Chapter Thirty-Two: Go Home
Meredith entered the intern locker room with only 5 minutes to get dressed before rounds. She had spent the morning sitting on the bathroom floor as usual throwing up the non existent contents of her stomach.
She quickly threw her shirt over her head and pulled her scrub top over the long sleeve shirt she had on under her sweater. She quickly pulled down her jeans that were becoming too tight and pulled on her scrub pants.
She looked over to her side to find Cristina and Izzie staring at her.
"What!?" she asked unsure of why they were looking at her.
"Mer, how did you even get those jeans on this morning?" Izzie asked.
'Trust me with a lot of effort" Meredith huffed realising they had been watching her struggle with her pants.
"So did you and Mark enjoy having the house to yourselves?" Izzie asked as Meredith tied her sandshoes.
"Yeah we did thanks, he made dinner and then we just relaxed" Meredith replied.
"Yeah relax is that what they call it these days" Alex said with a smirk causing Meredith to blush.
"You're all nasty, get your nasty minds back to the job, you know hospital with patients" Bailey's voice appeared behind them.
Meredith quickly stood up and brushed her hair back into a pony tail to show she was ready despite the fact she had very nearly been late.
"Okay assignments Yang Hahn, Karev Shepherd, O'Malley Dr Montgomery needs an intern and Grey Sloan requested you" Bailey said raising her eyebrows at the mention of Meredith and Mark working together.
"Stevens what are you still doing here? Home, sleep" Bailey exclaimed at her causing her to jump.
"Right going" she said grabbing her stuff.
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"So you requested me today?" Meredith said coming up behind Mark. "Wouldn't have anything to do with what happened yesterday would it?" she questioned raising her eyebrows as he turned to look at her.
"I just want to make sure you're okay, you scared me yesterday" he told her sincerely.
"I'm fine" she said emphasising the word fine.
"Okay" he said giving up. "Check on my post op patients in rooms 1450, 1435 and 1477 then come meet me in room 1499" Mark told her before heading off in the opposite direction.
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"Do you know much about Mere…Dr Grey?" Addison asked the fumbling intern she had been given. George O'Malley certainly had a long way to go.
"I'm not sure what this has to do with anything Dr Montgomery but yeah I guess I know her, I lived with her until just a few days ago" he admitted to his superior.
"Oh she moved you out to make room for the babies" she asked curiously.
"Ah no she wanted me to stay but I moved in with my girlfriend well at the moment we live in a hotel but as soon as we both have time off we are going to look for an apartment" George rambled.
"Oh, that's nice" she told George realising he was going to be no help in gaining information about Meredith. "I have a pre op patient in 5643 I need you to monitor" she told him before heading to the coffee cart, she felt like it was going to be a long day.
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"Mark I can't eat all that" Meredith exclaimed at tray piled in an excessive amount of food that her husband had placed in front of her.
"Meredith you need your strength, yesterday proved that" he told her with a smile.
"Yeah, strength not the entire cafeteria" she shot back at him. "But I will take the chocolate milkshake" she said sucking on the straw and draining the contents.
"It's only a few days until the appointment, are you nervous?" he asked as she ate the fries he had gotten her.
"A little I guess, I haven't really been thinking about it" Meredith said shovelling more fries into her mouth.
"Geez Mer did you leave any food in the cafeteria for other people" Cristina snapped joining the couple at their table.
"I blame Mark" she said through a mouthful of fries.
"Hahn is driving me crazy" Cristina ranted. "She won't teach me, isn't that what being an intern is about, teaching!"
"Interns are annoying, I make mine fetch coffee" Mark told them with a smirk.
"I thank god that Bailey is smart enough to keep me away from you" Cristina said glaring at him.
"I haven't gotten you coffee" Meredith said smiling at him.
"That's because you get special privileges and there is the fact that it makes you sick" he said kissing her cheek.
"Ah gagging here" Cristina said making sounds as though she was gagging.
"I'm going anyway" Meredith said looking at her pager. "Bye" she said before running off sceptical to why she was being paged if she was on Mark's service.
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"You paged" Meredith said approaching Addison flipping her hair off her shoulder.
"I know that you don't want to talk me but I'm making you listen" Addison told her firmly leading Meredith to her office.
"Addison I thought I made myself clear yesterday when I said go home" Meredith snapped at her.
"Mer, please, I never meant for it to happen, he was lonely you were hurting him" Addison cried at her.
"And the fact that he was married and you have a fiancé didn't seem to stop you" Meredith shouted at her.
"I HAD a fiancé, Jake broke up with me as soon as he heard what happened, I tried doing the whole honesty thing and it was thrown in my face" Addison said getting teary.
"What did you expect Addie, him to say oh its okay you slept with my best mate, I forgive you?" Meredith cried.
"We can't all be you can we Meredith, we can't all be so forgiving" Addison exclaimed at her. "But wait I guess Mark has done his share of forgiving hasn't he, he couldn't have been to happy showing up in Seattle to find you in the arms of another man" Addison said harshly.