Again, thanks for your comments :)

(Short summary chapter 1: Zola broke her arm, as a result Meredith panicked; chapter 2: Meredith opened up about her panic attack; chapter 3: Andrew and the kids, Merlex; chapter 4: Mostly Merlex; chapter 5: Andrew told the kids a story)

He hesitates. Does he really want to go in there, does he really want to see his dad? Eventually he decides to go in. Apart from the soft squeak of the door it was completely silent. He turns on the lights as he enters the room. That's the moment he sees his father lying on the floor…

Andrew almost jumped out of bed. He was afraid. He took a deep breath before realizing that it was just a bad dream. Once again. He had the dream more often lately. He tried to calm himself down so he wouldn't wake Meredith, but it was too late for that.

"What happened?" She asked sleepily but also a bit concerned after she noticed his sudden movements.

"Nothing… I just had a bad dream. I'm sorry I woke you!" He looked at her trying to convince her that everything was alright. Trying to pretend it was just one bad dream. It wasn't. But he did not want to worry her.

"What was it about?" Meredith tried.

"I'm not sure. Probably nothing."

Meredith could see that he was hiding something. She could see that there was more to this story. She wondered if she should ask him again, but decided not to push him. To give him time. She hoped he would come on his own. Instead, she smiled softly at him.

He was glad that Meredith didn't push him further, he laid down again, whispering "Let's go back to sleep, we still have a few hours left"

Next day at the hospital

Andrew stood at the nurse's station updating some charts. He didn't feel well, he was tired, he couldn't sleep after waking up last night and it wasn't the first time. He had problems sleeping recently. That's why he decided to do paperwork instead of surgeries. He tried to avoid patient contact or at least as good as possible. In two hours, he had a surgery with Meredith. It was scheduled a few days ago and he didn't want to quit this short before. Usually he loved working on her service, but today he couldn't concentrate for more then 5 minutes, the lack of sleep really hit him. He knew that Meredith definitely could not use this in the OR. After finishing the charts, he decided to get some rest before the surgery, hoping this would help somehow.

2 hours later

"Dr. Grey, do you have a minute" Andrew asked when he finally spotted Meredith in the hallway talking with a nurse.

"I thought you were already prepping the…" Meredith paused as she looked up at him and noticed how exhausted Andrew looked. "What happened?" she asked indicating him to follow her into the conference room next to them. She closed the door behind them.

"I think I shouldn't scrub in with you today, I'm not feeling well." The sleep didn't help. Better said, he couldn't sleep. He laid in the on-call room trying to get some rest. Hopelessly. And when he stood up and almost fell again, because he was so dizzy... At that moment, he decided to let Meredith know that it wasn't the best idea for him to scrub in with her today.

"I can see that. What happened?" She tried again. He still hasn't answered her. She was a bit surprised and concerned... Andrew never missed a chance to scrub in with her, so, something was definitely wrong.

"I'm not really sure. I can't sleep even though I am tired. I tried to get some rest before the surgery, but I couldn't…"

"You couldn't... what?" Meredith asked worried. At this moment she got paged "I have to go." Andrew nodded reassuring before Meredith continued "We'll talk later. And you go home and try to get some rest." She took his hand and squeezed it before she was on her way to her patient. She felt sorry to leave him like this. She knew something wasn't right. It broke her heart a little to see him so exhausted and tired even a bit sad and confused. For a moment she thought about turning around and going back to him. But then her pager went off again. She decided to go to her patient and check on Andrew as soon as she was done.

I know this one was really short, but it's more like a setup for the next ones. I think I'll update the following chapter the next few days. At the latest on Wednesday.