Hi, you all. I have been gone for a while. I won't make excuses, but let's carry on with the chapter. In this chapter, Christina confronts her person, Meredith becomes increasingly paranoid, Meredith goes into therapy with Emma for the first time and you get more of the backstory on Phil.


Meredith and Derek were sleeping on the same bed. In a month, it was the first time that they were sleeping together. The make up sex had been crazy good. But with Meredith beside him Derek couldn't sleep. Not because of her snoring, Derek missed the snoring, it was like the sound of the engine of a ferryboat. He heard her breaths, shallow breaths, but that meant that she was still alive and not shot down by some psycho. The blanket was moving up and down due to the movement of her chest. At first, he had hated Meredith's snoring but now, he had even grown attached to it.

Her snoring stopped as she woke up. "Good Morning" said Derek as he kissed her. God! He had missed this. "Good Morning" said Meredith, as she smiled seeing Derek beside him "Were you watching me sleep ?". "You know I was." said Derek with a smile. This was his idea of a perfect morning. He wished this perfection could last.


It was first day, first day back to the hospital, as a resident, and more as a victim. After four weeks, the idea of going back to the workplace seemed foreign to her.

"Meredith!" she heard Derek say as she snapped out of her thoughts. He moved forward as he took her hand in his. They were standing just outside the hospital, and Meredith had stopped, somewhat hesitant to go inside.

"You don't have to go, if you're not ready." said Derek, looking in her eyes "Just know that I'll be here for you no matter what." With her expression changing to a gentle smile and a shine in her eyes. "That's all I need to know" said Meredith as she stepped inside Seattle Grace Mercy West to just get through the day


Christina was walking down the halls of the hospital as she saw Meredith. Meredith looked pretty busy , filling charts. With her hair tied up in a messy bun, Meredith looked just like before , it was funny, the fact that it was almost like nothing had happened.

She approached her. "Hi Christina" said Meredith without even looking up. "Could I talk to you for a minute ?" said Christina with desperation in her eyes. She had not talked to her since that fateful night.

"Looks to me like she's pretty busy." said a squeaky, thin voice from behind the counter. Christina shifted her gaze towards the person to see who the person was. "Do you not have patients to attend to? Or are you too busy checking your Instagram ? Nurse…" said Christna, and paused as she didn't know her name. "Pearl" said the nurse "Like the jewel.". "Pearl? What is this ? The 1840s?" dissed back Christina.

Meredith clicked the pen as she stopped writing. Looking towards Christina, she said "Christina, stop harassing the nurse. You wanted to talk ?". "Not here." said Christina "Could we ….." but she was cut off midway by the beeping of her pager.

"You go." said Meredith , putting the pen in the pocket of her coat "I have an appointment with Dr. Dawson."


"So, Meredith, tell me something about your childhood." asked Emma sitting on a leather chair. Her office was that of a typical shrink. This was a sentence that Meredith had heard before, during her sessions with Dr Wyatt. 'They were making progress' she had told her but Meredith left therapy.

"I've been to therapy before. I know what happens. I've talked about childhood and stuff. Just, clear me for surgery." said Meredith, without beating around the bush.

"You're a smart girl, Meredith Grey. A practical girl, pretty straightforward but you are not completely healed. You left therapy In the middle." said Emma "You felt the loss of control, Meredith. A situation in which you wanted to take control but couldn't. Instead you were powerless, helpless…" . Meredith couldn't stand to hear her anymore "Your point ?"

"My point is that the loss of control. How did it make you feel, Meredith ?" said Emma, subconsciously playing with a pen in her hand. "It made me feel like you said, okay." said Meredith annoyed as she proceeded to stare outside a window overlooking the parking lot.

As Emma put down the pen to a nearest table and adjusted her glasses , she said "Therapy doesn't work that way, Meredith. You have to open up to me. Share your feelings." As she said that particular sentence, a particular word caught Meredith's attention. "Could you repeat what you said ?" Meredith said, almost scaring Emma. "Which one? Feelings?"

"No" said Meredith "before that."

"Open ?"

Flashback

"So like my uncle's cabin is totally free and open this summer. And we are like, getting together there. Just, friends, spending a weekend." said Meredith's friend, Sally, a redhead, cheerful girl of 16 years who totally contradicted Meredith's personality but yet was one of her best friends. "Ugh" said Meredith, as she closed her locker and ran a hand down her blonde hair with the pink stripe, "Who else is gonna be there?"

"Lyndsey, me, Phil, Daniel, Mike and hopefully you." said Sally, excited with her brown eyes glittering with excitement.

"Oh my god! Do you mean Phil, that creepy guy." said Meredith, with a look of disgust on her face "Does I have to come ?".

"Meredith!" said Sally , in a loud voice attracting attention from the nearby people "Please I'm asking you as a friend." . Meredith had no choice left, she had played the friend card. "Okay." said Meredith, not really willing to go "Where is it?". "In the middle of the woods behind the school. It will be so fun!" Sally said as she almost jumped with excitement.

Middle of the woods thought Meredith as she saw Phil coming her way. Phil, 16, was a blonde boy with blue eyes and his dad ran a pharmaceutical company which had made them rich. As he passed her, he said in a sweet tone 'Have a good day, Meredith.'

'Without you, I will' said Meredith dissing him and she received a high-five from Sally. Sally commented 'Sick burn' but Meredith was too zoned out to notice. Middle of the woods she kept on thinking. Sally noticed her zoning out and said 'Meredith! Meredith!'

"Meredith! Meredith!" Meredith looks up to see Emma calling out her name. "Meredith, what happened to you. It was almost like you were in a trance." Meredith felt nervous, her heartbeat going up, her breathing got laboured and her hands began to shake. Emma noticed this and asked if she were okay. "I, I have to go." said Meredith, picking up her coat and exiting the room without even listening to what Emma had to say.

Meredith didn't stop until she was out of the hospital, as she reached the exit and came into the open breeze, she could not stop thinking about what she had seen. What the hell was that? was all that Meredith could think of.


Pearl was at distance taking photos from her camera. Something that Phil had paid her to do. She had followed Meredith outside, and was still clicking photos. All she could think was what was Cinderella doing here. She hated Meredith. She had loved Phil since she was 16, but he was too busy to notice, too hung up over the angry girl with pink hair. And he still was. And she was here helping him. If she ever gets a chance, then she would love to kill her. The one because of whom she never got noticed.


So many revelations, man, Derek and Meredith are back but there is still the matter of Zola, Christina feels like she's losing Meredith and Meredith and Phil, they go way back , also Pearl loves Phil and completely hates Meredith.

I'll try to update soon. I know this is not much. Just 1300 words. But it's holidays for me, so updates will be quick. Also writing the next chapter of The Wrong Timing and working on a new story 'Wishes Never Fulfilled'. And I know you're gonna like that story. Leave me a review please. I completely lost my reviewers on The Wrong Timing but at least review here.

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Love, Allison