Here is where we are: I have to make adjustments to the timeline just a bit. Susan had JUST died (a few months later than in the show) . Christina's wedding did fall through (like in the show). Ellis has died. Derek did meet Lexi in the bar. Addison will not be leaving for L.A. Burke is taking 6 months off from Seattle Grace to "Regroup". Mark is in Seattle. Lexi is yet to start her internship.

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She didn't move from the doorway as tears started to fall from her eyes. She took a step into the room and looked at Alex's face. He was definitely Alex, yet you had to look close to know. She made a move toward the chart, as any doctor would. She read it over quickly and could feel her heart shatter into millions of pieces as she read. Coma. She started to cry hard and fell back into the chair beside the bed.

"Oh my god," Was the only thing she muttered. Over and over. Her hands started to shake as she tried to grasp the thought. Alex was in a coma. The day before seemed to flash before her eyes.

::Flashback::

Their shift began on time as usual. They all had a meeting with the chief about the arrival of interns. They were all getting their first couple of interns in just a few weeks since they were about three months into the residency.. Supposedly, they were going to go over the program, as if they didn't go through it themselves. Then, they were going to get the names, records, and all that junk on the ones that had been assigned to them. They went to the conference room.

"Where's Alex?" Meredith whispered.

"I don't think he comes in until noon." Izzie whispered back.

Meredith shrugged and listened to the Chief.

After the meeting, Meredith didn't have any patients so she headed to the clinic to check out what was happening there. She spotted her father.

"Thatcher?" Meredith said wondering why he was there.

"Oh Meredith." Thatcher looked up.

"What's going on?" She said with a forced smile as she looked between Thatcher and Susan, who was sitting on a bed hiccupping. Susan explain what was wrong, Bailey consulted, and Meredith did what was told of her. They sent Susan to a room to keep an eye on her.

Meredith sighed as she walked off to find something to do. It was only ten and she didn't have a lot of patients or surgeries. She sat down at the nurses' station and busied herself with charting and stuff like that.

A while later she headed to lunch.

She sat down with Izzie, Christina, and George. Alex was yet to show up. Meredith, who wouldn't admit it, was a little worried. A pager went off just as she started to eat. They all looked down at their pagers at the same time.

"Mine," Meredith moaned and ran off.

The page had been to Susan's room. She ran in to find Thatcher freaking out and Susan having complications.

"Is she alright?" Thatcher kept yelling at the nurses and Bailey who were trying to work. Meredith ran over and listened to the explanation of what the hell was going on. "They were just the hiccups." Thatcher kept say. "Where is she going?" He yelled as they started to wheel her out.

"Grey," Bailey looked up at her. Meredith nodded a little as they pushed her down the hall before turning to Thatcher.

"She's going to be alright. She's having a complication. She needs surgery. She'll be okay," She reassured before running out leaving behind a confused Thatcher.

She walked down the hall with a red nose. Her eyes were full of tears but she refused to let them fall. She walked into the waiting room. Thatcher stood up and looked at her. Some how, he already knew the answer.

"I'm sorry. We did everything we could," Her voice was shaky as she held back the tears.

Thatcher put his hands on his head and kept repeating "No."

"She had a rare complication. There's nothing we could do." She watched as the sadness in his eyes turned to anger.

"You said she would be alright." He yelled.

"I know and I'm sorry." He tone hadn't changed.

Before she knew what was happening, her cheek stung. Thatcher was red with anger as she grabbed her cheek. She turned and ran down the hall.

It wasn't for another hour before she saw her friends again.

She was walking down the hall with a sad expression. She wanted to talk to Alex. He always knew how to make her feel better. She looked across the nurses' station to see her friends grouped together with eyes full of tears. She looked confused and walked over. They looked at her and she knew something was wrong.

"What…" Her voice drifted. She could see in their eyes that something had happened to Alex. "Where's Alex? What happened? Where is he?" She almost yelled it as her eyes filled with tears once more.

"He was in an accident, Mere," Izzie said quietly.

:: End of flashback:::

She started to sob letting her head fall into her hands.