Season 1 Greys — Anatomy !!link!!

“Season one is only nine episodes. Not because they ran out of stories, but because in the beginning, you don’t need a long time to change everything. You need a single moment. A code blue. A wrong suture. A ‘Hi, I’m Dr. Shepherd.’ You think you’re learning how to be a surgeon. But really? You’re learning how to survive the people you fall in love with.”

The doors close.

"The game. They say a person either has what it takes to play, or they don’t. My mother was a world-class player. I grew up on the sidelines, holding her water bottle, watching her win. But here’s the thing about the game of surgery: it doesn’t care about your last name. It only cares about what you do when the blood hits the floor." season 1 greys anatomy

She doesn’t know yet that strings are all that hold her together.

Silence. Alex smirks. Cristina doesn’t blink. Meredith’s pen falls to the floor. “Season one is only nine episodes

He looks at her. Just for a second. A microexpression that says: This is either the best or worst thing that’s ever happened to me.

First day. First trauma. A young woman, construction accident. Rebar through the abdomen. Dr. Preston Burke, cool as dry ice, asks for a differential. Cristina fires off answers like bullets. Dr. Derek Shepherd— wait, Derek Shepherd? —walks in. Meredith’s heart stops. A code blue

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