A/N: Hello, this is my first Greys Anatomy fic so it is just an experiment but I hope it goes alright. It is set just after the season 7 finale.

Also the prologue is Merediths voice over. The prologue is bits of her previous monologues sthroughout the show so I do not take any credit for that. However, it gives a taste of what is to come and I will hopefully post the first chapter soon.

Prologue

At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines… that are way too dangerous to cross. But we have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.