[opening voice-over] They say you fight fire with fire. We do it in medicine all the time. We cut you to repair your injury. We hurt you to heal you. We stoke the flames, but playing with fire is a dangerous thing.
“Things We Lost in the Fire” · Season 12, Episode 8
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Amelia Shepherd (1), April Kepner (1), Jackson Avery (1), Penny (1)
Why are you shutting me out of this?
Because this does not concern you.
But it concerns you?
No, it doesn't. I made a promise that I would help him keep his head above water.
Promised who?
To Cristina. So I am watching him, and I am letting him be, and I am not sticking my nose...
What does Cristina have to do with this? You're in some sort of three-way trust circle with Owen and his ex-girlfriend?
Ex-wife.
God. Meredith, you are the most loyal person I have ever met to everyone except me. You're loyal to some woman halfway across the world...
Yes, I am.
...when I am right here. Cristina left you. I'm here. I'm your sister.
You are not my sister. Cristina is my sister. You are Derek's sister, and Derek is gone.
Dr. Grey, I changed the mediastinal drains...
(to Penny, screaming) Get out! (to Meredith) Is this why you hate me? 'Cause I remind you of him? Does it help you to hate me? Asking you not to push me. Am I like her... something you cling to to keep the memory alive? You are such a child. You wrap her around you like some sick widow shawl. The widow Grey. She's okay. She's moving on. She'll never love again, but she's holding it together. That is crap. You've given up. You are crawling into your little hole and dying. You are hollow. And Derek would be sick about it if he could see it. He would be disgusted.
I want you out of my house.
Done!
I want to end where we began, in a bed, in love, and I just want to keep us there for a minute. And anything you say right now is gonna ruin it, so please just don't!
Don't you see? This is what you do. You just decide how things are gonna go.
I am not the one deciding in this situation!
Of course you're the one deciding!
What?!
April, you're always deciding! You decide to go to Jordan. You decide to leave. You decide to stay. You decide you need me, then you decide you don't. You decide we can talk. You decide we cannot.
I don't want to talk because I know what you're gonna say! You're gonna say you love me but...
You don't know what I'm going to say!
I'm pretty sure I do.
It doesn't matter! You don't!
Fine! Then go ahead! Say it.
[closing voice-over] When we strike that match, we like to think we can control the burn. We like to think we have any control at all, but fire is wildly difficult to contain. And just when you think you've extinguished the blaze, it reignites. It sucks in air and burns hotter and brighter than ever.
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