Chapter Thirteen: Jealousy
Meredith scrubbed out of her surgery with Derek with a smile on her face. She had assisted him with a craniotomy and they had successfully treated the young patient.
"Good job Dr Grey" Derek praised her addressing her professionally as he did when they were at the hospital.
"Thank you Dr Shepherd" she replied with a smile.
Meredith exited the scrub room and made her way down to the pit to assist with victims of a car accident. She froze as she heard a familiar shouting.
"Let go of me, I don't appreciate being handled in this way, you are all a bunch of amateurs" the woman exclaimed from the gurney she was being wheeled in on.
Cristina gave Meredith a sympathy look as Ellis Grey continued to rant at George and the other doctors who were assessing her.
"Get her out of here, she is just a child. Meredith I don't have time for you Mommy is working" she shouted at Meredith.
Meredith turned and ran, she couldn't be around while her mother acted this way and now everyone knew her secret.
"Mer are you okay?" Cristina asked following Meredith into the on call room she had ran to.
"No, I'm not okay" Meredith admitted. "Now you know my other little secret, Ellis Grey isn't so great anymore is she Cristina" Meredith snapped at her.
"I'm so sorry Mer, you could have told me" Cristina said sincerely rubbing Meredith's back.
"She made me promise not to tell anyone" Meredith confessed tears sliding down her cheeks. "She made me lie for her. So she could keep her dignity, she didn't care what it would do to me" Meredith rambled.
"So she hasn't been travelling and writing?" Cristina asked clarifying what Meredith had told her.
Meredith shook her head. "She has been at a home, I visit her whenever I get a chance, most days she doesn't know who I am, she thinks I'm 5" Meredith confided in Cristina.
"That's rough Mer, well now people know, you don't have to lie anymore" Cristina told her.
"What's wrong with her?" Meredith asked.
"They think she may have had a heart attack" Cristina told her softly.
Meredith just sat their silent, sobbing softly to herself. She looked at Cristina as her pager beeped.
"Go Cris, I will be fine" Meredith told her.
"Okay but if you need me just page" Cristina told her as she left.
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Mark stood at the nurse's station filling in a patients chart as he heard the nurses gossiping.
"I am telling you it was Ellis Grey, Meredith's mother" one said.
"I think she is crazy or something" another said.
"And now the poor woman has heart problems, make you almost feel sorry for Meredith" the first one said.
"Shut up and actually do some work" Mark snapped at them having heard enough.
Mark scanned around looking for Meredith or one of her friends who may know where she is. He looked at the OR board only to find that she wasn't in surgery. He turned around and spotted Derek making his way to the nurse's station.
"Derek" he called out.
"Mark, what's up?" Derek asked approaching Mark.
"Have you seen Meredith?" he asked quickly.
"Not since this morning, she was in surgery with me, is everything alright?" Derek asked concerned.
"Ah not really, Ellis Grey was admitted and I'm not sure if Mer has told you that story but it isn't good" Mark told him, Derek may not be his favourite person but Meredith was more important.
"Oh well I'm busy with patients but if I find I will let you know" Derek said honestly.
"Thanks" Mark said sincerely.
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Meredith stood outside her mother's room not sure if she wanted to enter. She didn't know whether they would have calmed her down by now. Being back in this hospital would only turn her more into the surgeon she used to be than normal.
Meredith finally made her way into the room to find Ellis sitting up in her bed reading through charts. "Oh good you must be the nurse they sent, I need you to take bloods for my patient in 2387" Ellis ordered at her.
"No Mom, it's me Meredith" Meredith said softly.
"Don't be silly, Meredith is only 5 years old, don't you dare talk to me about my daughter" Ellis snapped at her.
Meredith backed at of the room, trying to hold back her tears. She had never been close with her mother but it hurt to see her like this.
"I've been looking for you" Mark's voice came up behind her.
She jumped at the sound, turning to face him. The second she looked at him the tears spilled from her dull painful eyes.
"Oh Mer come here" Mark said pulling her close to his body; he rubbed her back soothingly as she sobbed into him. "I'm sorry sweetie, I know it's hard" he said softly.
"She doesn't even know who I am" Meredith sobbed. "She thinks I'm her nurse that was ordered to take bloods for her patient."
"It's just the disease Mer, deep down she knows who you are, who could forget you" he whispered to her still hugging her tightly.
Derek looked down the hallway noticing Meredith snuggled tightly into Mark's arms, he couldn't help feeling jealous at the way Mark was there for Meredith in the way that he couldn't be.