Post prom

"Chapter 2 -Long days just get longer and harder"

Everyone was standing besides Meredith's bed. Her surgery was successful. All the blood clots were removed. The only problem was that Meredith never woke up from the surgery. She was still unconscious. Izzy's surgery went just as well. She woke up, an hour later. Derek was by Meredith's side checking her chart

"She should have woken up," he kept on muttering to himself. Even Addison was by Meredith's bed. Shooting Derek evil looks. If this were her lying in this bed instead of Meredith, would he be slaving just as hard? Addison turned and walked out of the room. Izzy couldn't stand looking at her friend and roommate lying there hopeless. Burke came over to Izzy with a pale look on his face.

"Izzy," he whispered "Can you tell me what happened that put you and Meredith Grey into this hospital and why Meredith won't wake up?"

A lone tear ran down Izzy's face.

"It's all my fault," cried Izzy. Everyone in the room turned to her. "We'd just gotten home from the prom. Meredith was a mess, worse than I was. She wouldn't tell me what was wrong. She went straight to the kitchen and pulled out a steak knife. I told her not to do it. I yelled a couple of times but it was like she was in a trance. She then stabbed herself, very close to her heart. She then fell on the floor, hitting the back of her head on the table, then the tile." Izzy took a deep breath and continued. "I tried to help her. The knife was still in her, and I pulled it out," now tears were spilling out of her eyes, "I know I shouldn't of but I wasn't thinking. I got up and called 9-1-1. I still had the knife in my hand. I heard the ambulance arrive at the front door. I was still staring at the knife. Then when they walked into the kitchen, I...I...I stabbed myself too, but I think the EMT caught me. That's why I'm awake, and my friend over there is dying." Izzy collapsed in a river of tears. Everyone was speechless.

"Izzy.... Izzy..." said Derek walking over to her, trying to calm her down "She's not dying. She's-"

"SHE'S NOT DYING! SHE'S IN A FREAKING COMA FOR GOD SAKE AND YOU SAY SHE'S NOT DYING! OF COURSE SHE IS AND IT'S MY FAULT. It's all my fault," Izzy the fell back into his arms, crying.

"D-D-Derek?" Everyone turned around when they heard the voice. Meredith finally had awoken. "What-What am I doing here? I've got rounds in an hour," she said trying to sit up.

"Meredith," he said quietly walking over to her, "Do...Do...Do you know what today is?" he asked

"It's the 22nd isn't it,"

"The Month?"

"August,"

"Meredith, that was 8 month ago. It's April 16th. August the 22nd was the day that we-" he couldn't finish the sentence.

"She lost her memory?" asked Christina quietly standing next to Meredith, "My best friend can't remember anything beyond the first day of our internship?"

"I'm afraid not," said the Chief of surgery Richard Webber walking into the room. "See, when Dr. Shepherd went in the remove the blood clots from Ms. Grey's brain, he found a tumor on the part of the brain that stores the memory. He tried to best he could not to hurt that part of the brain, but he was not totally successful. Most surgeons wouldn't even be able to remove that much of the tumor." Everyone is silent in the room. Meredith looks at everyone staring at her.

"What the hell is going on?" asks Meredith tired of everyone leaving her out in the dark.

"Well-" started Derek

"No! Let me explain," said Izzy cutting him off. Everyone turns to look towards Izzy.

"Izzy?" asks Meredith, "but, but I hardly know you,"

"Actually, were roommates in your mom's house, but let me explain everything. See Meredith, For a while now I've had a patient named Denny who suffered from heart failure for the last couple of months. For those months he's been a candidate for a new heart. Well he finally got one. Meanwhile last night, the Chief's niece comes in. She has kidney cancer and she had to miss her prom night to be here, learning that she was going to die. Going back to Denny; I cut his LVAT wire me being the selfish bitch I am, to make him the top of the list for a new heart. Well, he just got worse. I dragged you all in it to help me, just because I crossed over the line. As a punishment, the chief makes us set up a prom night for his niece, since she missed hers. Well, Denny died that night. I was going up to see him and he suffered from a stroke. I was heart broken because he asked me to marry him and I said yes. Everyone left a short time later to go back to the prom. See, you had slept with Derek during the prom, while you were going out with Finn, your vet. They both offered to take you home. You were caught between two men. You turned and ran home. I came home shortly after to see you standing over the sink with a steak knife in your hand. I yelled for you to put the knife down, but you were like in a trance. Then, it just happened in a split second. You stabbed yourself near your heart, hit your head on the kitchen table, then on the floor," Izzy took a deep breathe and continued. "I called EMS, then I did the same thing, but the EMT caught me, then everything else is blank." Everyone was silent. Hearing it once was bad, but twice was bad enough. Christina ran out of the room crying.

"You-Your-Your lying. Today is my first day as an intern. I-I gotta go," Meredith tried to get out of her bed but Derek and Burke pushed her down.

"Meredith you gotta listen to me and Izzy," said Derek "What she said was all true. ALL of it. You're not leaving this room." Meredith looked up at him.

"How can you tell me what to do? You're not my doctor!" she said angrily trying to get up again. "Meredith, from what you know and remember of me, no I'm not a doctor. No I didn't tell you I worked at Seattle Grace as the top neurosugeron. But I'm telling you now. So yes I am your doctor, and I'm telling you the truth," said Derek calmly.

"NO! You're lying!" yelled Meredith. She turned towards Richard Webber, "Mr. Webber, please can you remove him from this room, and help me out of this bed?" she asked him

"Meredith, listen to me," replied the Chief, "Derek is telling the truth. You can trust me on this. Please dear just lay back in the bed." Meredith did what the Chief asked

"I want everyone out except him and I want Christina back in here," said Meredith pointing at Derek. Everyone cleared out except Derek. Meredith waited for the door to close before looking at him.

"So, it's all true?" she asked quietly

"Yes Meredith it is," he replied

"But...Why?"

"Why what Mer?"

"Why did all the happen, what happened in those eight months that I supposedly don't remember. All I remember is that you were laying next to me and I was late for my first day as an intern."

"Well, you turned out to be a knowledgeable intern. But, you had trouble with me. I'm married. My wife was here earlier but she ran out. Meredith, just like Mr. Webber said, all of it is true,"

"FINE! I BELIVE YOU! CAN WE MOVE ON NOW?" yelled Meredith.

"Mer?" said a quiet voice as the door opened

"Christina?"

"Mer, I'm...I'm so sorry!" cried Christina as she ran over to her best friend. Derek watched as the two women hugged each other.

"Why are you sorry? Your not the one who apparently is going out with two guys, slept with one behind the others back, and now can't remember anything from the morning of my first day of the internship," laughed Meredith.

"How can you laugh?" asked Christina

"Well, because, I can't cry because I can't remember anything, and crying never helps," answered Meredith still with a smile on her face.

"Well, I'm going to-"

"NO!" said Meredith firmly, " Both of you are staying right here, and are going to fill me in on what's been going on in my life for the last 8 months." Both Dr.'s sat down and started to spill everything that's been going on at SGH and Meredith's life in the last eight months. Meanwhile in the next bed Izzy just laid there listening to everything crying herself to sleep.