History repeating itself

Chapter 2: I'm a not-so-prefect person

History Repeating Itself Chapter 2: flaws and all, a grey's anatomy fanfic | FanFiction

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Chapter 2: I'm a Not-So-Perfect Person

"Hey Mom, are you free for a consolation?" Ridley asked, peeping her head into the scrub room she had spotted her mom in. "And possibly a chat too?" Her mother looked up and nodded, motioning for her to come in. "I mean it'll be a while before we can perform any surgery." She said, though her mother had already agreed.

"Hey sweetie." She said as Ridley entered. "Actually, I am free for a bit. This was my last surgery for the day, I just have some post op patients to take a look at later. What you got?" She asked as Ridley followed her towards the elevator. "I'm starving. Walk and talk."

"A ten year old boy named Jake. He came in last night with abdominal pain so I did a work up on him and saw there was some sort of mass which I thought could be liver failure or maybe an undetected defect." She said, giving Meredith the scans. She glanced at the scans, then gave a firm nod that Ridley hated. She had hoped she was wrong.

"Yeah it is. We'll know more when we do the surgery." Her mom said, sounding just about like how Ridley felt. "God I hate it when it's a kid." She said, looking at her daughter. "I guess we'll have to wait till your Uncle Alex is available for the surgery." She said as she ordered coffee for them both. She had ordered lunch too, but when Ridley went to pay for her half, her mother swatted her hand away.

"Yeah, I put it on the board for 2:30. So we have a couple of hours before we have to go and scrub." She said, pulling out a chair at the table they had chosen. As she looked around the Cafeteria, she noticed her fellow interns were also eating lunch. In fact, they were only a few tables away and giving her very confused looks.

"Meaning its plenty of time for you to spill whatever it is you want to tell me about" Meredith said, knowing her daughter well enough to know when something is bothering her, and it was obvious something was.

"Okay," She broke, not even trying to resist. "I've got two things. One is that I don't know how to deal with the other interns, not including Matt, finding out you and Dad are my parents." She said, choosing the lesser of two evils to talk about first. Meredith nodded in understanding.

"When I was an intern, everyone thought I was entitled to get the best surgeries and therefore didn't need to try hard, but that wasn't true." Meredith said, thinking back to her intern year. "I had to try twice as hard." She said, knowing that this was going to be a problem.

"Just to prove your own talents, I get that. I thought if I just acted professional in work and acted like half the staff wasn't my family I'd be okay, but I can't do that." She said chuckling at her failed attempts of professionalism.

Meanwhile, at the intern table everyone apart from Matt was staring at Dr. Grey and Ridley have lunch. They all thought that maybe they were friends, seeming as that's how they were acting.

"Seriously, who is this chick? And how did she get to eat lunch with Medusa?" Asked Katie, a tall dirty blonde with short straight hair who was taking a slip of her water.

"Forget that! How did she get her to even like her? Medusa has snapping at me all day." Chris muttered, taking a bite of an apple and staring at Ridley.

"Maybe it's her..." Sam suggested, knowing everyone else was already thinking it. They had all heard about her- the child of two world renowned surgeons, and the granddaughter of one. They all hated her, and none of them knew her. "You know, the Golden Child of Derek Shepard and Meredith Grey. Not to mention she's the granddaughter of Ellis Grey." At the weird looks he was getting, he sighed. "None of us have actually heard her surname yet." He pointed out.