Title: Spiral
Author: MissMouseMD
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
A/N: Okay, so I'm kind of keeping you hanging. But you'll find out where Meredith is, in good time. This is mostly the reactions of her friends. In the next chapter, I'm going to try to have more of Derek, Finn, and maybe Addison or Burke. And this chapter contains Badass!Bailey. Enjoy, and please tell me what you think.
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Izzie
Meredith always did know how to get herself into sticky situations.
Dating a married man, crying during sex, and getting her hand stuck in a body with a freaking bomb in it.
And now she's gone missing.
Really, it amazes her that no one's sent the girl to therapy already.
Izzie Stevens is a nice girl.
She's a pretty girl.
She cleans obsessively and she cranks out the baked goods.
And maybe she's been in a state of depression for the past month, but she has a reason.
Her boyfriend died. No, not her boyfriend.
Her fiancé.
So she has a reason to be a little blue.
But all Meredith did was screw a married man.
And yes, okay, she cheated on her boyfriend.
And yes, okay, she's in the middle of a nasty love triangle that is now more of a quadrilateral.
But, honestly.
Meredith's completely lost it.
She doesn't know for sure what happened to make that mirror break.
But she's got an idea.
And it scares her.
Because if Meredith is that screwed up, who knows what she'll do without any supervision at all.
She tries to think of all the places Meredith would go.
She's not at Finn's.
It's too early for a bar.
She's probably not at the hospital. (Note to self: call Cristina to find out for sure)
She could be at Derek's. (Probably not, though, since she hasn't spoken to him since Prom night)
She could be visiting her mother. (Except Meredith doesn't exactly get along with her mother and whenever she comes back from seeing her she drinks a lot of tequila and locks herself in the bathroom)
Damn it, why did she have to be such a tragedy magnet?
Why couldn't Meredith be nice, like her?
Sighing, she picks up the phone.
"Hey, Cristina? It's Izzie. Have you seen Meredith today?"
"Oh, George is there already?"
She wonders how many red lights he ran.
"Okay, well, call me if you guys find her. Bye."
She hangs up the phone, and goes upstairs to change.
If she's going to go on a mad search for Meredith, she probably shouldn't do it in her pj's.
She manages to get washed and dressed in record time.
As she starts her car and prepares to drive to Derek's, she wonders why someone always has to rescue Meredith Grey.
Cristina
She can't believe Meredith.
How stupid can you get?
First, she sleeps with her (married) ex-boyfriend.
Then she goes into a kind of trance for about a month.
Then she goes and smashes her hand into a mirror.
And finally, now Meredith has managed to disappear.
If it was anyone else, no one would care.
But since it's Meredith, and since she's been demonstrating semi-suicidal tendencies lately, everybody's freaking out.
Her included.
Admittedly, deep down.
Very deep down.
But she can't help it; she's not an emotional person.
She pushes emotions away in favor of professionalism and aloofness.
And contrary to all appearances, she is scared shitless that Meredith's gone and done something particularly stupid.
George
He can't ever remember feeling this worried in his entire life.
He was pretty scared when Rover ran away in the second grade, but this is different.
Meredith means more to him than his old dog.
And he probably shouldn't be comparing the two, since Rover ended up being steamrollered by the neighbor's car.
Damn it, George. Be positive.
He tries to think of somewhere good that she could have gone, and fails.
Damn it.
Damn it.
Damn it.
Alex
He's not worried.
Of course he isn't worried.
Alex Karev, asshole extraordinaire, does not get worried.
Because if you're worried about someone, it usually means you care.
And 'caring' isn't a word people generally associate with him.
'Cruel', 'ass', and 'despicable', yes.
Caring, no.
Worried, definitely not.
So he keeps telling himself that he's not worried.
And he's definitely not in denial, either.
Of course not.
Bailey
Right now, she would very much like to take a tire iron to McDreamy's perfect face.
And whoever else contributed to The Screwing Up Of Meredith Grey.
She has a kid.
A baby boy.
And she has trouble leaving him with his father at home for five minutes.
Needless to say, leaving him at work is almost physically painful.
So she can't for the life of her empathize with Meredith's parents.
Her father left her.
Her mother ignored her.
And, technically, they aren't to be blamed for this mess.
But they sure as hell contributed.
And her interns are like her children.
She may yell at them and call them suck ups and work them until they're almost crying from exhaustion, but it's for their own good.
And she's very protective of her children.
So she will find Meredith Grey.
And in the mean time, it would probably be best for Derek Shepherd to stay the hell out of her way.
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