Authors Note: I did not get the 20 to 35 reviews like I wanted. This chapter is set in the past. It bears a resemblance to 3x01(Time has come today). In this, the other interns live with MerDer at the same house in the show, they have their twins Elizabeth and Bailey who are four, Dizzie are married but she delivered their baby prematurely and she's in the NICU while Denny is on a case in New York. Some of the characters are absent. All the gang have their kids and one of the characters are holding a secret.
MEREDITH: In the OR, time loses all meaning. In the midst of sutures and saving lives, the clock ceases to matter. 15 minutes. 15 hours. Inside the OR, the best surgeons make time fly. Outside the OR however, time takes pleasure in kicking our asses. For even the strongest of us, it seems to play tricks. Slowing down, hovering...until it freezes, leaving us stuck in a moment, unable to move in one direction or the other.
ALEX: (through the door of the bathroom, to Izzie lying on the floor, unresponsive) Izzie. Izzie come on! Isobel!
GEORGE: OK, she's been in there all night. We have to do something.
ALEX: Yeah.
MEREDITH: Yeah.
CHRISTINA: Yeah.
MEREDITH: Why are you all looking at me?
CHRISTINA: Well this is familiar territory to you.
MEREDITH: There is nothing familiar about this. Unfamiliar. Her baby is in the NICU, fighting for her life. Her and Denny's baby.
CHRISTINA: Yeah, but you're all dark and twisty inside.
MEREDITH: "Dark and twisty?"
CHRISTINA: The mother married to the chief and your brother thing, and the real father and half sisters that you don't talk to.
ALEX: The tequila thing, and the kids thing...
GEORGE: You are dark and twisty inside Meredith, and now Izzie is dark and twisty inside.
MEREDITH: So now all the sudden I'm the president of people with crappy lives?
GEORGE: Seriously we have to do something. Someone has to go in there. (We see Izzie, still unresponsive and staring into space, still lying on the floor in her jeans and sneakers.)
CHIEF (voice over) The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. Look around you. Say hello to your competition.
(Izzie sits up and stares at the slowly opening door.)
(Flashback to the mixer.)
IZZIE: This is nice, right? They threw a mixer for the new interns?
ALEX: Yeah. It's just an excuse to get us all happy and drunk before they torture us. (The camera moves around the room, spotlighting various interns.) What program are you in, again?
IZZIE: Surgery.
ALEX: Seriously?
IZZIE: Seriously. What?
ALEX: I- I picked you for gynie or PEDS or something.
IZZIE: You don't think I can be a surgeon? I can be a surgeon.
ALEX: Surgery's hard core.
IZZIE: I'm hard core.
ALEX: You won't last the first year, babe.
IZZIE: You have a girlfriend and I have a fiance.
(Back to Izzie in the bathroom. George has come in, and is lying in front of her.)
GEORGE: Izzie.
IZZIE: What?
GEORGE: Maybe you should change your clothes. Maybe you'd want to wear something more comfortable.
IZZIE: Stop it.
GEORGE: I know. Izzie...
IZZIE: Stop it, I mean it. Stop talking. There is nothing to talk about. Do you understand me? There is nothing to discuss and Denny isn't here.
GEORGE: I'm so sorry.
IZZIE: Yeah, me too.
(Back at Seattle Grace. Doctor Bailey is at Izzie's baby's incubator)
ANOTHER DOCTOR: So you're a surgeon?
DOCTOR BAILEY: Yes.
ANOTHER DOCTOR: Usually they don't send a general surgeon for this.
DOCTOR BAILEY: (about the baby) What do we need to... How do I... How do we do this?
(The conversation is barely audible)
(Back at The Shepard's house. Meredith is making sandwiches as Cristina sits on the counter.)
CRISTINA: Why are we making sandwiches again?
MEREDITH: It's what you do when someone's baby is jeopardy. You cook.
CRISTINA: Yeah. I know what to do when someone's baby is in jeopardy. I have two sets of twins, you have two kids. I am a jew. I know food and death. It's Shivah.
MEREDITH: Is it Shivah even if she's Catholic?
CRISTINA: Well Shivah's what I know how to do. So yeah. It's Shivah. And if we're sitting Shivah for the baby, then we should order in cause making sandwiches is not the same as cooking.
MEREDITH: Sandwiches are comfort food.
CRISTINA: What's wrong with you?
MEREDITH: Everything with me is fine. It's Izzie and the baby we're worried about.
CHRISTINA: What did you do?
MEREDITH: Izzie had her baby two months early, my mom and the chief's marriage is on the rocks. Let's just have some perspective and remember that what is a tiny slightly small... (Cristina is about to say something else when a scream can be heard from upstairs. She returns a minute later with Bailey) Aww, Bailey. It's OK, Mommy's here.
(Cut to the Sloan's house, where Addison is standing in the bathroom. The timer goes off, checks the test, and we see a positive, which she throws in her purse. She's very nervous as she doesn't know how Mark is going to react about another baby and how the girls are going to react over another sibling)
(Back at the hospital)
Derek sits on the stairs, his head in his hands. Richard comes in, noticing his son in-law on the stairwell.
CHIEF: Back already?
DEREK: I never left. I did a craniotomy on a ruptured saccular aneurism.
CHIEF: I've been here all night too. I wanted to see how Stevens' baby was doing.
DEREK: Yeah. You seen Meredith? (corrects himself) Dr. Grey. Have you seen Dr. Grey? My wife? Our kids?
CHIEF: Why? What's going on with you?
DEREK: Could you get someone to cover my rounds for me so I can take care of some stuff?
DOCTOR BAILEY: Are you free Dr. Shepherd? There's an incoming head trauma, and the pit's overcrowded with early flu season.
DOCTOR: Giselle Toussant. 42-year-old-woman. Unrestrained driver of a car that hit the railing. Ejected from the car.
OMAR: We were coming to the ER. We were both sick. We couldn't shake this flu thing. She was better so I let her drive.
GISELLE: Omar? (referring to her husband)
OMAR: Giselle? Honey?
GISELLE: Oh where are we? Oh yeah. are we dancing?
OMAR: We had an accident.
DEREK: We have a dural laceration. She's leaking spinal fluid. Let's get an OR ready, OK?
GISELLE: The dancing's so beautiful.
OMAR: You're beautiful. (He begins coughing)
GEORGE: He's burning up.
DEREK: Somebody get him bed! Let's get her up to the OR right away.
(Down in the pit, Paramedics bring in a baby, and Alex responds)
ALEX: What's going on?
PARAMEDIC: Premature newborn found in a trashcan at Turner prep school. The Umbilical cord's still attached.
ALEX: You didn't start an IV. He's dehydrated.
PARAMEDIC: Couldn't find a vein.
ALEX: I need to get IV access. Get me an I.O. needle and I need a neonatal intubation kit. Olivia go MOVE!
OLIVIA: They pulled me from the floor. I'm just down here helping with the flu overflow.
(Arizona came down, finding her husband holding a baby)
ARIZONA: Alex how old is that baby?
(Alex grabs the baby and starts at a run for anywhere that's not covered in flu germs)
OLIVIA: Wait, wait what are you doing?
ALEX: If you think I'm going to leave this sick premature infant in the OR...
OLIVIA: He has to be admitted. You can't just take him, Alex...
ALEX: Just page Addison Sloan. Tell her to meet us in the NICU.
ADDISON: (entering) Karev?
ALEX: Premature newborn with Petechia.
ADDISON: What's his platelet count?
ARIZONA: 17,000.
ADDISON: 17,000? Did you two transfuse platelets?
ALEX: Yes but it didn't help.
ADDISON: Where's the mother?
ALEX/ARIZONA: I don't know.
ADDISON: Dr. Karev and Dr. Robbins, I'm not asking you where the mother is for my health. I expect you two to use your brains. Where is the mother?
ALEX: I don't know. The baby was found in a trash can at a high school.
ADDISON: They left him in a trash can?
ALEX: He's got some inner abdominal bleeding on the CT. You wanna run some more tests? Dr. Sloan?
ADDISON: I need a stat ultrasound and for you to infuse 2 grams of IVIG if there is no cranial bleeding. And find out where the mother is, I need to test for maternal platelet antibodies.
ALEX: Can't you just do surgery to fix the abdominal bleeding?
ADDISON: If I wanted to kill him, I could do that...Damn it. Who does this?
OLIVIA: Dr. Montgomery-Sloan? There's some people here... about the baby.
GEORGE: (at the surgery) The clot's been evacuated, are we ready to close?
DEREK: I just want to make sure there are no remaining bone fragments.
CAMERON: As well as can be expected. That's what Mom taught me.
DEREK: (to his brother in-law) It never gets easier, you know...losing patient. A little less shocking I guess, but it never gets any easier.
GEORGE: Izzie wanted a baby, so did Denny. They were in love. How do you think he will feel when he comes back to find out his daughter is in the NICU, fighting for her life?
(Back at the Shepard's house.)
CHRISTINA: You want more kids with Derek?
MEREDITH: Yes.
CHRISTINA: Last night, you told Shepherd you want more kids?
MEREDITH: Yes.
CHRISTINA: You and McDreamy want more McKids?
MEREDITH: Christina.
CHRISTINA: I'm not judging. I'm just trying to wrap my mind around it. I mean you said you don't want another kid until the twins are six.
MEREDITH: I did.
CHRISTINA: Yeah. Well what did Derek say?
MEREDITH: He said "Meredith, what does this mean?"
CHRISTINA: OK, he has two kids with you and he's standing there all McLovey and McDaddy and all he can say for himself is "what does this mean?" What does this mean?
MEREDITH: I don't know. I just...
Meredith has a flashback to being on a Carousel at about the age of 3, her mother is screaming her name from the sidewalk. Ellis is talking to Chief.
ELLIS: Richard you were to tell Adele...
CHIEF: I can't...
ELLIS: I was to tell Thatcher. That is what we said.
They continue to argue, and Ellis pleads Richard not to leave her, but he does. He's about to go back to Adele, when she says something that makes him stop cold in his tracks.
ELLIS: I'm having your baby!
(He stops in his tracks)
CHIEF: You're-? We're gonna have a baby? (she nods) Meredith's gonna have a sibling!
(Back to the present day. In Chief's office. They were looking at Izzie's baby's charts when Doctor Bailey entered)
DOCTOR BAILEY: Chief, the IDC is here we had a couple come in this morning. Derek and your son just finished a craniotomy on the wife, but the husband, he's got severe flu symptoms, swollen lymph nodes, buboes. Turns out they came in contact with the plague?
CHIEF: The plague? I'm sorry Ellis. I need to deal with this.
(Addison walks in on four teenage girls and their parents, who are bickering.)
SHANNON'S MOTHER: Shannon gets straight A's.
MAN: So what my daughter gets a B in math and suddenly she's birthing babies in toilet stalls?
ADDISON: I'm Dr. Montgomery-Sloan. I've been treating the newborn. He has an emergent blood condition. And I need to know whose baby it is I'm dealing with.
WOMAN: We'd all like to know that. Sarah, talk.
SARAH: I don't know anything about any baby, mom.
OTHER GIRL: None of us do.
ADDISON: well one of you must know something, otherwise you wouldn't be here.
A MOTHER: Look, Our girls...the principal said they were the last people in the bathroom before the baby was found. So we just thought, before the police show up...
FATHER: One of you knows and you better confess. I don't want my Lisa messed up in this.
ANOTHER MOTHER: The police will be here. Can't you just do some sort of DNA test so the rest of us can get out of here?
ADDISON: DNA results take days, I have a husband and two daughters and frankly I'm not concerned with the rest of you "out of here" If this baby isn't treated, he's going to die. Now I can do vaginal exams on each of the girls...
A MOTHER: My daughter is 14 years old. She's not sexually active. And I won't have you violating her body.
FATHER: you won't have it cause you know it's your kid. Listen you have my consent to do whatever it takes to prove my Lisa's innocence.
A MOTHER: You are a sick bastard, you know that?
ADDISON: A child's life is in jeopardy here. And it's not your consent that I need.
GIRL 1: We didn't do anything wrong.
GIRL 2: Yeah just cause we were in there doesn't mean it's our baby.
GIRL 3: Do we look like the kind of girls who get pregnant and throw their kids in the trash?
DEREK (in the locker room) Nice work today guys. Hey did Meredith go home with Izzie?
GEORGE: Yeah Christina too, I'm headed there now.
DEREK: Yeah, me too.
CAMERON: So am I.
GEORGE: Oh great, it's just that...I don't know if Izzie's up for a lot of people.
DEREK: Well I'm gonna go see Meredith and our kids. (He goes to open the door and a man in a sealed white suit greets him)
MAN: Mr. Shepherd? Dr. O'Malley? Doctor Grey? Doctor I'm with the IDC is anyone else in this room?
DEREK: No.
MAN: You performed the Surgery on Mrs. Toussant?
DEREK: Yes.
MAN: She and her husband were in close contact with a victim of the plague. She may have been exposed.
DEREK: Which means we may have been...
MAN: Yes.
DEREK: I gotta go. I can't do this.
MAN: We're waiting on the diagnosis on Mrs. Toussant. This room will be sealed off until we know the threat has been contained, and you're absolutely safe.
GEORGE: You're not saying that...
MAN: You can't leave. You three are quarantined.
DOCTOR BAILEY: I got this under control if you need to get back to your wife and daughter.
CHIEF: No, no. I should check in with the IDC rep. I have to stay on top of my hospital. Keep me posted.
CAMERON: Bye, Dad.
OMAR: Hello? I need help please. I know you can hear me. I see you standing out there in your giant white space suit. (Omar is in quarantine as well. A guard stands at his door.)
DOCTOR BAILEY: Sir?
OMAR: Yes!
MAN IN SUIT: No unauthorized personnel beyond this point, ma'am. IDC regulations.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Look I know he is under quarantine, but he's also a patient. And I will not ignore a patient.
OMAR: Hello out there. Thank God you can hear me. How's my wife?
DOCTOR BAILEY: My name is Dr. Bailey, Miranda Bailey. You're wife is out of surgery, she's quarantined in recovery but she's doing fine, now you were asking for help?
OMAR: You know how many days I been in here?
DOCTOR BAILEY: It's only been a few hours.
OMAR: Really? I'm losing it. I'm losing track of time.
DOCTOR BAILEY: OK sir, you're sweating. I need you to sit down, get back in the bed.
OMAR: Well what about my wife? Can you find out about Giselle?
DOCTOR BAILEY: Like I said sir, she came out of surgery just fine, but I can check on her status again. You just stay calm until I get back.
OMAR: Wait! Don't go please. Just...just stay a minute.
DOCTOR BAILEY: OK, I'm staying.
OMAR: Omar. Call me Omar.
DOCTOR BAILEY: OK, Omar. I'm right here.
(Meredith answers the door with Bailey holding her hand)
CALLIE: I brought food.
MEREDITH: (about her brother) Cameron isn't here.
CALLIE: I know. He's in a quarantine with your husband, and George, cause of the thing. And I was worried about him and off duty and going crazy and then I though about Izzie and the baby, so I brought food. (to Bailey, who is holding Meredith's hand) Hi, Bailey! (coos)
MEREDITH: For the Shivah?
CALLIE: Are you going to let me in, Mere?
MEREDITH: Yeah.
CALLIE: Relax, I'm not going to bring it up. You and McDreamy and the wanting more kids. I'm not that person.
MEREDITH: Good.
CALLIE: OK. Is it Shivah if Izzie's Catholic?
CHRISTINA: This thing that you're doing, Izzie, it's not healthy. I mean, you gotta take off those jeans and sneakers.
IZZIE: Tell me about Shivah.
CHRISTINA: It's something you do when someone dies or is fighting for their life. We did it for my grandmother.
IZZIE: How does it work?
CHRISTINA: People bring over food. Family comes over. It's supposed to help with the grieving. Honors the dead and sick.
IZZIE: Sounds nice.
CHRISTINA: Yeah, seven days of no leather shoes, no work, no sex, no sitting on things higher than foot, no shaving, no...
IZZIE: What?
CHRISTINA: No clean clothes. Izzie this doesn't have to be Shivah.
IZZIE: You know he's away for six months. I will probably never see him again. How would you feel if you never saw Owen and your two sets of twins again? So we're sitting Shivah for the baby.
ALEX: You want to see him?
GIRL: Who?
ALEX: The baby. Your baby.
GIRL 2: It's not our baby.
FATHER: I've given you permission to do this, so what's the hang up?
ADDISON: The "hang up" sir, is if you're daughter doesn't want to do it, I can't force her.
MOTHER: They're 14. They're minors. We still have a say.
CHIEF: No you don't. If someone doesn't want to submit to a vaginal exam they don't have to. It's the law.
FATHER: Alright, that's it. I'm taking Lisa home.
CHIEF: You do that sir, and I will have you arrested before you hit the parking lot.
ADDISON: The law isn't the only thing in play here. If I do the vaginal exam and the girl's a virgin, there could be bleeding undue trauma, not to mention emotional stress.
MOTHER: Well if I had to take a guess as to who's kid won't have to worry about that...
MOTHER 2: What's that supposed to mean?
MOTHER: It'd just be nice if Karen had a curfew.
MOTHER 2: Oh at least she's not a shoplifter.
MOTHER: Oh Shannon stole one lipstick when she was 9. Get over it.
FATHER: I know for a fact that my Lisa is a virgin.
MOTHER: And how do you know that?
FATHER: Because she's only 14 years old!
MOTHER: They're all 14.
(Addison took another look at the girls and thought back to when she got pregnant as a teenager. She wasn't alone, she had Mark, she was in love with him, he was with her, they married just four months before their older daughter was born, but these girls were alone.)
ADDISON: Don't you wish we did heroin?
MARK: Addison Forbes Montgomery-
ADDISON: No, no, I mean, don't you wish we did drugs, drank too much, shot something into our vein, got married, have a baby? I mean, nothing, you know, that would make you ruin your life. Or kill you or make you say, "Hi, I'm Addison, and I'm an alcoholic." You know, Avah-she eats. She puts food on top of it, and that numbs the pain, The malaise, the-the-the sad. I mean, she puts food on top of it, and she feels good. My little sister feels good, but I don't have green juice. I mean, that's all I really like. and green juice, I can't really put that on top of it. I wa...nt to put something on top of it, But I don't have anything.
MARK: And I hear you, numb the pain. (Closed the blinds, locked the door, and proceeded to take off his shirt)
ADDISON: Mark, what are you doing?! (sat up more)
MARK: I'm telling you what feel. Numb the sad, feel good. Put something on top of it, Red.
ADDISON: Mark, I said put something on top of it; not put you on top of me.
MARK: My life is in ruins. It's a mess, We're grounded, we snuck to Los Angeles, this is supposed to be a weekend with just the two of us. I don't know a lot of surefire ways to numb the pain, but I do know one. Now do you want to feel better or don't you, Addie?
(After a second's hesitation, Addison goes over to her boyfriend and they start to make out. He began to unzip her dress and carries her to the couch- still making out, as she moans and her designer sandal goes into the air)
(It was two months later in April. Addison is seen on her bed, crying- feeling afraid, overwhelmed, and happy- all at the same time.)
MARK: (knocked on her bedroom door) Red, what's wrong? Let me in! (Addison checked her makeup and opened the door) What's wrong? (he sat on the bed next to her)
ADDISON: Mark, I'm pregnant.
MARK: I'm gonna be a dad! (Spun her around)
ADDISON: (after he put her down) Wait, you're happy about it?
MARK: I'm gonna be a dad, what's not to be excited about? (grinned) You're going to be a great mother, Addie. (placed his hand on her still flat belly)
ADDISON You're going to be a wonderful father. (laughed happily as he went on top of her and began to make love to her, over and over)
(Later on in the Webber basement, Derek is on the couch watching, American Band Stand. 'They Present the Spotlight dance with Lou Rawls. Derek gets up and starts dancing. He doesn't notice Addison coming in. He spins and finally sees her)
DEREK: Addison! Door! Knock!
ADDISON: Sorry, I didn't know you'd be doing anything so embarrassing. Um, is Meredith here?
DEREK: No, she and Cameron are at the hospital. (switches the T.V. off)
ADDISON: Look, I need to talk to someone. I can really use a friend right now.
DEREK: OK then well, good luck with that. (starts going up the stairs)
ADDISON: Derek! (he stopped) Can I talk to you? Look, I've always been able to trust you and god, you are such a nice guy!
(Derek starts coming back down the stairs)
DEREK: No, I'm not.
ADDISON: Yes you are. I known you since we were toddlers!
(Derek sits next to her on the couch)
DEREK: OK, OK. Um, what happened? Did Mark forget your birthday or something?
ADDISON; I'm pregnant.
DEREK: (in shock) Uh… ar…
(The screen changes to the Webber driveway. Meredith is playing basketball and Derek is just standing there. She scores and throws the ball at Derek, hitting him on the back of his head. The ball bounces back. Derek turns around)
MEREDITH: Derek, you're like a million miles away. What's going on?
DEREK: OK Meredith, I have to tell you something, but you have to promise you're not gonna tell anybody else.
MEREDITH: Dirt! I swear, now tell me.
DEREK: Not here. (pointed to the porch where Cameron, Callie, Cristina, and Izzie are talking. They get into the Porsche. Derek tells Meredith something and she stares with wide eyes ahead of her, in shock)
(In the Webber kitchen, Richard looks at his watch)
CHIEF: Wow, don't wanna miss The Cosby Show. he gets up and goes to the living room.
(Once her step-father was out of the room, Meredith sat down)
MEREDITH: Mom, can I talk to you for a second?
ELLIS: Sure. (took a soda)
MEREDITH: OK. A friend of mine, it's not me, is pregnant.
ELLIS: Oh, is it you?
MEREDITH: No Mother, not me.
ELLIS (sighed in relief) Oh, thank God, I just had the most horrible flashback to when I was sixteen and… You were saying honey? (turned back to her daughter.)
MEREDITH: The whole pregnancy thing is just so scary and overwhelming. Addison, I mean my friend…
ELLIS: It is you, isn't it?
MEREDITH: No, Mother. She was dating someone for three years and now her whole life is outta control!
ELLIS: Are you worried about you and Derek?
MEREDITH: No. Maybe. Yes!
ELLIS: Honey, let me just tell you what I think. Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, things happen, and the backseat of a car is no place to be worrying about birth control.
MEREDITH: Thanks Mother.
(Richard pokes his head in the kitchen)
CHIEF: Bill think he's having a heart attack. It looks like the big one, come watch!
(In the Karev porch, the guys are sitting, talking about Addison's pregnancy, and they look gloomy)
GEORGE: And Addison's mockatons will get huge!
ALEX: Mockaton?
DENNY: George, for those of us who don't speak Greek, what exactly is a mockaton?
GEORGE: Feet. They will get long, swelled up and white. Very gratifying.
OWEN: You freak!
MARK: I mean, this is scary man, I might have to get married, although I want to.
CAMERON: Not just married, married to Addison. That's freaking terrifying.
MARK: (starts to panic) OK, I'm never having sex again!
DEREK: Yeah, good one.
MARK: No, no, I'm serious man. It's just not worth it. Just wait Shepard, this could so easily happen to you!
DEREK: I don't think so, I'd probably have to have sex first.
MARK: It's just not fair.
DEREK: You're telling me, I wanna have sex!
(At the drugstore, Cameron and Meredith are waiting for their turn)
CAMERON: Well, I know, it's your grades right? You're flunking Algebra! Bingo! Grey scores, right?
MEREDITH: OK Cam, you know what? Dad likes me and he doesn't like you!
(Cameron acts as if it hurt his heart. He turns to the counter)
PHARMACIST: Can I help you?
CAMERON: Uh, sure, pictures for Grey.
PHARMACIST: I'll be right back. (walked away)
(They look at postcards, as we find Derek holding a bottle of cologne, he looks around and sees that nobody is watching, he puts some on his wrists and inhales too strongly. He starts coughing. Richard walks in the store and runs to him)
CHIEF: Hey, there Derek, you, you okay?
DEREK: I was just… How are you?
Pharmacist comes back with the pictures and hands the pictures to him) Here you go. Can I help you, Doctor Webber?
CHIEF: Yup. Prescription for Grey. (Richard reaches over and take the cologne bottle Derek was smelling) Oh, trying on cologne for Meredith, huh? That is so darn cute!
DEREK: (Nervously) Thank you sir.
PHARMACIST: (comes back with a small white bag) Here you go. That'll be twenty one fifty.
CHIEF: It's a little pricey for cough medicine.
PHARMACIST: (opens the bag and takes out a small white box) Grey, Meredith, Orthonovum.
CHIEF: (goes ballistic) Ortho what?!
PHARMACIST: Orthonovum, birth control pills!
(Derek grabs the counter and turns around to find Richard glaring at him, Meredith looking puzzled, and Cameron laughing. Derek bolts. Richard puts his hands to his face in a 'Home Alone' way)
(In the Webber kitchen, hours later, Richard comes in. He looks at the bag)
CHIEF: Ellis! Ellis!
(THE SCENE BECOMES A BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE: Open For Business. The host talks for all the characters)
HOST: Meet Richard. He's a typical American who works hard, is a doctor, loves his family and has never cheated on his tax return. Life is good, but lately, he's noticed some slight changes in his step-daughter Meredith.
(Meredith is dressed in a black dinner gown with matching black gloves, which shows plenty of leg and of cleavage)
CHIEF: Hi honey, how was school today?
MEREDITH: Great Dad, I got an A on a test and tonight, I'm having cocktails with the principal. (The guys come in dressed up in tuxes. Alex pushes Richard away and they lift Meredith and put her on the kitchen counter) Will you excuse us Dad? We have to study! (She takes off a glove and puts it around Owen's neck)
HOST: Richard realizes his daughter is growing up. Now that Meredith's on the pill, she's what medical professionals call Open For Business; you should know that. Come on Richard, I want to show you something. (The screen changes to Joe's Bar. Meredith is behind the counter and a line of guys are waiting for their turn) You see Richard, the pill means that Meredith can have lots of sex with many different partners, not just Derek.
DEREK: Hi Richard, boy, is your daughter something!
HOST: So, do you get it Richard? She's Open for Business! (the host points to the sign that says now serving turns to number 24.) Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm next! (The movie fades)
(In the Shepard dining room, Derek looks like hell)
CAROLYN: Derek, you're not eating, are you sick?
NANCY: Yeah Derek, you seem upset. Did something happen at the pharmacy?
MAX: What happened at the pharmacy?
DEREK: Nothing. (turns to Nancy) Shut up!
MAX: Derek, be nice to your sisters. Carolyn, what happened to the mail?
NANCY: I checked the mail Dad, nothing, no mail.
CAROLYN: You know the mail keeps disappearing. I think we have a little mail thief.
DEREK: Speaking of, Nancy. I could've sworn I saw a University of Olympia envelope sticking out of your bra. What's that all about?
MAX: What?
NANCY: Meredith's on the pill!
(Carolyn chokes on some ice tea, Derek looks guilty)
KATHLEEN: What did you do?
DEREK: Nothing! Nothing.
MAX: Dinner's over. You kitchen, now! (got up)
(In the kitchen, Derek sitting on a chair and his parents are standing in front of it)
CAROLYN: I know you're sixteen and we can't stop you from doing what you wanna do…
MAX: (interuppted) Yes we can.
CAROLYN: Max. All I'm saying is have respect for her.
MAX: You respect her by keeping your hands off her.
(Nancy comes in, carrying a plate)
NANCY: You are a dirty, dirty boy Derek.
CAROLYN: OK, OK, now, um, let's talk about birth control.
MAX: Birth control! Don't do it, that's your birth control!
NANCY: I'm gonna pray for you Derek.
DEREK: (glared at her) You're the devil! And, did you know that Nancy's flunking out of college?
MAX: Don't change the subject! You've got strange thoughts in your little head mister and that Meredith's a nice girl!
CAROLYN: Max, you're giving him the wrong idea about sex. It's not dirty.
MAX: But it's not clean either.
CAROLYN: OK, cleanliness, now, that reminds me, always make sure your nails are trimmed and clean. Oh, foreplay is very important.
MAX: No, no it's not.
CAROLYN: Yes, it is.
(Screen changes to the Webber kitchen)
ELLIS: Personally I'm very proud to have a daughter who acted so mature and responsible.
CHIEF: I'm her step-father. You should've told me Ellis! (Richard is sitting down with his back to the door. Cameron and Meredith come in) Can you imagine how I felt standing there with Derek when the pharmacist handed me birth control pills?
MEREDITH: (Shouted) Derek knows? Thanks a lot Dad! (pushes the door, then comes back, takes the pills and leaves. Cameron leaves too)
CHIEF: You know, she and Derek are dating!
ELLIS: All the more reasons!
CHIEF: Oh, jeez!
ELLIS: You'd rather she got pregnant?
CHIEF: That is not gonna happen to Meredith!
ELLIS: It happened to us, before I met her father!
CHIEF: Oh, sure, throw that in my face again!
(In the Shepard kitchen, Nancy is using the steam from the kettle that's on the burner to open a letter. Meredith comes in from the patio door)
MEREDITH: Hey Nancy, is Derek around?
NANCY: No, he's at the hospital with our parents. Hey watch the door!
(Meredith moves to the door)
MEREDITH: What are you doing?
NANCY: My grades! I gotta make some Fs into Bs before Dad sees them!
(Meredith pokes her head in the living room)
MEREDITH: You're fine, Your parents and Amelia are watching The Golden Girls. I gotta go.
NANCY: Hey, smart move going on the pill. That was the best thing I ever did. Just wait 'til you get to college"
MEREDITH: (recoils) Bye. (Exits)
(In the driveway, Derek and Meredith are sitting on the hood of the car)
MEREDITH: Oh my God Derek, so your parents know I'm on the pill too?
DEREK: Yeah. I had a nice conversation with my parents about foreplay.
MEREDITH: Sorry.
DEREK: Yeah, me too.
MEREDITH: Derek, I don't want you to think this changes anything between us.
DEREK: I don't. But it could. Right?
MEREDITH: I suppose. I mean who knows, it might even be you!
(He stares at her with icy blue eyes)
DEREK: Might?"
MEREDITH: All I'm saying is we have to wait for the right time.
DEREK: OK. How about now?"
MEREDITH: Um, no.
DEREK: OK. How about now?
MEREDITH: No.
DEREK: OK. Now?
MEREDITH: Yes.
DEREK: Really?
MEREDITH: No.
DEREK: OK. Now, right?" (She shoves him a little and leaves) I'll be waiting.
MEREDITH: Shut up.
DEREK: I've got a birthday coming up in a few months, so…
(Max comes over holding a water hose and sprays Derek. Derek falls off the car and looks at Max)
MAX: It's for your own good son. (Max blows at the hose and leaves)
(Back to the flashback of the mixer. Christina is circling around Owen in jealously, who is giggling with a woman, sitting on a couch.)
CHRISTINA: Hi. You're... are you Owen Hunt?
OWEN: Uh... yeah.
CHRISTINA: The Owen Hunt. Dr. Hunt, I am such a huge fan. That Stentless valve replacement for infectious endocarditis you performed? And your use of transmyocardial revascularization? I- I'm Christina Yang. If I could just get the chance to study under you I would be...you are so amazing!
OWEN: Yes well... thank you...
(George is talking to Meredith, who is staring over his shoulder at Dr. Webber and her mother, not trying to be rude but, just not interested, also not knowing her friend Alex over there, has a crush on her)
GEORGE: I mean one of my choices was San Diego. I could have gone to San Diego. But Seattle's home, so... So you and Derek are moving into a house together?
MEREDITH: Yes. In a old house. My mother lived there before she married Richard... lived there... and I live in her old house.
GEORGE: That's great, cause housing is a nightmare. I'm still living with my parents at home, which sucks. (She walks away) Oh it was nice talking to you!
(Back to the locker room)
GEORGE: We've been exposed to the plague.
DEREK: They don't know it's the plague.
GEORGE: So the men in the white suits? Just, what, making a fashion statement?
DEREK: No it's a precaution. When the blood work comes back we'll be out of here.
GEORGE: What if the blood results come back and it's the plague? What if we get the plague? Do we die in here with the crappy benches, and the dirty scrubs and the lockers full of food.
CAMERON: Calm down, O'Malley.
DEREK: There's food in the lockers? (Derek searches the lockers)
GEORGE: Dr. Shepherd, those are people's personal... that's Alex's apple. (Derek bites into it) That's just rude.
ADDISON: Safe haven laws - all those girls would have had to do was to drop that baby off at a fire station, or a hospital. Now... it's a mess.
CHIEF: What are our options here?
ADDISON: Blood typing. We take a sample from each of the girls. The baby's blood type is double O. If the girls are A or B it means the baby's not theirs.
ELLIS: Do it.
MEREDITH: (drinks water) Everyone thinks I'll know what to say to her. I don't know what to say to her. Dark and twisty Meredith. I'm not dark and twisty. And if I am dark and twisty, it's because I live my life under a banner of avoidance. I avoid my real dad's family. I'm an avoider. (at Callie's look) Izzie. I gotta go check on Izzie.
CALLIE: Don't take it personally. It's the doctor thing,
MEREDITH: What?
CALLIE: Four years of high school, four years of college, four years of med school...by the time we graduate we're in our late 20's..and we've never done anything except go to school, think about science. Time stops. We're socially retarded. I mean, look at me... I'm in love with a guy that won't propose to me even though we dated for several years, and here I am in his sister's and her husband's kitchen cooking just hoping that he comes here and notices me. I'm a total freak. I'm that girl in the back of the class who eats her hair. Meredith...you're's 17 years old. We're all 17 years old. It's high school with sclapels, Mere.
MEREDITH: I don't know what to say to you. (Goes into the bathroom)
IZZIE: Since your parents started having problems. did you feel like...
MEREDITH: What?
IZZIE: Like you were moving in slow motion?
MEREDITH: They were happy, and then they weren't. Like I blinked and they were in shambles.
IZZIE: I feel like I'm moving in slow motion... like I'm moving in slow motion and everything around me is moving so fast. I just wanna go back to when things were normal. When I wasn't "poor Izzie lying on the bathroom floor in her jeans with her... her sick baby and husband is away on a case." But I am. so I can't. And I'm... just stuck. And there's all this pressure cause everyone's hovering around me, waiting for me to do something, or say something or flip out or yell or cry some more... and I'm happy to play my part. I'm happy to say the lines and do whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing if it will make everyone feel more comfortable. But I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to be this person. I don't know who this person is.
MEREDITH: Izzie.
IZZIE: How did this happen? How did we end up here? Why am I alone? Where's Denny? Where's the baby?
MEREDITH: You're not alone Iz.
IZZIE: Scarlett.
MEREDITH: Hmm?
IZZIE: Scarlett. I want to name the baby Scarlett if she survives.
MEREDITH: Oh, Izzie. (hugs her)
DEREK: Trail mix and warm soda. Who puts warm soda in their locker?
CAMERON: As usual Christina's to lazy to stock her locker with food, despite my mom's advice.
DEREK: Oh here, I hit the motherload. Look at this. Granola, Cookies, Muffins...who eats this much?
GEORGE: Oh that's Izzie's locker. She ate a lot. Said it kept her energy up.
DEREK: Eats.
GEORGE: What?
DEREK: Eats. You said Ate. Eats is present tense. She didn't die.
GEORGE: She feels like she did. She's never coming back here. You know...I don't think she's ever going to be the same.
DEREK: You know there are moments O'Malley. Where all of a sudden in a split second and your life changes forever. Before you know it, you're somewhere else.
CHIEF: Gentlemen.
GEORGE: Chief!
CAMERON: Dad.
GEORGE: Can we please get out of here now?
CHIEF: No.
DEREK: A split second.
ALEX: (angrily as they stood at the incubator with the little boy) How do you not know your kid's pregnant?
ADDISON: You love your kids. You want to see the best in them.
ALEX: Well then how do you have a baby and throw it in a trash can?
ADDISON: Something happens. You freeze, and you hide it and pretend like it didn't happen I get that.
ALEX: You get that?
ADDISON: I do. I just don't get what come afterward. I don't get how you go back to class and pretend everything's fine. Everything is not fine.
(Arizona entered and gave Alex a piece of paper.)
ARIZONA: Alex, it's the book results. Karen and Lisa are not a match.
ADDISON: And then there were two.
OMAR: Miranda... I'm feeling better. A lot better. I think the fever broke...that's good right?
DOCTOR BAILEY: That's very good Omar.
OMAR: How's Giselle, is she asking for me?
DOCTOR BAILEY: Omar, for Giselle, being exposed to the plague, it complicated things.
OMAR: What things?
DOCTOR BAILEY: We did everything we could.
OMAR: No. No.
DOCTOR BAILEY: I'm so sorry Omar.
OMAR: No... no... no... no.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Omar. Come on breathe. (Doctor Bailey rips at the quarantine tape on the door, but is stopped by the white suit man.) Stop that! He's hyperventilating, I have to go in there.
MAN: You can't go in there.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Somebody has to go in! Omar! Can you hear me?
OMAR: I need my wife, I need Giselle! Let me out! Let me out of here!
DOCTOR BAILEY: Look! Omar, Look at me! I need you to put your hands against my hands. Come on.
OMAR: My beautiful Giselle.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Look at my hands. Put your hands on my hands. Good. OK. Look at me! Can you tell me my name? Do you remember my name?
OMAR: Miranda.
DOCTOR BAILEY: Miranda. That's right.
OMAR: I want Giselle. I have to save her. Please let me out of here.
DOCTOR BAILEY: I wish I could help you, I wish I could turn back the clock and make it yesterday. You don't know how much I wish that. But... I can't turn back time.
OMAR: She was sick, I should have taken over.
DOCTOR BAILEY: I know. Come on...I know. I should have taken over too. But we can't go back. Look even if I let you out of here, you can't help Giselle now.
OMAR: Do you believe in God, Miranda? Do you believe in the afterlife?
DOCTOR BAILEY: I have to believe Omar. What I do, I have to believe. That when our time come, we go to a place... a beautiful place... a better place... Omar...
GEORGE: That woman died. She actually died. Is it hot in here?
DEREK: No.
GEORGE: Than why am I sweating?
DEREK: Cause you're pacing.
GEORGE: My pulse is rapid.
DEREK: Cause you're still pacing.
GEORGE: Feel me.
DEREK: I'm not going to feel you.
GEORGE: Seriously.
DEREK: Seriously, no.
GEORGE: You're an ass. You've lived. You've done things. And you have the hair, and the hot wife. And the beautiful children, and know she wants another one, Mark has a hot wife and beautiful children too. (to Cameron) Your mom is a world-class surgeon, your dad is chief of surgery, and-and you have a hot Latin girlfriend.
DEREK: You think my wife is hot?
GEORGE: My point is...you've lived. If you die who cares? But if I die, what? This is it? Addie's sister Avah told me she loved me and I just sat there. I mean I wasn't ready. But now I'm going to die and note even get a chance to say I love you back.
CAMERON: Do you? Do you love her?
GEORGE: Maybe... eventually... I could. Maybe... one day... soonish.
DEREK: Soonish? I will love you soonish?
GEORGE: You ever tell Meredith? You ever tell her that you love her?
DEREK: All the time.
GEORGE: I did. I...I'm with Avah. It's different.
DEREK: You should tell her. Even if it's soonish. You should tell her before it's too late.
GEORGE: You mean before I die of the plague?
DEREK: Before somebody else comes along.
ELLIS (checking over Izzie's baby's vitals) Baby's vitals are good, she's getting there.
CHIEF: Yeah.
ELLIS: I talked to Mere today. Said that Izzie's distraught over it and she won't leave the bathroom floor.
(Addison talks to the two remaining candidates for the little boy's mother.)
ADDISON: There he is. That's your son. I wan't you both to look at him. Because it's not true you did nothing wrong. You both are wrong. You're wrong for covering this up, you're wrong for lying about it. You're wrong for letting this little baby, this sweet, innocent little boy suffer like this. He's dying and it's your fault. It's both of your faults. And the thing is, the truth will come out. In time it will always come out, it always does...it just does. And when it does, this baby will be dead.
ARIZONA: (backing her up) She's not joking.
GIRL: Shannon...
SHANNON: Don't tell my mom OK?
ADDISON: Thank you. Thank you for telling the truth.
GEORGE: You really don't feel anything?
DEREK: I feel like I've been here very long time. I feel it might be too late.
GEORGE: Too late for what?
IDC GUY: Thanks for your patience and cooperation doctors. You'll have to go on a course of antibiotics, but the threat has been contained.
CAMERON: Good.
GEORGE: What?
IDC guy: You're free to go.
ADDISON: (at the little boy's incubator) Poor little guy. The minute he's OK, we have to turn him over to a mother who's going to juvie and grandparents who were so clueless they didn't even realize their daughter was even pregnant. Imagine the kind of childhood he's going to have.
ALEX: You can get over a bad childhood. You can have the worst crap in the world happen to you and you can get over it. all you have to do is survive.
ARIZONA: He's right.
GEORGE: Hello?
AVAH: Oh My God... I was so worried.
GEORGE: I'm fine... I'm fine.
AVAH: I was really worried.
GEORGE: Yeah, well me too.
AVAH: George, I really love you. (He kisses her.)
DEREK: Hi.
MEREDITH: Hi. (hugs him then Cameron) Think god you guys are OK.
ELIZABETH and BAILEY: Daddy!
DEREK: (he hugs them) Hey kiddos, where you good for Mommy and Auntie Cristina today?
MEREDITH: Time flies.
OWEN: Where have you been all day?
CHRISTINA: Sitting Shivah for Izzie's baby. (gave the kids a hug and starts to make dinner.) How are you?
OWEN: How are you? (Christina begins to cry.)
CHRISTINA: Don't ever die...
OWEN: I'll do my best.
MEREDITH: All any of us wants is more time (Back to the flashback of the mixer when everyone is leaving. George says goodnight to an indifferent Meredith. Alex has Arizona on his arm.)
IZZIE (to George) Isn't this so cool. I mean tomorrow we're going to surgeons.
(Back to Izzie on the floor. She grabs Meredith's arm and stands up.)
MEREDITH: Time to stand up... time to grow up. Time to let go.
IZZIE: I'm ready.
MEREDITH: OK. (Meredith helps Izzie take off her sneakers) Time...
Authors Note: Please review, I think this is one of my best work yet. I'm gonna continue the next two episodes of Season three but I'm gonna have a hard time writing the next one out, because of the timeline consistency, I'm gonna try anyways since it is a very good episode. I just had to add Arizona onto the poor baby case too, and change somethings over. Tell me how I did. Again, 20 to 35 reviews and I'll upload the new chapter tomorrow or so.