Background: Derek and Meredith met in a bar a month before this. Derek asked her out the next day and Meredith agreed. They have been on a few dates and most of the have ended in bed. Cristina and Meredith met in the first year of med school. Derek is not married. You have to read to find out the rest.
Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to any Grey's Anatomy characters.
Chapter 1
Meredith woke up to the alarm clock and groaned. She rolled over and turned the alarm off. Meredith reached behind her and rubbed the naked thigh wrapped around her leg. "You have to wake up." She groaned, and then heard a moan come out of the man.
"Oh my God, what time is it?" He asked. She rolled over and on top of him.
"Six." She kissed him. "And I have to go to work." He kissed her back. "You have to leave before I go in." He rolled them over again and started kissing her neck.
"Oh come on, now. Why don't you introduce me?" He asked.
"Not yet." She said giggling and wrapping an arm around his neck.
"Meredith, it's been a month." He mumbled.
"Derek." She sighed and released her arm. He looked down at her and smiled sadly.
"Okay." He rolled off her and allowed her to get out of bed.
"Seriously, you have to leave." She said picking up their clothes. She tossed him his boxers and shirt. He scooted off the bed and put them on.
"I don't remember, do you work at um…" He stated teasingly. She looked at him and rolled her eyes.
"Derek, you're stalling. He should be up any minute." Her eyes found his pants lying across her dresser. She picked them up and handed them to him.
"Fine. I am stalling." He admitted. She gave him a slit grin as she put her robe on.
"Did you hear that?" She asked looking around the room. He looked at her with a funny look.
"No, Meredith. You're being paranoid." He was suddenly jerked toward her door and down the stairs.
"You have to go." She said pushing him out the door. He stood on her front porch looking at her with a sad look.
"I'll call you?" He asked she nodded her head yes and shut the door. She saw him turn around and walk down to his car. Meredith ran up the stairs and into her room. She quickly put on some clothes and walked down the hall. She opened the door and smiled.
"Hi, Mommy." A little boy said cheerfully.
"Hey, Conner. I'm going to go take a shower. Are you okay here while I go?" He nodded his head and went back to digging in his closet. "What are you looking for?" She said walking over to him.
"My monkey shirt. I couldn't find it in my dresser." He said rummaging through his dress clothes.
"Did you try the bottom right?" He looked back at her and shook his head quickly going back to his dresser.
"Here it is!" He said putting it on. She nodded her head and walked out of his room with a yawn.
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Meredith walked down the stairs with Conner in tow. "What's for breakfast?" He asked going to the cabinets.
"Uh…cereal?" she looked up at the clock and her eyes went wide. "Crap! We're late." She said grabbing two breakfast bars and his arm.
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"Are we going to your working place?" He asked when they we on the highway.
"Yes, you are going to the daycare and I can visit you if I have time to." She said navigating.
"Am I still going to big kid school in the fall?" He asked chewing on his breakfast bar. Meredith looked at him threw the rearview mirror.
"Yes, you are." She saw him nod his head at her answer and then he turned quiet. "Why wouldn't you go to big kid school?"
"We're not in Boston anymore." He shrugged his shoulders then looked out the window with interest. "They still have big kid schools here?" He said. Meredith let out a little laugh.
"They have big kid schools almost anywhere." She said.
"Are we going there?" He asked pointing to a building. Meredith looked back at him quickly through the mirror.
"No, that's the Space Needle. Next day off I have, we will go there." She promised.
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"Mommy, do you know where your going?" Conner whined. Meredith looked down at him then quickly at the other people in the elevator embarrassed.
"Yes, I do." She said quietly. Conner sighed and turned around to face a petit woman with white spiky hair, bright green eyes, and a pointy nose.
"Do you know where the daycare is?" He asked abruptly. The nurse looked down at him and smiled.
"Yes, it's on the fourth floor." She said politely to him. He smiled and turned back to Meredith.
"Mommy, we are going to the fourth floor." He said loudly with a proud voice. Meredith rolled her eyes.
"I heard, Con." She mumbled back. The nurse leaned closer to Meredith.
"He is cute. You and your husband must be proud." She informed grinning. Meredith nodded her head and hoped Conner wouldn't start talking about their personal lives.
"I don't have a Daddy." To late to beg I guess. "My Mommy makes up for him and two million other Daddies." He said to the lady. She gave Meredith an apologetic smile. Meredith felt heat rise into her cheeks and she silently groaned.
"Conner, to much information." Meredith said as their stop came up. They quickly made it to the daycare and Meredith signed him in.
"Bye, Mommy. Good luck at being a surgery." He said as Meredith ran her finger down his lightly freckled small nose, smiled big at him, and kissed his cheek.
"Bye, Conner. Love you." She said running out of the daycare.
"Love you." She faintly heard her little boy yell out to her. She sighed and went to find her tour group.
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Meredith was assigned a case. Katie Bryce, annoying and a difficult case. She had met the parents who had questions and she didn't know what to say. So, time to find Bailey. "What?" Bailey asked madly.
"Katie's parents have questions. Do you talk to them or do I ask Burke?" Meredith answered still holding open the door.
"Uh, no Burke's off the case. Katie belongs to the new attending now. Dr. Shepherd he's over there." Bailey replied pointing to him and walking away. Meredith looked over at the group of doctors Bailey pointed to. She surly thought there was more than one Doctor Shepherd in the hospital. But she found the one man she kick out earlier this morning. She saw him look up over near her and she hoped, no begged that he didn't see her. Nope he saw me. He took a double take and she quickly walked back out of the room not wanting to face her whatever in a professional stance.
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"Meredith." Damn-it he found me. He grabbed her elbow and pulled her in the direction of the staircase. "Can I talk to you for a second?" She knew it was in a form of a question but it wasn't really a question.
"Actually I was…" She trailed off letting him guide her into the stairwell. "Dr. Shepherd." She said looking to make sure no one was in the stairwell.
"Dr. Shepherd?" He asked surprised. "The past month it was Derek now it's Dr. Shepherd." He said smiling at her.
"Dr. Shepherd. We should be professional." Meredith said sternly.
"Meredith."
"No, I'm not Meredith and you're not Derek. In this hospital we are an attending and an intern. Do you understand?" She cut him off.
"You get to take advantage of me and now you want to forget about it?"
"I do not take advantage of you." She rolled her eyes.
"Oh, come on. You take advantage all the time and now you don't want to deal with the big things." He said walking around her. Meredith turned around to look him in the eye.
"Dr. Shepherd-"
"Want to take advantage again say Friday night?" She stopped to look into her favorite eyes. Then she snapped out of it.
"No. Right now you're an attending and I'm your intern. Stop looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
"Like you've seen me naked." She replied. He smiled at her and looked her up and down again.
"Meredith, I have seen you naked. Multiple times in fact." He smiled happily as he leaned closer to her lips. Meredith rolled her eyes.
"That's fine to say outside of this hospital, but right now you are an attending and I am your intern. Remember that. It is already inappropriate that we see each other. We can't do it here and now. Has that ever made its way into your mind?" She said walking out.
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"I got paged. Dr. Grey." Meredith said out of breath. Her mind went through all the worried thoughts of a mother. The daycare helper behind the desk looked at her confused.
"Um… I don't think I paged you, Dr. Grey. I'll be one second." She said walking over to someone else. Meredith stood there and looked around for Conner. He walked over to her smiling and Meredith bent down to inspect him.
"You look fine." She mumbled rubbing her thumbs over his soft cheeks. Conner looked up at her confused and gave her a big hug.
"Dr. Grey?" The lady asked. Meredith looked up at her.
"Yes." She said aggravated.
"I'm sorry, we meant to page someone else, but got your pager number confused with theirs." They informed. Meredith nodded her head and let out a deep breath.
"Okay, thanks." She turned back to Conner and ran her hand over his soft dirty blonde hair. "Conner, I love you. I have to go see a surgery and help people." She said giving him a kiss on the cheek and another quick hug.
"Bye, Mommy." He said walking over to play with two other little girls.
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"Bets anyone?" Someone called out the second Meredith sat down. She laughed.
"He's gonna faint he's a fainter."
"Nah, code brown right in his pants." Meredith rolled her eyes at the guys placing begs on George.
"He's all about the flop sweat. He's gonna sweat himself unsterile." The fainter guy replied.
"Ten bucks says he messes up the McBernie."
"Fifteen says he cries." Cristina informed.
"Twenty on a total melt down." Code brown changed.
"Fifty says he pulls the whole thing off." Meredith said strongly. Everyone's heads turn in her direction. "That's one of us down there. The first one of us. Where's your loyalty?" She replied. Everyone got quiet and Meredith thought she got them.
"Seventy-five says he can't even identify the appendixes." Cristina said. Meredith smiled and shook her head.
"I'll take that action." Izzie agreed. Meredith's pager went off and people's heads shot down at their pagers.
"What?" Meredith said confused. People's heads shot in her direction for the second time. She looked down and saw on-call room 4 on the second floor. She rolled her eyes and stood.
"Tell me what happens." She said grabbing her lab coat and walking out of the room.
"Where are you going?" Cristina called out. Meredith quickly looked back at her, shrugged a tell you later and continued onward.
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"You paged." She said opening the door to the on-call room and turning around to close it.
"Yes, I paged." Meredith turned around and saw him a step away from her.
"Dr. Shepherd, what do you want? I told you this morning in the hospital we are an attending and an intern. Nothing more, nothing less." She said sternly Derek nodded his head.
"I get it. I was trying to get some sleep. But all I could think about was why you wouldn't introduce me to Conner." Derek said softly. Meredith groaned and walked past him to sit on the bed.
"Come on." She groaned putting her hands on her head.
"Meredith, we have been dating for almost two months and you haven't even let me see him in person. I'm not asking you to introduce me as your boyfriend or whatever. You can tell him you work with me or I'm a friend. I'm not asking to be apart of his life I just want to say hello to him. You tell me he is an awesome kid. And I want to see if he really is or if you're just being a proud mommy. I pretty sure he is really an awesome kid but I want to know for myself. I know this is your decision and I don't want to pressure you, but you have to understand that you not even mentioning me to Conner makes me feel like you don't think this will last." Derek said sitting down beside her. She looked up at him when she realized he was done spilling his heart to her. She sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"I want to believe that we will be together in a couple of months or even possibly years, but I don't want you to be introduced into his life and we break up and have him sad and disappointed because you're not around." She said in a whisper.
"You don't trust me enough yet." He stated. Meredith lifted her head off his shoulder and stared at him.
"I trust you so much, but I need to be reassured that I can trust you with Conner's heart. Because once he gets to know you I know he's going to love you. And I don't want to break his heart along with mine if we break up or fall apart or whatever." Meredith took a breath and smiled at him softly.
"I know you feel that way, but can you give me a thought of how long?" He asked. Meredith hummed. I don't know.
"I know it when I feel it. When I feel it's time to introduce you two I will. But just for you I'll tell Conner about my boss or friend or whatever." She said smiling up at him. She gave him a lingering kiss and stood up just as he reached to pull her closer.
"Mer."
"I have to go study. I'll be in the tunnels if you need anything, Dr. Shepherd." She said opening the door and leaving.
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"Hey, guys." Meredith mumbled sitting down on the gurney next to Izzie. She pulled out her book and started to study avoiding Izzie's stretching.
"Where have you been, you missed George failing." Cristina informed. Meredith looked at them shocked. "You owe me fifty bucks." She mumbled smiling pulling her book out also.
"George?" Meredith said everyone went quiet. George sat down in a wheelchair and started to roll around.
"Double-O-Seven. They're calling me double-o-seven." George said.
"No one's calling you double-o-seven." Meredith and Izzie answered.
"I was on the elevator and Murphy whispered double-o-seven-"
"Okay, how many times do we have to go through this George? Five? Ten? Give me a number or else I'm going to hit you." Cristina informed getting up to grab a snack. She really will. Trust me. When I was pregnant with Conner and I whined about pregnancy she said she wouldn't hit a pregnant lady but once I recovered from giving birth she hit me hard.
"Murphy whispered double-o-seven and everyone laughed." George said again.
"He wasn't talking about you." Izzie said. Meredith fought the instinct to roll her eyes. Of course they were talking about George how dumb do you think he is?
"You sure?" He said insure. Apparently he is dumb.
"Would we lie to you?" Meredith asked going along with it.
"Yes." George answered her question that wasn't supposed to be answered. Cristina and George fought about something stupid and Meredith zoned them out until a pager went off. They all looked down and Meredith froze for a second. Yeah sure it's my second page of the day, but the first two don't count. It was the daycare and Conner was fine. Then it was Derek with the on-call room and that doesn't count. This was real. 9-1-1 Katie Bryce's room. Oh, God.
"Oh, man. It's 9-1-1 for Katie Bryce." Meredith said to Izzie. "I got to go." She said jumping up and racing to Katie's room.
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"… Go to sleep and quit wasting my time." Meredith informed Katie.
"But I can't sleep my head's all full." Katie whined.
"That's called thinking. Do what my five-year-old son does. Go with it." Meredith said walking out of the room.
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"What the hell happened?" Derek asked running into the room. Meredith looked over at him and took a breath.
"She had a seizure and her heart stopped."
"You were supposed to be monitoring her." He growled.
"I check on her and she-"
"I got her. Just…just go." He said harshly. I'm sorry. Meredith slowly walked away. She saw Bailey and heard her talking and ordering her to do something but all Meredith could think about was the fact that she really had to puke.
"Meredith?" Cristina said. Meredith walked out of the building and ran to the closest tree. She puked and took a few breaths. She quickly walked back to the door and past Cristina.
"You tell anyone ever." She warned. Cristina watched her walk back into the hospital and knew she had to talk with her.
"When have I ever?" Cristina whispered walking in with her.
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"We're all paged to the same room. Ugh. I hate people." Cristina whined beside Meredith.
"Maybe it's something cool." Meredith thought then the second Cristina gave her a look she shut up. Cristina pulled out something. "What are you doing?"
"I'm suturing a banana. With the vain hope it wakes up my brain." Cristina replied. George laughed and Cristina replied with a snarky comeback. Dr. Shepherd walked in and had a big smile up on his face.
"Well good morning." Meredith looked up and saw the tiredness across Derek's face. If they weren't being professional she would have dragged him to a bed and to sleep for twelve hours straight with him. Actually sleep beside him. "I'm going to do something pretty rare for a surgeon." He said. His eyes caught Meredith's and she quickly looked away. "I'm going to ask interns for help. I've got this kid… Katie Bryce. Right now she's a mystery. She doesn't respond to her meds. Labs are clean, scans are pure, but she's having seizures, grand mal seizures with no visible cause. She's a ticking clock. She's going to die if I don't make a diagnosis. Which is were you come in. I can't do it alone. I need your extra minds extra eyes. I need you to play detective. I need you to find out why Katie's having seizures. I know you're tired, busy; you got more work than you can possible handle. I understand, so I'm going to give you an incentive. Whoever finds the answer rides with me." Derek informed staring into Meredith's eyes. He looked away and knew he had to talk to her. "Katie needs surgery. You get to do what no interns get to do. Scrub in do an assist on an advanced procedure. Dr. Bailey is going to give you Katie's chart. The clock is ticking people. We're going to save Katie's life we have to do it soon." Derek said leaving the room. Everyone stood and grabbed a chart.
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Meredith yawned and walked down the hall. She felt someone's hand come down on her shoulder and steer her into a supply closet. She sighed and turned around to find the person she suspected. "Yeah." She yawned. He gave her a sad look and she blinked slowly.
"You're tired." He stated.
"Yes, I'm tired. Why do you care?" She snapped. Derek lifted an eyebrow in her direction. "What?"
"You're really tired." Derek stated again. Meredith rolled her eyes.
"What do you want?" She snapped. Derek smiled at her and pulled her into a hug. She fought against him but he wouldn't let go. "Stop." She whined. Derek pulled her tighter to him. "Derek." She whined again. Derek laughed as she finally relaxed into his arms.
"So, now you call me Derek." He chuckled. Meredith pushed on his chest. He pulled back and let her fists hit his chest. "Meredith. Meredith, I'm sorry." He said smiling at her. He took her fists in his hands. She tried to keep hitting him so he pushed her against the door and placed her hands above her head. She stopped fighting against him and he saw her breathing heavily. He smiled at her and pushed his body flush against her. She kissed him hard on the lips.
"You taking charge like this. It's really hot." She whispered to him. He smiled and pulled both of her wrists into one of his hands. His other hand trailing down her body.
"Really?" He whispered. She moaned and nodded her head. He kissed her hard.
"Stevens! Get your ass over here!" they heard Bailey yelling outside the door. They quickly pulled apart and waited until Bailey had left. Meredith turned around and looked at Derek.
"See, we can't do things like this in the hospital. Remember attending," She pointed at Derek. "Intern." She said pointing at herself. Derek nodded his head sadly but thinking up ways to make her cave.
"Fine." He said. Meredith gave him a look and reached for the doorknob. He pulled her in for a quick kiss. "See you around." He said. Meredith rolled her eyes and walked out.
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Cristina approached Meredith and asked or rather told her they were going to work together.
"Just tell me why you're making me watch Conner a ton and you don't want to do surgery with Shepherd. Meredith, it's surgery." Cristina mumbled. Meredith turned to look at her.
"Can't comment, ick face, or react in anyway." She informed. Cristina put all her attention on Meredith. "We're a couple or something. Well we have sex and go out on dates." Meredith looked back at Cristina's shocked face. Meredith turned back to the medical journal and hoped that would be it on the whole Derek thing.
"What about an aneurism?" Cristina asked. Meredith shook her head.
"No blood on the CT, no headaches."
"There's no drug use, no pregnancy, no trauma. Is he good? I mean he looks like he'd be good. Is it any good?" Cristina said trying to slip it in. Meredith gave her a look then placed a journal back on the shelf. Meredith and Cristina talked back and forth about Katie before Meredith got an idea popped in her head.
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"Sorry I can't take you both, it's going to be a full house. Meredith, I'll see you in the OR." Derek said. Meredith stood there not knowing what to say. She saw Cristina turn to look at her and they watched Derek leave. Meredith opened her mouth to call out for Derek but nothing came. Cristina gave her one last look before walking away.
"Cristina." Meredith said. Now my voice comes. Meredith turned to go find Derek but decided not to and went to go find some of her labs.
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"I'll tell him I change my mind-" Meredith said standing in the doorway.
"Don't… don't do me any favors. It's fine. You can take the fucking surgery. I don't care but I'm not watching Conner for you anymore." Cristina cut her off.
"Cristina." Meredith said. Don't be a bitch about this. Derek was the one who chose. And you love Conner. Don't go there with the whole not watching him anymore.
"You know what you did a cut throat thing, deal with it. Don't come to me for absolution. You wanna be a shark be a shark." Cristina informed.
"I'm not a-" Meredith whined.
"Oh yes you are. Only it makes you feel bad in your warm, gooey places." Cristina said turning her attention back to her ripped water bottle. "You know screw you. I don't get pick for surgeries cause I slept with my boss and I didn't get into med school cause I have a famous mother." Cristina stated. Meredith eyes went wide as Izzie looked on. What the hell? You're gonna throw away five years of friendship for a fucking surgery? "You know some of us have to earn what we get." She ended harshly. Meredith quickly turned around and sprinted up the stairs.
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"Hello, Dr. Grey." A different daycare person stated. Meredith gave her a smiled and walked over to Conner.
"Hi, Conner." Meredith cooed at her son. Conner's face lit up and he ran over to her. They embraced in a big bear hug.
"Mommy!" He said happily. Meredith rubbed his back.
"I missed you last night buddy." She said. Conner pulled back.
"Me too. Were you fixing up people?" He asked. Meredith smiled and nodded her head.
"Yup." She answered. Meredith's sadness from the fight with Cristina quickly disappeared like it usually does when she's with Conner.
"You want to see what I drew for you?" He asked taking her hand and dragging her over to the coloring table.
"Sure. What did you draw for me?" She asked. He took a few of his drawing off the table and Meredith sat on the floor dragging him into her lap.
"See this is you with someone you helping. And this is me and you with a puppy and this our house." He said with a proud smile on. Meredith smiled back at him.
"They are wonderful." She said examining each one of them. Conner took the one of her and her patient and them and a puppy and handed them to her.
"You put these in you locker thingy." He said pushing his artwork into her hands. She smiled and nodded her head.
"Okay. Look, Mommy, has to go." She gave him a kiss on the cheek when his happy face fell a little. "I'll pick you up later today and we can go visit Grandma and go home. Is that okay?" She asked. Conner nodded his head a little.
"Grandma doesn't always remember me, Mommy." He said softly. Meredith sadly nodded her head.
"You can always stay with one of the nice ladies while I visit Grandma." Meredith suggested. Conner nodded his head, gave Meredith a kiss on the cheek and walked over to play with a few other boys and girls.
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Meredith walked into the post-op exam room. Derek was in shaving off Katie's hair. She smiled at him.
"I promised I'd make her look cool. Apparently being a bald beauty queen is the worst thing that happened in the history of the world." Derek informed. He looked up at her and smiled.
"Did you chose me for the surgery, cause I'm your girlfriend or something?" She asked firmly.
"Yes." Derek stated. Meredith looked at him shocked. "I'm kidding." He informed.
"I'm not gonna scrub in for surgery. You should ask Cristina. She really wants it."
"You're Katie's doctor. And on your first day with very little training you help save her life. You earn the right to follow her case through to the finish." He informed firmly. He looked around the room and whispered. "You… you shouldn't let the fact that we're together get in the way of you taking your shot" Meredith watched the floor go by as she walked away.
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"I wish I wanted to be a chef." Meredith told George. They sat on the window ledge outside peacefully. "Or a ski instructed. Or a kindergarten teacher." Meredith wished out loud.
"You know I would have been a really good postal worker. I'm dependable." George informed. Meredith laughed. "You know my parents tell everyone they meet that their son's a surgeon. As if it's a big accomplishment. Superhero or something. If they could see me now." George sighed.
"When I told my mother I wanted to go to medical school… she tried to talk me out of it. Said I didn't have what it takes to be a surgeon. That I'd never make it. So, the way I see it superhero sounds pretty damn good." Meredith informed. George slightly smiled.
"We're going to survive this, right?" He asked. Meredith looked over at him.
"I have to. I've got a son." She said causally. George looked over at her shocked.
"What?" He said tiredness and shock laced in his voice.
"I have a son. He just turned five three months ago. Me not surviving isn't really an option." She said looking out. George nodded his head.
"What's his name?" He asked. Meredith looked over at him.
"Conner." She said.
"Where does he stay when you're here? With his dad?" George asked trying to be causal.
"No, his father left when I got pregnant. He gave me three hundred dollars and when Conner was born gave me papers that said he gave all his rights connected to Conner away. Luckily Conner looks just like me. He has my eyes, hair, ears, chin, nose, and he even has my small frame. He is the little boy image of me." Meredith stated.
"Sorry about his father." George stared at her. Meredith looked at him.
"It's okay. His dad was a jackass anyway. Conner says I make up for two million daddies." She said smiling. George nodded his head.
"That's nice."
"Yeah, it really is." She said. Meredith hopped off the ledge and walked inside waving a goodbye to George.
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"Good surgery." Cristina said sitting down next to Meredith after Derek's surgery.
"Yeah." She replied back.
"What?" Cristina asked.
"You know how I got pregnant before my first year of med school and I have a five-year-old son. And how his Dad left when I told him I was pregnant."
"Yeah. Why are you telling me this again?"
"Well I told George about Conner. And I realized that Conner needs someone other than me in his life. Someone who's been around since he was born. I know you said you would never babysit Conner again, but you love him and he loves you. I'm not asking you to babysit all the time or whatever. But Cristina don't cut him out of your life." Meredith stated. Cristina looked at her then down at the floor.
"I would never do that. I was just mad at you. I love Con." She said.
"Okay." Meredith replied.
"We don't have to do that thing. You know I say something and then you say something and then somebody cries and there's like a moment." Cristina informed. Meredith smiled.
"Yuck. You know me better than that." She cut Cristina's explanation off. Cristina laughed slightly.
"Good. Just wanted to make sure again." Cristina breathed. She looked over at Meredith. "You should get some sleep. You look like crap."
"I look better than you." Meredith defended. Cristina shook her head.
"Not possible." Cristina smirked getting up and walking off.
Derek walked into the hall and Meredith watched him write in the chart and think. "That was amazing." She stated. Derek looked over at her and smiled. He nodded his head and hummed. "You practice on cadavers. You observe. And you think you know what you're going to feel like standing over that table but… That was such a high." Meredith informed. Derek stopped writing and turned to watch her. He nodded his head. "I don't know why anybody does drugs." She said smiling.
"Yeah." Derek said smiling back. Meredith felt the gooeyness rising from his smiling and broke the eye contact.
"Yeah." She repeated.
"I should, ah, go do this." He said nodding his head in the direction behind him. Meredith nodded her head.
"You should."
"I'll see you around." He said walking off.
"See you around. See ya." She repeated.
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"Grandma okay, Mommy?" Conner asked. Meredith smiled thankfully at the nurse who watched him while she talked to her mother.
"Grandma is fine." Meredith smiled taking his hand and walking to the car.
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"Mommy, why do we have so many boxes?" Conner asked walking up to his half made room.
"Because we still have to unpack a lot of the boxes from Boston." She answered. Meredith moved a box out of the hallway and into the empty room next to Conner's. "And um… Do you think it would be okay if some of my work friends come and live here?" She asked waiting for a freak out from her son. He looked up at her and jumped up onto his bed. He lay down.
"If we get to go to the park then they can come live here. But I have to meet them before they come." He informed. Meredith nodded her head and sat down on the end of the bed. That was easy.
"Are you sure? Because if you don't like anyone you meet then we can always get an apartment like we had in Boston." Meredith informed. Conner looked up at her and thought.
"I like the big house. And it's close to the park. Remember last week we walked to the park. And it has swings and a jungle gym and a slide and a big field that you let me run around on with other kids." He said excitedly. Meredith smiled.
"If there is anyone that I would like to come and live with us I'll make him or her meet you first. If you don't like them or they don't like you they won't come and live with us." She stated. Conner nodded his head.
"Can I take a nap, Mommy? All the kids at daycare were really loud whenever I tried to sleep." He asked. Meredith nodded her head and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"I'll be in my room, okay." She whispered. Conner mumbled a tired love you and fell into a deep sleep.