A/N: My first GA fanfic! I'm thinking two or three chapters, so it's a shortie. I hope y'all enjoy it! PLEASE R&R! SERIOUSLY, R&R!

Isolation Room

Chapter one: Hell on Earth Day

George steps into the kitchen and sees cookies, muffins and bread everywhere.

"Oh no, Izzie, why are you baking again?" he says, grabbing a hold of a chocolate chip muffin.

She puts down a wooden spoon and turns around to face him. Her face and her apron are covered with flour.

"I couldn't sleep. I feel as if the world is just...," she bites her lip as she searches for the word. Suddenly she faces him and says; "It's a horrible place, George. A horrible place."

She returns to stirring something in a bucket.

"O-kay," George says insecurely and mumbles "I should be going."

He turns around and almost bumps into Meredith, who looks tired and sad.

"Oh hi, good morning, Meredith," George says, but only gets a grunt from her. He moves past her and walk out of the kitchen, quickly deciding that the women in the house weren't to play with today. Far too freaky to even talk to.

Meredith barely notices George and sits down at the kitchen table, slightly moaning. Izzie instantly pours her a cup of coffee.

"You know what Meredith? I've got a really bad feeling about this day, so I couldn't sleep. Do you ever have those feelings?"

Meredith shrugs, too tired and hungover to talk yet, and takes a muffin.

"How do you feel about today? I mean, with McDreamy and McWifey and all...," Izzie doesn't notice that she's probably stepping the line and doesn't see the glare she gets from Meredith. "I mean, if I were you, I'd probably have a bad feeling about every day. But especially this day. But I had a bad feeling from the start you know? I know there's something bad happening, and I know it has got nothing to do with McDreamy."

"He's not McDreamy anymore. He's McMarried. Or, you know what? He's not McAnything."

"Yeah, you're right. He's totally not worth the Mc," Izzie says and licks a spoon with dough.

George sticks his head in the kitchen.

"Hey, we're getting late to work if you're not hurrying up now," he points out, careful not to cause a PMS-attack.

~GAGAGAGA~

Later at the hospital Dr. Bailey hands out charts.

"Karev and Yang; you'll be in the pit today," she says, ignoring the frustrated "oh come on" from both of them.

"O'Malley, Dr. Burke. Grey, Dr. Shepherd requested you," Bailey says and Meredith makes a grimace, she really doesn't want to see him. The last time she spoke to him was actually shouting at him after his wife had miraculously popped out of the hat. Or from hell.

"Don't give me that face. I know it might feel hard, but you're an intern and as an intern you'll be where your attending wants you to be."

Meredith nods in defeat, inwardly dreading this day. Maybe Izzie was right.

"And Stevens, you'll be with the other Dr. Shepherd."

"The she-Shepherd?" Izzie repeats.

"Yes," Bailey says with a stern look and hands her the final chart to Izzie and walks away.

"I think you were right about today," Meredith mumbles.

"Yep, hell on earth-day," Izzie sighs in agreement.

When Derek sees Meredith come he steps outside of the patient's room to be able to talk to her.

"Hi Meredith," he says, hoping she'll let him talk this time.

"Hi Dr. Shepherd," she says reluctantly.

"I'm really, really sorry," he says. "And you have to let me explain."

"No," she says and takes a breath not to freak out and shout at him again, which would be worse this time because now it's in front of a lot of more people. "You have nothing to say to me, and I don't even want to look at you," she hisses.

"But I do have something I want to say to you. First of all-"

"No," she interrupts, "we are not having this conversation." To avoid him talking anymore about this she walks past him into the patient's room who happens to be where the chief is hospitalized.

"Oh, chief," Meredith says.

"In person," the chief says. "Are you ready to discharge me yet Shepherd?"

"We'll have to do some tests first. Dr. Grey?"

Meredith uses a small flashlight to see if the chief's eyes are responding normally. It's weird to do this to the chief, she thinks.

"It looks fine," she says.

"I know!" the chief exclaims. "He doesn't want to discharge me!"

"That's not true. And you'll be discharged soon," Derek says while eying the labs.

"What makes you think he wants to be discharged?" asks a smooth female voice. It was Adele, Richard's wife. "Derek, don't you know that this hospital will crumble unless Richard is here holding up the walls?"

"Adele, aren't you supposed to be on vacation?" the chief says, not exactly looking happy.

She kisses his cheek. "You had brain surgery and you didn't tell me?"

"It was just a small procedure," he says, obviously trying to avoid her. He's completely ignoring Meredith and Derek in the room. Meredith gets an out of place feeling and when McWifey sticks her head in, looking all cheeky and assertive and all, doesn't make it better.

"I thought I saw a fabulous looking woman walk by!" Addison says.

"Oh, Addison! So nice to see you!" Adele says and hugs her.

Meredith tries to hide behind the chief's charts, pretending to check his blood count for the fourth time. She glances at Derek to see how he reacts. He looks kind of uncomfortable, but she can't exactly pin-point why. Her guess is that it's because she's there.

"I told Richard I knew you and Derek would get back together," Adele says.

Meredith peeks over the papers and doesn't miss the ice cold gaze the chief gives Derek. Addison hesitates. Derek clears his throat and then she sees Meredith standing there.

"Actually I'm here on a case," Addison says, looking coldly at Meredith.

"Addison and I are over, Adele," Derek says sternly without lifting his gaze from the labs.

"It's not like we're divorced," Addison protests.

"Practically divorced," Derek disagrees.

"You've had counseling?" Adele tries.

"We had adultery, that was enough," Derek says and glances at Meredith.

"Mh!" Addison grunts. "I'll call you later okay?" she says to Adele and leaves.

"You should give her a chance, Derek," Adele tells him.

He gives Meredith a look, ignoring the stern face the chief is still having.

"She's had enough chances. It's nice to see you Adele," he says and kisses her cheek. "I'm sorry you had to see that, Dr. Grey," he adds before leaving.

Meredith takes a deep breath and decides to flee the scene before the chief says something extremely embarrassing.

"Excuse me," she mumbles and walks out of the room.

She sees Derek at the end of the hallway and goes through her options. A. Go ask him about what he meant with having given Addison chances already. B. Walk the other way. C. Go cry in a closet.

Seeing that she's got far too much pride for alternative A. she decides to go cry in a closet. Or at least try to cry. She finds a closet almost right away and closes the door and sits down in a corner with her arms around her knees.

The tears won't come though. She tries to sob and she manages one tear to prickle her eye, but the enormous emptiness in her heart doesn't shrink.

The door opens and Derek walks in.

"Go away," Meredith says and the tears immediately begins to flow.

He closes the door behind him and wraps his arms around her. She cries heavily against his shoulder.

"I hate you," she hulks.

"Okay," he says and kisses the top of her head, stroking her arm.

"You can't do that anymore," she says and shrugs him off.

In that moment Derek's pager starts beeping.

"A 911," he says and gets to his feet. Turning around and facing her he says "You're coming with me. As my intern," before hurrying out of the closet.

~GAGAGAGA~

The paramedics has rolled in a woman with a head trauma caused by a car accident. Derek's eying the scans of the woman's brain Meredith has brought him and he directly sees an aneurysm.

"Oh, you see this?" he says.

"An aneurysm," Meredith answers.

"We have to operate on this immediately. She's bleeding into her brain."

They don't see when Addison and Izzie comes walking towards them.

"Aha, so my husband and his twelve-year-old are hanging out here," Addison says crossing her arms. "Can I join in on the fun?"

"Addison. I'm working. And where did you come from?"

"They asked for a consult. She's pregnant. Didn't you know?" she says.

Izzie goes and stands beside Meredith. Both of them looks terrified.

"So I thought, with you two standing here, we could walk together to see our patient," she continues falsely merrily.

"She's in the end of the hallway, you could just go there yourself," Derek says, wiping off the smile from her face. "Seriously, I can see her room from here."

Meredith thinks about walking away, because she shouldn't really be seeing all this, but something makes her hold her ground. Walking away will probably mean she lets them be together and is okay with that, but staying is more a signal that she's actually there and tugging on Derek's shirt, so to speak.

Addison seems quite uncomfortable with her presence and steps forward to Derek, lowers her voice while saying "You can't talk to me like that, especially not in front of her. You said we'd work thi-"

"No, you said," Derek says and then walks past her.

"Derek!" Addison calls out, and then seems to urge forward to follow him, but stops in the motion and glares at Izzie. "What are you doing? Go do intern stuff!" After saying that she walks away.

Izzie doesn't follow and stays with Meredith in the hallway. When Addison has disappeared into the patient's room after Derek, they both dares to breath.

"Oh wow," Izzie laughs in shock.

"Yeah, I know," Meredith sighs.

"She's like the most perfect person I've met," Izzie says, staring at the place where they last saw Addison.

"Yeah," Meredith nods. "She probably poops flowers and has a morning breath that smells like mint. It would be so much easier for me to hate her if she were more ugly."

"Maybe she's got a really ugly inside. She might be the queen of all evil."

"Might? She obviously is. And Derek is her king..."

"Hey Mer, Izz!" Cristina suddenly shouts from behind them. They turn around and Cristina runs to them.

"I found her! I've ordered the pre-op labs and ultrasound. I earn this surgery!"

"But Cristina-"

"No, Meredith," she interrupts and puts her hands on Meredith's shoulders. "I need this surgery, I can't do sutures and rectal exams all day."

"You've got rectal exams in the pit?" Izzie asks, baffled.

"Yes, far too many this morning. I need this surgery, so don't try to stop me," she says and hurries down the corridor to talk to the Shepherds. Izzie and Meredith follows slowly.

When they get there Derek is having the chart and a pen in his hands. Addison stands beside him, smiling at her coldly when she comes inside.

"We already have interns for this procedure, Yang," Addison says.

"But I did the-"

"You can be with me today," Derek says and puts down the chart.

Addison stares at him in disbelief.

"What? You already have-"

"Yes, I know. But I shouldn't let her suffer," he answers and looks sadly at Meredith, which makes it kind of obvious he's talking about Meredith's suffering and not Cristina's.

"I'll take Grey," Addison says with her chin up high. "Sorry, Stevens, you can go do... suturing."

"But that's not right. You can't do that!" Izzie protests.

"Watch me," Addison snaps. "I'd like to see if you have any other skills than sleeping with my husband, Grey," she says to Meredith and hands her a chart.

Derek takes a firm grip on Addison's upper arm and drags her out of the patient's room.

"This sucks," Izzie says and stomps out of there, but she's not cocky enough to show her rage to the attendings.

Cristina doesn't seem to care about Izzie's misfortune. She's dancing a sort of happiness-dance to Meredith.

"Stop it," Meredith says to her. "There's nothing about this to be happy about. I'm gonna be tormented the whole day now!"

"Oh, buhu!"

Meanwhile outside the window, Derek looks crossed with Addison. They are talking with their heads close together while making angry faces.

"They're arguing," Meredith points out, looking out at them.

"Yeah. So unprofessional. You're totally better off without him."

"Hey... Doctor..."

Their attention turns immediately to the patient. She looks pale and her eyes have a shiny tint. Cristina puts her hand on the patient's forehead.

"Oh, she's burning up," she says to Meredith.

She checks her throat.

"The pharynx's swollen. How do you feel Mrs. Griffin?"

"I don't feel so good... My head hurts..."

"Have you been abroad recently?"

"Uhm... I've been to Congo-Kinshasa about two weeks ago."

Cristina leans in to Meredith and whispers in her ear.

"The incubation time is far too long to be malaria."

"What if she's got Ebola?" Meredith whispers back.

"That'd be so cool."

"90% fatality rates, Cristina. It's not cool."

"It is. It so totally is."

"Well, we'd have to run some tests first to be sure. You have to talk to McCouple. I can't deal with them right now. Or ever. You can have them, I don't want them."

"Fine by me," Cristina says and walks out to the Shepherds.

"...always looking at her, and I just-"

"-You didn't have to come to Seattle."

Cristina clears her throat to get their attention.

"We are married."

"You ended that marriage."

Cristina clears her throat again, getting annoyed.

"It's not ended!"

"Practically."

"Hey!" Cristina shouts, and get both of their angry faces at her.

"What?" they both spit.

"I mean, hey," she says, in a more normal tone.

"What do you want, Yang?" Derek demands.

"The patient's got a fever and her pharynx is swollen. She complains about headache and malaise."

"We can't operate on her in that state," Derek says, sounding worried.

"And she's been to the Democratic Republic of the Congo two weeks ago."

"She may have contracted typhoid fever," Addison suggests, also worried.

"Meredith and I are thinking Ebola."

"Ebola!" Derek laughs. "That's ridiculous! The last out-break was in 2003."

Cristina and Addison glares at him.

"Doesn't really matter...?" he says self-consiously.

Addison nods, then turns to Cristina.

"Do the tests."

"Yes, ma'am."

~GAGAGAGA~

The chief made Derek discharge him when he heard the news about the Ebola virus. He stands with his hands on his hips.

"Everyone present around the patient is to be isolated," he orders. "Here I have a list of the people in contact with the patient. After I've read the names, you'll go to the rooms we've isolated and there you'll undergo tests. I have a list of 10 people from this hospital. These are the following doctors' names: Dr. Miranda Bailey, Dr. Cristina Yang, Dr. Addison Shepherd, Dr. Isobel Stevens, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dr. Meredith Grey. And these are the following nurses: Nurse Olivia Harper, Nurse Bethany Davidson, Nurse Melany Carlton, Nurse Gregory Palmer. You are to be isolated. Immediately."