Grey's Anatomy

Chapter: Hmmm… roommates.

Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own Grey's Anatomy. If I did, I would probably make Meredith a bit more open with Derek. I wish those two would stop with all the S and M thing and really get together.

A Few weeks after the start of her internship Meredith had gotten Riley settled with a credited nanny who would pick Riley up from the hospital every night at 6 pm. Now she had to find two roommates.

Meredith had some flyers printed up and had brought them to work, but wasn't planning on posting them in the hospital. She was putting he purse in her locker when some of the flyers spilled out. George O'Malley, an intern in her group, picked it up.

"You're looking for roommates? That's great I need a place." George said.

"Sorry George, I'm not advertising at the hospital." she said.

"Morning guys. What's up?" Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens said coming into the locker room.

"Meredith is renting out some rooms at her house." George said.

"Really? I've been looking forever." Izzie said.

"Sorry guys, but I don't want people from the hospital." Meredith said.

"Why not?" George asked.

"We work together eighty hours a week. Do you really want to see each other outside of the hospital too?" Meredith asked.

"Sure," Izzie said.

"Why not? George said at the same time.

"Please just think about it?" Izzie asked.

The three left the locker room and met up with Christina Yang and Alex Karev, two other interns in their group. They found their resident, Miranda Bailey, at the nurse's station.

"Let's go people, you're late for rounds." Dr. Bailey said.

After rounds the group followed Bailey back to the nurse's station to pick up the charts of the patients they were assigned to.

"O'Malley you're with Dr. Burke, Yang, Stevens pit, Karev Webber, Grey Shepherd requested you." Bailey said.

Meredith went to find Dr. Shepherd. She found him near a patient's room. He was leaning against a doorway reading a chart. He looked up as she approached and closed the chart.

"You requested me?" Meredith asked.

"Yes. You did a good job diagnosing Katie Bryce a few weeks ago." Derek said.

Hours later Meredith had come out of a surgery with Derek because their patient's condition had deteriorated. She and Derek were scrubbing out.

"Good work Meredith." Derek said.

Meredith smiled despite herself. She loved the rush of surgery and saving a life felt great. Meredith dried her hands and left the scrub room following Shepherd. The surgery also came as a welcome distraction from George and Izzie, who had been bugging her into letting them move in. But, now that she had to face the two.

"Come on Meredith. We need a place to love and you have a house that is begging for more people." Izzie said.

"Fine, Izzie and George, you can move in." Meredith said finally giving in.

"Yes!" The two rejoiced.

"There area couple of conditions first and something you should know. I have an eight year old." Meredith said.

That night after work Meredith took Izzie and George home. The nanny, Karen, was cleaning up some of Riley's toys.

"Dr. Grey, Your home early." Karen said.

"I got off work early. I was hoping to catch Riley before she went to bed." Meredith said taking off her coat.

"She went to bed about an hour ago. Riley said she had a stomach ache and went to bed early. She wanted to sleep in your bed." Karen said.

"Okay, thank you." Meredith said

Karen left for the night and left Izzie and George downstairs as Meredith went up to her room to see how Riley was feeling. She pushed open the door to her bedroom and saw Riley wide awake.

"Hey, sweetie, Karen told me you didn't feel well." Meredith said sitting on the edge of the bed and placing her hand on Riley's forehead to see if she had a fever.

"My tummy was hurting, but it's okay now." Riley said.

"Well I have some friends downstairs, do you want to come and meet them?" Meredith asked.

"Okay." Riley smiled.

Meredith helped Riley out of the bed and then went downstairs to meet the soon to be new roommates.

"Riley, this is Izzie and George. Guys, this is my daughter Riley." Meredith introduced.

Less than twenty minutes later Riley was out like a light on a big comfy chair while Izzie George and Meredith talked. After Izzie and George left Meredith went over to the chair the Riley was asleep on and picked her up. Riley snuggled into her mother's arms as Meredith walked up the stairs and into her own bedroom. She placed Riley on the bed and covered her with the quilt. After changing into her ratty Dartmouth t-shirt and pj pants she climbed into the bed next to Riley, and finally fell asleep.

AN: So this chapter wasn't as long as the first. This was kind of a filler chapter because I don't really know how to go about the MerDer relationship. So if anyone has any ideas, please send them along.

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