When Derek and Jake got to the hospital, the first thing they did was to search for Meredith. They found her still in the on call room with Laura. Mother and daughter were sharing a deep conversation when they walked in.
"Is that dinner?" Meredith asked as she looked up upon their entrance.
"Yeah, for some reason Jake really wanted Italian food." Derek said. "I also got a cake and balloons for Morgan. Is she roaming the hospital?"
"No, I think they went to Hailey's mom's room." Laura answered.
"Good, then we can surprise her."
"Your going to give her cake before dinner?" Meredith asked.
"I don't think anyone will mind that much if we eat dessert before dinner, Mer."
"I don't," Jake said excitedly.
"Well I don't want Jake to think that he can always have dessert before dinner."
"Meredith it is only this one time. Besides it's a special occasion, I think we can let it slide this one time."
"I'm not going to win this argument am I?" Meredith asked.
"Nope."
"Well come on Jake let's go find Morgan's parents. Laura you go tell Hailey what's going on. And Derek, you stay here until we come back." Meredith said taking Jake's hand and heading toward the door.
"I guess that's my key to go huh?" Laura said as she slowly got off of the chair she was sitting on. She followed her mother out of the door.
"Why do I always get stuck with the boring job?" Derek asked the empty room as he placed the food on the table.
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Laura stopped at Addison's door. She was building up the courage to walk in when a tall dark haired man with green eyes walked up behind her.
"Hi did you need something from in here?" He asked as he reached for the door knob.
"Yeah, I was going to get Hailey Montgomery, the nurse said this was her mom's room. Who are you?"
"I'm Matt. You must be Laura, Hailey's told me a little about you."
"Yeah, well…"
"Did you want to come in or do you want me to send her out?" Matt asked.
"Umm could you send her out here?"
"Sure." Matt disappeared into the room.
Laura stood outside the door for a few seconds when it opened again. Hailey stepped out and pulled the door shut behind her. "Hey," she said as she turned to her younger sister who was leaning against the wall.
"Hey, dad has the food and the cake. He wanted to surprise Morgan first with the cake and we can have that first, then the food." Laura explained.
"It sounds like a plan to me. Where are they?"
"My mom went to get Morgan's parents and dad's waiting in an on call room for her to come back with them."
"Did he get balloons too, I forgot to tell him to get balloons too."
"Yeah he got them."
"So, what are you going to do now?" Hailey asked as she leaned against to the wall next to Laura.
"I guess I'll stay here and wait for them."
"You don't want to come in? There's enough room for you to sit and hang out with us while we wait."
"I kind of just want quiet right now." Laura said sliding down to a sitting position.
Hailey copied her actions before she spoke again. "Look, Laura earlier I didn't mean to upset you. And I defiantly don't want to make you uncomfortable with me calling your dad, my father, Derek. I don't know him at all really, and I'm sure he's incredible. He's got to be, look at you and Jake. But I can not call him dad, to be frank he's done nothing for me to earn the privilege of being called dad, maybe one day I'll be able to work it out, but right now I'm doing the best I can. I'm only human."
"I guess… I was scared earlier. I have a sister, someone other than Morgan to talk to. But you don't think of our dad as dad. And if you don't think of him as dad do you think of me as a sister still? I understand a little better now though. I talked with my mom and she made me see things in a different way." Laura explained.
"You'll always be my little sister Laur," Hailey said throwing her arm around her shoulder and pulling her into a hug. "We are family, no matter what anyone says. We may not be the traditional family and live on different sides of the country, but family none the less, no matter what I call Derek aka your dad aka my biological father."
"That's good to know."
Laura and Hailey sat outside together and waited for Derek, Meredith, Jake, Preston, and Cristina to show up with the food and the cake.
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Cristina was walking out of the scrub room when Meredith and Jake spotted her. "Cristina," Meredith called getting her attention.
"Hey, what's up?" Cristina said as Jake and Meredith fell in step next to her.
"Well Derek bought food and while he was out he got cake and balloons for Morgan. We are going to surprise her. I mean her birthday was ruined by what happened yesterday so, Hailey suggested getting a cake."
"Oh, well then let's go."
"Where's Burke?" Meredith asked.
"What do you need?" Preston said as he strolled up behind the two women.
"They got cake and food to celebrate Morgan's birthday." Cristina explained as she followed. Meredith.
"That's great, but where are we going." Preston asked as the four made there way to the on call room Derek was waiting in.
"Daddy's got the cake in here." Jake said as he moved to push the door open.
Derek looked up at the sound of the door. " Hey, what took you so long. I was getting bored in here."
"We did not take that long. Here give me the balloons." Meredith said reaching for the bunch of balloons. "Cristina can carry the cake and you and Burke can bring the food."
"What do I get to do?" Jake asked. Meredith handed him a balloon.
After everyone had received their assigned 'package' to carry to the room, the five of them made their way out into the hospital halls. They garnered awkward looks from the hospital's occupants. When they reached Addison's room, they found Hailey and Laura sitting on the floor.
"Hey," Hailey said getting up from where she was sitting. "Is that everything?" She asked as she looked at the cake.
"Yeah that's everything." Derek responded.
"The cake looks great." Hailey commented.
"Yeah, good. Maybe we should surprise her already, won't she get a little suspicious of us all standing out here?" Laura said.
"Your right," Hailey said. She put her hand on the knob and twisted. She slowly walked in the door. "Morgan, I found these people looking for you in the hall." Hailey said as she walked in. From behind her Cristina came in with the cake followed by Meredith and Jake holding balloons. Behind them were Preston, Laura and Derek. As everyone walked into the small room the occupants started up a round of "Happy Birthday.'
Morgan looked at the cake her mom was holding. "We would have gotten candles but as you know oxygen is highly flammable so, no candles." Derek said placing the food on the empty night stand.
"You did not have to do this." Morgan told her mom as she took the cake from her.
"Don't look at me. It was all Hailey's idea." Cristina pointed.
"Thanks Hailey."
"It's the least I could do." She smiled and hugged her best friend.
"Hailey, Morgan" Matt called from Addison's side.
The two looked over to where he stood. "Smile," He said as the camera flashed.
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ANSo I am thinking there will be two more chapters to go. Suggestions are still welcome though.