A/N: Hi guys! So this is the last chapter of this story! Thank you for all of your supports and love, I am really really happy to know that this story is being appreciated. I know that probably a lot of you think that this story feel unfinished and still have a lot of undeveloped things. Yes, I understand why you would feel that way, but I want to let you all know that I already have a sequel planning in my head. The reason that I didn't want to continue the sequel here is because I wanted to write the sequel in a slightly different style, so I thought separating the two will be better :P Enjoy the final drama (/disaster)!


Chapter 17

2017 West Wing Elevator, Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, Seattle

"What the hell?" Meredith hissed with all her strength.

This is exactly what Burke and Cristina wanted to scream. Apparently they are now trapped in an elevator. Which, is fine usually, but now with a very pregnant lady who is about to go into labor… It just makes the whole thing so much worse.

"Let me try contact the technicians." Burke leaned his body over the control panel, pressed the emergency button and shouted, "Anyone out there? We need help!"

"I am very sorry. But it looks like we've got some technical problems with the cable of your elevator, so it stopped working." A voice answered almost immediately. Cristina, who is annoyed by the guy's explanation, took over the control panel and shouted,

"Yeah I'm glad you know what's the problem is. But we have a laboring woman here in the elevator, could you find someone to help us?"

"Of course. Our team is on their way already."

"And how long would that take?"

"Eh… I'm afraid you have to wait for, like, thirty minutes to an hour."

"An hour? Then I guess you can probably see four people stuck when you arrive." Cristina said sarcastically and sat down beside the panel helplessly.

"Aw!" Meredith growled and breathe even more rapidly. Cristina and Burke hopped over to her immediately and hold her hand.

"Meredith, just take deep breaths. You can do it. Hold on!" Burke encouraged her as he squeezed her hand. Meredith clutches his hand with hers and said,

"Tell… Tell Cristina… what you said… to… to Zola… ugh! Two weeks… ago… at the daycare… ugh…"

Cristina, who can only barely comprehend what Meredith is saying, looked at Burke suspiciously after she heard her name. Her heart was already beating faster than it should be because of the situation she is in, but now it is beating even faster. Deep down she hopes that he will confess his love for her, but she is scared if she really heard him say those words: what should she say?

They have tried it before, there's no happily ever after in the actual world. They are not living in Disneyland, and not everyone is MerDer. So why take the risk again if they know it is only gonna hurt the both of them?

"I… um…" On the other hand, Burke can never imagine that Zola would have told Meredith what he said… Wait, no. Zola couldn't get what he was talking about at that time, so Zola wouldn't be the one telling Meredith… She must be there herself and overheard what he said. He would never have said those things if he knows that she is there.

Funny how the brain works. This is all he can think of right now. He didn't want to tell the truth, but he knows that Meredith is not gonna let him get away so easily. But then what? He is too arrogant to be rejected by the woman he loves. He looked at Cristina, who is also staring at him, and he blushed a bit.

He cleared his throat, and said, "Last time, I, um, Zola, she asked me why… we were divorced. I didn't want to lie to her, so I told her… that we are too alike, and therefore we couldn't be together."

Cristina frowned. True, people only sees how different they are on the outside and assume they: She is messy and rude, he is freakishly tidy and gentle. She never cooks, but he is a good chef. He celebrates almost every festival, while she never gives a damn for holidays.

They are so so different, yet they are very very alike. They are both a stubborn and arrogant workaholic. They both refuse to change for the other. That's why they are not destined to be together. She smiles faintly, he has always been the one who can pinpoint the problem from a mess.

"You know, that's a full load of crap." Meredith hissed in between her deep breaths. "It is insane to give up the love of your life because you two are such a coward, that you afraid you would end up divorce again. Do you think Derek and I know we are gonna have three children when we started dating? Of course not! Just like surgery, you can only try your best at it but there's no guarantee there is happily ever after. You just have to try. Plus you already divorced once so who cares!"

Meredith released their hands from her palm and leaned backwards against the wall of the elevator, "And now I'm done. Aw! Ugh my contractions are stronger now!"

"Um… What do you want us to do?" Burke and Cristina were still in shock after being screamed at by Meredith, but her screech brought them back to reality. Although this elevator is filled with three experienced surgeons, none of them can confidently say they know what to do.

"Ugh… Check my cervix, see how dilated I am." Meredith tried her best to remember what her OB did last time when she give birth to Bailey. Hearing her words, Cristina and Burke looked at each other immediately.

"No. I am not gonna do vagina exams for Meredith. It will destroy our friendship." Cristina shook her head firmly.

"Well I bet Grey doesn't want me to be the one checking her vagina." Burke smirked as he said, knowing by heart that Cristina will have to check Meredith's cervix.

"He's right. Cristina!" Meredith shouted at her person as she sweep off the sweat on her forehead with the back of her arm. Cristina sighed and accepted her fate. She crawled on the floor and used her fingers to check how dilated is Meredith.

"Mer… You are almost 8cm dilated. I think you may have to give birth in the elevator." Cristina announced. Meredith looked at the ceiling and growled, "Every. Damn. Time! For once can I give birth to a baby normally?"

"It's Seattle Grace Mercy Death." Cristina shrugged and received an angry glare from both Meredith and Burke.

"Okay… If we have to do it here… Then we need supplies. We need towels… or clothes, or any clean fabric." Burke took off his lab coat and proceeded to removed Meredith's. Cristina strip off her coat and her scrub top as well, leaving only an undershirt on.

"We also need disinfectant… Ah, got it. What else?" Cristina looked around in the elevator and found a bottle of alcohol hand rub hanging on the bars in the elevator. She silently thanks Bailey, who made it mandatory to have disinfectant hanging everywhere in the hospital.

"I feel like I have to push now. Do I need to push? Cristina?" Meredith squeezed these words out from between her teeth. Drops of sweat ran down her forehead as a result of the severe contraction pain.

"Hold on! Hold on let me see… Oh… Okay, you are crowning now. Push when I count to three okay?" Cristina quickly looked between Mer's legs and yelled. Burke puts his hands on top of Meredith's abdomen and is ready to help pushing the baby out.

"One, two, three…" Cristina counted and Meredith tried her best to push. Her body falls back as she gasped for air.

"Meredith? You need to push again now. We need to get this baby out fast."

"I can't do this… I need Derek! I can't do this without him! Derek!" Meredith cried and tried to stand up, luckily Burke stopped her immediately. Cristina leaned forward and said,

"Think of what you will be telling if you were me. You would say 'You can do it, you have to do it. If you quit this baby will die and everything we did before will be wasted. You can do it.'" She gently wiped away the sweat on Meredith's forehead and continued, "You. Can. Do. This. Alright?"

Meredith nodded and tried to push once again. This time half of the baby's head is out. With one more push, the beautiful baby girl landed in Cristina palms. Burke handed her one of the scrub tops to wipe the baby's face. She tickled baby Ellis's tiny foot, but nothing happened. The baby didn't cry.

"Why is she not crying?" Cristina whispered. Meredith is still exhausted from the childbirth and haven't noticed her baby daughter isn't crying. Of course Cristina wouldn't want to startle her for not reason.

"It's not uncommon for newborns with congenital heart defects to have breathing problems. Mm… We don't have intubation kit here, start CPR right away."

Cristina nodded and started to do compressions on the baby girl's chest with two fingers. She counted silently as she pressed the tiny little body firmly. Her eyes wandered off and landed on Meredith. She was being comforted by Burke, but she couldn't stop looking at her newborn daughter and sob.

'Please, please, get someone here and get us out of this stupid elevator. Please, give this baby girl a chance to see the world, meet her parents and siblings…' Cristina looked at the tiny body in her arms. The lovely pinkish colour is fading from her cheeks. As a cardio surgeon, Cristina knows that they need to get out of here immediately if they want the baby to survive. She felt so helpless, she is the godmother and the doctor of baby Ellis, yet all she can do is praying. Like god would listen to someone who has been trash-talking him for 37 years…

Just when Cristina started to allow her hopelessness swallow her, the lights in the elevator flickers and all of them lighted up seconds later.

"Grey? Yang? Are you there?" It was Bailey. She was slapping on the door and yelling. "Karev says you two should be on the way to OB, but they said you guys never showed up… Are you alright?"

"Oh we just wanted to find a nice quiet place for picnic. We have never felt so good before… Of course we're not!" Cristina yelled back sarcastically. Burke chuckled slightly and decided to bring everyone back to the right track.

"We don't have much time left, can you just break the doors and get us out? Ah, and bring an incubator, oxygen and Karev."

"Yeah… Of course. We are almost done with the doors…" Bailey replied. Moments later, the doors have been pulled apart, and a group of surgeons are already gathering around. When everyone is still trying to figure out what to do, Alex barged into the elevator with the incubator and scooped baby Ellis away from Cristina's arms.

"She is cyanosed! We have to take her up to NICU right away. Take care of Mer." He dropped these words and quickly entered another elevator. The others helped Meredith to get on a gurney and Derek hugged his wife tightly, owed that his wife got away with another crisis safely.

"Derek." Meredith murmured. Derek nodded at her for her to continue, "I am never, ever going to have another baby. Do you hear me?"

Derek laughed and pushed her gurney to the OB floor for post-labour follow-ups. The other audiences started to return to their own position, while Cristina and Burke was still standing in front of the elevator.

"The elevators here must be cursed. I think I am gonna take the stairs." She walks toward the staircase but Burke stopped her midway.

"I… um, have a favourite restaurant in Seattle. Do you wanna go to dinner with me?"

Cristina's mind went blank for a second, then she grinned uncontrollably once her brain reminded her that she had heard the exact same line before, "Wow. You really only have one pick up line!"

Pushing the doors to the staircase open, she added, "Meet me at the lobby at 7."

Burke stared at her back and grinned childishly. This time he is not going to make the same mistakes as he did last time. Like, maybe he should order steak this time?

THE END