99 Problems

Author's Note:

MAJOR Spoilers for the Station 19 Season 3 Finale.

Turn back now if you don't want to be spoilered!

Also, this is a friendship fic, and doesn't contain...

My usual lesbian debauchery. Just so you know.

Enjoy it, and see you round in the reviews.

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99 Problems

Meredith Grey and Andy Herrera talk about how their lives have at least 99 similar problems.

Grey's Anatomy and Station 19 Crossover from S19 S03-E16. CW: Mentions of Suicide, Death.

Extended Scene. General Fanfiction. Friendship. Hurt-Comfort. Rated M for Mature Themes.

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE STATION 19 FINALE FROM MAY 15, 2020. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Meredith Grey & Andy Herrera. New Friends. Grief/Mourning. Non-Romantic. Non-Sexual.

"I got mommy issues and daddy issues and marital issues and I might have some unexpected family problems to boot..." Andy Herrera tries to explain to Meredith Grey in the Plant Room.

Andy's half-sure that Meredith Grey will run away from all of her stupid sad story stuff. Hell, she's already nearly smashed her halfway down a hallway earlier.

"Hah, you're telling me about it," Meredith only laughs, and Andy doesn't know her well enough to get why this is funny.

"Was your dad potentially an abusive asshole?" Andy asks her.

"Father figure problems? Daddy Issues? Which one are we talking about here?" Meredith asks her with a chuckle.

At Andy's confused expression Meredith Grey just continues.

"My biological dad Thatcher Grey needed my liver which I gave him for my currently tragically dead step-sister Lexie Grey. And uncle, Richard Webber is the only father figure I can ever remember? They've both been asses and alcoholics. A bit abusive, at times, but not entirely,"

"God, and I thought I had it bad with just this one," Andy sighs.

"Also my biological dad is dead. I heard about your dad dying. I'm sorry by the way. My best friend Cristina once said that there's a dead dad club that you're not in it until you're in it. Well, I guess we're both in it now. Welcome to the club even though I know it sucks," Meredith sighs.

"Well, I'm grieving hard for him but I'm trying to figure out all this and I might need to talk about something else that's on my mind..." Andy trails off talking to Meredith.

"What's up with your mom?" Meredith asks her, than, guessing correctly what Andy needed.

"I think she might have killed herself," Andy says to Meredith, for the second time, since the first time she said this she was smacking into Meredith and Meredith was hugging her and she wasn't really sure what to think of all that at the time.

"If it helps, my mother, Ellis Grey, tried to kill herself too. She didn't die though. And in retrospect, she didn't actually want to die; she just wanted to get Richard Webber's attention to get him back after he didn't leave his wife for her when she left my father, Thatcher," Meredith explains with a shrug.

"Are you saying my mother might not have died?" Andy asks her.

"Well, I don't think it's my place to give you that kind of hope or not, though I hope, for your sake, she is if you want her to be, even if it's just wishful thinking at this point. I'm just saying that I know what it feels like to have had a mom try to kill themselves, or sort-of, at one point or another..." Meredith trails off at the memory.