A Fresh Start

It was her composer she seemed to have a handle on for a while as she drove away from her family. She drove in a daze to Seattle Grace Hospital to resign from her Internship there, and be transferred into one in Portland Maine. She drove into SGH's parking lot and took a deep breath before getting out of the car and walking in. She took the elevator an finally found herself outside Dr. Richard Webber's Office. She took another deep breath before knocking on the door.

She heard the clearing of someone's throat and then Dr. Webber's voice on the other side

"Come in." Meredith walked into the room. Richard was sitting behind his desk, but his back was facing her. He turned around, "ah Meredith, I am so sorry about your mother.." He seemed pained by the sentence. "So, what did you come to see me for?"

"I got up this morning and decided I want a do over." Richard looked puzzled. Meredith sat down and continued. " I need a new start, I want a transfer..."

"I.." He knew there was no way he could change her mind. This was Meredith he was talking to. She was a Grey. "To where?" He finally asked as he massages his temples.

"Mercy Hospital in Portland..."She said, she had done her research.

"How soon..."

"Um, I was going to leave tonight...I have a flight at 6..." Richard sighed. This was so soon.

"Meredith..."

"I don't want to get into it...if you don't mind. I just want to leave as quietly as possible, no attention drawn...please Dr. Webber." she pleaded with her eyes and he sighed again.. He pressed the intercom and his secretary's voice was heard.

"Can you get Portland Maine, Mercy Hospital on the line?"

"What's this regarding?"

He hesitated and gave Meredith a last look to resign her wishes. He got no further then before and said, "The transfer of Dr. Grey's Internship."

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She sat in row 4b second class to Boston Massachusetts. Dr. Webber had arranged for a pick up to drive her to a Portland hotel. A long flight ahead of her. She felt tired as she sat in her seat by the window looking out. She's been in the air for only an hour but it seemed like much longer.

"I cannot believe I'm actually doing this." She says to herself.

"Running away?" A women said from a row next to her. She appeared to be in her late forties.

"I guess you could say that." Meredith replied, rolling her head to look at the other speaker.

The women chuckled, "So, what brings you from Seattle?"

"A life I want to start over. A re do as you will." Meredith quoted her friends very words. "What about you?"

I'm visiting my daughter in Kennebunk Maine, It's her birthday soon. You see, she would have come out herself but she's 6 month pregnant."

"Oh! What's the sex?"

"A boy, she's going to name him Skyler."

"That's a nice name."

"Yeah, she's had that named picked out ever since she was a little girl...I had her name picked out when I was young...Annabelle, It's beautiful isn't it?"

"It is."

"Do you have names?"

"Me? No...Not that I hadn't thought about it...I just don't see myself with child. I donno."

"Well, I see you as the mother type."

"Thank you..." I guess... Meredith yawns.

"Don't do that!" the women says, "they are..." She then yawns herself, "contagious!" Meredith laughs. "I guess we are both tired." The women responds as she closes her eyes. Meredith takes that as the end of their conversation and closes her won eyes, rolling her head back towards the window. Soon sleep follows.

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Meredith woke up to a slight poke of her side. She opened her eyes and looked up at the women she had talked to before falling asleep.

"Tired huh? Well the plane is about to land. Thought I'd let you know, don't want the plane to take off with you still on it." Meredith smiled and rubber her eyes. She sat up in her seat and looked out as the plane descended. She was actually there, going through with it. The plans were set and mercy Hospital was waiting for her arrival tomorrow morning. It was now ten at night.

Meredith got off the plane and waited at baggage claim for her suitcase. Five minutes later she spotted it and walked outside the airport to look for her ride. She didn't see anyone with a sign with her name on it so she stood there for a while.

"I see you actually went through with this." The lady from the plane was standing on the curb next to her.

"I know, I am baffled myself." Meredith replied.

"Hey, I'm Maura," Maura stuck out her hand and Meredith shook it.

"Meredith."

"Nice to meet you Meredith...Well, here is my ride."

"It was nice meeting you."

"You too, and good luck wit your do over." Meredith smiled to herself and Maura got into the car that had pulled up in front of them.

Meredith stood on the curb alone. Finally she saw a car pull up and a man step out with a sign saying "Dr. Grey." she walked over to him.

"You Dr. Meredith grey?" The man asked.

"Yes." she said. He took her bag and put it in the trunk and opened the door for her. She got in and the door shut after her. They pulled away from the curb and drove on through Boston. The place she knew to well. The driver dropped her off at a Motel 6 and said he'd be back at 6 the next morning. Meredith walked into the motel and checked into her room.

Once in her room Meredith stripped from her clothes and jumped into the shower. She then put on a long T-Shirt, set her watch alarm to 5:30 AM and sunk into the bed and fell asleep.

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Meredith was up and ready by the time the driver picked her up for 6. She got in the car while the man put her suitcase in the trunk. It was about a 2 and a half hour drive from Boston to Portland. All Meredith could do was stare out the window, waiting in anticipation.

The car finally pulled up to another motel 6 around 8:30am. She needed to get situated in her room. Ten minutes later she left again in the car, heading straight to her new work. Mercy Hospital looked pleasant. Not as extravagant as Seattle Grace but she would get used to it. She walked up to the first nurses station that came in sight.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Meredith Grey, I was just transferred from Seattle Washington." Meredith told a nurse behind the counter by the name of Stella.

"Yes, I'll page Dr. Morrison, she's been waiting for you." Meredith waited for only a minute or so when a tall brunette in her late thirties walked up in dark blue scrubs and a white lab coat.

"Dr. Grey. It's nice to finally meet you. Dr. Webber as said nothing but wonderful things about you.," She was a very cheerful lady, a big change from Bailey. "Anyway! Lets show you around and you can meet the other interns. Also, I don't see why you can't start today."

"No problem, I'm up for it." Meredith was, she was ready to get this new life started.

She followed Dr. Morrison, whose first name was Maria, down the hall.

"These are all the on-call rooms you obviously know how to use them. Actually, you know all the rules no need to go over them. You will learn soon enough how I work. Now, lets me the others shall we?" They walked down another hall and came to another nurses station. There they stood for a minute as she paged them all.

There were 4 in all, like back at home. 2 guys 2 girls.

"This is Anna," Dr. Morrison gestured to a red head. "And Kelly," then to the blonde beside Anna.

"Hi, I'm Tyler," a browned haired, very attractive intern stuck out his hand. He had a flirtatious grin on his face. Meredith shook it.

"Flirt much?" Anna asked. Tyler gave her a look.

"Oh yeah, this is Steven." Meaning the guy standing next to him. This one had black hair, clean cut. Both guys were equally attractive. Maybe it wont take me that long to get over Derek. Meredith thought to herself looking at these to interns

"Now that you are all acquainted...Anna, stick With Meredith today, show her the ropes. Meredith, you'll be off at 9 tonight, don't want to over do it the first day." With that, Dr. Morrison left them alone.

"Actually I was on my way to a patient when I got paged so lets go." Anna said giving Meredith the chart she was holding.

"Okay." Meredith said. She was on her way to a fresh start.

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Meredith had a great first day. All the other interns were very nice, she could get used to this. Since it was only 7 in Seattle, Meredith picked up the bedside phone of her motel room and dialed her own house. It felt weird.

"Hey Izzie? It's me Meredith."

Okay. I see this as a huge story...only thing is, where are all my reviews? Come on guys, it can't be that bad!