Disclaimer: I only own Tony and Kate! If I owned Grey's well… Mer and Der would have a baby by now!

I believe this is the last chapter in which most cannot vote, which is perfect timing because… NEXT CHAPTER IS THE WEDDING! This chapter is basically Mer growing up and facing her demons. Basically fluffy in a way because she has the twins with her the whole time… you can probably guess what I am talking about before you read it.

"Come on Katie, Mommy's taking you out," Meredith cooed as Kate scowled.

"Ga soh," Kate whined.

"I know you're cranky but I am taking you and Tony to meet Grandma," Mer whispered. She sighed as Kate reached for her face, a quizzical expression on hers. "I know you already met daddy's mom, but your 6 months old and you have another grandmother. My mom." Kate giggled.

Mer bit her lip. Who knows what she would do when she met Ellis? Certainly not giggle. It was something she was regretting, but she knew was necessary. Soon, Meredith and Derek would be married. Soon, she would be going back to work. Soon, her babies would be all grown up. It was necessary.

"You're gonna be better than Katie right Tony?" Meredith turned to her baby boy. The past couple of days he had been down with a fever. For what he had been with his first tooth, his first fever had been pretty mellow. The poor baby had no idea what to do except sleep and bury his face into his mother or father's shirt. That was why Mer was so confident that this meeting may go well.

She picked Tony up in one arm, Kate in the other, her purse and diaper bag draped over her shoulder before going to the car.

"What am I getting myself into Katie," she asked the baby when she squirmed and let out a quick cry. "Shhh, it's okay. You like car rides." With a brief kiss on her daughter's forehead, Meredith closed the car door and got into the front seat.

Tightly, she took the steering wheel in her hands and drove off to the ferry. The car ride usually put her babies to sleep so Meredith took the time to think.

Her wedding was less than a month away and she had yet to visit her mother since the twins were born. She hadn't visited her since she was 6 months pregnant. Her mother, thinking she was 16, called her a whore and told her to get out of her face. Now that her children were 6 months old, Meredith thought it was time to try again. Although they wouldn't remember her, Meredith remembered that her mother probably did not have much time left and she would like her children to at least meet her once.

Her mother, if she was lucid, would have several choice words for the fact she was not married and had children. Actually, if her mother was lucid, she'd probably disinherit her just for having children. Ellis didn't want her have her, why would she want to be a grandmother?

When Meredith had suggested it to Derek, he had been ecstatic. Anything Meredith did to face her past made him almost giddy. It was cute that her cared for her so much. It was something Meredith never had and gave her confidence that she would be able to be a great mother. That and the fact that the past couple of months that she met the Shepherd family, she talked to them all regularly and they promised her that she was now a Shepherd for all intents and purposes. They just had to wait for July 12th to make it official.

In the months she had not talked to her Alzheimer ridden mother, she had gone from a pregnant woman not sure what to do with her life to a mother with the love of her life by her side. Meredith didn't understand it, but she loved it.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a car horn honking. She had been on the ferry and in the underneath garage and it was time to get off.

Pulling into the nursing home, Mer took one final deep breath before going into trunk, grabbing the stroller, and placed Tony and Kate in it gently. Luckily, they were both fast asleep and not cranky.

"Meredith," one of the nurses said, shocked, as she walked into the home. "We haven't seen you in…"

"My twins, they were premature, several months, the recovery time alone and taking care of them, I have hardly been out of the house," she excused.

"I forgot you were pregnant," she said gleefully. "Oh my god, they are adorable! What are their names?"

"Anthony and Caitlin, Tony and Kate," Mer answered.

"You're mother is in the day room, she has been declining recently, I will warn you," the nurse warned.

"I am getting married soon, I want her to know that and to know her grandchildren, even if she won't remember," Meredith told her. "I'd like to think she'd remember one day, maybe in heaven or something."

"Optimism, I never struck you to be an optimistic person in that sense," the nurse said.

"Motherhood does that I guess," Mer shrugged and pushed her way through the door, spotting Ellis immediately. The nurse was right. Her health had declined since she last saw her. She seemed older, sicker, and more distant; before she even talked to her. Maybe this was a bad idea? With a sigh she sat down.

"Hi Mom," Mer said with a smile.

"Meredith, finally decided to come home huh?" Ellis turned towards her. "That boyfriend of your dump you or something?"

"Mom, I'm not in high school anymore," Mer said sadly. She was talking about when she was 14, and Meredith had lived with her 17 year old boyfriend for all of a week until his parents kicked her out. "I'm an intern now, at Seattle Grace."

"We don't live in Seattle anymore Meredith, stop bugging me to go back there," Ellis hissed.

"Mom, we are in Seattle though… I am out of high school, we moved back when you got sick…" Mer said and closed her eyes. "I'm engaged mom, and I have two children now. 6 months old they are. Anthony and Caitlin. Your grandchildren."

"My child is going to Europe instead of med school, that's the only child I have," Ellis said suddenly. Mer flinched. That was a major time jump, from 14 to 22 in almost a second. Gently, Meredith picked up Tony and watched as Ellis' eyes suddenly clear as well.

"Meredith," Ellis whispered. "Who is this?"

"This is my son mom," Mer told her. "Anthony… Tony, my fiancé and I have been calling him. I have a daughter as well, his twin… Caitlin or Kate. "

"Fiancé?" Ellis questioned. "A son, a daughter. My Meredith, you have grown up." Ellis reached out to touch her face gently.

"Yes I have Mom," Mer whispered. "Would you like to hold him?"

"Anthony," Ellis said, amazed, as Meredith handed him to her. "My is he big, strong… he will be a strong boy one day. He looks like you. Kate, I assume looks like your fiancé."

"She does, his name is Derek," Meredith said.

"Is he good to you, my daughter deserves the best," Ellis said. "Does he understand?"

"He's amazing mom, the love of my life, he has a career and I am well on my way," Meredith told her, taking Tony from her.

"It's not the life I would have picked out for you… but yet, I am so…" she trailed off.

"So what Mom?" Mer asked a big smile on her face.

"So that boy got you pregnant?" Ellis hissed all of a sudden, Tony let out a wail at the sudden loud noise. Mer closed her eyes, the moment was gone. That one amazing moment she was even sure really happened was gone.

"Bye Mom," she whispered, bent down, kissed her cheek, and bounced Tony on her hip till he calmed down. With Tony quieted and Kate still sleeping, Meredith found herself back in her car and driving. She drove back to the ferry, but turned around. She drove to the hospital, but didn't get out of the car, she drove to the park, but figured neither of the babies would be up to it, and then she found herself outside a house, a house she only ever saw once. The last time she was here, she told the man who lived inside he'd never meet Tony and Kate, but why was she here?

Maybe it was because her meeting with her mother had gone so well? Maybe because the nurse was right and she was now an optimistic person? Maybe, she wanted to get everything out in the open, and stop hiding from her past? Whatever the reason, Meredith somehow ended up on the front step of her father's house, Kate and Tony in her arms, knocking on the door.

"Hello," a woman greeted. "I… uh… are you Meredith?" Meredith looked over the woman. It was the woman she had seen greet Thatcher when she left the house the last time.

"Yes," Mer nodded.

"I'm Susan… Thatcher's…"

"Wife… I know," Mer nodded. "May I come in I…"

"Of course… of course," Susan said. "Thatcher told me you came to visit… months ago. He said you were pregnant."

"Not anymore," Meredith offered. "Do you mind," she nodded to Tony, who was now calm. Tony didn't mind people, Kate did.

"Not at all, what is his name?" Susan asked.

"Tony… Anthony Christopher… and this is Kate, Caitlin Elizabeth," Meredith said.

"Wonderful names," Susan praised. "May I ask… why are you here?"

"I was wondering if I could talk to my father," Mer questioned.

"He's out visiting our daughter, Molly, he will be back in less than an hour," Susan said.

"Okay," Meredith nodded.

"Do you want anything?"

"No."

"Do you want to talk about anything?"

"I don't even know you."

"Then let's change that." Meredith, yet again, didn't know why she let Susan talk and interact with her. But no matter what was going through Mer's mind at the moment, she wasn't sure why it was so easy for her to do so. By the end of the hour, the woman who she could call her evil-stepmother and a person Meredith once could not see liking, was a lot like her mother-in-law, someone she could see herself loving.

Without even seeing her father, she ended up handing her an invitation and a flight number to her wedding. It was as much as a surprise to herself as it was to Susan.

"Thatcher," Susan called as the front door opened. "Look who's here."

"Meredith," he gasped and Meredith nodded. "You had… you had your children."

"I did," Mer said, standing up with Kate still in her arms.

"How are you?"

"Enjoying motherhood I guess," she shrugged.

"Is there any reason you came over?" he questioned.

"Meredith came here to invite us to her wedding, in Hawaii," Susan intervened.

"You're getting married?"

"To the twins father yes… unconventional, basically restated what we already believe," Meredith said. "And… I have to go, it was nice meeting you Susan."

"You too Meredith, and I really hope we can come to the wedding," Susan said.

"Me too," Mer smiled. "Um… bye," she nodded to Thatcher. She grabbed Tony from Susan and walked towards the door.

"Wait Meredith," Thatcher said. "What are their names?"

"Tony and Kate," Mer told him.

"Congrats," he said. "On the babies and the engagement, I hope we really can go to your wedding."

"Thank you," Mer sighed and walked back out towards her car. She really wasn't sure what actually happened today, but, she faced her demons of the past, and maybe soon, she'd be on her way to being totally and completely happy.

So he made up with her mother (for all but a second if lucidness) and has invited Thatcher and Susan to the Hawaiian wedding… next chapter… the Hawaiian wedding! There are 35 chapters in this fic so FIVE LEFT! OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!

This chapter wasn't all that good, but I did finish at midnight during midterm week so I guess you can forgive me (:

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