Ellis Grey is still in the hospital, no longer lucid. When Meredith visits her in her room, she still thinks Meredith is a five year old, running around the hospital.
"Mom, I'm 29. I work here, remember? I'm a surgical intern."
"Thatcher!" Ellis shouted when George walked in. "I told you to never bother me when I'm at work!"
Meredith sighed in frustration. "Just go with it, George."
"Uh, who's Thatcher?" He asked.
"She thinks you're my dad."
"I look like your dad?"
Meredith didn't answer. "Mom, I'll see you before I go home. George, page me if you need me to sign anything or if something changes with her."
"Burke will have you sign forms for the surgery when he get's back since it was pushed."
"Like I said, just page me. I'm on Sloan's service."
Once Meredith changed into her scrubs, she ran into Mark in the lobby.
"There's my favorite dirty little mistress." Mark said. "I don't know if you heard or not, but the first ever dirty mistresses club meeting is at Joe's tonight."
"I'm with Derek."
"Who's out camping with Burke. I figured you'd need someone to be with."
"I'm having Derek's baby."
"You are?" He exclaimed. "Well congratulations. I didn't hear."
"Figured, so now you can stop hitting on me." She smiled, and looked over their patient's chart. "Wait. We're doing a penile reconstruction?"
"Do you think you can handle that, Grey?"
"Of course."
Meredith did wonder why someone would want a penile reconstruction, until she met her patient. It was a transgender woman, who is ready for the next step of her transformation. Mark had Meredith run some pre-op tests just to make sure their patient is still healthy enough for the operation.
While she waited for the results of the test, Meredith studied for the surgery. She'v never seen, nor done, a penile reconstruction so it was new for her. She wanted to make sure she'll be prepared when she's in the OR.
When the results of the tests were in, Meredith looked them over and then handed them to Mark to look over.
"Is that what I think it is?" Meredith asked, pointing to a dark area on the scan.
Mark sighed. "Dani has cancer."
"What does this mean then?"
"Come on Grey, we have to tell her we can't do the surgery."
"My baby is the size of a passion fruit." Meredith read from a baby book. "Three inches."
"That's pretty amazing, Mer." Izzie said. "The miracle of life growing inside you right this second."
"I think I'm going to be sick." Christina groaned. "Hey, tell me about your penis."
"There's nothing to tell. He, no she has cancer. We can't do the surgery. She still wants us to, but Sloan just won't do it. It's pretty sad if you think about it." Meredith started to get teary eyed.
"Are you crying?" Christina asked.
"It's these stupid hormones! I cry when I'm sad or mad or happy or when I can't have sex!"
"Man, Derek's lucky he's camping." She side commented.
"I miss Derek." She sobbed.
"Wow, thanks a lot Christina." Izzie sarcastically said. "It's okay, Mer. He'll be back tomorrow."
"What happened to her?" Alex asked, sitting down at their table.
"I can't have sex!"
"She misses Derek." Izzie added.
"She lost her penis." Christina said. "I'd be sad too. I'm sad for her."
Alex shook his head, taking a bite of his lunch. "You girls are strange as hell."
Meredith's pager went off and it was Mark. She met him outside their patient's room.
"Dr. Grey, prep Dani for surgery." Mark said.
"The surgery? But what about the cancer and it being too dangerous?" She asked.
"She still wants the surgery and understands the risks with doing it. There's nothing more we can do other than do what she wants."
"Okay then."
Meredith stopped in her mother's room before she headed home from the hospital. Her mother was awake and wanted answers on why she's in the hospital. Apparently she seems lucid again.
"Mom; mommy, you have Alzheimer." Meredith explained. "For the past five years, and it's been getting more severe as life goes on."
"What. No. No!" Ellis screamed.
"You're not in the hospital for this though. The other day you fainted and fell. You're having heart surgery as soon as the head cardio attending comes back."
"Where is he? I want to talk to him."
"Dr. Burke is camping, but I am able to call him if you must talk to him, though he should be back tomorrow."
"Where's Richard? Does he still work here?"
"Yes. Richard is our Chief of Surgery."
"Richard is the Chief of Surgery now?" Ellis crossed her arms frustrated. "I'm thirsty. Get me some water." She ordered.
Meredith nodded and got her mother a cup of water. "Here you go, mom."
"Straw. I need a straw." Meredith nodded and placed one in her mother's cup. Ellis breathed and looked at her daughter. "So tell me about yourself Meredith. What's your life like?" She sighed when Meredith didn't answer. "I really do want to know you, Meredith."
"Well mom, I'm a surgical intern at this hospital for about a year now. I... also have a boyfriend."
"A boyfriend? Does he understand the demands of your career, because not all men do, though they say they do, they don't?"
"He does because he's a doctor as well." She said.
"Good. Have you chosen a specialty?"
"No, not yet. I'm exploring my options; waiting to be inspired." Meredith rubbed her lips together. "I actually have something else kind of big happening in my life. I'm pregnant."
"Pregnant?" Ellis shouted. "Do you want to ruin your life, Meredith, like I did? A child will ruin your surgical career!" Meredith felt like crying but she held herself together. "What happened to you? Being in love and now pregnant! I can't believe you're my daughter! Such a disappointment."
Meredith got up and left her mother's room. Immediately she burst out crying when she was out of her mother's view. The Chief saw Meredith crying and walked over to her.
"Meredith, no matter what your mother said, she didn't mean it." Richard said.
"Yeah, she does. This is just like her."
Hey, look! I got another chapter up so soon! So like I said before, I'm going to mainly focus on this story as of right now, but I haven't forgotten about my other one. I hope you liked this chapter. As of right now, I have no idea how many chapters this story will have nor how I should end it. Maybe I should keep this story going through Meredith's residency and show how she and Derek adjusts to parenthood? I don't know. So leave suggestions! Maybe I'll write a sequel that will be way into the future if I get enough requests. Now that I said all that, I hope you liked this chapter!