MeredithWhere are you going?
Um, to visit Molly for two days.
Meredith
Oh, that's great.
Jackson arranged it. It was a surprise.
Meredith
Oh.
What so you mean by that?
Meredith
Nothing. Just oh.
'Cause it sounded like you meant, "Really, he arranged for you to visit your sister at the exact time his mother's coming into town? Guess he's not really that into you, otherwise, he'd want you to meet his mother like a normal person."
Meredith
No. You had a mother. Jackson and I had surgeons who procreated. It's just a little complicated.
I-I-I shouldn't go, right?
Meredith
No, I think it's sweet that he wants you to get out of the line of fire.
[after being berated by Derek]: Can you go have sex with him so he'll be nicer?
Meredith
I told you, he's going to be hard on you until you learn all of his quirks.
They're not quirks. They're these scary, nitpicky rules just to drive me crazy. [Meredith chuckles] Like what is the deal with him needing 16 towels in the O.R. at all times?
Meredith
[smugly] Well, if I give you all the answers, you'll never learn on your own.
You're just as mean as he is.
Meredith
[voiceover] Have you ever had the starring role on a play? The solo in a recital? All eyes on you, waiting for you to do what they came to see. Feeling the incredible pressure to perform. There was a time when they used to call operating rooms an operating theater. It still feels like one. Scores of people get ready for the show. The sets are arranged, there are costumes, masks, props, everything has to be rehearsed, choreographed, all leading to the moment when the curtain goes up. You know what they say about Carnegie Hall, there's only one way to get there...
Practice, practice, practice until it is perfect, people. This is a long, complex procedure with many parts. Therefore many opportunities for error.
[Jackson, Alex, Cristina and April are in the gallery watching Derek and the others separate the conjoined twins when Meredith walks in carrying Zola.]
Meredith
Look at this face. Seriously, look at this face.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, super cute. They're in the spinal cord now.
Meredith
Bailey spent the last two hours telling me how crappy my life is, but look at this face. Oh, Zola, look. [points at Derek] There's your daddy. He's about to repair a myelomeningocele. [coos to Zola] Can you say myelomeningocele?
How was your lunch, Dr. Grey?
Meredith
Oh, it was fine. Actually, no line at all. I was able to get my sandwich, find my daughter, see my husband, go watch the groundbreaking surgery that's going on right next door. And still get back in time to do my work.
Sounds like you have it all, Dr. Grey.
Meredith
I do, actually. I have it all.
Bailey says you're declaring general.
Meredith
Actually, I'm not sure anymore.
Oh. Oh, I thought it was a done deal. I mean, it makes sense since you're––
Meredith
Because of my mother. I know. Don't you mention her, too. That's all anyone ever says it's in my blood, it's my legacy. That's why I don't want to do it. I don't want to be like my mother.
Meredith, look at everything you did today this party for your daughter, what you did for me in that O.R. You don't have to ever worry about being anything like your mother. I knew her, and you're nothing like your mother. You have a gift. Don't waste it.
[Alternate universe]
Meredith
No, Dad. Don't come and clean up after her again. You do it every time and it's beneath you and it's pointless. I can't do anything right for her.
Meredith
And I finally figured out why. She wants everyone around her to be ordinary, so she can be extraordinary. She wants everyone around her small!
Meredith
And that's what she's done to you. She has made you small, and I'm not gonna let her do it to me.
[Derek and Meredith are kissing in bed with Zola sleeping in between them.]
There's a baby in the bed.
Meredith
I know there's a baby in the bed.
[grins] There's no baby in the shower.
Meredith
[grins] There is no baby in the shower.
[Derek and Meredith get out of bed and head to the bathroom]
Meredith
[looks at Zola's bath toys] There's a baby in the shower, too.
[continues kissing Meredith] Oh, come on. Just look the other way.
Meredith
I can't do it in front of the duckies.
Yes, you can. Do it in front of the duckies.
Meredith
Our patient's seizures stopped, and you know why?
Meredith
Because I found this teratoma on her ovary.
Well, you know, you could've told me this at dinner. You didn't have to show me a chopped up ovary.
Meredith
Little sucker thought it could hide from me, but it couldn't. It took a while, but I finally figured out where it was, and I went in and nailed it.
[grins] You are so sexy when you're looking at a teratoma.
Meredith
You guys studying for the oral boards in the middle of the day?
It's just another benefit of having a study buddy. You should get one.
Meredith
I have one. It's just that my stupid study buddy's too busy trying to save her stupid marriage to actually help me study.
Well, you know what's better than a study buddy? A study lackey. Check it. [to intern] Hey, you. [whistles] Brown-haired girl, you're up.
MMorgan
[walks up] Uh, trauma incident or a surgical situation?
You made your interns come up with study questions?
Meredith
I'm not coming back.
Meredith
What's to miss about neuro?
[Later]
[grins] Ah, Dr. Grey. So glad you could join us.
Meredith
[drearily] I've been kidnapped.
[to Lexie] She misses me.
She's not even on neuro anymore.
Well, she's thinking about coming back.
Meredith
[chuckles] I'm not.
[smirks] She is. She's remembering the magic.
Well he is my husband. This is a marriage.
Meredith
OK.
Meredith
OK.
Meredith
So you are gonna take the job at Stanford?
Meredith
You'll be leaving me too.
You might go to the Bringham.
Meredith
Probably not.
Maybe. Yeah I'll leave you too... There're phones you know.
Meredith
Oh, you hate the phone.
I know I do. But I mean I don't have to like it.
Meredith
Put your hand under the door.
Meredith
Just do it.
Uh, Hopkins is not in the running.
Not for you, for me! Hopkins! Hopkins wants me, HOPKINS WANTS ME!
Johns Hopkins? The hospital? Not Hopkins Refrigeration School?
Meredith
[at the same time] Alex, how?
I kind of bitched out their Chief of Surgery at my boards and I-I guess he was impressed.
So they know you're a jerk.
They totally know, And they want me. Hopkins wants me!
Meredith
[smiling] I am not surprised at all.
I am one-hundred percent surprised.
[Alex looks at Cristina and turns around preparing to leave]
[Alex turns back]
[gives Karev a hug] Nice work, Evil Spawn.
[Smiles and turns and walks away happily] Yes! Hopkins!
You're a physician. Is this really the first time you missed a lunch and the crossword because of a surgery?
Meredith
Here we go.
Well, this parasite's important to me.
You know what? Fine. Let's do it right now. Give me the damn crossword.
Oh, no. Nobody's ever gonna forget it. Where is Dr. Warren's bag?
And this is why you don't work with your girlfriend.
Meredith
I warned them.
Here we go. Oh, this is gonna be so great. It's way better than a once-in-a-lifetime, bone-eating parasite. Let's see. One down.
Oh, no, no, no. No help from you. I'm too excited. This is what I live for. Let's see "Peruvian mountain range". Oh, Andes. Five, uh-huh. "Planet with water, four letters". Oh, Mars. Duh. Uh,"fancy sauce"? Fancy... ooh. Remoulade.
What? No, no. I'm on a roll. Come on. Hey, this can't be the Sunday, 'cause this is way too easy. What's ... Oh, hey, this one, 21 across. "My question to you." Hmm.
I'm asking you to put it away.
He's asking you nicely, Dr. Bailey.
Oh, no, no, no. When he doesn't get his way, he holds on to it in his cheek like a squirrel with a nut. We are doing the crossword. What is "my question to you"? It's a bunch of letters. Um ... oh, maybe it's a phrase. "My question to you," anybody?
Meredith
How many letters?
No, I'm looking at it. It's 13.
No, it's 14. Count again.
I just counted. What, do you have X-ray vision from across the room?
"Will you marry me" is my question to you. And the reason why it's so easy is because I made the crossword. Took me two damn months not to mention getting a mockup made of "The New York Times." The phrase has 14 letters. "Will," four,"you," seven, "marry," 12,"me" ... 14.
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