Quick warning as this happened the last time I posted two chapters on one day: Two new chapters for you today! So if you haven't read the one before, go back and read it before this one.
Chapter 21 Heavy Hours
"So how did you like working with your replacement?" Mark Sloan asked Addison as he sat down next to her in the cafeteria.
"She's young. A little insecure, but capable. Going to be a good surgeon." Addison told him.
"I wasn't asking for your professional opinion, Addie." Mark told her.
"She's nice, alright."Addison said as he picked through her salad.
"She's a lot like you when you were an intern, the freak outs, the mommy issues, the daddy issues, she's a worrier, just like you, not as bitchy though." Mark laughed.
"I doubt it, Mark, but she seems right for him. I don't understand how you can survive in Seattle, Mark. All the rain" Addison answered looking at a small tomato she had put on her fork.
"… makes you want to stay in bed all day" he smirked.
"I see you haven't changed." Addison smiled.
"I'm glad to see you, Addie. Do you want to have dinner with me later? We can talk." Mark suggested.
"Sure, I stay here until your shift ends." Addison told him as her pager went off. "This is weird. I am being paged to the OR. I don't know why, but I better go"
"What is this?" Addison asked as she arrived at the OR Dr. Burke operated in.
"Cristina Yang, one of the interns, she fell unconscious and suffers massive bleeding. We have to get her into another OR" Izzie who had also assisted with the procedure told Dr. Montgomery.
"Why am I being paged? Oh no, she's pregnant. Isn't she?" Addison asked.
"I don't know, but it's possible. She's been nauseous a lot lately. I think she is." Izzie explained.
"Have you notified the father?" Addison wondered. Izzie looked at her and shook her head as she didn't know who he was.
"She's a very private person." The intern admitted.
As they rushed Cristina out of the OR on a gurney Bailey approached them saying "Cristina? Cristina?" while handing over a portable ultrasound device to Dr. Montgomery.
After examining her abdomen, Dr. Montgomery said "Oh man, do you see that? It's an extra uterine pregnancy in the tube here. She's bleeding out." As she pointed to the screen.
"She's going to be okay, right?" Izzie wondered.
"How attached was she to this pregnancy?" Addison asked concerned as they wheeled her into the OR. "She lost a lot of blood, but I've got it from here." Looking at Dr. Bailey who was standing at the end of the operation table petting Cristina's head Addison wondered "Dr. Bailey, you must have a surgery or two of your own today."
"I'm fine right here" Bailey told her.
Derek saw Meredith sitting on the floor with her back leaned against a wall in front of the OR. "I see you survived a day with Satan." He smirked.
"She wasn't too bad actually. She's nice." Meredith admitted.
"Meredith, you don't know Addison, she's tiring and sucks all the emotion right out of you." Derek laughed. "but yeah, I'd probably agree if I hadn't been married to her for 11 years."
"Derek, you know that your ex wife is not easy to hate. She's annoyingly kind and painfully smart and currently saving my friend's life." Meredith told him with a scared tone in her voice.
"Hold on, what's the matter with Yang?" he asked concerned.
"Addison is performing an exploratory lapatomy on her. Izzie paged me, but I'm not allowed to go in with them. Bailey told me she would take me down if I dared to try. We went jogging this morning. I made her go jogging. There's no way that could have?" Meredith told him.
He petted her hair and reassured her "My OB/Gyn rotation was long ago, but I'm pretty sure that you had nothing to do with it. I'd assume it was an ectopic pregnancy. Do you know who the father was?" They sat next to each other in silence for a moment. Meredith could not tell him.
"So how did your talk with Webber go?" Meredith wanted to know.
"He yelled at me, I yelled at him" Derek started to explain.
"and I am no longer to allowed to work with you?" Meredith laughed.
"Yeah. That would cover it." Derek concluded.
"Maybe I should talk to him. You know when my mother was sick, he listened. And he knows how professional Greys can be when working with their lovers." Meredith said teasingly.
"Meredith Grey, are you trying to tell me that you are going to play the mommy card?" Derek said flirtatiously.
"Maybe I am, Derek Christopher Shepherd." Meredith smiled
"You are evil." Derek said looking into her eyes.
"The Ruler of demons! And you know I'm still mad at you for trying?" Meredith told him.
"I do." He replied leaning over for a kiss.
"Dr. Shepherd, do you think this is a good idea? I think it's what got us into trouble in the first place" she asked him, not giving in.
"I like trouble. Trouble with you." He smirked.
"Derek, I don't think this is a good idea, I have to check up on Cris." She said and started to walk away.
"Meredith!" Derek said and she replied
"I'm going to meet you after work. We can talk and do things, but right now I have to check on Cristina. She's going to wake up soon and I want to be there."
Meredith and Bailey sat at Cristina's bed when she woke up after the procedure. She looked pale. "What happened?" Cristina said confused and unaware of what had happened.
"You had an extra uterine pregnancy. Your left fallopian tube burst." Bailey explained calmly. She sighed "Dr. Montgomery … she did everything she could but there was too much damage. She couldn't save the tube."
"Cristina. You're back" Meredith smiled.
As Bailey left the room, Cristina pulled Meredith over to her "Don't let them call my mother. Your mother rivals my mother and that's saying something. Both of them, dark and evil."
"I somehow doubt that." Meredith laughed as she remembered how her mother usually behaved around her.
"Anyway, don't let them call her." Cristina insisted "I'm serious. If she shows up here you are going to die a painful death. And don't let Burke come in here."
"I'm going to tell the nurses" Meredith promised. "I'll never have sex again. Stupid boys with their stupid boy penises." Cristina told her starring at the wall.
"I'm missing dirty stripper Cristina. She was fun and less angry." Meredith started joking.
"Don't bring that up again. But I miss philandering whore Meredith. She was trashy, and much less idyllic."
Cristina laughed. "Shut up, I'm in love, Cristina."
Meredith said as she looked at her friend "I'm going to let you rest and come back tomorrow morning before rounds."
Meredith walked into Richard when she left the hospital. "Meredith, I need to talk to you" Richard told her. They had not spoken to each other since he had kicked her out of the OR so she wasn't quite sure what their conversation would be about, but she nodded and turned around to follow him to his office.
"I promised your mother to take care of you before she died and I'm very determined to keep that promise. Even if you don't think it's true, the two of you have a lot in common. She was just as stubborn as you and your hands are as steady as hers." The Chief started to explain, but Meredith interrupted him "Richard, I don't need your protection. I'm very capable of protecting myself. If you do want to discuss me and Derek here, do it. I already told Bailey I'm willing to jump through any hoop that is thrown at me. We did something very, very stupid, but we are working it out. He gives me a feeling nobody has given me in a long time. I feel safe and I feel like he's there to catch me. I can assure you that our relationship won't get in the way of my training or my performance at the hospital and for now that's all you should care about."
"Alright Meredith, I'm going to respect your wishes. It was nice talking to you." The Chief said as Meredith left. "But you won't be working on Dr. Shepherd's service anymore."
Meredith was waiting for Derek at the entrance as she watched Addison approaching Dr. Sloan. "Sorry Mark, I had an emergency surgery" Addison apologized to Mark for being late.
"I'm a surgeon; I know the drill, Addie. But we have to hurry if we want to keep the reservation." We told her as they walked to the car. Sloan was behaving differently she thought.
"Sorry, Mer, I had an emergency surgery." Derek apologized as he approached her.
"I get the feeling I heard this line before" she told him "Seems to be a common excuse for being tardy around here".
"I hope you can forgive me" Derek laughed as they walked to his car hand in hand.