It was still dark outside and Derek was looking at his sleeping, beautiful wife. After a while, she woke up though and she was surprised to see him.
"How long have you been awake? It's still dark out," Meredith said, closing her eyes again.
"A little while. Not too long," he told her even though it wasn't the exact truth. " Your snoring woke me up"
"I don't snore anymore," she argued. They kept arguing playfully about it for a while. He even compared her to the train he had heard in D.C. He kept likening her to random things, which brought them to a pillow fight and laughing.
Meredith was brought back from her memory by a siren wailing. She started walking towards the ambulance when Bailey came up behind her and said a bit desperate, "They just keep coming!"
"Is that the pilot?" Meredith asked the paramedic. He informed both women that it was him and gave them the information they needed to try and save him.
Alex was asking questions to a patient when he saw Callie Torres, chief of orthopaedic surgery, walked in. He went towards her. "Uh, have you seen, uh, Meredith or Arizona today?" he asked not sure if he could ask her since she was Arizona's ex-wife.
"No I haven't," she said occupied by taking what she needed on a shelf.
"There ought to be some rule that people who have been in a plane can't work on one," he said a bit upset by the situation.
Callie chuckled because she couldn't believe what was happening right now either. "That's not a bad idea," she agreed with him.
She needed to change her mind so started walking to get back to work but Karev wasn't done talking. "We should, uh, you know, look out for them today, you know?" he said following her.
"Yes," she answered sharply and then she realized what mistake she just said. "Oh, uh, no." She couldn't look out for Arizona since they weren't together anymore. She had to let her go. They both agreed on it so Karev left, but she still felt guilty for not being there for the woman that she once loved. If she was truthful with herself she would admit that she still had feelings for her.
Arizona was at nurses' desk, in the prenatal section, ordering medication for her patients. When she was done she turned around and bump into someone. "Oh, my god! Don't do that to people!" she yelled at Karev.
"Sorry are you okay?" he asked her kindly.
"Are you kidding? Of course, I'm not okay," she answered walking past him.
"Well, I figured. Look - " he said following her.
"A plane crashes into a whole prenatal yoga class? I mean, what are the odds of that?" she said not believing it herself. She stopped walking when a nurse gave her the tablet for her to see her patients state.
"Wait. What?" he asked confused. He didn't know where the plane had crashed so he was surprised to hear it. He took a look around and saw that they were in the emergency prenatal room filled with injured pregnant women.
Arizona, who had been silent for a while, came back to reality and gave a verbal update to Karev. She was starting to loose it and Karev saw it. He offered his help, but she refused. He decided to help her anyway and they both went to work.
Back in the emergency room, Meredith and Bailey were working on the pilot. The guy had had a heart attack and that's why the plane had crashed. He was talking about the fact that Kate had tried to land the plane, but it didn't work and how brave she had been during all of it when Stephanie came in. "Is this Sam?" the dark skin woman asked.
"This is Sam," Meredith answered her.
"Kate won't stop talking about him. How is he?" she asked her superior.
Meredith didn't know what to tell her and fortunately, she didn't have to because Sam spoke first, "uh, you've seen her? Is she okay?"
"We're taking very good care of her. Don't you worry," she reassured him and walked out of the room.
As soon as she got outside, the monitor started beeping rapidly. Both attendings had to do something fast. "Oh, his pressure's bottomed out. We have to take him in an operation room now!" Miranda said to Meredith and they both started giving orders to the nurses.
In the MRI room, Stephanie and some nurses were getting Kate in the machine. She told her patient how much Sam was worried about her and Kate was very happy to hear it. She placed Kate carefully so they could see on the MRI if there were injuries that needed to be taken care of.
"He has these pretty eyes where you can't tell if they're green or hazel or blue or what, but against the sky they're blue. And he was looking at me, and he asked me if I was ready to fly. And the next thing I know, we were up in the air. He said flying is his favourite thing in the world, and he's so excited, and he was so good at it. Like this is what he was born to do. I fell. Right then. I knew I was looking at the love of my life," she said lost in her memories."And we were flying, and the air was underneath us and clouds all around us, and – I mean, this doesn't happen, right? First dates like this, guys like this?" she added.
"Up until now, I would have said no," the resident answered honestly. She found it amazing that this kind of love still existed. She herself wished that it would happen to her. Then Kate's face fell a little.
"But – but then he started grabbing his chest, and then we were falling out of the sky. It's not fair," she cried. Both women had now tears burning their eyes.
Meredith was sitting on a bench, lost in her thoughts, with Miranda picking up things they needed to do the surgery on the pilot when Callie walked in. "Hey heard you two caught the pilot."
"Yeah, we did. Going in on him now," Miranda answered, sitting down on a bench aside from Meredith's.
Then the room went silent. Callie picked up her mask and turned towards Meredith; she looked totally lost somewhere else. She remembered the conversation she had with Karev earlier that day. She couldn't imagine how hard it was for her friend right now. Callie went to sit down beside Miranda so she was now facing Meredith's side. "You good? You okay?" she asked her.
"I'm fine," the general surgeon answered with a fake smile.
Callie didn't let herself be fooled by her friend's act. So, she decided to push her a little.
" 'Cause, you know, there was a plane crash and I just thought maybe – " she had now Miranda's attention too and they had an eyes contact and decided to keep pushing her friend since the chief of general surgery didn't seem to mind. "For about a year after the crash, Arizona had nightmares and if I'd come home even ten minutes late, she'd freak out, so I just wanted to see if you're doing okay."
It took a while to Meredith before she decided to answer, "Derek missed his meeting in D.C., and I haven't heard from him. That's not weird." She said the last sentence more to reassure herself but it didn't really worked.
"Okay," Callie simply replied shocked by the news.
"It's not like I should have heard from him. I – we don't call each other every second. We're not those people. I'm a surgeon. I'm busy. He's in D.C., he's busy." Both women listened to her trying to convince herself but it broke their heart to see her so upset.
"So it's fine that I haven't heard from him," she continued. "It's not a thing."
"It's the plane crash, Meredith. The plane crash is making you worry," she tried to help her friend feeling better.
"I know. I know," she said a little loud.
Meredith let out a big sigh, looked to Callie for some strength and then she needed to walk so that's what she did. Once she was gone, the surgeon got up and turned towards her chief, who had gone in the corner of the room to give the girls some privacy, not sure of what to say. "You call me if she – just call me." Miranda nodded, still stunned by the news, and Callie left.
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