During the same morning, Meredith, Izzie and George walked in locker room to get ready for another day of work. Christina was already there changed into her scrubs and making some notes in her notepad, same as Alex who was throwing his stuff in his locker.
"Morning!" Meredith passed by Christina cranky and went straight to her locker.
Christina followed her with her look since she saluted them and until she got to her locker room. Then she looked at Izzie and George "What's wrong with her?"
Izzie just shrugged and started to get change into her scrubs.
Christina stood up and went over to Meredith leaning next to her locker.
"Bad waking call!" Meredith told her without waiting for her to ask or say anything.
"Morning sickness sucks! By the way, I don't know what happened last night at Joe's, but the rumors about you and you know…" gesturing to her belly "Have started to travel around here!"
"The congratulations are in order Grey!" Alex came over to them hearing what they were talking about and leaned on the other side of Meredith.
"How do you know?" Meredith asked curious.
"From Shepherd and Sloan during the fight they had last night! So a little Sloan is growing up inside you, huh?" Alex smirked trying to rub her belly.
Meredith slapped his arm and pushed him away from her "It's none of your business!"
Christina came and set herself between them glaring Alex and making him to leave.
"Did you talk to McSteamy?"
"I did! Now I understand why he showed up at my door last night asking me about this!"
"So? Does he still want the baby?"
"From what I could see, he is thrilled with the idea!" Izzie joined their talk, taking a seat on bench in front of Meredith's locker.
Christina looked over at Meredith waiting for a confirmation.
"It's true!" Meredith confirmed and closed the locker.
"This morning he even showed up to bring her the breakfast!" Izzie looked up at them smiling as if she would be impressed by his gesture.
"Actually he brought the breakfast for Izzie and George, coz I couldn't touch it!"
"No, no… He brought the breakfast for Izzie!" George snapped looking angry at Izzie "Because until I got out of the shower she ate everything!"
Meredith rolled the eyes and shook her head with exasperation.
Christina was watching amused how a fight had started between Izzie and George. "What is wrong with these two?"
"Izzie ate George's breakfast!"
"And what else did you talk about this? Are you going to get married?"
"What? Why is everybody thinking that if I am pregnant we have to get married? No, we are not!"
"Then what is going to happen next?"
"Well… a doctor appointment! He wants Addison, by the way as my doctor!"
"Is he serious?"
"Unfortunately" Meredith sighed and took a seat down on bench next to Izzie.
"How did McDreamy found out about this?"
"I told him…last night… when he came to tell me that he is divorcing from Addison!"
Christina shook her head hearing that and started to pace in front of her. "How did he take the news?"
Meredith looked around her letting Christina understand that she has to come closer.
"After he declared me his love, I blurted it out about Mark's baby and then he ended fighting with Mark at Joe's, so…." Meredith stopped and felt a tear forming in her eyes.
"You know Mer, you have no fault in this! You moved on, because he chose to try it again with Addison!"
"Yeah, I know! I have to keep moving on now! I am going to be a mommy!"
Christina nodded and stood up.
"I can't wait!" Izzie hugged her with excitement making Christina and Meredith to roll their eyes.
When she was about to enter in locker room, Bailey was stopped by Mark.
"Dr. Bailey" he shouted and hurried to get to her.
Bailey turned around and guessing the reason he stopped her for, she put a hand on hip and waited for him to come.
Mark came to her very cheerful and put an arm around her shoulders. "I need an intern!"
Immediately she moved over and threw his arms away from her. "I have no intern for you today Dr. Sloan; they already have their assignments!"
"Can't you change them?"
"No; I can't! But I heard… Congratulations to the father-to-be!" She told him keeping her serious attitude.
Mark's grin grew even bigger. "Then congratulate me with an intern!" he told her raising an eyebrow letting her know what intern he wants.
"Dr. Grey is assigned down in pit and I recommend you to choose some other interns too from now on, if you ever want to have Grey under your service!"
"You can't do that! I am your boss and I get to choose who I am working with!"
Bailey shrugged and turned around to get in lockers "Complain yourself to the Chief!" and walked in locker room closing the door behind her.
Mark gave up frustrated and returned to his work.
"Good morning people" Bailey came in and started to tell the interns the assignments "Grey-pit, Karev- Montgomery-Shepherd, O'Mailey and Yang go and find Burke and Stevens, you are with Shepherd"
Bailey stood there and motioned them to leave. When Meredith passed by her, she grabbed her arm and stopped her "Grey, stay here! I want to talk to you first!"
Everybody stopped and looked back at them knowing the reason she stopped Meredith for.
"Are you all named Grey?" Bailey snapped at them and made them disappear in less than a second.
Remaining alone in there, Bailey looked at Meredith. "Another attending, Meredith?" This sounded more like a reproach than a question.
Meredith didn't answer and looked at her a little ashamed.
"Are you going to keep the baby?" Putting this question, Bailey's attitude became softer.
"Yes" Meredith nodded and waited to see where this talk was going.
"Are you sure that this is what you want?"
Meredith started to bite her lower lip as sign of awkwardness. "No, but it's too late now to get rid of it!"
Bailey opened the mouth to say something, but Meredith knew what she was going to say, so she cut her words.
"Physically I can, but… emotional … it's too late!"
Bailey sighed and nodded responsively "Good luck then, Meredith!"
"Thank you Dr. Bailey! I'll need it!"
Bailey nodded one more time and went out from there muttering. "You'll sure need!"
Meredith made her way down in pit and made herself busy with sutures.
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"Make sure that you won't get wet and change the bandage tomorrow!" Meredith was attending a young female with a cut on her foot. She took off the gloves and threw them to bin. "Do you know how to do it or you want me to show you?" she asked the girl as she was standing up.
"I saw at you how to do it and I think I'll manage!"
"Ok, then you're free to go!" Meredith smiled and helped sit up from bed.
"Thank you doctor!"
Meredith watched her how she was walking out from there limping and then she turned around to take another patient.
When she did that she saw a nurse standing right behind her with a cup in her hand.
"Dr. Grey?"
"Yes" Meredith answered curious.
"Dr. Sloan sent you this!" the nurse handed her the cup "It's hot chocolate!"
Meredith took it with delay and when she did it she let out a sigh "Did you buy it?"
The nurse wasn't sure what she should answer. So after a hesitation, she nodded "Yes, Dr. Sloan sent me!"
Meredith shook her head with disappointment "Where is he now?"
"I saw him five minutes ago in his office!"
"Thank you!" Meredith told her grateful showing him the cup.
"We're welcome, Dr. Grey!"
The nurse left and so did Meredith.
She left the pit, took the elevator and went straight to Mark's office. She saw him through window; he was alone in there drinking from his coffee and reading some files.
Meredith didn't bother to knock on door and walked in.
Mark put the files down and the coffee aside standing up to greet her.
"You're welcome!" Mark hurried to answer grinning, because in the next second Meredith spilled the content from that cup in his head "Thank you!" She told him putting the empty cup on the small table that was near them.
"What the…" Mark started to protest wiping the hot liquid from his face. "I hope that these are the hormones!"
"Grow up Mark and stop act like a jerk if you really want to change!"
"But what did I do! I thought that you will enjoy a hot chocolate!"
"It would have been tastier if you would have gone by yourself to buy it and not to use the medical staff to do it for you!"
Mark took a napkin to clean himself as much as possible. He was pissed off by Meredith's gesture, but he knew she was right so he didn't respond.
Meredith turned around to leave, but when she was about to walk out from there, Mark stopped her.
"You have an appointment with Addison later!"
"Fine, I'll go find her!" Meredith didn't look back and walked out.
Later, Addison paged her to come for a consult.
Meredith stepped out from elevator on the gynecology floor and asked a nurse where she can find Dr. Montgomery. The nurse directed her to an exam room, so Meredith went there.
When she walked in, she found just Mark.
"I hope this isn't another joke of yours, Mark!"
"Hey, hey! Let's make peace ok?" Mark pacificator waving his hands as sign of peace "I came here to be with you for your first appointment; Addison should be here in a second!"
"You didn't have to come you know! I would have been fine by my own too!" Meredith replied coldly. Because she already knew how these controls are going, Meredith took the hospital gown and untied her scrub pants. "Turn around!"
"Are you serious?" Mark almost burst into laugh hearing her.
Seeing her glare, he knew that she was serious and to avoid any other food or liquid stains on him, he turned around to let her change. In that present condition, Meredith was allowed to be bossy to him.
She did it very fast, so she soon told Mark to turn around. She put the clothes on a chair and took a seat on bed waiting for Addison to come.
Mark joined her and for the first time he asked the permission to rub her belly.
"You should stop rejecting me, Meredith!" he told her while his hand was making circles on her belly. You asked me to change myself and this is what I am doing! But for this you have to let me help you and stop snapping at me when I am around you; this is what the change is suppose to mean, right?"
"I'm sorry!" Meredith looked at him guilty "I'm sorry for the hot chocolate too!"
"It was delicious, I can assure you now!" Mark chuckled and took his hand away from her belly.
"What are we doing Mark?" Meredith put aside her bossy attitude and looked at Mark with fear.
"We are going to have a baby!"
"Why?"
"To change us!"
Meredith took a deep breath and looked ahead with worry imprinted on her face "We don't know anything about this! I don't know how to take care of a baby"
"Ok Meredith, right now you have to calm down because I am about to freak out too and at least one of us has to stay well grounded!"
Meredith looked back at Mark and saw indeed some worry in his look too. "Ok"
"We'll see! We'll learn! I guess that no one knows how to be a parent until becomes one, right?"
"Right! Ok" Meredith nodded trying to convince herself that his right. "Hey, you really are helpful sometime"
Mark chuckled and stood up from bed seeing Addison coming in.
"Dr. Grey" Addison greeted her a little uncomfortable.
"Dr. Shepherd"
Addison avoided to look at her in that moment and just raised the hand to her "Montgomery"
Meredith looked over to Mark, who shrugged smiling.
"Sorry!" Meredith excused herself embarrassed.
"So are you … going to stay here during the consult?" Addison asked Mark seeing him there and without any intention of leaving.
"Of course I will!"
Addison looked at Meredith and waited for a confirmation from her.
Meredith nodded, so Addison put on the gloves and went over the other bedside.
"I can see that you ready, so lay back so that I can examine you!" Addison motioned her to do so and to sprawl the legs.
Mark moved over to Addison to see what she was doing, which made Meredith to snap at him.
"Hey, what do you think you are doing?" she lifted herself a little and grabbed his lab coat pulling him to her.
"What?" Mark protested. "I just want to see if everything is alright!"
"Move from there, Mark! There is nothing for you to see down there; since when are you a specialist in gynecology?"
"He might not be a specialist in gynecology, but he is a specialist in vaginas!" Addison said it smiling, but in the second she realized that she said it loud she tried to pass ignored through that embarrassing moment.
"Come on Meredith, we conceived a baby together, so I know this area pretty well." Mark started to laugh refusing to leave that view. "I'm trying to be supportive here, so stop whining!"
"Ok" Meredith tried to stand up pushing the gown back down between her thighs. "I'm not doing this with him here!"
"Hey, hey! Where do you think you're going?" Mark came to her and grabbed her shoulder putting her back down.
"Ok, if you want to be supportive, then be stop being supportive between my legs and support my head!" Meredith managed to catch his arm into a stronger grip very determined not to let him go back to her lower body.
"Fine!" Mark rolled his eyes and came at the top of her head. He laid her down and bent over her head smiling "I can be supportive from here too, see?"
Meredith just smiled and shook her head, paying then attention to what Addison was telling her.
Addison made her an ultra sound scan and told her that she is around 3 weeks pregnant.
"3 weeks?" Mark asked Addison. "This means almost 37 weeks, right?"
"That's right!" Addison confirmed. "Now tell me Meredith when was you last period exactly?"
"Umm…24th of June"
Addison wrote it down in Meredith's chart together with some other notes. "It seems that you are due for 25th of March". Addison looked then at Mark as if she would have wanted to see his reaction.
Indeed, Mark smiled wide at her and then back down at Meredith.
"What?" Meredith asked confused seeing the way they were looking at each other.
"That would be two days before my birthday!" Mark told her very proud.
"Really?"
Mark answered her with a wink.
Addison did to her all the regular checks and then she told her to come back for another appointment in two weeks.
"So everything is ok?" Meredith asked standing up in her sit.
"Yes, everything looks just fine!"
"Ok then, ladies it's getting late and I really I have to go now!" Mark checked his watch and hurried to door. "I'll see you later Meredith!" he told her without looking at her and stormed out on door.
"So, you and Mark?!" Addison took off her gloves and disposed them to trash. She looked during the entire appointment at them with disbelief. "Are you two together?"
"No" Meredith replied fast "We're just going to have a baby together, but there is nothing else between us!"
"Then why are you keeping his baby?"
Meredith was feeling as uncomfortable to speak about this with Addison, as Addison was feeling to ask her. So, Meredith avoided to give her an answer and stood up from bed, grabbing her clothes.
"Derek still loves you; just give him time to get used with this!" Addison told her quietly before heading to door.
"He will never forgive me for this"
Addison stopped and turned around when Meredith said that. "It's not too late to have an abortion!"
Meredith looked down avoiding Addison's look. "I love Derek, but I want this baby! I need it!" She started to rub her belly with a slight smile growing on her face.
"Why?"
"I don't know! But I feel that I have to have it!"
"Derek loves you Meredith!" Addison laughed a little unbelieving that she had just said that. "It's… hard for me to say it, but he does and … if you want to have this baby, then you will need Derek. Mark…" she said it shaking her head "Mark is Mark and …". Addison didn't feel able to tell her that Mark will let her down. "Good luck Meredith!" was everything that she could say.
"Addison"
Meredith's call made her stop again and looked back at her.
"Thank you! For everything!"
Addison just nodded and walked out from room.
Meredith watched the door that Addison had stepped out for a couple of moments, and then she looked down at her belly rubbing it "Well, baby… mommy has a complicated life and I guess you will have to learn to live with it! Or maybe you will be lucky and when you will be born you it will be less complicated"
Meredith let out a sigh and started to change herself into her scrubs. She tied the pants and jumped out from bed. "I'm hungry baby, what would you like to eat?" Meredith started to rub her belly again and to think on what she would it. "Let's try a muffin from cafeteria, what do you say?"
"I'm talking to my tummy! God, I'm losing my minds!" Meredith giggled and walked out on hall.
On her way to cafeteria, Meredith met Christina, who was heading there too for a snack.
"The cravings?" Christina asked her when she got by her side.
"Yeah! You?"
"Oh, no cravings for me, because I know what the birth control is! I'll just skip the lunch"
Meredith faked a smile to her and continued their walk.
"So how was the appointment?"
"Embarrassing, awkward, but everything is fine! Buy the flowers and the teddy bear for March 25th !" Meredith looked at Christina smirking.
Christina rolled the eyes at her amused and shook her head "I'll definitely not forget some condoms!"
"Addison asked me to give time to Derek!"
"Don't make any hopes, Meredith!"
"I'm trying not to!" Meredith sighed and continued her walk to cafeteria together with her friend.
"Do you want me to buy you a pink or a blue teddy bear?" Christina asked as they were coming out from cafeteria.
"I don't care!" Meredith shrugged. "Maybe pink"
"How about the happy daddy?" emphasizing the word happy.
"Who cares?"
"She gave you hopes, didn't she?" Christina stopped her grabbing her arm.
"No" Meredith immediately gave the answer as if she would have wanted to convince her.
"Yes" She admitted into a final.
"I knew it!" Christina sighed and continued to walk towards to elevators together with Meredith.
The doors opened to one of it right when they got there, so they hurried inside.
Both were sitting leaned against the walls in opposite sides.
"You know Meredith, maybe McSteamy is not that bad after all! He seems excited with the idea of being a father!"
"Yes, but he is Mark!"
"And Derek is Derek!" Christina replied fast and straightened herself in the up position. "He walks away each time you two are having troubles."
"In conclusion, none of them is good enough and I do know how to choose the wrong men to sleep with!" Meredith nodded sustaining this way her own affirmation.
"You should ask Izzie to be the father of your child" Christina said as they were getting out from elevator.
"If Izzie will be the father, then what will George's role be?"
"Ok then, give the role of father to George and make Izzie the grandma! She would be a great grandma with all the baking and her fairytales!"
Meredith started to laugh. "I am going to tell you of to Izzie that you called her old!"
"Now I am scared!" Christina rolled her eyes "Haven't you seen young grandmas so far?"
"No"
"Then Izzie will be the first one!"
Meredith giggled and both continued their way in different directions.
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