Please tell me it isn't true
(A/N: I was thinking about this story for ages and it sounded like fun to write but I didn't have a general plot until now. It's a Bones vs. Grey's Anatomy fanfic because I LOVE GA and also because it might be fun to try out. I might also do a Standoff vs. Grey's Anatomy one as well but someone has to give me a plot for that as well. I have a general one…)
Plot: When Meredith finds bones on her doorstep the day after she and Derek got back together, she calls her stepsister, Temperance Brennan, as she fears it is the bones of her dead sister who went missing a long time ago. Ellis Grey does not have Alzheimer's and she remarried, to Temperance's father. She is also a great mom and Meredith's not traumatised.
Disclaimer: I do not own either of these two AWESOME shows. Otherwise this disclaimer would not be here.
Chapter 1: Why?
Meredith Grey woke up to the sound of the birds chirping outside her window and the warmth of Derek's naked body next to her own naked one.
"Morning." Derek mumbled, kissing Meredith's shoulder affectionately.
"Morning. Nice night we had, wasn't it?" Meredith smiled wide as she turned over to face him, her eyes twinkling.
"It was. Do you want some breakfast?" Derek asked with a wide smile.
Meredith nodded as she walked to the bathroom she had in her room so she could have a shower before she got to work.
Unbeknownst to her, Derek had followed her into the bathroom and not until she had gotten inside the shower did she notice.
"What are you doing?" Meredith asked with a smile still on her face as Derek started to kiss her cheek.
"Taking a shower with you. Why? Don't you want me?" Derek pouted like a five year old which made Meredith laugh and close the shower door.
An hour later, Meredith and walked slowly downstairs, trying not to disturb Izzie and George who they thought were asleep.
"Too late, Mer! We're already awake!" Izzie shouted from the kitchen. She could hear the creaking of the floorboards which were quite loud.
Meredith and Derek laughed as they walked normally into the kitchen where Izzie was making cookies and George was reading a magazine.
"Can someone get the paper?" George asked with pleading eyes. He usually got it but today, he wasn't up to it.
"I'll get it. I like the morning air." Meredith smiled wide as she walked out to the hallway and through the front door.
The other three calmly talked but their chatter were shattered by a shrill scream coming from outside, from Meredith.
Derek, Izzie and George quickly looked at each other before rushing out the kitchen, out the hallway and out the front door where the spotted Meredith with a horrified look on her face, staring at a slightly bulging flannel bag.
Derek quickly walked towards his girlfriend and enveloped Meredith in a tight embrace, tears spilling out of her eyes.
"What is it Mer? Can you tell me?" Derek asked her gently brushed away Meredith's tears, gazing softly into her eyes which were full of terror and tears, making her look like a little girl.
Meredith buried her head in Derek's shoulder and shook her head violently.
Derek stroked her back while he gazed up at Izzie and George, silently asking either one of them to open and see what was inside the bag.
Eventually, George leaned over and hesitantly opened the flannel bag. What they saw made the three of them recoil with disgust and shock.
Inside the flannel bag was bones, slender human bones with a pretty note inside.
Derek hesitantly took the note, opened it and read it out aloud.
To Meredith Grey
Pretty aren't they, Mer bear? I know whose bones they are. Do you know? I know you suspect whose they are and maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong. Come back to me, Mer bear. You'll never be hurt as I will protect you.
The four walked back inside, George taking the bag as he knew it would be useful to the police and the FBI.
Derek placed Meredith on the couch in the living room and called the hospital, more specifically, the chief.
Dr Richard Webber was about to see Ellis Grey, Meredith mother, who had married Jesse Brennan twenty six years ago, when he got Derek's phone call.
"Hello? Richard Webber speaking." Richard picked the phone up.
"Richard. How are you?" Derek pushed out a sigh of relief.
Richard instantly knew something was up. Usually it was Meredith calling him because it was Meredith home phone Derek was using.
"Good, good. I'm about to head off to Ellis and Jesse's house. Is there something wrong with Meredith?" Richard got down to his concerns.
Derek shot a look at Izzie and George, now right next to Meredith, who nodded.
"Yes. She found some bones at the front of the house just now in a bag that also had a note in it. She's in shock. I think you should tell her mother." Derek ran his hand through his usually neat hair.
Richard's smiled fell dramatically off his face. He was very protective of Meredith since she was like the daughter he never had.
"Should I tell Ellis and Jesse? They ought to know." Richard asked as he regained his smile but he was deeply concerned.
"Yeah, I think you should. After all, they are her parents per say." Derek sighed as he ran his hand through his hair again as he watched Meredith anxiously.
"I will tell them. Anyone else I should tell or call?" Richard nodded slowly.
"No. That's not my decision to make. It's Meredith's. I'll ask her when she wakes up." Derek shook his head. He respected Meredith's wishes and he knew she was a very private person plus, this was his second chance so he wasn't going to screw things up with her.
"That's fine, Derek. Bye." Richard sighed as he hung up.
Derek slowly placed the receiver in its place as he sighed loudly. He had no idea what to do. He wasn't sure what to do because this kind of situation had never occurred to him or anyone he knew before.
Derek walked over to Meredith side and kissed her hand gently.
"Meredith? Do you want me to call someone? Richard has already gone to see your mother and Jesse." Derek whispered gently.
Meredith, who by this stage was sitting up and leaning into Derek's comforting body, pulled out her mobile phone and pressed it into Derek's hand.
"C…C…Call T…T…Tempe. She'll know what to do." Meredith pushed out of her mouth, still shaking as she clutched at Derek's shirt.
Derek was puzzled. He didn't know who Tempe was but he would try and find her number in Meredith's phone. The last time he tried to go through trying to find a name in Meredith's phone, he had to shuffle through the colossal amounts of contacts she had on it.
Derek went through all 200 or so contacts on Meredith's phone and the closest thing he found to Tempe was Temperance.
"Is it Temperance you want me to call, Mer?" Derek asked gently, rubbing her back so make her feel better.
"Y...Yes." Meredith shivered as she nodded.
Derek saw the Washington D.C number and frowned. Meredith didn't know anyone in Washington D.C. Hell; he didn't know anything so he pushed that thought out of his mind. The only place he was thinking about in Washington D.C was the Smithsonian Institute but he doubted she knew anyone who worked there, right?
Derek sighed as he punched the call button and pressed Meredith's phone up to his ear, hoping Temperance would pick up her phone.
Meanwhile, in Washington D.C in the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal Lab…
Temperance Brennan was having a painfully annoying mental block on her book and she was almost about to chuck something.
"Easy there, Bones." Seeley Booth, her partner from the FBI, walked into her office, watching her expression closely.
"It's this annoying mental block! I have to write this novel or otherwise, my agent isn't going to be very happy about it."
Booth was about to say something when Fur Elise started playing.
Temperance bent down from her chair to pick up her phone, a present from her brother, Russ, just recently for Christmas.
"Hello? Temperance Brennan speaking. Who is this?" Temperance placed her phone to her ear, instantly curious.
"Hello? This is Derek Shepherd calling from Seattle. I'm the boyfriend of Meredith Grey…" Derek started saying but was cut off by Temperance.
"Meredith Catherine Grey, my stepsister Meredith? She told me all about you! How can I help you Derek? How is Merry?" Temperance's lips eased into a smile, Booth just gazing at her oddly.
"Um…That's what I'm calling you for. Meredith asked me to call you. She said you know what to do." Derek bit his lip. He had no idea who he was talking to.
Temperance's eyes narrowed and her smile faltered. She loved Meredith obviously. They were stepsisters but they were so close, people assumed they were biological sisters.
"What happened, Derek?" Temperance's voice was filled with fear, something Booth had never heard in her voice before.
Derek sighed as he rubbed Meredith's shaking shoulders.
"Meredith found bones in a flannel bag out the front of her house this morning. It had a note. It looks like it was from someone she knew very closely. She hadn't told me what she has to do with you, or what you do." Derek replied slowly. He hated to see Meredith this way.
Temperance sucked in a breath sharply, making Booth watch her carefully.
"I am Temperance Allegra Brennan, the daughter of Jesse Brennan. You know my father married her mother, Ellis Grey; twenty six years ago so therefore, Meredith and I are stepsisters. I am a forensic anthropologist, a person who deals with bones and that kind of thing. Should I come over to Seattle?" Temperance explained softly. She could hear the fear in Derek's voice.
Hearing that, Meredith took her phone off Derek.
"Tempe? Tempe?" Meredith whispered fearfully.
Booth watched Temperance as her breathe hiked after hearing Meredith's fearful and pained voice.
"Oh Merry! What has happened to you?" Temperance whispered gently and lovingly with a dash of fear mixed in.
"Please come, Tempe. I don't know what to do!" Meredith whispered again, her fear too much for her to cope with.
"I'll be there as soon as I get a flight, Merry. Hold on!" Temperance vowed. It hurt her to hear Meredith so fearful.
Temperance hung up, threw her phone in her bag, swung her bag around her shoulder and proceeded to walk out but not before encountering Booth.
"Ok. Hold up Bones! What is going on here?" Booth sighed as he saw the pure determination on Temperance's face.
"I am getting the first plane to Seattle and I am going over there. Is it going to be any clearer?" Temperance glanced at him with raised eyebrows.
Booth shook his head as he guided Temperance to the couch and made her sit.
"Please explain this to me. I swear I heard the word stepsister." Booth sat down beside Temperance and gazed into her eyes.
At that moment, Zack Addy, Jack Hodgins and Angela Montenegro popped their heads inside the office after hearing the word stepsister.
"Did we just hear the word stepsister from your mouth, sweetie?" Angela strode in and sat down next to Temperance, Zack and Jack sitting down next to her.
"Yes. I have 2 stepsisters, 1 stepbrother, 3 half-brothers and 3 half-sisters." Temperance explained slowly as she remembered.
Booth, Angela, Jack and Zack raised their eyebrows.
"What was the thing about going to Seattle, sweetie?" Angela pressed on.
"One of my stepsisters, Meredith Grey, found a pile of bones in front of her house this morning and she was shaking and in fear. Her boyfriend, Derek Shepherd, had to call me. I am getting the next plane over to Seattle." Temperance sighed as she leaned back even further into her couch.
The others were gaping, making Temperance frown.
"What?" Temperance asked, her curiosity peaked.
"Derek Shepherd? As in the Derek Shepherd, the best neurosurgeon in the whole of America?" Booth gaped. Temperance was very well connected.
"Yeah? So?" Temperance shrugged. She didn't find that it was a big deal.
"Meredith Grey? As in the Meredith Grey, heiress to the biggest hotel empire, Paradise Floral Hotels?" Jack gaped. He only knew because he read the magazines and he had friends who wished they were dating Meredith for the very large fortune she was going to inherit.
"Yeah? She's my stepsister. Her mother, Ellis Grey, married my dad 26 years ago." Temperance shrugged nonchalantly.
This made them balk even harder.
"Ellis Grey? As in the Ellis Grey, the best neurosurgeon in the entire world?" Booth gaped even harder. This was surreal.
"You do realise, Temperance, that you're a heiress." Jack searched the Internet quickly, only to discover that news.
"What…Oh, that. Yeah, I'm the heiress of Pacific Sky people, the worlds largest shipping and cruise company." Temperance closed her eyes slowly.
This shook everyone's core.
"WHAT?!" The other four shouted loudly, making Camille Saroyan and Daniel Goodman to peer out of their offices in confusion.
"You knew and you never thought to tell anyone?" Zack gaped at his boss.
Temperance shrugged her shoulders. She was like Meredith, Elizabeth and Brian, her stepsiblings, about all this heirs and heiress hullabaloo. It was a part of their lives and it didn't really bother them.
"I am the heiress of the worlds largest shipping and cruise company, Merry is the heiress of the worlds largest hotel empire, Liz is the heiress of the worlds largest fashion industry and Brian is the heir of the worlds largest oil and mining company." Temperance explained slowly.
"How can there be so many heirs and heiresses in your family?" Angela shook her head questioningly.
"And I know you're the heir of GM, Hodgins. Heirs and heiresses know other heirs and heiresses." Temperance noted, making Hodgins startle.
At that, Booth, Zack and Angela raised their eyebrows.
"You're the heir of GM?" Angela turned to Jack with wide eyes filled with surprise.
By this time, Cam and Goodman had come inside of Temperance's office and they gazed at the five people who all had varying degrees of surprise, all that is save Temperance herself who looked like she was going to throw something.
"What is all this talk about heirs and heiresses?" Cam asked with a small smile.
"Hodgins is the heir of GM and Dr Brennan is the heir of Pacific Sky." Zack turned to explain.
Goodman and Cam's eyebrows raised a lot.
"Pacific Sky, the worlds largest shipping and cruise company?" Cam asked, trying not to feel angry at the fact that Temperance was a multi billionaire heiress to the worlds largest shipping company.
"Yes. Can I please go to Seattle now? I have a fearful stepsister over there to comfort!" Temperance was getting really annoyed. She wanted to be there with her darling stepsister Meredith who she regarded as her real sister.
"Yes but Agent Booth must accompany you." Goodman agreed grudgingly.
Temperance nodded slowly. She could handle that.
Cam, knowing that the team would be torn and broken if only Temperance and Booth went over to Seattle, chipped in.
"I think the whole team should go on this one. It could be a vacation as well as a nice change to the confines of the Jeffersonian. If only Dr Brennan could explain why we're going there." Cam put in helpfully. She wanted to be included into the tight nit group and if this trip was the only way to do so, so be it.
"My stepsister, Meredith Grey, found bones in a flannel bag this morning. It had a note inside and Meredith boyfriend, Derek Shepherd, thought it might be from someone she knew closely. Merry's shaken up badly because of this and I need to be there because she needs moral support from everyone she knows." Temperance explained, her head in her hands as she shuddered, remembering Meredith's fearful voice over the phone just minutes before.
Dr Goodman nodded and he walked to office to arrange six aeroplane tickets, return obviously, to Seattle.
There was an awkward silence after Dr Goodman walked away.
"I'll go check on the notes I was writing before." Cam excused herself from the awkward room which she knew was only awkward because she had slept with Booth and the other five, even Booth, didn't like it.
Once Cam walked away, the conversation instantly broke.
"Where are we going to stay?" Zack asked gently.
"Meredith has a house she got from her mom. Her mom lives in another house with my dad. She has heaps of rooms to spare but there is one problem." Temperance explained before biting her lip softly.
The other four looked curiously at her for a while before she explained.
"Meredith and Derek love each other to pieces and I really do mean pieces. They tend to get a little loud, trust me. I swear, they're almost on the edge of marrying but they have the issues to deal with first." Temperance explained gently and with a small laugh.
The other four nodded. They could get that immediately.
"So…I think we ought to get packing. I think there was a flight tomorrow to Seattle." Temperance swung her bag onto her shoulder once more.
Meanwhile, back in Seattle…
Meredith had stopped shaking now and she was lucid enough to talk to Derek, George and Izzie about Temperance.
"She's the heiress of Pacific Sky, just like am the heiress of Paradise Floral Hotels." Meredith explained gently.
(A/N: Everyone already knows about Meredith heiress thing so it's not such a big shock to them. The people are exactly the same as Torn, broken and slowly repaired, my Grey's Anatomy fanfic that starts at the end of the second season and my start of the third season.)
The other three nodded. They wanted to get an insight into Meredith's life so they knew what they were up against.
"Mer? Do you know whose bones they are in that bag?" Derek asked gently, trying not to invoke tears from her again.
Meredith looked up sharply into Derek's gentle sapphire blue eyes before curling herself into his comforting warmth.
"I think it's my sister Rory." Meredith whimpered as Derek placed a gentle kiss on her forehead as he rubbed her back.
Derek, George and Izzie now understood why Meredith was so distraught. Loosing her sister must hang over her head every single day.
"She was only 4! I was 12 and looking after her with Russ, Liz, Brian and Tempe but we had Daniel, Natasha, Troy, Tanya, Rhiannon and Raymond to look after as well! I called Calvin, my boyfriend at the time and he said he could look after her for a while with me while I called dad. I mean Jesse my dad, not Thatcher who is my father. Anyway, after an hour, Calvin said he would take Rory down to the ice cream shop down the road and I…I said yes! I never saw Rory or Calvin after that and I feared they were dead. I told dad and he said it wasn't my fault. He explained it to mom and she started blaming me but dad defended me and he said that I wasn't to be at fault. He knew Calvin as well as I did and both mom and dad allowed me to date him. I didn't know it was going to happen! No one knew and now Rory's in a flannel bag, Derek! A damn flannel bag! I should have never trusted him, Derek! He always had an evil glint in his eyes but I never knew he was going to do that!" Meredith sobbed hysterically into Derek's chest.
Meanwhile, in the house just 2 streets from Meredith's house, the house where Ellis Grey and Jesse Brennan lived in for the past five years…
Richard was heavy at the heart as he knocked on the big rosewood door in front of him. Heavy because Meredith, the girl who he thought to be his daughter, now all grown up, was in pain.
The doors opened and Richard stepped in, knowing the customs of the household so he pulled off his shoes and placed them in the shoe rack by the side of the door before proceeding.
Maria, one of the housemaids, came to greet Richard.
"Mistress Ellis and Master Jesse are upstairs in the main living room. Shall I call them or shall I lead you up there, Mr Webber?" Maria asked with a smile.
"Lead me up, Maria. I have some grave news about Meredith." Richard nodded as he started to follow a shocked Maria upstairs.
"What about Miss Meredith? Please tell me!" Maria instantly demanded. She used to be the children's nanny but she loved Meredith the best. Everyone did.
"She found bones in front of her house this morning and she's frightfully upset, as you would." Richard explained soothingly, calming Maria down a fraction.
Maria was horrified. She had the same idea as Meredith did but dared to not tell Richard in fear of the news being true.
At long last, Richard and Maria entered the living room where Ellis and Jesse were playing a relaxing game of chess.
"Morning Richard! Fine day, isn't it?" Ellis smiled up at her former lover. She loved Jesse and for good reason.
"Yes. Fine day." Richard tried to smile but he faltered.
Jesse observed his friend closely before asking.
"Is there something wrong, Richard? You seem down on a sunny day like today! It only happens one day out of seven!" Jesse questioned carefully.
Richard wrung his hands before replying.
"It's Meredith. She found bones in a bag this morning while she got the paper. She's frightfully upset about it all. Derek had to call me." Richard explained.
Ellis and Jesse looked at each other fearfully before turning back to Richard.
"Merry believes what we all believe, darling Ellis. She feels a great burden on her shoulders and it's not fair on her for you to blame her! It's not her fault she didn't know Calvin would to that! You know it as well as I do!" Jesse chastised his wife as she looked down onto the floor.
"We lost Rory, darling! I didn't know what else to do! I feel terribly upset, though. I know I shouldn't be blaming poor Meredith for Rory's disappearance. She was only 12! She didn't know! I was selfish!" Ellis chastised herself. She really did feel that she wrongly blamed Meredith for Rory's disappearance
Jesse patted Ellis' hand gently.
"It's alright dear. She knows. Did Merry call Temperance?" Jesse soothed as he patted Ellis' hand before looking back at Richard.
Richard nodded. He knew that was probably the first thing that Meredith said for Derek to do right after Derek phoned him.
Just then, the house phone rang.
"Miss Temperance on the phone for you, Master." Maria gently handed the phone to Jesse, talking quietly.
"Temperance! Meredith called you?" Jesse smiled as he talked to his daughter from his first marriage.
"Yes dad. Is mom ok?" Temperance asked, making Booth frown.
"She's shaken up. She'll be fine. Your mother is strong, Tempe. You know that. Have you got tickets so you come down here to Seattle?" Jesse smiled as he rubbed Ellis' hand gently.
At that, Temperance winced slightly.
"I don't like the sound of that wince, Tempe. What were the conditions?" Jesse suspected something was up because of that wince.
"My entire team are coming over as well, including Cam and Booth. I've told you and mom about them both, dad." Temperance explained, slightly annoyed.
"Oh. I'm sure we have accommodation for them. I'm sure Merry will want you at her house during your stay." Jesse nodded wisely as he mouthed the words Booth and Cam at a puzzled Ellis.
"Give the phone to me, Jesse." Ellis outstretched her hand at her husband.
Jesse willingly handed the phone over to his wife.
"Tempe dear? It's your mother." Ellis smiled as she talked.
"Mom! Oh mom! How long has it been?" Temperance almost squealed over the phone. She longed to see her mom again.
"Too long dear. Your father says that your entire team are coming over here to Seattle. Still on hostile terms with Cam?" Ellis smiled wide and slyly.
"Yes mom. She's being a bitch, seriously! I don't know what to do!" Temperance explained, exasperated. She really didn't know what to do.
Ellis laughed at the annoyance in Temperance's voice.
"Be a bitch back. You don't have to be the best of friends you know Tempe." Ellis advised with a wide smile.
"But she's my boss, mom! You don't have a boss!" Temperance whined, making Booth raise his eyebrows. The Bones he knew didn't whine.
"You're strong and smart, Temperance Brennan. Cam is making up for the power she doesn't have because she has come in the awkward time where everyone knows their place and she's just a piece of jig saw puzzle which you can't fit in anywhere. Make her fit or chuck her out, Tempe. You know how to do it." Ellis advised with a wide smile pasted on her face.
Temperance sighed loudly.
"Alright mom. Even though I hate the idea, ok. I'll see you…umm…tomorrow, hopefully!" Temperance smiled as she fiddled around with her diary, trying to find out when she arrived in Seattle, only to find out that she didn't know.
Ellis Grey-Brennan placed the phone down with a smile.
"Tempe was bitching about Cam and I don't blame her. She almost sounds like Miranda Bailey by the description she gives!" Ellis laughed which made Jesse and Richard smile softly.
"I suppose we have to wait until Tempe comes over to see if it is actually Rory's bones and then, if it is, how she died." Jesse smiled gently as he entwined his fingers with Ellis'.
"Until tomorrow." Richard smiled before he walked downstairs and out of the door, out into the world.
