A/N: hi again! Hope you all had a great christmas... So here's chapter 11 hop you'll like it... and for the ones who wondered why Derek didn't introduced himself to Zadie and/or wgy she couldn't read his name on his coat, I have two simple answers. He forgeot to tell her and he didn't wore his coat... Hope you like it again, and review!

Chapter 11 – Imagine That

"Hi ladies…" Derek greeted a group of nurses by the nurses' station as he walked out of the exam room he had been paged to. A patient had started a seizure, but it stopped a few minutes after he had entered.

The nurses just nodded and smiled as he past them.

"Miss McCullen's chart thanks…" he said and the nurse behind the desk handed him the big file.

As his eyes went over the pages, he couldn't help but to listen to the said group of nurses talking. They were talking or more accurately; gossiping.

"Have you heard about dr Simpson? He's getting sacked." A nurse said and raised her eyebrows.

"Why?"

"Apparently he has been stealing stuff, heavier stuff if you know what I mean…"

"Oh…"

"Well, do you know who I saw dr Stevens talk to earlier?" a nurse with blonde shoulder length hair said and everybody shook their heads. "Alex Karev…"

"He's back?"

"Yeah, and he's not the only one who's back." the same nurse said again. "Guess who I saw enter the doors a little while ago…? Meredith Grey…"

"No, are you sure?"

"Yeah, it wasn't just her… The famous dr Mark Sloan was by her side…"

But when those words let the nurse's lips, Derek was already gone.

He ran.

Usually Derek didn't believe or care about what the nurses said, but this time he actually did.

He ran.

I'm running, Derek thought. I'm running after a woman I haven't seen in 15 years; more than a decade… But still, I'm running.

When Derek got out on the bridge he suddenly stopped, dead in his tracks. He froze. He wasn't prepared to what he 10 seconds earlier almost longed for to see. In front of him she stood. Looking like she always had, like he remembered. Not a single year seemed to have struck her face. The honey blonde hair was as glowing as ever, just maybe a few new lines had appeared in the corner of her eyes but it didn't seem to matter. She was still beautiful, beautiful as he remembered her.

As Derek remembered Meredith

"Hi Zadie…" someone said and she turned around to the face of dr Bailey.

"Hi…" she greeted back and rubbed her head.

"Still hurts?" Bailey said and grabbed her light pen form her coat pocket. "Didn't dr Shepherd come?"

"Dr Shepherd?" Zadie pulled away Bailey's hand. "That was dr Shepherd? As in Derek Shepherd?"

"To a few others known as McDreamy…" Bailey said and crossed her arms across her chest. "Care to tell me what's going on here..."

"Crap… No, eh not really…" Zadie

"Did that sound like a question to you?" Bailey's nostrils rose as she glared at Zadie.

Ehm, okay… I suppose not. There's no easy way of saying this…" Zadie said, but actually there was an easy way. She could just blurt out: I'm Meredith Grey's daughter. But that wouldn't work, would it? She couldn't do it, could she? "I'm Meredith's daughter…" she mentally smacked herself in her side.

Bailey looked dumbfounded at the teenaged girl in front of her. Teenaged, girl… "You can't be… I mean, you're too… What did you say?"

"Bet mom never made you this confused…" Zadie smiled slightly over having it done telling Bailey, but she looked the same at her. "Meredith Grey: seemingly one of the know it all and suck up –interns… my mom…"

Bailey scoffed. "You're Meredith's daughter…? Sure…"

"Not to be rude or anything but ehm, I think I know who my mom is."

"You can't be her daughter; Meredith Grey does not have a daughter. Besides, you're too old…" Bailey stated, literally looking up at Zadie.

"How would you know if she has a daughter or not? She moved to New York a bit over 15 years ago…" Bailey looked in surprise at her." I know stuff…"

"Are you sure we're talking about the same Meredith?"

"Yeah… or you know, I think so… I'm almost sure. I mean I'm sure… Of course! I know who my mom is." Zadie rambled. "Meredith Grey; neurosurgeon in New York, had the hots or should I say have the hots for some McDreamy doctor: my dad whom you said was dr Shepherd… There can't be that many Meredith Grey with that kind of agenda…"

"We are talk-" Bailey stopped and her facial expression changed over the blink of an eye. "Oh he didn't… Oh…Oh…Oh… That man is so dead… When I get my hands on him he's gonna wish he never sat his foot here…" she mumbled. "McDreamy my ass!"

"Zadie looked oddly at the short woman in front of her. "No dr Bailey. I'm not going to let my dad get beaten to death by a 2'1 tall woman in blue scr…ubs…" Bailey glared at her. "Okay, sorry… That was inappropriate, but still: no killing… Besides what does it matter if she got pregnant with him? I know she was an intern an all, but she made it through. No big deal, right?"

"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." Bailey said and looked oddly at Zadie. "Haven't Meredith told you? Your dad, if he now is in fact your dad and I don't doubt he is because you do look like him, was an attending…"

"She slept with her boss, so what? Not the first one to do that… What a slut…" Zadie nodded and smiled ironically

"For the first: did you just call your mother a sluth?"

Zadie rolled her eyes. "I didn't mean it like that, not like you think I meant anyways…"

"Whatever…" Bailey said as she gave her a glare. "Second: he was married…"

Zadie looked at her in great disbelieve. "Right… My mother: the dirty mistress... Sure…"

Bailey's eyes move, she just stared at her.

"Crap… Seriously?"

"Not entirely…" Bailey looked down, to think but quickly looked up again to Zadie's asking eyes. They were surely alike Derek's. "I'm sure I should tell you…"

"Oh come on!" Zadie begged. "She has told me nothing! In fifteen not a single, freaking word has she told me. Imagine that dr Bailey… Imagine that! I didn't know my dad's name or what he looked like until today, when I on my own flew across the country. I think it's the least deserve… It's not like she'll be able to pin you down when she gets here… She's still as thin as she was back then I can imagine…"

Bailey sighed and gave in. "He didn't tell her for two months that he was… married."

Zadie stared blankly at her. "What?" she said quietly. Had her father really done that? The father she had painted such a great picture of in her head wouldn't do something like that. All this time, Zadie had considered her mother to be the bad guy, not the never-met-father. It just didn't made sense. "He lied to her?"

"Your mom fell in love with him… I know they made plans. I over-heard them once. But then…" Bailey sighed again. "Then, it all went down hill… I really think you should talk to Meredith about all this. It's not my business really…"

"Okay, okay… I think I can accept that…" Zadie nodded. "So Meredith's not that black sheep here, is she?"

"No not really…" Bailey said and by that the mood turned on both of them. "How is she by the way?"

Zadie looked down. "Ehm, right now I'd say pissed… You know with me flying here and everything… But over all I think she's fine. A bit stressed out as all surgeons I guess…"

"Yeah… We all feel stressed out once in a while… So how had you planned on telling him?"

"I don't know, at first maybe you know storm in: 'Hi I'm your long lost daughter! Shall we hug?'…" bailey gave out a laugh. "I'm not so sure anymore… I think I'll let mom tell him actually… It's really not like me to let her do such a thing… I normally can't shut up and be quiet about stuff, but this time she'll de the one doing the talking I think…"

"Yeah maybe that's a good thought…" Bailey stated and nodded. "But I think I know a few ones you could talk to…" she rose and started to walk.

"Who-" Zadie stopped. "No, I can't tell them. Mom should tell them too…"

"Didn't you say you have a hard time shutting up normally? I think it's better that you tell them than Meredith because they're too angry t your mom…" Bailey explained and then told the nurse at the desk to page dr O'Malley, Dr Yang and dr Stevens. "Besides, I don't think they'd start screaming at you…"

"Yeah, maybe…" Zadie considered bailey's preposition to be rather okay. "… just one question: how mad?"

"You'll see…" Bailey smiled.

"You have a very nasty habit of leaving everyone in the unknowing… It's not fun…"

"Oh, I do?"

"Yes you do… Mom told me that…" Bailey gave her a glare. "…among many other things, but now I'm experiencing it too… It really sucks…" she sighed.

Bailey smiled. "You'll get used to it…"

A/N: hope yuo enjoyed it! i'll soon update with the enxt chapter