On her way to consult on Levi's patient, she ran into Cormac, whose boys had ditched him in an attempt to make them late for the parent-teacher conferences. They were given a date to see a judge about the adoption after Alex went to the judge directly. He asked to clear the room but Bailey had something more to say. Teddy also urged her to tell Megan the full story. Meredith shot up and told him that he had no right to talk about her daughter as he had been the one to kill her father as he neglected to do even basic burr holes, let alone a head CT. Meredith yelled that he didn't deserve to judge her or anyone for that matter, after which he had a sudden seizure. When his cancer spread, he was put down and Meredith and Derek agreed to bury him in his favorite spot on Derek's land. Derek engaged Meredith in his Alzheimer's clinical trial, trying to find a cure for her mother's disease. Professional Information Meredith was already 5 in the spring of 1983, making her birthday sometime between January and June. Andrew then took Meredith into a guest room at Jackson's and they started making out there, only to be caught by Richard. Meredith apologized to him for that while George pointed out that Richard might break if Meredith decided to stay on her beach. After the transplant was completed, Meredith offered Nick a job as an attending and Director of the Residency Program, an offer he accepted. Meredith assured Levi that she had forgiven him for reporting the insurance fraud. Meredith Grey, first-grade teacher. Meredith said his departure officially made her the last man standing of their residency class. Cristina later helped "diagnose" Meredith as having a case of "severe abandonment issues," as the cause of her relationship problems with Derek, due to the fact that Thatcher left her, when she was a child, that she had to suddenly leave her childhood home when she was five, and that Ellis was absent for most of her childhood, due to her work and the affair she was having with Richard. Alex continued to dodge her even though she knew he was not in Iowa. Meredith took on her case and used it as a hands-on approach to teach the residents in a more practical manner, substituting the traditional grand rounds. He wished she would have done the community service and come back to work to change the system from within, but she said nothing she had written was untrue and that she wasn't going to sit on her mountain of privilege leaving others to fight for themselves in the broken system that was hurting and killing them. Jo then revealed that her mother was raped by her father and that she looked like him. Years later, an adult, and now a doctor, Meredith uncovered the doll while she and Derek were unpacking boxes in their house, which was previously owned and inhabited by her mother and father before their divorce, and by her mother after, until Meredith was forced to place her mother in Roseridge Home for Extended Care, due to Ellis suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's. Richard started becoming frustrated with Meredith and even more so when he looked at her and was frustrated to see Ellis Grey inside her, the woman whom he loved but had almost ruined his marriage. The kids then arrived for the party and Link played along with Bailey. 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. Meredith Grey/Mark Sloan. 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. She rarely got involved with people and their problems, unless it affected their work. During her speech about her hero, Dr. Ellis Grey, Zola had a panic attack as she mentioned Alzheimer's disease, fearing she would lose her mother and aunt to the disease. After their wedding, they had Meredith Grey. But when Derek Shepherd gives her the exact attention she's been craving, she falls hard and fast- Only to have him abandon her for his wife of eleven years, Addison. Afterward, Andrew showed some of his appealing cocky side and asked Meredith out on a date, with Link coming over at the exact moment with the same question. He informed her he was doing well and had spent his time asleep at home to keep the mania from creeping back in. After discovering that Alex failed his board exams, Meredith helped him to study and they occasionally have heartfelt and meaningful conversations. Her vitals remained stable and imaging showed improvement, confusing her doctors as to why she wasn't waking up. She brought up that he never got to meet Ellis, but he showcased enough knowledge about her and her resemblance to Meredith as well as Zola writing him letters to inform her that he had been watching over them. As Gus coded, the decompression process was started. While Bailey and Webber advised a conservative approach, but Megan opted for the more radical approach so she could return to her son in Iraq faster. Derek and Addison are married but both desperately want out, the only thing keeping them together is Addison's pregnancy. With the departure of Cristina, Alex became Meredith's new "person" and the closest thing to a brother she had. He reminded her that he hadn't dumped her so she didn't have to miss him. Along the way, they discovered they were actually on the wrong date but decided to keep it going. She relocated to Massachusetts with Meredith, and Thatcher lost all contact with his daughter. Even after enduring the horrible plane crash, in which both her sister and his best friend died, and Derek's hand was severely injured, their bond only grew stronger and they helped each other. She agreed. At the end of Meredith's residency, Lexie died after the plane crash because she was stuck under the debris. She tried to reach Derek again, making a run for it, but she tripped and fell. She put up some resistance, stating she could keep going after the high of the surgery, but Andrew reminded her that a certain friend had once stressed the importance of getting rest. Meredith asked Derek what he wanted her to promise. [5] Richard's drinking escalated again, causing him to make an error during surgery which almost killed a patient, until Dr. Bailey stepped in, fixing the problem[6] and scheduling weekly followups with the patient to ensure he had no lasting effects. Different take on season 1 and the relationships. At night in bed, a curious Meredith googled Cece's services but opted against using them. Before a date with Daniel, Meredith was told by Richard that her father was dying of acute myeloid leukemia. However, there was excessive tension between Meredith and Derek. [57], Following their date, Andrew assisted her as she broke the hospital's longest surgery record with a 27 hour and 3-minute surgery. Since Gerlie had no one, they had to be her village. Derek planned to propose to her, with a ring from his mother but remarked to Mark that the timing had to be right, otherwise she would bolt. They ended up having to share the chamber with James Chee and his patient. Upon returning to the hotel, an employee escorted her to the bar where she found Nick waiting for her. He said he hadn't dumped her but it was all the same to her. The only people that knew about Meredith's miscarriage were Cristina, Owen, and April. While surprised, she was fine with it, so Meredith then went to find Andrew and took him out on a date to a restaurant. FormerChief of SurgeryDirector of the Residency ProgramHead of General SurgeryBoard DirectorLab Director After the shooting, all involved were made to go through a psych consult to be cleared for surgery. 408 She honestly said she only regretted her decisions to the extent she could knowing that they led to Gabriela doing well now. Jackso **REUPLOAD AFTER TAKEN DOWN AT 1M+ READS /: She instructed Meredith to go out and buy herself five new outfits and ready herself for something new, which she did.[48]. Meredith completely changed the treatment, which upset Andrew, but after receiving bone marrow test results, he and Lauren realized that Suzanne might have Still's disease. He wrote that during his call with Izzie, he heard children in the background, and Izzie told him they were his. But when he asked her out, she said no because she loved Derek. During the start of the merger with Mercy West Medical Center, Meredith was hospitalized from having donated a portion of her liver to her father, Thatcher Grey, since he was unable to be placed on the transplant list due to his alcoholism. Their relationship has been rocky since Derek's death. Meredith had Erica in high school at 16. Everyone then had to clear the room. She added that if he really expected her to sit back and nothing, he didn't know her at all, and walked away from him. Given that they had strengthened their emotional compatibility with their newfound friendship, the writers hinted the characters would eventually give in to their passion again. After meeting Zola, Meredith and Derek worked quickly to meet her social worker so they could start their new lives together (season 7, episode 21, "I Will Survive"). When Alex later noticed the way Meredith looked at Nathan, he encouraged her to go after him, but soon changed his mind when he and Nathan disagreed over a case. That promise soon came to use, as Nathan Riggs' arrival to the hospital caused Owen to become moody and isolated, prompting a worried Meredith to turn to his mother, who revealed her the truth behind Owen's mood. He talked about her kids and their traits and how they needed for her to fight. They laid on the floor and talked about her problems. 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. When Meredith announced her own wedding, she chose Cristina as her maid of honor. Eventually, Meredith finally agreed to dinner with Nathan, but their plans were postponed when Maggie's mother died and Meredith had to take care of her. They went for dinner overlooking the river, where they talked about Meredith's new project. Meredith and Cristina also have several sleepovers at each other's houses, sometimes in Meredith's bed with Derek in it. His mother appeared on the beach at a distance and called out for him. Doc was taken to the vet and diagnosed with bone cancer. Unable to choose, she decided to go home to her children.[53]. Although Nathan tried to convince Meredith that he was still in love with her and that Megan didn't want to be with him, Meredith continued to send Nathan back to Megan because she didn't want Nathan to blow his opportunity to rekindle his romance with Megan. Andy makes Meredith realize there are positive things to take away from her date. He asked her out and she agreed, despite her and Izzie being celibate. They performed a tense surgery until Meredith was informed by Richard that her house had been struck by lightning, causing a fire. Having struggled with her own recovery, Gerlie found it reassuring to see Meredith back at work. She happily agreed to a date at a place by the lake. On her date, Meredith rambled on about how it shouldn't be children's job to forgive their parents just because they are their parents. She made him want to be better. 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. On her way out, Meredith found Nathan sitting outside on a bench. [102], Meredith aced her respiratory exams and was prepared to be discharged while Bailey and Richard struggled to tell her about DeLuca's death. Luckily, her kids made it out alive with Maggie and Winston. She stood by her decision. Andrew clarified to Cece that there was a very real chance she would not make it off the table alive, but Cece was willing to roll the dice. Lexie asked Meredith about her favorite thing about life. However, the couple never made it down the aisle since they ended up giving their venue to Alex Karev and Izzie, leading them to make their own personal wedding in episode 24, "Now Or Never". 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 and Derek's future house (made of candles). Meredith faintly told her daughter that that was nice of her. Meredith learns Paul Castello is on the panel. When Owen came to Meredith's house looking for Cristina, Meredith said, "I already fixed her." While most pilot episodes introduce the main protagonist, Grey's Anatomy season 1, episode 1, "A Hard Day's Night" took things a step further by setting up Meredith and Derek's relationship, which started with a one-night stand. She had been living in Boston until they moved to Seattle two weeks before Meredith's internship started. Before stepping back into the O.R., Grey puts on Dereks ferryboat scrub cap. They live in Seattle just 5 minutes away from the hospital where they both work as surgeons. Ellis tells Meredith to be extraordinary. With the show, actress Ellen Pompeo has risen to star status, and her portrayal of main character Meredith Grey is well-loved by viewers. While Zola toured the school, Meredith reconnected with Jackson. After Bailey's surgery, Catherine still wanted to have a second opinion. For extra credit, their teacher Mrs. Snyder made them act out all the parts. The fictional character has gone through so much from her husbands death, to a hospital shooting, and to winning a prestigious medical award. He pointed out her children wouldn't recover if she were locked up, but she planned on hiring a great lawyer and plead her case, confident that her track record and the fact that it was her first offense would help her win. At the Seattle Grace prom, Finn said he had plans for his and Meredith's future. The cold peace between them finally came to a stop when Meredith learned that he had cheated on Cristina, which resulted in her despising him for a long time. Meredith then asked the man for a favor. Finally, Nathan showed up at Meredith's house, verbally confirming his feelings for her. Bailey then agreed to put Gerlie on the transplant list only if Meredith agreed to re-implement grand rounds. Upon hearing of her death, Meredith cried hysterically. During her visit to the Clinic, Richard, Bailey, and Cormac called her to remind her of her ties to Grey Sloan and she swore she wasn't there for a job interview. Meredith then convinced Catherine to let her run an EMG, which showed impaired function. One morning, she found out her hearing about her license was scheduled three months later. He took her to a favorite spot of his by the lake where he shared that he had cut back on his hours because he was starting to ignore the beautiful world around him. These moments show that Meredith's interest in medicine started when she was a toddler. They used to live with another girl named Leah but she moved away. And Cristina went home with Owen. No other line from the 19 seasons Ellen Pompeo appeared as Meredith Grey in Greys Anatomy stands out more. Then she segued into her asking him why he he barely spoke to her all day. She also figured Bailey would hate her even more, which Andrew confirmed as soon as he got to work. Meredith formed a close bond with Izzie on their first day and her relationship with Izzie grew more so when Izzie and George moved in with her. Flashbacks show Meredith walking around the hospital with an Anatomy Jane doll (a toy with detachable organs) that she used to play with. This alarmed the doctors. She paged Teddy, who did an angio while Meredith sat by his head. After working on a surgery together, Andrew proposed that he and Meredith go out on a date before they got interrupted by Link, who reminded Meredith that she had asked him out for drinks. A couple of hours later, Meredith got a call that Derek never showed up for the meeting in Washington D.C.. Meredith soon began to worry about what happened to him. When a stressed Alex entered her room, Meredith managed to calm him down by letting him hold her son. [40], As the relationship with Nathan progressed to him sleeping over a lot, Meredith finally found it time for him to meet the kids and invited him to dinner. But a large part was due to the fact that for years, Ellis had been involved in an affair with one of her colleagues and best friends, Richard Webber. The lawyer would schedule a hearing, where she suspected Meredith would be ordered to a few hours of community service in a clinic if she was repentant. They sat down with cake and wine and he complimented her on running a three-kid household all the while winning surgical awards. She and Alex pulled Gus through and she rushed off. [114], Meredith agreed to go get drinks, but panicked and canceled. Soon after, she started treating Cece Colvin, a professional matchmaker, who picked up on Meredith's desire to be kissed, even though Meredith dismissed the observation. [33] However, Bailey made Meredith an offer with a low salary. On his way back to DC to resign, he got into a car accident and died. The next morning, Meredith even tried to make breakfast for her and Lexie was so enthusiastic that she ate it, despite knowing she would have an allergic reaction. Beginning Relationship with Derek Shepherd, Lawsuit, Pregnancy, and Buying the Hospital, Growing Closer to Nathan and Supporting Alex, Hiring a Matchmaker and Thatcher's Illness, Returning to Work, Andrew's Mania and Losing Alex, The Grey Center and Reconnecting with Nick, Interim Chief of Surgery and Leaving Seattle, No Good at Saying Sorry (One More Chance), Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response, I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me, I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked, Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right, You Can Look (But You'd Better Not Touch). "You're my knight in shining whatever". [72], Meredith went to jail. Jackson said that name was ruined now but Meredith was confident he could make it his own and re-invent it. As such, there is very little that the two of them do not know, about the other, since day one of their internships. This is Addison Montgomery Derek's ex wife" "Mark." Derek interjected. Derek and Meredith were sitting in the cafeteria, he handed her some coffee, having his arm around her. Which is an equally iconic Meredith Grey moment. Cormac met her in the attendings' lounge and presented her with a half-empty bottle of whiskey. Ellen Pompeo may be moving on to new projects, but fans will never move on from this iconic moment. Meredith quietly explained the situation to Nancy but upon learning that the hearing would have to be rescheduled, which could take six months, Meredith decided to power through with Paul on the panel. Completed . Search Works. However, Heather and Shane discovered heavy bleeding, and Meredith realized that she had suffered an internal bleed from her fall on the stairs. However, after their break-up, when Derek tried to talk to Meredith, Bailey grew protective and told him not to, that Meredith was hurt and he would just make it worse. Though both of them were really happy, Meredith was very concerned due to her hostile uterus, but Derek remained optimistic, and she was still pregnant. Obviously older since the news. While her bad feeling about the project persisted, she decided to just be supportive of Andrew. Meredith went to the bathroom, but Nathan followed her, intent on talking to her about their situation. She wanted to return to the ER with Levi, who collapses. Jo replied the latter, after which Meredith insisted they go talk to Alex and Bailey to get her a proper leave of absence so she could get the help she needed. Mark thought it was too early for her since Zola was only Sofia's age. In the morning, he received word that his patient Suzanne Britland was being moved to the CCU. They ended on friendly terms with both of them thanking the other one for what they had meant in each other's lives. Meredith told Nick to go back to Minnesota because she had a lot of work to do for the hospital. During the year away she spent time in New York with best friend Cristina Yang and with family in California. He walked her back to her hotel room, and she didn't invite him in. She and Cormac left the hospital to go spoil their kids. The experience allowed them both to become closer and for Meredith to open up to Nathan about her history. Grey's Anatomy fanfiction. Meredith said she'd think on it but advised him to also tell Bailey. Watching Meredith Grey overcome her fears and complicated relationship with her mother was very impactful for audience. The post-it note that married Derek and Meredith. They ended up having sex. Meredith and George's friendship continued and was strengthened, as she was his resident. 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. Then she blamed fate for her own bad decision. The couple subsequently got into an argument in the changing room, where Derek argued that it was Alzheimer's, a disease that she could potentially have, and one whose progression he was trying to stop or cure, while at the same time espousing that everything was black and white, a right and a wrong. At the wedding reception, Nathan invited her to dance but she declined. TV Shows Grey's Anatomy. She surprised Amelia and her kids as they were preparing for her arrival. The Harper Avery Foundation, led by Catherine Avery, made Jackson Avery their spokesperson on the board,[19] which upset all the other doctors. The culmination of this came in season 4 episode 17, when Grey built a house of candles for Derek Shepherd on the property he wanted them to share. After Meredith finished stabilizing a patient's badly wounded leg with the help of a little girl just by the water, the man panicked and pushed Meredith off the edge into the bay. #2~George O'Malley Throughout the set-up, she pointed out that there's no cap on happiness and that love doesn't just come walking through the door. Later, she found out she was pregnant. 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. At the hospital, after Jo confirmed that Bailey was furious at her, Meredith went to see her and told her that she had nothing to do with the article as all the things she had written herself were not directed at the hospital. He updated her on Charlotte leaving for college and she told him she had survived COVID. Meredith and Derek's family life also continued to bring much happiness to the fans in season 9 and 10 as well, as the couple hosted tea parties (season 9, episode 22, "Do You Believe In Magic") and went trick-or-treating as a family (season 10, episode 7, "Thriller"). But the decision did end in their favor, and Janet brought Zola to them, finalizing the adoption. As she was about to head to the OR, Zola's surgical team came by to tell everything had gone fine. Due to Meredith's friendship with Derek, Derek and Addison agreed to take him in. When Izzie was revealed to be quite sick, Meredith offered her wedding to Izzie and Alex and Alex made her his best man for the wedding. "Thanks again for doing this," Pete said, giving Addison a quick kiss on the cheek. Meredith then accompanied Alex to the courthouse, where he was charged with felony assault in the second degree. Derek's plans to propose left his mind after he accidentally killed a patient. We know all of this and we know "Solace, you are the epitome of your name. She sat down to text Alex, who started typing up a reply but stopped, which worried her.[80]. Derek Shepherd and Lauren Bishop have been together for 12 years but have been married for 5. At first, Meredith was angry with Derek for not telling her, but she later admitted to still loving him and begged him to "pick me, choose me, love me." Later that night in the parking lot, Nathan brought up her behavior and that he understood the way she felt about living a life without Derek, comparing it to Megan's disappearance. Bailey overcame her fear to operate and pulled Meredith through. Later that day, he got into a fight with Meredith, who told him to take the job in D.C. and leave. It may have been a cruel trick, but it was also an effective one since it provided insight into the pain and denial Meredith must have been experiencing at the moment. In the beginning, Meredith was supportive of Owen and Cristina's relationship, but after he strangled Cristina during a PTSD nightmare, she gave him the cold shoulder and kept him away from Cristina. She is intelligent, compassionate, hard-working, has good medical instincts, and a natural flair for medicine. Meredith subsequently confronted him, in a fit of anger, telling him that she probably will get fired and that she wanted him out of the house by the end of the day. Her mom, Ellis, was great. The next week, Meredith started to be come more active. Since Jo helped find an important piece, she put Jo as her partner for the contest, and they created their mini livers together. Derek then takes Meredith's engagement ring and, using a baseball bat, hits it out into the forest. She took Andrew to the party with her as her plus one, though they did not plan on staying long as Meredith had the house to herself.

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