Dear Diary
Chapter 3
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A/N: Wow, I think 7x10 is my favourite episode this season! Anyways, how are you all? Thank you, again, to all of the lovely lovely people who reviewed and/or favourited the last two chapters If you could do the same for this chapter my love for you will only grow stronger! Emily x
P.S. I kept the Maddison texting in as it sets out a bit of the story later on. Anyways, enjoy!
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Callie Torres didn't usually care what people think about her. She walked tall around Seattle Grace Hospital; people respected her. So walking out of the hospital hand in hand with her girlfriend didn't usually bother her, but today was different. She knew men still looked at her, but the stuttering intern had been different.
"O'Malley!" Arizona shouted over Callie's shoulder.
"Yes, Dr Robbins. Oh, hello…Dr. Torres." George had seemed nervous around Callie. Arizona seemed oblivious to it.
"Well, O'Malley, Dr. Shepherd is taking you out tonight, I'm taking you tomorrow. I just thought I'd let you know."
"OK, thank you Dr. Robbins, I'll let the others know."
"Awesome!" Arizona flashed her dimples at the intern, who nodded awkwardly and turned away, tripping over his own feet doing so.
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"Dr. Shepherd?" Meredith was pacing around the locker room in her bra. George was clearly uncomfortable with this; he was almost used to it now, however, having been her roommate through med school.
"That's what she said!"
"Dr. Shepherd?" Meredith was practically screeching by now. George knew this was a bad sign.
"I don't get how bad this is, I mean, you," he pointed an accusing finger at Meredith, "are engaged!" He leaned back against the lockers in triumph; Meredith had no reply to that.
"Well, I don't think I'm going..."
"Why not?" He received no answer. "Mer! You can tell me!"
"Hemakesmefeelweird," Meredith mumbled at lightening speed. Again, George was used to this; it was what Meredith did when she was stressed.
"What?" George had understood his friend perfectly, but knew she had to elaborate more for her own benefit than anyone elses.
"He makes me feel weird." George raised his eyebrows expectantly, giving her the nudge she needed to continue, "I can't really explain it, George. I've always seen everything in colour. Bright, shining colour. Not in a happy way, but in such a way that nothing slips by me. Now, it's like he's come along and drained my world of it's colour. Again, not in a sad way, but so I look at what's right in front of me. I don't see a spectrum anymore I see different shades of grey, like the world has been drawn with sketching pencils." George's pager went off; she looked at the screen,
"there's no backing out now, Mer, he's waiting for us."
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George grabbed Meredith's hand as they walked through the large glass doors that fronted the hospital.
"What are you doing?"
"Don't argue. I know you, Mer, you need the confidence." Meredith smiled and rested her head on George's shoulder. He was the sensitive one in the group: Izzie was the perky one; Alex was the evil one; Cristina was the twisted one and Meredith was the tape and glue. She held them all together. She even gave them her house. Their initials spelt MAGIC. Without Meredith, there would be no magic five.
"Ah, Grey, O'Malley nice of you to join us," an unfamiliar redhead said to them as they approached the group, "I'm Dr. Shepherd." Oh. His wife. "Please call me Addison outside of the hospital. Now, we were going to go over to Joe's, but if you continue at Seattle Grace you'll be spending most of your spare time over there. But, I did promise Joe I'd go over and introduce you. Be nice to Joe, he's not someone you treat terrible. He's proven more of a friend to us than anyone else who is not in our profession. Joe's helped us all through some tough times." Addison nodde sadly. "OK! Follow me!" The six of them crossed the road and headed into the comfortable-looking bar. A tall man was standing behind the counter, "Addison! The usual?"
"Ah, thanks Joe, but sadly I'm not staying. These are the new interns: Izzie, Alex, Cristina, George and Meredith."
"MAGIC."
"What?"
"Their initials spell out MAGIC!"
"People call us the magic five."
"Hmm... I may catch onto that!" Addison laughed, "you know what? Lets stay here for a little while. There's someone I need to talk to." She walked over to the bar and the interns went in the other direction towards a table.
"You know what guys? I'm going to the bathroom." Once inside a cubicle Meredith crumbled to the floor completely exhausted. She pulled out her diary and her favourite pen.
Dear Diary,
What is it about Derek Shepherd that makes me feel like this? I am tired; so tired. I have spent the whole afternoon worrying about seeing him again and the rest of the evening smiling politely and trying to make small talk with his wife. Eugh, I am engaged to Finn. I am in love with Finn Colin Dandridge. I am getting married in 23 days. I am going to be Dr. Meredith Dandridge-Grey in 23 days. What is wrong with me? I'm engaged, he's married (and he's my boss). Cristina calls him McDreamy. Mayve that's what it is! Maybe this is normal, he has a dreamy quality that makes everyone feel weird around him. Argh, I need help!
Meredith shut the battered, leather-bound book and pushed herself up off the floor. She was about to unlock the door, but she heard someone come in.
"This is the ladies', Mark" Addison said. Meredith hadn't even heard her enter.
"Yeah, well we have to talk."
"No. No we don't." Meredith leant against the wall, intrigued by what she heard.
"Yeah, we do. You didn't tell anyone did you? You didn't tell Derek?" Meredith recognised Mark's deep, husky voice as the one of Dr. Sloan (head of Plastics). She had met Mark Sloan in the cafeteria that morning whilst talking to Izzie and Arizona. He had told Arizona something about someone called Callie looking for her; then he had tried to hit on all three of them.
"No I didn't tell anyone Mark, and I'm
not going to. It's best if we just forget it ever happened and go back to being friends. Best friends."
"Good, me too. I mean, you're Derek's wife. Derek's my best friend; so are you. I don't want to throw that all away because we made a stupid mistake."
"Me neither. If Derek finds out, I'll say you McTricked me into doing McNasty with McSteamy." Meredith's eyes grew wide. Addison was cheating? She had never seen the Shepherds together, but she had assumed they were happy. She heard Mark laugh and Addison sighed.
"Well, I better get going. I'm taking the interns bowling!"
"Bowling? Stay away from Arizona!"
"What? Bowling is fun! And I like Arizona, besides I can hardly stay away from her, she's Callie's girlfriend!" Mark laughed again and Meredith heard the door open again. Addison didn't seem to be going anywhere. Meredith sat back down.
Addison and Mark? Poor Derek,
I don't really know them, but I feel sorry for him. McSteamy is known for being a manwhore, but I never thought Addison was the cheating kind. I guess I shouldn't judge. For all I know, Derek and Addison have a horrible marriage or even an open one.
Meredith heard Addison leave so she quickly got up and left.
"Right guys finish up! We're going bowling!"
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A/N: Thoughts? I love you all for reading! An hour to write, a second to review! Emily x