Especially when parties are involved.
We get to see them in fancy outfits instead of scrubs.
The ladies take time to style their hair.
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And the promise of good food, better booze, and sparkling conversation levels the playing field.
It’s just a room full of adults celebrating the successful surgery of Dr. Catherine Avery.
At least that’s what Jackson hoped it to be.
Am I forgetting anything?
Oh yes, the emergency fire evacuation.
Problem #1 Maggie
Remember the woman Kiki who came to Maggie because her heart was a dud?
She’s the one who bullied Maggie in med school and was deemed “the worst.”
Of course, Maggie came through.
Get this: Kiki wrote one, too.
Everyone’s talking about it.
It’s entertaining, gut-wrenching, and emotional.
Unfortunately, it paints Maggie as a supporting role to Kiki’s top billing.
Do you know what else is unfortunate?
Maggie’s party romper/onesie.
It was a green monstrosity, which fits Maggie’s mood since she’s green with envy.
There would be no story without her!
Webber steps in and tells his daughter to suck it up.
It’s okay to be angry, but she needs to channel that energy into something.
Perhaps she should write a new article that won’t induce drowsiness.
Maggie agrees and all is well.
Problem #2 Owen and Koracick
Owen and Amelia arrive at Jackson’s party in terrible moods.
Owen broods and turns his feelings inward.
Amelia broods and spews her feelings outward.
They bicker over the fact that Betty and Leo were what kept them together.
He hasn’t been watching Teddy.
He’s been watching Koracick.
Amelia throws in the towel and removes herself from this particular awkward love triangle.
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Amelia leaves and Owen marches straight to Teddy.
Koracick meanders over with a plate full of salty foods for his seven-month pregnant girlfriend.
Owen asks if Koracick minds leaving him and Teddy alone for a moment.
Why yes, he does mind.
Not awkward at all.
Later, Owen goes home to find Amelia outside waiting for him.
Betty’s parents brought Leo back.
They can’t handle a baby and a daughter who has a disease.
Alex is surprised to see her and even more startled that she seems to be doing well.
She even knitted him a jaunty scarf.
He and Jo keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never does.
Until she starts mumbling something about smelling burning plastic.
Alex’s face falls, knowing there isn’t a fire.
He collects his mother to take her back to his place.
Helen is insistent that there is a fire, but no one listens to her.
Until she screams it and points in the direction of the kitchen where smoke billows from the doorway.
His mother is not crazy.
Correction: She’s not crazy today.
Of course, Amelia hijacks that plan, thanks to brooding Owen.
When Meredith tells DeLuca that her sister is crashing, he gently pulls her into the guest bedroom.
She’s a lady.
Then he whispers what he would like to do to her in Italian and I have elevator flashbacks.
I’m all, “WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, MEREDITH?”
What is it with DeLuca speaking a foreign language?
It gets me every time.
Although nothing technically happens, they do end up sitting on the bed together.
Meredith is straddling him.
His phone rings and he thankfully ignores his sister.
When things start to get steamy, Webber walks in.
What will DeLuca do?
Take the heat or get out of the kitchen?
Fan the flame or crash and burn trying?
Add fuel to the fire or ice his father out?
Gotta love ‘em.
