Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own Grey's Anatomy or any of the character *cries* but I do own the box sets :P

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Once she was upstairs in the comfort of her bedroom she laid on her bed and sighed deeply. Her best friend was coming to town tomorrow. Her godchildren were coming to town tomorrow. She smiled to herself and began to get up. Quickly she grabbed some clothes from her wardrobe and went into the bathroom for a shower. As she walked out of the bathroom, fully dressed, she dragged a brush through her hair and began to dry it. She put it up in a ponytail while she walked down the stairs. Realising that her friends had already gone to work she walked into the kitchen and notice a note on the table.

Mer

We've got to go into work now so see you later. We'll try and talk to Bailey or the Chief for you but try to come into work, it's your first day as a resident. :) Hope you're okay.

Love

Izzie, Christina, George and Alex xx

She smirked at the thought of her friends talking to a fuming Chief or worse Bailey. They were right, she needed to be there but she couldn't face him or the fact that she needed to puke every hour and she desperately needed sleep. The worst thing about that was she couldn't remember having any tequila the night before.

"I'll ring the hospital later," she thought to herself as she headed over to the sofa. She laid down only shutting her eyes briefly but before she knew it she was fast asleep.

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Bailey was talking to the all the new residents about what to expect and which interns they had been assigned. Alex and Izzie had already been told who they'd got and had both groaned when they heard.

"Yang you've got Pierce, Swift, Porter and Grey," Bailey said looking up at Christina who had a puzzled look on her face.

"Grey as in Mer? As in Meredith Grey?"

"No wonder she didn't want to get out of bed this morning," said Alex, Bailey glared at him.

"No, because Meredith Grey wouldn't be in here if it was her, would she?" Bailey looked around her trying to find Meredith. Her eyes lit up in anger as she realised that she wasn't.

"Where the hell is Meredith Grey?" she yelled. The three of them looked around not knowing what to say.

"So, where is she? She with McDreamy?"

"Erm... no... They broke up," Christina said sheepishly.

"Then where the hell is she?" Bailey yelled once again. At that moment the Chief walked into the locker room.

"Where's who?" he asked.

"Meredith Grey sir, no one seems to know where she is." The Chief looked over at her friends who all shrugged their shoulders.

"She wouldn't come to work this morning, sir," said Alex getting glared at by both Christina and Izzie.

"Alex," Izzie hissed. Alex shrugged his shoulders and they all looked back to the Chief and smiled.

"Well has anybody called her?" he asked. Christina nodded.

"Twice sir, so has Alex and Izzie."

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Back at the house Meredith began to wake up again. "Crap" she thought. She couldn't be late for work even though she probably already was. She had thought it through while lying on the sofa. She needed to go to work; she couldn't lie in bed all day just because of him. As she got up she grabbed her bag and keys ad ran out to the car locking the door behind her.

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"Has someone rang the house maybe her mobile's turned off or something." Izzie nodded.

"Well she wouldn't have just gone back to bed would she? This is Meredith Grey we're talking about," Bailey said trying to think of a reasonable explanation to why Meredith wasn't there.

"She would actually," Izzie said, Bailey and the Chief both looked shocked.

"Yeah, she wouldn't get out of bed this morning and the mysterious phone call just made her even more upset," said Alex just as worried as everyone else. The Chief picked up his phone once again and dialled Meredith's mobile number.

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Meredith was on her way to the hospital when her phone rung for the seventh time in ten minutes. She sighed as she looked at the caller ID. Richard Webber. She threw the phone back onto the seat besides her. Why couldn't they just leave her alone, she needed time, why wouldn't they just give her that?

Tears began to fall freely from her eyes. She sped up and started to sing along to the radio not bothering to wipe her tears.

She pulled into the hospital parking lot and parked the car. She waited in the car for a few minutes and wiped her eyes before she got out and started walking towards the main entrance.

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"Mysterious phone calls?" asked Richard as he put down the phone, no answer once again. He was starting to get really worried, what if something had happened to her?

"Yeah she wouldn't tell anyone who it was like it was some big secret." Richard and Bailey both looked puzzled. No one had seen Meredith enter the locker room so she decided to make her appearance known.

"Still on about that?" she laughed trying to cover up the obvious fact that she had been crying. Everyone turned around to face her.

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