A week later and Miranda had stepped down as Chief, and Meredith was the new chief. She was loving being in charge and being chief. She felt like she was doing her mother proud. Her first call as chief was that all residents would do a week in each specialty so they were sure what they would do next year. Zola was on neuro for her first week, so she was working alongside her father. Sofia was on peds which meant Bailey was too since he was her intern. Ellis finally found a temporary job in a café, until she decided what she really wanted to do. Little did Meredith know what her day was going to consist of.

Meredith

Meredith sat in her office doing some paperwork, when an intern ran into her office covered in blood

'Doctor Ryder?' Meredith said staring at the intern, 'Why are you covered in blood?'

'He's dead, someone shot him' Lucy cried

'Who's been shot?' Meredith said walking over to her

'Jas…Jason Murray. Someone shot him, he's dead. There was blood everywhere, blood everywhere' She cried

'Alright calm down' Meredith said, 'Change into these' She said handing her a spare pair of scrubs

'What are you going to do?'

'I am going to call a lockdown while you call the police' Meredith said getting her pager and sending out a lockdown to every doctor and nurse in the hospital while Lucy phoned the police.

'Now you need to wait here'

'Where are you going?'

'I need to make sure everyone is safe, I am the chief. This is my hospital'

Zola and Derek

They were scrubbing in before the surgery and Derek was making sure that Zola knew about the patient

'You ready?' Derek asked before walking in

'Ready' The pair of them walked into the OR and started the surgery. The patient had neurocysticerosis, which meant they had to remove it. Derek was doing his best to give Zola the best chance to try and convince her to do neuro next year.

They had almost completed their surgery, all they had to do was close up the incisions. Derek let Zola close up when a nurse spoke

'Doctor Shepherd'

'Yes'

'The chief has called for lockdown

'What?' Derek said grabbing his pager

'What's a lockdown?' Zola asked, 'Dad! What's a lockdown?'

'Everyone, the hospital is on lockdown. There is a shooter in the hospital. We need to stabilise this patient quickly and get him to ICU, then we get somewhere safe' Derek ordered

They closed up the patient and moved him to the ICU, thankfully it wasn't that far away from the OR. They made sure he was stable before leaving the patients room and locking themselves into a store room so they were safe.

'Dad, where's mom?'

'I don't know Zola, but she will be fine. I promise' Derek said trying to comfort his daughter

Bailey

Bailey was in peds with his resident and Arizona Robbins.

'We don't have any surgeries scheduled today, so we will be checking on patients and making sure they stay stable' Arizona said

'Should be a quiet day then' Sofia said

'Don't say things like that' Bailey laughed, 'You'll jinx it'

Arizona was reading a chart when her pager went off

'Everyone!' She shouted, gathering everyone around the nurse's station, 'We are on lockdown. The chief has called for lockdown, there is a shooter in the hospital'

'What?' Bailey said

'What about the patients?' Sofia asked

'We need to move all peds patients into one room, they will be easier to watch since we are on lockdown'

'How?' Sofia asked

'All patients that can walk can walk the rest put in wheelchairs and move them' Arizona ordered

Meredith

Meredith was rushing through the quiet halls of the hospital to make sure there was no one walking around. She didn't particularly want to run into the shooter, but she didn't know who it was. She had checked one side of the hospital, now she needed to check the other side. As she walked across the catwalk she paused. Remembering the last time there was a shooter in the hospital, remembering when her husband was lay on the floor bleeding. Dying.

'Hold on, OK? Hold on. I love you. Please don't die' Meredith cried as she held pressure on Derek's chest

'Get out of here, Meredith, before he shoots you' Derek gasped

'Do not die. Do you understand? I can't live without you'

'I called the police' Christina said running up to them

'If you die, I die. The police are coming' Meredith said trying to give some comfort to Derek

'They're not gonna get here. They're not coming for us. Not in time'

'I picked you!

'What are we gonna do?'

'I choose you. You don't die on me'

She was not going to live through that again, she wasn't going to have anyone else die on her watch.

Derek and Zola

'Dad, I'm scared' Zola said pacing

'Zola it's going to be alright. Your mother did the right thing'

'We are all going to be fine, we are here. Your mother will be in her office waiting on the police and Bailey is…'

'Where is Bailey' Zola butted in

'I don't know Zola. But he will be with his resident' Derek said, 'Come sit down'

Zola went and sat next to Derek and he pulled her into his body to comfort her. he had lived through this before, he didn't want her to be traumatised like he was.

'I can't believe this is happening again' Derek whispered

'Again?' Zola asked

'Yeah. Me and your mother have been through this again. A year after we got married, I was interm chief and there was a shooter in the hospital then'

'What happened?' Zola asked looking up at him

'I got shot, Uncle Alex got shot, your mother had a miscarriage'

'You got shot?'

'Yeah, Auntie Christina operated on me with a gun to her head' Derek told her

Bailey

They had moved all the patients to one room so they didn't have to walk around the hospital. Bailey was sat in a chair clearly worried

'Bailey, you okay?' Sofia asked walking over. She cared about him, he was her best friends little brother

'I'm scared. I don't know where any of my family are'

'They are all safe, your mother called a lockdown. So, everyone will be safe. We are just waiting for the police'

'Thanks' Bailey said

Meredith

Meredith had checked the whole hospital and hadn't come across the shooter, she was walking down near ICU to check on the patients and then go back to her office. She was passing an ICU room when she saw a man walking down the hall

'Excuse me, you shouldn't be walking around' Meredith said

'I'm looking for the chief' The man said

'I am the chief'

'This is your fault then'

'Excuse me?'

'You're the reason I couldn't say goodbye to my wife. You killed her, you switched off her life support' The man said

'I haven't done anything, who are you?'

'I am Jerry Wilkin and you killed my wife' Jerry said holding the gun up to Meredith

Derek and Zola

'Shh' Derek said when he heard walking outside the room

They sat there in silence, waiting for whoever was outside to leave. Then they recognised the voice outside

'It's mom' Zola whispered

Meredith

'Look Jerry, I have only been chief for a week. I haven't made that order. That would have been the chief before me' Meredith said trying to convince the man

'Then get her here'

'I can't. she doesn't work here anymore'

'Looks like you will have to do then' Jerry said, Meredith was staring down the barrel of the gun. Now she knows what Derek felt like all those years ago. All she could think about was the moment when Derek first told her he loved her.

'Please Mr Wilkin. If you put the gun down now we can talk about this'

'There's no point. I'll still go to jail' Jerry said, and then he saw the police SWAT team run in through the doors. The police were getting closer to them and Jerry started to panic

'I'm sorry' Jerry said, then there were two gun shots