Meredith and Derek spent the day shopping for the baby. Now that Izzie and Alex had officially moved out, they are now thinking about the nursery and clothes and everything they'll need for when their little girl comes. Also, because Meredith has two weeks off for passing her intern test, this is the perfect time to start prepping.
"Really, Derek?" Meredith asked as she looked through the hangers of baby clothes. "Amanda? I remember I had a girl in one of my college classes name Amanda; total bitch by the way."
"Are you implying all girls name Amanda are a bitch?"
"No. I just don't want our daughter to be named after someone I knew who's a bitch."
"What names do you have in mind then?"
"I like Stephanie."
"Stephanie Shepherd?" Derek questioned. "That's a mouthful."
"You know what? We don't need to talk about the name yet." Meredith picked out a little pink flower dress that has a matching hat. "This is so cute. We're getting it."
"Couldn't you had just brought Stevens or Christina with you instead? You know I could care less about baby clothes."
"One, I wouldn't put Christina through this because she'd feel the same as you do. And two Derek, you promised you'd help me; you promised. Doing these types of things are what you promised. Now you need to suck it up and not complain."
By the end of their shopping trip, Meredith and Derek had bought some baby clothes, a crib, changing table, dresser, rocking chair, diapers, pacifiers, bottles, and some bedding sheets and blankets. They just couldn't believe how much their total came out to be, and they still need to get a whole bunch more.
Though Derek wasn't supposed to be on call, he was paged to head into the hospital. So Meredith had dropped him off there on the way back home. She left all the baby things she and Derek had bought in the car, since she wasn't feeling like bringing in all the bags, with her feet swollen and all.
Meredith entered her house and turned on the living room lights. All the sudden people jumped out of hiding and shouted, "Surprise!" Meredith nearly dropped her purse and peed herself. It was a surprise baby shower.
"Izzie!" Meredith shouted.
Izzie appeared with a full smile on her face. "Hey, Mer, you okay? You look gorgeous by the way."
"I said I didn't want a baby shower. Derek and I are buying everything we need. We went shopping today."
"You can never have enough, Mer. Babies throw up on their clothes a lot."
"I'm going to take a nice warm bubble bath, and when I come back down, I hope to find everyone is gone."
"Meredith." Izzie said. "They brought gifts."
Two weeks later, Meredith returned to the hospital now as a surgical resident, and now seven months pregnant. She walked to the residence lounge and changed into her scrubs, and then headed to the intern lockers to retrieve her interns, which includes George. Unfortunately, George did not pass his intern exam, which means he has to redo his intern year. Lucky for him though, he'll be ahead of everyone, and Meredith is his resident.
"I have five rules, now memorize them." Meredith guided her interns to the nurse's station. "Rule number one, don't bother sucking up to me; I am very pregnant and very hormonal and I will yell at you if you annoy me or do stupid things, so don't do stupid things and annoy me. Right in these boxes are your pagers, trauma protocols, and page numbers. So rule number two, when you are paged, you answer that page at a run, not a walk, a run."
Meredith continued her tour. "On call rooms. Sleep when you can, where you can. Which brings me to rule number three; no sleeping with anyone in on call rooms; not attendings, especially not attendings. Sleeping with an attending is not a good idea." Meredith sighed. "Where was I?"
"Rule number four." George said. "When you are sleeping, we don't wake you unless a patient is dying."
"Right. The dying patient better not be dead when I get there because that means you woke me for no good damn reason. Are we clear? Rule number five, when I move, you move. Your first shift will last for thirty-six hours." Meredith's pager went off immediately after saying that for an incoming trauma. "Now move!"
Meredith and her interns rushed down to the ER. When they got outside the ambulances had arrived.
"Grey, don't let them just stand here." Bailey said.
"Okay, let's move people." Meredith rushed over to one of the three ambulances.
"Nancy Walker; 34 years old, 35 weeks pregnant. Complete upper arm amputation. Pressure applied. Two large-bore IVs started." The EMT said.
"Did he say my arm is gone?" The patient asked.
"Nancy, you're going to be okay." Meredith said, checking the wound.
"I really need my arm." She groaned. "My baby has no dad."
Meredith had one of her interns page Dr. Sloan. As Meredith rushed her patient inside, another intern stopped her asking if she was Meredith Grey.
"Yeah. Move!"
"I'm Lexie; Lexie Grey, your sister."
"Grey, Seattle Grace. Thank you." Meredith got off the phone with the police to help her find her patient's arm. She jumped when she turned around and saw Derek behind her. "Don't do that!"
"Do what?" He laughed.
"Sneak up behind me."
"How are you?"
She sighed. "I have a patient with a severed arm and no one seems to be able to find it. Have you seen it?"
"Your severed arm? No I haven't seen it. Meredith-"
"Hey, I'm so sorry about before. I was so nervous about meeting you." Lexie said walked up to them. "Don't block the ER doors! I know that now."
"You're the girl from the bar." Derek said.
"Oh my god, yes. Oh my god." She laughed.
Meredith lifted her eyebrows up. "She's the girl from the bar? Are you freaking kidding me? She's the girl from the bar that was hitting on you?" She walked away upset.
"Great, my sister hates me." Lexie sighed.
"Meredith's your sister?" Derek stammered.
"Half-sister, actually." Lexie glanced down at Derek's hospital badge. "Oh you're Dr. Shepherd. I was supposed to find you for a consult."
I hope you liked this chapter, and thanks for reading! I debated putting it up today, but here it is! Lexie will be shown more in the next chapter. Also, tell me if you guys would like Meredith to have a relationship with her; some do and some don't. I just would like some opinions on that one. But other than that, thanks again for reading!
