A/N: I am so flattered by all the good (!) things you're writing about this fic! It's really nice, and it's warming my heart... Well, a lot of you are really looking forward to the moment when Derek'll meet Zadie and the other way around, and how he'll react. As far as I know at this moment; I don't know! I haven't figured that part out yet... Well, have a nice reading time!

Chapter 4 - Crap!

... a few hours later...

As Meredith stepped out of the OR after a very successful surgery, her phone started ringing.

"Meredith Grey."

"Hi I'm calling from American Airlines. We ju-"

"American Airlines?" Meredith asked cutting-off the overly nice lady.

"Yes, we just wanted to know if you want to take part in any of our special offers since you-"

"Since I?" Meredith, asked feeling something in the back of her head that wasn't right.

"Since you bought 2 tickets earlier today, so we just wanted to kn-"

"Oh no..." Meredith exclaimed closing her eyes, knowing what had happened.

"Excuse me?"

"Oh I didn't mean you. I have to go, goodbye. Thanks anyway..." Meredith hung up and quickly dialed another number.

"Hello."

"Mark? Please tell me your sitting by my kitchen table talking to Zadie..."

"No, I'm outside. I've been knocking the door for ten minutes. There's no one answering."

"Crap!" Meredith exclaimed when the one thing she knew could happen today had happened. "Crap!"

"You don't think she's at Skye?"

"No... I know she's not there. Look I just got a call from American Airlines telling me that I bought two tickets to Seattle, and Zadie and I argue about her dad this morning." Meredith said as she started to walk faster through the hall. "Trust me; she' not at Skye's."

"Okay, well she asked me about Derek too, yesterday. Though I didn't say anything." Mark said and sat down on the steps. "What did you say to her?"

Meredith went quiet.

"Mer?"

"I told her that she doesn't have a hole in her heart, because she can't miss someone she has never met. Then I got tired of her asking so I asked what she wanted to know and she said his name, and I chickened out." Meredith paused. "Then she said that he's probably some big time surgeon known all over the country and I tried to lie. You know I'm a bad liar!"

Mark gave out a laugh. "I know, and Zadie really knows it..."

"Crap!" Meredith cried. "Derek will find out, and if I know my daughter like I think I do she left as early as possible, and if that's the case she and Skye are already in Seattle! That's crap!"

"We have to go there!" Mark said.

"What? You and I?" Meredith exclaimed in disbelief. "Do you know how that'll look? You and I; the dirty, old mistress'. Seriously?!"

"Yeah..."

"You and I?" Meredith repeated. Together? Looking for a teenaged girl? Do you know what people will think?" Meredith asked. She didn't think that it was the brightest idea. She and Mark together in Seattle. In New York there wasn't anyone questioning their friendship, but in Seattle it would most definitely be.

After all: they were Mark Sloan and Meredith Grey.

When Meredith had moved to New York, she had accidentally bumped into a guy in the street without knowing it was Mark Sloan; thee Mark Sloan...

"Oh I'm so sorry!" Meredith exclaimed, when she hit a man's shoulder and papers started to swirl around on the pavement. "I'm so sorry, let me help you..."

"It's nothing..." he said as he bent down on the ground, beside Meredith.

Meredith picked up the papers and she couldn't help but read on one of them. 'Dr Mark Sloan, Plastic Surgeon' it said. "Oh..."

He gave out a laugh. "Yeah well if you wanna have anything done, I'm the guy..." he said and looked at Meredith. "...but I don't think you need anything fixed..."

Meredith scoffed. "Haha... Exactly like Derek said you were... Arrogant too I guess..."

"Excuse me?"

Meredith held forward a hand and Mark shook it. "Dirty old mistress number two..."

"Oh... Meredith Grey, pleasure to meet you." he said and smiled. "I've heard a lot about you..."

"Nice to meet you and I've heard a lot about you too..."

"You have? All the way over here?" Mark showed her to sit down on a bench. "So what have you heard?"

"Well practically the whole Derek-finding-you-and-Addison-in-bed-story, and I've heard Derek talk about you..."

"So he's talking about me..."

"... with disdain and contempt..."

"But he's talking about me, right... That's a start?" Mark said giving out a smothered laugh.

"I guess so..." Meredith looked at the man she had had such a horrible picture of in her head. Truth told he didn't seem that bad. "So what have you heard about me then?"

"Well basically the whole Derek-meeting-you-in-a-bar-not-knowing-you-were-an-intern-story, and that he picked Addison instead of you... He made a mistake..."

"Are you actually thinking you've a shot here?" Meredith said, to tease.

"No I don't, but if Derek had chosen you, Addison would have come back here, to me..." he said and sighed. "So, what brings the notorious Meredith Grey to New York?"

"Notorious? Seriously? Anyway... I live here in fact." Meredith said and looked down on her ever-growing stomach. He hadn't noticed.

"Oh..." Mark said, in surprise. "Okay, but aren't you still an intern?"

Meredith nodded. "I asked for a transfer to St: Helen's... After you know, he picked Addison and... yeah that's it I guess..." Meredith lied, because it wasn't it. She couldn't tell Mark, whom she had known for three minutes about her pregnancy; the main reason for her moving.

"I understand..." Mark rose from the bench and smiled at Meredith. "In for a coffee, and discuss our thoughts of the Shepherds?"

Meredith nodded. "That'd be great... but I don't drink coffee, not now anyway..."

"What?! You don't drink coffee?! I thought coffee was an intern's best friend... I drank lots of coffee when I was an intern..." he said as they started to walk.

"Usually I do, but... Maybe I'll tell you later..."

"Okay..." Mark smiled."

"You know you don't seem that bad actually..." Meredith stated, with a grin upon her face.

"I don't?"

"No, not really..."

"Good!"

"Yeah..."

That day Meredith told Mark everything, and since then they became friends. He supported her though her pregnancy and he had very good influence on Zadie.

"Mark, do you really think that's a good idea that we go together?"

"Mer, you need a friend, and I'm your friend. We'll go together, and I think at this point Zadie won't listen to you..."

Meredith smiled. "You are a good friend you know..." she paused. "Meet me at JFK in 30 minutes!"

"Yeah, see you there!" he said and hang up.

Meredith ran into the office of the Chief of Surgery. "Hi dr Grey!" Darcie looked strangely at her best neurosurgeon on staff. "What's the hurry?"

"I have to go; can you get someone to cover for me?" Meredith said quickly.

"Yeah, I think I can manage that. Why?"

"Eh, Zadie, she, she flew to Seattle a few hours..."

"Oh..." Darcie knew exactly what that meant. "She's heading for, eh, her dad?"

Meredith nodded.

"Well go then!"

"Thanks Darcie... Bye..." Meredith said and disappeared out the door.

A/N: So the fourth has come to its end. What you think? I personally think this chapter is the weakest... Just so you know; as far as I know, I don't think there is a hospital named "St Helen's in New York", so we can clearly say I made it up… Anyhow, the next chapter will be rather long, and Zadie will meet a special person... Who is it? Oh, you'll see... Though unfortunately I've got a lot of stuff to deal with from school, so I will probably not be able to get the fifth chapter up until friday or so... but you know, maybe ther are miracles... who knows?