Lennon groggily made her way downstairs, yawning, she found a Meredith sitting in the kitchen "Coffee?" She asked hopefully, sniffing the air to try and find it.
Meredith shook her head amused "Freshly made."
Lennon rushed behind the counter to our herself a steaming cup. She took a sip before sighing relief "Ahh, that's the stuff."
Meredith drummed her fingers on the counter "You know if we're actually going to keep the house we really are going to have to get roommates."
Lennon groaned "I don't want to live with people."
Meredith sighed "Me neither Len but we can't afford this place on our own."
"Okay," Lennon gave in, hopping up onto the counter "We need some ground rules."
Meredith nodded pulling her laptop in front of her "Yes, like what?"
"No murderers."
Meredith raised an eyebrow "Well I thought that was an obvious one but wouldn't they just lie?"
"Probably." Lennon frowned "Okay...no smokers then."
"No smokers." Meredith repeated, typing it up "What else?" The two paused in thought as Lennon took a sip of her coffee "Oh! No pets."
Lennon nodded "Yes, I do not want to be cleaning up crap everyday."
"Anything else?" Meredith asked as she finished typing.
The two looked around in thought before simultaneously gasping as they faced each other "No Bush supporters."
Lennon made her way into the locker room, Meredith in tow. The two stopped in front if the notice board by the door. Lennon looked to her friend with a sigh "Let's get this over with."
Meredith nodded before taking out the piece of paper. Pinning it to the board, the two stood back to admire it. There. Anything, anyone interested in living with the pair needed to know, was on it.
Silently the two made their way to their lockers to get changed into their scrubs for their shift. As Lennon finished pulling on her top she noticed a pair of Cheetah Print Moccasins "Cute shoes Mer."
Meredith turned around from her locker before lifting the footwear "You're just saying that because you bought them." She chuckled, turning to put them away.
Lennon simply winked at her friend with a smirk as the two filed out with the rest of interns to meet with Dr. Bailey for rounds.
Lennon raised an eyebrow as Meredith handed her a hot drink "It's a mocha latte." Meredith explained, holding another in her hand, Lennon shrugged before taking a sip.
Izzie rounded the corner with George and approached the two "I saw the poster, I want a room." Izzie grinned as she stopped in front of them.
George nodded quickly beside her "Me too!"
Lennon frowned as Meredith shook her head "Nope, no way, not happening."
"What why?" Izzie questioned, frowning along with George "Why do you put up posters for roommates if you don't want roommates?"
Meredith sighed "I do want roommates, we're together a hundred hours a week, you want to live together too?"
Cristina approached the group just as Lennon lifted her cup to take another sip "Ooh, you're bringing bribes now?" She gestured to Meredith's coffee.
Lennon went crossed eyed as she looked at her own cup. George leaned towards Meredith "I need a place to live. My mom irons my scrubs. I have to get out of there."
Meredith shook her head before looking to Christina "It's not a bribe." Sighing she turned to George "I don't think it's a good idea."
George frowned "But I can put down last, first and deposit."
Lennon shared a smirk with Christina "Oh it's totally a bribe... But that's okay because she got me one too." She shrugged with a happy grin.
Izzie stood in front of Meredith "I can cook."
Lennon looked up at that "I love food." The blonde smiled, hoping this would help make her case "Can you bake? Dessert is so go-"
"Len. It's not happening. Besides you didn't even want roommates." Meredith interrupted making Izzie's smile drop.
Lennon pouted "I know, but we could have Martha Stewart in our kitchen." She gestured to the blonde as Cristina pat her back in mock sympathy.
"And I'm an obsessive cleaner." Izzie added hopefully.
Meredith shook her head "No. I just want two total strangers who I don't have to talk to, or be nice to," she sighed before glaring playfully at Lennon and Cristina "and it's not a bribe, it's a mocha latte." she said before heading over to Dr. Bailey who had just arrived at the nurses station.
Bailey looked up at her group of interns approach "George, you're running the code team, Meredith, Lennon take the trauma patients, Cristina, deliver the weekend labs to the patients, Izzie, you're on sutures." She instructed before heading towards the stairs.
Meredith followed after her "Dr Bailey." She started and the woman paused on the stairs, turning to looks own at her intern was a raised eyebrow "I was hoping to assist you in the OR today, maybe do a minor procedure? I think I'm ready." She informed her resident before holding out the hot beverage with a hopeful smile "Mocha latte?"
Lennon looked at Bailey over Meredith's shoulder "Oh sounds good, count me in."
Cristina quickly appeared "If they get to cut, I want to cut too."
"Yeah, me too." Izzie agreed eagerly.
George shrugged "I wouldn't mind another shot, I mean if everybody else is..."
Bailey's eyes were stern as she held a hand up "Stop talking. Every intern wants to perform their first surgery, that's not your job. Do you know what your job is? To make your resident happy. Do I look happy? No. Why? Because my interns are whining. You know what will make me look happy? Having the code team staffed, having the trauma patients answered, having the weekend labs delivered, and having someone down in the Pit, doing the sutures." Lennon slowly took a sip of her latte as Bailey grabbed the one from Meredith "No one holds a scalpel until I'm so happy I'm Mary freakin' Poppins." She exclaimed, making her way up the stairs.
"Mocha latte my ass." Cristina muttered to Meredith.
Bailey glared down at the group from the top of the staircase "Why're y'all standing there? Move!"
The group swiftly scattered in different directions, all heading to their assigned jobs. As Lennon approached the elevators with Meredith she spotted Derek Shepherd looking down at his cell phone. Smirking she looked at Meredith who hadn't noticed the man "I'm going to go to the bathroom, I'll meet you upstairs." She thrust the patients chart at her friend before taking off.
Meredith frowned as she watched her friend scurry off before baking her head and stopping outside the elevator. Glancing to her right, she froze. Derek. Silently she faced forward, hugging the patient files to her chest.
Derek looked up from his phone and couldn't help but smirk before going back to his phone "Seattle has ferry boats."
Meredith smiled but didn't turn away from the elevator doors to look at him "Yes."
"I didn't know that. I've been living here six weeks, I didn't know there were ferry boats."
Meredith smiled to herself amused "Seattle is surrounded by water on three sides."
Derek nodded "Hence the ferry boats." The elevator dinged as it arrived "Now I have to like it here." He commented, putting away his phone as the elevator doors opened and the passengers inside stepped off "I wasn't planning on liking it here. I'm from New York. Genetically engineered to dislike everywhere, except Manhattan. I have a thing for ferry boats." He admitted, pressing the button to close the doors behind him.
Meredith stood behind in inside the elevator. She couldn't stop glancing at the back of his head. Taking a deep breath she summed up enough courage to speak "I'm not going out with you."
Derek glanced over his shoulder at the girl "Did I ask you to go out with me?" He paused before smirking "Do you want to go out with me?"
"I'm not dating you." Meredith shook her head "And I'm definitely not sleeping with you again. You're my boss."
Derek looked at the floor numbers "I'm your boss's boss."
"You're my teacher. And my teacher's teacher. And you're my teacher." She retorted.
Derek rolled his eyes "I'm your sister, I'm your daughter."
Meredith hugged the files closer to her chest "You're sexually harassing me."
"I'm riding an elevator." Derek denied.
Meredith sighed "Look, I'm drawing a line. The line is drawn. There's a big line."
Derek turned to face the girl "So, this line. Is it imaginary, or do I need to get you a marker?"
Meredith stared up at him for a moment, internally debating. Screw it, she thought before dropping the folders and pushing Derek against the wall, only to plant her lips furiously onto his
Derek was momenterilly surprised before quickly kissing back just as passionately until the elevator doors dinged as they had reached the fourth floor. Meredith quickly pulled back before crouching down to pick up the folders just as the doors slid open.
Derek was bemused as he watched her leave while a few of his colleagues made their way on "We'll talk later?"
Meredith chuckled as a puffing Lennon approached her "Aw man the stairs suck."
"Well maybe you shouldn't have pretended to need the bathroom so I would be along with Derek."
Lennon smirked "So you're back to calling him Derek now."
Meredith rolled her eyes "I meant Dr. Shepherd."
"And uh, did something happen with Dr. Shepherd?" She questioned, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively. When Meredith looked everywhere but Lennon's eyes she let out a gasp "Oh, it did!"
"Shh!" Meredith hissed as she pulled her friend off to the side before they could reach their patients room "Okay, we kissed but that's it. Never again."
Lennon opened her mouth to retort when a nurse approached the two "You the surgeons?"
"Yes." Meredith replied, thankful for the change of topic.
The nurse nodded looking between the two interns "We've got a rape victim. You better get in there."
The interns were quick to push past the crowd standing outside, trying to get a look into the patients room. The went to stand on either side of the bed as the machines beeped around the with Nurses administering treatment. A nurse, holding the ventilation bag looked up at the two "21-year-old female found down at the park, status: post-trauma, she came in with a GCS of 6, BP 80 over 60, head trauma, unequal breath sounds, right pupil is dilated, and she's ready for x-ray. You ready to roll?"
Meredith had frozen. The victim had been wearing the same cheetah moccasins that she wore that morning. Lennon frowned at her friend in concern before pulling her flashlight from her lab coat pocket and shining it into the victims eyes "Call it in to clear CT, let them know I'm coming, load up the portable monitor, call respiratory for a ventilator.
Meredith snapped out of her trance at the sound of her friends voice. She looked towards Lennon "I'll get x-rays while I'm down there."
Lennon and Meredith stood amongst the nurses and technicians as they watched from the sidelines of the OR as Dr. Shepherd and Dr. Burke operated. Derek let out a sigh as he worked on her brain "She's going to spend a hell of a lot of time in recovery and rehab.
"If she survives." Burke added.
Derek shook his head in disbelief "What is she, like, 5'2", a hundred pounds, she's still breathing after what this guy did to her? If they catch the guy, they should castrate him."
"See how shredded her hands are? She tried to fight back." Burke commented.
Derek scoffed "Tried to? Rape kit came back negative. She kicked his ass."
Burke made a noise of approval "So, we have a warrior among us, huh?"
"Alison." Meredith spoke up and all attention moved to her "Her - her name is Alison."
Derek nodded "Alison."
Burke returned to the patient "I think I may have found the cause of our rupture." He commented, pulling out a piece of flesh "What is this?" Lennon looked closer along with Meredith "Does anyone know what this is?"
"Oh my god." The friends murmured in sync.
Burke glanced over at the pair, seeing them stare at the flesh "What? Spit it out, Wood, Grey.
Meredith gestured to the patient "She bit it off."
Burke frowned "Bit what off?" others around them echoed his question
Lennon cleared her throat "That's his...that's his penis." Everyone in the room let out groans of shock as the men shuddered in discomfort. Lennon let out a whistle as Burke looked to the piece of flesh held by the forceps in his grasp "She bit off his penis."
Dr. Burke hastily dropped the forceps into the tray, not being able to get rid of it fast enough.
Lennon hummed to herself as she made her way to the nurses station with a copy of Allison's chart. Meredith had been charged with taking the penis to the chief to deal with the police investigation. Giving a smile to Cristina who stood, sorting out paperwork she leant against the counter, putting the file she had on the pile to be sorted.
George grinned as he appeared beside the two women "Do you know what the code team does? Saves lives. I shock a heart and someone lives to see another day. It's upbeat. It's glass half full."
Lennon wasn't sure if George intentionally made a pun or not... knowing George it was the most likely the latter but Lennon appreciated it anyway. Shocking a heart would make it up beat. Cristina shook her head "Bambi, don't say another word until after the hunter shoots your mother."
George frowned, pulling out his phone "I don't like you."
Cristina shrugged "Well, I have a B.A. from Smith, a Ph. D from Berkeley, and an MD from Stanford and I'm delivering lab results. It's going to take me all day to get through these. It's going to take me all day to get through these."
"Then get started." Bailey retorted making the three turn to her.
Lennon internally groaned as she that Alex and Noah stood behind her. Cristina looked at their resident quickly "Oh, uh, I wasn't complaining. I-I don't-"
"These interns were reassigned, so they're mine, now." Bailey interrupted before gesturing to Alex who smirked at Lennon "Have him shadow you for the day. You show him how I do things." Bailey told Cristina before looking to Noah "Banner, let's get you to Dr. Stevens."
Lennon rolled her eyes as Alex outstretched his hand to Cristina "Alex Karev, nice to meet you." He smiled.
Cristina took his hand, glancing to Lennon "The pig who called Lennon a nurse, yeah. I hate you on principle." Lennon grinned at her Korean friend as she took off down the hall.
Alex shot the brunette one last smirk before following after Cristina "And you're the pushy overbearing kiss-ass, I, uh, I hate you too."
"Oh, should be fun then." Cristina retorted as Lennon took off in the opposite direction.
Dr. Bailey approached Izzie as she stood by the desk in the Pit, reading through a patient's chart. "Stevens," Bailey started and the blonde looked up "This is Noah Banner," she gestured to the man who smirked "he's one of my new interns and he'll be shadowing you for the day. Show him how I do things."
Izzie gaped after her short resident as she walked away before turning to her fellow intern "I'm Izzie, you can help me over here." She told him heading towards a curtained off bed.
Pulling back the curtain, Noah raised an eyebrow at the Chinese woman looking blankly up at them, blood running from a gash on her forearm. Izzie smiled "All right, Mrs. Lu, I'm Dr. Stevens, this is Dr. Banner. I'm going to sew up your wound, and you're going to need...yeah, about six stitches." She informed the woman, pulling the trolley filled with tools closer "Are you allergic to any medication?"
Noah scoffed as Mrs Lu spoke Mandarin "Lady do we look like we speak Chinese?"
Izzie shot him a look before turning to the patient "Oh, I'm sorry, I don't - I don't, um...do you speak English?"
When the woman only continued to speak in her language Izzie nodded with eyes wide "I'll find, um..." She trailed off before looking around the room "does anybody here speak Chinese?"
When no one responded the blonde intern turned to Noah for help. "Ask Yang." He shrugged.
Lennon caught up with Meredith as she spotted her down the hall "Hey wh- is that what I think it is?" She questioned looking down at the cooler in Meredith's grasp.
Meredith nodded "Yep. I have custody of a penis."
"Huh... Guess dreams do come true." Lennon joked earning a playful shove from her friend as they approached the nearest nurses station.
George looked up from his paperwork as a cooler was set down in front of him "What's that?"
Meredith shook her head "Don't ask, you don't want to know."
George smiled "I do want to know. Really."
Lennon smirked as she looked at Meredith "He really wants to know."
Meredith smirked back before looking to George who nodded encouragingly "It's a severed penis."
George paled as Meredith headed towards the office behind the counter "Ooh-kay. I didn't really want to know."
Lennon looked up as she heard Cristina's voice "I don't know why I have to be the one who gets hugged."
Lennon shook her head as she saw Alex round the corner with Cristina "Because. I don't do that. Besides, you're the ovarian sister here." He retorted, continuing on down the hall and away from the group.
Cristina frowned after him "Did you just call me an ovarian si- an ovarian-" she started before looking to Lennon "since when has the possession of ovaries become an insult?"
Lennon shrugged "Since Alex was a sexist Neanderthal."
George glanced up "Meredith's carrying a penis around in a jar."
Cristina perked up "Oh, from the rape surgery?" She walked towards Lennon, setting down all her patient files to take a look.
Meredith sighed as she came out of the office "Yeah, and it's not a jar, it's a cooler."
Cristina closed the lid of the cooler with a whistle "Talk about taking a bite out of crime." She commented before grabbing her files and heading down the hall as Meredith lifted the cooler.
Lennon frowned in concern as she followed Meredith into the office "Are you okay Mer?"
Meredith let out a sigh as she looked up at her best friend "Yeah...Alison's shoes... " she started just as George arrived beside Lennon "They're the same ones I wore today." Lennon's eyebrows raised in understanding "And I normally never wear them, because they're not comfortable, but today I did, and she was wearing the same shoes, and it's just...stupid, and I'm tired, and forget it."
"You know what you need?" George said and the three shared looks between them.
Meredith shook her head "No. It's sick and twisted. We said last time was the last time."
George looked away from the two girls guilty causing Lennon to gasp "You've been doing it without us? Bad Bambi!"
"Nancy Reagan lied. You can't just say no. Come on." George defended.
Meredith sighed before lowering her voice "Do you know what would happen if anyone knew?"
George smiled "I'm doing it."
Lennon clapped "I'm in." She chirped before following after George.
The two paused behind Meredith's chair "You can come with us..." George started.
"Or you can stay here, and be miserable." Lennon smirked, pulling her friends chair so she wheeled after them as Meredith let out a laugh at her friends behaviour.
Lennon smiled softly as she watched the babies in the hospital nursery wake up. She loved kids. Meredith chuckled as George cooed at them with baby talk "You are such a woman."
Lennon snorted at the look on the boys face. She knew he had a thing for her friend and found equally adorable and amusing. George looked down as his pager beeped "It's a code. I gotta go." He told the two before running off.
Lennon linked her arm through Meredith's, resting her head on her friends shoulders as they watched the babies. Meredith sighed as she leant her head on top of Lennon's "You are really cute." She admitted.
Lennon smirked "I know but feel free to tell me again."
The pair chuckled before Lennon suddenly stood up straight, Meredith frowned "Len, what's wrong?"
"That babies face is blue."
Seeing no doctors around, the pair of interns had made their way into the nursery as Meredith pulled out her stethoscope to check the babies breathing. They looked up as another intern entered before frowning at the two, placing her hands on her purple scrub covered hips "What are you two doing in here?"
"There were no tests ordered. And the baby has a murmur." Meredith told her.
She nodded "I know."
Lennon frowned "He turned blue."
The intern crossed her arms as she walked closer, glancing at their blue scrubs "You're surgery, you're not authorised to be in here. Do you know how much trouble you can get into for this?"
Meredith took off her stethoscope "Are you going to do any tests?"
"It's a benign systolic ejection murmur. It goes away with age." The other intern retorted.
Lennon raised an eyebrow "So you're not going to do any tests."
"He's not your patient, he's not even on your service." The intern argued making her way to hold the door open.
Meredith looked at the woman "Are you sure it's benign?"
"I'm a doctor too, you know. You should get out of here." The intern nodded to the open door.
Lennon let out a sigh as she looked to Meredith "Grab your penis and let's go."