"I mean she makes up this excuse saying that you need her and walks off. I swear she's hiding something. I just don't know what it is," Meredith and Christina were sitting at the nurse's station doing post-op notes with two of their interns. Both residents were trying to keep their voices down so the interns wouldn't know what they were talking about.
"I don't know Mer. She kept on avoiding eye contact with me when we were down in the pit. I think she thinks that if I look at her, I'll turn her into stone," both residents laughed silently.
"Uh, Dr. Yang…am I doing this right?" Christina and Meredith looked up to see Christina's scrawny intern holding his post-op notes up in front of her.
"My god Roberts it's only post-op notes… Wait, let me see those," Christina grabbed the notes from her intern's hands and started to skim them. Suddenly she shoved them back at them.
"Do them again,"
"CHRISTINA!" Meredith saw her friend's intern look down at his notes, almost in tears.
"What? They were horrible! If the Chief ever saw those he would have not only his head but MINE!"
"Christina, you really need to get some sleep. You took over for me, I'll take over for you,"
"Mer-"
"Christina," Meredith gave her best friend "the" look.
"Fine!" Christina got up and walked away. Meredith turned her attention to Christina's intern. He was staring down at his notes.
"Here, look over mine. I need to redo them anyway. I'll be right back," Meredith got up and walked away. She looked back to see both interns diligently at work. Now I know I wasn't that worried about my post-op notes laughed Meredith as she walked down the hallway to go check up on her other interns along with Christina's. She walked into the first room that she assigned to her intern. Michael Urza was standing there looking over his patient's chart. Meredith saw that he was having trouble, but she wanted him to figure it out for himself. Quietly she walked into the room and over to her intern's shoulder. She began to read the patient's chart. She knew what this patient had. She had the same kind of patient when she was an intern, but in his case it was nuero. Here it was cardiological. But she wanted to make sure her intern knew what this patient had.
"So, Dr. Urza, what's the prognosis?"
Urza jumped up at the sound of his resident's voice,
"Dr. Grey, I-I,"
"You didn't see me there? We'll I'm everywhere Urza, whether you like it or not. I see your every move," Meredith said this with a big smile on her face. "So, what's his prognosis?"
"Um, uh, you see Dr. Grey, he's uh,"
"You have no clue do you?"
The intern shook his head. Meredith sighed,
"I'll give you a hint, but only because I'm in a good mood today. Take him down to get a CT scan. Show them to Dr. Burke first. Then page me and show them to me. We'll go from there."
"Dr. Burke, Dr. Grey? I though Dr. Shepherd-"
"No, Dr. Burke, Urza, now get this patient down to the CT room now,"
Meredith turned and left the room. She turned slightly to see her intern sigh a big sigh of relief.
"Giving intern's advice huh Grey? What are you going to do when in surgery? Tell them where to cut?"
"Dr. Bailey!" Meredith spun around to see Bailey standing right behind her.
"I heard you Grey. Next time I see you doing that, you'll be back under my supervision. And yes I can do that. You may be a resident now, but your still an intern in my eyes," Bailey turned and walked off. Meredith sighed and continued on her "rounds". As she walked down the hall she was drawn to an on-call room that she was approaching. Meredith decided to follow her instincts. To be polite she knocked on the door, but there was no response. Quietly she opened the door
"Hello?" Meredith peaked her head into the room. There on the bed she saw Alex and Emily; making out.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Meredith screamed. Alex and Emily jumped in the air, hitting their heads on the top bunk.
"YOU! YOU'RE A RESIDENT! YOU KNOW BETTER!" Meredith directed her anger towards Alex first.
"It's not what it looks like-," said Alex trying to defend himself
"Oh it's not? Hmmm, what are you showing her CPR! God Dammit Alex, she's an intern, nether less MY HALF-SISTER!"
"OH SO IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR YOU GREY? YOU SLEPT WITH AN ATTENDING AS AN INTERN! YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT NOW DID YOU?"
Meredith started to fume when hearing Alex's remark
"HOW DARE YOU…. YOU-"
"Meredith-"
"Oh, and don't let me get started on YOU Emily! Bailey will be hearing about this, and you better hope she doesn't tell the Chief!" Meredith turned and slammed the door behind her. This week wasn't turning out that great for her.
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Meredith finally finished her first shift with her interns. Exhausted, she walked across the street to Joe's. She sat down at her usual place and ordered the usual. The "door bell" rang and Meredith turned around to see Derek walk in. He smiled her his McDreamy smile and sat down next to Meredith, kissing her on the top of the head.
"Hey," she whispered to him
"I heard you today. So yelling down the hall is your favorite past time now?" Derek laughed. Meredith just gave him a look.
"No. I caught Alex Karev making out with Emily. I told Bailey. I had to, no matter how much I didn't want to. I feel bad now,"
"I don't blame you. I mean look at us. You were an intern sleeping with the attending. A resident and a intern isn't that big of a deal,"
"I know, but Alex should have know better, and Emily needs to know the rules. Am I turning into a Nazi too?"
"Umm," Derek and Meredith laughed as he pulled her closer to him. The door opened again. Both Dr.'s turned around to see Emily enter the bar. She saw Meredith and automatically left.
"I'll be right back. If you don't see me in 20 minutes, then meet me at my house," whispered Meredith to Derek as she got up and left. Meredith entered the cool Seattle night.
"EMILY!" Meredith tried to get her half-sister's attention. Emily looked back, but then kept on walking,
"EM!"
"WHAT? Come to yell at me again? Or are you going to tell me that you saw me kissing Dr. Burke too?"
"No…WHAT?"
"I was kidding,"
"Oh. No look I wanted to talk to you. Can we?" Meredith caught up with her half-sister.
"Why?"
"Because I do. It's not going to be about mom. I just want to tell you something. C'mon, let's go down by the ferryboats and we'll talk. I have this thing for ferry boats," Meredith flashed Emily a smile and the two sisters started to walk together.
"So, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"Okay, First I'm sorry for yelling at you today. I just wanted to keep you safe, and not make the same mistake I did,"
"What?"
Meredith sighed, "Okay, this is kinda hard to say. And it's kinda long,"
"I've got time,"
"Okay. The night before my first day as an intern, I got drunk. This really hot guy walked in and he got drunk too. I brought him back to my place and we slept together. Well, I got up, kicked him out in 30 seconds and headed towards SGH. I got assigned to Bailey and started my rounds. Well, my patient required me to work with the neurosurgeon: Dr. Shepherd, which turned out to be my one "night stand,""
"Really?"
"Ya, but let me finish. I tried to stop the relationship before it started, but I began to fall for him, and he began to fall for me. If word ever got out that I was sleeping with the attending, I would be kicked out in a heartbeat. Well, because how fast gossip travels, everyone found out. What I didn't know is that he was married, and she found out too. I think you know her. Dr. Montgomery." Meredith heard Emily gasp beside her.
"Yes, her. Well, he kinda dumped me. But he was still in love with me. She gave him divorce papers, but he didn't sign them. He wanted to try to make their marriage work. Well, about 5 months ago, we had a prom thing here. Dr. Shepherd and me slept in an examination room. Soon, he figured out that he loved me. Partly because I tried to kill myself, and was admitted to SGH for like a month, but that's another story. Anyway the moral of this story is that if you start a relationship, it's going to start to spiral downwards. I don't want what happened to you, what happened to me. Dr. Karev is a jackass. You don't anything to do with him. He hurt one of my best friends. Trust me; find someone away from the hospital. You understand?"
"I think so. But, what ever happened to you and Dr. Shepherd,"
"He signed the divorce papers, and he came running back to me. Now, we're kind of an item. But, trust me, if you try to make it work with Alex Karev, you're just going to end up getting hurt,"
"Okay, thanks Meredith,"
"No problem. Now c'mon. You really need to get some sleep. 5:30 rounds start early, especially with Christina Yang," both girls laughed as they walked back to Joe's.
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Meredith opened the door of her house to see Izzy, George, Christina, and Derek on the couch, drinking and watching her mother's old surgery tapes. No one heard the door open or close.
"Hey everyone. What are we watching,"
"Oh, HI MER!" yelled Christina obviously drunk. Meredith looked to see Christina holding an empty bottle of Tequila.
"Oh my. Christina, c'mon. You got interns in the morning. Go sleep in the Guestroom"
"Aww Mer,"
"Christina…."
Christina unwillingly got up from the couch and climbed the stairs to the Guestroom.
"How come she's not with Burke?" asked Meredith as she sat down next to Derek, who wasn't quite as drunk as Christina was,
"He's on call tonight," he answered as he kissed Meredith on cheek.
"So Mer, how are the interns?" asked George, who was also drinking, but not drunk
"Don't ask please. I'm sure you're having better luck then me," she said with a big sigh, "You're so lucky Izz. You don't have interns,"
"No, but working with Addison, is hell in it's own," said Izzy with a tired sound in her voice. "It's like she's PMSing everyday! "
"Awww, I'm sorry. Well, I'm going to bed, stupid interns. Night!" Meredith got up and so did Derek. Eh, why not? What can if hurt? I need someone tonight. Meredith didn't even bother yelling at Derek. She was too tired to take off her underwear. She just threw off her scrubs and climbed into bed. Derek did the same. That night, they made love like never before.
