40 Weeks

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Week 14

"Meredith? Please hurry up. We're going to be late for our appointment!"

"Derek, I am hurrying as fast as I can. Seriously. Your freaking kids are pushing on my bladder, I just threw up all over the place, and I don't own one piece of clothing that is fitting, much less looking good. So don't tell me to hurry up."

Derek sighed and walked up the stairs and into their room. Meredith was running around frantically looking for an outfit that fit her okay. Her stomach was really beginning to bulge, as she was almost four months pregnant, and pregnant with twins. He held up a black dress that was scooted into the way back of her closet and she pulled it over her head. Derek handed her a coral knit shrug and Meredith grabbed her bag.

"See how easy that was?" Derek pointed out nicely.

"Shut up."

They made their way through the crowded parking lot of the doctor's office. Meredith was still in a grouchy mood, but Derek held the umbrella over her head nevertheless. The rain was really starting to pour as he held the door and she stepped into the cold building.

"Grey?" The nurse called.

Meredith and Derek got up together and he followed her into the sterile looking room in the back once again.

"I'm sorry." She said once they were sitting down and waiting for the doctor to come in.

"Its okay. Really."

"I shouldn't have snapped, its just these moodswings are killing me. And I'm uncomfortable, and nothing fits me. I'm getting fat."

"You are not fat Mer, you're pregnant with our babies."

"Whatever, same difference."

Derek sighed again and leaned back into his chair.

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"Well, you have reached the fourteen week mark." Dr. Warner said as she put the cold gel onto Meredith's stomach.

"The babies, Baby A, and Baby B" She said indicating them on the ultrasound screen, "are just forming and looking pretty good."

"They're so cute looking." Derek said sweetly as he eyed the screen.

"Yes, they are." Dr. Warner agreed. "Now, I know the real reason you're here today is to get the Multiple Marker Test."

"Yes please." Derek said.

Meredith squeezed his hand.

Meredith sat up and offered her arm for a blood sample.

"Alright," said Dr. Warner taking blood "this is just a test to make sure that your babies don't have any birth defects. Its not 100 accurate, but we'll do it just to make sure. We should have the results in about a week, but try to relax and not worry, because the chances of something being wrong are pretty slim."

Meredith nodded. "Do you have any other questions?" Dr. Warner asked.

"Miscarriage. That was always a big risk because of my mother. When will I be okay?"

Dr. Warner glanced at Meredith's chart. "Well, you have begun your second trimester, your chances of having a miscarriage are much more slim now. I would like to talk to you about some things that you should be avoiding though."

Derek put his arm around Meredith as they sat down on the couch in Dr. Warner's office. "Please tell us, I want to make sure that these babies are as healthy as they can be."

Dr. Warner smiled at Derek. He was such a concerned father. She had seen many parents who were far less excited about their coming children.

"Okay, Meredith, you are a doctor as is Derek, but I would like to go over the basics with you anyway."

Meredith smiled. "I would love to be refreshed. I don't want to do anything wrong. We are very much in love with our children."

Dr. Warner nodded, " Okay, first of all, its important for you to be getting the nutrients you need. I've prescribed prenatal vitamins, and you need to make sure that you eat three meals a day. I know that you are still working and I know it may be hard, but if you just sit down for every meal for a few minutes and make sure you eat a lot of vegetables and fruits. Drink a lot of water to avoid fatigue on the job."

Meredith and Derek nodded simultaneously. "I get that, I mean, eat healthy, exercise, that kind of stuff." Meredith added.

"Okay, good. Next, drinking, although the French recommend it, is not a good idea right now. You can give your baby serious health problems. That means beer, wine, hard liquor, all of that. You know not to do drugs, or be around smokers or smoke yourself."

The conversation went on for about an hour with all the questions that Meredith and Derek had!

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"Hey Babe." Burke said sitting down by Cristina. It was both of their breaks at the hospital and they were having lunch together.

"Hi Burke." Cristina said putting her head down on the table.

"Whats wrong?" Burke asked, gently massaging Cristina's back.

"Nothing, I mean, I'm stressed out. This wedding is getting to be a lot of work. My mother called me four times this morning asking who she should invite and telling me that my cousin Mabella is furious because I haven't announced the bridesmaids and she assumes that she is going to be one."

"Your mother can be a fruitcake."

Cristina looked at Burke in a strange and new way. Hew as always so proper and polite, calling her mother a fruitcake was one of the funniest things that she had ever heard him say out loud. She pretended not to be too surprised, and answered.

"I know she is. I don't want Mabella in our wedding. She's weird. She thinks that the equivalent of friends is chatrooms. She chats, chats, chats and never stays in touch with me and then expects to be a bridesmaid! I don't think so."

Burke smiled. He loved Cristina when she was frustrated. Her curls would fly into her eyes and she would blow them away. Sometimes, he would push them out of her eyes carefully. And then kiss her eyelashes. It was the simple things that he really loved.

Cristina looked at the notebook in her hands. "Who are we inviting from the hospital?" she asked opening it up to the page where her guest list was neatly written in black ink and block handwriting.

"Woah, who's on there?"

"So far?"

Burke nodded. "My family, your family, mutual friends, your good friends, my friends from college and my best friend from high school, and now whoever we choose to invite from Seattle Grace."

"Well, Meredith, George, Izzie and Alex." Burke said. "They're your friends, and my friends too."

"The Chief, Derek, Callie?" he added.

"Callie? I don't know. I don't think so, she is the one who cheated on George."

"Oh, yeah. Yeah, she cant come."

Burke's pager went off and he gave Cristina a quick kiss on the forehead before dumping his tray and hurrying off to the operating room.

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Callie sat in the bathroom crying. She knew that she had made a lot of mistakes, if she had it to do over, she would never have accepted Brett's money. But she was so desperate for some cash, and it seemed like a quick solution. Now, she had lost the man that she really loved, the man that she saw herself with in fifty years, the man that she needed to go on. She wasn't sure what she was going to do with herself now. She had her work, but other than that, she was alone in the world.

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"No. No. A thousand times no."

"Why can't we go visit your hometown Alex?" Izzie complained as she pushed their patient down the hall. The lady was eight months pregnant, and in preterm labor. She was an older lady, late forties and was just happy to be pregnant. She appeared to be sleeping and the interns were waiting on her husband to get to the hospital. So, they continued arguing.

"There are too many memories, too many things there. My past is there. I'm more of a hang onto the past until you find something better kind of guy. This is my something better, you, Seattle Grace, this internship. I don't want to go back to being the guy I used to."

"That doesn't mean you're going to be the guy you used to be. It just means that you will let me meet your mother, and your friends and your siblings. It means that you're going to let me in on who you were so that I am thankful for who you are."

"Yeah. You wanna know who I was? I was a scumbag, a piece of trash. An asshole. I was, and I'm not anymore, and I don't want to go back to being that way. I don't want to be around the people who might make me that way again. And I haven't exactly heard you fighting to get me home to meet your mother."

"You wouldn't want to meet my mother."

"Well, you wouldn't want to meet mine either." Alex said as he grabbed an apple off a tray that was sitting on a bench and stepped into an open elevator.

"See you later Izzie."

The elevator doors closed and Izzie sighed deeply to herself. She wanted to learn about him, his past, she wanted to meet his mother and brothers. Was that too much to ask?

"Honey, just give him time." The lady spoke up from the bed that Izzie was pushing.

"I'm sorry?"

"The man, Alex. Give him time, he'll come around and let you go home with him. It doesn't seem like he's ever brought a girl home to meet his parents, so I would just give him some time. He's new at this."

"I know, but honestly,he is so hard to get sometimes."

"Welcome to the world of relationships, and love."

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