Chapter 3

Meredith walks through the hallway on the second floor. All doors are locked except for her door and one to another empty bedroom. When she reaches the stairs she can hear voices from below. She slowly descends and the voices become stronger. They sound is a little artificial and when she hears the laugh she understands that it is the television. She can see light coming from a room across the hall downstairs. She slowly crosses the floor and looks inside. A dark haired person is snuggled up into the sofa. It looks like a girl. Meredith walks over to the front door and tries to open it. She gets an electric shock and screams from the pain. The girl lifts her head and stares at her before turning her eyes back to the screen. A door on her side door opens and a man enters the hallway. He looks at her and shakes his head before returning in to the room behind him. He is back in a minute with a glass of something. She doesn't want anything from a glass so she shakes her head when he holds it out for her. A girl's voice is heard behind her.
"Drink it or you'll get an injection. The drink is better."
Meredith stares at her and when she doesn't look at the man she feels a needle entering the back of her bare left arm. The drug makes the world spin and she falls into the dark. The man picks her up before she falls and carries her up to her room where she is left alone.

Meredith's three friends decide to call the police the following morning if she isn't home by then or answering their phone calls. Izzy has trouble sleeping and is dreaming about John and their daughter. She wakes up sweaty and picks up the last picture of Hannah's lovely face. She really regrets leaving her for adoption but knows that she didn't have any other choice. Hannah will always be her oldest daughter regardless of how many children she gives birth to. When the alarm goes off she has already showered and made scrambled eggs for breakfast. Meredith has not been heard of and they drive to the hospital in silence.
"We have to tell Dr Bailey and the chief today."
"Yeah"
"Who'll do it?"
"Can you do it George?"
"Why me?"
"Because you never exaggerate and they need to know that this is serious."

Addison is passing by the nurse station and sees Dr Karev and the other interns standing there.
"What are you doing Dr Karev?"
"Waiting for Dr Bailey."
"You have a critical baby up in neonatal. Get your behind up there and monitor the baby."
"Can't do that Dr Shepherd."
"What?"
"I have to wait for Dr Bailey."
"Why?"
"She is helping us do something."
"You have a patient. Go and do your work and the rest of you find something to do that resembles work."
"Yes Dr Shepherd" they all says and scatters across the surgical floor.

Addison looks for some charts and looks up when Dr Bailey asks her were her interns are.
"I sent them to work. They were just hanging around."
"They were told to wait for me here."

Dr Richard Webber comes from the OR board and looks at Bailey.
"You paged me?"
"Yes Sir, I have a problem with one of my interns."
Addison tries to look as if she isn't eavesdropping and continues looking for her missing chart.
"What kind of problem? Who is it?"
"We better do this in the conference room, Sir. Nurse Debbie, can you please tell my interns were to find me?"
"Yes Dr Bailey, sure will do."
"OK Dr Bailey, whom of your interns is causing problems today?"
"Dr Grey"
Addison smirks. She knew that the slutty intern was going to fall out. She didn't have the stamina to become a surgeon.

Derek walks up to the nurses stations and asks Nurse Debbie if she knew where Dr Bailey and her interns are. He is waiting for rounds since he has a surgery in less then half an hour. She just shakes her head and walks towards a patient room. Addison looks after her.
"What's up with the nurses? Nurse Debbie was here and we both heard when Dr Bailey wanted to speak with Dr Webber about Dr Grey in the conference room. Her other interns are to meet them there."
Dr's Stevens, Karev, Yang and O'Malley walks up to the station and asks if they know where Dr Bailey is. Derek looks at Addison but she doesn't answer them so he tells them to go to the conference room.
"Why did Dr Bailey want to talk to them about Dr Grey?" he asks Addison.
"I don't know but she is probably not up to standard anymore."
"She is the best intern this year."
"Maybe she is just good at dating an attending."
"You know that Dr Grey is excellent so shut up" he says and walks off.

Dr Webber turns to Dr Bailey as soon as they are in the conference room.
"What is wrong with Dr Grey?"
"She is MIA."
"What do you mean with missing?"
"She was not here yesterday and she still hasn't arrived. She doesn't answer her phone and she has not been home. She was last seen leaving Joe's the night before yesterday."
The interns knock on the door and enters the room in a single file.
"What do you know about Dr Grey's whereabouts?"
"Just that she two nights ago was at Joe's and hasn't been heard or seen since, sir." Izzy explains.
"We are really worried, sir" George adds.
"We want to report her to the police and ask them for help" Alex says.
"What do you say, Dr Bailey?"
"I agree with them, sir."
"I'll make a call. Please stay available if possible."
"You all go to the pit and clinic except for Yang who go home and sleep."
"But I was scheduled for surgery with he-Shepherd." O'Malley says.
"I'll tell him that he will have to do without you."

Dr Bailey walks into the scrub room where Derek is scrubbing in for his surgery.
"Dr O'Malley is not available today sir. I hope you can manage without an intern during this surgery."
"Why so Dr Bailey?"
"He is needed elsewhere sir."
"Can I have another intern?"
"None of mine, they are all needed elsewhere."
"What's happening? Why did you have a meeting about Dr Grey?"
"None of your business sir."
"As long as you remember that she is one of the best interns this hospital has ever had."
"No one is questioning her ability to do her job."
"Where is she? I haven't seen her the last couple of days. Is she on leave?"
"No. She is not, sir."
Bailey leaves the scrub room and Derek wonders what is going on.

When Meredith wakes up the girl from the sofa is sitting beside her bed.
"Hi" she says
"Hi" Meredith answers.
The girl hands her a bottle of water but she refuses to take it.
"It is OK. The bottled water is OK. The water in the glass is drugged. The sandwiches are fine. You get drugged by the glasses or by injections if you don't drink the stuff from the glass."
The girl drinks from the bottle and hands it to her. Meredith takes the bottle and drinks it all. The girl then hands her the wrapped sandwich and Meredith sits up and starts eating. Suddenly she feels nauseous and has to bolt for the bathroom. The girl is still there when she returns. She takes a good look at her. The girl is dressed the same way as she is but for the color of the clothes. Meredith is white and the girl is black.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know, but I believe it is close to Seattle because of the rain on the windows."
"For how long have you been here?"
"This is my fifth day."
"What's your name?"
"Lexie"
"I'm Meredith"
The girl turns pale when she hears her name.
"What is it Lexie?"
"What's your last name?"
"Grey"
"Mine too"
"Are you Lexie Grey?"
"Yeah and I'm your sister."
"I don't have a sister."
"Correct, you have two, me and Molly who is the youngest."
"Is your father Thatcher Grey?"
"Yeah, and our mother is Susan Grey, his second wife."
Meredith stares at her. She has a little sister or rather two and one is here in this creepy house with her."
"Do you know why we are here?"
"No but the man said yesterday that tomorrow is the day."
"What happens tomorrow?"
"Don't know."
They can both hear steps in the stair and the man enters the room. He carries two small boxes. Meredith gets one and Lexie the other.
"Help each other and be ready to leave this house first thing tomorrow morning dressed in the dresses that are hanging downstairs."
He turns in the doorway and tells Lexie that she is to wear black and Meredith to wear white. Meredith looks at her box and sees that it is hair dye. Her box says ultra blonde and looking at Lexie's she can see that it is black. Lexie rises and motions to her to follow. Meredith does so and they walk into the bathroom.
"What are you doing?"
"Dyeing my hair. Can you help me and I'll help you?"
"You're going to oblige?"
"Yeah, I want out of here and the man told us to be ready to leave tomorrow morning. It is our chance to escape because there is no way out of here. All widows are locked and the windows are unbreakable. I threw a chair against them the second day I was here. You tried the door and you know what happens. There is no way out from the second floor and there is no basement or attic. So yes, I'm dyeing my hair so I can get a chance to get away."
"You ramble a lot."
Lexie ignores her and starts reading the instructions on the box.