"Oh god, oh god, oh god," Meredith said as she paced back and forth in the bathroom waiting for the test to finish. "Please oh. Please," running her fingers through her hair Meredith turned to the toilet and lost her lunch. "This can't be happening. These things do not happen to…" Looking up Meredith looked over to where she had placed the test. While she lost her lunch she also managed to knock the test into the toilet. "DAMMIT!" she yelled kicking the toilet. She had to work in an hour and had no extra time to get another test. Pulling herself together she walked out with all the composure she could muster.
"Everything alright?" Mike asked from the couch.
"Yeah, I've got to get to work, are you going to be okay?"
"Me? I'll be fine. Don't worry. Have a good shift."
"Bye," Meredith waved and went over to the couch for one last kiss. 'Would it really be that bad if I was pregnant?' she asked herself as she drove to work. Mike was a great guy and she really liked him, so… her mind started racing. Trying to get off of the track she turned on the radio and zoned out. When she got to the hospital it was completely in the back of her mind. That is until she walked into the women's bathroom to see Addison putting her lipstick on.
"Good afternoon Dr. Grey," Addison said tucking the cylinder into her pocket. "So are you picking out names? Or are you going to wait for a paternity test?"
Meredith was silent but felt her stomach lurch again. 'How could I not be pregnant?' she thought as she tossed her cookies into the porcelain god.
Shockingly Meredith felt someone pull back her hair until she was finished and when she broke out in tears Addison was the one to hand her a tissue and ask, "Are you alright?"
"No!" Meredith yelled leaning up against the stall. "I screwed up the test! I knocked it into the toilet when I threw up. But it's pretty obvious that I am and I wanted to wait. I don't want Mike to feel pressured and I don't want to give up my life to have a kid no matter how great people say they are. I AM NOT OKAY!"
Addison continued to rub Meredith's back until she pulled herself together. "I think you need this much more than I do," Addison said pulling a home pregnancy test out of her purse. "I can wait to find out…you can't."
"Thanks," Meredith said brushing stray tears off of her face.
"I'm going to go. But if you are pregnant I know a lot of great OBGYN's, all totally unaware of who you are." With that last note Addison got up and left Meredith.
"Okay, okay, I can do this," Meredith said to herself as she pulled the contents out of the box with a shaky hand and began the test. Sitting on the toilet waiting for her watch timer to beep she began to feel worse by the second. The last thing she remembered was tumbling to the tile floor and feeling the cold surface.
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Izzy walked into the bathroom unaware that her friend and roommate was on the floor. Throwing cold water onto her face in an attempt to wake herself up after a long shift. While tossing her hands to get the water off her bracelet came loose and flew across the tile floor. As she went to retrieve it she noticed a limp hand sticking out of a stall. Investigating further she discovered it was Meredith, but because the stall was locked she had no way of reaching her. "MEREDITH!" she yelled frantically trying to wake her up. It was obvious Izzy could not do this on her own, she rushed into the hall to find help, smashing into Alex right outside the door. "Alex, Help!" she managed to get out before pulling him into the women's washroom.
It took a minute before Alex clued into what was going on, once he did he put his head in the game. "Go get a gurney!" he yelled as he muscled the stall door open. Once inside he spread Meredith out and checked her vitals. The smell of the vomit turned his attention to the toilet where he saw the home pregnancy test. He took a quick look at it before flushing it; he figured Meredith deserved some privacy. "Alright Grey wake up for me." Alex said probing her abdomen till he found the source.
"What's going on?" Bailey asked after following Izzy and the gurney into the bathroom.
"Her appendix," Alex explained lifting her put. "It's about to ready to blow into tomorrow."
"Okay," Bailey said taking charge. "Go tell the chief, we're going into OR#4, lets move!"
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Meredith awoke in with her stomach in screaming pain and feeling hot, like she had been at the beach for hours. "Mmmmm," she moaned opening her eyes, finding herself in a hospital bed with tubes and wires everywhere. As she became more aware of her surrounding's she noticed Alex beside her bed.
"Hey Grey. How are you feeling?"
"Horrible. What did you do to me?" She asked quietly.
"Well I cut you open and vacuumed up what was left of your appendix. You've got a pretty nasty post-op infection, Bailey wanted me to sit for a bit," Alex explained giving her a few sips of water. Alex paused for a moment building up for what he was going to say next. "I flushed your test, it was negative."
"Some doctor I'm going to be I don't even know the difference between appendicitis and being pregnant."
"You're a fine doctor," Alex said with a smile.
"Why are you being nice to me?"
"Because you're nice to everyone Grey, and unfortunately not nice thing happen to you." Alex sat down resting his head on his hand. "How did you learn to be so nice?"
"Practice," Meredith said as she felt her eyelids drop. "And lots of it."
"Go to sleep Grey," Alex said settling in. "Don't worry, I've got your back."
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Meredith awoke feeling a little more alert. Carefully she sat up in her bed and looked around the room. Alex was gone, replaced by Mike who was slummed awkwardly in the chair. "You make a good pair me and you," Mike said once he saw that she was awake. "It's amazing we haven't killed each over yet."
"Don't forget Lily, she's had her fair share of problems too."
"Ah yes," Mike said taking hold of Meredith's hand. "I was really scared when Izzy called."
"Now you know how I felt when I got the call saying that you'd been hit by a car," Meredith said with a smile. "Come here, I want a kiss."
Mike leaned in and kissed Meredith on the cheek before settling back into his chair. "Hey I don't want to ruin the thing we got going here Mer, but I found the test in the trash can. Why didn't you tell me?"
Meredith sighed and took hold of Mike's hand. "I wanted to be sure it wasn't something stupid like an inflamed appendix before I said anything."
"Would it have been so bad if you were?"
"It's complicated. You'd be staying home that's for sure."
"You're such a jock," Mike said playing with Meredith's hair. "So we're okay?"
"We're perfect," Meredith said kissing Mike again.
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Addison walked purposefully into her husband's office and sat down across from Derek announcing, "We need to talk."
"We do?" Derek asked wondering what was going on. "Alright. What do we need to talk about?"
"I'm pregnant."
Derek was silent.
"Derek say something," Addison pleaded.
Still there was silence.
"Derek?"
"I guess we are going to have to move," Derek said as a huge smile broke across his face. "Come here," he added opening his arms allowing Addison to participate in his affection. "I love you."
"I love you too," Addison replied snuggling into her husband's arms, thankful that everything was beginning to work out in their lives. "Where are we going to move?"
"Well we're going to need something bigger than the trailer. I guess it depends. We really never talked about having kids."
"I guess we were so busy it never came up."
"Well is little unexpected. Do you really want this?"
"Yes."
"Well then we'll make it work."
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Lily smiled seeing Addison walk in the front door of the gym. "Addison nice to see you."
"Lily," Addison said with a smile ear to ear. "I have news." Addison didn't know why she was telling Lily about her big 'news' but she was so excited she felt like screaming it in front of the whole yoga class. But Lily was beginning to become her friend and she trusted her.
"What?"
"I'm pregnant."
Lily smiled and hugged Addison. "Congratulations. It's Derek's right?"
Addison laughed, "Yes it's Derek's." She rolled her eyes but understood where Lily was coming from; there were so many triangles going on at the hospital that sometimes it was hard to keep up. "Although now that you mention it, it could be O'Malley's, maybe Burke's."
"Don't even start."
"I had to. It's time that we all start laughing about this. Don't you think?"
"Yes, high time." Lily smiled and leaded the way into the dojo. After teaching the class Lily finished off this five minutes of meditation and then said goodbye to everyone before they headed out the door. Addison stayed behind and was a little curious when someone who was not Bradley wrapped his hands around Lily's waist. Not only was he not Bradley he was also much older then Lily. Lily saw the look in her eyes and went into an introduction. "Addison this is Zack. Zack this is Addison. Zack works at Seattle General with my brother."
"Nice to meet you," Zack said extending his hand to Addison. "Lil I was thinking that we'd grab a bite to eat."
"Sounds great just let me change." Lily pecked Zack on the cheek and followed Addison to the change room.
"What happened to Bradley?" Addison asked once they were out of earshot.
"It just wasn't working. Now I have Zack."
"Does your brother know?"
Lily rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Your husband hit my brother with a car and less then 48 hours later Meredith landed herself on the operating table…he's got bigger fish to fry," Lily said pulling a pair of jeans out of her locker. "To tell you the truth Mike has never ignored me quite like he has been since he met Meredith. I kind of like it."
"You like being ignored?" Addison asked as she put her coat on.
"Before Meredith I didn't have a life and neither did my brother, now we both have one." Lily closed her locker and put her lock back on. "So have you started to pick out names?"
"I only found out today. The only decision that's been made is that we are going to have to get a house."
"You don't want to raise you little bundle of joy in the trailer?"
"Now who look who's not being funny?" Addison said as they headed back out into the gym.
"Ready?" Zack asked.
"You bet," Lily said grinning ear to ear. "I'll see you later Addison." Lily headed out with Zack 's arm around her. "How was your day?"
"Oh, you know; broken this, cut this, parents panicking because their kid ate play-doh," Zack laughed. "How was your day?"
"Mike's girlfriend's appendix burst."
"Is she okay?" Zack asked as he started the car.
"Yeah. I don't know the technical stuff but she'll be fine. Mike is going to stay with her tonight."
"Is that your way of saying that your house is empty?"
"I'm very subtle," Lily said smiling. The rest of the ride was silent as was the walk into the apartment. Lily closed and looked the door. "Zack you look uncomfortable."
"You are my buddy's little sister," Zack said looking at the floor.
Lily giggled and kissed Zack playfully kicking him onto the couch. "Don't be such a chicken."
"I'm not a chicken," Zack replied in between a kiss. "But Mike is a big guy and I've seen him box. He is a big scary guy and I never want to be on the receiving end of his anger."
"And you never will." Lily continued kissing him until he pulled away. "And it was going so well."
"Your eighteen."
"Zack," Lily rolled her eyes and pulled him off the couch down the hall to her room. "If you're not going take advantage of me then I'm going to take advantage you."
Zack smiled as Lily pushed him onto the bed. He had never seen Lily like this before and decided it was time to roll with the punches. "Alright I'm going to shut up." Zack continued kissing Lily as she unbuttoned his pants. He couldn't believe what was going on nor did he think he could stop it he wanted. Zack rolled over so that Lily was on the bottom. "You are a pistol," he said as he felt Lily slide her pants off from under him.
"Just try and stop…" Lily stopped and closed her eyes.
"What? Lily what's going on?" Zack looked down as the passion fizzled out of her face. Zack didn't get a response, Lily push her hands onto Zack's chest in an attempt to get him off. It wasn't until her breathing increased that Zack spoke again, "Lillian you're having a panic attack." Zack tried to get near Lily as she freaked out but as he got closer she shirked away. "Lily calm down," Zack said switching into doctor mode. He pulled his boxer shorts on carefully stroked Lily's hair slowly relaxing her down. "That's it deep breathes, good girl. Well I have to say Lil I didn't know I had such a presence over you."
"It's not you," Lily said bringing herself under control.
"What's wrong?"
"My heart is racing," Lily admitted allowing Zack in bed beside her. "Don't freak out. This is becoming pretty regular for me."
"I'm a doctor Lil. It's going to take a little more than that to scare me away." Zack paused and placed his head on Lily's chest. "Yup, it's drumming away in there. I guess this means I'm not getting lucky tonight."
"No," Lily groaned sitting up. She grabbed a pair of track pants off the floor and put them on. "Sorry I…" Lily got light headed and stumbled slightly.
"Whoa girlie, lets get you back into bed." Zack led Lily back into her bed laying her down beside her. "Let's just wait this out, okay. Why don't we watch some TV?" Lily smiled and nodded.
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Mike walked unlocked the door to the apartment. He was just stopping in the change his clothes but got more then he bargained for when he saw his sister sitting on the couch with Zack who was in nothing but his boxers. "What the…"
"Mike!" Zack carefully moved a sleeping Lily aside. "Listen man I didn't mean for you to find out like this."
"Find out what? Find out that you're banging my little sister!"
"Listen Mike we here making out and she had an episode and we just ended up watching TV all night." Zack pause as he watched the vein in his neck disappear.
"Is she okay?"
"Yes. Her pulse slowed down about an hour ago. She fell asleep shortly after, I've been checking her pulse every fifteen minutes. Listen Mike this is pretty new, we were going to tell you. You've got to believe me."
Mike laughed as he watched his friend freak out. He wasn't too surprised; he had seen Zack sneaking looks at Lily from time to time, also Vanna had tipped him off. "Zack it's alright. I've got to grab some things and I'm glad there is someone here to look out for her."
"You sure?"
"Ya." Mike nodded looking at his freaked out friend.
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Derek sat on the bed in the back of the trailer with a newspaper spread over the bed. "There is a nice place on Maple."
"You call that nice?" Addison said looking at the picture in the advertisement. "Oh right, I forgot that you bought this," Addison swung her arm around their current home.
"Well so far you've rejected every house in this paper," Derek said tossing it aside. "I have an idea."
"Oh…I'm a little afraid."
"Let's build."
"Build? Where?" Addison asked.
"Here."
"Here?"
"Well we own the land. It's beautiful. I can fish. We can keep the trailer for storage." Derek rationalized. "What do you think?"
"You're not allowed to do any of the construction yourself," Addison ordered. "I want professionals and it has to be built before the baby comes."
