DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but this story and the character of Meredith. And you should be warned: the next few chapters are kind of depressing and I've tried to get them as factually accurate as possible. I've been there, done that.

"You should go in there when your baby is born. You don't want to miss that," Meredith said.

"I want you there, too," he said.

Meredith pondered his statement and turned to Jason. He nodded and Meredith agreed to go in with Rocky.

"I'll take him to scrub and meet you in the OR. I'll call neo and have them meet us there," Meredith said. Jason nodded his thanks and took off toward the OR. Meredith followed behind. She called the neo team from the phone at the nurses desk and they promised to report to the OR for the delivery.

Meredith was shaking. She didn't plan on having Katherine have the baby early or under these tragic conditions. She had spoken with Adam before she got the call from Jason and he said that if Rocky could establish paternity, he could be given custody of his child. If Katherine agreed, Meredith could adopt the baby.

She handed Rocky his scrubs and the booties and hat for his hair. She told him to sit on the chairs outside the OR suite. She was going to scrub in and give Jason a hand if he needed it.

The nurse beckoned Rocky into the OR and he sat by Katherine's head. He couldn't look at her because she didn't look like Katherine. Meredith and Jason entered the OR and Jason began doing the c-section. He worked quickly. When he reached the baby, Meredith reached around and helped pull the baby out. It was tiny, but didn't look too ill.

Meredith took the baby and wrapped the baby up and took the it to the baby warmer. The neo team started working on it. Meredith walked to her husband and grabbed his hand. "It's a girl," she said.

Rocky tried to smile, but seeing the activity around his newborn daughter's head was almost too much."Mer, what's wrong," he said.

"She's early, Rocky. Her lungs aren't fully developed. Hopefully, she'll get the oxygen she needs and, in a few weeks, she'll be home with us," she said.

The neo team took the baby in an incubator and rushed it to the nursery. Meredith and Rocky followed out the door, but were stopped by the nurses. "Let us stabilize her Dr. DeSantos. You and your husband can see your daughter when we are finished," she said.

Neither Meredith nor Rocky corrected her when she said 'their' daughter. Apparently, they thought that Katherine was their surrogate. Meredith and Rocky were sitting in the waiting area. Meredith couldn't believe it. She had just decided to take the baby if Katherine wanted them to and now Katherine was probably going to die and Rocky was going to have to deal with a sick infant. It was times like this that she regretted going into this field of medicine.

"You OK, Rock," she asked her husband."I'm fine. I'm just in shock. I can't believe that this is happening. We just can't seem to catch a break," he said.

"Let's just concentrate on your daughter. You're going to have to name her, you know," she said.

"I don't know what to do," he said, looking at Meredith.

"We'll figure you it out, Rocky, I promise," she said, holding her husband.

***Don't you just want to give Rocky a hug. I know I do. What's going to happen to this couple? Will everyone make it? ***-mereditholiver