This is my first Grey's fic. It's post-prom, any spoilers are fair game. I don't own Grey's nor do I have enough money in my piggy bank to buy it.

Bear with me and please be gentle. Reviews are welcome.

Meredith Voice Over: When I was a freshman in High School I had this one teacher that we had open discussion with for most of the time. We read stories and news articles, and then debated over them, formed opinions. No matter what, he said we had right answers, there were no wrong answers in opinions he told us. Just at least two sides to it. Arguments were never one sided. And there was no black and white either. That's what I remember most about him. He liked to tell us that there were only Shades of Grey. Both are right, both are wrong. Shades of Grey. And that is how my life is. Endless Shade of Grey

Chapter 1: The Flu, Stress, No Big Deal

"Meredith, this has got to stop." Isobel Stevens looked down at her friend face concerned as she gently helped her to her feet.

"How do you think I feel Iz, puking my guts up for half the night?" Meredith replied as she allowed her friend to support her as she swayed on the cold tile floor. She looked down at it; she had spent the last few weeks practically worshipping the porcelain God 24/7. "I'm fine, it's just a bug. It'll pass soon."

"That's what you've been saying for the past few weeks. Tomorrow we are taking you to the Doctors. No buts." Izzie's voice had gotten louder by the second, and by the time she was done both Alex and George had appeared in the hallway.

Alex took one look at his very pale, very sick friend and gently picked her up. He walked down the hall and placed her on her bed under her covers.

George disappeared and came back with some ice chips. He sat down on the side of her bed and Meredith opened her mouth. She looked like a baby bird looking for a worm to eat. George put a few chips in her mouth and she closed it, managing to swallow them.

"I was just telling Meredith that we're taking her to the hospital tomorrow."

"I know." George and Alex chorused. Izzie had been loud enough for both of them to hear the argument.

"I'm not going."

"Yes, Mer you are. You've been sick these past few weeks, and it hasn't been getting better. At first we let it slide, after prom was stressful, for all of us, with Denny and Burke." Izzie was getting better everyday, and had realized that she wasn't really in love with Denny, and that he would want her to be happy.

"Then your break-up with Finn, and -" Izzie stopped. She had almost mentioned the unmentionable. The Dr. Shepard's moving back to New York.

"Other things like that." She finished lamely. Meredith had gotten her drift anyway.

"Fine. I'll go, but only tomorrow and I want you guys to do it, and Cristina, and Burke or Bailey. Not anyone I don't know." Burke was doing much better, but was slowly working his way towards bigger surgeries.

The other three interns glanced at one another. It was a small price to pay for making sure that nothing bad had happened to their friend. "Okay."

"We'll go tomorrow morning, before rounds start." George stated.

"Then we should get back to sleep, we only have a few more hours." Meredith looked at Alex and then at the clock she nodded tiredly.

"Yeah, we probably should."

Izzie, George and Alex all turned to go George placing the ice chips next to her when Meredith called out to them again. "Guys?"

"Yeah Mer?" Izzie asked.

"Thank you."

Izzie knew that Meredith wasn't just referring to the fact that they were making her see a doctor, but the overall past two months.

It had taken a few days before they had gotten the entire story out of Meredith. About sleeping with Derek on prom night, about how he kept asking her what it meant.

She had broken up with Finn soon after that. The day that she had gone to tell Derek about the break-up, and ask him what it meant she had been told that he had moved back to New York. The Bastard hadn't even had the decency to tell her himself. Coward.

"Your welcome Mer. Now get some sleep."

With that Izzie switched off the light and walked into the hall with George and Alex. If she ever saw Derek Shepard again it wasn't going to be a very happy reunion. She would kill him. He hurt her best friend.

"Okay Mer, I just need to ask you a few more questions before we start."

Meredith looked at Cristina who was standing across from her. Meredith was perched on the hospital bed, Izzie standing next to her rubbing her back reassuringly.

Moments ago Meredith had once again been on her knees in the bathroom throwing up what little she had managed to eat for breakfast.

George, Alex and Callie stood outside of the room, as if standing guard.

Callie had moved into their house after prom, and was also living with Meredith, but had been on call last night. Still the 'new girl' she had opted to stay outside and let Meredith's two best friends and Burke handle this.

"Yeah Cristina, I know the drill, I'm a doctor too."

"How long have you been feeling this way?"

"A little after Prom I guess, I started getting sick, and couldn't keep anything down."

"Mer, that was over two months ago."

"I know, but I've been going through a lot lately, and I've been really busy and everything."

"Okay, when's the last time you had sex?" Cristina held up her hand "I know the answer to that. And personally, I so don't need to know this, but when's the last time you had your period?"

Meredith looked at her eyes widened slightly. "Cristina…" She took a deep breath. "It was right before the prom." Izzie let out a small gasp behind her.

"No."

"Yes."

"No. 'Cause that would mean what I think it means and that would be bad. Really bad." Meredith just stared at her.

Burke walked in the room ready to do the initial exam and looked between the three inters. Bailey had been home today with Will and Tucker.

None of them responded to his greeting, or his question to see the chart Cristina was holding. Gently he took it from her and skimmed what she had written so far. When he came to the last two questions why the three women were standing there in shock clicked.

"Uh-oh." Burke walked out of the room and came back with a needle to draw some blood. There were no drug store pregnancy tests at the hospital, and he didn't feel like going and buying one.

The blood work was rushed and an hour later he handed the confirmation of her pregnancy to Meredith and walked out of the room. He heard the sound of a cry and Cristina trying to be soothing and Izzie's soft voice. George, Callie and Alex walked into the room having seen the test in Burke's hand.

This was not good. Cristina had told him about prom night. Meredith Grey was pregnant with Derek Shepard's baby.

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