really don't care." Cristina admitted, grabbing more food and then a couple more potatoes from Owen's plate.
"Bitch." Alex grunted.
"Well, I'm done." Lexie said, her mouth full. "Gotta get home."
"Lex, I'll drive you." Mark told her.
"No, I have to go now." She swallowed her food.
"Lexie, you can take my car. The keys are hanging up." Meredith told her sister. "The ones with the mini stethoscope keychain."
"Thanks, Mer." Lexie yelled, running out of the house and to Meredith's car.
"Why was she in such a rush?" Teddy asked.
"She has to get home to Molly." Meredith answered, hoping to keep it vague.
"I thought they lived with your dad?" Teddy continued.
"Yeah, well... they live with my dad." Meredith sighed, putting the spoon back in the mash potato. She put a hand over her face and rested on the table. Teddy shut up, realizing why she was upset.
"You okay, Mer?" Izzie asked. Meredith nodded and stood up.
"Excuse me." Meredith walked out of the dining room and grabbed Derek's keys from the hanger. She ran to her boyfriend's car and drove to her dad's house.
"Open the damn door, Lexie!" Meredith shouted, banging on her old home's door.
"Meredith?" Thatcher opened the door and grinned. "Mer! Sweetie!" He hugged her. Meredith scowled. She could practically see the alcohol oozing off of him.
"Where's Lexie and Molly?"
"Upstairs! Come on in!" Thatcher let his daughter passed, almost falling in the process. Meredith grabbed her dad and pulled him up the small staircase of the tiny, pitch black house. She walked into his and Susan's room and threw him on the bed as best she could. Thatcher got into bed and smiled at Meredith. She smiled back and took his hand. She pulled the blanket over him and closed the door.
"Meredith?" Lexie asked, coming out of Molly's room. Meredith smiled and hugged her sister. "Is he in bed?"
"Yeah."
"I'm gonna... go say goodnight." Lexie lied.
"Okay." Meredith let her lie and walked into Molly's room. She knew that her baby sister had to grab all of the alcohol Thatcher had put up there during the day and hide it in her room. Lexie came back outside and put her head to the door. She pushed her tears down and went into Molly's room.
"So, Molly." Meredith smiled.
"So, Meredith." Molly copied her big sister.
"What will you be doing this year?"
"I will be going to Grammy and Grandpa's in Pennsylvania."
"Pennsylvania? Why?"
"Because they'll take better care of me then Daddy will."
"Mol, who told you this?"
"Grammy called."
"Right..." Meredith sighed. "Well, I'll call and make sure, okay?"
"Yeah, and what will you be doing this year?"
"I will be attending Seattle Grace University for medicine. Cool, huh?"
"I heard Alex say it was crappy." Molly told her sister.
"Really? Alex is silly. It's really good for medicine."
"Meredith, what does crappy mean? Am I crappy? Was Mommy crappy?"
"No... your mommy was very nice. I guess that my mommy is kind of crappy... but she's still my mommy."
"Why are you teaching our seven year old sister rude words?" Lexie asked, coming inside the room.
"I'm not. Alex was! I'm just telling her that her mommy wasn't crappy."
"Oh, right. Well, Molly, don't go around saying that, promise?"
"Promise." Molly grinned. Lexie kissed her sister's forehead.
"Night, Molly."
"Night, kiddo." Meredith hugged her sister. "I'll come visit tomorrow and bring you to the new house, okay?"
"Yay! Thanks! Night Lexie! Night Meredith!" Molly lay her head on her princess pillow and closed her eyes. Lexie pressed the button on her night light and left the room, followed by Meredith.
"Lexie, I thought Thatcher was better."
"He just.. he got really sad at Mom's birthday and... he likes scotch." Lexie started crying, lightly.
"Susan's birthday was last week... he drove us to SGU's campus two days ago! Lexie!"
"I don't know what to do Meredith! I can't control him! He's a grown man with money and a car! I can't stop him!"
"Molly said that her grand parents are coming to get her.
"Susan's parents called. I told Grammy about Dad and now she's coming for her. She knows that Thatcher needs help and that I can't take care of a seven year old at college and-"
"They live in Philadelphia, Lexie!"
"But they'll take good care of Molly until Dad's better!"
"He won't get better, Lexie." Meredith walked downstairs. She heard a smash and ran upstairs. Lexie was on the ground and Thatcher was screaming about not having any scotch. Molly was standing at the door of her room, crying.
"Meredith!" Thatcher smiled and hugged his eldest daughter again. "Can you please be a dear and get me-"
"Dad, Lex and Molly are gonna come over and have a sleepover. Is that okay?" Meredith grinned like a little girl, hoping her dad would remember how great the family once was.
"Of course, sweetheart. I'll go get the scotch myself." Thatcher smiled.
"Here's a twenty for a cab." Meredith grabbed some money from her pocket and ran to Lexie, pulling her up. She picked Molly up and went inside her room. Lexie went inside her own, getting stuff for the morning.
Derek sat in the living room, preying that Meredith was okay. It was 9:30PM. She'd been gone for two hours. The door opened. He jogged through to see Meredith holding a sleeping little girl and a bag covered in Disney princesses.
"Don't ask." Lexie said, walking in behind her sisters. Derek nodded, seeing the tear stains on her face.
"Lex, sleep in Mark's room. Molly can sleep in bedroom opposite mine and Derek's." Meredith said. Lexie nodded, running upstairs with her bag.
"You okay?" Derek whispered, not wanting to wake Molly.
"I miss being six year old. Damn, wish I'd never grown up." Meredith walked up the stairs. Derek sighed. He followed her upstairs.
So, Thatcher is drunk, again :( I guess now that Molly's moving to Phili, Lexie's gonna have to move in somewhere... but where? ;) Hope you enjoyed the drama filled first chapter of My Medicine and will review! I think I'll update twice tonight... :)
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Kat.