Mark stood there clearly freaking out. His best friends wife who was very heavily pregnant had collapsed in his O.R. with no warning and now here he stood outside of her room waiting for Derek to come so he could tell him the news, obviously something he did not want to have to do. Derek came into his line of vision running down the hall clearly worried after he got the 911 page about his wife. "What happened to her? Are her and the baby alright?" He shouted breathing heavily from running to the maternity ward of the hospital.
"I don't know, they won't tell me anything and won't let me in with her even though I am the uncle and your best friend." Mark said pacing back and forth in front of the door.
"Alright then I'm going in I'll be back with an update go find her friends and Lexie, I'm sure they will all want to know when we do have an update." Derek called to mark over his shoulder.
" Ok I'll be right back page me if there's and urgent update." Mark replied before running at a full sprint towards the elevator. Derek opened the door relieved to hear the baby's steady heartbeat and upon seeing Meredith's eyes open staring at the fetal monitor.
"Are you trying to scare the shit out of me?" Derek asked with his trademark smirk as he went to sit on the edge of her bed. He leaned over and kissed her forehead. "What did the doctor say are the two of you alright? You have Mark worried sick cause they wouldn't tell him anything and wouldn't allow him in here to see that you are fine." This finally got a giggle out of Meredith.
"Well if Mark had a brain he would look through the window he would have seen that I am conscious and that the baby's heart is beating and is just fine. The doctor said we are just fine it was just my body's way of telling me I was overdoing it and that now unfortunately I will have to go on bed rest." This got a rather large smirk out of Derek. "Derek Shepherd you better wipe that smirk off your face, I know you have wanted me to go on bed rest forever but this is going to drive me absolutely insane. I will have nothing to do but watch talk shows and soaps all day while you and everyone else gets to come to work."
"Mer I know that you wanted to work all the way up until the baby is born, but this truly is for the best. You have been overdoing it for a while and now the baby finally responded. You won't have to watch soaps all day we will make sure there is always some there between all of us to keep you company, and its only for a month, before you know it the baby will be here and you'll be begging me to stay home with the baby and not come back to work."
"Yea I guess your right, and now I can take up knitting again to pass the time away. I always did like that hobby." She said with a yawn.
"Sweetheart I hate to point this out to you but you weren't knitting. You were trying to but you couldn't so when you weren't looking Izzie replaced pieces she made with the pieces you weren't making. You look awfully tired how about we lay here and take a nap."
"You just openly insult me and now you want to take a nap? Your lucky I'm really tired and have no energy to fight you on this one. Because otherwise you would currently be sleeping in that chair." She said before closing her eyes and cuddling as far into him as her stomach and the baby between them would allow.
"Whatever you say Mer, whatever you say." He said rubbing her back up and down trying to comfort her into a sleep.
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Two hours later they heard a soft knock on the door and Izzie, Christina, George, Alex, Lexie, and Mark all walked through the open door. "Is it alright if we come in, we wanted to see how you guys were doing." Izzie sad coming over to sit on the chair.
"Yea that's fine, we're doing alright but I am now on bed rest until the baby comes so my days will be filled with doing nothing except apparently re-trying to learn to knit thanks to Izzie." Meredith said with a glare.
"Seriously Derek you told her."
"I had too, otherwise it woulld have been a battle of tears and words when she realized she couldn't do it. I would at least get medical attention if she hurt me while we were here." Derek replied while everyone else in the room burst into laughter including Meredith."So we also have to talk to all you guys, since Meredith now has to stay at home while most of us are at work, we were wondering if you ever wasn't working could go sit with her for a little while, so she doesn't have to watch soaps all day." Derek said mocking Meredith from their earlier conversation.
"Yea that would definitly be something we would all love to do." They all responded.
"Good now all we have to do is keep her happy through the last month, and we know that's going to be a challenge." Derek laughed before dodging a pillow from Meredith.
"Only a challenge for you, you thought it was rough up till now, your life is about to become hell mister." She replied with a smirk while Derek groaned. He knew she wasn't joking.
