Update: The next several chapters are titled from songs that have been featured in the show, or songs I believe should be included in the show.

Chapter 3: Dirty Little Secret

...And now I try hard to make it,

I just wanna make you proud.

I'm never gonna be good enough for you,

Can't pretend that I'm all right...

And you can't change me...

Emily awoke to the sound of her phone, the melody of "Perfect" by Simple Plan. She groaned; she knew it was her mother. She opened up her cell phone realizing she forgot to change the time for set time zones. It was 6:00 in New York, but merely 3:00 in the morning in Seattle.

"Hello?"

"Emily this is your mother... What's wrong? You sound tired. Anyways, I came by your place yesterday but you weren't there."

"Yea...I went on vacation to visit one of my college friends in Seattle. I'll be back in a couple of weeks."

"Oh well, OK, have you spoken to your brother? I still can't reach him."

"Yea he came with me on vacation, he needed some time off. Look Mom, I have to go. It's 3:00 in the morning here. I'll talk to you later in the week."

"OK Bye."

Emily closed her phone and decided to get up early for her first day of work. She rolled out of bed, and grabbed her clothes and got dressed. She quietly walked down to the kitchen, snatched a piece of cute little puppy stationery, and left a note on her bedroom door, "Went out, see you later, Emily" She realized that she would need a lease or rental on a car for the time being, so she sprinted down the long blocks of Magnolia Avenue, until she reached the hospital and a strip of local car dealerships. The nearest automotive dealer closest to the hospital happened to be Toyota, so she made a note to herself to stop their after her shift was done, and use her debit card (luckily a couple months before she left, she won the New York Lottery of $100,000 and decided to put half of it in her checking account).

Emily sprinted back over to the hospital and entered the intern locker room; no one was there. She swiftly grabbed a pair of scrubs and redressed, locked her new locker and ran to search for Dr. Miranda Bailey, her new resident.

Emily power-walked to the lobby's main desk and asked where she could find Dr. Bailey (because she was her new intern). Just then, a short, plump but spunky woman approached the desk, her face brown like chocolate and her eyes pierced with authority and impatience. The receptionist at the front desk pointed her out for Emily, and then strongly spoke to her, "Good morning Miranda. How are you this morning?" Dr. Bailey smirked and replied, "Just dandy Melissa, just waiting for people to show up." She stood around the vicinity of the lobby long enough for Emily to catch her.

"Dr. Bailey?"

Dr. Bailey turned around and acknowledged her,

"Yes?"

Emily proudly introduced herself to the resident, because she knew that everyone knew her brother, Dr. Derek Shepherd was a fantastic brain surgeon.

"My name is Emily Shepherd...I'm a new intern in the program here. Dr. Webber told me to report to you today."

Dr. Bailey continued to stare at her; the intern's name echoing in her head, Shepherd...Shepherd...Shepherd...

"Did he? Well I suppose, you'll be like a replacement, for an intern who has been recently been asked to leave from the program. I hope you'll be an improvement...Shepherd..."

Dr. Bailey scoffed and thought to herself,

"Wonderful...another Shepherd in this hospital...that's all I need."

She cleared her throat and continued the conversation.

"Yes well I'll get you a pager after rounds. I'll be starting rounds in about an hour, so be ready..." The doctor paused, then continued,

"I assume you have a relation to the Dr. Shepherd here, the brain surgeon?"

"Yes ma'am, my brother. He's a great doctor isn't he?"

"Yeah...that's not all he's great at," Dr. Bailey said under her breath.

Dr. Bailey remembered the couple of nights before, when she found Dr. Shepherd in his car, having sex with her intern, Meredith Grey. She slowly returned to reality and continued the conversation.

"So...you gonna be staying in Seattle then?"

"For as long as it takes...I'm staying at a place not too far from here, it's nice...So, have you seen my brother around?"

"Uh...no. Oh! Dr. Shepherd, right. No, he usually comes in around 5 or so."

"OK then. Where do rounds start?"

"Oh, um, as soon as the rest of my interns come in, I'll have one of them show you around."

"All right, thank you."

Dr. Bailey simply nodded.

It was about 4:30 in the morning. Meredith, Izzie and George climbed out of her rustic blue Jeep and walked towards the hospital. They started up a conversation on their way in; Izzie began,

"So Emily seems nice right? I wonder where she went though, so early in the morning."

"Yea...she seems quiet, and polite and...nice." George pointed out.

Meredith nodded and continued, "Well I'm just glad I got a roommate who doesn't work at the hospital..." She began to say "She's Derek's sister," but quickly stopped herself, and ignored the statement floating around in her mind. Meredith drove into the hospital parking lot with two of the three of her roommates inside. Izzie and George ran ahead to the hospital as soon as they saw they were late for rounds. As Meredith climbed out of her car, grabbing her bag, a silver Lexus rolled into the parking space right next to her. She knew it was intentional...because it was Derek.

"Good morning, Dr. Grey" he spoke in a polite and appropriate manner.

"Dr. Shepherd." Meredith replied, looking to the ground and walking past him towards the hospital.

"That's all I get? No 'Good morning' or 'Hi!'?" Derek caught up with her, trying to find out what was wrong.

"Look I can't talk right now."

"Are you avoiding me? Because of Bailey?"

"Yes! Bailey isn't speaking to me anymore. I don't know what to do."

They entered the hospital and walked to the elevator. "Listen, don't worry about it. I'll handle her." Derek calmed her down, but Meredith bounced back and became more anxious after glancing at her watch, "I'm late." She left him waiting at the elevator. Meredith crash-coursed into the intern locker room and saw a lock on Alex's old locker. She ignored it, having no time to consider what this meant. As she got undressed and jumped into her scrubs, she heard the door bang behind her and saw Cristina a little bit more excited than usual.

"You're late." Meredith pointed out to her.

"So are you..." Cristina replied, snapping back.

"I'm DEAD, Bailey knows. I should end it right?"

"Don't worry about it now. Worry about it when something actually happens...So I hear there's a new intern replacing Alex...The nerve of him, coming into the program, when he didn't even pass the test," Cristina scoffed, "He made me sick. So I wonder what he's like, and where he went to grad school. Gotta know the competition. Anyway, he better not get in my way, that's all I'm saying."

Meredith complied, "I agree. I have enough on my plate as it is. I don't need another person to worry about. Let's go."

Meredith and Cristina both ran out of the locker room in search for Dr. Bailey. They found her at the top of the steps talking to the new intern. All they could see was that it was a girl with long, dark brown hair; she was facing in the opposite direction. Izzie and George joined with them and watched the Nazi talk with the new intern. Dr. Bailey noticed the crowding behind the both of them and saw the rest of her interns congregating by the top of the stairs. She turned around and cleared her throat,

"You're all late...Dr. Grey..." she smiled.

Meredith was amazed that she was actually speaking to her. Maybe she wouldn't have to worry about Bailey after all, like Derek said. Dr. Bailey continued,

"Please familiarize her with the work areas. This is my new intern and your fellow doctor, Dr. Shepherd."

Emily turned around surprised to see Meredith, George and Izzie standing right in front of her. Both Meredith and Izzie allowed their mouths to gape wide open. George laughed cluelessly, and blurted out,

"That's not Dr. Shepherd...Dr Shepherd's a guy! Anyway, that's Emily, our roommate, right, Meredith?"

George looked at Meredith, Meredith simply spoke in a monotone, flat voice,

"She's his sister."

Emily smiled innocently at the three of them.

"Get a move on people!" Dr. Bailey shouted to the heavens.

Everyone snapped out of the melodramatic situation and followed her, Meredith running to catch up with Emily.

Emily stopped in her tracks when she saw her brother, the other Dr. Shepherd, to her right, waiting at the elevator. She didn't want to leave the group, but she didn't want him to find out about it, without her telling him, AND without him freaking out and making a scene.

"Uh Meredith...I'll catch up with you later."

Meredith nodded, then shrugged to herself and walked on. Emily rushed to catch the elevator, since it was closing. She sprinted to make it and slide between the elevator door; and stood to see Derek standing there, his eyes were surprised to see who was standing in front of him.

"Emily! What are you doing here?"

"What? You're not happy to see me?"

"I am, but I'm at work right now. You should come to visit when I'm off from my shift,"

Derek paused. He finally noticed her outfit, which was blue scrubs and a white coat.

"...I'm not visiting. Dr. Webber assigned me to Dr. Bailey...as a new intern of the program here at Seattle Grace. Look..."

Just then, an echoing beep came from the elevator and the doors slid open.

"We're at work now. Let's talk about why you're here later."

Emily followed her brother down the hallway and calmly and professionally walked into the third room on the right. Emily positioned in the back of the room as Derek walked around to the other side of the room. Dr. Bailey and the others walked in, just a few moments afterward.

"Good morning, Mr. Levangie. I'm Dr. Shepherd and this is Dr. Bailey and her fine staff of surgical interns."

Derek glanced at Emily, standing in the back, then at Meredith, smiled, and then at Miranda and immediately looked back down at Mr. Levangie's chart. Dr. Bailey began rounds,

"Who's presenting?"

George spoke up,

"Edward Levangie is a 63-year old man admitted for pain management for Dyskinesia. He's been stable since last night and responding well to the bolus injections."

Dr. Bailey interjected,

"Izzie, possible treatments?"

Izzie closed her eyes and thought,

"For Parkinson's? Um..."

Derek interrupted,

"Not for Parkinson's. For spinal pain."

She didn't know that.

"Does anyone know the possible treatments for spinal pain?"

Derek glanced at Meredith, then at Emily. Meredith hesitated. And then spoke up, speaking at the same time as another intern,

"Intraspinal catheter."

"Good, Dr. Shepherd and...Dr. Grey. And why is this used as an effective treatment?"

Both replied at the same time again.

"He can have constant pain medication."

"Excellent. Mr. Levangie, this is Dr. Shepherd and Dr. Grey. Dr. Grey is going to prep you and assist along with Dr. Shepherd."

His beeper suddenly went off and he was forced to leave, and head for the elevator.

Dr. Bailey looked down in disbelief, "Keep yourselves busy, I'll catch up with you." She left her interns behind and headed for the elevator. She was pissed, Meredith glanced at Emily and acknowledged her, then whispered to Cristina,
"I should worry now, right?"

"Hell yeah."

Hope you liked. Sorry it took so long to update, been busy. Please do R&R and I'll try to update ASAP.