CHAPTER 7

Derek made sure that his mom was buckled up before he put his car into drive and pulled out of the pick up lane into the hustle that is associated with normal airport traffic.

"So son give me an update on the grandchild that Mark decided to bestow on me. Why is he so distraught about this baby, and I heard the line of insults he was spewing about Dr Stark and Dr Altman, so I am assuming those were the two Drs working on his daughter."

"Ok first of all the baby's name is Sophia. Also just so you know this isn't the first child that Mark Sloan had bestowed upon you. As a matter of fact and hopefully you will find this amusing." Addie started to say, but quickly stopped when she caught the look she was getting from Derek in the review mirror. She quickly added, "She has been classified as a micro-preemie because she was born at 23 weeks. She weighs in at 1pound 1ounce, and the surgery that she just had, was to close a hole in her heart, it wasn't fully developed yet." as Addison finished Carolyn knew that Addie was in Seattle for some reason and that this baby had to be that reason. Also she couldn't help but notice the look that her son had given his ex wife so she looked at her former daughter in law and asked,

"So why did Derek shoot you the evil eye? What is this so called amusing thing that my adopted son has bestowed on me?" Derek knew that Sloan Sloane was going to be brought up sooner or later so he glanced back at Addie and nodded his head.

"Sophia isn't your first grandchild bestowed upon you Mark Sloan. He has another daughter, who showed up here in Seattle about 18mths ago. She was 18yrs old and she turned out to be pregnant. Mark offered to raise the baby with little Sloane and Lexie."

"Isn't that the half sister to Meredith? The one he was seeing the last time I was here. She is kind of young to be raising a grandchild of her boyfriend, so I can understand why she wanted to run." Carolyn stated. Then she added,"Continue please Addie. I really want to know what happened with this other Sloan. Wait why are you calling her by her last name?"

"That was also her first name. Sloane Sloan, her mother had a sick sense of humor or something, I don't know. Anyways after Mark flew her to LA for me to help with the complication, Sloane stayed down there and found a good set of parents to adopt baby Sloan. She flew back up to Seattle and asked if Callie could do an ultrasound. Mark found out that Sloane Sloan was putting the baby up for adoption and again he offered to raise him, but this time Callie also offered to raise the child with him, Sloane Sloan agreed, but when she got back to Mark's apartment, Sloane freaked out because Mark had already brought a crib and other baby items. Callie saw her sneaking out with everything she owned and gave her a prescription of pre-natal vitamins and tried to disassemble the crib before Mark got home. It broke Callie's heart to see him so sad, but she got her best friend through it as best she could." At this point Derek added,

"Yeah Arizona wasn't to happy about that arrangement though, but she put up with it more for Callie's sake than Marks. She was so happy when she hooked Mark up with Teddy. She finally had Callie all to herself again. Those two were finally working out there relationship issues, and it was going good for them. That's when Arizona won the Carson Madison Grant and realized she was going to be moving to Africa for three years. Callie decided she didn't want to be away from Arizona for that long, so she quit her job and put all her stuff in storage so she could go to Africa with Arizona. She was moody and everything, but Mark gave her a plastic surgery metaphor and it convinced her that she really wanted Africa if only because of the love she felt for Arizona. Well Arizona didn't like this whole new act that Callie was doing and she basically broke up with her at the airport. She turned around and walked away leaving a broken Callie in her wake. Mark was there for her, the way that she had been there for him. However she was still pinning over Arizona and he understood that. He was a redhead who was looking at Callie all night and sent her over to her to see if she was interested. She was more interested with the haircut that Callie had rather than Callie. He came up with the idea that she needed a sexual pallet cleanser. She was drunk when they got back to his place but he helped her get her boots off and covered her up with a blanket as she fell asleep on the couch. A few hours later he woke up and went to get a drink of water in the kitchen when she brought up the sorbet, he at first was thinking sweet tooth, but then he saw what she was saying in her eyes so they did it that night. It didn't help her as much as she thought because she told him that the sex with him just made her miss Arizona, but at the same time he told her that he still missed Lexie so that all worked out I guess. Anyways Arizona came back from Africa a few weeks later and basically begged for another chance with Callie. It took a conversation with Mark to figure out how she was going to break through the wall that Callie had put up to prevent her from getting her heartbroken by Arizona again. That's when Callie told Arizona that she was pregnant with Mark's baby and if Arizona wanted another chance now. It took a few tears and box of Kleenex for the two of them to clear the air. Mark kept bugging Callie and Arizona though, he wasn't giving them any space to breath, so after her baby shower Thursday, Callie offered Arizona an olive branch that was a Bed and Breakfast trip for just the two of them. Mark found out about Lexie and freaked out, but instead of coming and talking to me about it he texted Callie, which then made Arizona upset, since she felt that he was alienating there relationship. So she tossed Callie's phone in the back seat, and Callie unbuckled her seatbelt and retrieved her cell. She told Arizona that she'd do anything to make her happy. Arizona then asked Callie to marry her, took her eyes of the road for just a second and when she looked back to the road a truck had pulled onto the road and stopped. They ended up crashing into the truck."

"Wow Derek you didn't even pause for a breath, it seems the rambling that Meredith does rubbed off on you," Addie said jokingly.

"Well that is a lot to think about. So Arizona stayed and is still with Callie even though Callie slept with Mark while she was in Africa. So Callie went through the windshield then considering that the baby is here already. I'm not liking what I'm about to ask, but did he lash out at her too?"

A look was shared between the two who knew of what Mark said in that heated debate.

"Yes he lashed out at her and called her nothing told her that she didn't have any rights making decisions for the baby despite the fact that she and Callie are in a committed relationship, but the word he used during that argument hurt her the most was he called her nothing." Addison said.

"Ok so that is going to be something else I need to help with. Arizona didn't mean for the accident to happen. But we can discuss that later, so Derek why don't I have one from you and Meredith yet?" his mother asked him. Carolyn Sheppard glanced at her son and was alarmed to see how close he was to tears.

"Addie we need to switch seats." Derek said to Addison as he pulled off at the next exit.

"Okay Derek." she said as he pulled up to a gas station. She knew the reason for the tears and she

knew that he needed to have this final cry so that way he can continue looking towards the future. Seeing her son step out of his vehicle and hand his ex-wife his keys, she knew that she needed to follow him, wherever he was going. She realized he was only getting into the back seat so she followed suit. Once they were all in and buckled up again did Addie turn on the vehicle and resume the car ride back to SGMW. Meanwhile in the back seat Derek was struggling to gather up his thoughts and trying desperately to stop the tears that were flowing down his face. Carolyn finally broke through the silence in the vehicle by asking her son, "Derek what's wrong? Why the tears?" Derek looked at his mom and took a slow deep breath.

"Meredith and I were pregnant once. She found out the morning of the shooting, and she came up to my office to tell me, but kind of chickened out. She promised me that I would be pleased that night, because she was running all over the hospital scouting for surgical cases the night before. The next thing that happened is all hell went lose. I went looking for Meredith and I found her with Christina and I put the both of them in a room and told them not to leave. When Christina saw who the shooter was through the little window, and she remembered giving him directions to my office. She then told Meredith that he was looking for the chief. When she heard that she knocked Christina out of her way and ran for my office. They spotted me on the cat-walk facing down the gunman. Gary Clark was angry and sad that his wife had been taken off of life support but there was nothing more I could of done for her. She witnessed me get shot, and then had to sit on the scrub room floor while her best friend was trying to save my life. The head of our trauma department came down and saw that Mr. Clark had a gun to Christina's head, and was telling her to stop fixing me. Well as Owen came in, Meredith heard Mr. Clarks voice in the room she came in and basically offered herself up as the closest way to end Mr. Clarks pain. The ones who were his wives doctors were me, Lexie and Richard. She told him that she was the closest thing that Richard had to a daughter, that Lexie was her sister and that I was her husband. She told Christina to Tell Derek I love him and I'm sorry. Owen tried to distract Mr. Clark and he shot Owen in the shoulder. Jackson, he was assisting Christina at the time undid the EKG monitors while Mr. Clark had taken his eyes off of me. So when they saw Owen go down, they all raised there hands. My wife," he sobbed, "she thought that I was really dead. When he walked out of the OR Jackson quickly hooked me back up to the monitors. Meredith was in a state of shock, but as she was working on Owen she felt a stabbing pain in her stomach. April thought for a second that she had been shot, but then Meredith told them that she was having a miscarriage so April wouldn't freak out about the blood that,,," he couldn't finish his sentence as he collapsed into his mothers lap finally succumbing to the pain that he felt for not being there for her when she needed him the most.

"Shh Shh it wasn't your fault, don't blame anyone for something like that," she said stroking her sons head lovingly. "We never know why God calls back his angels, okay, we don't know why these things happen." she whispered into her grieving sons ear.

"She's right Derek," Addison added from the drivers seat, "The good thing is that you guys are trying again. That's all that really matters, you and Meredith are going to become parents again someday. Now can we finish our talk about the number of options the two of you have ahead in your future." Carolyn looked between the child in her lap, who was finally quiet, and the woman behind the wheel and she smiled to herself on how 11 years of marriage that they had, the anger with the whole divorce, these two had finally set everything aside and were best friends again. She never thought she would see this, and it made her feel happy knowing that they were there for each other once again.

"Options? What options are you speaking of Addison?" Carolyn asked curiously still stroking her sons hair lovingly. Addison looked through the mirror and noted a slight nod from the man laying in his moms lap. She knew that he was listening even though his eyes were closed.

"Well there is another form of fertility drugs that she could take, but there are always risks with those. Like when Meredith started losing her eyesight with this last round that you two did. Then there is the option of someone carrying a test tube child but that would mean harvesting her eggs and your sperm and combining them in a lab, and implanting them into someone else to carry the child to term. Or you can find someone to donate already fertilized eggs to be possibly implanted into Meredith." As Derek and Carolyn were taking in the information each separately, suddenly Derek sat up exclaiming, "Izzie!" Making both women look at him like he was a little bit crazy, but then Addison remembered who Izzie was.