In case you don't now how to pronounce Luetje, it's Loo-chee
Misfortune
That night when Meredith got home she jumped in the shower. The water fell over her like warm summer rain, It felt good on her throbbing head. Her dizziness had actually given her a break for most of the day and she was starting to feel more like herself. Wont last long, she thinks to herself, I can never feel total peace for more then a couple hours. Stop the world I wanna get off.
Just when she thought she had a little more time of peace she spontaneously falls to the floor of the shower. Meredith hits her head on the side of the shower door and snaps out of her dizziness. She hears pounding on the door and Georges worried voice on the other side of it,
"Meredith! What happened? Are you okay? Hello! If you don't answer me I'm coming in, nakedness or not!" He yells, finally stopping his pounding.
I'm fine, I wacked the shelve and all the shampoo fell!" Meredith yells back, lying through her teeth.
"Okay.." Meredith stays in her place at the bottom of the shower. Water saturating her. She stay's in there for at least an hour before getting up and drying off. As she towels herself dry, she notices a big bruise on her hip. Great! How am I going to explain this? Meredith thinks to herself angrily. She can't really say she fell in the shower because they'll all know she's lying. Then again, who's going to see it? Meredith also notices her very flat stomach. I am in big trouble.
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Later on that night Meredith is sitting up in bed staring out the window she's passed up dinner and her stomach is currently growling at her.
"Why feed you if your just going to throw it up?" Meredith asks her stomach. It replies with another hungry gurgle. This is the third and a half day she hasn't eaten much. She's surprised none of them have lectured her about it. She'll eat when her stomach allows her to keep it in.
Earlier Izzie and George asked her to watch Meredith's mother's surgical tapes with them but she said she wasn't in the mood and that she was feeling tired. They shrugged it off and made popcorn and are currently being grossed out by the tapes. Meredith was very tired but couldn't seem to fall asleep. She was worrying over her mother. She saw her today, as usual she didn't remember her. She felt like crying for the fifth time that day when her mother asked her what her name was,
"It's me mom, Meredith, your daughter."
And all Ellis Grey replied with was her usual, "oh". It made Meredith angry, stressed and depressed all at the same time. But instead of going to Joe's for a few shot's of tequila she came straight home and fixed herself a coffee, which managed to stay in her stomach.
There was a quiet nock at the door and then the door slowly creaked open. Meredith didn't bother seeing who it was, she assumed it was Christina coming to check up on her or something. Whoever it was they didn't say anything, they just came over to her and sat down at the edge of the bed. She liked the silence, it wasn't awkward or uncomfortable, or maybe it was because she didn't know who was sitting near her. As if on cue, that someone rapped their arms around her the minute a tear crept from her eye. It was just one tear, one salutary tear. Meredith curled into their arms and fell asleep.
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The next morning at work Meredith felt considerably better, and refreshed. Because of her great company last night, she slept soundly. She liked the comfort of being in someone's protective arms. It's been a while.
Meredith thought she could use a little boost to get her going so she headed down to the nursery. When she got to the elevator it was filled with people, including Addison. she felt Addison's eyes on her the whole way down. It was uncomfortable to be watch but reassuring at the same time. It felt good to have people concerned for her own well being, even in this case where a certain person has reason to hate her. I mean ADDISON? Meredith thought it was very strange. Was Derek's wife getting a soft spot for his mistress? Or was it just that Addison's a doctor and she's just used to looking out for people when they don't look well? Yeah, that's it.
"Hey Meredith!" George says coming up behind her as she stares at the babies in nursery. Baby's always calm her down and put her in higher spirits. She secretly wishes she'll have a baby someday. She used to think that McDreamy was the guy she was going to spend the rest of her life with, have a family with, but that is simply not the case anymore. It's depressing. Her McLife isn't turning out the way she hoped it would
"I see your feeling better, that's great."
"I know, isn't it?" Meredith replies with the first smile she's given someone all day.
"We better head up, I hear Bailey is on the rampage." So they both head up to the next floor to receive orders from the Nazi. Along the way Derek stops them in the hall and asks to speak to Meredith in Private. Meredith gives in and they go to the nearest isolated hallway.
"Mere..." Derek starts
"Look, Derek," Meredith cuts him off. I am really grateful cor your comfort and support last night but that's it, no more of this," Meredith gestures between them.
"What's going on with you Mere?"
"I honestly don't know, and I don't want to do this." She replies going up the stares to find the others.
Meredith finds the others in their usual spot at the nurses station, awaiting a scrub in invitation. Christina is suturing a banana as she often does, Alex is looking in a Bethany Whisper Magazine, George is spinning back and forth in a chair and Izzie, who is currently missing, is probably working with a patient, something most of them should be doing.
"Grey, Yang, you are both scrubbing in but on separate surgeries, it's a full house today." Bailey informs standing infront of them with one hand on her hip while the other is holding a chart, all the while she's giving them that Nazi look of hers.
"Yang your with Burke, Grey...Your with Shepherd. Karev, your in the pit, O'Malley."
"Yes?"
"Your with me. Lets get moving people!" Bailey turns and heads down the opposite hall, George not to far behind. Alex slowly gets up and heads down to the pit while Christina and Meredith head to the elevator.
"So, I hear McDreamy was over last night." Christina says still holding the sutured banana.
"Nothing happened, honestly."
"I Figured seeing as your not well or something, gotten that checked yet?" Christina asked pointing at Meredith with the now rotting banana. Meredith got a whiff of it and ran down the hall to the nearest bathroom to dry heave, going threw the motions as she went. Unfortunately she passed Derek., who waited for her out side. Christina came as well and stated she'd be late so she left to scrub in.
"Don't!"
"I didn't say anything."
Derek kept sneaking concerned looks at her all through the surgery.
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Since Meredith is on-call tonight she is currently finishing up the last patient on her list before going to take a nap. As she subconsciously fills out the last chart, Meredith feels a presence in the doorway. She ignores it as she finishes up,
"Okay Mr. Luetje, you are all set for the night, get some rest and I will see you in the morning.
"Thanks, Dr. Grey," Mr. Luetje replies, closing his eyes as if to get a head start. Meredith smiles down at him and replaces his chart at the end of the bed. When she turns around she's surprisingly not surprised at who it was that was waiting for her to finish up.
"You should get yourself checked you know," Addison suggests following Meredith out the door and down the hall to the nurses station.
"I'll worry about it later, I'm on call tonight." Meredith replies dropping her list of patients. Was Meredith speaking complete sentences to this McDreamy stealer?
"Seeing as your done, why don't you check it out."
Why is she trying to help me? Meredith wonders to herself. She doesn't respond, she just continues down the hall and stops at the elevator.
"Derek is worried about you." Addison confesses more to herself thenMeredith, "I hate seeing him like this, so please just see what's wrong and tell him your okay." So she doesn't care.. Meredith feels a little saddened at her false pretenses.
"Tomorrow, I'm on call right now." Meredith states a bit rudely as she turns away from Addison and heads down the hall. She passes a big cart of medicines as she walks, Addison watching all the while. Suddenly Meredith feels very dizzy and starts to lean, she tries to catch herself on the wall but falls back and bashes her head really hard on the medicine cart and is knocked out cold.
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