Chapter 2- Meeting my work fellows

The Chief Webber gave them a tour of the hospital and after he finished he came to Meredith "Good luck Meredith! "

"Thank you!" and after he leaves she looks worried around her "I am really going to need it!"
"Are you ready to play?" Alex came smiling to her.
"I hope so, otherwise I am very screwed! "
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In the locker room she finds the others fellows "hi Izzie, George!"
"Morning Meredith! " Izzie greets her from her locker room.
"Hi Meredith!"
Alex passes near Izzie "Morning Izzie!" and Izzie smiles at him "hi Alex!"
Both Meredith and George notice the flirting between them and smile at each other.

A girl approaches them "does any of you have Bailey? "
All of them answers her "we have her!"
The girl fixes her robe and looks at them "oh…I'm Christina Yang! "
"I'm Izzie Stevens"
"Alex Karev"
"George O'Mailey"
"Meredith … just Meredith! "
Everyone, except Alex are looking weird at her!

"I don't know if you heard, but this year we a have a little celebrity between us!" Christina said bitterly and got Izzie's interest "Really?"
"Yeah… none else but Ellis's Grey daughter!"
"The dr. Ellis Grey Webber? " George asked a little confused
"indeed" Christina answered him on the same tone and heads back to her locker, which is right next to Meredith's. Alex and Meredith are looking at each other. "So we'll have a favored intern!" Christina continued.
"She'll sure scrub in the best surgeries." Izzie said with envy.
Meredith gives worried glares to Alex, who tries to take the side of his friend "From what I heard dr. Grey Webber is very correct when it comes to work so you might have hurried to make the judgments!"
Christina slams the door from her locker "will see!"
"So Meredith, Alex told me that you two are living together in a big house!"

"That's right Izzie!"
"Don't you need some room mates?"
"Umm. … I don't know…I haven't thought about this before!"
"Meredith, we do need roommates ...the costs for this kind of house are huge, and do you wanna ask your mom money every month? Coz from our salary we can't afford it!" And Izzie nodded with excitement at Alex's words.
"You're right! Do you wanna move in with us Izzie?"
"Yes"
George came fast to them "I want too"
Christina reacts fast too "me too! I really need to get rid off my mom!"
Meredith laughs "I know what you mean… ok then…we have rooms for you!"
"Thank you!" and Izzie and George hugged her making her to step back "Will talk later about the rent! Or I have an even better suggestion … I am going to make you a super offer … the first month is free if you will help on cleaning."
Everyone answered "sure!!!"
Meredith winks to Alex "we found the solution for that problem."

Dr. Bailey comes in "ok…my interns: Karev, Stevens, O'Mailey, Yang, Grey!"
Christina stops shocked "Grey? She's with us? Who's Grey?" and she sees Meredith following Bailey "Meredith?"
Meredith continued to walk and passing near her she smiles "Meredith Grey!"
Christina sighs with irritation "oh great!"

Bailey gives them the rules, the pagers and the assignments. "Karev, O'mailey pit, Stevens – charts, Grey- Shephard, Yang you are with me. Ok people this are this assignments for your first 24 hours of the shift! For the others 24 I'll find you down to pit! Now try not to kill too many people from your first day! Let's go!"

Meredith stops her "dr. Bailey, how do I find dr. Shepherd?"
Bailey answers her fast "Ask a nurse to page him; I just saw him earlier he might still be on this floor."

Meredith asked a nurse to page her attending and waited for him at the nurse station. He arrives there too and says to the nurse that he was paged.

Meredith turns around and both see each other shocked. Meredith tries to understand "what…? "
Derek is actually looking less shocked then her and smiles at her "what are you doing here? Did you come to apologize?"

The nurse interrupts them "this is dr. Grey, your intern" and then she looks at Meredith "this is doctor Shepherd!"

Meredith sighs with disappointment "of course he had to be an attending"
"So … dr. … Grey… let's …go and see our patients." and Derek guides her to the elevator without looking at each other "This is wrong!"
"I know!"
The elevator's door open and they step in. They are alone. Derek stops the elevator and coming in front of Meredith's "Ok… tell me is just a name coincidence… you are not even far related to Ellis Grey!"
Meredith looks at him and gives him a small smile "I am her daughter!"
Derek sighs and brushes his hair "oh GOD!" he lets the elevator go, but after just a few seconds he stops it again
The sudden stop makes Meredith to lose her balance a little "Are you trying to kill us?" But Derek kisses her and puts an end to her protest.
After a few seconds Meredith pushes him away "dr. Shepherd!!"
"I am sorry! I just wanted to remember our last kiss!"
"Ok, but now it's over; I am an intern and you are an attending and there are rules."
Derek sighs "I know!" and he lets the elevator go again.

Derek presented her the patients and gave her some tests to do, all this time acting very professionally.

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At lunch in the patio, Alex and George were there, later Izzie and Christina came too.
Izzie sits next to Alex "So you are living with Ellis's Grey daughter?"
"No, I live with Meredith!" looking serious at her.
"Ok, but she is still her daughter!" Christina replied with disbelief.
"You guys don't know anything about her; but I do know her; we are friends from high school, we have many years spent together and I can asure you that all this time she tried to hide her last name; she wanted everyone to know her as Meredith Grey, not the daughter of Meredith Grey , and her mother? Her mother is the most serious mother I have ever met; I really don't wish to any of you a mother like that! That is the reason she moved in Boston and she attended there the HS and the Med School, to escape from her mother."
Izzie and George listened with sympathy, except Christina who didn't seem impressed "and why is she here now? Why didn't she stay in Boston? She came here to make her entrance into the medical field easier?"
"No, we came here because SG has the best intership programme in this field! And I can asure you one more thing, that neither her mother or her step father will favor her here. Her mother keeps reminding this to her ever since Meredith told her that she wants to come here. So give her chance! Don't judge her by her name!"

Meredith is coming at them "May I sit with you?" Alex pulls a chair next to him "Of course you can?"
"I wasn't asking you, I was asking them! I want to know if I am banned from this group or not!"
"Of course you can stay!" Izzie said and George confirmed "sure!"
Christina doesn't say anything and all the others are looking at her "whatever!"

"So how is it so far?" Alex asked her.
Meredith lets out a long sigh "I could have been better! How about yours?"
"We are practicing the sutures down in pit" and George continues "do not forget the rectal exams."
Christina looking disgusted at her food "oh please don't remind me of this!"
Izzie mixing in her tea with lazy moves "I have an incredibly boring day!"

A few moments of silence fall over their table, while Meredith gives glares to all of them. She takes a deep breath "So now that you know my last name, do still want to move in with me?"

Everyone looks at her
"I do!" Izzie confirmed
George agreed too "me too!"
Christina doesn't look at her "I'll let you know!"
Meredith sighs with relief "good!"

A pager goes off and they look at theirs.
Meredith: it's mine! I have to run.

She arrived to the patient's room where two nurses were doing the CPR to the patient. "What happened?" she asked heading to its bed.
"He stopped breathing and lost his conscious." One of the nurses said
"Did you page dr. Shepherd?"
"of course we did"
"Well page him again!" Meredith asked with panic while she was listening to his heart
"We have to do something, we are losing him dr. Grey!"
Meredith takes the padles "charge to 200!... Clear…" one of the nurses checks closely his vital signs "still nothing"

"ok..charge at 250"
"We have the beat, but it's weak" the nurse confirmed.
"Give him 1 ml adrenaline and let's intubate him!"
"Have you made an intubation before?"
"This is my first day as doctor, of course I didn't, but do you have any better idea?"
Meredith has just finished to intubate the patient when Derek came "What happened?" checking the patient.
Meredith's panic transforms in anger and starts yelling at him "where in the hell have you been?"
Derek and nurses are looking shocked at her. "Thank you dr. Grey! You may go now!" he asked her with a cold tone. And Meredith storms out of the room. Alex sees her.

"Hey Mere! Guess what? I am going to scrub in!!!" but Meredith keeps walking angry "good for you!"
"Are you ok?" Meredith stops and looks at him with teary eyes "I'm not ok."
"What happened?"
"I saved the patient's life and then I yelled at my attendant!"
"wow! Hey, but you saved the patient, they can't punish you"
"I don't know! he asked me to live the room."
Alex tries to comfort her "Of course, because you hurt his ego, but I don't think you should be worried!"
Meredith sees Bailey coming to them.
"You did a great job in there dr. Grey, Congratulations, but how foolish of you to yell at your attending!" she turns to Alex "Karev, do you have too much free time?"
"I am going!" and he leaves
"The chief wants to see us! Follow me!"

They got at the chief's office. They found in there the chief, Ellis and Derek and Richard greets them "Dr. Bailey, dr. Grey come on in!"
Ellis goes out the office without looking at Meredith!
"Dr. Grey I heard what happened, and I want to say that as an intern you don't have the right to judge what your resident or your attending do."
Meredith looks down sad "I know and I am sorry for that!"
"If your patient dies while your attending is not there and you did everything that you could to save it then you don't have to worry about it, because the patients die and when the attending is there too. I want you to apologize to dr. Shepherd for yelling at him!"
Derek is looking with a serious face at her and Meredith sighs a little annoyed by the this fact "I am sorry dr. Shepherd, I shouldn't have yelled at you!"

"Apologies accepted!"
"Chief, but we also have to consider that dr. Grey saved that patient's life and I don't want to excuse what she did, but dr. Shepherd did wrong too for not answering in time to the call!"
"You are right! Congratulations dr. Grey! You did a great job in there!"
"Thank you chief!"
"So dr. Shepherd! Should I assign another intern for you?" Bailey asked him.
"No, excepting that small incident dr. Grey is doing a good job so far, so I'll keep her!" Meredith looks at him with anger and he answers her look with a smile.
"Good then! Now let's go back to work!" and the Chief leads them out his office.

Derek and Meredith are now waiting the elevator. None of them says anything. The doors are opening and they get inside. They are alone again.
Derek without looking at her "so after all you did apologize for sending me home dusty this morning!" and he smiles at her.
Meredith turns at him angry "Did you do this purposely?"
"You did indeed a great job in there!" Derek said
Meredith turns her back at him again "Thank you! At least you appreciate my work." This makes Derek laugh "and not just your work!"

"Dr. Shepherd, I am your intern!"
"I know and there are rules about this, don't worry, I have it under control!"
"You don't look like you do!"
"I do! And starting this moment everything between us is strictly professional!"
"I hope so!"

More MerDer stuff coming up in the next chapter. Leave me impressions about this please!