She asked him to stop looking at her the way he did. [97], Finn Dandridge was a veterinarian to Doc, Meredith and Derek's dog. Alex and Richard came to her defense, but Bailey fired all three of them. Andrew hated that she made a choice that could land her in jail and added to the possibility of her losing her license. On her first day back, Meredith snuck into work to do two lap appies before breakfast to ease back in. Lexie was not to be a match for her father's liver, but Meredith was. Thatcher went into a program and he started making amends. She ran into Amelia on her way out one day and advised her to tell Owen about the pregnancy. Afterward, Andrew asked Meredith when she was going to stop stringing Link along as he was growing tired of wasting time not being with her. He agreed to that only if Meredith called the national trafficking hotline, which she agreed to. And that he was the most qualified surgeon to remove the tumor. As they waited, she told him about how she got fired and he talked about him and Cristina treating a kid with a similar condition in Switzerland, bringing up a story Cristina had told him about Alex saving a kid with that condition as well. She later went to Alex and explained that her house didn't feel like her home without Derek, so she asked if she and the kids could stay with him and Jo for a while. [49], The blind dates continued. During George's brain surgery, his brain swelled and he was declared brain dead. Jackson said they would look into options for her, which Robin said would boil down to bankruptcy or death. The cold peace between them finally came to a stop when Meredith learned that he had cheated on Cristina, which resulted in her despising him for a long time. [10], Near the end of their third year of residency, Meredith revealed to Cristina that she was pregnant. Bailey was Meredith's resident and had earned the nicknamed "The Nazi" before Meredith had started at Seattle Grace. He complied and spontaneously agreed to pay for the overtime, explaining that Griffin Ford paid them a lot of money. Jackson advised her to tell Cece she was married to her work, which she heavily objected to, causing Link to overhear that she wasn't married. They got food and ate in the car, talking. [71], Her skipping out on community service gave her nightmares. Cristina had to do his surgery herself after barring Meredith from the OR. However, this difference in viewpoints culminated in what was a breach of their marriage, when she messed up Derek's Alzheimer drug trial. However, their plans were disrupted when Amelia had a fight with Owen and planned on sleeping at the house. As an adult, her only childhood memory of Thatcher was giving her cereal in the morning. Later that day, Meredith officiated a wedding between her patient and her fiancé shortly before the former's death. Meredith was the last one to be cleared. Meredith insisted Alex would know when to pull the plug and asked Bailey to distract her instead. However, when George alerted the chief that Sadie did not seem to have much medical knowledge, she quit and asked Meredith to leave with her. Meredith talks to Megan before the surgery. When Bailey found out about Derek and Meredith's relationship, she didn't speak to Meredith and would punish her, by sending her nonsurgical tasks, to even up the playing field when she felt that Derek was favoring her. At work, Meredith made it clear to Nathan that she didn't want him to get too attached, which he assured her he wasn't. Meredith told him that caring so much and fighting as hard for his patients as he did was a strength. At home, she ran into Jackson as Maggie was throwing him out. Andrew didn't know she was coming back.