[133] On Nick's first day at Grey Sloan, to Meredith surprise, he was professional towards her, while she expected an email or for him to go to her office, so at the end of the day, she paged him to talk about a budget request for new component of the residency program. With Derek and Meredith starting fresh in "When I Grow Up" after putting their arguments aside, their happiness didn't last long as Derek died in Grey's Anatomy season 11, episode 21, "How To Save A Life." Anna Shepherd is the 13-year-old daughter of Derek Shepherd. 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. 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. She said she scared him off. For weeks, the couple argued the positives and negatives, but in the end, Meredith refused to leave Seattle, leading Derek to take the offer and leave without them (season 11, episode 8, "Risk"). Meanwhile, Winston chatted to Meredith, wishing she would wake up to meet him and congratulate him on getting engaged to her sister. Meredith arrived at the dinner party and she made Owen give Maggie a tour so she could have a private talk with Nathan. Meredith Grey has always felt obscure and unimportant. Meredith is happy and cheerful when she is hopped up on morphine or drunk. Meredith had had a very bad day at work so when George confessed his feelings for her, she thought that maybe George was her guy and she had just overlooked him. As Zola talked to her mother, all of her close colleagues gathered outside the room. Her friends tried to contact her repeatedly, but she didn't answer. They were given a date to see a judge about the adoption after Alex went to the judge directly. After Bailey's surgery, Catherine still wanted to have a second opinion. It turned out Meredith had been right with her guess. Only a patient and George's best friend Izzie knew how he felt about Meredith. Later, Amelia came to ask for a spot for her veteran patient and when Meredith agreed, an uproar ensued among the other scheduled patients, who feared they'd be sent home without their promised surgery. He apologized to Meredith, who said it was okay. [130] After Meredith was offered a job in Minnesota, Nick offered that she stay and he move to Seattle to be with her. The doll brought up old memories for Meredith, along with a renewed attachment to the doll that resulted in adult Meredith bringing it to work with her one day. She secretly accessed the pharmacy, where the trial drugs were stored, and subsequently swapped the placebo for the actual drug, for Patient #122, aka Adele. Meredith and Cristina also have several sleepovers at each other's houses, sometimes in Meredith's bed with Derek in it. [39] She found herself on an airplane with Nathan, as both were heading to a conference. During the procedure, Maggie also encouraged her to hire Cece. He said he had more to do, more plans in life. Greys Anatomy has been a constant feature in entertainment since it first began airing on ABC in 2005. Meredith and Bailey operated on her and they discussed Andrew during the surgery. Meredith continued to dream about Andrew as she began going on dates with the help of her matchmaker patient, Cece. As previously mentioned, Grey was forced to pull the plug on her husband after he had died from injuries sustained in a car accident. MerDer Strong-willed Meredith Grey from NY becomes the new Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace, snatching the post from under Dr.Derek Shepherd's nose. Unable to choose, she decided to go home to her children.[53]. These episodes were extremely tense for viewers, as it was the first sequence that involved real threat and danger to the beloved characters of Greys Anatomy. After the tour, Zola told Meredith she loved the school and Meredith decided to move to Boston and accept Jackson's proposal. After they got back together, she was civil to Owen for Cristina's sake, although the two shared a few arguments over how to handle Cristina, as Meredith claimed to know her better than Owen did. It was the morning she was supposed to start working at . Although it was a heartbreaking twist since Meredith had been so reticent to open up to Derek in the first place, it did heighten the drama overall as Addison announced in season 2, episode 1, "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" that she was here to stay. Richard talked about trying to stay strong for everyone worrying about her. Link successfully removed the hip, which would solve the problems. Nick gave her advice on how to deal with Hamilton, and later that night, Meredith thanked Nick at dinner. During the celebration, Owen proposed to Teddy. However, one night, Andrew ran into Zola while sneaking out, thus disrupting Meredith's plan on how to tell her kids. 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. Derek Shepherd and Lauren Bishop have been together for 12 years but have been married for 5. However, that doesn't mean that the writers forgot about this romance. Due to Ellis and Richard's affair, Thatcher left Ellis and Meredith when Meredith was very young. Derek may not be on Grey's Anatomy anymore, but Meredith (and the writers) have ensured that his presence has always been felt. The two then hugged and made up. Derek were a somewhat terse. On the "Grey's Anatomy" season one finale, Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) arrived at Seattle Grace to let Derek know she was going to fight for their marriage. In the speech, Grey asks Shepherd to choose her over his wife. Derek immediately bonded with Zola and suggested adoption. 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. Soon after, Meredith discovered numerous journals belonging to her mother, while she learned more about her and also picked up some surgical skills and even a doll from her past, Anatomy Jane, which helped her save a young girl. It is and forever will be the most iconic and quoted line of Greys Anatomy: Pick me, choose me, love me. The line comes from Meredith Greys iconic speech to Derek Shepherd in season 2 episode 5. He told her Bailey had had a miscarriage and needed some comforting. Meredith later described her high school years to Cristina by saying, "I wore a lot of black. The post-it note that married Derek and Meredith. Meredith wasn't sure that she could since the beach was comfortable and pain-free. 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. At the end of the day, Meredith reflected on the inequity she had witnessed and told Bailey she missed Alex to cheer her up. Alex also spilled to Cristina that she and Meredith were all he had and that they were his family, and that realization made him help Meredith and attempt to get Social Services to let Meredith keep Zola. At the same time, Taryn arrived with the news that they had finally found a donor for Cece. Although the two constantly flirted and Derek still hinted at having feelings for her, they both agreed to remain friends, and Addison, too, attempted to be friends with Meredith. After Amelia examined David, they went back to the lab where they met Kai Bartley, a neuroscientist who had already boarded the project. Even though they were, at first, hesitant to perform surgery in the dark, they realized there were no other options. And Cristina went home with Owen. Meredith replied that she could live without him but that she didnt ever want to. Nick walked her back to her room and she explained she would be staying a few more days to look at research. 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. Over the past 19 years, the character Meredith Grey has become iconic. Gary Clark also shot Derek in the chest while Meredith watched from afar. At that moment, Meredith was paged by Tom and found that he had cleared an entire floor for Griffin Ford, a VIP billionaire patient, which explained the problem with admissions that Noelle had had. 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. Meredith met up with David at the lab and set rules first. On George's last day at Seattle Grace, he was hit by a bus after pushing Amanda out of its path. Derek Shepherd (husband) While Zola toured the school, Meredith reconnected with Jackson. But Meredith was not happy, and she complained to her teacher that Juliet was an idiot because she had fallen for the one man she knew she could never have. Back on the beach, she tried to reach Derek but somehow always ended up back at the starting point far away from him. Unfortunately, this peace didn't last very long since Derek began to get jealous over Meredith's romance with Finn Dandrige, leading him to fall out with her in episode 24, "Damage Case" and episode 25, "17 Seconds" and have a major argument with Addison in episode 26, "Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response". While Meredith may have moved on, becoming an empowering role model for her children as well as a Catherine Fox award-winning surgeon (formerly known as a Harper Avery), there have been moments where the writers paid tribute to Derek and their relationship by alluding to specific moments they shared. Their legal wedding occurred at the court house, and their dream wedding occurred inside Greys mind during her Covid dream in season 17. That meant leaving a lot of time open for grilling Meredith, even if they all left after eating, which she could hardly expect at a buffet-type meal. [45] For Jackson's surgery competition, she submitted a proposal for a mini-liver procedure but was unable to get the patent from her mother's former friend, Marie Cerone, who still held a grudge over her and Ellis' fight. She sat down to text Alex, who started typing up a reply but stopped, which worried her.[80]. The next day, Meredith, helped by Alex, matched the information about Maggie's birth with what she remembered and was able to access about Ellis' hospitalization, and she had to admit that Ellis Grey was actually Maggie's birth mother. On the day of Owen and Amelia's wedding, Meredith and Alex talked about possibly having only one true love in your life. Bailey tried to encourage her to talk a walk with her but Meredith wasn't feeling up for it. Meredith and Derek first met at Joe's Bar the night before her first day at Seattle Grace Hospital. He asked her out and she agreed, despite her and Izzie being celibate. She tried to reach Derek again, making a run for it, but she tripped and fell. Addison giggled . Then Meredith entered a state of limbo in her mind, where she interacted with deceased acquaintances like Denny, Dylan Young, Doc, Bonnie Crasnoff, Liz Fallon, and her own mother, Ellis Grey. He shared he does not believe in letting stress ruin your life after half of his hospital friends died from a cancer he survived and because his parents split up over it. She thought that they were. While Meredith herself remained on the fence, Andrew asked her to trust his judgment on this. He walked her back to her hotel room, and she didn't invite him in. However, they yet again had to push him past his limits when Erin Banks, the human trafficking victim, showed up at the hospital again asking for him specifically. Eventually, she left this state of limbo and came back to life slowly. Meredith waited outside until Nancy came to deliver the news that the majority of the panel had voted to drop the entire thing, meaning she got to keep her license. How Does Greys Anatomy Alum T.R. She asked if she could decide to go back to the world of the living but he didn't know. These episodes are Meredith-centric or are otherwise very informative about her life. When she received news they had found one, she went to tell Megan, accidentally interrupting Nathan's proposing to her. She went to the hospital to check on Andrew's status and, knowing what really happened, kept Alex updated on Andrew while lying to Maggie about what had happened to Andrew. About Abi and Missy: Abi Ketner is a registered nurse with a passion for novels, the beaches of St. John, and her Philadelphia Phillies. For 11 seasons, the center point of Greys Anatomy was the relationship between Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd. Cristina bonded with Meredith instantly and their relationship grew, resulting in Cristina and Meredith becoming best friends and each other's person. She decided not to use Richard's infamous speech and instead jumped right in by asking the residents about the status of the newly admitted COVID patients. Meredith assured Levi that she had forgiven him for reporting the insurance fraud. On her way out, Meredith found Nathan sitting outside on a bench. But soon Bailey, Meredith's resident, caught her and Derek together and made it her mission to make Meredith's life at work as miserable as possible, as she was involved with her boss, who was also Bailey's boss. TV Shows Grey's Anatomy. Meredith Grey is the former Chief of Surgery, former head of general surgery and former Director of the Residency Program at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. He left her to think about it, and she decided that she wanted him to give her a reason to go for it. After a tumultuous year between Seattle and Minnesota, Meredith and Derek are perfectly happy when they decide that staying in Seattle is the right choice. Together, Grey and Wyatt worked through Greys issues with her mother, which gave Grey the ability to not be afraid of love and to be accepting of who she is. "I know, George," she uttered. They got interrupted by Owen and seeing how busy Meredith was, Nick told her to talk to him if she had any doubts about the program. They, however, all resolved the conflict when Jackson tried to bring the board together by proposing the hospital be renamed to reflect their beliefs and reasoning behind purchasing the hospital in the first place. 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. Later, Mark told Meredith it was nice to talk her, since most of the time people he tried to talking to didn't seem to hear him. The couple later framed the note and hung it in their home. Outside the hospital, they would hang out at Joe's bar, and in the hospital, they would help each other, wherever possible. What if MerDer were married before she started her internship? They had a big fight in Amsterdam, and though they made up and stayed friends, their friendship never truly recovered and they were never as close again. [103], During her first week of recovery, Meredith found Amelia hovering over her. They got food and ate in the car, talking. Search Works. A young woman enters Derek's life as a patient, just as he finds out that Meredith messed with his Alzheime. Although episode 5, "Bring the Pain," saw Meredith beg Derek to choose her over Addison and the neurosurgeon debating whether to end his marriage, Meredith got her heart broken in episode 6, "Into You Like a Train," as Derek refused to sign the divorce papers. Since she was supposed to be let out that day and was eager to spend the holiday with her kids, Meredith watched the clock closely. Tom made Meredith wait in the waiting area so she made Taryn promise to text her updates. Vincenzo came to Seattle to pitch research on gestational sacks, while Meredith had a dream about her mother that steered her towards finding a specific new research project, though she had yet to figure out what exactly it was. 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 and Cormac saved the girl. Jo then had Bailey agree to have Meredith supervise the procedure remotely through video chat, which convinced Shirley to consent. She described herself as "dark and twisty" due to her negativity, in contrast to Derek's charismatic optimism. With no cell phone connection, they tried to find a way out to no avail. Maggie later told her about her recurring sexual dreams about Nathan and decided to ask him out like a grown woman ready for her big love. Maggie is Meredith's half-sister, daughter of Ellis Grey and Richard Webber. ********** Before his death in 2015, Derek was happily married to his longtime partner and wife Meredith Grey ( Ellen Pompeo ). 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. They started arguing and ended up having sex in her car. The water then destroyed his castle. Richard came over to Meredith's house to get her to come back and said she'd be fine. The viewers were also delighted to see Meredith and Derek agree to start a family (episode 19 "Sympathy for the Parents"). Without any intervention from other doctors, she successfully completed the surgery, despite Richard and Mark observing in the background. Defeated, he admitted he had no clue what would happen now. But the decision did end in their favor, and Janet brought Zola to them, finalizing the adoption. She went to inform Andrew, whose fingers had been treated by Jackson. MORE: Who Should Be Grey Sloan's Next Chief Of Surgery? She and Derek eventually divorced but after a short while, she managed to have a friendship with both of them. The Harper Avery Foundation, led by Catherine Avery, made Jackson Avery their spokesperson on the board,[19] which upset all the other doctors. He was found to have cirrhosis of the liver. With all non-emergent surgeries cancelled, Meredith was one of the doctors doing shifts in the special COVID-19 ICU, where she had to run codes all the time and where most of her patients kept dying suddenly and unexpectedly. Meredith then spent several weeks at home in bed, recovering from the transplant operation. [120] Nathan continued to try to get closer to Meredith, and although she liked him, she kept brushing him off as she knew Maggie liked him too. The hospital has changed named twice since, once to become Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital and again to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. To calm herself and "act normal", Meredith took Andrew into the kitchen and took over preparing egg rolls from the catering staff, inadvertently putting a plastic tray in the oven, which led to the penthouse being evacuated right before the big celebratory speech. Derek ended up going back to work and removed Izzie's brain tumor successfully. She is the daughter of the now-deceased Ellis Grey, a famed general surgeon, and the now-deceased Thatcher Grey. She woke up when Andrew showed up to take over from her. She also held off on going on a real date with Andrew because she wanted to make sure Maggie was okay with it. He commented on her beauty yet acknowledged it felt shallow; she said she taught their children to say "pretty on the inside." They sat down with cake and wine and he complimented her on running a three-kid household all the while winning surgical awards. Over drinks, he said he had spotted her back at the restaurant. She agreed to come back if Richard could return to the Residency Program Director. and falling in love with the most unattainable guy at Seattle Grace Prep." More Grey's Anatomy Fanfiction . After the recess, Owen testified to her surgical skills, specifically on Megan's case, but the prosecutor had dug up Bailey's post-op notes, which mentioned Owen voicing serious doubts about Meredith's approach at the time. She says he had absolutely no idea what he was doing. Ongoing. 10 years later she finally moves out of the house and jumped when she's on her way to her new job Meredith and Derek are married and she is pregnant. After finding out she had been passed over as interim Chief, which went to Alex instead, Meredith decided to hire Cece. It's only a matter of time before Derek is pushed towards Meredith again. Jo then opened up about how all the terrible things in her life were just her birthright, but Meredith quipped with good things that Jo had been a part of. Danielle lives with her best friend Jaina in a beautiful, three bedroom house in Seattle. He told her they would have to learn how to live together in her house. She stayed with him and they ended up sharing their first kiss while Link waited for her at the restaurant. She attended Dartmouth College. In the 8th grade, her English class had to read Romeo & Juliet. Before merluca, 712 stories. Having overheard her talk with Jackson, Cormac paged her to scrub in with him when Frankie Morris was admitted with a tree branch perforating his recently transplanted kidney. Meredith finds herself in an awkward situation whenever the unthinkable happens. Derek Shepherd / OC love story. While he was off, Meredith and Cormac worked to stabilize the girl, who developed a hemorrhage. [84], Meredith was supposed to accompany Richard to Los Angeles for his speech on his PathPen at the Surgical Innovation Conference but she had to stay home as her sitter got the flu. 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. Jackso **REUPLOAD AFTER TAKEN DOWN AT 1M+ READS /: After their wedding, they had Meredith Grey. Cristina told Alex to help Meredith with trying to keep Zola from being taken from her because Meredith was the only one who "gave a rat's ass" about Alex. At the wedding reception, Nathan invited her to dance but she declined. Derek then reappeared and told her he would be right there for her. Bailey then found Meredith and told her she had stolen Meredith's idea and created the fellowship for Jo under her own leadership. The patient revealed she had been rationing her insulin. They did extra tests and found it was a grade III chondrosarcoma. [95], Meredith remained comatose. She realized the article would terrify people and keep patients away from Grey Sloan. They laid on the floor and talked about her problems. Cormac hoped his boys wouldn't go out and break the rules like Frankie had done, though Meredith understood Frankie, remembering how she was as a teenager. In season 8 episode 10, however, Grey and Shepherd were given custody of Zola. At Jo and Alex's wedding, Andrew kissed Meredith while drunk, which he immediately apologized for. A writer, reader and tv fanatic, Kayleigh enjoys reading movie news and your film reviews. The line was recently paralleled by Grey in Ellen Pompeos last episode of Greys Anatomy. [89], As COVID-19 first hit the United States, Seattle was amongst the country's cities to be hit the hardest, forcing Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital to quickly adapt to the new reality. She stated Meredith no longer held the qualities that had prompted Bailey to appoint her Head of General Surgery. Concerned over Catherine's health, Meredith was dismissive of Maggie's relationship troubles with Jackson. 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. Her doctors were comfortable with getting her off the vent, yet feared that there would not be a ventilator available for her due to a hospital-wide shortage if she were to trend downward again.
