𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢, 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘺 - 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙮'𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙮 (ON HOLD)

seventeen - "appy" - seventeen

"No one believes that their life will turn out just kind of okay. We all think we are going to be great. And from the day we decide to be surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make. Great expectations of who we will be, where we will go. And then we get there. We all think we're going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren't met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives."
-Meredith Grey, S3E13, "Great Expectations"

"As surgeons, we live in a world of worse case scenarios. We cut ourselves off from hoping for the best because too many times the best doesn’t happen. But every now and then something extraordinary occurs and suddenly best case scenarios seem possible. And every now and then something amazing happens, and against our better judgment we start to have hope. As doctors, we're trained to give our patients just the facts. But what our patients really want to know is- will the pain ever go away? Will I feel better? Am I cured? What our patients really want to know is- is there hope? But, inevitably, there are times when you find yourself in the worst case scenario. When the patient's body has betrayed them and all the science we have to offer has failed them. When the worst case scenario comes true, and clinging to hope is all we've got left."
-Meredith Grey, S3E14, "Wishin' and Hopin'"

"Disappearances happen in science. Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing, and we open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. It's unexplained, it's rare, but it happens. We call it mis-diagnosis, say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn't know we had disappears, do we miss it?"
-Meredith Grey, S3E15, "Walk on Water"

"Like I said, disappearances happen. Pains go phantom. Blood stops running and people, people fade away. There's more I have to say, so much more, but... I've disappeared."
-Meredith Grey, S3E16, "Drowning on Dry Land"

"There are medical miracles. Being worshippers of the altar of science, we don't like to believe miracles exist. But they do. Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen. At the end of a day like this, a day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren’t, we take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we touch."
-Meredith Grey, S3E17, "Some Kind of Miracle"

There was a knock on Addison's hotel room door. She opened it, finding Derek and Anna standing in the hall.

"Derek? Anna?" Addison yawned, "It's almost five in the morning. What are you doing here?"

"Congratulations," Derek said, "It's a girl."

"Wait." Addison was confused, "You're leaving her here, Derek?"

"She's grounded, Addison. And I don't want to deal with her attitude." Derek looked behind him to see Anna rolling her eyes with her arms crossed, defiantly.

"What am I-"

"She prefers to stay with you. She's mentioned it several times now. All part of the divorce, right?" Derek ushered Anna forward as Addison opened the door.

As Derek left the hotel, Addison shut the door. She noticed the backpack and suitcase Anna was carrying. She was suprised Derek just agreed to let her stay somewhere without him.