Sydney Heron
1. She is the daughter of working class parents. She watched them go to work everyday with a frown on their face and coming home even more depressed. She promised herself right then and there to never settle for a job that didn't make her happy.
She's not quite sure she succeeded.
2. She never truly fit in at school. Still she put on a huge smile and treated everyone with kindness because then she was allowed to be around whoever she wanted.
It didn't matter if it was all fake as long as she had something resembling friends.
3. After she lost a patient she had a small breakdown. Okay maybe not so small but it did put things in perspective for her. She went from being the professional doctor to being the caring one. She didn't mind that transformation as it made the job less exhausting at times.
Still when she lost the run for chief resident she couldn't help but wonder if the old Sydney would have had a better chance of winning…
4. She's made quite the name for herself at every hospital she ever worked at. She's hardworking and everyone loves her – or at least they say they do.
No one knows the real reason why she works so hard and loves her job so much.
She's simply grateful. She hardly made her way through med school and her intern years were a mess. Yet here she was doing her job because no matter what she worked her way there and she deserved everything she got.
5. On her very first day at Seattle Grace hospital Richard Webber gave her the grand tour. He smiled and joked and at the end he told her that at this hospital they were all friends.
That was one of two times he ever spoke to her outside of job related topics. She silently wondered if that was how he treated all his friends.
6. Sydney was five years old the first time she stated how she hated her name. She asked her mother why she had to share a name not only with other people but with a whole city in Australia.
At that her mother just smile, placed a kiss on the young girl's forehead and said – "We didn't name you after a city but isn't it kind of cool that someone loved that city so much to give it your name?"
She never said she hated her name ever again.
7. Everyone made a huge deal about her date with Derek. They all gushed and asked what she planned on wearing. She had heard the rumors about him and to be honest she was a bit disappointed.
It was kind of like knowing you would get the best present ever at Christmas and ending up with your older siblings old itchy sweater.
Maybe she just didn't get the McDreamy thing.
8. Sydney is very aware that her perky attitude doesn't go well with everyone. What they don't know though is how much that makes her continue. She finds it extra hilarious to tease people like Christina.
Of course she will never say that because lets face it…it would ruin all the fun.
9. She's not very big on gossip. However when you work at SGH it's kind of hard to avoid it being smashed into your brain. So no matter how much she dislikes it she does keep up to date with everything happening.
Sometimes, usually after long shifts, she just wants to smack something hard into the heads of those interns now turned into residents and tell them to grow up.
Of course she doesn't do that because it might look bad on her resume…plus she did remember reading something in med school about it being bad to hit people in the head with hard things. However if thoughts could kill she would be the only left standing in that damn gossip mill of a hospital.
10. During the last year she's been on a few dates. Very few to be honest. You could count them on one hand. As a doctor that is accepted though, you have a tough schedule and all that.
The truth why she doesn't date much is a lot more complicated. The truth is she already met the love of her life – he just didn't feel the same way. Still she can't help but hope that one day he will come back to Seattle and sweep her off her feet…
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