G is for General Surgery

It was coming to the point of her residency when Meredith needed to choose which speciality she wanted to go into. She excelled in each speciality and all the heads loved her and wanted her to choose theirs. She had a choice between; Cardio with Teddy, Neuro with Derek, General with Bailey, Plastics with Mark, Ortho with Callie or Peds with Arizona. She had an idea of what she wanted to do, but she wanted the heads to fight for her. See who wanted her the most.

'Grey!' Callie shouted

'Doctor Torres, you shouted me'

'I have a patient; do you want to take point?' She asked, as she placed the patients chart on the nurse's station for her but also leaving a piece of paper with some doctor's names on. Meredith's name was not on the list, the top of the paper said possible ortho residents.

'I'd love to, but I don't want to' Meredith said before walking away.

Well that ruled out Ortho, if Callie didn't think she was possible then why should she spend time on ortho. She just had to chose out of the remaining ones, she didn't really want to specialise in peds so she ruled that one out.

'Doctor Grey'

'Yes, Doctor Altman'

'I have a patient who needs emergency surgery' Teddy started

'I can scrub in if you want'

'Do you know where Cristina Yang is? I need her to scrub in'

'Why does it have to be Cristina? I am capable of scrubbing in on a cardio case you know'

'I know, but Yang is specialising in cardio, so she will benefit from it'

'I was still thinking about what to specialise in Doctor Altman, I haven't decided yet. But since you won't let me scrub in on a cardio, I won't be choosing that' Meredith walked away from Teddy and went to the locker room waiting to be paged by someone who actually wanted her.

She was left with plastics, general and neuro. She was capable of doing any of them, but she didn't know if she could spend all her time at work with Mark Sloan. Mark and his inappropriate comments. Her mother wouldn't be impressed if she went into plastics, her mother thought it wasn't that great. She was left to choose general with Bailey or neuro with her husband.

She was sat thinking about what she wanted when she was paged by Derek

'Hey' She said walking into the scrub room

'You want to scrub in?'

'Do you actually want me to scrub in?' She asked

'Of course,'

'It just twice today someone has needed someone to scrub in and they both didn't want me to' She told him as she started to scrub her hands

'Well I actually wanted you to do the surgery and I will be there to watch and step in if anything goes wrong. It's an aneurysm clip, you've watched me do loads it's your turn now'

'Is this your way of getting me to choose neuro?'

'Is it working?'

'Let's go' Meredith said walking into the OR after scrubbing in. she began the surgery, and everything was going well, the scans showed her everything she needed to know, Derek hadn't had to step in and he was impressed with how talented she was. Maybe neuro was the one for her, maybe she didn't have to follow her mother into general. She just had to put the clip on the aneurysm and it would be done.

'What's that?' Derek asked as Meredith went to pick up a 5mm

'5mm'

'Use a 7mm. You'll need the length'

'Derek, I got this, the 5mm is fine'

'Meredith use the 7mm' Meredith didn't listen to him and continued with the 5mm, she placed the clip and checked to see if it was stable and stuck. She closed the incision then the pair of them made their way to the scrub room

'Why didn't you listen to me in there?' Derek asked as they scrubbed out

'Because I didn't need to, the 5mm stuck. I didn't need the 7mm, the clip stuck Derek'

'I'm the neuro surgeon'

'I can't do this Derek' Meredith said walking out the scrub room

'Do what?' He chased after her

'This. I can't do a successful surgery and then argue about it with you. I can't do my fellowship in neuro, if I do then we will be arguing all the time. Then it comes home with us, we have a daughter Derek, and it's not fair on her for us to be arguing'

'I understand Meredith, we can't do this'

'Sorry Derek' Meredith said, 'That means I'm left with general'

'Go and tell Bailey and the chief and I will wait for you in the lobby with Zola and we can go home'

'See you soon' Meredith went to the locker room to change out of her scrubs and into her clothes. She needed to tell Bailey and he chief that she wanted to do her fellowship in general. She found the chief in his office

'Chief' Meredith said opening the door

'Meredith, come in' Richard Webber said, 'What can I do you?'

'It's about my fellowship, I know what I want to do. I'm going into general'

'Like your mother'

'Wait…if I'm going into general then I don't want to be compared to my mother. That's the only thing I'm asking for, I originally didn't want to because that's what she did, and I don't want to be like her. But it's the only one left and that's what I'm doing'

'Meredith, you don't have to worry about being anything like your mother. You are a great mother to Zola and wife, you're an amazing surgeon just like her but you have the chance to change medicine'

'Thank you chief, I best get going' Meredith stood up and left his office. She went to find Bailey who was in an OR, so she told her over the intercom, so she didn't have the chance to question her or a while.

'Mommy!' Zola shouted and ran over to Meredith as she stepped off the elevator

'Hey Zozo' She said picking up her daughter, 'Shall we have a princess tea party when we get home?'

'Yeah!' Zola said excitedly, 'Daddy be a pwincess?'

'Daddy can be the queen' Meredith said looking at Derek and laughed

'I can be the king, mommy can be the queen and Zozo can be the princess' Derek said walking over to his girls

'We need a pwince'

'Maybe in the future' Meredith said, she wanted another baby of course she did. She would love for Zola to have a little brother or sister, but she was about to start the hardest year of her career so now wasn't the time

'Let's go home' Derek said putting his arm around Meredith, who was still holding Zola, and they walked out to their car