"Hey where have you been?" Alex asks when Meredith enters the house.
"Sorry, I stopped over to see Arizona and it took longer than I thought," Meredith replies before plopping down on the couch beside him and grabbing his beer.
"That's the last one," Alex grumbles before grabbing it back from her. "And what is going on with you and Robbins?"
"What do you think is going on?" Meredith questions back challenging him to ask again.
"Well, Maggie said something today that got me thinking that you might like Robbins as more than a friend," Alex states before taking a long sip of the beer.
"We're going out tomorrow night, on a date," Meredith informs him.
"You're going out with Robbins on a date," Alex says almost spitting the beer out of his mouth.
"Yep," she replies laughing at him.
"But you're not... wait are you?" Alex blurts out.
"Alex, you don't know everything about me," she challenges.
"Yeah, but that's something that I thought I knew. I mean you and Yang were close and in the beginning we all wondered about you two, but then..."
"But then we were screwing boys like whores on tequila," Meredith finishes for him.
"Your words, I didn't say that," he points out. "Well, I just hope that you guys know what you're doing because I don't want to end up having to pick sides when you two break up," Alex grumbles.
"We're taking it slow, don't worry about it," Meredith retorts before standing up and stretching.
"I'm going up to bed. You can take Amelia's room, now that she is married to Owen, I don't think that she will mind," Meredith points out.
"Okay, but I am going to look for a place of my own this week," he counters.
"Good morning Dr Grey," Arizona says brightly approaching Meredith at the coffee cart.
Meredith rolls her eyes and hands the blonde a cup of coffee. "Light and much too sweet to still be coffee," she quips.
"Oh thank you, Dr Grey," the blonde replies, her blue eyes twinkling happily as she takes a sip.
"Why do you insist on pretending that we are accidentally running into each other?" Meredith asks as they head over to sit on a bench.
"I'm not sure, because you are terrible at this," Arizona retorts holding up the cup of coffee as evidence.
"I told you that I am not going to hide this. Would you please just relax?" Meredith begs playfully.
"I'm trying, but I'm still kind of worried about everything," the blonde admits.
"I can appreciate that. But you are just as big a deal as I am around here," Meredith reminds her.
"Well that is true," Arizona replies feigning smugness, which earns her another eyeroll from the other surgeon.
They sit and drink their coffee a moment, before Meredith leans into her and whispers, "You do know that the residents think that we are immortal, don't you?"
"Well, I don't know about you, but I am actually immortal. I am a vampire surgeon," Arizona whispers back to her.
"I think I saw that movie," Meredith quips.
"Well, this is an interesting sight," Amelia remarks as she nudges Meredith to make room for her on the bench. "When did the two of you get so chummy?" She asks.
"Amelia, don't you have surgery this morning?" Meredith retorts, annoyed by the intrusion.
"It was postponed, secondary infection," she remarks before leaning over her sister-in-law to speak directly to Arizona. "How are you? Everytime I try to find you, you are in the OR or the pit."
"Yeah, well now that they have reinstated Alex my schedule should get back to normal," Arizona remarks.
"What are we going to do about this situation with Webber?" Amelia asks.
"There's nothing wrong with how we were trained. I was trained here and look how I turned out?" Meredith points out.
"Well, you have to admit that not all of our attendings are great teachers," Arizona counters.
"But that doesn't mean the whole system needs to be changed and Richard is a great teacher," Meredith argues. "It was really crappy of Bailey to hire Minnick and force all of us to change."
"Can't we fire her or cancel her contract? We are all on the Board and we have four votes between us, counting Callie. We could hold a quorum and decide right now," Amelia suggests seriously.
"Ever since she took Derek's seat on the board, Amelia is all about holding a quorum," Meredith says turning to the blonde beside her.
"I've noticed," Arizona retorts standing up to leave. "But I don't think a quorum is appropriate. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing this without the full board voting."
"I'll talk to Richard and see if he wants us to call an emergency board meeting to discuss this," Meredith says standing up alongside the blonde.
Arizona realizes that Meredith is about to kiss her goodbye, she panics and stammers, "Uh thanks for the coffee, Meredith... I-I should get going," before rushing off.
Amelia stands up and steps in front of Meredith. "What's going on with you and Robbins," Amelia asks crossing her arms.
"I don't know what you're talking about... wait, have you talked to Maggie?" Meredith asks accusingly.
"No, but if you don't tell me what is going on with you and Robbins, I will," Amelia threatens her playfully.
Inwardly groaning, because although she doesn't want to hide it, she does respect that Arizona isn't ready to have people know. Instead of replying, Meredith rolls her eyes and walks away.
"What do we have?" April asks as the EMT's pull the gurney out of the ambulance.
"24 year old white female, drug overdose," the first one says holding up a bag with a needle in it.
"Do we know what it is?" April asks as she moves in to examine the girl.
"Probably heroin, we've picked up a few others from this same area," the second EMT replies.
"Let's get this to the lab for testing," April says nodding for DeLuca to take it. "Her breathing is really shallow. Take her to trauma room one, I'm going to grab some naloxone," she adds directing them.
"What about the baby?" The first EMT asks.
"What baby?" April asks following them into the trauma room.
"She's pregnant," the second EMT replies pulling aside the blanket so the doctor can see for herself.
"Page Robbins STAT!" April calls out. "I need a portable ultrasound in here!"
Edwards and Wilson roll into the trauma room with the portable ultrasound.
"Wilson, this woman OD'd and she's pregnant, set that up and see if we can save this baby. Edwards, go find Robbins," the trauma surgeon barks.
"I'm here," Arizona says entering the room.
"Twenty-four year old, drug overdose, possibly heroin," April calls out.
"She is really underweight," Arizona remarks as she stands behind Wilson as she begins to run the wand over the woman's abdomen. "Edwards get us an OR, we need to do a c-section now!"
"Are you sure that she's far enough along?" April questions as she comes around to look at the ultrasound screen.
"She's almost full term," Arizona replies. "If we don't get the baby out now, the drugs in her system are going to kill it."
"Edwards, where have you been?" Meredith asks glancing up at the resident.
"I got pulled into a trauma for a minute," the resident explains.
"We need to get this guy into pre-op, he needs a bowel resection yesterday," Meredith says pointing at the screen in front of her. "Call scheduling and book us an OR."
Edwards grabs the phone off the wall and dials the extension. "Dr Grey needs to schedule a bowel resection immediately," she says into the receiver. "Dr Grey, all the ORs are booked. She says that she can get one at 2 pm."
"Give me that phone," Meredith snaps grabbing it from her. "This is Dr Grey, Chief of General Surgery and I have an emergent case that requires surgery now."
"Dr Grey, I understand that, but we already had a full board, and now two traumas just came in and pushed everything around," the scheduler explains.
"I get that you're having trouble prioritizing the board, but I need an OR in the next hour or this patient could die from a perforated bowel," Meredith informs her.
"I'll see what I can do," the woman says sighing heavily.
Meredith hands the phone back to Edwards. "Go ahead and prep him. I'm going to run up there and see just how bad the schedule is."
Eliza Minnick is standing in front of the surgical board trying to sort it out.
"I need that OR," Meredith says pointing to the board.
"Great, which resident will be leading surgeon on the case?" Minnick asks.
"I'm lead surgeon, Edwards is assisting," Meredith replies.
"You're missing the point Dr Grey. If you want to use that OR, then Edwards has to be the lead," Minnick reiterates.
"My patient is going to die of a perforated bowel, is that what you want her to learn?" Meredith retorts angrily.
"Edwards is more than capable of handling a perforated bowel, she'll be lead, you'll assist," Minnick says as she writes it on the board.
"This is ridiculous," Meredith complains.
"Is there a problem?" Bailey asks approaching the heated conversation.
"Yes," Meredith answers.
"No," Minnick answers.
"Which is it, yes or no?" Bailey inquires.
"I was just explaining to Dr Grey that if she wants to book OR 4, which is now the teaching OR, then Edwards will need to be the lead surgeon," Minnick explains.
"My patient needs an emergency bowel resection, this isn't a case for a resident. Anything could happen in there," Meredith points out.
"Exactly why the resident needs to be lead. Surgery doesn't always go as planned, Edwards has great instincts, she can handle this," Minnick counters.
Meredith ignores her and pulls her phone out. "Edwards, OR 4 is ready for us. Meet you there." Ending the call, Meredith shoots them both a glare before rushing off to scrub in.
Minnick smiles smugly. "I knew that this would work," she remarks.
Bailey shakes her head. She knows Meredith Grey better.
"I hope that you're planning to scrub in," Bailey grumbles.
"Why would I need to do that?" Minnick asks.
"Because Dr Grey isn't going to let Edwards lead on this case," Bailey informs her.
"But she just agreed to," Minnick retorts.
"No, she didn't. She just wanted the OR," Bailey snaps before walking away.