Disclaimers: I do not own Grey's Anatomy, Shonda Rimes does. But if I owned Patrick Dempsey, oh the fun we'd have. He can totally be my Dr. McDreamy.
It had been a month since the code black at Seattle Grace, so why was Meredith Grey taking nine months off now? Because she was 3 ½ months pregnant, that's why. A routine physical after the bomb's detonation revealed the startling truth. She was 3 ½ months pregnant and she was no longer with the child's father. Worse than that, the father didn't even know the child existed, let alone know that the child growing inside of her was his.
Derek Sheppard was too busy trying to make his marriage work, too busy trying not to look at Meredith. He was just too busy to see that his ex's clothes were getting tighter around the middle or that she was getting more and more tired by the minute. He hadn't even realized she had stopped coming into work until she was gone for a week.
"Dr. Stevens, where is Dr. Grey," Derek Sheppard asked with a look of curiosity on his face.
Izzie's face turned into a scowl the moment Meredith's name left Derek's mouth. It took a hand from Alex Karev rubbing her lower back to calm her down.
"Well Dr. Sheppard, Dr. Grey will be out for the next nine months. She has some personal issues to deal with. Things that should be kept between people close to her," Izzie was trying to be patient, but he had hurt Meredith, he didn't deserve patience in her eyes.
"What is she preg…" the color drained from both Alex and Izzie's faces. Derek knew from the looks on their faces that it was true, Meredith, his Meredith, was pregnant, "She's WHAT?"
"Dr. Sheppard will you please calm down. You'll worry people. The only people who are supposed to know were me, George, Cristina and Webber. Now Alex, Bailey, you and Burke know, some of us just couldn't keep our mouths shut," Izzie pleaded.
"Izzie, who's the father," Sheppard asked dumbfounded.
Sorry this is so short, usually my first chapter of every story is. I tried to keep the characters as true as possible. Just tweaking the storyline situation to my liking.
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