Dear Diary
Chapter 1
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A/N: I'm not really sure about this, but I decided to put it up as my gut instinct is telling me to (: Oh and Finn isn't mcvet, I just used the name! Emily x
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT A LARGE PILE OF HOMEWORK AND A DUVET. ALL CHARACTERS BELONG TO SHONDA RHIMES.
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Dear Diary,
It's the first day of my internship! I feel such a rush! Seattle Grace Hospital has one of the best training programmes in the country, I feel so privileged! Cristina, Izzie, Alex, George and I are all staying together! Finn says I'm like a child on Christmas eve, my mom says she was the same. Oh, I have to get ready!
Meredith checked her long, blonde hair in the mirror before putting up her umbrella and running to her car. Typical Seattle weather, rain. She laughed to herself, nothing was going to ruin this day. She had two dates in July marked in her calendar, the 1st and the 24th; her first day at SGH and her wedding day. She turned the key in the ignition and pulled out of the gravel drive slowly, so as not to wake her fiancé on his day off. When she parked her car in the parking lot she sat and waited for her best friend's motorbike to zoom into view.
Cristina briefly scanned the parking lot before spotting Meredith's silver BMW. It hadn't been their choice of car, Mer and she had chosen an old VW camper van but Finn thought the BMW was more practical. Mer acted so differently around Finn; it used to be Meredith and Cristina, the twisted sisters. They made decisions together, they drank tequila together, they listened to each other's crap and danced it out. Meredith was her person, but she felt like she only had 24 days left of her best friend.
"Hey!" Mer was waving at Cristina brightly.
"You're too cheery for an early morning," Meredith laughed and linked arms with her best friend. It was going to be a good day.
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"Izzie!" Izzie Stevens and Alex Karev walked into the interns' locker room hand in hand, shortly followed by George O'Malley.
"You alright Georgie?" Cristina's voice was mocking, but George shuddered.
"There was kissing…in the car…Izzie and Alex…kissing!" The five of them burst out laughing at George's awkwardness, nothing had changed since med school.
"Aw Georgie do you feel like a third wheel?" Alex punched George playfully on the arm and kissed Izzie softly before sauntering out of the room. Meredith could tell something was about to happen,
"Come on George, we have rounds in 10 minutes and I need coffee!"
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I have 5 rules. Memorize them. Rule number 1. Don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.
Trauma protocol. Phone lists. Pagers. Nurses will page you. You answer every page at a run. A run! That's rule number 2. Your first shift starts now and lasts 48 hours.
Your interns, grunts, nobodies, bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, work every second night until you drop and don't complain.
On call rooms. Attendings hog them. Sleep when you can, where you can. Which brings me to rule number 3. If I'm sleeping, don't wake me unless your patient is actually dying. Rule number 4. The dying patient better not be dead when I get there. Not only will you have killed someone, you would have woke me for no good reason. We clear?
Rule number five. When I move, you move. Get out of my way!
Being an intern, being at the bottom of the surgical food-chain, wasn't anything like George O'Malley had expected. He had envisioned helpful, smiling people who encouraged them and praised them. Maybe he had just been spending too much time with super perky optimistic Izzie.
"The nazi is vicious! Seriously, she told us upfront that she hates us!" maybe it wasn't Izzie… "I think she's amazing though, she can hate me, but I'll just follow her around because she is so amazing. Then she'll have to like me." No, it was definitely Izzie.
"The word I use is awesome," the five interns turned around to see another happy, smiling blonde.
"Arizona?" they all turned to face Izzie. She knew this attending already? Arizona's dimpled smile widened impossibly; Izzie jumped up and followed Arizona to an empty table, leaving the others in a state of shock. After a few minutes of silence, Alex was the first to speak,
"Ya know Georgie, you're the only one who isn't in a relationship here. Anyone ya fancy?"
"Cristina isn't dating!" Meredith piped in,
"Oh yes! Georgie and Yang!" Alex sniggered while the aforementioned glared at him.
"Seriously though George, is there anyone?" George could tell Meredith was genuinely concerned, he sighed,
"No, not at the moment. There was this girl, Lola, we dated for a few weeks, but she left." Meredith rubbed her friend's back soothingly.
"C'mon Georgie; Alex and Izzie are a couple, Meredith's got her fire-fighter. There has to be someone!"
"Well, I do like someone, but she's probably way out of my league."
"Who?" the question was echoed across the table,
"Dr Torres."
"The orthopaedic surgeon?"
"Yeah." No-one knew what to say.
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"So who's Arizona?" Alex asked his girlfriend as they walked to their car. "Girl on girl?"
"We were best friends in high school, but her brother died and her family moved to New York. I guess she's back now!" Izzie practically bounced the last sentence. Alex laughed and took her hand. He felt a shock ripple through his body at the simple touch and the small, red velvet box burned a hole in his inside pocket.
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"Finn?"
"In here!" Meredith followed the sound of Finn's deep, husky voice and the smell of homemade food to the kitchen.
"You're cooking? Aww, you didn't have to do that on your day off!" Meredith put down her purse before hugging Finn from behind and kissing his neck.
"I wanted to," he turned around to face her and place a soft butterfly kiss on her lips. Meredith smiled up at her fiancé. She hadn't been sure she wanted to settle down, but then she met Finn,
"This was your first day of your new career, we had to do something." They just smiled at each other, they didn't need to say anything. The oven beeped, breaking their perfect moment. Finn turned away and dished up the homemade pasta bake. Meredith talked for the whole period in which they were eating; she told Finn the exact details of her day.
Dear Diary,
Finn is the one. Now I know. July 24th cannot come any sooner!
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A/N: PHEW! I need a cuppa! Thoughts? More reviews = quicker update :D I know this chapter didn't really go anywhere, but I wanted to get the characters and the foundations of the story in place. Oh, I know Arizona wasn't there, but this is an AU fic and I couldn't resist! Anyways, this will get more exciting in chapter 2 I promise ;) Emily x