Hey! So sorry it took me an entire week to update, but I hade a HUGE project to do. I actually wrote this yesterday, but I got the sudden urge to go watch RENT and then read 'Salem's Lot, so I didn't have time to post it.
This chapter is named after the song, Make Damn Sure, by Taking Back Sunday. Well actually, only two lines of the song. But oh well. You start shaking at the thought
That you are everything I want
'Cause you are everything I'm not.
And I positively promise to update by Tuesday of next week AT THE LATEST.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Oh and no reading ahead! Read the entire chapter, or I will hunt you down! I have my sources/evil psychic powers. Oh wait, did I say that out loud? I mean, I will be greatly disappointed.
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The three women began opening the boxes.
Cristina glanced down at her test results, not quite sure if this was the answer she had really wanted. "This isn't good." She gasped, thousands of thoughts running through her mind.
"Neither is this." Izzie muttered, wide-eyed, as she too stared at the pregnancy test she clutched in her shaking hands. What did this mean, exactly? She guesses she already knew the results Cristina had received, judging by her tone of voice. But then again, Cristina could be quite hard to read.
"Well, can't say mine are any better." Meredith stated, her face emotionless. What did this mean? She wasn't quite positive she knew what Izzie and Cristina were thinking. As a matter of fact, she wasn't even sure what she, Meredith Grey, was thinking at the time being. "So…um, what did you guys get?" Meredith questioned, her expression still just as blank.
"Three negatives." Cristina said, slapping the tests onto the table, as if they were playing cards and she did not yet know whether she had won or lost. Looking around, Cristina noticed the five confused faces staring back at her. "Well, it's not good. I haven't had a period in six weeks, I've been throwing up, and I'm not pregnant. The signs don't point to rainbows and sunshine." They all still looked at her the same way as before. "What?" She looked to Burke in desperation, who tried to hide his great disappointment. Cristina noticed, and quickly added "But I should get a blood test anyway, you know, just in case."
"What did you get?" Meredith asked Izzie, starting to appear slightly uncomfortable.
"Two negatives and one positive. I'm with you there, Cristina." Izzie's eyes welled up with tears. What if she was pregnant? What if she wasn't, then what was wrong with her? This entire day had become one giant blur. A giant possibly life-changing blur. "And you?" Izzie hastened, wanting to take the attention away from herself. She looked to her right, where Alex sat, wearing the same concerned look as before.
Meredith took one last look at the tests, to make sure she had read them right. She too, looked to Derek, hoping to find just what he was thinking. She accomplished no such thing. Here went nothing…or everything. "Three positives." Everyone at the table gasped. Meredith shut her eyes tightly, not wanting to face the thousands of words hid behind their eyes. She felt Derek's arms wrap around her, pulling her into him. She laid her head on his shoulder, and began silently sobbing.
"We should still get blood tests done, make doctor's appointments, just to be…sure." Cristina repeated, not quite knowing how to comfort her best friend, who was lost, and confused. Cristina wanted to say something supportive, but what was there to say? So she just watched, as Meredith sat, embraced by the man she loved, and had for so long.
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Cristina shifted nervously, as she sat in the uncomfortable waiting room chair. Izzie was currently in the exam room, for her appointment. All three of them had made consecutive appointments at the same clinic, so they would receive their results around the same time.
Meredith sat in Derek's lap, his arms still entwined around her waist. Every time he tried to move, she would stop him. Se felt safer with his arms around her. And he wasn't going anywhere. Burke sat next to Cristina, his hand firmly grasping hers. Alex was across the waiting room from them. The clinic had requested that he wait outside, they had some sort of policy. Patients had to go in by themselves. It was quite ridiculous, actually, but it was the rule.
"There's no way all three of us are pregnant, right?" Cristina asked, directed towards herself more than anyone else.
Alex decided this was a good opportunity to break the awkward silence that had taken over the small, cramped waiting room. "Well, this isn't the twilight zone. Do do do do, do do do do." Alex smiled when he saw the four others giggle slightly. He tilted his head back and stared up at the flickering fluorescent lights. What if Izzie was pregnant? What if Isobel Stevens, the woman he loved, was carrying his baby? He had to find some way to distract himself from all of the what ifs, and stop thinking about what he needs to do. He needed to think of Izzie right now, and what she needed. Alex jumped as the door swung open, and Izzie emerged, her hand rubbing the spot where the blood had been drawn.
An annoyed looking woman poked her head out, and half shouted "Cristina Yang!"
Cristina rose from her hard, blue chair and released her grip on Burke's hand as she entered the exam room.
Izzie took a place next to Alex, and they all continued to wait. Somewhere around twenty minutes later, Cristina re-entered the waiting room, and Meredith went in for her appointment.
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"Well, maybe we should just…go home." Burke suggested to Cristina, and the rest of them. They were back at Meredith's house now, where they had agreed to all wait for calls, bearing their results, together.
"No." Izzie demanded. "We all agreed to wait her together, until we all get our result calls." Burke backed off, and dropped his coat back onto the couch.
Cristina jumped as her cell phone began ringing. She hopped up of the sofa, jerked it out of her pocket, and flung it open so fast it was a wonder the top didn't snap right off. Hello?" she answered. "Alright. Yes, I understand. Thank you." Cristina snapped the phone shut, and put her hand on Burke's shoulder. "Nothing's wrong, but I'm not pregnant. Not right now." She said, looking him straight in the eye. Burke nodded, understanding the point Cristina was trying to get across to him.
A few minutes of silence. Meredith's house phone began ringing. Meredith and Izzie dashed for the phone, but Izzie reached it first. "Hello?" Izzie answered. "Alright. Thanks, thank you." Izzie said into the phone, sounding like Cristina had a few minutes before. Anxious faces awaited her in the living room. "Alex." She gasped. Alex immediately ran over to her, wrapping his arms around her and rubbing her back. "I…wow, I didn't think I would…be quite this…hech… upset." Izzie sobbed, occasionally hiccupping.
Alex leaned back and looked into her eyes, a continuing look of concern still readable on his face. "Are you…pregnant?" Alex questioned. While it upset him that she was like this, he couldn't' quite understand why she would be upset if she wasn't pregnant.
"No, I'm not." Izzie continued sobbing. Alex squeezed her tightly, as she cried on his shoulder. But then again, he could be wrong.
At last, the phone rang for a second time. Meredith, who was still standing by it, picked it up mid-ring. "Hello?" Meredith's eyes widened as the woman on the other end delivered the news. "Thank you, very much. Bye." Meredith slowly dropped the phone back onto the receiver. And before she could stop herself, a huge grin spread across her face. She had completely forgotten about all of the possible complications, and allowed herself to become completely elated. She walked, or rather, floated back into the living room. Izzie and Alex were still embracing, completely unaware to Meredith and her huge grin. As were Cristina and Burke, whose eyes were still locked, containing the same knowing look.
Meredith grabbed Derek up out of his chair, and squeezed him tightly. As they pulled apart, she looked directly into his eyes. "Derek, I love you." She said breathlessly. Meredith took another deep breath, and looked yet again at Alex, Izzie, Burke, and Cristina.
"I love you too." Derek replied, looking back into Meredith's eyes, having a feeling he knew where this was going.
"I'm pregnant."
Alex and Izzie were obviously oblivious to the news, as they began kissing passionately, and headed upstairs. Cristina and Burke however, rose from the couch and joined them in their smiling festival.
Derek continued looking deep into Meredith's eyes, also grinning. He pulled her closer to him, and gently stroked her stomach, thinking about nothing other than the tiny life they had created, growing slowly inside her each day.
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Well, that's all you get for now.
Wasn't easy to write a dramatic part while listening to "Well Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow to blow off Auntie Em."
So I hope you liked it! Oh and by the way, you may think you know how this is going to turn out, but you don't. In case you haven't noticed, I don't write like other people.
Rose.
