Dear Diary
Chapter 7
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A/N: This is speedy to make up for chapter 6 being so slow! Hope you enjoy it! Emily x
P.S. I noticed in one of the earlier chapters Arizona said it was november. It was infact August.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Grey's Anatomy or have any medical knowledge.
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Meredith turned on the hot water and climbed into the shower. Her aching muscles screamed in protest, but she ignored it; she was numb to the pain. After a 48 hour shift, 3 hours of baseball and awkward company she was just about ready to collapse. Despite her fatigue, however, sleep seemed to evade her when she finally lay in her bed. So she just lay there, waiting to fall asleep. Her brain kept whirring, overthinking and overanaylsing insignificant things. She thought of the hospital, and her friends. She thought about choosing her specialty and she thought about her mother. Her mother, the famous Ellis Grey. She knew she would have wanted her to follow in her mother's footsteps
and pursue general, but she really didn't care. All she knew was that neuro didn't seem too appealing at the moment.
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"Callieeee!"
"Mark, I am just in the next room, what is it?" Callie was starting to regret letting Mark live with them, even if Arizona was OK with it. She knew he wasn't in a fit enough state to live on his own, but he was so annoying!
"Your TV's broken!"
"You have to actually get up and press the switch on the set." Callie rolled her eyes and returned to her bedroom where she was clearing out her wardrobe.
"But Callieeee! It hurts!"
"Mark! Get up and push the button or don't watch TV!" She snapped. A week. He had been living with them for just a week and he was already driving her insane. Mark grumbled something, but stubbornly sat in silence so as not to let Callie get her way.
"Right, I'm going to go to work. Call me if your dying. If not, don't bother me." Mark stuck his tongue out as his best friend walked past him and out the door. As soon as the door closed he got up and turned on the TV. Callie laughed to herself as she stood in the hall, hearing the TV flicker into life.
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Derek had been at the hospital for just 27 hours and he had done a craniotomy, a lobectomy and removed a spinal tumor. "Shadow Shepherd" was ill so his schedule had almost doubled. There was a knock at the door of the on-call room and Callie walked in.
"Hey, sorry Shepherd. Do you mind? Mark's driving me crazy at the house and Arizona isn't off for another hour." Derek chuckled,
"Come on in, I'm not really sleeping anyway. Can't seem to drift off." Callie nodded and lay down on the other bed, staring at the ceiling. After a few minutes, Derek spoke,
"Callie?"
"Yeah?"
"Have you ever been commited to someone, but found yourself liking someone else?"
"Hmm...yeah I guess."
"How did you choose?"
"One of them chose for me, but I would have made the same choice. I'd choose my friends over her anyday."
"Would you choose your friends over Arizona?"
"I consider Arizona as much a friend as my girlfriend." Derek nodded.
"How do I know?"
"Who to choose? There'll be a moment. It may only be for a second, but you'll know then." They both fell into comfortable silence until the sound of snoring filled the room.
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"You seen Derek?" Addison said to Arizona when she saw her standing at the nurses' station.
"I think he went to get some sleep. Up in ortho, I think. I'll walk up with you, I've just finished and Calliope said she'd wait for me." The two women headed towards the elevators and up to the orthopedics wing of the hospital.
When they reached ortho, they were supposed to find them both in an on-call room. They were sitting on a bed and talking together. As soon as Addison and Arizona came in, they suddenly stopped talking.
"Hey," Callie smiled and got up, stretching her legs and pecking her girlfriend on the lips.
"Hi Addie, you ready to go home?" Derek did the same as Callie.
"Yeah let's go."
"Bye guys, have a great evening." Arizona smiled.
"Bye, and thanks for keeping me company, Callie. It was fun."
"Yeah it was. See you later Der." She then added, "Addie, come over later? We need to talk?"
"Sure, Cal, about 7?"
"Sounds perfect!"
Der,
I won't tell her anything, I promise.
Cal X
Cal,
;) You're a star! Really though, thanks for being so amazing. I needed to just get it all out. You're 'awesome'! ;)
Der x
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A/N: I didn't get 10 reviews, but I put this up anyway. Chapter 8 may be a little bit slower to get up, I just started a Glee fic and I'm co-writing a TVD/Grey's fic. Thanks for reviewing and favouriting and everything :) Emily x