Thank you to everyone who reviewed I didn't expect this kind of response….i was going to wait until tonite for an update but I figured I can just be a little late for my class its ok haha. Thanks guys and here is chapter 2!! Enjoy!
Chapter Two: Messed Up
Meredith stood out the front of her mother's private hospital room, she was resting inside. She wasn't sure whether she should go in, and whether Ellis would want to see Meredith since she was partly the reason why she was laying in there. Luckily her injuries were minor but it still didn't change the way that Meredith was feeling, all over some stupid fight.
"Meredith! What's wrong?" Ellis was driving home from work, it had been a busy day and she was exceptionally exhausted, she had been very surprised by the ringing of the cell phone. She was even more surprised to see that it was Meredith.
Meredith tried to talk through the tears but nothing was coming out, "Mom, I don't know what to do, tell me what to do!"
"Meredith what are you talking about, what has Mark done, I told you he was no good, I told you that he wasn't going to change, why didn't you listen to me?" Ellis was now getting very frustrated with her daughter. She had known right from the start that Meredith's relationship with Mark Sloan was doomed but Meredith had not listened.
"He hasn't done anything. It's what I've done, well its his fault too, Mom, I'm pregnant." Meredith tried hard to fight of the tears but wasn't succeeding. The telephone line had gone quiet; Meredith knew her mother would be mad, but she could not handle the silence.
After what seemed like hours Ellis finally spoke, she couldn't believe what she had just heard, her little Meredith pregnant. She couldn't help being mad at her though, she was still so young but most of all she didn't want her daughter making the same mistake she did. "Do you have any idea what this is going to do to your career, you may as well just hand in your letter of resignation now," she exclaimed.
Meredith was now too getting angry, she was being compared to her mother again, like she had been most of her life. The tears had now subsided allowing Meredith to be heard clearly, she knew she would regret the words before they left her mouth but she went ahead and said it anyway. "Have you ever thought that maybe I wouldn't be like you, that I could look after a child and have my career at the same time."
Ellis did not reply, instead the line went dead, Meredith had though that her mother had just hung up on her, until she received the call from Richard telling her of the accident, and of course Meredith had blamed herself.
Meredith was interrupted from her thoughts by a very familiar voice.
"You can go in you know."
Meredith turned to face where the voice had came from to see Cristina, standing there. "Cristina! How long have you been standing there?" Meredith hugged her 'person'; she had not seen her since her wedding day.
"Okay enough with the hugging. I've been here long enough to see that you are stalling. She's okay you know Mer, she would be glad to see you, she has been asking for you."
"She has?" Meredith wasn't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing that her mother had been asking for her.
Cristina looked at Meredith with a puzzling look, there was something quite different about her person and she couldn't figure it out. She seemed nervous to be around her mother. "Well isn't that the reason why you came to Seattle?"
"Honestly, not really." Meredith had to be honest with Cristina, they had vowed when they first became friends back when they were interns that they would always be honest with each other.
"Then why did you come?" Cristina wasn't sure if Meredith was going to tell her, she was acting rather odd, as if she had done something wrong.
Meredith smiled at her friend, it was a weak smile and not as convincing as she had hoped. "It doesn't matter. I'm going to go in now, but we should catch up for coffee or whatever later. Let me know when you are free."
Cristina knew there was something up but there was no point pushing Meredith, if there was one thing Cristina had learnt it was to wait for Meredith to come to her if she needed to talk. "Well if you need to talk…about anything, you know where to find me."
"I do, and Cris, can you do me a favour and not tell anyone that I'm here in Seattle, it's…. ah…. complicated."
"Okay." Cristina watched Meredith disappear in to her mother's room. She would find out what was going on it was her new found mission.
Meredith entered Ellis's room as quietly as possible; she had not wanted to disturb her in case she was sleeping. She instantly sat up at the sound of someone entering her room.
"Meredith what are you doing here?" Ellis was very surprised to see her daughter standing there in her hospital room, in Seattle, she knew how Meredith felt about this place yet here she was, 5 years later.
"Its funny I got the same reaction from Dad, and Cristina." Meredith smiled at her mother, hoping all memory of their last conversation had been forgotten. "So how are you?"
"I'm fine, just a few bruises and this broken wrist, no surgery for 6 weeks. Its going to drive me insane." Ellis couldn't help noticing the sadness that was visible in Meredith's eyes; she hadn't seen her like this in quite some time. "Come sit."
Meredith made her way toward Ellis' bed and sat up on the edge of it. Ellis taking her hand in her own. "I'm sorry," Meredith whispered, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Don't be sorry, this is not your fault, some idiot ran a red light, it's his fault, not yours. Now, enough about me, I know I'm not the reason you came here, what's wrong?"
"I've really messed up this time Mom, and I don't know what to do!" Meredith collapsed in a heap of sobs; Ellis pulled her daughter into her and held her. Ellis knew that Meredith was strong, so it had to be something big to have her in such a state.