I'm getting better at keeping these short. :P
Part 5
It might seem weird that he knew she is a surgeon, that first night she showed up. When he hadn't seen her for twenty years, give or take, and at the time of last sighting, she had been snuggled in front of the Saturday morning cartoons in a pink blanket and footie pajamas.
So. He can see how it might have seemed weird.
But.
In truth?
It wasn't.
*
Okay, so maybe he lied. Maybe it is a little weird. He's not exactly sure. But it's a father's right to keep an eye on his daughter, even when his daughter is the spawn of a cold-blooded robot.
It was an accident, actually; one of his students sent a newspaper clipping.
Mark Levinsky, 20, was awarded runner-up to the Snooty McSnootyname Tons of Money for Med School Scholarship Prize, awarded yearly to young kids with big brains. Mr. Levinsky is the second-youngest winner of this prize, kindly donated by the McSnooty family in exchange for lots of press and smiley photos with grateful newly-kinda-rich kids. The youngest McSnooty awardee—and this year's winner—is Meredith Grey, whose mother is fantastically talented and spectacularly bitchy.
Okay, he paraphrased a little.
But from then on, he had a university publication to keep watch of.
He subscribed.
*
And now the Snooty McSnootys must be just so disappointed, now that their prodigy ended up killing her father's wife and delivering her half-sister's baby alongside the wife of the attending she's screwing.
The amber liquid trickles into the glass as he exhales with a smirk.
It's all just so…
(What's the word?)
Ah.
Right.
Greek.