I?ll take that as a yes ? Phil Vassar
EXT. RIPLEY?S HOUSE ? BACKYARD
Ripley stands on one leg leaning over on a yoga mat, breathing deeply. Meredith tries to replicate Ripley?s pose, but her balance is off and she keeps falling down on her own yoga mat.
������������������������ MEREDITH (V.O.)
Sometimes we try to stand on our own, with things being thrown at us, juggling as we go trying to stay standing.
Meredith loses her balance yet again.
������������������������ MEREDITH (V.O.)
But sometimes, even though we really don?t want it, we need help from an outside source to push us to do something that we procrastinate doing.
Ripley moves to a new pose, and Meredith tries to move with her, but loses her balance yet again.
������������������������ MEREDITH (grumbling)
I don?t know why I let you talk me into this.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Shhh. Mer. It was easy.
Ripley takes another deep breathe and leans back so that both her feet are on the floor in warrior one pose.
������������������������ MEREDITH
When the hell did you have time to get certified in yoga?
�������������� RIPLEY
Meredith. This is supposed to help you relax. If you?re not going to stop talking, then it?s not going to work.
Ripley stretches and leans down so that both hands are flat on the mat and stretches her foot back to meet the other, standing in downward facing dog. Meredith starts giggling and falls down.
������������������������ MEREDITH
Rip. I can?t do this. I?m not a limber person.
Ripley drops down to her knees and looks down at Meredith and she sighs.
������������������������ RIPLEY
Think of all the new sexual positions you?ll be able to get into.
Meredith stares at Ripley for a moment.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Seriously?
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Seriously.And it builds stamina.
Meredith gets back on all fours, then to downward facing dog.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� I?m totally ready.
Ripley gets a wicked smile on her face, then gets back into downward facing dog. She then hops forward so that her feet are in line with her hands and slowly lifts her upper body up into mountain pose. She then drops her hands down to her side then leans over with her palms on the floor and jumps back into cobra position. Meredith follows every move, her brows knit in extreme concentration. Ripley rolls onto her back and puts her hands palms down beside each of her ears. She pulls her feet to her butt, then moves into the crab position. Meredith tries to mimic the last position, but falls down.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Ripley!
������������������������ RIPLEY (laughing)
I had to do it. Honestly. That?s a hard position to get into.
Ripley lets her body back down and lays flat on the floor. Meredith does the same.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Now what?
������������������������ RIPLEY
Now, we relax and lay here for a few minutes.
Camera looks down at Meredith and Ripley. Ripley and Meredith look up at the sky.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Have you talked to Derek yet?
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Yes.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Mer?Really?
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������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Really.
������������������������ RIPLEY
Did you talk about how it?s going to be hard to trust him? He didn?t tell you he had a wife. That?s huge.
������������������������ MEREDITH
I know, Rip. I know. I just? I want to enjoy being us for awhile.
�������������� RIPLEY
Isn?t that what got you to where you were at a few months ago?
�������������� MEREDITH
Maybe. (pause) Were you serious about the sexual positions?
�������������� RIPLEY
Would I lie about that? If it makes you more limber, it will make it easier to get into certain positions.
�������������� MEREDITH
How long will it take?
�������������� RIPLEY
Long enough.
�������������� MEREDITH
Can Christina come tomorrow?
�������������� RIPLEY
What the hell? Ask Izzy, too.
INT. BURKETINA?S APARTMENT ? SPARE ROOM
Christina and Preston are sleeping soundly when Christina?s alarm goes off. She hits the snooze and snuggles deeper into the bed, the smell of coffee filling her nostrils as she begins to slowly wake up. Her alarm goes off one more time and she hits the off button. Christina opens her eyes to see Malaina with a chair pulled up next to the bed and a mug of coffee in her hands.
������������������������ MALAINA
��������� Good morning.
Christina sits up quickly.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
��������� Good morning.
������������������������ MALAINA
��������� We need to have a talk.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
Okay, here?s the thing. I?m not a morning person and Burke was in my room when I got here. Not my fault. What was I supposed to
do? Now, I need coffee.
Christina swings her feet to the side of the bed and plants them on the floor.
�������������� MALAINA
You could have A) kicked him out or B) slept on the couch.
�������������� CHRISTINA
I am a surgeon. I don?t sleep on couches.
�������������� MALAINA
Under my roof-
�������������� CHRISTINA
This is not your roof. This is OUR apartment.
�������������� MALAINA
While I am here, you two will not sleep together again.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Seriously? I have to go to work.
Christina angrily gets up and goes to her bureau, then leaves the room for a shower.
INT.HOSPITAL ? LOCKER ROOM
Izzy walks in looking pissed. Alex stands at his locker.
������������������������ IZZY
So, I got paged to come in early, but nobody knows anything. This sucks.
�������������� ALEX
You did get paged. You just didn?t ask the right people.
�������������� IZZY
Did you page me? Alex?
�������������� ALEX
I know you?re still upset about everything with Denny. But you need to move on.
Alex pulls a cupcake out of his locker and hands it to Izzy.
������������������������ IZZY
��������� Alex?
������������������������ ALEX
No, hear me out. I liked kissing you. I like laughing with you. So, here it is. I like you.
�������������� IZZY
Alex, are you asking me out again?
Izzy sits down on one of the benches, straddling it.
�������������� ALEX
Yes. No expectations.Nothing.Just me and you at this little Japanese restaurant. What do you say?
Alex sits down across from Izzy.
�������������� IZZY
Are you going to open the door for me?
�������������� ALEX
Every one of them.
�������������� IZZY
Are you going to be nice to me?
�������������� ALEX
Why else would I ask you out?
�������������� IZZY
Are you going to kiss me? Because I am not going to shave my legs again if you aren?t even going to kiss me.
�������������� ALEX
Try and stop me.
�������������� IZZY
All right.On one condition.
������������������������ ALEX
��������� What?s that?
������������������������ IZZY
��������� You have to apologize to Ripley.
������������������������ ALEX
��������� Izzy? Come on?
������������������������ IZZY
��������� That?s the condition. Take it or leave it.
������������������������ ALEX
��������� Fine.
������������������������ IZZY
��������� And you have to be nice to her.
������������������������ ALEX
��������� Iz?
������������������������ IZZY
��������� You heard me.
������������������������ ALEX
Fine. I will apologize and I will be nice. Does that make you happy?
Izzy smiles.
������������������������ IZZY
��������� Yes.
Izzy takes her finger and dips it into the icing, then licks it off. Izzy gets up and walks out of the room in search of her resident.
INT.HOSPITAL ? HALLWAY
Derek looks over a chart and glances up in time to see Bailey talking to one of the nurses. Derek jogs over.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� Dr. Bailey. I need an intern.
������������������������ BAILEY
��������� You can have Karev.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� No.
������������������������ BAILEY
��������� No? What do you mean no?
������������������������ DEREK
He will never work with one of my patients again. I want Meredith Grey.
�������������� BAILEY
Addison insists on no one else.
�������������� DEREK
Addison can give her up for one day.
�������������� BAILEY
Fine, but I?m sending Addison after your sorry ass when she comes lookin? for Grey.
�������������� DEREK
I can handle her.
�������������� BAILEY
Sure you can.
Meredith, George, Christina and Alex walk over.
������������������������ MEREDITH
I?m just checking in. I?ll head up to Addison now.
�������������� BAILEY
You are a popular intern Meredith. Dr. Sheppard has you on Neuro for the day.
�������������� MEREDITH
Oh. Okay.
On the inside, Meredith was doing a dance of joy, throwing her hands up in the air, screaming out her excitement. On the outside, the corners of her mouth twitched up.
������������������������ BAILEY
Karev, post op notes. On all of the chief?s patients.
�������������� ALEX
Damnit. How long is this going to last?
�������������� BAILEY
Until you learn a better bedside manner, or when the Chief stops being angry. Which ever comes first.O?malley, you?re in the pit. Yang, you get code staff. Now, go.
Derek hands Meredith the patient?s chart to look over and they walk down the hallway to the patient?s room.
������������������������ MEREDITH
Thanks, Derek. I don?t think I could have handled another day as captain of the gyno squad. �
�������������� DEREK
Gyno squad?
�������������� MEREDITH
Sorry, our little nickname for working with Addison.
�������������� DEREK
Nice.
�������������� MEREDITH
You know Addison is going to be pissed, right?
�������������� DEREK
She needs to let go sometime. And since I have a sneaking suspicion she?s already moved on, I?d say now would be as good a time as any.
Derek and Meredith enter the patient?s room. The patient, Julie, lays on the bed. Julie?s parents, Terry and Kathy, sit on chairs next to the bed. Meredith flips open the chart and scans over it, then flips it closed.
������������������������ MEREDITH
This is Julie and she?s eighteen years old. She fell and hit her head on the balance beam earlier this morning.
�������������� JULIE
I?m fine. Seriously.No pain. I have a huge gymnastics meet today. I have to be there.
�������������� DEREK
Regardless of not having any pain, we need to check to make sure there isn?t any bleeding. This is Dr. Grey, she?ll be taking you to get an MRI and a CTscan done.
Derek leaves the room and Meredith flips the chart back open and makes a few notes.
������������������������ KATHY
��������� Is that doctor any good?
������������������������ MEREDITH
He?s our head of neuro surgery, so he?s the best we?ve got.
�������������� TERRY
Good, our Julie is going to the Olympics some day, and we don?t want anything getting in her way.
�������������� MEREDITH
Don?t worry. He?s the best. I?m going to go check to make sure the machines are open, I?ll be right back.
Meredith leaves the room and walks to the nurses? station. She has them call down to make sure she can take Julie down. Addison comes storming over.
������������������������ ADDISON
��������� Dr. Grey. What do you think you?re doing?
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� I?m checking for an MRI and a CTscan.
������������������������ ADDISON
��������� You are on my team and my team only.
������������������������ MEREDITH
Bailey put me on neuro today.
Bailey comes out of one of the rooms at that moment, making notes on a chart. Addison storms over to Bailey.
������������������������ ADDISON
Dr. Bailey. I want Meredith Grey with me today.
�������������� BAILEY
Well, then. You?re going to have to fight your fabulous ex-husband for her. He insisted on no one else for the day.
�������������� ADDISON
DEREK.
�������������� BAILEY
Well, now. It seems that he has conveniently disappeared. Good luck finding him.
Addison storms away.
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