This Is What Dreams Are Made Of: Merder

Life as we know it

Meredith's POV:

It's been a few days since the whole D.C. and baby news was dropped. Today's my first day back at work since the twins were born, I know 8 months seems like forever, especially since I was back pretty much 4 weeks after Bailey was born, but everything was very hectic, life was crazy and I needed to control it, which I did.

We were driving into work with Bailey and the girls in the back. It was pretty weird driving into work with 3 kids, when we only drove in with 1 or 2.

"Are you sure you're ready to come back to work now?" Derek asked me.

"I'm positive. I know things at work probably hasn't been any different since i've been away, but Derek, I really really need blood on my hands again. I was fine for the longest time, I didn't need the thrill, but now it's getting a little out of hand. I need surgery in my life." I replied while I was trying to give Bailey the rest of his dry cereal, trying to make sure that he wasn't making a mess, which he probably was.

"Okay, if you're positive." He said back to me.

"When do you leave for D.C. so I can schedule a doctor's appointment around it."

"Next weekend. I leave Friday night, and come home Sunday morning, which should be the usual." He replied back. D.C. became an every other weekend thing, not every weekend like we anticipated.

"Perfect, i'll schedule it for next week sometime." I said back as we were pulling into the parking lot of the hospital and parked in the "Chief of Neuro" parking space right in the front of the hospital entrance.

We walked in the doors, Derek took the kids to the daycare since Bailey is used to him dropping him off now, and I ran into Alex on the way to the attendings lounge.

"Welcome back Mer, took you long enough." He said with a laugh.

"Oh shut up. Hey, up for lunch later? I have to ask you a favor." I said.

"Um, yeah, page me when you have a free moment, today's been a pretty easy day, nothing's really happened except a crash csection earlier and Robbins is handling the rest of the vagina business today."

"Perfect, it'll probably be around 1, 1:30, not to big of a case load today, since it's my first day back."

"Sounds like a plan." He said turning the corner to go down to the PEDS unit.

Around 1:00 I paged Alex to the attending's lounge. He arrived shortly after the page, he wasn't lying when he said it was a slow day.

"Hey, how's your day been so far?" He asked when he walked in.

"Slow, not very interesting. Boring if i'm telling the truth." I replied.

"I feel that. Only thing that's been happening today is births which aren't very interesting." He said as he was sitting down in the chair across from me at the conference table. "So what favor did you need from me?" He asked.