What You're Wishing For

Oct 14, 2010 19:19

We all have something we're wishing for - something we dream of or work towards. A change for the future we covet. It's the story we tell ourselves when we say things are going to get better. We imagine all the ways our lives could improve, if only we were a little luckier or tried a little harder, if only the universe went our way just this once. ( Read more... )

amy pond, mary jane parker, sean cassidy, dr. meredith grey, sookie stackhouse, peter parker, rory williams, clinic

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scotsfriction October 16 2010, 03:25:19 UTC
Lazily swanning into the clinic apple in hand, Amy ran right into the start of her conversation before she thought much about the location.

"So Rory, I've been thinking," she started pausing to take a bite and see exactly where he was. Stopping in the middle of the room she looked around before fixing on the woman who had just been speaking to her. "You're not Rory."

It sounded rather dumb when said like that, but then again it was the truth. It sort of put a bit of perspective on things when a person was looking for one someone and found another.

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drownondryland October 16 2010, 05:04:00 UTC
"No, I'm not," laughed Meredith, setting her highlighter down and spinning the chair (once Addison's, which was always strange to think of) to face the woman who'd walked in. "He should be in the other clinic tonight, actually. I'm Meredith - Dr. Grey. You must be... his wife?" He'd mentioned her almost from the start, and she could only imagine how pleased he was to have her here. Most people who came and went from this place had to worry about separation, but at least they got to be here together.

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scotsfriction October 17 2010, 04:05:19 UTC
"Ah, the boss. Yeah I'm his wife." Tucking her hair behind her ear, she smiled and shrugged at the woman. As far as bosses went, Meredith didn't seem quite as terrifying as some of the ward matrons at the local hospital back home. They had always given her looks when she went to visit Rory.

Taking a step closer, she held out the hand not currently holding an apple. "Amy Pond, nice to meet you."

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drownondryland October 17 2010, 06:30:45 UTC
Meredith pushed out of her chair, reaching to shake Amy's hand. "Pond," she said, "not Williams. I'll have to remember." It was pretty nice to hear, actually, to know that there was at least one other person on the island not willing to give up her name for the sake of a husband. Inasmuch as she'd thought about these things, she just didn't think she could stop being a Grey. "So I take it you're not a nurse, too, Amy?" It was a shame. They had all the doctors they could ever use, but they needed a few more nurses.

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scotsfriction October 19 2010, 22:18:50 UTC
"Yeah. We uh, haven't gotten around to sorting the whole name thing out."

Amy was perfectly happy staying a Pond. There was nothing wrong with being a Williams, but Mrs Williams definitely made her feel like Rory's mum which was wrong on so many levels.

Laughing she shook her head, turning in a slow circle to get the lay of the place. "No. Played a nurse on occasion, but not actually one."

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drownondryland October 20 2010, 09:01:16 UTC
Meredith shrugged and waved a hand. "I, I probably would... not sort out the name thing the same way. For what it's worth." She just couldn't imagine being a Cassidy. She could barely, at times, imagine marrying one, being healthy and whole enough to marry at all. "So," she added after a moment, "an actress then?"

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scotsfriction October 21 2010, 15:14:29 UTC
Amy liked that. Her own mum had whinged and pushed for the name change. It's just what you do, Amy she had pleaded and Amy had nearly been about to do it. After all of those stares and psychiatrists she felt it was owed.

But now she could do as she pleased. Well, as she and Rory pleased. Shaking her head, she let out a short laugh. "No. Tried it, thought about it, might try it again, but no." Pressing her lips together for a moment she decided to just dive right into the truth. "Kiss-o-gram."

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drownondryland October 22 2010, 01:37:34 UTC
"Kiss-o-gram," echoed Meredith and laughed as she realized what that meant. "That has to be... interesting." Hell, she used to run around kissing people for free. May as well make an occasion of it and get paid. "Birthdays, graduations, that kind of thing?"

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scotsfriction October 23 2010, 17:28:57 UTC
"That sort of thing. Stag parties, retirements," she nodded, thinking of the more absurd situations she had been called on. Every once in a while she'd pop into the hospital to wish someone well. It like being a singing telegram only much less annoying.

"It was a laugh. The costumes were a lot of fun though."

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drownondryland October 25 2010, 01:34:33 UTC
"I bet." It sounded a little silly to Meredith, but not in a bad way - fun and simple and a job, at least. Her life would have been so much easier if she could have just been a kiss-o-gram. "My mom would have had a field day if I'd done that. Kind of makes me wish I had."

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scotsfriction October 25 2010, 15:14:49 UTC
Amy was not a simple girl. She'd done well enough in school, gone to parties, had friends. She'd survived being that strange Pond girl, the one who saw things that weren't there. But when it came to university and the rest of her life, she hadn't felt the need to spend more time around books. They weren't going to give her any sort of adventure that she couldn't find for herself.

Laughing, she shrugged. "Ah yeah, my mum wasn't exactly thrilled either, but she keeps holding out hope that I'll grow out of it and do something proper. Which I'll probably get to eventually."

For a moment there, Amy had been about to say that her mum was dead and thus didn't have a say in the matter, but she knew that wasn't true. She remembered them and they did exist, despite all that had happened.

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drownondryland October 25 2010, 23:19:03 UTC
"Eventually's good," said Meredith. "There's really no rush. And not much you can do here anyway." She laughed, but it was and had long been a point of annoyance for her. There was next to nothing that could be done or accomplished, and what there was, she never thought of. It took better minds than hers to come up with something worth doing and she simply rode on their coattails, and that was frustrating, too. There were no research trials, no grants, no goals toward which she could work. There was only a very simple life that drove her crazier every day. "I took time off before I did anything. You have to enjoy it while it lasts."

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scotsfriction October 28 2010, 16:14:19 UTC
"Aye but there's not much call for kiss-o-grams either."

Not that she was entirely keen on returning to that particular line of work. It had been fun, but now she was wandering away from it. Maybe she would try her hand at everything, see what stuck. That seemed like the sort of plan she could at least have fun with.

"Did you? See the world? That sort of thing."

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drownondryland October 29 2010, 03:02:22 UTC
"Some of it," Meredith answered with a crooked grin. It hadn't even been as much as she'd expected to see, though she hadn't really been much for plans at that stage in her life, but now she was stuck here, she was grateful for it. At least she'd had the chance. "I traveled around Europe a little. I wish I could again. I would've liked to have seen more."

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scotsfriction November 1 2010, 15:42:53 UTC
"Sounds brilliant." It did. Course Amy had travelled around the universe, but she could still appreciate a good old fashioned adventure. It wasn't like mad men in blue boxes fell out of the sky for everyone. In fact, based on the reactions of the psychiatrists she'd seen she knew that she was certainly in the minority. "There's always more. It's why I don't make lists of what I want to see; I'd get a hand cramp."

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drownondryland November 2 2010, 02:11:38 UTC
"And it'd never be finished," Meredith said, nodding. "You might not even know what to put on it." There were always things out there that were interesting and exciting and unknown to the point that you didn't even know you wanted to see them. She'd been content within hospital walls, but that didn't mean she didn't want more. It had just always seemed like, once she'd begun her career, she could have it later.

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