I'm BACK! It's been like three months and i am sorry. Let us get on with the story.

Carolynwas at home, being a good grandmother, she had made Valerie go to sleep. And she needed to tend to her own daughter. The one whose cries she heard from the room nearby. She tried to knock, but the door was open. So, she let herself in and her daughter was crying, the way that she had cried when Sal Smith broke up with her in high school. She was probably crying about Jason, Carolyn surprisingly didn't know much about Jason, just that he walked out on her, before Valerie was born. "Mom" said Nancy and flung her arms around Carolyn. She hadn't done this since high school. But being the good mother she was, she sat on the bed beside her and asked her what was wrong. "It's Jason, mom." said Nancy still crying.

"Darling, if he walked out on you then he wasn't worth it." said Carolyn as she put her hand on Nancy's head, caressing her hair gently. "It's not that, mom." she said "He conned me. He left me while I was still pregnant, and he took all the money with him. His name isn't even Jason. He is wanted in 11 states for fraud. I got conned, mom.". Carolyn was taken aback. She wasn't as close to her daughters and son as she had thought. Originally, Derek didn't even want to tell Carolyn that Meredith was pregnant. And now Nancy didn't tell her about such a big thing. She thought that she had failed as a mother but this wasn't the time for that.

Carolyn got a call, and she had to pick up the phone. With her daughter by her side, Carolyn picked up the phone. "Hello?" she had said, and there was a long silence on the line. And then finally someone said "Mom". It was a small voice, almost inaudible, and it was Derek's voice. It seemed as if he was crying. And he had said 'Mom' in the same way that he had said it when he had called her after her father had died, and it felt like she was back in time, that Derek was 8 again and something very bad had happened as dread washed over her. "Derek, what's wrong ?" she asked and the sentence captured Nancy's attention. She wiped the tears off her face and listened closely to the phone. "Could you just come here ?" said the voice on the other end and so she did.

Cristina was puzzled as to what Derek had just done. He wasn't the angry kind which is why she could not explain the reason why McDreamy would randomly hit a person like this. As she helped Stephen back to the table, he was overcame by the fear of the unknown and the fact that this wasn't normal. "What the hell is wrong with that doctor ?" asked Stephen, his hand on his cheek, still hurting.

"Could you just stay here ?" said Cristina as she went out to see what was going on. She saw Izzie and Alex tending to different patients. And Geirge had just came out of a trauma room, the scene probably too much for Bambi to take, but Meredith was nowhere to be seen. She made her way towards George, and asked him "Why are you out here? And if you have something surgery-worthy, would you trade?".

George looked up to her in disgust and confusion and then said "You don't know ?". Cristina was confused and puzzled and couldn't take more of this riddle-stuff. "If you would just tell me, then I would know." said Cristina.

"A patient attacked Meredith." said George and then looking on to the floor, uttering nothing else. At this mention, Cristina grew increasingly worried and said "Is she okay now ?". But George didn't answer, and Cristina had to see for herself. She got into the trauma room and saw Addison performing an ultrasound. Bailey was suturing her wound. The surgeons in the room were tending to her, and Cristina saw intubators as well as other machines hooked to her person. Owen looked at her and took her away from there, "Cristina, you shouldn't be here.".

"What happened to her ?" asked Cristina, completely taken aback for once in her life. "A patient attacked her, and he has mild dissociative disorder, so he doesn't remember anything. Her injuries aren't that fatal. She has trouble breathing, we had to intubate her. She has several injuries and there may be a fractured rib but we will have to wait for an X-Ray for that. We have to take an MRI. She'll be alright." said Owen and went back inside.

"Don't worry, it will be okay." said Carolyn to herself as she entered the hospital. There was chaos, all around. Nancy was at home, because they couldn't leave Valerie alone. She went across the room, looking for Derek, but he wasn't there. She looked around and finally saw him sitting on a gurney with Mark next to him. His expression had a tinge of depression and guilt in it. She couldn't remember the last time she had seen him so vulnerable.

"Derek" she called out to him but he didn't seem to notice. She made her way across the hall to the gurney. "Oh, Derek." she said and he finally saw her. He got up from the gurney, giving her a hug. Mark just sat there, didn't move, didn't speak, just sat there. "What's wrong, son ?" she asked with concern on her face, she couldn't see Meredith around. "It's Meredith, mom. A patient attacked her. She's not okay.". It took a moment for her to sink that in. And after processing that, being the loving mother that she was, she told Derek in a firm, strong voice "Everything will be alright, Derek."

"Cristina what's wrong ?" asked Izzie as she spotted Cristina and George standing outside the trauma room, staring at nothing. Alex was with her, as they both were assigned to the same patient, but the surgery was not for another two hours. "It's Meredith. She's not okay." said George, in a low voice. Alex interrupted in between and asked him what he meant. "She was attacked by a patient." said Cristina. Alex took the support of the wall to take in the shock. "She'll get through this." said Izzie, being her optimistic self. "You don't know that." said Alex.

"That's Meredith Grey in there. She has survived many things. She has survived bombs and drownings, so she isn't going to die today, not like this. Meredith Grey is a survivor. She won't give up, at least not for her children. Guys, she's gonna be fine, she will outlive all of us." said Izzie in her firm, believing voice. And the others almost believed her.

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Love, Allison