Anastasia's POV
"Wat you doing Tina?" I asked Cristina, who was doing something to a banana.
"Yeah Cristina. What are you doing?" Mommy asked while feeding me my breakfast.
"I'm suturing a banana with the vain hope that it wakes up my brain." Cristina says, causing me to give a funny face.
"Wat tat mean?" George laughs and I couldn't help but make a sad face.
"George's just laughing at what I'm doing tiny." Cristina says, seeing my sad face.
"Do you want to go to daycare now or have some snuggles?" Mommy asked me and I hugged her in response. Mommy picked me up and placed me on her lap before kissing my cheeks.
"After we go visit your Nana, we're going to have some ice cream." Mommy says with a smile on her face.
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Meredith's POV
"Well good morning. I'm going to do something that's pretty rare for a surgeon. I'm going to ask interns for help. I've got this kid Katie Bryce. Right now she's a mystery. She doesn't respond to our meds, labs are clean, scans are pure but she's having seizures. Grand mal seizures with no visible cause. She's a ticking clock. She's going to die if I don't make a diagnosis. Which is where you come in. I can't do it alone. I need your extra minds, extra eyes. I need you to play detective. I need you to find out why Katie is having seizures. I know you're tired; your busy, you got more work than you can possibly handle. I understand. So I'm going to give you an incentive, whoever finds the answer rides with me. If Katie needs surgery, you get to do what no other interns get to do, scrub in to assist on advance procedure. Dr. Bailey is going to hand you Katie's chart. The clock is ticking fast people. If we're going to save Katie's life we have to do it soon." Derek says before walking out of the room and all the interns grab a copy of Katie's file.
"Hey I want in on Shepherd's surgery. You've been the intern on Katie since the start. Do you want to work together? We find the answer; we have a 50/50 chance of scrubbing in." Cristina asks me while we started walking out of the room.
"I'll work with you but I don't want in on the surgery. You can have it."
"Are you kidding? It's the biggest opportunity any intern will ever get." Cristina explained to me.
"I don't want to spend any more time with Shepherd then I have to. I just find him creepy and I think he's done something to my daughter. Anastasia will normally talk your ear off but ever since Shepherd left my house yesterday, she's been quieter than normal. And before you say anything, I didn't know that he was working here when we slept together. So, if we find the answer the surgery is yours."
"Deal." Cristina says before the two of us entered the medical library and started our research.
"So she doesn't have anoxia, chronic renal failure or acidosis. It's not a tumor because her CT's clean." Cristina says before looking at me.
"What about infection?"
"No. Ah there's no white count. She has no CT lesions. No fevers. Nothing in her spinal tap." Cristina says while flipping through Katie's file.
"What about an aneurysm?" Cristina asks me.
"No blood on the CT. No headaches."
"Okay. There's no drug use. Ah no pregnancy. No trauma." Cristina states and I couldn't help but sigh.
"We're out of answers. What if no one comes up with anything? She's just never going to get the chance to turn into a person. The sum total of her existence will be almost winning miss teen whatever. ... You know what her pageant talent is? Rhythmic gymnastics."
"Oh, oh come on." Cristina says while chuckling and a realization creeps into my my brain.
"She twisted her ankle and had to go to the hospital. What if she had an aneurysm anyways?" Cristina's eyes widened at my realization before going to leave but stopped at the door.
"Are you coming?" Cristina asked and I shook my head in response.
"I am going to take my little bear out for ice cream." Cristina smiles before leaving and I sigh.
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Meredith's POV
"Nana, tis fow you." Anastasia says before handing my mother Ellis Grey her drawing. Mom's living at Roseridge Home for Extended Care because she has Alzheimer's. Anastasia doesn't know this, she only knows that Mom's sick and has to stay here. Mom gives Anastasia a smile before looking at the picture.
"Is that a dog?" Mom asks Anastasia who shakes her head.
"Tat you Nana." Anastasia replies with a smile of her own before Mom turns to face me.
"Are you the doctor?" Mom asks me, causing Anastasia to frown but I hold her close to me.
"No. I'm not your doctor, but I am a doctor. I'm also you're daughter Meredith and this is your granddaughter Anastasia."
"I used to be a doctor I think." Mom says while I grabbed her hand and gently squeezed it.
"You are a doctor mom. You're a surgeon."
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Smallest Things(Grey's Anatomy Fanfic)
Fanfiction"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."~Winnie the Pooh
