Another chapter for you guys…

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Meredith had just found herself beginning to fall asleep from a long day of surgeries, when the door to the on call room was lazily pushed open. She paid no attention to the footsteps of whoever it was coming into the room. The sound of the wheels on a rolling chair sliding across the tile floor interrupted her thoughts. She didn't open her eyes; she just waited.

"Mom," the voice sniffled.

Meredith opened her eyes and turned her head toward Laura. Her daughter's brown hair was soaking wet, along with her clothes. The light make up that Meredith allowed her to wear, had tear streaks running through them. Meredith was confused.

"Laura what's wrong?"

"I…I don't think Hailey wants to be apart of our lives." Laura wiped a tear that dared to fall off of her cheek.

"Sweetie, what makes you think that?"

"She doesn't call daddy 'daddy' or 'dad' or even 'father.' To her, he's just Derek, and if dad's just 'Derek' to her, what does that make me, just 'Laura,' the girl her biological father and step-mother decided to adopt? I was starting to feel like I have a sister, even if I have only known her for forty-eight hours. But I've got no blood relation to her at all, so how do I fit in, especially when dad doesn't and half of her is him?" Laura explained with her head bent down.

"Laura," Meredith said. "Look at me." She lifted her eyes up to meet her mother's. "Laura, I'm sure she does not think of you that way."

"How do you know? You don't even like her." Laura accused.

"I know because she would not have asked to meet you if she did not want you in her life. As for not liking her… To be honest Laura I don't even know her."

"Then why, when we were eating dinner last night, did you look at her like she was the bane of your existence?" Laura asked.

Meredith closed her eyes. She had thought she had done a good job of keeping her feelings hidden from her children that night. Laura was never supposed to see the looks she had sent Hailey's way. "Laur, when your father told me about Hailey I was upset. I did not like the idea of Hailey. From what I've seen so far, she is a very nice young lady who's struggling to come to terms with some difficult things in her life right now."

Laura stared at her mother for a while before she made her next comment. "I still think she doesn't want us in her life. If she did, she would call dad 'dad' not Derek."

"Laura, say your biological father decided he wanted to be apart of your life. What would you call him?" Meredith asked, hoping Laura would get the point.

"That's different, mom. I have a dad already."

"No it isn't, not for Hailey. To, Hailey Matt…"

"is her dad," Laura finished as she remembered the conversation she shared with Hailey in the park the day before. She was starting to better understand what Hailey was going through.

"Does that help you any?" Meredith asked.

"Yeah it helps a lot."

"Good, but I still think you need to talk to her." Meredith smiled at her daughter and stroked her now damp hair. "She's still your sister."

"I guess your right."

"You guess I'm right? I'm always right!" Meredith laughed.

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"Knock, knock. And now we're back from outer space, I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face I should have changed that stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key. Had I'd known for just one second that you'd be back to bother me…" Morgan sang as she and Hailey walked into Addison's room.

"Morgan puh-lease," Hailey said.

Morgan stopped a few steps into the room and dramatically threw one hand out and slapped the other to her forehead. "Go on now go, walk out the door just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore, weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye,Did you think I'd crumble,"

"Morgan!"

"Did you think I'd lay down and die, Oh no, not I,"

"Morgan!"

"I will survive,"

"MORgan!"

"Oh as long as I know how to love, I know I will stay alive, I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give, and I'll survive, I will survive"

"MOR-GAN!!"

"hey-hey," Morgan finished the song.

Addison and Matt, who was occupying a chair next to Addison's bed, laughed at Morgan's antics. "You know Morgan you got the first line wrong. It's 'and so you're back,'" Addison noted.

"Yeah we'll it wouldn't have worked because you didn't go anywhere we did." Morgan moved her finger between her and Hailey for emphasis.

"Mom do not encourage her." Hailey said as she plopped down onto a chair next to Matt.

Morgan sat down next to Hailey and rested her head on her shoulder. "You know giving a vocal performance is exhausting. You should pay me." Morgan said.

"You didn't give a vocal performance. What you just did is considered torture by the UN's standards and the Geneva Convention. That was in no way humane. You should be paying us for enduring that." Hailey said as she pushed Morgan off of her shoulder.

Matt looked at Addison who was shaking her head. "You know you two have not changed much since you were eight. You have not matured at all." Addison said.

"And here I thought I was sitting next to two mature adults." Matt laughed.

"I have matured very well, Hailey on the other hand," replied Morgan.

"Hey, I'm not the one singing 'I Will Survive' at the top of my lungs, getting the words wrong no less, and torturing a poor old woman who survived a near fatal car accident." Hailey countered.

"Hailey I'm hurt. You think I'm old?" Addison said feigning a look of shock and sorrow.

"Mom," Hailey said.

"Don't listen to her Addi, your one sexy old lady," Matt smiled.

"Eww, dad please." Hailey said sticking her fingers in her ears. Morgan did the same.

"Gee thanks Matt. It's good to know my fiancé thinks I'm old."

"If you're old I'm old too babe." Matt explained in defense.

"I suppose that makes up for it." Addison smiled at him. "So how did your exercise go Hailey? Feeling better?"

"It was good. I think I got rid of a lot of stress, and I feel much better now. Although, I'm not quite up to taking on the world yet." Hailey said.

"That's good to know. I heard about what happened this morning with Derek, Hailey." Addison said.

"Oh," Hailey looked at her hands ashamed her mother had to hear about something like that coming from her. Hailey knew her mother had raised her better than that, but she just was not able to deal with anything right at that moment.

"We can talk about it later." Addison suggested, effectively closing the subject. "So, I'm starved here, and hospital food sucks. You guys didn't bring any fine cuisine with you?"

"That was Derek's job. He and Jake went to go get dinner for everyone after we got done at the studio." Hailey said.

"So he made it to the studio?" Matt asked.

"Yeah, they were there. Laura came back to the hospital with us, but she got upset. I think she probably went to look for her mom." Morgan said.

"What happened?" Addison asked.

Once again Hailey could not look her mother in the eye. She hadn't done anything wrong per say, but it felt like it. "I think she's mad at me because I call her dad 'Derek.'"

"Hails, you need to talk to her." Addison said.

"And Derek," Matt pitched in.

Hailey ran her hands through her hair. "I know, I know."

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AU: So the whole bursting into song thing, something I do on a regular basis. Plus I thought there needed to be some comic relief and it was funny right? Well another chapter yay me! Por favor, review. ¡Muchas gracias!