Title: Do you remember me?
Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy. If I did there would be new episodes on before January 11th.
Summery: Meredith and Derek had a one night stand when she was in medical school and visiting friends in New York. She got pregnant and had a daughter. When she starts her internship in Seattle will they remember each other? Will he ever figure out that he has a daughter with Meredith?
Mother and daughter time
Meredith and Erica were busy the next few days after moving to Seattle. She met all of her neighbors and one of them offered to baby sit Erica if she ever needed at sitter. She accepted for the night of the intern mixer that the hospital was hosting for all the new interns to meet each other and some of the doctors.
Today Meredith was going to register in daughter in daycare and then take her to do whatever she wants to do. They were spending the entire week together because once she started working it would be less time for them to be together.
The preschool Meredith picked for Erica was the best in the West Coast. They offered nursery school classes which Erica will be taking. The daycare center is more like a little school which you have to be accepted to get into and cost a lot of money.
The building looked beautiful on the outside almost like a miniature college. The grounds the school was on had all kinds of activities for Erica to take part in and was open 24 hours a day except on holidays, she would never leave her daughter there on a holiday though, and even had a special place for the sick children to go so they wont get others sick and could still go to the daycare.
They walked into the center and Erica looked around excitedly. Meredith finished the paper work on Erica and then they were going to get a tour. One woman walked up to her and introduced herself.
"Hi my name is Olivia and this is my niece Megan. Are you new to the area?" She seemed nice and Meredith decided to talk to her after all her niece Megan looked around Erica's age.
"I am Meredith and this is Erica she is four years old. We just moved her from Boston but I grew up here so I know the area pretty well."
"Oh that's good. Maybe I will see you around more I have to get to the hospital where I work as a nurse. If you are ever injured Seattle Grace is a wonderful hospital." She said checked her niece in and left.
Meredith and Erica were waiting in the lobby for another five minutes before the director of the daycare came and greeted them. She smiled and shook both of there hands before starting on the tour.
"It is nice to meet you Dr. Grey." The director said.
"You can call me Meredith and this is Erica."
"It is nice meeting you too Erica."
"Thank you it is nice to meet you too." Erica said politely like Meredith had taught her.
They walked into the main day care centers. She showed them some of the classrooms which impressed Meredith. They play rooms, art rooms, and dance studios were the things Erica enjoyed the most. The outdoor grounds were very well kept. They had two pools for the kids. They also had sports sections including horse stalls and tennis courts.
"Does Erica have to do all of these sports? She likes to dance and cheerlead but I want her to do tennis and horse back riding and learn to swim. I don't want her to have to do sports if she doesn't want to though." Meredith said rambling again it was cute when Erica did though one of the many things her daughter got from her.
"We will not push the children to do anything but usually they want to." The director said.
"It is okay mommy I want to do sports. Can I do that?" She was pointing to the indoor ice rink with the big picture windows that you could see kids learning to skate in.
"You can do whatever you want to do Erica.' The director told her pleased with how open Erica was to trying new things.
After the tour Erica wanted to see a movie which Meredith reluctantly agreed to. She hated the children's movies that her daughter likes to watch. The movie wasn't a bad one though except for the college aged kid hitting on her at the concession stand. She never understood why people hit on her she didn't see herself as beautiful but truthfully she was. Erica loved the movie and continued talking about it all day.
Meredith took Erica to Build-A-Bear to make a stuffed animal. Erica chose a stuffed monkey and named it Neuro. They continued hanging out together all day. They went shopping and bought Erica new toys and cloths. At the end of the day Meredith knew she was a better mother than Ellis was and vowed to never become like her even when she started working Erica should always come first. From the looks of it Erica is going to pick up a lot more activities in the daycare that Meredith wanted to attend. She smiled her life had been so different since Erica was born. Before she was born Meredith went to bars and drank Tequila and slept with inappropriate men. Now she was grown up and loved some one else more than she thought humanly possible.
The next chapter will be the intern mixer. I wanted Meredith to bond with her daughter before work started to show how much she loved her.