Hope Shepherd

prologue

I'm homeschooled at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital and their head of neurosurgery and their head of trauma are like my parents. I was adopted by Amelia when I was 5 when my biological my family and I were in a car crash and had a brain bleed which Amelia tried to fix. She hung out with me all the time to make sure I was okay. As a five year old I obviously didn't know what was happening, but I got scared and lonely. Amelia was always there to play with me and make sure I wasn't taken away by Social Services. Apparently my parents car crash wasn't an accident. How I wasn't killed to? I'm not sure. She won't tell me the whole story because she promised my dad I couldn't know till I am 18. I'm a lot smarter than she thinks I am so I've absorbed bits and pieces of what happened.

Eventually my parents died and I couldn't understand. My mom was brain dead 3 hours after the crash. "Why is mommy still here," I would ask. Amelia bent down and explained to me, " Her brain and thoughts is gone, but her body is still here and that can be used to help other people." My Dad didn't make it very long he had a pulmonary embolism and his heart failed. Amelia held me as I let out my tears because even then I knew I would never be the same again.

There were no relatives to take me in after that and Amelia has always wanted a kid, we became close because she visited me in her free time. She eventually took it to court and legally adopted me and I've been with her ever since. To other people I just say she's my mom since my hair is the same color as hers, but I never really called her mom. She's amazing to me, but we've had ups and downs, but she's more like a mom sister hybrid. I've I've definitely seen a lot have you seen her dating life (before she met Owen of course)!? I have some pretty deep rooted problems like trust issues, separation anxiety, and PTSD so as Meredith would say I'm dark and twisty. They probably came from whatever happened to my parents and aunt. Someday I will find out what happened, but until then it's time to head to the hospital and save some lives.

Quick note from me 2/31/21: um Grey's has been going on for so long I've started to lose track of who's new, who's left etc. So just to clarify if they died before season 15 they're dead. This story is probably going to set around season 7-14 ish... I don't even know anymore. (Also the whole parents dying mystery thing isn't that big a part of the story... so it'll only be referenced from time to time. It was just randomly added idk why...)