What we should just say

Admitted

Authors Note: Thanks to everyone who is still reading this. I'm sorry if this chapter isn't too great but I wrote most of it sometime last night and I couldn't really come up with a lot. But I still hope that you will enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I still do not own Grey's Anatomy or any of the show's characters except for those I came up with myself of course...

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I'm not a family person, I never have been and probably never will be. The only family I ever had, the only real family I ever had at least was my sister Lexi but she is dead and Derek of course but he doesn't count because he is just Derek. I'm going to have spinal surgery again and most people would probably be terrified by that, but instead, I'm more nervous about meeting my sisters-in-law.

-Meredith Grey

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Meredith and Derek where one of the first to board the plane because of Meredith "disability" that might not be one for much longer. After Meredith had taken her seat Derek put their bags into the luggage rack and sat down next to her.

At the airport, they took a rental car. It was a black Mercedes. When they arrived at the hospital it was almost 10 pm and as it is in hospitals if you are not an emergency patient you are going to have to wait. It was already after midnight when Meredith finally got admitted. She and Derek still talked for a long time until they both fell asleep in that tiny hospital bed.

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Meredith woke up to some interns talking to each other: "Who should I wake first?" asked one of them.

"I don't know maybe we should just wait until Dr. Härtl arrives," suggested the other one and just in the exact moment that he finished his sentence the elderly doctor entered the room.

"Good morning Dr. Lewis, Dr. Williams," greeted he. "Good morning Dr. Grey"

"Who presents?" asked Dr. Härtl.

"Meredith Grey, admitted yesterday evening. Suffered from a car accident eight months ago which caused temporal paralysis from T6 down due to swelling pressing against the spinal cord. The swelling has started to go down one week ago. We are positive that when the swelling has gone down completely we will be able to continue with a stabilizing procedure," said one of the interns.

"Good Williams," said Dr. Härtl. "How are you feeling?" he then asked Meredith.

"As in how much I'm feeling or if there is any pain?" she asked.

"Both," he answered.

"Well, I gain more and more sensation as time passes but there is also some discomfort, I'd say about a six," she told him.

"Okay, I want to get some new scans done, I've seen the ones taken in Seattle but as I'm sure you know they are already too old, a lot can have changed in that time," Dr. Härtl explained.

"Dr. Williams will take you but maybe you should wake up your husband first," he chuckled a bit referring to Derek.

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"How are you Mer?" Derek asked via the intercom of the CT room.

"I think I feel some pain in my lower back but I'm more concerned about your sisters visiting later. Why exactly did you have to ask them to come?" She asked.

"Because if I hadn't they would have probably got that idea by themselves," he told her.

"Then why did you have to tell them we were here in the first place?" She asked again not really happy about the situation.

"They are my sisters Mer, I haven't seen them in years and Nancy works here so I would have probably run into her at some point and then they would have been really mad. This way they at least won't think that you don't want to meet them," Derek said.

"It's not that I don't want to meet them. I just think that they don't really want to meet me I'm the exact opposed of your last wife and at least Nancy really seemed to love her," she explained.

"We've been married for almost five years, of course, they want to meet their sister-in-law and my mother will be there too and she loves you. That ring that you are usually wearing it was hers and she didn't give it to me for Addison, she gave it to you because she thinks that you are the one and I think so too," he tried to convince her.

"The scans are coming up, I'm going to page Dr. Härtl," said the intern that broad her there.

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"As you can see here the swelling has gone down further," Dr. Härtl said pointing on a spot on one of the films. "If it keeps progressing like this we should be able to proceed some time next week," he continued. "There for it is important that you move as little as possible. We might even give you a catheter so that you don't have to go to the bathroom," he finished off.

"No, please not anything but that I really don't want to have to pee into a bag," Meredith said.

"We'll see what we can do," Dr. Härtl offered. "Nice to see you again Derek."

"Nice to see you too," answered Derek as the doctor started to leave.

"Hey Derek, want to grab some lunch?" Nancy asked suddenly appearing behind her brother.

"I can't, I'll have to get back to Mer, I just wanted to get a coffee," he said pointing at the coffee vending machine. "What are you doing here anyway, this is not your department it's on the other side of the hospital."

"I was just looking out for my little brother, making sure he isn't just screwing some dirty ten-year-old," said she.

"Okay, that's enough Nancy! Meredith is a grown woman, she is an attending and I love her more than anything else. She earns your full respect and if you can't give her that then I'm really sorry," Derek said angrily.

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