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Her hands were shaking as she stared at her mother's resting body that lay on the uncomfortable bed within the ambulance. The movement swayed Meredith's body from side to side sending her comfort. As she sat there staring at her lucid mother, memories of her childhood flooded through her mind.

"Mummy." A small blonde haired girl ran through the hospital corridor as she saw her mother standing at the nurse's station with a tall dark haired man.

"Meredith." The stern voice shook Meredith's spine as she ran up to her mother's legs and held on to them tightly not wanting to let go. "Not now, where's your father?"

"He's right behind me. He said he was just going to get a cup of tea." Ellis knelt down to her daughter's height, stroking her hand over Meredith's long blonde hair. This was the closest Ellis had made any contact with Meredith over the past three months. "What is it Mummy?" Meredith asked as she looked up into her mother's eyes that had obviously had tears spilling from them moments before.

"I'm going to be coming home tonight and when I do, we're going to pack our bags and go on a little vacation for a while. How does that sound?" Ellis watched as her daughter's emerald eyes lit up excited to be going away with her mother after feeling abandoned by her for such a long time. "Just you and I, taking a car ride to Boston."

"Really Mummy, tonight?

"Yes, tonight." Ellis placed a little smile on her face. Part of her was wondering if she was making the right decision. She didn't care how this affected Thatcher, he never approved of Ellis' career and she wasn't about to let him ruin her life. Along with Richard, who moments before Meredith arrived, told Ellis how he was staying with his wife and didn't want to run away with Ellis. She was done hurting. She needed to move on and take Meredith with her. Meredith was all she had left.

Before she knew it the ambulance stopped. The paramedics rushed to the back doors to let her enter the nightmare that had already begun. Her eyes shot to Burke who held his arm out to help Meredith step down from the ambulance. She was then followed by her sleeping mother.

"Where's Derek?" Preston asked as they walked through the ER by Ellis' side.

"I sent him back to his trailer, his going to stop by my house on the way back and collect some of my things, he'll be here soon." Meredith replied as she suddenly came to a halt when she stepped in front of Richard, who stared down at the woman he was once in love with.

Derek had just jumped out of the shower, his towel hardly wrapped around him. Someone startled him as began walking to his bed.

"Woah," Derek screamed deeply at the sight of the familiar figure that had invaded his bed.

"Well hey there stranger." The tall brown haired lady stepped off Derek's bed and walked up to him holding out her arms.

"Nancy, you don't call first?" Derek accepted Nancy into his arms and held her closely to him. He wished it was Meredith that he was holding at that moment. However, as she held onto her brother, Derek realized that he was in need of some comfort too.

"So, what are you up to?" Nancy asked her brother as she pulled away from his warm, soaked body with a grin placed across her face. The emotions Derek acknowledged her with were the complete opposite, but this was Nancy, his sister who was so caught up in her own life to even notice something else was going on in Derek's.

"I was just getting changed to go to work and then pop round to Meredith's to get her some clothes on the way." Derek replied. As he said her name he couldn't empty his thoughts about her. He was worried and with Nancy showing up, that was the last thing he needed.

"So how is the slutty intern you cheated on Addison with?" Nancy folded her arms across her chest.

"First of all she's not slutty and secondly Addison cheated on me." Derek began; he knew that Nancy only came to visit him for the gossip. "And for the record, Meredith's fine."

Nancy felt her brother already getting annoyed. Derek was almost ready for work and picked up is car keys from the kitchen counter. "So you're going to leave me in your trailer bored to death all day?"

"Fine, but you're staying in the car when we go to Meredith's house." Derek huffed as he stepped out the door with his briefcase unlocking the car for Nancy to get in while he locked his trailer.

The car journey to Meredith's was awkward and silent. Nancy desperately wanted to find out about the slutty intern, whereas Derek was more concerned with how Meredith was surviving with her mother at the hospital.

"I'll be back in a minute," were the first words that Derek spoke out loud to his sister in twenty minutes. Nancy folded her arms across her in irritation. She desperately wanted to go into Meredith's house, maybe she would find out more about the slutty intern if she could just see what her house contained.

Derek was true to his word. He came back to the car just as quickly as he left it. He placed Meredith's bag in the back seat where Nancy followed it with her eyes like a puppy staring a chew toy that was clasped in its owner's hand. Her gaze was broken when Derek slammed the door shut and started the engine.

"Where's Meredith?" Derek asked the red haired woman as he entered the main entrance to the hospital.

"She's on the third floor," Addison replied, but her attention to Derek was short lived as she watched the woman who was once her bridesmaid walking towards her. "Nancy!"

"Addison? Is that you?" Both Addison and Nancy held out their arms and walked to each other as the landed in a friendly embrace. "You've changed so much; I haven't seen you in what, like a year?"

Addison smiled, she was so happy to see her ex-husband's sister. "You've changed too. How have you been?" Addison pulled herself away from Nancy as she looked into her once best friend's eyes.

"Good. I just came to see how my big brother was coping with that slutty intern of his."

"Don't you mean knocked up, slutty intern?" Addison giggled. She knew she was being spiteful, but when Nancy was around her mean streak struck out of her with not a care in the world.

"What?" Nancy's face turned pale, shock was running through her whole body. Did Addison really just say Meredith was pregnant? "W-w-what, she's pregnant?"

"Derek didn't tell you?" Addison knew she made a mistake, now all hell was sure to break loose in the hospital now and it was all down to her.

"So that's why he was acting weird in the car. Is she in labour? Because he went to go grab some clothes for her." Confusion, anger and sadness ran through Nancy's body. She couldn't believe that Derek kept such a huge secret from her and the rest of the family. Not one phone call had been made during the time Derek found Mark and Addison in bed together, until now.

"No, she's not in labour. She's just finished her first trimester. Her mother's here." Addison was beginning to breach the confidentiality agreement that doctors were supposed to obey by. Nancy wasn't part of Meredith's family; she knew she had no right talking about Meredith's personal life with someone Meredith had never even met. Addison placed her arm around Nancy's shoulder and guided her to the opposite side of the surgical wing, steering her away from the Meredith and Derek situation. "Let's go and see Mark shall we?"

Part Two will be updated in about eight hours as I have to go to work now. Hope you are enjoying the Nancy torturing!