A/N Set around the start to mid season seven - after Arizona goes to Africa. Lucy doesn't exist. Cristina didn't get PTSD after the shooting.

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Anything Can Happen

He opened his eyes to Mer screaming his name. He couldn't understand why, and before he knew it he had closed his eyes and drifted off again.

15 Minutes Earlier

'Alex, hurry up and get your ass down these stairs. Come. On.' Meredith called from the porch.

'Cristina said it's a massive multiple trauma' she tried again knowing these words might actually make a difference, and sure enough he was out the door in no time.

Meredith drove around the back way, after Cristina had informed her that the multiple trauma incident had been caused by a pile-up on the main road to Seattle Grace Mercy Death (as it was now known as by all the residents) from her own surgeon filled house.

So far the journey had been nothing special, and as per usual Alex had been moaning about Stark and how he needed Arizona, but she'd buggered off to Africa to go and save the poor, starving Tiny Humans. He secretly admired what she was doing, and was only really annoyed at her replacement who he'd have to be ruled by for at least another two years.

Alex was soon knocked out of his ranting state by the ringing of his phone. The screen read, Harper Avery's Grandson (just like Meredith's contact name was Ellis Grey's Daughter, they had teased the two a while back and the names still entertained Alex even though he had been meaning to change them back for a while). Jackson had wanted to know where the hell they were, with the pit being way too busy to

manage, they needed the two residents as soon as possible. Everyone else was already there and that still was nowhere near enough. Hunt had had every sober resident, intern and attending paged in (which unusually happened to include both Meredith and Alex).

By that time were only around five minutes away from the hospital, and other than the traffic caused by the pile-up the roads were suprisingly clear for a Friday evening. The small windy road they were on was vehicle free, human free even.

Apart from the couple of drunk men walking at the side of the road. And that particularly idiotic one. The particularly idiotic one who may not have been this idiotic had he just had one less vodka shot. The particularly idiotic one who decided it would be a good idea to step into the middle of the road. Meredith swerved to avoid him, successfully. She had been meaning to get the brakes checked for a while. She couldn't stop. The car wouldn't slow down. And before she knew it the car had flipped. Meanwhile, Alex had not noticed the drunk men, he was too busy wrapped up in thoughts of what interesting surgeries he may be scrubbing in on later that evening to even car about what was going on in the road. Since Jackson's phone call the car had been filled with the sound of thoughts.

People say that fate is written in the stars, and when anything unfortunate happens people claim that 'that's just the way the cookie crumbles'. But that night's cookie did not crumble it shattered even if it's impossible for a cookie to shatter.

'Where the hell are Grey and Karev?' Owen asked, already very annoyed at how late they were.

'They should be here any minute now' Jackson had replied calmly. He was always calm in these busy unmanageable situations, just as he had been during the shootings. That's what made him so good at his job.

'Well they better be or else...' Owen had rushed off towards a newly coding patient before he had had a chance to finish his sentence.

After the shooting everyone seemed to forget the merger even happened, now it was as if the six of them (April, Alex, Mer, Cristina, Lexie and himself) had known each other since the start of med school, especially as five out of the six of them lived together and Cristina came round so often that she basically lived with them anyway.

Each car crash is different. There's no definite injury pattern between occupants of the car. So many variables. So many possibilities, an infinite amount. Anything can happen.

A/N Ok so what do you think of the first chapter? I'm already writing the second! It's my first ever fanfiction, so I hope its ok. Really open to ideas and thoughts on it so please review. And BTW I will give it an ending even if I decide to stop early. Little petty hate of mine is knowing some of my favourite fanfics out there are not finished... Not that I know what its like to be a fanfic writer seeing as this is my first. Anyway, little cliffhanger there. Sophie Emma xx