"You seriously took him back?" Cristina looked over at her. They decided to ride to work together to catch up.

"Of course, he's the love of my life and my husband." she looked over at Cristina, "Wouldn't you do the same if he was Owen or Burke?"

"No, Meredith, I wouldn't. He abandoned you and your family, for what? Some brain mapping research? I mean… didn't he do that to Addison and met you?"

"Yes, but it's different. He didn't meet anyone when he was in Boston. The president had him do it."

"And how do you know he didn't? You don't really know what happened over there do you? He was gone for 3 years, Meredith." Cristina looked at Meredith, "I know I would do that… but he made vows to you and your kids and his family and this hospital and he just threw them all away."

For the rest of the car ride they sat in silence. They walked into the hospital and to Bailey's office. As they were heading up the flights of stairs to get to her office Meredith said,

"You know the cardiothoracic surgeon you hired before you left," Cristina nodded, "Well, it turns out she is my half sister. My mom had a secret baby with Richard."

"It must run in the family then," Meredith gave her a death stare, "I'm kidding! Come on, lighten up."

They knocked on Bailey's door, and Bailey opened it and when she saw Cristina she gave her a big hug.

"You're back?!" she start crying, again.

"Yes… I am.. the hospital in Switzerland shut down so I was hoping I could get my old job back here."

After they finished the paperwork Cristina and Meredith went down to talk to Maggie.

"Oh hey, Meredith."

"Oh, I'll leave you three to chat." Jackson said as he kissed his wife, Maggie on the lips, and walked away.

"Sooo, what's up?" Maggie looked at Meredith and then at Cristina.

"Hi, I'm Cristina Yang, I hired you and I am going to be working with you."

"Oh, yes, yes I remember you." They shook hands and made some small talk.

That evening Meredith, Derek, Maggie, Jackson, Alex, Jo, Amelia, and Owen all went on a triple date. They went to Jo's Bar, they had a great time and talked about everything Derek had missed while he was gone. The last thing that they had talked about was Meredith getting nominated for the Harper Avery award, Amelia and Maggie even got Meredith a cake saying, 'Congratulations!'. It really felt like old times, everyone gathered at Jo's getting drunk and eating nuts. After dinner they went back to Derek and Meredith's house and drank even more, Cristina joined them there, she had out with a few other friends from the hospital and was also very drunk. The kids were with Bailey so Meredith didn't need to worry about waking them up. They passed out all over their living room floor. Meredith's alarm went off at 5 am the next morning, everyone was still over and still sleeping so she got up as quietly as she could, got dressed, made some coffee and left, without waking anyone up.

As soon as she got in the door she was paged for an emergency surgery, she finished the surgery a few hours later and still felt tired and semi-drunk she went to the on-call room, hopped on the top bunk and fell asleep. She slept for about 3 hours until she was paged to the ICU. The patient she just operated on needed to be rushed to a second surgery and she was still tired but she knew that she might mess us so she paged Webber and Bailey.

They did her surgery while she went and got a banana bag and slept.