I'm making a change because earlier I stated that Addison gave Emma up for adoption because she is broken up and lost all touch with McSteamy, per her mother's wishes and she is seventeen but now Bizzy is the one who made her give Emma up because she didn't want her daughter to have a Sloan's child and was afraid that she was going to give up everything for a baby. That will be explored more later on.
I was thinking about the abortion story-line so I decided to change it like when Addison gets pregnant by Mark for the second time, she did want his baby thinking it was a second chance as she was forced to give up their girl for adoption and she did not want McDreamy's kid, she wanted the guy she really loved's baby again. But then she saw him with Charlene and we know what happens next.
The story begins with a flashback of another doctor finding out Maddison are back together for good.
In this chapter, some of the guys go on a camping trip again, there are bizarre medical cases, and McSteamy makes the residents do stuff for him. I bet it's gonna be fun to write.
Shall we jump into the story?
Three of the doctors are looking for a spare apartment, that belonged to a nude man before.
"Oh my God! I love this apartment! Isn't it perfect?! I can't believe I never realized how great it is!" Owen said.
"Well that is because your eye immediately goes to the big naked man." Meredith smiles.
"It's amazing! You better hurry up and fill out an application or I'm gonna beat you to it." April replied as she shot her mentor a look.
Owen starts laughing. "Ohh." April takes a couple of steps to the door and Owen quickly hurries out.
"Well, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm gonna go use the Naked Guy's bathroom." Meredith goes into the bathroom.
April looks at the window. "Oh, look! There's Addison and Mark!" she starts yelling, "Hey! Hey, you guys! Hey!" Mark and Addison start taking each other's clothes off. "Ohh! Ohh! Ahh-ahhh!" April shrieked as Meredith appears back from the bathroom.
"What?!" Meredith questions.
April is screaming. "Ahhh! Mark and Addison! Mark and Addison!"
"Oh my God!"
"MARK AND ADDISON!"
"OH MY GOD!"
"OH! MY EYES! MY EYES!"
"April! April! It's OK! It's OK, Kepner!"
"NO! THEY'RE DOING IT!"
"I KNOW! I KNOW! I KNOW!"
"YOU KNOW?!"
"Yes, I know! And Alex knows! But nobody else knows so you have to stop screaming!"
Owen entering. "What's going on?" he asks.
"Ohhh!" the women yell.
Meredith is trying to divert his attention from the window by jumping up and down. "HI! Hi!" she greets.
"What?! What?!"
"Nothing! Oh God, we're just so excited that you want to get this apartment for all of us!" Meredith jumps in front of him.
"Actually, it looks really good." Owen turns towards the window and now April starts jumping to divert his attention.
April screams incoherently. "Get in here, Hunt!" she motions to join her and Meredith.
Owen starts jumping and screaming incoherently, hops over, and joins in on the group hug.
[-]
Cristina has her mouth full of cereal. "Move over." she said.
"What the hell?" Mark grunted as he turned over and saw that Addison's side of the bed was empty and that the resident was in her spot.
"I couldn't sleep all night, I'm bored." Cristina explained. "Really bored." a dog is barking the distance.
"Oh, don't kid yourself. Call Hunt." Mark suggests in a low, incoherent, tired mumble.
"No."
"Then try the internet like everybody else."
"For porn?"
"For dating. Find somebody else to get horny with. I have a girlfriend who I'm going to propose to soon."
"Oh, she's passed out with her friends." Cristina said. "Again. Did she ever sleep with you again? Did you guys have sex again, and it was awful this time? Was Satan awful?" She questioned and laid the cereal box on the nightstand.
"No." Mark replies quickly.
"Were you awful, and now you're so ashamed you can't even look at her?"
"No."
"Ooh, was it weird? Is she a man?" Cristina smirks. "Ooh, secret penis." she added as her whole face lite up.
"Shut up!" Mark hit her with a pillow.
"Well, why don't you guys still sleep together?"
"We do!"
"Ohh. You two haven't done it in a month."
"We did last night."
"Oh, you do done it?"
"We have."
"Oh-oh, you have? You do?"
"We... we-we-we do."
"OK."
" Oh... we do! Just get out!" Mark shooed her out of the room as he covered his face with the pillow to block out the sun and noise.
"OK, hmm. OK. Just think about that." Cristina exhales deeply, "Because it's been, like, a week and you haven't closed the deal." she picks up her cereal box. "What have you done to McSteamy?" she left the room.
Owen is at the apartment, packing.
"You're going camping?" Cristina asks.
"With Shepherd, yes." Owen replied as he folded some pants and put them in the suitcase.
"With the camping on the ground and everyone peeing behind the same bush."
"With the fresh air." he supplies.
"We have back-to-back CABG's. I booked the OR's." she informed him.
"I cancelled the OR's."
"Why?"
"Cause I'm going camping with Shepherd."
"But why?"
"Ah, men being men. Mountain men. Men in the wild." Derek said as he was picking up Owen, in the next scene.
"Ah the road not taken. The uncharted course. Terra incognita." Owen sat further into his seat. "But we do have to make one stop..." They pick up Richard.
"Mountain men in the wild. Terra incognita. You know, this is my second camping trip." Richard stated.
"Oh you don't say." Derek turns to the passenger seat. "So Hunt, any other little surprises?" Next they all go to pick up everybody else.
"OK, sunscreen, your insect repellent, and you're going to need a shovel to bury your poop." Lexie said.
"Little Grey, I'm not five." Jackson tells her. "Zip me If Cristina calls... tell her... I'm a mountain man... man of the wild, right Dr. Shepard?" he jokingly added the last part.
Owen walked in. "OK, him I invited." he points out.
"Lexie baked us treats!" Jackson exclaims.
"Have fun with your... space... or whatever." Meredith grins.
At Joe's, Joe is bringing his husband along.
"I just said we needed an extra tent. Do you think Joe misunderstood?" Derek asks.
"Do you want to follow us, or should we follow you?" Joe answered, as Owen mumbles something.
Alex entered, "Hey guys."
"That wasn't me, I swear." Jackson insists.
At the hospital, Callie, Mark, and Arizona have an exchange of glances as Mark gets coffee in a break room. Addison speed-walked over as she is holding Caleb.
"Do you know where Mark went, I haven't seen him all day?" Addison asks.
"Right in there." Callie pointed to the break room.
"Hey, Red." Mark greeted as he saw his redhead.
Addison ignored him and threw Caleb into his arms. "Take him, I had him all day." she said.
"And I have to see a patient."
"Then he will just have to go to back to daycare." she started to take the little boy from his arms but he stops her.
"I'll take him back."
"Love you."
"Love you too." he planted a kiss on her lips before exiting.
In the next scene, Lexie, Cristina and Meredith are standing near the OR board.
"Derek's camping again. Taking time, getting space." Meredith said.
"Owens do not go into the woods. A guy named Owen is going to get his ass kicked by a squirrel and so is a guy named Jackson." Cristina looked at the board then at the floor.
"It's basically a slumber party. We do it inside, they do it outside. That's the only difference." Lexie mutters as Mark walks up, baby-free.
"Have you seen what's his face?" Mark questions as he thought about the surprise he was planning.
"Alex Karev." Lexie tells him.
"Poor bastard seems to get a thrill out of tagging along after me." Mark snickered.
"He's camping." Meredith answered.
"Well in that case how would you like to get a thrill out of tagging along after me?"
"Dr. Bailey makes the assignments."
Bailey walks up. "Dr. Bailey says it's fine. Go. Little Grey, conference room. You're spending the day with your peer counselor." She said.
"Is that a shrink?" Lexie asked horrified.
"Little Grey, go meet your peer. Get counseled. Exciting procedures on the board today Yang."
"Yes, Dr. Bailey... which one would you like me to start with?" Cristina informs her after Lexie walked away.
Meredith and Mark are in the elevator. "OK, before you start, there still are rules to this friendship thing or whatever." Meredith starts.
"The dirty mistresses club still has rules? Gosh, you think a club of dirty mistresses would be a little less uptight about things like rules." Mark interrupted.
"Number one, no flirting and comments about a threesome. Second, no talking about Derek. Third, no talking about how you're going to propose to Addison. And D, no giving me the face."
"The face..."
"The McSteamy face. It doesn't work on me. I'm immune. Except when your son does it and your daughter when she's here, even though she looks just like your girlfriend. "
"You know, if Addison and I had gone off to the woods, we would've invited you to keep us warm."
"Breaking rules one, two and four."
Lexie enters the conference room and Robyn is there.
"Robyn, you're my counselor?" Lexie asks.
"Peer counselor. We're equals. So how are you?" Robyn hugs Lexie.
"I'm fine."
"That's outside Lexie talking. How's inside Lexie?
Mark and Meredith exit the elevator. "So you and Derek." Mark starts. You guys want kids or...just answer the question and I'll quit asking."
"Derek and I are taking some space." Meredith tells him.
"You're taking space from each other. Or he's taking some space from you?"
"Derek and I, there's just a lot of water under the thing or whatever."
They enter Cory and Nathaniel's room.
"My knight in shining poly-cotton." Nathaniel exclaimed.
"Good morning Cory, Nathaniel. How was the trip?"
"Smooth, perfect." Cory answers.
"Speak for yourself."
"He's still having some vagina issues." Cory whispered.
"I'm sorry...am I missing something?" Meredith was confused.
"I think you're missing the fact that Dr. Sloan is planning on removing my wife's vagina this afternoon." Cory snapped.
"Oh and your wife is?" Now Meredith is surprised.
"Right here." Nathaniel points to himself.
"Natalie James, 28, in for sexual reassignment surgery." Meredith read off the chart.
"Nathaniel, not Natalie. She's been living as Nathaniel for 4 years, come on Grey." Mark corrected her, annoyed.
"So essentially, today we are inverting her...um his...uh.."
"His vagina. That's OK. You'll get it." Cory cut her off.
"You know the steps for a penoplasty?" Mark asked.
"Not exactly." Meredith answers immediately.
"Well if you want to get in on this surgery today, you better learn."
"Don't pay any attention to him, you're doing very well." Nathaniel smiled.
"Better than I did when I first found out." Cory mumbled.
"We just need to run a few pre-op labs. Make sure everything's in working order."
"Then surgery today?"
"Big day Nathaniel. You excited?"
"Excited doesn't begin to cover it."
"You're going to do great."
At the wilderness. Jackson gets rocks to go around the fire, Richard makes himself lunch, and Alex sets up a tent.
"That is a nice looking picnic basket." Jackson commented.
"Thank you. The concierge at the hotel put it together for the benefit. We've got crackers, pate, and an assortment of Seattle soft cheeses. You want some?" Richard offered.
Jackson wrinkles his nose in disgust. "No thanks."
"Dude, he brought silverware." Alex exclaimed.
"You should talk. Have you ever been camping before?"
"What?"
"A t-shirt and sneakers? You'll freeze your ass off."
"So what I'm wearing a jacket."
"Do me a favor, don't come crawling to me in the middle of the night when you want to huddle for warmth."
"It's a good-looking tent Joe. You and Walter got room for one more?" Richard questioned.
"We thought you'd be sleeping with one of the Doctors." Joe tells him.
"Well Hunt's already got Jackson for a room mate. But just between you and me, these other tents are kind of puny."
"Well Walter and I were hoping to share this one. You know... just the two of us. But I guess if you really want to..."
"Who's ready to go fishing?" Owen cut in.
"I am!" Richard jumped up and down.
Meredith is talking to Cristina at a nurse's station. "Guess what I'm doing today? Removing a woman's vagina."
"You got an S. R. S? Seriously?" Cristina questioned incredously.
"She...he is one of Sloan's patients."
"Oh that should be me. I should be turning a penis to a vagina. That should be my vagina."
Lexie walked up. "I have to hide. Robyn is my peer counselor. "Heal with LOVE" Robyn."
"Oh eww." Meredith and Cristina both groan.
Callie enters a patient's room where Addison is already. "I got a page..."
"May Vega. She slipped and fell down the stairs this morning." Addison filed her in.
"I can't see my own feet. I did this." May cried.
"Nasty break. She doesn't have any meds for the pain?" Callie asked the older doctor.
"She refused. She's toughing it out." Addison whispered.
"Oh don't tough it out. Just say yes." Callie told their patient.
"But the baby... I know Dr. Montgomery said it was all right, but I'll suffer. Is he ok? He was kicking like crazy, and now..." May trails off.
"It's possible that he's just sleeping."
"See... our son sleeps. He's sleeping May." The husband assures her.
"Do I need a cast?" May asks.
Callie nodded. "Definitely. But first we need to straighten the bones out. Then we'll put your legs in this fancy sling. And use gravity to help align the bones." She smiled.
"Will you excuse me? I just need to..." Addison has seen something on the ultrasound.
Meredith is near the waiting room as Cory comes out.
"I'll trade you." Cory says.
"Cory..." Meredith began, softly.
Cory interrupts her. "Insurance forms. Nathaniel gets the surgeries and I do the forms. Super fun."
"You seem to be handling this remarkably well."
"Well I left at first. When he...when she told me. You plan a life together you know? Kids and...suddenly that's all out the window. Suddenly your wife is this other man in your house who's borrowing your aftershave and shaving his face."
"But you came back... why?"
"Honestly, right now... I have no idea. I'm really going to miss the vagina.
Callie enters to find that Addison is in a bathroom stall crying. "You OK?" she questioned.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm OK. I'm good." Addison lies.
"Don't make me climb over the stall. I'll do it but I'll be pissed 'cause I don't want to do that." Addison lets her in. "You're not OK." She pointed out.
"I don't know why. There's no reason that this should affect me this much. I'm used to this I am but…"
"Used to what?" Callie asked.
"That woman, yesterday, she's just as healthy as can be and today her baby's dead." Addison started crying again. "Just like when I had the misscarriage." She confessed.
"Misscarriage?!" Callie questions. "When did you have a misscarriage?"
"In Seattle four years ago. Two months after Mark and I got umm...reunited. I found out I was pregnant again and I was so excited because I didn't keep our other two children, he was so ecastic over being a dad, just like before I aborted the baby in New York, but then I had a misscarriage and lost the baby." Callie hugged her.
"So uh...have have you and Walter been considering adopting more kids?" Richard is now shocked.
"Three years. On and off. But now, definitely thinking about more kids." Joe nodded.
"That's a big step."
"You have kids?"
"No. I still work a lot. Adele and I...well she always said she didn't want to raise kids alone."
This will be continued next chapter. I decided not to add in McSteamy making his residents do his errands like in 3x08, so we will see that next chapter.
I didn't get any reviews for last chapter. I'm so sad because how can you write without getting any feedback and I have such a passion? Oh I think I know why; you guys are afraid that it will upset me if I get negative reviews but it does not at all.
Most of it is like 3x07 because I rewatched it today and loved it so much that I wanted to write something similar to it. The only thing wrong is that there is no more Burke, Izzie, and George in Season 67 and they were great characters. Yes, I know that there is no Addison anymore except in 7x18 and 8x13 but she's in Seattle again so...
I showed my grandma the AU episode which is my favorite episode ever yesterday and we both agreed that the best part was when we find out the baby is McSteamy's as I am a diehard Maddison shipper and do not like Addek at all so that was like a homage to me.
(I found two of these on Wikipedia but it may have spoilers:
Meredith dreams of an alternative universe in which her mother, Ellis Grey, never had Alzheimer's and is a more supportive and loving mother. This leads Meredith to be a happy version of herself, causing Seattle Grace to be completely different. She and Cristina are enemies while April is her best friend, who is sleeping with Meredith's fiance, Alex, who is only with Meredith because of her family's legacy. Owen has married Callie and they have 3 children, although they are not happy. Addison and Derek are expecting a child, only it is revealed that the baby is actually Mark's and Addison and Derek's relationship is falling apart just as Derek's own career is also stagnating. Lexie has become an orphan and a drug addict. It is revealed that George failed his boards and was never seen again while Izzie went insane after Denny's death. Richard left Adele and married Ellis and Meredith took Webber as her last name. The episode ends reminiscent of how Derek and Meredith first met. Throughout the entire episode all the couples that actually do exist seem to have connections, which includes Callie and Arizona, and also Yang and Owen.
Trivia: This episode's title originated from the song If/Then, originally sung by Ras Kass.
This episode scored 9.71 million viewers.
It is an alternate reality episode.
This episode marks the final appearance of Addison Forbes Montgomery on Grey's Anatomy.
Several songs in this episode were used in previous episodes:
Portions for Foxes - A Hard Day's Night
Ruby Blue - Make Me Lose Control
Girl, You Shout! - The Name of the Game
Fools in Love - Make Me Lose Control
Into the Fire - A Hard Day's Night
You Wouldn't Like Me - The First Cut Is the Deepest
Character changes:
Derek Shepherd is very sad and miserable and still married to Addison, never had a relationship with Meredith; his nickname is McDreary instead of McDreamy, and he's professionally stuck, unwilling to teach, publish, or be creative. He is also known as Bad Shepherd and is unaware of Mark and Addison's affair until the end of the episode.
Meredith Grey is a lot happier, has 2 loving parents, Richard and Ellis, adopted the surname Webber, is engaged to Alex, and hates Cristina as she follows cardiothoracic surgery, too. It is shown that she was very selective with the interns she was kind to, and may have been more of a teacher's pet as seen when she told her mother that Izzie cut Denny's LVAD wires.
Cristina Yang has straight hair and is very bitter towards the others, except Owen and helps him with his PTSD. Also, since Meredith and Derek never were in a relationship, she was the only intern sleeping with an attending, which makes the others very cruel towards her. In the extended episode on the DVD, it's implied that she regularly has sex with Jackson, although they keep it a secret at the hospital.
Alex Karev has become a lot nicer person, wears glasses, and is the current chief resident and is most likely pursuing general surgery as he and Bailey work very closely together. He proposed to Meredith and is very optimistic. He also had an affair with April Kepner - Meredith's now best friend.
Ellis Grey does not have Alzheimer's, is together with Richard, and is a loving mother and also is the chief of surgery and chief of staff.
Richard Webber chose Ellis over Adele and became Meredith's father. His leadership traits were overshadowed by Ellis'.
As Ellis asked Bailey for an update on the general surgery department, it is likely Webber oversees another department and is not the general surgery head.
It's possible that Webber is the Residency Director, much like his canon-universe counterpart when Owen appointed him to the role.
Addison Forbes Montgomery is still with Derek, though is pregnant with Mark's baby, and still works at Seattle Grace Hospital as both neonatal and OB/GYN-maternal-fetal head. She is known as Good Shepherd among the residents.
Owen Hunt married Callie, had 3 children with her, and still shows anger management issues due to postraumatic stress.
Callie Torres married Owen instead of Arizona, chose cardiothoracic surgery instead of orthopedic surgery and apparently never faced her bisexual self.
The explanation given for Callie being a cardiothoracic surgeon instead of an orthopedic surgeon is that Ellis urged her to pursue a career in cardio. This is still plausible as Ellis would have been the chief at the time of Callie's match: if Callie initially still pursued an ortho residency, she still would have had to do a surgical internship under general surgery. Ellis could have had Callie transfer to the general surgery program after the latter's internship and recommended a cardio fellowship under Burke.
Another explanation is that Ellis would have allowed for a cardio residency after Callie's general surgical internship under Burke. A cardio residency would not be unprecedented as that is how Sam trained to became a cardio surgeon.
After Burke resigned, Callie took over as the department head for cardiothoracic surgery.
Arizona Robbins did not marry Callie and apparently barely knows her.
Miranda Bailey is still shy and has zero confidence in herself from not having Richard teach her. Alex is the one who reinforces her self-esteem every now and then. She also has her intern-year braids.
It is implied that Bailey is the Head of General Surgery as Ellis asked her an update on the former's department.
Lexie Grey is a drug addict with tattoos and never went into medical school. She stated that both Thatcher and Susan are dead. She knows about Meredith but has never met her.
Mark Sloan does not work at Seattle Grace.
April Kepner is Meredith's best friend, her person, and had a casual fling with Alex. Instead of focusing on neurosurgery or trauma surgery, April seems to be focused on OB/GYN and/or neonatal surgery.
Jackson Avery may not have followed plastic surgery as Mark doesn't work in the hospital. It is suggested he follows trauma surgery as a specialty. In the extended episode on the DVD, it's implied that he regularly has sex with Cristina, although they keep it a secret at the hospital.
Charles Percy was not shot and is alive and is in love with April.
Missing characters:
Teddy Altman is still in Iraq.
George O'Malley ran away after failing intern exam; it's assumed that he is alive.
Izzie Stevens was fired for cutting Denny's LVAD wire after Meredith told her mother.
Reed Adamson was possibly fired during the merger and it is to assumed she was never shot and is still alive.
Preston Burke left Washington State after his relationship with Cristina, reason unknown.
Neither Zola Grey Shepherd nor Sofia Robbin Sloan Torres exists in this reality.
Erica Hahn is not mentioned.
Hospital changes:
Rather than merging, Seattle Grace Hospital merely absorbed Mercy West Medical Center, and Ellis planned on absorbing Seattle Presbyterian Hospital, as well.
Instead of the blue color scheme, the surgical staff wears a gray color scheme, with light gray for the surgical residents, and dark gray for surgical attendings.
Scrub caps are no longer personalized; instead they match the color of the surgical gown, which is purple.
Scrub shirts worn by men are of a v-neck style, while the women wear an a-neck style.
Surgical masks are no longer tied behind the head; instead, they loop behind the ears, similar to the surgical masks at St. Ambrose Hospital.
Department heads and/or senior attendings do not wear scrubs when outside the OR; instead they wear dress clothes with their lab coat.
SGH's insignia is more intricate, adding a shield, stepped-formatting with the font, and laurels.
The cafeteria has different tables and chairs.
I need to ask you guys a question: when should we find out there is another Maddison baby on the way?
Like right after they get engaged or something or Addie tells Meredith she's pregnant first because that happened in MerDer story, 'Trials of the Heart' or something? I don't really know, you know?
And what else should happen with Maddison's daughter Emma who is in L.A and what should happen when they find out she is dating Pete? Oh and when should the Montgomerys show up in Seattle and Addison should confront Bizzy over making her give up Emma after she was born?
Review please and reply to my questions, I really need answers and comments.
Thanks :)
