Background info: this is at the end of the very first episode of Grey's Anatomy after Katie Bryc's surgery.

Christina walks out the door and almost doesn't see Meredith but when she does she turns around. "That was a good surgery"

Sitting in the chair Meredith replies lazily, "yeah"

Seeing Meredith's appearance and the tiredness in her eyes she says, "you look like crap"

Meredith quipped back, "I look better than you"

Christina continues to banter with her "impossible" but then she sees a three year old with dirty blonde hair and amazing blue eyes running towards them yelling "mommy, mommy!"

Meredith immediately looks down the hall to see her three year old daughter Layah running towards her to her friend Sadie's dismay.

Christina asks the question even though she already knows the answer, "is that your daughter?"

By this time Meredith is helping her three year old leap into her lap for a hug. " yep this is Layah, sweety can you say hi to Christina?"

Layah looks as though she just noticed Christina and shyly says, "Hi Christina me layah."

Christina looks at Meredith with wide eyes then leaves with a good bye to the both of them.

Derek Shepard walks out the door completely oblivious until Meredith says, "That was amazing, you practice on cadavers, you observe and you think you know what it's going to feel like but that was just such a high I don't know why anybody does drugs."

Derek replies with a simple, "yeah" then he notices the adorable little girl in her arms and says, "Who's that?"

Meredith looks at layah who is sleeping on her solder to the time and answers, "oh this is Layah my three year old daughter"

Derek's eyes nearly burst out of his head before he asks, "Where was she when you and I had S-E-X?"

"She was staying with a friend while I got settled and did my first shift. I had to find a daycare then realized there was one here and enrolled her in it." Meredith replies nervously.

Layah wakes up due to the voices and looks at the man who is talking to her mother. "Mommy who that?"

Meredith looks at her daughter realizing she is awake and answers her, "Layah this is one of mommy's bosses Dr. Shepard can you say hi to him?"

Derek looks at the little girl with wondering eyes she looks so much like her mother, her patite build ther smile and her nose and her hair if they weren't so far apart in age he would think they're identical twins. What surprised him is the little girl walked up to him and demanded he kneel on his knees.

Layah stuck her hand out to him and said in a very adorable voice, "Hi Dr. Shepard me Layah Elizabeth grey me three years old." Once she shook his hand she proudly held out three fingers in his face to get the point across.

Meredith looked at the scene unraveling with huge shocked eyes Layah tended to be shy especially around men she didn't know. To shock her even more Derek told Layah that she could call him Derek and that she was a very pretty and smart girl.

Meredith let them talk for a minute before she told Layah that it was time to go. "Layah come on say good bye to Derek we have to get home and into bed for your fist day at the daycare here."

Layah yawned her little mouth going into an O shape and rubbing her eyes. "Kay mommy, bye Derek sees you tomorrow. Mommy wills you carry me, me tired?"

Meredith scooped her daughter into her arms turned to face Derek and said, "Good- by Dr. Shepard see you tomorrow." And with that she left down the hallway.

Derek replied, "Good-by Dr. Grey, good-by Layah see you both tomorrow." Then he left to inform Katie's parents of their success in surgery.