Chapter Twenty-Eight: No Talking

Meredith stood in the intern locker room breathing deeply as she got ready for her shift with the rest of her friends.

"You okay Mer?" Alex asked genuinely concerned for her.

"Oh like you care" Izzie snapped at him, she still hadn't spoken to him and it had been almost a week.

"Someone in here is drinking coffee" Meredith said softly.

"WHOEVER IS DRINKING THE DAMN COFFEE IN HERE GET OUT" Cristina shouted to everyone noticing a shy young girl with light brown hair hurry out of the locker room with her starbucks in hand.

"Thanks Cris" Meredith said with a smile.

"Anytime, so have you talked to Satan yet?" Cristina replied.

"Nope" Meredith said. "I don't know what to say, thanks for sleeping with my husband our marriage is better than ever doesn't really sound right" Meredith said sarcastically.

"Seriously Mer leave the sarcasm to me" Cristina joked.

"Whatever" Meredith snapped at her.

"Ah cranky pregnant Meredith has emerged" Cristina retorted at her friend. She found the pregnancy mood swings rather amusing.

"Enough with the socialising this is not the place for it" came Bailey's dominant voice. "Assignments: Karev Sloan, Yang Hahn, O'Malley Shepherd, Stevens Torres and Grey Dr Montgomery has requested you."

"NO seriously" Meredith argued.

"Is there a reason to why you are back chatting me Grey?" Bailey asked her. "Last time I checked I was the resident and you did what I said" she ranted at her.

"Sorry Dr Bailey" Meredith mumbled hurrying off to find Addison, she was watching where she was going when she ran into smack into Mark. He quickly placed his hands on her shoulders to stop her from falling.

"Hey you, where are you off to in a hurry?" he asked noticing the annoyed look on her face.

"Addison requested me as her intern and then I stupidly tried to get out of it" Meredith told her husband.

"So Bailey has you doing rectals now?" he asked with a smile on his face.

"I wish" Meredith exclaimed. "I still have to find Addison, she is only doing this to torture me" Meredith rambled.

"Well just be professional Meri, page me for lunch?" he asked.

"Of course, see ya" she said kissing his cheek before taking off in search of Addison.

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"Izzie!" Alex called out to Izzie trying to get her to stop so he could talk to her.

"What?!" Izzie snapped turning around to face him. "What do you want Alex? I'm sure whatever it is your little nurse would be more than happy to help you out with it" she said bitterly.

"I don't want a damn nurse Izzie, I want you and I need you to believe me that I didn't kiss her, she kissed me, God Izzie when are you going to realise I am in love with you" he exclaimed at her.

"What did you say?" Izzie stammered at him not breaking their eye contact.

"I said Isobel Stevens that I am in love with you" he said stepping closer to her.

"I love you too" she said flinging her arms around him and kissing him not caring that they were standing in the middle of the corridor, Izzie secretly hoped that nurse Olivia was watching.

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"You requested me" Meredith said coming up behind Addison.

"Yeah I did, can we talk first?" Addison asked looking at Meredith pleadingly. Her eyes looked her up and down and settled on the tiny bump that was beginning to appear on her stomach. Although she was only 12 weeks along the pregnancy was showing slightly due to the fact she was pregnant with twins.

"Is it about the case?" Meredith asked slightly harsher than she had intended.

"Ah well not really" Addison admitted. "But Mer please I need to explain" Addison pleaded.

"It's Dr Grey and I think we should just get on with the case" Meredith told her as she glared at her.

"Okay, Mrs Hanson pregnant with triplets is 7 months along but is having contractions we've tried to stop them with no avail, all three babies have been monitored closely but there is a chance of complications, we are on stand by for a C-section" Addison said.

"Okay" Meredith replied. "Is there an OR on stand by?" she asked.

"Not yet, can you organise that and take some bloods?" Addison asked.

"Sure" Meredith replied not making eye contact and hurrying off to carry out the tasks she had been given.

Meredith returned almost half an hour with the results of the blood test to find Addison sitting in the temporary office drinking out of a mug. Meredith smelt the coffee instantly.

"Here you go, Mrs Hanson's blood results" Meredith said handing her the papers whilst trying to fight back the nauseous feeling she had.

"Are you okay?" Addison asked noticing her squirming to fight it back.

"Coffee makes me feel sick, all day sickness" Meredith explained.

"Oh sorry" Addison said quickly gulping down the rest of the brown liquid. "You're showing, how far along are you?" Addison asked.

"Ah 12 weeks" Meredith said looking at her shoes not Addison.

"Wow and showing, must be a big baby" Addison replied. "So you and Mark got back together straight away, you can forgive him but not me" Addison said trying to remain calm.

"I'm having twins, that's why I'm showing and can we not talk about this, I don't want to talk about it" Meredith snapped at her.

"We are going to have to sort this out sooner or later Meredith, you can't avoid me forever" Addison replied.

"Well I choose later" Meredith declared. "I'm taking my break page me if you need me" Meredith told her as she walked out of the office. As she walked along the corridor she paged Mark to meet her in the cafeteria as soon as possible.