Chapter Fifteen: Day Two, Morning Part Two

Meredith sighed and began walking quickly.

The only reason she could think of that she would have to go to the Chief was to discuss the finer details of her transfer.

But there was some deep part of her that could not help but think otherwise.

Something did not seem right…

Bailey had said she would see her later…

I guess I will see when I get there…

When she reached the landing that allowed her to see into the Chief's office, Meredith immediately came to a standstill when she heard raised voices coming from the office. Looking through the window Meredith saw quite a scene inside.

The Chief, Bailey, Addison and Derek were all inside the office and Addison and Derek were having a face-off.

Derek stood with his back to the window so Meredith couldn't see his face, but she could immediately tell from his back that he was very tense and angry.

Addison stood at the direct opposite end of the office so Meredith could see her face clearly. Anger and frustration was written clearly on every pore of Addison's face as she looked at Derek.

Bailey was sitting on a chair against the back wall and was the watching the screaming match between the estranged pair with something that looked like bored amusement.

The Chief was sitting at his desk and was merely watching in silence as the couple let all hell loose in the office.

Meredith felt the blood drain from her face when she saw her name mouthed on Addison's lips and she immediately knew what they were talking about.

Her.

"Oh no…" she groaned quietly.

As if he had heard her, the Chief looked out of his window and saw Meredith standing there, pale and very nervous.

He instantly looked at Bailey who carefully turned to look and saw Meredith too.

Nodding briefly at Bailey, she instantly got up and quietly walked out of the office, going completely unnoticed by the still quarrelling Shepherds.

Meredith watched Bailey walk towards her and she quickly looked back at the Chief who was still watching her.

When they made eye contact, the Chief tilted his head to the side and made a slight 'flick' of his head.

Meredith instantly got the message.

Go and come back later…

Meredith nodded back and he gave her a small smile.

By that time Bailey had walked to where Meredith stood and she said in a soft tone, "Come on Grey, let's go while the Shepherds tear down the walls of this hospital with their stupid arguing."

Meredith nodded in silence and immediately turned around to follow Bailey, but she had one last glance through the window at the back of Derek.

She knew how he looked when he was angry, but she could not understand why he was yelling at Addison. It wasn't like he cared how his wife treated her…did he?

Pondering this, she followed Bailey in silence and didn't even pay attention as to where they were going until Bailey opened a door and held it open for Meredith to walk through.

When Meredith made herself come out of her thoughts she found herself back in the intern locker room and she looked at Bailey with confusion.

"What happened in the Chief's office?" she asked, "And I want the truth because I am sick of people tip-toeing around me as if I can't handle things when I can."

Bailey just raised and eyebrow in amusement. "You really wanna know?"

Meredith nodded.

Bailey sighed and looked at Meredith with a serious expression, "You obviously know what we were talking about?"

Meredith nodded again, "Yeah. You, well the Shepherds, were talking about me and…"

"And the unprofessional way that Dr Montgomery-Shepherd has been treating you since the Chief and I put you under her teaching and care." Bailey finished off and Meredith looked at her in shock.

"You were talking about that?"

Bailey's amused expression dropped of her face and it turned into one of disbelief, "You really couldn't figure it out even though I had told you that I would be seeing you back again?"

Meredith looked away and began to fiddle with her top again, feeling as if she were once again in front of her mother as a child and she felt only an inch tall.

"Uh…no." she admitted with a very embarrassed expression. "I did not think that I was that important enough for the Chief to call two attendings and a resident to his office about."

Shock flashed across Bailey's face for a fraction of a second before being clouded with a look of angered disapproval.

"Grey, even though you are an intern it doesn't mean that you are invisible. You've caused so much trouble around here with your unreasonable choices for whom you chose to be with and that he also turned out to be married did not help you at all. I know it doesn't help that the unbelievable mill of gossip around the hospital seems to run solely off you, but it does not mean that you are insignificant or should be looked over easily. You need to learn and believe that about yourself otherwise this transfer will not work for you."

Meredith stared at Bailey in complete silence.

Her words had a resounding effect on her when Meredith suddenly found herself leaning forward and giving Miranda Bailey an extremely quick and tight hug.

Immediately Meredith regretted it when she let go and stepped back, finding that Bailey was looking at with a disbelieving shocked expression.

"I'm sorry." Meredith blurted but Bailey just frowned at her.

"Grey just because I told you that you should not consider yourself invisible even though you are an intern, that does not give you the right or privilege to hug me!" Bailey yelled slightly and Meredith suddenly could not help but smile.

"And what are you smiling at Grey?!" Bailey demanded, placing both hands on her hips.

Meredith covered her smiling mouth with her hand and shook her head slightly, trying now not to laugh.

"I just hugged you…" she said, slightly giggling in disbelief.

Bailey gave her the 'Nazi' look, "And?"

Meredith just started laughing, her tiredness and emotional roller-coaster finally getting through to her.

"I hugged Dr Bailey." Meredith said, now laughing hard and shrugging in helplessness at the whole situation.

Bailey gave her an extremely small half-smile and regarded Meredith with amusement, "Who says I am not huggable? I can have my moments."

Meredith shook her head again in disbelief and laughed even harder.

Bailey watched Meredith for a few seconds and she knew her intern really needed some sleep otherwise she was going to pass out on her own accord pretty soon.

She would just rearrange Meredith's meeting with the Chief for tomorrow.

"Grey, go home." Bailey said in a dismissive tone, "Your laughter and giggling is too much."

Meredith slowly stopped laughing but she just smiled at Bailey, "Thank you Dr Bailey."

Bailey looked her over once then gave her a half smirk, "You won't tomorrow. I'll see you at five thirty rounds."

Meredith felt her heart lift and she smiled even more.

But there was one last thing she needed to ask, "Dr Bailey, what about seeing the Chief?"

Bailey gave her a mysterious expression, "Grey you will just have to worry about that tomorrow."

And without allowing Meredith to ask anything else, Bailey walked out of the room and left her intern standing there feeling even more confused than ever about the events that had happened so far that day.

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Meanwhile in the Chief's office…

"Addison I can't believe you made her work a whole shift, make her be on-call for the night then make her work another day shift! Have you gone completely crazy or something?!"

"Don't you even dare get started on accusing me to be crazy when it is you who has been sneaking around the hospital at 2am in the morning and watch over Meredith as she slept on the job! For an hour Derek you watched over her!"

"Well no wonder she fell asleep because of how hard you were pushing her!"

"You aren't even going to deny it?!"

"Why should I?! You've already convinced yourself that I did see her so how is my word going to change anything?"

"Everything Derek!"

"Well I don't need to answer to you Addison about Meredith, ever!"

"I am your wife Derek! I have every reason and right in the world to be to ask you about your intern girlfriend whom you left for me if you remember correctly!"

"Like how you chose me over Mark?"

"Mark is different Derek! You have to just get over that Derek and stop bringing it up to use against as your main weapon of argument because it is simply getting old!"

"Old?! You came out here to beg me for forgiveness when I was perfectly happy with someone else but I still chose you Addison!"

"If you were so happy Derek then why the hell did you choose me?!"

"Because it was the right thing to do Addison."

"The right thing to do?! Derek you can't be serious! You picked me over your girlfriend because it was morally right?! So you would be able to lie in bed with me at night and be able to do it knowing that it was the superior moral thing to do?!"

"Maybe."

"If I had known that then I would have gone back to New York months ago and I would be back with Mark!"

"And you accuse me of sneaking around the hospital!"

"Well at least I haven't been going behind everyone's backs and sneaking off to see the person who is leaving this hospital just to get away from you!"

"THAT IS ENOUGH!" the Chief suddenly bellowed.

The pair just glared at each other in complete silence, the room simmering with heavy residue angered tension.

The Chief glared at the both of them from his desk, his expression so stern and hard that both Derek and Addison knew that they were in a lot of trouble for yelling in front of him.

"This hospital, my office, is not the place to argue about your marital problems. It is a place where we try to save lives and we keep our personal lives away from the hospital! The instant we allow our personal lives interfere here, our emotions get the best of us and we can no longer look after our patients properly!"

Derek and Addison glanced at each then they both looked down at the floor with guilt on their faces.

The Chief crossed his arms over his chest as he regarded his two attendings.

"Now you two need to keep your marriage problems away from your jobs. This is not a suggestion and this is your final warning. Get help, get marriage counselling, get a divorce, get whatever it is that will stop you both from tearing apart each other's throats in plain view of everyone. Just make sure it is away from my hospital!"

They both looked at him and nodded in silence, now feeling fully ashamed and embarrassed at having the Chief of Surgery yelling at them.

"Do I make myself clear?" The Chief asked in warning.

"Yes Chief." Derek said.

"Yes Richard." Addison replied.

The Chief nodded again, still looking very sternly at them. "Now what I am going to say next neither of you are allowed to say a single damn thing because my word goes and it is final on this matter."

The Shepherds looked at the Chief with confused interest.

Looking them both in the eye, the Chief said, "Meredith Grey is to be removed from being under Addison and is immediately going back to being with Miranda. Until her leaving date in twelve days, she will be treated like a normal intern and there will be no more 'special treatment' for her because you two have made it impossible already on the second day of it for it to work! So Shepherd this means you will have access at being able to have her as an intern again if you ever want any interns to help you out on your cases."

Derek's heart flooded with both relief and happiness but he did not allow it show on his face because the Chief was studying his face very closely.

The Chief turned his attention back to Addison and he looked at her with utter disappointment, "And you Addison, will not be allowed to ever have Grey back under your teaching again until you can prove that you are a satisfactory teacher and can think of interns as people, not just your slaves to do your paperwork and night watch. At the moment I see that you are unfit to have any interns with you on any cases at all for the extreme unprofessional behaviour that you have exhibited with Grey."

Addison looked at the Chief in complete silence as the Chief continued.

"You abusing your power and rank as an attending to go on a personal vendetta for revenge on a woman whom is more than a victim is both unmoral and cruel. I highly recommend that you take the rest of the day off and have a small break until you can get your act together and get yourself back in control."

Addison was in shock, "You…Richard are you suspending me?"

The Chief shook his head, "Addison I recommended you have a break to clear your head and get your personal life together before I can see you are fit to work here within the same environment with Meredith Grey."

Derek glanced across the room at his pale wife and he had to bite the inside of his cheek to stop him from smiling in triumph at the justice that had been given to her.

But it did not mean the Chief had not seen it flash in his blue eyes.

"I would be making you take a break too Derek but there are no residents who can match your much needed skill, but the same principle goes for you too. Get your personal life and your head together." The Chief said in a hard tone, causing Derek to regard himself lucky that he had chosen to become a neurosurgeon way back in medical school.

He nodded at the Chief in a serious expression, "Yes Chief."

The Chief nodded back and looked at the both of them again for a few seconds before saying, "Now I never want to have this discussion again. You can now go."

Immediately dismissing them by beginning doing paperwork, Addison and Derek looked at the Chief for a few seconds in silence before walking slowly out of the office.

The instant they were both outside, Derek walked away from the office door and across the landing and he finally allowed the smile he had been suppressing to burst onto his face.

His heart now felt light and giddy at the prospect that he could now have Meredith as his intern again and that he could see her whenever he wanted.

Lots and lots of different possibilities and scenarios of how he could 'accidentally' bump into her and have to 'accidentally' share an elevator with her caused him to plan in joy as he walked off to his next surgery.

Addison on the other hand went and got changed before leaving the hospital in a complete shocked daze, still unable to believe what had just happened in the Chief's office.

She had to have a break…

And her being gone wouldn't give her access to be able to watch her husband and Meredith Grey.

"I hate karma…" Addison mumbled under her breath, seething as she hopped in her car and drove off away from the hospital.

A/N: Hello everyone, so sorry it has taken me so long to update. I have been very busy at school, writing a new Grey's Anatomy story called 'Forgetting My Life' (If anyone is interested it is about Meredith getting amnesia from being accidentally washed out to sea a week after the Derek told her that he had kissed Rose (the silliest story line twist in the history of Grey's Anatomy!!!)) and I have written, re-written and edited this chapter so many times that it nearly drove me crazy. But I like how it has turned out. Now I know that the Chief has not spoken to Meredith but he will in a couple of chapters, two if my calculations are correct. But the main point of this chapter was to sort out the problem of Addison and what was going to happen to Meredith at the hospital. Both are answered so now I am happy. But are you? I made this chapter long as a way of apologising for the time to update. But I am keen on what people think of this so far.

I just hope it isn't too long-winded and dragging on, but I like the idea of it being day to day. :)

Anyway, thank you so much to the lovely people who reviewed the last chapter and for the fantastic input they give me. :)

sweetgreuy: Lol. :) Happy you are liking where it is going, and someone does definitely get into trouble with the Chief. Guess who? Lol. Well you will know by the time you have read the chapter. Any way I hope you enjoyed the update and I hope you will continue reading it. :)

malfoyie456: Hope you like the update and what the Chief had to say, but unfortunately you are going to have to wait for another chapter or two to find out what the Chief is going to say to Meredith. If I had added it in this chapter it would have been way to long and it seems better for it to be said one on one with her instead of in front of Bailey, Derek and Addison. Thanks for the review. :D

MissRe: Maybe Addie is, but I think as long as Bailey and the Chief are there then she can't. And what I've given to her in this latest chapter she won't be able to. He he he. But thank you very much and I am very happy you are still enjoying it. :D Hope you liked the latest chapter. :D

InGreyEyes: Thanks for the review and I do hope you stay tuned because I am very interested in what you will think of it as the story unfolds. :) And in this newest chapter I have made Addison back off. :) She was being a bit tough and needed to be put back in line. Hope you continue reading it. :)

dempeo is lovee: Well thankyou very much. :D I hope you liked the latest chapter. :) Thank you for the review too!

TVHollywoodDiva: Thanks. :) Yeah I have been giving Meredith a pretty rough run haven't I? Sorry about that but hopefully things will eventually look up for her. Thanks for the review. :)

snv3: Glad you were excited and that you reviewed another chapter! I'm happy you are enjoying it still and I hope you will continue reading it and I hope you liked the latest chapter. I didn't really have much Bailey action in the Chief's office because I think she knew that Addison and Derek fighting in front of the Chief would be more than enough to convince him without using words that he needed to put Meredith back with her as her intern again. Thanks for the review. :D

DeniseSB: You can definitely bet that is the reason why I did it, that and I could create a reason as to being able to get her out of the hospital and to leave my story for a while. Sorry for causing a little emotional whiplash though, I have made Addison go from one spectrum of her personality to the other simply because I wanted to play with it and to make things interesting. Hope you liked my latest update and that it could explain a few things as to why Addison acted the way she did and to help keep the flow of the story going. Thank you for another fantastic insightful review. I hope you can leave another one. :)