Over, and Over Again

Meredith Grey POV

I was getting ready to board a plane to Virginia to help out at a small hospital here for two weeks. I'm the only from Seattle Grace Mercy West that's going but there's a bunch of other doctors from all over that are going.

I hand the young looking man my plane ticket and step into the jet bridge and lead myself down the small hall.

I get on the plane and find my seat.

"C36 c36 c36... c36!" I mutter to myself as I search for it and successfully find it. I set my bag in the overhead compartment and plop down into my seat.

I was able to find a nonstop flight and it will only take about 5 hours.

I see a woman looking in about her late twenties chase after her son down the aisle.

"Kyle! Kyle!" She scoops her child up in her arms and walks back the other way while talking to him. She stops before my row and puts her luggage in the overhead compartment next to mine.

"Excuse me." She says and scoots past me setting her son in the window seat and sits down herself.

"Sorry about him." She says buckling her child in.

"Oh it's okay I have a kid too, a daughter she's 1." I say smiling just thinking about mine and Derek's sweet baby girl.

"Mine's 3 and he sure is a trouble maker." She says with a chuckle.

"What's his name?" I ask.

"Kyle. How about yours?"

"Zola. We adopted her. She came from Mawali."

"I have a friend from Mawali. It's actually her that we're flying to Virginia for. She died from cancer and we're going to her funeral."

"Oh I'm so sorry. What kind of cancer? If you don't mind me asking."

"No not at all. It kind of helps to talk about it anyways. 13 years ago she was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer and after 6 constant years she was finally cancer free for 5 years and then two years ago it came back as stage 4 and a couple weeks ago she died from it just being so much on her body."

"That's terrible. What kind of lung cancer was it?" I ask.

"Bronchogenic carcinoma it's complicated and kind of hard to explain."

"Bronchogenic  carcinoma yeah that's the most common type of lung cancer and it starts with a tumor in either the lining of the bronchi, trachea, bronchioles or alveoli right."

"Yeah uh most people don't get that first try." She says with a chuckle.

"Well i'm a surgeon so I should be able to get that first try." I say with a chuckle back.

"Oh That's so cool where do you work?" She asks.

"Seattle Grace Mercy West."

"I'm a banker and my husband's a lawyer. He's coming right now actually." She says as a man sits across the aisle. They wave to each other and he sets his bags down of the ground.

"Do you want me to move to you can sit next to your husband." I ask.

"Yeah that's would be great. Thank you... uh."

"Meredith. Meredith Grey"

"Penny. Thank you Dr. Grey. She says and we shake hands.

"You can call me Meredith." I say and get up as penny is telling her husband that I'm switching.

"Thank you Dr. Grey." He says and we shake hands.

"You can call me Meredith.

"Well then thank you Meredith." He says and I get my bag out of the over head compartment and put it he other one as he switches his bag too. I sit down and buckle my seat.

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Today you are flying American Airlines and the destination is Roanoke Virginia. We are ready to begin take off so my everybody please take their seats and buckle up." A mans voice says over the loud speaker. I sit back and pull out my phone and click on Derek's contact.

M- Hey Der just wanted to tell you that's the plane's taking off now. See you in a week I miss you already. ❤️

I shut my phone off not expecting him to respond because he should be working right now. I grab a magazine in the pocket in the seat  in the front of me as the plane starts rolling down the runway.

Once we're airborne a stewardess comes around with a snack cart and I get a water and pretzels.

About two hours into the flight I see two men walking towards the cockpit in each aisle. I wonder what they're doing. They head into the first class section and I hear some people telling them to sit down. Then I hear gunshots.

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