OK EVERYONE!!! We are not quite to the wedding yet, but it is coming and I'm planning it so that it might be a two part…..but maybe one. It depends…hope you like this chapter and as always PLEASE REVIEW…your comments keep me inspired.

Derek walked down the hall of Seattle Grace hospital. He knew he had to report to Meredith on the news of Molly. A young girl whom Meredith had taken care of a little less then a year before. Molly was admitted two months before, when she was having constant headaches. Molly had a brain tumor and Derek was doing the best he could.

"You paged me?" Meredith said as she approached Derek.

"I just got back the CT and MRI on Molly. The scan show that the tumor is growing." Derek said hanging his head.

"Wow. What about the chemo? I mean this little girl is having a tough time. Her parents are not even around." Meredith said trying not to get upset.

"I know, but the chemo is not working and there is not a lot we can do. I might have to operate today. Interested in scrubbing in?" Derek said as he brushed a piece of Meredith's hair away from her eyes.

"Sure. I'm going to go talk to her. She sits in that room all alone." Meredith rushed off to Molly's room.

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When Meredith got to Molly's room, the little girl was sleeping. The meds had been making her tired and she was getting very weak from the Chemo. Meredith knew that Derek could help her and that there was a great chance he could save her if he operated soon.

Meredith pulled a chair next to the bed. She red the paper for an hour until Derek came in.

"We are going to operate in the morning. She needs time for the medicine to get out of her system." He pulled a chair up to the other side of the bed.

"I just want to sit here with her for a while. I know my shift is off, but nobody comes to see her. She is just a ray of sunshine and nobody else seems to notice."

"I know. She is a fighter. You will make a great mother Meredith." Derek said as he put his head in his hands. He was tired and wanted to rest up for the surgery tomorrow.

"Thanks. You are going to be a great father too." Meredith smiled. She looked back at Molly. It started with a little girl being brought in by an abusive babysitter and turned into a girl getting handed over to foster care. Meredith did not understand how parents could abuse their kids and then hand them over to an abusive babysitter.

Hello God, it's me again. 2:00 a.m., Room 304.
Visiting hours are over, time for our bedside tug of war.
This sleeping child between us may not make it through the night.
I'm fighting back the tears as she fights for her life.
Well, it must be kind of crowded,
On the streets of Heaven.
So tell me: what do you need her for?

Derek had fallen asleep in the chair across from her. She knew that he would never leave her or the children they would have together. She then looked at Molly. A little girl whom had done nothing wrong and is fighting just to survive.

She's much too young to be on her own:
Barely just turned seven.
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?

Meredith awoke from a nap to find Derek talking to an older women right outside of the door. She walked out to find a women of mid forties.

"Dr. Grey, this is Fiona McClaine. She is Molly's aunt." Derek said with a particular sparkle in his eye.

"Dr. Meredith Grey." Meredith said shaking Fiona's hand.

"Fiona is here to help Molly through this." Derek said it in a positive way. "I'm going to leave you two alone to talk. Dr. Grey would you mind updating Fiona on how much fun Molly is? She already knows the hard stuff and the news on the cancer." Derek walked away.

"Our parents did not raise my sister to treat Molly like this. Cara and Ron are Molly's parents. They got into drugs and then they had Molly. It was just one big disaster and they shut everyone out." Fiona said fighting back tears. "If I had known it was this bad, if any of our family knew they would have fought for Molly."

"Mrs. McClaine, Molly is very sick. But Dr. Shepard and I are going to try and do the best we can." Meredith handed Fiona a tissue.

"My husband and I have contacted an attorney. We want to adopt Molly and take her back home to New Jersey. She has a lot of family there and she has not seen them since she was a baby. Please, make her better. I know she is really sick, but she has a family that loves her and wants to make her happy." Meredith wanted to cry at this point. "What is she like?" Fiona asked.

"She is perfect and she amazes everyone here everyday. She smiles all of the time." Meredith said. Meredith had realized how much time she had spent with Molly every time that she was in the hospital. "Let me think. She loves fairytales and princesses. Her favorite color is pink and she hates purple popsicles."

"Wow, for a surgeon you spent a lot of time with her." Fiona said in amazement. "What else?"

"Well, I spent a lot of time with her. I came in on breaks and would come to visit on my days off. "She loves dolls and her favorite movie is The Secret Garden. She loves when you tell her stories and since she lost her hair she counts the days on a little pink calendar that she has not had hair." Meredith said. "She will love it with you. I know it. Just let us try to make her better."

"We will." Fiona hugged Meredith. "Thank you. We just want her home so that she can live a normal and happy life."

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Meredith went to scrub in on the surgery. Christina ran into the room.

"Hey Meredith, is that Molly in there?" Christina asked as she helped fix Meredith's mask.

"Yes it is. We are going to try to remove the tumor. Derek….Dr. Shepard says it is fully accessible and this could determine whether or not Molly is going to be ok." Meredith said nervously.

"Well, good luck. I will be thinking about you in there. I really want her family to be happy with her. She deserved it. Well I have to go; Bailey has me in the Pit. Bye Mer." Christina quickly exited.

"Bye" Meredith said as she headed into the operating room.

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"Alright everyone, it is a beautiful morning to save lives. Lets get to work." Derek winked at Meredith.

The procedure ran smoothly.

"Dr. Shepard, do you need more traction?" Meredith said as she held onto the magnifier.

"No, I've got it. So what are you going to do when Molly leaves?" Derek said knowing that Meredith had bonded with this little girl.

"Suggesting that she is ok, it will be hard. But I'm happy for her; she actually has somebody that loves her." Meredith said as she handed patted the blood on the out layers of the little girl's head.

"Well Dr, Grey. I have removed one hundred percent of this tumor. If we can get her in to observation and in a few weeks we should know if the cancer is back." Derek smiled at Meredith through the mask. "The cancer did not appear to have any roots, so let's hope we got it out of the princess."

"Well done Dr. Shepard." Meredith winked at him. She had a good feeling that Molly would be ok. Molly was going to New Jersey to be loved by the family that would change her life.