Teddy also urged her to tell Megan the full story. After doing so, she started to panic a bit, but Amelia pointed out there was nothing or no one standing in her way. She's a thriving surgical resident at Seattle Grace Hospital, has a hotshot boyfriend, a loving family, and good friends. He apologized and she forgave him and he proposed properly to her later. Meredith and George's friendship continued and was strengthened, as she was his resident. When Addison handed him the divorce papers to end their relationship officially, Derek remained hesitant and soon after decided to stay with Addison, much to Meredith's dismay. Bright and Shiny by karensmith reviews AU MerDer. Amelia was mad at her for not having called her before pulling the plug on Derek, so she couldn't say goodbye. While very intense and terrifying, fans remember this moment for Greys strength. However, she collapsed in the parking lot, where Cormac found her unconscious. She asked Meredith to put together a team that reflected their world and take over all the classes and shape them to sandblast bias out of the curriculum for future surgeons. Meredith was briefly joined again on her beach by Bailey, whose mother had been admitted with COVID as well. They live in Los Angeles and are Meredith an Derek just found out they are having another baby. Meredith would bring the doll with her to the hospital. While in Minnesota, Meredith was plagued by nightmares in which her mother challenged her to do more with her life than being a regular general surgery attending after having miraculously survived COVID. From a Post-It note wedding to a lot of breakups, Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd's romance had a tumultuous timeline on Grey's Anatomy. However, in times of crisis, they made up and all of them lived happily as a family after Alex, feeling guilty, managed to get them Zola back. Meredith asked Bailey for advice on how to tell her kids. He profoundly changed her life yet she never got to tell him that before. She commented that seemed like a lifetime ago and recalled him coming into her room to tell her to fight for her kids. Derek approached her, they got drunk, before ending up at her place, sleeping with each other. Bailey then found Meredith and told her she had stolen Meredith's idea and created the fellowship for Jo under her own leadership. He told her it was nice to meet someone widowed young like him. She stated the system should have supported the Riveras and that it was broken. He mocked her and also told her to report it to HR. [136], Ellis was conceived before Derek's death. She questioned why Jo ever thought they would be good together and didn't try to hide her disdain from Link. Afterward, an exhausted Meredith fell asleep on a gurney in a hallway, so Andrew moved her to a bed in an empty room and covered her with a blanket.[58]. Meredith concluded it would be better if you believed you can have more than one. After Ellis Grey died, Susan reached out to Meredith and after a rough start, Susan and Meredith bonded. Meredith and Owen have had a turbulent relationship, as they have often clashed over Cristina, whom they both care about very much. Meredith states that Duran Duran, The Go Go's, and The Eurythmics are right answers to "What's your favorite 80s band? However, this time, she was greeted by Derek from a distance. Andrew offered to sit with her but she didn't like him offering to skip a surgery to be her human tissue. While Meredith found a new way to continue Cece's care, she and Cece agreed to diminish the number of questions and try a new approach as well. This caused Alex to become suspicious when he saw her acting weird. She went home and greeted her kids. Meredith finds herself in an awkward situation whenever the unthinkable happens. Despite numerous calls from Alex, she refused to answer. They ordered room service and spent the night before heading to his cabin the next day. He assured her she would be operating again soon, which she doubted. With more patients surviving recently after having been on a vent, Richard agreed with her suggestion. She was married to Derek Shepherd until his death; they have two daughters, Zola and Ellis, and a son, Bailey. [118] It happened four times, but Meredith didn't want him to get too attached to her. This as well as Cormac asking her to fight for her kids got through to Meredith and Derek on her beach. While her friends had been more skeptical about her decision, Meredith asked Derek to move in in episode 1 "Dream a Little Dream Of Me (Part 1)" so they didn't waste any more time. Andrew came over to ask Meredith out for drinks. With memories of Ellis revealing that Mer is anything but. Meredith then told a story of Bailey made everyone laugh by faceplanting into his birthday cake. Both Link and Andrew then held the elevator doors for her, causing her to take the stairs. He said Cristina talked about Alex a lot but Meredith was surprised to hear she had never mentioned her to Cormac. Gabby was reunited with her father after three months while her mother was still in the detention center. [63], The relationship continued to evolve but Meredith never let him sleep over since she didn't want her kids to meet him before she had told them about him. Meredith went into labor during the superstorm and had to have a C-section after injuring herself earlier from a fall on the stairs. When the other patient's abdominal wound opened up, Levi handled the situation perfectly with Meredith's guiding voice in his head from when they handled a similar complication together before.[101]. David explained her name had become synonymous to cutting-edge and seeing things through to the end. Later that night, he found her hotel, and they talked over drinks. Afterward, Meredith briefly talked with Cormac. Pathology revealed that the obstruction was caused by lymphoma, meaning they were looking at years of treatment and follow-up. However, he revealed that he was actually in awe of her bravery and that he was afraid of accidentally blurting out that he loves her. She snores loudly, a trait which she inherited from her father, Thatcher. Before she could elaborate, Jo called her about Alex assaulting Andrew. Taken by surprise, Meredith barely responded to his confession and left.[65]. Meredith then decided to try the trap door and he lifted her up but to no avail. Still convinced it was something other than rapidly progressing Alzheimer's, she sought out Andrew, who secretly had been working on the case, and had him show her what he had come up with so far. As she walked off, Cormac told her Cristina mentioned her "twisted sister" a lot, whom he now suspected was Meredith. While Zola toured the school, Meredith reconnected with Jackson. Though she may have a hard time showing this compassion, she will do whatever it takes to protect and care for the people she loves. [1], When one of Derek's patients, Jen Harmon, found out that Derek was going to propose to Meredith, the two started to become friends and she wanted to help with the proposal. Meredith couldn't help but smile as she closed the door.[106]. She told him she just followed her gut to make the world better. At Jo and Alex's wedding, Andrew drunkenly kissed Meredith, and she rejected his advances, though she told him she was flattered. She didn't want to worry Jamie and her mother about cancer until a biopsy had confirmed it. She changed into something more comfortable. He showed her around the lab and its extensive state-of-the-art equipment and explained he was developing cellular therapy for experimental surgery to cure Parkinson's disease. At Jo and Alex's wedding, Andrew kissed Meredith while drunk, which he immediately apologized for. After attending medical school, Meredith secured a spot at Seattle Grace Hospital as a surgical intern and moved from Boston to her mother's house in Seattle. Meredith Grey is a neurosurgery attending at Seattle Grace Mercy West hospital and when Dr Richard Webber retires he calls in Dr Derek Shepherd from New York and she realises she has a crush on her new chief of surgery and Derek realises he has a crush on one of his employees. Meredith ordered Andrew to stay by Zola's side in post-op. In a scrub room, Addison told Meredith that if there was even a chance that Derek still loved her then she wasn't leaving Seattle but she would if he didn't. He encouraged her to let people celebrate the win. For a little while, it looked like Grey was never going to become Zolas mother. Additionally, she deemed it highly unlikely that the medical board would pursue action her license. After Izzie was diagnosed with cancer, and when the condition relapsed and Meredith was informed, she and Derek gave their wedding to Alex and Izzie. At this point, the character had been through so much, and fans were astonished by her resilience and perseverance through grief. When he revealed that he had a young girlfriend, Meredith was actually happy for him and had to talk to Lexie, who was not too pleased with that discovery. [26], However, Meredith later told Derek that she refused to leave Seattle after Cristina reminded her not to let what Derek wanted eclipse what she needed. She decided to do so by relying on science and asked to rerun some tests. She asked for a rain check and walked off. Not many television shows are able to reach that episode count, but Greys Anatomy accomplished the feat in season 14 episode 7. Unfortunately, Meredith and Derek cannot be together anymore since the neurosurgeon was killed off in season 11. Her supervisor Robin Jones started to object to her street clinic since it was keeping people from doing their work but Meredith brought up she had noticed a nodule in Robin's neck that warranted a closer look. He yelled that she was worried about the kids and that the sand wasn't real. Meredith talks to Megan before the surgery. She has the same blood type as her father. However, he saw how lost she was and decided not to bother her any further one of the most difficult days of her life. Overcome by desire, she removed herself from the situation and promised him she'd think about what he had said. But when he asked her out, she said no because she loved Derek. They rolled with it and assured Luis he could sleep in Gabby's room every night so they would not have to be separated again. Then she segued into her asking him why he he barely spoke to her all day. Meredith was alarmed and alerted the other doctors, who originally believed her when he was taken in for brain surgery. She became Cristina's maid of honor during both weddings to Preston Burke and Owen Hunt. Out of nowhere, as Meredith was checking on Suzanne, Andrew and Lauren rushed in with the diagnosis of Still's disease and Andrew injected her with high-dose steroids without any explanation. Cormac was delighted to see her move her head. Derek and Meredith started a clinical trial but Derek began dating Rose and her feelings for him started to come back as the clinical trial continued. Several months later, Thatcher came into Seattle Grace vomiting blood. Meredith got her to accept that. She attended Dartmouth College. The then chief of surgery Richard Webber gave a speech that fans will remember forever, and Grey was inspired. Richard told Meredith later that day that Derek was going to propose to her. It was an extremely emotional time but the couple didn't have to wait long since they ended up meeting their first daughter, Zola, in season 7, episode 20, "White Wedding. Link approached her for dinner, but she turned him down as she viewed him as more of an emergency kind of person rather than serious dating potential. Later, Derek kissed a nurse named Rose in the scrub room; when Meredith found out, she severed all ties with him. The viewers were also delighted to see Meredith and Derek agree to start a family (episode 19 "Sympathy for the Parents"). Meredith continued to dream about Andrew as she began going on dates with the help of her matchmaker patient, Cece. Had the whole angry pink hair thing going on. After checking that Andrew was okay, Meredith began treating Taryn Helm. He said she needed to go back to their kids. Alex later told her not to crap on everyone's life just because she was choosing to be unhappy and pointed out she had choices. Having bribed a nurse to wheel him to Meredith's room, Tom uttered that he needed to be in a room where no one was dying. She also went looking for Erin Miller, a missing girl. With Gabby's condition worsening, Meredith promised she had a plan. Takes place in Season 6. . Meredith was emotional but decided to respect his wish. After watching Andrew take care of the newborn baby, Meredith decided to gather her kids that night. The fictional character has gone through so much from her husbands death, to a hospital shooting, and to winning a prestigious medical award. Grey's Anatomy fanfiction. After George and Callie divorced, Callie moved in with Meredith's best friend, Cristina, so she and Callie bonded a bit more and both of them protected her from Owen Hunt when they thought he might hurt Cristina, after he choked her, while he was asleep. Despite a fall-out that resulted in Meredith kicking Amelia out of the house, Amelia continued to watch over her when Meredith was attacked. She relocated to Massachusetts with Meredith, and Thatcher lost all contact with his daughter. But during that time, Meredith's mother Ellis Grey was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease and placed into a nursing home in Seattle. Nathan and Meredith flirt at a dinner party, Meredith and Nathan found themselves sitting next to each other on a plane, both heading to a conference. After the procedure, Meredith's labs improved yet she still didn't wake up for hours. They staged an intervention with Carina, Richard, and his psychiatrist. Afterward, Andrew asked Meredith when she was going to stop stringing Link along as he was growing tired of wasting time not being with her. He then joked she could have just turned him down when he asked her for that drink rather than getting COVID. Patients and their family members grew upset as Meredith had to solve multiple issues, like Andrew going behind her back and messing up her OR schedule to get a patient into an OR and away from her supposed aunt as he suspected the patient was a human trafficking victim. He replied it was harder to see her lonely. Thatcher went into a program and he started making amends. After a fight with Owen, Cristina showed up at Meredith's house. The end of season 11 was also the end of the love story between Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd. Meredith and Cormac saved the girl. Alive She realized the article would terrify people and keep patients away from Grey Sloan. Meredith eventually broke HIPAA and told Maggie about Catherine's cancer. Lexie Grey (half-sister)Molly Grey-Thompson (half-sister)Maggie Pierce (half-sister) He wrote that during his call with Izzie, he heard children in the background, and Izzie told him they were his. ", When William Thorpe and Meredith worked together on a patient, Brian Carson, he flirted with her and asked to follow up with her. The experience allowed them both to become closer and for Meredith to open up to Nathan about her history. Meanwhile, Winston chatted to Meredith, wishing she would wake up to meet him and congratulate him on getting engaged to her sister. [44] Soon after, they got stuck together in an elevator on their way to the OR due to a power outage caused by the storm.[52]. When Mark first met Meredith, he flirted with her and was punched in the face by Derek. She was cleared by Dr. Andrew Perkins only after she admitted her pregnancy and miscarriage. Meanwhile, Meredith's numbers deteriorated, so Teddy turned back the ventilator settings. She wouldn't need to grieve him since he had been a ghost for years. She had a frozen abdomen and Meredith had an idea of how they could reverse her colostomy. Despite dying during season 11, Derek says his last lines during Meredith's dream-like vision. He also told her that he wanted more with her. Maggie intervened to call a truce. He never looked Meredith in the eye and eventually, Derek Shepherd spoke to them both. Meredith told her about her crime, which was still threatening her medical license. He had completely fallen apart. She had Richard's sub-interns set out to find a donor since UNOS had none available. While waiting for the results, Callie sat down in her room to have a little chat about how she was doing. [49], The blind dates continued. She reluctantly did the exam but took off as soon as Noelle's CT results got back, leaving Griffin in Jackson's care. When the interns left, Jackson came in to tell her that his mother was planning on moving Richard to another hospital. [116], Nathan and Meredith were initially at odds, with her disliking him out of loyalty for Owen. What if MerDer were married before she started her internship? Derek was unsatisfied with his job at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, especially because his sister Amelia had taken over as head of the neurosurgery department.