Title: A Sticky Situation
Summary: A hot day leads to a release of frustration for Meredith and Derek in the elevator, but now they are punished by the chief for two semesters.
Disclaimer: I don't not on Grey's Anatomy, its characters or anything.
Authors Note: This chapter isn't the most exciting one, but it is a filler to get it to the next part of the story.
Back in School
Meredith and Derek spent their final days before the school year started for the winter in the hospital. They avoided the chief at all costs, for fear he would punish them worse. Derek had spent the majority of Sunday assigning duties to the other neuro attendings and catching up on his long over due paper work. Meredith had been keeping herself busy keeping track of her interns and making schedules for the upcoming week.
Before either of them were ready Monday morning came around. For all the high school students the morning was way too early and depressing for them, they no longer had long days to sleep in and party at night. But on the other side of town Meredith and Derek were happy to be getting up with the sun for a change. They tried to act like it was any other morning, but the sympathetic looks Izzie kept directing at them ruined it.
"I am glad I am not going back to high school." Izzie said as she eat her yoghurt. "I was the out cast." She grabbed a coffee cup to go and was out the door. Being a resident she was able to schedule herself a late morning a couple times a month, and she could not resist being there on Meredith and Derek's first day of high school.
Derek smiled to himself. "I am certainly a lot hotter than I was back in high school. I got the hair thing down." Meredith was tempted to run her hands threw his hair and mess it up, but decided against it.
"I don't have the whole pink hair thing anymore. I wish I did it really pissed my mom off."
"Ya know I cannot picture you with pink hair." Derek scrunched his face up trying to picture what on earth she would look like.
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Seattle Preparatory School was a big brick building in the richer part of town. It had recently gone through a huge addition and renewal of the entire structure. On the outside the building looked friendly and exciting, but the kids in the parking lot were any thing but happy. They did not stop to talk to their friends instead they just walked into the building and leaned against the walls waiting for the bell to single first period. The school had changed to block scheduling for the new school year, so the students would only have four class periods, lunch, and study hall. They would no longer have a homeroom, but instead go right to their first period class.
The loud bell made a shrill sound in the hallway. It was the warning bell signally that school would be starting shortly. There was a mad rush of students going in all different directions to their first period class. Freshman would go down one hallway and then realize they were wrong and try another one looking for the correct class.
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In room 104 nestled in the center of the building sat Meredith and Derek waiting for their first period class to walk through the classroom doors. A minute before the late bell, all of the students, looking as if they just crawled out of bed, walked into the classroom. Meredith gave the class a warm smile and instructed them to listen to the announcements and stand for the flag solute.
"You're not Mrs. Fenster or Mr. Giles." The students who were not aware of the change in the teachers looked up to the front of the classroom.
"Well I guess I don't have to be here then." One student started walking to the door to leave the classroom.
"Freeze," all eyes in the classroom were focused on Derek. It was the first thing he had said all period. The student walked another step challenging Derek's authority. "I wouldn't do that if I was you or this is going to be a semester from hell for you. What is your name?"
"Darren Quarterman," The student said with all the confidence in the world.
"Great now sit down with the rest of the class so we can get started."
The class remained silent and stared up front waiting for one of the two teachers to say anything. Meredith noticed their staring and turned to write on the board.
"Ok my name is Dr. Grey, as of right now I am going to expect more from you guys then I do of my interns at the hospital."
"Are you a real doctor with a medical degree or just a Phd?" One student called out. Derek bit back from yelling at the student.
"We are both real doctors from Seattle Grace Hospital. I am currently a first year resident and Dr. Shepherd is the head of the neuro department." Most of the students looked stunned and Meredith could hear a few whispers of them saying we have smart teachers.
"Why don't we start off with an introduction period. If you want to ask us a question, then we get to ask you a question." The students seemed to think this was a good idea. "Who ever wants to ask the first question can?"
A girl with shoulder length brown hair raised her hand. "Why are you teaching this class?"
Meredith momentarily frowned and then came up with an answer. "Well the chief of surgery thought we would be a valuable addition to this class."
"And you just agreed?" The same girl asked.
"We were kind of forced to agree." Derek said. "Now for your question. What is your name and what grade are you in?"
"I am Norah and I am a senior. We are all seniors actually." The question and answer period went on with the class asking questions of what exactly they did in the hospital and some about their personal lives.
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Meredith and Derek stared at each other after all the questions had dried up. Neither one of them had planned what they were going to do with the class today or any other day.
"Why don't we start out by putting you guys in your assigned seats?" Meredith offered as the class continued to stare at them. "Then we can discuss what you will need for this class and finally a survey to help us get to know you better." The class groaned at them but stood up at the walls of the classroom. "Now I came up with a seating chart by putting you in alphabetical order by middle name. I figured from when I was in high school that teachers are still doing it in alphabetical order by last name and I wanted to be different."
She arranged them in their seats and Derek's favorite student Darren ended up sitting in the front row.
"Okay well I will give Dr. Grey a break and talk about the course rules and requirements. Now I was informed that you need to pass this class in order to graduate, so you better do the assignments. I would like all of you to go home and buy a one-inch binder for this class and this class only. You will get a ton of handouts and you will have to take notes. Okay the next order of business is something we would like to call the question box. It will be located in the back of the room. Each class will have their own box. The question box is where you will put questions that you are embarrassed or don't want the entire class or me to know that it is your question. We will read and answer the questions on Friday and discuss them as a class. Let's move on to the rules and consequences sheet. You all know how to read so I am just going to pick out a few that are important and since you are probably tired of me talking we are going to read in a system called phone tag. The first person to read will be Darren, number two for us."
"Topics discussed in this class will remain open. We are not going to judge or bring attention to another student. There now what do I do." Darren smirked up to Derek.
"Call on another student to read."
"Katie, your turn," She smiled at him and politely asked which number to read. The class went over the five main consequences and were told to have their parents sign the sheets and return them by Friday.
"Okay to wrap up our first class we are going to give you a questionnaire sheet. I want you to be completely honest with us and you don't have to put your name on it. It is going to help us understand how much you know about sex. When you are done just put it in the basket on the side shelf." Meredith passed the packets back the rows of the students.
Meredith and Derek just sat at their desks in the front of the classroom and had a quite conversation.
"I could have been in surgery right now." Derek said looking up at the clock. "There is no better way to kick off a Monday morning than surgery as the sun rises." Meredith just nodded her head and smiled.
"I would probably be yelling at my incapable interns or in the OR right now."
"But we are here for the next ten months of our lives." Meredith just nodded her head again.
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The rest of their day they continued with the same schedule they had developed first period. They had decided to bring the questionnaires with them that night at the hospital to look over and make lesson plans tomorrow based on there findings. They didn't know it yet, but they had a long road ahead of them.