Though it was said at the meeting that the ER had to close, Meredith got confused when she witnessed Stephanie and Jo exchanging supplies to use in the ER. When the surgeon met little Zola, however, everything changed. If not, there was no point in avoiding death and she may as well just join Derek now. For extra credit, their teacher Mrs. Snyder made them act out all the parts. This as well as Cormac asking her to fight for her kids got through to Meredith and Derek on her beach. Derek Shepherd (husband) Callie and Meredith also have the common bond of being mothers, which has helped their friendship a great deal. The shooting that happened after the death of a patient of Derek's, when the patient's husband shot numerous people, also shooting Derek was traumatizing for both of them, especially as Meredith miscarried because of the events of that day. Doc was taken to the vet and diagnosed with bone cancer. The. [12], The group ended up spending four days out in the woods before they were found and airlifted to Boise Memorial Hospital, where they were treated before being sedated and flown back to Seattle. She honestly said she only regretted her decisions to the extent she could knowing that they led to Gabriela doing well now. In the end, Andrew was right. This alarmed the doctors. At the party, she also asked Jo to talk to Alex even though Jo was more concerned about Andrew. After their last clinical trial patient survived the surgery, Meredith and Derek celebrated and she showed him a house of candles she had made. She was impressed by Meredith but when Meredith lied and said she had performed a certain surgery when she hadn't, Hahn told her that if she did it again, she'd never let her operate in her OR again. She had 4 letters of recommendation for her internship at. However, when George alerted the chief that Sadie did not seem to have much medical knowledge, she quit and asked Meredith to leave with her. Meredith is moving to Boston and in turn she asks Derek to help her move. They ordered room service and spent the night before heading to his cabin the next day. She permitted Zola to stay home from school but only if she agreed to come to the hospital to make her homework there. He revealed he had checked in on her and her kids sometimes. Cece had to be put on dialysis awaiting her kidney transplant. 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. Upon entering the room, Nancy asked Meredith to keep quiet for once given the vicious prosecutor and let her do her job. While they decided that they should just go back to their no-strings relationship, Meredith eventually realized that she did want to spend her life with him after he began dating Rose (which resulted in Meredith making a house of candles in episode 17, "Freedom"). She stated Meredith had in fact broken the law to save a life, so she deserved to pick up trash, but she did not deserve to have her license taken over it. Bright and Shiny 2 is already up on my account! Enjoy! However, before she died, Meredith saw Ellis in a vision and Ellis hugged her and told her she was extraordinary and to continue being extraordinary. Though most of the original cast members of Greys Anatomy have moved on to other projects, Pompeo has remained the main character since its beginning. The life of Meredith and Derek after the super storm hit in Seattle (AU/My version of season 10 and what live brings to Meredith and Derek's life. Teddy and Bailey tasked Levi with taking her to the hyperbaric chamber, which they hoped would help. Their marital issues proved too great, and eventually, Thatcher left the home when Meredith was five years old. Cormac talked about he loss of his wife impacted their kids and again begged her to fight. And unlike Derek, who viewed the world in distinct shades of black and white, Meredith tends to see things in shades of gray, which Carolyn Shepherd remarked to her son that was what he needed, while she was visiting Seattle.[108]. Derek tried to make a decision, but it was a hard one, as he had been married to Addison for eleven years. Meredith Grey and Richard Webber had a very strained relationship for a very long time. And as the interns became residents, Bailey became friendlier to them, often dispensing advice and chastisement when needed, while still managing to maintain her fearsome professional reputation as a doctor and general surgeon. She ran into Amelia, who had seen Andrew leave the house and wondered if they were back together. [102], Meredith aced her respiratory exams and was prepared to be discharged while Bailey and Richard struggled to tell her about DeLuca's death. 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. After correctly diagnosing a patient with a brain tumor, she approached Derek Shepherd with the idea of a clinical trial. Tom and Amelia then changed their opinion and agreed to a nerve biopsy. Having children was truly a turning point in Meredith Greys life. Cormac came into the lounge to get coffee and after he was gone, Amelia commented on his being hot. 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. But she was not entirely pleased to find out that he chose Alex, over her, to help him. With the departure of Cristina, Alex became Meredith's new "person" and the closest thing to a brother she had. Meredith nervously scrubbed in for the surgery, which went well right up to the end, when she found out there wasn't enough tissue left to close the wound, angering her.[43]. Derek then takes Meredith's engagement ring and, using a baseball bat, hits it out into the forest. She asked for a rain check and walked off. #2~George O'Malley Meredith Grey Meredith was visited on her beach by Mark and Lexie. During the birth of her second child in season 9 episode 24, it truly was a perfect storm of horrific events. Later at the hospital, Bailey confronted Meredith about her threat to Andrew and warned Meredith not to go down with Alex, but Meredith insisted on standing by him. Jo saw them and commented she could see something between them. Maggie intervened to call a truce. But Richard and Callie conducted additional research of the company and learned that it would be a terrible asset to the hospital. Finn found out, and albeit annoyed, he wanted to work past it. She told him to "go give 'em hell" in Boston and he thanked her for showing him how. From that, it appeared that Meredith had accepted the fact that Lexie was gone and was at peace. [95], Meredith remained comatose. She told him she could fix him as he was the one who taught her everything about surgery, life, and being a parent. She opened the door by giving him a piece of her liver, but he never walked through. She has attained an Undergraduate degree in Creative Writing and is also the creator of the film and television blog 'The Critics' Corner'. Meredith continued to avoid Nathan after Maggie's confession and told him they had a problem. When Addison came to Seattle Grace although she wanted Derek back, she was civil to Meredith and even defended her in front of a mislead patient. Willingly, she offers up her liver, not for Thatcher, but for Lexie's sake. Only a patient and George's best friend Izzie knew how he felt about Meredith. They started dating again, but Derek later complained that she was constantly leaving him and that she should be worried that the highlight of his week was meeting another girl at Joe's. Meredith Grey. . Meredith concluded it would be better if you believed you can have more than one. Back at the hospital, she and Andrew treated a deteriorating Cece, who had discovered Link and suggested him to Meredith. They started arguing and ended up having sex in her car. Luckily, her kids made it out alive with Maggie and Winston. She's a thriving surgical resident at Seattle Grace Hospital, has a hotshot boyfriend, a loving family, and good friends. Carina was concerned that Andrew might have the mania that their father had, explaining that that was why he went to jail for Meredith and why he was obsessing over Suzanne Britland's case. Meredith couldn't help but smile as she closed the door.[106]. 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. She relocated to Massachusetts with Meredith, and Thatcher lost all contact with his daughter. The guard came to let Meredith out and they wished each other good luck. [8] She kept this from Derek, but he became very angry with Meredith and made her tell him what was going on. When George and Meredith were fighting, Izzie told Meredith she would be siding with George if they had to choose sides but fortunately, Meredith and George's issues were soon resolved. 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. In the end, Vincenzo's display of reckless behavior led to Alex shutting the research down. As a blizzard hit Seattle and blocked off all roads, Cormac was unable to get a donor liver from Seattle Pres to Grey Sloan. Cristina bonded with Meredith instantly and their relationship grew, resulting in Cristina and Meredith becoming best friends and each other's person. Meredith Grey, a top class general surgeon, has just got job as a general attending at Seattle Grace hospital after running from her abusive ex in Boston. Derek appreciated that she gave him everything he needed until his last breath. Meredith allowed Callie to move into her house for a while and Callie saved her from embarrassment at work and gave her advice about her dog, but Meredith was better friends with Izzie, who disliked Callie, so she often sided with Izzie in arguments. As she admitted she had grown to like him more over the course of the day, they continued to talk over cake and wine while she ignored Andrew's text asking her to come over to celebrate his first solo surgery.[54]. [81], On her day off, she received a letter from Alex. The attraction between Meredith and Andrew continued to grow with every surgery did they together. When Meredith announced her own wedding, she chose Cristina as her maid of honor. Cormac complimented her on her work today but she was too concerned about the human trafficking situation to accept the praise. While enjoying some ice cream with Andrew, Meredith told him she was happy both she and the kids were healthy and that she actually found some sense of accomplishment in picking up trash. She also went looking for Erin Miller, a missing girl. Later, when she found out he was related to Harper Avery, she felt empathy for him. Meredith begged her to stay because this was her home, but Izzie told her that it wasn't. He yelled that she was worried about the kids and that the sand wasn't real. When a storm hit the city, Meredith went into labor and had started bleeding internally after giving birth. When his cancer spread, he was put down and Meredith and Derek agreed to bury him in his favorite spot on Derek's land. Meredith improved and she was moved back to a regular room, yet remained at all times unconscious or asleep. Beginning in season 1, Meredith and Derek were at the heart of the drama as their on-off relationship managed to involve every main character in some way or another. As the janitor cleaned out George's cubby, as they "need(ed) space," Meredith realized that what had happened was real and broke down in Derek's arms. Lexie asked Meredith about her favorite thing about life. They were going to move to DC. Her current phone password is "1008", which she revealed to Jo during a surgery. Meredith found the obligatory distance between her and Derek to be torture, which he pointed out was her own doing. Meredith started to put together a pro bono surgery day. [68], She started disguising herself better to avoid getting recognized again. Despite numerous calls from Alex, she refused to answer. Susan Grey (stepmother)Carolyn Shepherd (mother-in-law)Mr. Shepherd (father-in-law)Eric Thompson (brother-in-law)Nancy Shepherd (sister-in-law)Kathleen Shepherd (sister-in-law)Amelia Shepherd (sister-in-law)Liz Shepherd (sister-in-law)Laura Grey-Thompson (niece)Christopher Shepherd (nephew)Scout Derek Shepherd Lincoln (nephew)Winston Ndugu (brother-in-law)Lucas Adams (nephew)AuntNine NiecesFour Nephews First published Apr 01, 2020. Later that night, Meredith found Izzie cleaning out her old room, ready to leave for good after Alex dumped her. However, she finally woke up later that day and told Richard that she was sorry he had had to decide whether or not to put her on a vent. On her pro bono surgery day, she had 25 surgeries to divide among four surgeons, all before Tom would shut down the project at 7 PM. She rang Izzie to tell her to come back because Alex might be moving on, after witnessing Alex and Reed flirting and the next morning she found Lexie and Alex in bed together but advised them to keep it secret. Ellis ends up getting Alzheimer's still and nobody has ever told Meredith they loved her. She commented that seemed like a lifetime ago and recalled him coming into her room to tell her to fight for her kids. . Meredith ended up leaving him in jail on the night of Cristina and Owen's wedding. The CT came back negative. However, it was needed since the distance helped Derek realize he wanted to be at Grey-Sloan (formerly Seattle Grace), leading to him coming back in season 11, episode 17, "With or Without You.". Meredith soon learned that Derek was still married when his wife, Addison, came to Seattle to get Derek back. Meredith has appeared in more episodes of Grey's than any other character. Season 6~. While Zola toured the school, Meredith reconnected with Jackson. Any fanfiction where Meredith and Derek knew each other before arriving at Seattle Grace. She returned to the hospital, where Link put his number in her phone in case of an emergency. Since Meredith couldn't bring herself to say it, Lexie said the depth of grief came from the depth of love. At the american television medical drama grey's anatomy is a moment. At the end of season 6 and most of season 7, Meredith and Derek's relationship faced several tests as they struggled to conceive; fans, in particular, were especially heartbroken to see Meredith miscarry in the season 6 finale ("Death and All His Friends") since she had been so excited to tell Derek the news. Bailey took the stand first and denied Nancy's suggestions of her and Meredith being close. [14], The doctors went to trial and were awarded $15 million each. The next week, Meredith started to be come more active. 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. 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. She then told him about her miscarriage. An unexpected event of the secret rendezvous was Meredith losing her panties when Derek had pocketed them. She has won a Catherine Fox Award. When Derek forgave Mark for breaking up his marriage and they resumed their friendship with him, Meredith too became friendly towards him, although Mark still threatened her, only half-jokingly, on her wedding day. The surgery went well, and Derek took his newborn son to the NICU to make sure everything was fine. Levi began testifying about Meredith being an amazing teacher but he was soon forced to confess that he had been the one who had reported the fraud to Bailey. While this was a shocking twist, what made the death even more devastating was that the writers lured fans into a false sense of security when they insinuated he got out of the accident unscathed. Later, Derek kissed a nurse named Rose in the scrub room; when Meredith found out, she severed all ties with him. While she spent the day in a lab trying to find an answer, Andrew visited and told her that his father seemed stable despite Carina's claims that he was bipolar. He later came to the house and she told him about Derek and said she thought she was ready, but she wasn't. When Meredith received a call about her mother, she left Europe and went back to Seattle. She says he had absolutely no idea what he was doing. Meredith continued to dream about Andrew as she began going on dates with the help of her matchmaker patient, Cece. Knight Feel About Ellen Pompeo Leaving The Show? With yet another death imminent, she called the patient's daughter to rush to the hospital to be able to say goodbye. It's only a matter of time before Derek is pushed towards Meredith again. At the beginning of season 1, episode 9, "Who's Zoomin' Who?," Meredith and Derek's iconic Grey's Anatomy romance got more serious after Meredith confided in Derek about her mother's health. Amelia came in to update her on her kids and Andrew was optimistic they would be able to discharge her within a week if she continued to improve at the current rate. Grey's Anatomy fanfiction. After the death of Derek, Meredith left Seattle without telling anyone where she was going. She ultimately chose Derek and they reconciled. On his way back to DC to resign, he got into a car accident and died. Upon coming to Seattle Grace, they acted civilly, but there were issues under the surface. He even went on to say he hated how desperate single mothers are in the dating scene. Following an argument about Meredith's future, Meredith spent two months traveling in Europe with her best friend Sadie Harris, who also hated Ellis. Back on the beach, Meredith concluded that life is pain, with which Mark and Lexie disagreed. He was found to have cirrhosis of the liver. When Derek was setting up the Alzheimer's trial, Meredith was there to assist him. When the social worker on their case, Janet, discovered that Meredith and Derek weren't living together, Zola was taken away from them for a time, during which Meredith and Derek rekindled their relationship. Following Richard's urging, Meredith decided she did want to say goodbye to her father before it was too late. He was in awe of her staying sane while combining her job and raising her three kids, though she admitted to dropping some balls here and there. [135] When Meredith visited her dad as he was dying, she told him Bailey said "funny" before saying something. Gerlie woke up surprised to see Meredith by her side; Meredith replied she wasn't going anywhere.[105]. She then received a letter from the medical board to inform her they were, in fact, pursuing action against her license. While sound asleep, Meredith found herself on her beach again, this time with George O'Malley present. He likened their situation to Doctor Who's TARDIS, where the rules don't apply, but she told him the rules still applied. At the end of Meredith's residency, Lexie died after the plane crash because she was stuck under the debris. He neve MerDer is already married before they go to Seattle However, upon learning of Meredith's tampering with Derek's trial, she voices her strong disapproval of her, as evidenced from her interactions with Meredith, when she got fired, and the Chief, when asked to write a recommendation letter for her. Taking advantage of still having her license, she continued to give out medical advice to people on her crew, referring them to Pac-North for further care. [33] However, Bailey made Meredith an offer with a low salary. She later also performed a solo neurological surgery by herself, as Derek, the attending doctor, was occupied by another patient in another OR. She also protected her when Paul came back and was threatening Jo for talking to Jenny, Meredith "called security" even though the phones weren't working. Bailey later came in to talk about the healthcare directive, pointing out that Alex would have to make rough decisions over the phone if things went south. She eventually FaceTimed him, saying that she and the kids were fine and she wished he would stop calling. Meredith pointed out he could have taken a minute to explain his actions before administrating steroids, which could kill her if they were wrong about the diagnosis. As he agonized by her bedside, Meredith became aware of his presence and she imagined him on the beach with her and George, who talked about what he missed about life. However, Burke left Cristina on the day of their wedding and there was never any contact between them again. Meredith then admitted she was scared she wouldn't wake up if she were to fall asleep, though Cormac was confident she was tough enough to beat the virus. [60], Andrew spent all his time on his father's research while Meredith gave him the space to do so. Additionally, she deemed it highly unlikely that the medical board would pursue action her license. He pointed out everything he had done for her with the whole insurance fraud situation, which he said was what you do for your partner. However, as Teddy and Andrew were debating her request, she passed out again, yet again finding herself at the beach with Derek. Richard Webber informed her that her mother would have been proud, while Meredith said that her mother was likely to have been glad that she didn't kill anyone instead. [113], He then called her several times, but she didn't answer the phone. On their thirteenth patient, they had a success and the clinical trial was published in a medical journal and named The Shepherd Method.