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Chapter Thirteen: Let's Do It!
There was a long silence before Mark spoke. Had he just heard his wife correctly she wanted to move back to Seattle?
"Move back here, what about everything in New York, I have a great job there, you have a great job there, we were going to build the house. Since when have you wanted to come back to Seattle. You hate Seattle."
Meredith didn't know what to say, she hadn't let on to Mark at all that she had been unhappy in New York, she loved him and what they had in New York but she wanted to be back here with her friends and family. She didn't have that in New York.
"Honestly I've been thinking about it for a while, and you hate Seattle, I lived here most of my life, if it wasn't for Derek I doubt I would have ever left here." Meredith knew that could be taken the wrong way, and Mark was just the type to be upset over it.
"Please tell me this is not about Derek, so if Derek hadn't of broken your heart, you would never have gone to New York and never would have married me, thanks Mer, that makes me feel so damn good. And I can't believe you would talk to your parents about a job here before even talking to me about this." Mark was trying hard not to raise his voice, he knew stress wasn't good for the baby and he didn't want another repeat from the other day.
"I didn't go to them asking them for a job, they must have noticed something was up, this has nothing to do with Derek, this is between you and me and what is best for our child. I am talking to you about this, I told them I couldn't make a decision without speaking to you first."
Mark stood there shaking his head. "I love you more than anything Meredith, but if I stay here any longer I might say something I regret, I need to think about this." With that Mark turned and walked out the door without another word.
Meredith stayed on the lounge taking in what Mark had said. What if he was right? What if Derek had never cheated on her, would her life have turned out different? There was only one person she wanted to talk to right now and she knew for a fact that she had the day off, she grabbed her keys from the kitchen bench and headed out the door.
Cristina had just finished giving Tyson his lunch when there was a knock at the door. She had hoped to have a quiet afternoon in which she would spend as much time with her son as she could, days like this were rare.
"Mommy will be back in a moment," she told the little boy as she made her way to the door.
Cristina opened the door to find Meredith standing there, her eyes were red and blotchy, it was obvious that she had been crying.
"Mer, what's wrong? Quick come in." Cristina led her person through to the kitchen and signalled for her to sit at the bench next to where Tyson was sitting in his high chair.
"Aunt Mer", he squealed excitingly.
"Hi buddy, what have you got there?" Meredith was referring to the cheese sandwich he was eating.
"Cheese", he said with a grin, it was his favourite. "Are you sad Aunt Mer?"
"I'm okay little man; Aunt Mer is just a little upset." She gave the little boy the best smile she could muster.
Cristina got out Ty out of his chair and told him to go play in his room, that it was grown up time.
"Okay Mer, spill and don't even try the nothing crap, I've known there is something up the second I saw you stalling outside your mother's room." Cristina was genuinely concerned.
Meredith proceeded to tell Cristina about everything, even what had happened back in New York, she knew she could trust her, it as after all why she was her person.
"Wow Mer, so much for bright and shiny. Surely Mark understands that it's important for you to be back here with your family, especially with the baby, you are going to need us, hell your parents were amazing when I had Tyson, your Mom even babysat. Ellis Grey-Webber babysat my child, weird huh?"
Meredith laughed at Cristina. "Thanks, I better get going, Mark might be back by now, tell little man I said bye."
As soon as Meredith opened the door into the house she came face to face with her husband's concerned face.
"Where have you been, I've so worried, I tried the hospital and your parents said they hadn't seen you since this morning."
"I'm um fine; I've been at Cristina's." Meredith was curious to why Mark was so worked up, he was the one who walked out of anyone should be worried it's her. "So, have you cooled down now?"
"Let's do it!" Mark blurted it out like he hadn't given it any thought at all.
"Wh…What?" Meredith was completely surprised by the words that had just come out of her husband's mouth. "Are you serious? Don't just do this on the spare of the moment."
"I'm not I thought about it a lot, and I talked to your parents, this is best Mer you need your friends and family, it will be better for the baby to know its family and we can build the house here."
Meredith had the biggest grin on her face. "You really are serious", she exclaimed.
"Let's do it", Mark exclaimed again wrapping his arms around Meredith. The Sloan's were moving to Seattle.
