Chapter 13: I Need More Time

Meredith walked into her patients' room and smiled at his wife as she grabbed a chart off the end of his bed.

"How is he doing?" she asked softly, not wanting to wake him from his sleep.

"He's doing ok." She said, "He's had two seizures in the last hour though."

"Huh." Meredith frowned "That wasn't noted in the chart." She looked it over and flipped pages "Come to think of it, nothing's been noted in the chart as of today." She looked up at the woman "Has an intern been in today, short and chubby with brown hair?"

"No." she shook her head "I haven't seen anyone, but the nurses and they just take vitals."

"So no one." She said, then heard someone skitter into the room and looked up, narrowing her eyes "Definitely not him?"

She shook her head, Meredith smiled so big that it almost hurt "Excuse me." She walked towards the intern and took his arm as she went into the hallway and shoved him down the hall, then threw the chart at him "It fucking amazes me how they let some of you MORONS out of medical school with shit like this!"

"Dr. Grey I.. I was just about to check on him."

"Please enlighten me!" Meredith hissed "As to WHY exactly it is that he has not been checked on YET!"

"Well there was this really cool surgery." He stuttered "I didn't know it would take so long."

Meredith turned red and pressed her lip together, closed her eyes and took a few long deep breaths before opening her eyes and glaring at him.

"So you didn't check on my patient, and your obligation, because you wanted to see a cool surgery?"

"Well…yeah."

"You do realize that if he had coded, if he had died because your incompetent little ass wasn't on the ball, that there would be a lawsuit right? I mean was that cool surgery worth your menial little medical license. Was it worth having money in your bank account for the next ten years?"

"I um..I."

"NO!" she screamed "The answer is NO it's not worth it! You're a doctor, YOUR patient is your priority. Get that through your thick little skull and get me another god damn intern who can tell the fucking time!"

He scurried off, tripping a few times before turning the corner to most likely wet himself.

"Is that how you'll be dealing with staff when you're chief?" she heard behind her and closed her eyes to take another cleansing breath "By making them shit their pants in fear?"

"Well." She shrugged and turned around "It works."

"You know what it reminds me of?"

"Well I know it's not your girlfriend, she seemed more of the guilt trip type."

"Your mother." He smirked. She gasped, her eyes widened, and she then narrowed them at him.

"That was low, and just… wrong."

"Well it does." He said "You yell just like her."

Meredith turned a few shades of red as she pressed her lips together and tried to calm down.

"I…" she breathed out "am…" she breathed in "not…" she exhaled "like my.." she growled "mother!"

"I know you're not." He said with a hint of a smile "But when you go all demon versus the exorcist like with that intern there, it reminds me."

Meredith crossed her arms and huffed. "Fine, I might give you that little bit of lee way."

"Can I ask you to consider a little more?"

"It might be pushing it."

"Meredith." He said softly as he took a step forward and wrapped his hand around her shoulder "My Meredith." She looked up at him, her eye softening a little "You're my first love, and we've been at this for a while, one decade. There's no way in hell I'm giving our friendship up for anyone."

"No?" she mumbled.

"Not a chance." He said, his hand moving up to cradle her chin "But this is the first girl I've wanted around for longer than a night. I like her, and though I love you more. I need to learn how to live with you both in my life. I'm learning, give me some time."

"Well." She mumbled "I've given you ten years of my time.. I suppose one more week won't hurt."

"Thank you." He whispered and leaned in, catching her lips in his for a soft make-up kiss. "I love you."

"I love you too, ya big oaf!" She said with a sigh "Now, can we finally talk about the case?"

"I thought you'd never ask."

Is Meredith like Ellis?