Here's part three finally! It takes place one year after part 2 and it's kinda like 'a day in the life of' from Ellis's POV but in third person if they makes sense. Just read lol. Enjoy!
The Kids.
MerDer: Anna (9), Christopher (5); Bang: Jacklyn (8); CaGe: Megan (3); Addisex; Andrew (6), Amanda (3); Mazzie: Nicolas (7)
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Over the past year Ellis had many, many lucid days and she finally got to know Meredith and Derek as well as her grandchildren, Anna and Christopher. Meredith finished her fellowship and became a neuro attending like Derek.
Ellis was, for today, at Seattle Grace for tests to see how the new Alzheimer's medication was working and for new MRI's and CT's. She got a physical exam done by one of Meredith's previous intern's interns. She was told it was going to be a little slow getting the tests today because they were updating the computers and there were some problems. Both Meredith and Derek had been in to see her along with Cristina who said hi.
If she had everything right then Cristina and Dr. Burke had a daughter, Jacklyn who is best friends with Anna – the oldest of all the children at 9 – and just a year younger than her. Izzie, one of Meredith's old roommates, married Mark Sloan who is the head of plastics and they have son named Nicholas, 7 years old, who is two years older than Christopher but they play together. George, another of Meredith's roommates married the ortho attending, Callie, and they have a three-year-old daughter Megan. Megan O'Malley and Nicholas Sloan are also friends with Alex Karev and Addison Montgomery Karev's children Andrew, who is 7, and Amanda, also 3. That was a lot to remember.
All was quiet and beginning to get boring when her granddaughter, Anna, came in with another girl.
"Anna, shouldn't you been in school?" Ellis asked, surprised to see the girl.
"They let us out early because it was getting icy and there's a storm coming. Aunt Callie picked everyone up," Anna told her.
"Everyone?"
"Yeah. Well Amanda and Megan were already here because they're in day care all day but Aunt Callie borrowed Aunt Izzie's minivan and picked us up from school. We usually all come here after school anyway to do homework. Christopher and Andrew go to day care though, too."
"Because they're little," the other girl added.
Ellis smiled a little, "Anna, who is your friend?"
"This is my best friend Jackie," Anna told her grandma.
"Jacklyn Burke," Jackie added.
Ellis nodded, "I've met your mother. You look very much like her."
"Yeah! Monkey says I look like my mom and Monkey looks like her mom!" Jackie replied, excitedly.
"Who is Monkey?" Ellis asked, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion.
"Me!" Anna replied, "Aunt Cristina and Uncle Mark called me Monkey when I was little and they still do. Jackie calls me Monkey and I call her Frog."
"Because I like to jump rope a lot," Jackie explained.
"Its good exercise," said Ellis.
Jackie nodded, "That's what my daddy says."
Anna gasped, "Grandma! Grandpa Richard got me a big, huge stuffed monkey for my birthday. It's purple and it's in my room."
Ellis was happy that Richard was a part of her daughter and grandchildren's lives, "That's very nice of him."
Meredith came into the room, wearing the navy colored scrubs she started wearing when she became an attending.
"There you two are," she said, putting her arms around the two of them," Have you done your homework yet?
"No, mommy," Anna said.
"No, Aunt Mer," Jackie replied at the same time.
"Well I have a surgery in a couple hours and if you guys finish your homework I'll let you watch from the gallery."
"Ok!" the girls replied in unison.
"Nicolas is already in Aunt Addison's office, why don't you both go work with him and I'll come get you before I scrub in?" Meredith suggested in the tone that told them to do it.
The girls said goodbye to Ellis and went to do their homework. She watched the girls go then smiled to her mother, taking a breath.
"We parent each other's children since we rely on each other for so much," Meredith explained, "Derek should be here soon to talk to you more about the trial."
Ellis nodded her understanding then asked something she had been thinking about for a while. "So what are you called here?"
"Mostly I'm Dr. Shepherd. Most of the doctors clarify with 'Grey-Shepherd' but Alex calls me the She-Shepherd and sometimes 'McWife'."
"Why is that?"
Meredith chuckled a little, "Well I told you before that Addison and Derek used to be married and when Addison first came to Seattle we called her McWife because she was married to Derek who we call 'McDreamy' and for clarification or annoyance we called her the She-Shepherd."
"All behind my back, that is," Addison added, entering the room, "Hey McWife."
"Hey Mrs. Evil Spawn," Meredith replied, giggling. She filled in her mother, "We call Alex 'Evil Spawn' and since he and Addison and Derek and I got married, Addison calls me 'McWife' and I call her 'Mrs. Evil Spawn'."
"This is all in love, of course," Addison laughed before asking, "How are you doing, Dr. Grey?"
"So you're Addison. I've heard a lot about you," Ellis replied, "I'm doing fine."
Addison smiled to her then turned to Meredith, "Meredith, I was wondering if you and Derek could take Andy and Amanda Friday night, overnight. Alex and I need some us time. I talked to Derek and he said you guys had the night and Saturday off but I wanted to make sure you didn't have anything planned."
"No, that's fine. Jackie is spending the night as well. She and Anna love their sleepovers, I'm sure Chris would like to have Andy over and I love having Amanda over," Meredith replied.
"You realize that's five children, Meredith," Ellis told her.
Meredith nodded, "A couple months ago we had all seven kids over and it was just me, Derek, and Izzie. Sure, it was crazy but we had a great time."
Addison gave Meredith a quick hug, "Thank you so much! I need to check on a patient but I'll talk to you later," she told her before heading off.
Meredith's pager went off and she checked it, "I gotta take this. I'll be back."
Meredith exited the room and Ellis could see through the window Meredith literally run into Derek in the hallway. He smiled at her, tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and kissed her softly. When they broke apart she smiled at him then went on her way and he continued on his to speak with Ellis.
Meredith, meanwhile, went to do a neuro consult for Callie on her father who had slipped and fell on the ice. He bumped his head and broke his ankle.
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Ellis, bored with what there was to look at in her room, decided to see what she could see in the hall. Meredith, have just come out of surgery, was being called by her daughter.
"Mommy!" Anna ran up to her.
Meredith was still wearing her lavender scrub cap. She turned around to see Anna, "Yes, Banana?"
"Can I get some money? I'm hungry," she asked.
"I don't have any money on me but daddy should," Meredith replied.
Anna shook her head, "he's in surgery."
"Well you know where my purse is in daddy's office; just take a few dollars, ok?" Meredith instructed.
"Ok," Anna skipped off to Derek's office and Meredith turned around to face Susan Grey.
"Is that your daughter?" Susan asked eyeing Anna's retreating form.
Meredith froze. Sure she had spoken to her father a few times and he knew that she was married and heard she had kids but she meant what she had said after Molly's daughter was born. They are not her family. Her family has never left her. Her family is her fellow former interns and their spouses and all the kids. Thatcher, Susan and everyone else are not her family.
Meredith shook her head a little to clear her head, "Um did you have any questions about Thatcher?" she asked, needing to get away.
Susan decided to let it go for now, "No, Dr. Torres told us everything after you cleared him. I just wanted to say hi."
Meredith nodded, "Oh, ok. Hi," Cristina came up a grabbed her arm telling her she needed her advice, "I have to go."
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Cristina pulled her to the nurses' station in front of Ellis's room which piqued Ellis's attention but the two were talking in hushed voices.
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"Sorry. I just heard from George that the pod family is here," Cristina told her.
"Its just the pod parents," Meredith told her, "But Susan saw Anna."
"Meredith!" Ellis called from her room.
Mer went into her mother's room, "Yes mom?"
"Who was the woman you were talking to before Cristina pulled you away?" she asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"The pod fam – er um no one," Meredith replied, "I have to go, Anna said she was hungry."
After Meredith left Ellis called Cristina in and stared her down. "Cristina. Who was Meredith talking to that made her so nervous?"
Cristina tried to resist but it was hard to resist Ellis Grey staring you down. "It was Susan," she blurted out, "Thatcher's wife. We call them the pod family. Meredith isn't involved with her father at all but they know she's married and she has kids. It's weird so we run interference," Cristina surprised herself at how much she has just told her best friend's mother.
Ellis nodded, "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Cristina replied, still confused about that admission.
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The rest of the day was pretty boring. An intern took her, finally for a CT and an MRI, she ate the oh so wonderful hospital food, her son-in-law came to visit her once more with Christopher as did Anna who brought her a picture she drew and said that 'mommy was in a long surgery but after they were going to dinner and they would get ice cream'.
Two kids running in brought Ellis back from her thoughts of the day. Her grandchildren. Following them were Meredith and Derek both wearing street clothes, carrying the children's coats.
"We just wanted to say goodnight before we left," Meredith told her then looked to Anna and Chris, "Give Grandma a hug and kiss so we can get you some food before it gets any later."
Anna and Chris did as they were told and Ellis returned the favor.
"Goodnight, Grandma," they said in unison then giggled.
Meredith smiled at her children then leaned down and hugged her mother, "I'll see you later, mom."
"Have a good night," Ellis replied.
Then Derek gave Ellis a hug, "Try not to scare the on call interns too much," he chuckled.
"I make no promises," she told him, joking.
They all said their goodbyes and Ellis watched Meredith and Derek, along with their children, make their way down the hall and eventually out of the hospital and home.
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The fic ends like that, so anticlimactically, because its life and most of the time life is anticlimactic. I hope you enjoyed my little fic.
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