So I decided to be kind to you all, and not make you wait long for chapter 2. Enjoy!

**Also for those who already read this chapter, for some reason it's not showing as updated, so I'm reposting.


Meredith went to the Seattle Grace Hospital where her mother works, baring her mother's favorite coffee. She even decided to bring some scones for the rest of the doctors and leave them in their lounge.

Meredith asked a nurse where she could find her mother, and of course, she's in surgery. She decided to leave the coffee in her mother's office, with a note, and then went up to watch a surgery. No, Meredith isn't technically allowed to do this, but because her mother is the Chief, she is allowed special privileges.

Meredith grew up around the hospital, and honestly could have seen herself being a doctor. She finds watching the surgeries to be fascinating, but that type of life was somewhat expected from her. Everyone expected Meredith to grow up and be just like her mother. But Meredith wanted her own life, where she wouldn't be compared to her world class mother, and that is why she owns her own coffee shop.

When the surgery ended, Meredith left the gallery and found her mother in the lobby yelling at interns. Meredith couldn't help but laugh, always thanking herself she didn't go into this career. She could just imagine how many times her mother would yell at her for doing something stupid and screwing up in a surgery.

Meredith approached her mother when she finished yelling and gave her a hug. She loved her mother, even though she was absent when Meredith was growing up. Her father left them, which meant Ellis Grey had to step up to support herself and her daughter.

"You were in surgery, but I put your coffee in your office." Meredith said. "And there's scones in the lounge."

"A coffee is what I need right now." Ellis said. "The idiot interns make me exhausted."

Ellis wasn't one hundred percent supportive when Meredith came to her to tell her how she wanted to have her own business. I mean, Ellis always thought her daughter would be a doctor just like her. So after many fights, and seeing how popular the shop got after it opened, Ellis soon became supportive of it, especially when it means free coffee, since that's what doctors drink to survive long nights at the hospital on.

"They're just interns, mom." Meredith said. "They'll learn."


Meredith didn't go into the coffee shop, which did disappoint Derek. Let's just say she's the main reason he's going there each day. He wants to see Meredith, and talk to her because there's just something about her that he finds attractive.

Derek had just ordered a black coffee and added cream to it. He was disappointed he couldn't get Meredith's great taste in coffee, having to settle for a plain black coffee. So far his morning wasn't going great.

Derek saw Meredith talking to the Chief, and wondered why when he got to the hospital. When he saw them hug after Chief Grey got a page, Derek was now just simply confused. He decided to walk over to Meredith once the Chief was gone.

"So you bring coffee to doctors now?"

Meredith turned around and gave who she saw a smile. "I bring coffee to my mother."

"Your mother?" Derek stammered. "Chief Grey is your mother?"

"So you work here... Are you that new neurosurgeon attending all these women are fawning over?" Meredith asked. "Or the new attending in cardio that everyone hates?"

"Apparently the one with women fawning over me."

Meredith laughed. "They have a nickname for you, you know? McDreamy."

"I've heard." Derek laughed.

"Well I'm gonna go." Meredith pointed the way to the elevators. "I need to go home and pack."

"Pack?"

"I'm going to Europe tomorrow with an old friend of mine. We're going to relive our post-high school, before college days. Maybe I'll see you around when I get back."

"Yeah, see you."


Meredith was gone for one and a half weeks, returning satisfied with her trip, but happy to be home. She went on this trip with her old friend, Sadie, and let's say every time they go out together, it's always crazy.

Meredith went into her shop the day after she returned to see how everything was going since she'v been gone. She went when it was closing time so she could take stock and see what more she'll need to order, without needing to be distracted by customers or employees.

Meredith usually turns the music way up when she does these types of things, and dance around her store. It's always funner to get the chores she have to do to keep this store up and running done.

Meredith stopped counting the money when she heard a knock on her door. She looked up and saw Derek, smiling and waving for her to open. Meredith turned down the music and got up to open the door.

"You're closed. I was hoping to get a coffee; gonna be another long night at the hospital."

"I think I can spare you a coffee." Meredith let Derek in and locked the door once it was closed. "What would you like?"

"Anything you got." Derek said. "So how was the trip you went on?"

Meredith's smile on her face grew as she thought about the trip. She shook her head, handing Derek his cup. "There's this thing me and my friend I went with do; we never tell anyone stories of what we did."

"Makes me wonder." Derek took a sip. "But I'm sure your boyfriend wonders more."

"I don't have a boyfriend, and you'll just have to continue to wonder." Meredith went into the backroom and placed the money back into the safe. She returned and sat down at a table with Derek. "So you said a neurosurgeon, huh?"

"That's right."

"Well, Mr. Neurosurgeon, where did you move from?"

"New York. I wasn't sure I was going to like Seattle because New Yorkers are genetically engineered to dislike everywhere except for Manhattan. Did you know Seattle has ferry boats?"

"I did. Seattle is surrounded by bodies of water."

"I didn't. I have a thing for ferry boats. Now I have to like it here." Derek's pager went off. "I have to go. Thanks for the coffee."

Thanks for all the great reviews so far! I'm glad you guys are liking the idea of this story so far. I know you guys want longer chapters, and the chapters will get longer as the story progresses.

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***Just for future references, in this story Derek's dad is not dead, and Ellis and Richard never had an affair. I thought I'd mention that now so I won't have to mention anything further along in the story.