Chapter Fourteen (Mother Grey)
When Meredith and Derek reached the hospital they quickly placed her in a room and started to schedule examines to determine what caused Ellis' downfall.
"Dr. Grey, What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be off tonight? Webber asked when he noticed her writing on the dry erase board.
"Yes, but I was visiting my mother and she collapses when I was there. She's in a room right now but I'm scheduling tests to see why she past out." Meredith never took her eyes away from the board that she was writing on to see Dr. Webber. Unnoticed to Meredith, Webber looked a little worried about Ellis Grey being here in more ways then one.
"Well I'm sorry to hear about your mother. Keep me updated on her condition." With that he was gone just as fast as he appeared. When Meredith finished the scheduling, she went back into her mother's room to find Derek examining her.
"Her pulse is racing, her blood pressure is high, but her vitals are normal." Derek explained as he came up to his pregnant girlfriend and started to rub her back.
"When we get the test results back we'll know more." He kissed her brow gently then took a seat in the hospital chair in the corner of the room.
"You don't have to stay Derek"
"Are you tiring to tell me that you want me to leave? Because if it is, it's not going to work. I'm not leaving my beautiful girlfriend until she leaves out those hospital doors to go home." He then patted his lap and Meredith went over willingly and sat down on him.
Hours after Ellis was first escorted to the hospital Meredith had fell asleep on Derek's lap. Derek stayed awake in case any changes accrued to Ellis' condition. Derek held onto Meredith in his arms tightly thinking that she could lean on him for support.
The lab technician walked into the room and handed the results to Derek.
"Here are the results for Ellis Grey" he said.
"Thank you."
The technician nodded then he walked out of the room leaving the two alone. Derek read the report and sighed. Gently he shook Meredith awake.
"The results are in Meredith"
Meredith looked at Derek in question, but she could tell by his face that the news was not good news.
"What does it say?"
Derek couldn't tell her so he handed the paper to her. She read the report then looked back at him.
"I'm sorry Meredith"
Meredith let the tears stream down her face. Derek hugged her tightly to him.
"Why is this happening? Is it enough that she has a disease that's slowly killing her, but now she has to die quicker from liver cancer?"
Derek didn't know what to say so she just held her. Ellis Grey then woke up. The first thing she saw was her daughter sitting on Derek's lap.
"Meredith?" she called to her daughter quietly.
Both Derek and Meredith looked up at her mother in the bed.
"Meredith, why are you crying?" Meredith wiped her eyes and stood. She slowly walked closer to her mother's side. Seating on the side of the bed, she took her mother's hand in hers and started to explain what the results said.
"You collapsed at the home. We brought you here to run some tests."
"What did they say?"
Meredith looked down for a moment then looked back at the older version of her.
"You have liver cancer."
Ellis looked at her in disbelieve. With Ellis staying quiet just looking at her daughter like she grown two heads, Meredith was scared and started to cry again. Ellis leaned forward and hugged Meredith to herself.
"My little Meredith, it's okay. Everything happens for a reason. I guess my time on Earth is coming to an end." Meredith cried even harder at her words of dieing.
"But I'm not complaining because Meredith the best thing that happened to me in this life was having you as my daughter."
An hour later Derek led Meredith out of Ellis' room so she could go home and rest.
"Let's go home Meredith." Meredith nodded her head at him. They headed for the exit but were stopped by Dr. Webber's voice.
"Dr. Shepard"
Derek turned and faced his boss.
"Yes, Chief"
"We have an emergency surgery to be done. I need you to stay " Derek nodded at Webber.
"I'm on my way" Webber nodded then left.
Derek glanced at Meredith.
"I'll stay too." Meredith said heading towards the locker room.
"No Meredith, you need to go home and rest. Remember your carrying another life in you."
Meredith smiled at him but took the keys from Derek to her car.
"I'll go but when I'm rested I'm coming back."
"Deal" Derek then kissed Meredith on her lips. With one last look at her, he walked the way Webber went.
Meredith was driving home when she thought about her mother and how she could not even live to see her grandchild. Thinking about this she never saw the black SUV speeding through the red light right towards her. Shrieking tires and broken glass was heard from blocks away as the two vehicles crashed into each other. The sound of the crash was the last thing Meredith heard and felt before her world fated to darkness.
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