Meredith kept her eyes on them. She had spotted them from the stage and was not happy. Chelsea was supposed to be at school and the boys were meant to be listening to the speeches like every other intern.

Pushing her chair carefully down the levels, the years of experience having her "hopping" with ease. She reached their level in no time. Se felt the eyes of the other interns settle on her, and watched as they shifted awkwardly in their seats. "I suggest you move closer to the front." she advised before moving out of their way.

The four interns hurried into a closer spot and once they had finished moving Meredith knew that they boys had spotted her.

Chelsea had a deer in the head lights look and the boys could tell that they were all in trouble.

"You 3 outside now." she ordered before reversing back, attaching herself to the chair lift and following her children out.

They all knew better than to make their escape, no matter how tempting the idea was. They had learned that if they ran from mom, they would normally have to deal with dad, and that usually ended up being worse.

They moved from the room, already feeling the eyes of the others on them. There mother was not far behind them.

Meredith could see the guilty looks on their faces and knew that they thought that they were in trouble for one think, when it was something else that had made her mad.

She wheeled towards them before pausing, looking up at her 3 children, all dressed in a set of scrubs.

"You 3 are stupid." she said straightly as she looked up at them, "and if my legs actually functioned id kick all of your arses."

The three of them all looked between each other before looking back at their mother.

"You" Meredith said, pointing at Chelsea. "You are supposed to be at school, studying so you can actually wear scrubs everyday." she told her "and while they look cute on you, they dont belong to you."

"Mom" Chelsea started but Meredith cut her off.

"No Chelsea Jane Sloan. You are supposed to be at school. That is where you were supposed to catch your bus. There is no reason for you to be here. I know you wanted to see your brothers first day, but now you need to go up and get changed. Your father will be up soon to drive you to school. I will call your principal to cover you, but dont expect me to do it again." she said toughly before looking at her boys.

"Now you both are idiots. Not only are you disrespectful to your colleagues and your superiors because you did not listen to a single introduction, and i know that you already know them, and i really dont care but you were also foolish enough to not tell your father about taking the alternative surnames." she said and watched their eyes widen in surprise. "It's not the most pleasant thing to learn in a room full of your colleagues. It made it look like i had blind sided him. You were supposed to talk to him, and now you cant imagine the trouble that you have caused so DR GREY, DR WEBBER." Meredith says as she looks her boys up and down, hating that she was going to have to do this. "You will be answering every page that a nurse send. You will be doing rectal exams, dealing with emptying bed pans, and anything else they foresee until you learn to respect the people aound you and above you. I will let Olivia know. Enjoy your first 48 hours." she says as she begins to wheel away.

"Mom" Chelsea says nervously.

"I told you to go change." Meredith says harshly before turning to face her daughter.

"I didnt skip school for the boys." she says softly.

Meredith looks at her curiously before her eyes begin to soften.

"I skipped school for you. Its your first day as chief and i was going to be the only one who didnt see that." Chelsea said as she looked down at the ground. Meredith sighed as she rolled forward to stop in front of her daughter. "Sorry chels." she said with a sigh before taking her hand and giving it a squeeze. "you shouldnt have skipped school though." she murmured.

"We're sorry too." Elijah chipped in, hoping their mother would not give them the dodgy duty still.

"No, you guys are still in trouble. I will let your residents know that you have both been assigned jobs. Maybe you will be more respectful in the future." Meredith scolded. "Now get back in their before the speeches are finished." she orders.

Meredith watched as both boys heads dropped as they re-entered the auditorium, knowing that this was going to be the worst first shift that could ever have happened.

....................... turning point .................. turning point ..................

Meredith had made her way back into the auditorium, moving across the stage back to Marks side. She stopped by him, reaching up to take his hand in hers.

He looked down at her briefly before looking back out at the crowd.

"Chelsea is in my office changing. I know you have a surgery at 10, but you should have time to get her back to school." Meredith told him as she squeezed his hand.

Mark let out a sigh before giving a stiff nod.

Meredith had watched his actions closely before releasing his hand. She couldnt believe ow things were going today. This morning had been perfect, as if nothing was going to change, but now he was tense and it seemed like it was going to be one of her worse days yet.

Wheeling back, she couldnt help but move away and put some distance between them. She did not know how much more of this she could take.

She knew that the boys had been watching. She could feel their eyes on her. Looking down at her wrist watch, she knew that she was cutting it fine to get to her board meeting. Looking over at Callie and seeing that she was still talking she wheeled over to Christina.

Chris looked down at her with a concerned look. "Whats up?" she asked. She knew that whatever was going on was bothering her.

"I need to get to the board meeting." she told her. "Can you wrap this up?"

Chris nodded and Meredith then wheeled out of the room, pagin both Dr Shepherd and Dr Brennan to the board room where she aimed to advise them of the work she had allocated both Elijah and Macauley.

... turning point.........

Mark watcher her leave and looked down at the ring on his finger. Turning it as he tried to remember that he had stupidly agreed to this. That he told her that he would support her. He knew that he wasnt doing very well so far.

Looking up, he sought out his boys, already knowing that they had done the dash with their mother, and would already have been given grunt work.

His eyes met theirs and he knew that they had obviously been watching everything between them

Shaking his head, he could see that they were obviously angry with him too. He knew that he needed to find a way to make it up to them and soon, after all, he was sure that this was all of his fault.