Meredith

Meredith stumbled backwards, screaming as loudly as she could. She tripped over her own feet and landed on the ground on her butt.

George slowly stepped out of the elevator and it closed behind him. He took a step towards Meredith and she scooted herself backwards across the floor. Tears ran down her cheeks.

"Don't touch me!" she shrieked.

George froze where he was for a moment, hurt painting his features.

Meredith took that time to push herself up from the ground and run. She didn't know where she was or what was happening. All she knew was that George had died, and yet his ghost was still standing there calling her name.

"Meredith!" she heard a voice call. "Meredith please!"

That voice was putting her on the edge. She was at his funeral. Then his ghost was haunting them with horor stories of the future. And now... now he was chasing her, screaming her name.

She could hear the footsteps pounding down the hallway after her. "Leave me alone!" she screamed. "Go away!"

"Meredith please come back here! Please!"

Meredith ran as fast as she could towards the basement. Maybe if she got there, she could find Derek or atleast figure this all out.

She let her feet take her to the basement, running as fast as she possibly could. But once again she tripped over her own feet and tumbled to the ground, screaming as she did so.

The second she hit the cold floor, she hugged her arms around her chest and kept quiet. She could feel her heat throbbing in her chest as she tried to pull herself behind a wall where he couldn't find her. But it was no use.

"Meredith," a voice said, suddenly right next to her ear.

Meredith let out a loud scream and thrust her fist forwards, hitting George in the side of the face. He gasped and fell back against the ground.

Meredith took that chance to get back up and run again. She ran to the nearest elevator and pushed her fingers against the button again and again until the doors opened. She jumped through the doors and hit the button to close them until they began to close.

George had now gotten up off of the ground and was running towards the elevator, but the doors shut right before he could get to her.

Meredith sighed in relief and hit the button for the floor where Derek's office was, eager to find something normal.

Meredith caught her breath as the elevator moved. But as fast as her breath was back, the doors were opening and George was standing there right behind them.

Meredith let out a loud scream and George stepped into the elevator and waited for the doors to close before he hit the button that stopped the elevator.

Mereidth backed up against a wall. "Don't touch me!" she warned.

"Meredith-

"Don't say my name!"

"It's me Meredith!"

"Get away from me!"

George grabbed Meredith's face between two hand and looked her straight in the eye. Meredith shook with fear as he stared right at her. He was clearly tired of her games.

"Please don't hurt me!" Mereidht gasped out.

"It's me Mer," he said, gruffly. "It's me. I would never hurt you."

Meredith took a moment to let this process before her breathing slowed slightly. "You're dead," she whispered, tears sliding down her cheeks.

George pulled his hands away from her face and wrapped his arms around her.

It was finally becoming clear to her who she was standing with. Despite everything, Meredith let out a breathless laugh.

"George!" she gasped out, hoarsely.

She threw her arms around him and sobbed loudly. George just held her while she cried. But after a moment, he pulled her away.

"We don't have much time," George said.

"Am I dead?" Meredith whispered.

"No," George shook his head. "Not yet atleast.

Meredith sunk down to the floor slowly. "I don't understand. You've been sending messages to all of us. How is that possible?"

George smiled a half smile, but it didn't reach his eyes. He sat down next to Mereidth on the elevator floor. "I can't lie. I had to break a couple of rules."

"You gave us all visions, made us pass out. And we still failed. We couldn't stop the fire."

"But you did save yourselves."

"You mean the others...

"Cristina's okay. Alex slipped a disk in his back and blacked out, but he's out of the building. Lexie, Mark and Derek are almost out. The firemen got them out of the building. And you hit your head."

Meredith thought back to the second explosion. She remembered flying backwards, hitting her head against the ground.

"It's a miracle that you managed to keep yourself awake for so long," George sighed. "You have a concussion."

Meredith nodded her head slowly, and then her eyes widened. "Izzie," she whispered. "What happened to Izzie?"

George looked down at the ground and didn't answer.

"She's dead?" Meredith gasped.

"Not yet," George muttered. "But it's not lookin' so good for her."

"But she was never even in the building-

"She was on the phone with Alex while she was driving, heard the explosion, and then got into a car accident."

"No," Meredith whispered.

"Hey, there's still hope," George told her.

Meredith didn't respond for a moment. She changed the subject. "I still don't understand how you did everything, gave us the visions, sent us messages, called Alex, whispered Izzie's name, made your reflection appear in the bathroom miror... how?"

"Like I said, I broke a couple of rules. But I owed you guys."

"You owed us?"

"Hey, I joined the army and didn't tell you. I got myself killed by jumping in front of a bus."

"You are an idiot," Meredith chuckled.

George smiled. "Yeah I am. So I owed you guys."

"That's the reason you did all of this?"

"Well... that, and the fact that you guys all had lives to live."

"You had one too, George."

"Not like you guys. Alex and Izzie, you and Derek, Lexie and Mark, Cristina and Owen. You're all in love."

"You know, that girl that you saved from the bus, she loved you."

"I know," George chuckled. "If I had survived, I porbably would have had a relationship."

"Yeah, probably," Mereidht sighed.

Suddenly the elevator started to ding."Times up," George said. "You have to come back."

"No!" Mereidth gasped. "No, I can't leave you!"

"Meredith, if you don't go back right now, you will die, and so will your baby."

"Fine," meredith whispered, tears pooling in her eyes.

"Goodbye Meredith," George whispered. "Give everyone a hug for me. I'll always be here if you need to talk. You may not be able to hear me. But I can hear you. Tell Izzie the same thing please."

Meredith nodded slowly and took in a shuddering breath. "I'm sorry I hit you," she murmured.

George shrugged and quickly wrapped his arms around her, pulling her to him. Meredith closed her eyes and let him hold her, until he vanished from her grip, and she fell forwards onto the ground.

"No!" Meredith cried. The elevator began to move again, going down. "George," Meredith cried. She bearly whispered the next words. "Goodbye George."

The elevator continued to move downwards, and Meredith didn't even attempt to get off of the ground.

Her head was spinning with thoughts and confusion. By the time the door opened at bottom floor Meredith bearly noticed. BUt what she did notice was when the door opened and she saw someone standing there in a pink dress, watching her.

"Izzie!" Meredith gasped.

The elevator doors slammed shut.

A/N: Sorry for not letting you guys know what's happened with Cristina, Owen, Lexie and Mark. That will all be answered in the next chapter. If I get twenty reviews by midnight, I will update tommorow.