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Chapter 3: Get It Right the First Time

VO: First impressions. Some people say they are the most important. Some people just don't care. I'm not one of them I'm just very nervous…

Meredith runs trough the hotel room. She picks up her sports bag and throws it on the bed, what makes Derek wake up.

"Meredith, what are you doing?"

"I'm looking for something to wear."

"God, just go naked. You look good enough naked!"

"Derek. I'm serious! An stop that!"

"Okay, just let me sleep!"

"No you're not going to sleep! You are going to take a shower!" She jumps on the bed and kicks him out. "Hurry" She yelled while he ran to the bathroom before she was going to freak out even more.

As they walked to the car Derek saw Meredith was very nervous and she also was very quiet. He didn't know what to say so he just didn't say anything and they got into the car.

"I'm nervous" Meredith said, she looked at the ground.

"I noticed."

"Well, say something! I mean...to make me less nervous." She said looking up to him.

"She's going to love you!"

"Thanks" She said after a few minutes.

The drive to the hospital was long and Meredith started thinking. To get her sister of her mind. She thought about Derek and Addison's divorce and how close Derek and Meredith were yesterday. She did give up very quick. He hurt her! She decided to take it slow from now on.

"We're there!" Derek said as he drove into the parking lot.

"We are?"

"Yep! Want me to come with you inside?"

Meredith thought about what she promised to herself. Well, to hell with promises. "Yes, please!"

"Sure!" he said, happy he could comfort her.

As they walked into the hospital, Derek saw how nervous Meredith was, again. He wrapped one arm around her and she looked up.

"She is going to love you! How many times do I have to say that?"

Meredith nodded and looked down again. Derek pulled his arm back in case he was going to fast. Meredith was disappointed but she remembered her promise to herself and just kept walking. Meredith walked to the desk and waited for the receptionist.

"Hello, does a Dr Grey work here?" She asked when the receptionist showed up.

"Yes she does. Do you want me to page her for you?"

"Yes please."

"Okay, she will come as soon as possible."

Meredith and Derek sat down in the chairs across the room.

After waiting for about 15 minutes Meredith saw a girl in blue scrubs and blond hair walking to the receptionist. Meredith stood up.

"Meredith?" Derek said confused. He saw her walking towards the girl and decided to stay sitting there.

"SHE asked me to page you" The receptionist pointed to Meredith.

"Dr Grey?" Meredith asked.

"Yes. And who are you?" The girl saw how much she looked like Meredith.

"I'm… uuhm… Meredith"

"Meredith…Meredith!" The girl started walking.

"Emily… Wait on a sec." Meredith just knew it was Emily.

Emily turned around.

"I can't handle this right now Meredith!" She started walking again.

Meredith stopped. "Well, me neither. But when can I?"

Emily turned around again. "Okay, I can talk but not long!" She walked to Meredith ad they walked back to the desk.

"Wait, one moment just going to… I'll be back in a second." Meredith started running towards Derek.

"Derek… I'm just going to talk to Emily… in private, okay?"

"Yeah Mere, just go. I can wait here!"

"Thanks Derek. I own you!"

"No, you don't. GO!"

She waved while she walked away and looked at Emily who stood there very confused.

"Hi, I'm sorry about that!"

"Never mind. I haven't seen you in a long time!"

"I know!"

"Do you want to talk in private?" She pointed to an on call room.

"Yes, that would be nice!" Meredith opened the room and sat on the edge of a bottom-bunk bed. Emily sat down on the other bottom-bunk bed across Meredith.

"So, you're an intern now?" Meredith broke the silence.

"Yeah, just started a week ago."

"Good, do you like it?"

"Yes, haven't seen much of it, tough! What do you do?"

"I'm an intern too, almost a resident!"

"Wow! Where?"

"Seattle Grace Hospital."

"Oh"

"What?"

"I meant with mom and all!" Emily said insecure.

"Mom… is… well, not good! She's sick!"

"Oh, what's her diagnosis?"

"Alzheimer advanced."

"Oh god!"

"Yeah!"

"She told me about you!" Meredith said wanting to know more about Emily.

"She did?"

"And you must have lived with us for a while! But I can't remember you!"

"Yeah, dad told me everything, I couldn't remember you either."

"Mom never told me anything!"

"Oh, Dad took me when they divorced." Meredith could see Emily was nervous.

"But I was five when they divorced, I should have remembered you!"

"When I was 1 mom and dad brought me to some friends they couldn't care for me, they couldn't care for you either but you were already to old, you were already settled."

"Oh my god" She walked to Emily and sat next to her on the bed."

"When mom and dad divorced dad took me back. When I was 16 I moved out to New Jersey. I hated his new girl-friend!" She said while tears were running down her cheek.

Meredith wrapped her arms around her.

"Dad won't speak to me ever since I left. I don't have anyone, until now!"

"Yeah me neither"

"But you have mom!"

"I know it sounds cruel but I sometimes wish I didn't."

"Why?"

"She doesn't even recognise me!" Now tears were running down Meredith's cheeks. "She doesn't live in this time anymore and is rarely lucid!"

"Oh god that must have been hard!"

"Yes, but for you too! Maybe… maybe… We can try to… uuhm… stick together!"

"Of course, now we can. Oh but how. I mean you live all the way in Seattle."

"We can just keep contact. My Airplane is leaving in tomorrow, I must go back to work, and maybe we can have dinner tonight?"

"Okay, of course! That would be nice!"

VO: But sometimes it's not the very, very first impression. You'll have to do it with the second…

"It would!"

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