Thank you for all the reviews :) I haven't forgotten about the fic, I've just been super busy. So I got super excited when I went to the Bangles concert here in NY because I met one of my readers…now you're probably wondering how they knew who I was; in line I happened to look at the phone of the person in front of me& it was the very first chapter of this fic. I got so excited and asked if they liked it and introduced myself as the writer. I was given some suggestions on what to do in the story, and what I loved was that it was things that I had planned to add into the story at some point.

Also, reviews seem to not be posting on the site, but I am getting them in emails, so fear not, I have seen them :)

I can't remember which review it was, but there was a suggestion on what to do in the story, you've read my mind, I have figured out how to add it into the story (sorry i cant remember who said it, or the exact review)

2011

"Mer! Meredith," Lexie called from down the hall. Both Grey sisters were on call that night and with the massive amount of injuries that had been admitted throughout the night, they had hardly seen each other, aside from Lexie scrubbing in on Meredith's aneurism repair. But that hadn't been the right time to approach the subject Lexie wanted to discuss.

Meredith, who was standing at the nurses station filling in a patient's chart, looked up at her sister who was quickly making her way towards Meredith. "What's up, Lex?"

"Well I know that Maggie's birthday is coming up and I wanted to send her something, but I wasn't sure what. The last time I talked to her she was really into that one band…"

Quickly stopping her sister's impending ramble, Meredith stopped her. "I'm sure money is just fine. She's going to be seventeen, she's probably more than okay with just money. She could spend it on whatever she wants."

"Well…what are you and Derek doing?"

"I'm doing my regular birthday call, sending her a few gifts, and Derek and I were thinking of taking her somewhere on vacation. But I have to check with Cindy and Sam."

Meredith couldn't believe that almost seventeen years ago she was having her first child. A very unexpected child. It didn't seem like it was that long ago, but Maggie was the proof of it. Meredith was still pleased with her decision to give Maggie to the Pierces, and was grateful that they had allowed Meredith to get so close with their daughter.

She never expected Sam and Cindy would allow her to interact with Maggie as much as they did, but nevertheless, they had. Meredith still has the tape that Sam had recorded on Maggie's first day of kindergarten. Meredith had stayed in close contact with the Pierces, however was shocked by the invitation she received. They had asked Meredith to come stay with them for the night so she could be there for Maggie's first day of school. It touched Meredith's heart that they wanted her that involved, and had graciously accepted. Sam had recorded them that morning as Maggie was showing off in front of all her parents.

There is a young Maggie on the screen with a wide smile at the camera as she looks back and forth between Meredith and Cindy. They were all having small talk, asking Maggie about how excited she was about going to school. The part that meant the most to her was when Maggie introduced Meredith on the camera.

1999

Looking at the camera, Maggie smiled. "I'm Margaret Pierce and I'm starting school today. Daddy says I'm lucky because I have three very important people being there for me. There's my mommy and daddy, but also my Meredith. She's very important to me because she gave me my family."

"And why are you so special to Meredith?"

"Because I made her grow up. I'm also the only one who knows what her heart feels like inside."

Meredith smiled overtime she thought about that specific tape.

"Where were you just now?" Lexie asked having seen her sister space out.

"Just thinking of Maggie's first day of school when I flew out there to see her go off. She said that I was very important to her. That she made me grow up. And she did. From the minute I found out about her my life changed. I just can't believe that she'll be graduating soon."

"You're going to be there?"

Meredith nodded at her half-sister. "Derek and I are both going to go. We've been with each other for every other graduation, so why not. I was pregnant with her when I graduated high school, they all went to my college and med school graduation. Derek and I are returning the favor…" Meredith was cut off by her pager. "I have to go. I'll see you later, Lex. And if you see Derek, tell him I have to talk to him."

The rain she expected, the humidity in the air, not so much. But she wasn't going to complain. She could only hope for a warm welcome from the family she had always known. She could only hope that Seattle was better for her than Boston. Just shy of seventeen and already her world was falling apart. Maggie needed Seattle to be better.

She had always planned to come out to Seattle when she went off to college so she could be near her birth mother and any other family she had gotten along the way. It was sooner than expected, but Maggie was here to stay. Hopefully. She didn't think Meredith would have a problem welcoming her into her life more than she already has.

Maggie liked the family she knew Meredith had. There was her kind-of stepfather Derek, he seemed like a decent man, he was the only guy Meredith had been with other than her birth father who still remains unknown; and then there's Lexie, the aunt she's always wanted. There was only a twelve year age difference between the two, so they had more in common than most would expect. And Meredith, they were close; everyone always told her that the more she grew the farther apart the two would become, but Maggie never believed it. And she desperately needed her Seattle family at this very moment.

Once in the air, Maggie thought they she probably should have called before she got on a plane to Seattle, but at the time of her decision to leave, the idea didn't cross her mind. And the very second she grabbed her bags from baggage claim, nervousness set in. Nervousness mixed with pain. Now Maggie could only hope that she would be accepted by her second family.

The cab she had caught at the airport had dropped her off at Seattle Grace Mercy West and Maggie's heart began to race. Now or never Maggie thought.

Walking up to the first nurses' station she could find with her bags in hand, Maggie quickly caught the attention of the two nurses sitting there.

"Hi…I'm looking for Meredith Grey. I'm a…friend."

Maggie watched as the nurse—Debbie, she gathered from reading her I.D, sent a page for Meredith. She patiently waited for Meredith to arrive at the nurses' station while she sat in a nearby chair. When she saw Meredith making her way towards the station, Maggie got up and began to walk towards her birth mother.

"I was paged?" Meredith said as she reached the desk. Debbie pointed towards Maggie, so Meredith turned. "Maggie!" Meredith said with a smile, "what are you doing here?" Though her smile changed to a look of concern when she saw tears in her daughter's eyes as the teen threw herself into her birth mother's arms, burying her face into Meredith's neck.

AN: Super sorry about the wait. Super sorry for the long note up at the top. Again, thanks for all the reviews, and I am receiving them via email if they're not showing up in the reviews section.