Thought I'd try something new. There is no flow to the stories, so they don't link or go after each other. Each chapter is a new story.

A is for Alone

Meredith had just finished her surgery and walked out of the OR to the board to rub her name of it. As she turned around to walk to her next patient, Amelia shouted her

'Meredith'

'What's up Amelia?' Meredith said turning around to face her sister-in-law

'Nothing's up, I just need to tell you something' Amelia said, 'I'm err… I'm moving in with Owen. I didn't want to upset you or anything, so I thought I'd tell you'

'No, it's fine Amelia, you should move in with him' Meredith said

'I'm going to get my stuff in a bit'

'That's fine' Meredith said, 'I've got a patient to go and see'

Meredith made her way to her next patient, but she couldn't get the fact that Amelia was moving out. She felt like people were leaving her life a lot recently, she had only just got her two sisters living all together under one roof with her family.

'Mrs Peterkin' Meredith said as she walked into her patient's room, 'How are you feeling?'

'I've felt better, and I've told you Doctor Grey, call me Grace'

'I'm sorry Grace, well I'm going to run some labs and if everything looks good then I can do your surgery later today'

'Sounds good'

A few hours later, Meredith had done Grace's surgery and she was now in recovery.

'Hey Mer' Maggie said walking over to Meredith

'Hey Maggie, how were the kids this morning?' Maggie had taken the kids to day care as Meredith had an early surgery.

'They were fine, but I may have said something'

'What?' Meredith asked looking up at her

'We drove passed the zoo and Zola and Bailey asked if I could take them and I said yeah'

'There's nothing wrong with that'

'I then mentioned the ice cream store around the corner, and they got excited. Then I remembered you said to only take them to places like that at weekends'

'You can take them Maggie, they deserve it. They've been through a lot, just don't let them have too much ice cream or they will be a nightmare to get to sleep' Meredith said

'Thanks Mer' Maggie said before walking off

After the surgery she checked on her patients, before going home. When she got home she ordered herself a pizza and grabbed a bottle on tequila before going up to her bedroom.

Before going into her room, she went to Amelia's room. She opened the door to find it empty. She had been back and taken all her things to Owen's. It took Meredith a while to warm to Amelia, but she loved her as she was family, so it hurt that she had gone. She stood in the door way for a few minutes before going to her bedroom. She sat on her bed and all she could hear was silence.

There was no noise.

The passed few weeks had been especially hard for Meredith, as she had moved back to Seattle after losing Derek. That was the hardest time of her life, he made her feel like someone. Before she met Derek, she was nobody and she had nobody, but he made her feel special. That first night without him was hard, it was unbearable. She lay in her bed with the tequila and pizza on her own, there wasn't a body lay next to her. she couldn't bear to lie on the other side of the bed.

Her mind kept thinking about everyone that had been close to her. A few years ago, she was married, and they had just got Zola, she had her person Cristina. She loved that phase of her life, she never saw herself as someone who would get married and have a family.

About 8 years ago, she lost her mother. That was a hard thing she had to go through, not as hard as losing Derek because when she lost her mother she had Derek by her side. She had Derek by her side for everything big in her life.

Normally, her house would be filled with people and noise. Amelia would be in the kitchen making everyone something for tea, but she would make as much noise as she could while also leaving all the doors open. Maggie would be in the living room facetiming her mom and dad who were in Boston. Her kids; Zola and Bailey would be running around the house playing while the TV had the Muppets playing out loud and Ellis would be on her hip while she tidied or made sure everyone was okay.

But tonight, was different. All the doors were shut, the TV was off, there were no pans clattering in the kitchen, her kids weren't running around the house.

She was on her own.

She was ALONE