If I Lay Here {Book 1} - Grey's Anatomy AU

It's The End of The World

Season 2, Episode 16:  It's The End of The World
Overall Episode Number:  25
Created by:  Shonda Rhimes

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It's a look patients get in their eyes. There is a scent. The smell of death. Some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. What's the one thing you've always dreamed of doing before you die? Okay, hello? Clearly not my dream. See? I told you, not my dream.

- Meredith Grey

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Cristina is in Meredith's room, trying to get her out of bed. "Okay. This is me being supportive."

Meredith raises an eyebrow. "Really?"

Cristina nods. "Yeah, hey, fine. I'm totally supportive. Go."

Meredith sits up. "Okay, the man I love has a daughter, who's very beautiful and wonderful to be around. He also has a wife. And then he chooses her over me. And that wife takes my dog," she explains. Cristina has a confused look on her face. "Okay, she didn't take the dog, I gave it to her. But I didn't mean to give it to her, I meant to give it to him. Actually, I meant to give it to Mackenzie. But that does not change the fact that she's got my McDreamy! And my McDog. And my McStepdaughter. She's got my McLife! And what have I got?"

Meredith stares at Cristina, as if to say nothing. She speaks in a more calm and sad tone. "Do you know I can't remember the last time we kissed? Cause you never think the last time is the last time. You think there'll be more. You think you have forever but you don't." She slumps back down in the bed again and is hyped up again. "Plus my conditioner decided to stop working and I think I have brittle bones. I just-I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope I need to stay in bed and feel like I might die today."

Cristina stands up thoughtfully for a second before yanking the sheets away from Meredith. She stands up over her. "Whatever! Everybody has problems. Now get your ass out of bed and get to work! Now! Move! Move! Move!"

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"I've been gone 2 weeks. 2 weeks! And you ran off 2 residents! I've got people phoning me at home, screaming, telling me my interns are Rosemary's Babies." Bailey says from the ambulance bay. She's dressed in normal clothes, and she's shouting at her interns. They all look slightly offended by that. "Nobody wants you! Do you think I have time for this? I am pregnant! I'm supposed to be on bed rest. I'm supposed to be growing a human being. I'm supposed to be calm! Do I look calm to you? Did I raise you fools to be pariahs?"

George pushes past Meredith and Izzie and walks up right to Bailey, who looks confused at George's behavior. He grabs her in a tight hug. "You're back."

"Ah! I'm not back."

George tightens the hug. "You're not?"

Bailey hits his back. "Get off me."

George finally breaks the hug. He smiles at the other interns. Bailey shrugs off the hug. An ambulance can be heard approaching.

"Uh Yang, Karev, Grey, stay here and wait for the incoming case. O'Malley page Addison Shepherd." Bailey instructs. George nods and moves back into the hospital. "Stevens get a wheelchair."

Izzie looks confused. "A wheelchair?"

Bailey nods. "A wheelchair."

George dashes back to Bailey while Izzie goes into the hospital. "What shall I tell Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd?"