Addie reaches Maternity and pages Bailey to a private room.
Bailey having been already on the floor waiting for Addie's page, was there in seconds.
Addie smiles as Bailey enters the room.
"So Shepherd found you two making out in the tunnels?" Bailey opens.
"What? No!" Addie answers and she can't help but blush.
"So Alex was right. You were lucky Shep came down. I think Alex would have wanted to watch." Bailey added.
Addie can't help but be embarrassed. "Where here about you and your baby, not me and my wife." Addie hurries.
Bailey laughs.
"Ok, OK. So we got caught be Derek and his smart arse comments about fantasies." Addie quipped. "But enough about me, let's talk about this baby you are carrying."
Bailey nodded, accepting the change of topic. "Ok, well if i am right i am about 3 months along. I know i should have seen someone earlier but i wanted you to do it. If Meredith wasn't walking around like a lost puppy i would have pressed her to get you here."
Addie nods in understanding.
"So, i usually collect the patients details and medical history before i do the scans, but because it is you, i'm going to start with the scans."
Bailey grumbled a "fine".
"Now i usually do the initial examination with the wand, but since you're 3 months along, i think it's safe to say that we can just do the normal abdominal ultrasound."
Bailey climbed up onto the examination tale. "Let's get this done."
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"You wanted to see me?" Meredith asks when she finds her father loitering at the 3rd floor nurses station.
"Come with me" he sighs.
Meredith rolls her eyes and follows him all the way to his office.
He opens the door and gestures for her to enter.
Meredith does so reluctantly.
"Talk to me Mer." He encourages.
Meredith sighs.
"Meredith, you can pretend all you want, but i know you, and i know that you are hurting."
Meredith moved to look out the window.
"Meredith" he said again.
"Dad" Meredith groans.
"I know it's not easy, especially for you."
Meredith sighs.
"Mer" he groans.
"It's just..." she trails off.
He places a hand on her shoulder. "She never accepted you're decisions and she didn't get to know you."
"She didn't try." Meredith grumbles.
"No she didn't, and there is no real reason for it." He tells her. "despite the love i have for your mother, she has her faults, and one of them was you."
Meredith looks at him in shock and steps back.
"Not like that." He hurries. "she was never there for you like she was with Derek. Her fault is not being there for you. For choosing everything else over you."
"I'm defective" Meredith sighs.
"No Mer, you are not." He tells her as he turns her around.
"Thatcher didn't want me and neither did she." Meredith tells him, and a tear escapes her.
"I wanted you, Derek wanted you, and Preston wanted you, and the most important is Addie, she loves you and wants you."
Merediths shoulders begin to shake.
"What's wrong with me dad? Why couldn't they love me?" she sobbed.
He moved quickly and pulled her into his arms.
"There's nothing wrong with you Mer. Nothing at all. They just didn't know what they had, and the sad thing is, they never will."
He continues to hold her, letting her cry on his shoulder. He fought his emotions internally. It was killing him to see Meredith so broken. At this moment, as he held his step-daughter. He couldn't help but hate his wife for the damage she had done.