Meredith was insistent, however cautiously, that Christmas be about now, not what came before, and the day's respite helped ease her mind somewhat, but it couldn't clear it completely. It was only a temporary reprieve, after all, and she knew that it was only a matter of time before she and Sean had to discuss things again. As much as she knew she ( Read more... )

Meredith was clear, when the idea of a party came up, that she's never done anything like this before. Thrown parties, yes, but the kind with loud music and copious amounts of drinking that mostly got way bigger than she intended them to and wound up with her waking up either on the couch surrounded by everyone else's trash or in bed with someone, ( Read more... )

It was really only a matter of time, Meredith finds herself thinking, before she wound up here as a patient instead of a doctor. She hadn't thought about it before, hadn't expected it, but now she feels she should have. Check up over, painkillers taken, ice applied, she lies stretched out in a clinic bed and hopes they don't have enough room to ( Read more... )

The strangest part, Meredith sometimes thinks, about things happening isn't actually the events themselves. It's not the freak snowstorms or the dream trips home or weddings that don't happen, it's the days after these things. It's the way that, slowly but surely, life settles back into the same familiar patterns: classes to teach, paperwork to do ( Read more... )

As far as Meredith is aware, the whole bachelorette party thing, with its ancient and hallowed mythology of abundant alcohol and strippers, is pretty overrated. On the one hand, even if all that were true, even if they were this big rite, this last chance at freedom or whatever - a concept which, in itself, would make her want to run the other way ( Read more... )

There are some things -- rare, but they do exist -- that are constants in Meredith's life. Despite their long absence, Cristina and George both count, two of the few people she can absolutely depend on. For better or worse, alcohol's another thing: nights out drinking with her circle of friends, either forgetting what's wrong with their lives or ( Read more... )