A/N: Alright so up until this point this story has followed the actual plot of the show and episodes of season 6 pretty closely but since I don't really want to include the shooting or basically anything that happened around the shooting I'm going to sort of leave the actual events of the show behind now and just continue as if the season 6 finale never happened. So the next three chapters are going to be stealing a lot of their plot from my all time favorite episode of Friends. (Season 5 episode 14 "The one where everyone finds out")

Baby Daddy 11

Meredith couldn't believe that she chickened out. She'd just had the chance in his office, but she hadn't told Derek that she was pregnant. He'd just been in such a bad mood. She didn't want to tell him while he was in a bad mood. Especially after how weird he'd been acting lately.

She was walking down to the tunnels to tell Cristina about her total lack of courage when she literally ran right into Lexie. At first they both just stepped back and apologized but when Lexie got a good look at Meredith's generally anxious demeanor she asked, "Are you alright?"

Meredith Just sighed and said, "Yeah I'm fine." They were both heading to the elevator.

Lexie looked at Meredith as they stepped onto the elevator. "You're so not fine," was all Lexie said until the doors had closed, leaving them alone together. "You look like you are about to go into battle or something," Lexie paused before adding, "And you just said you're fine which everyone knows means you're totally not fine."

Meredith groaned and leaned her head against the back of the elevator, "When the hell did you become so good at reading me?" She asked indignantly. It really was annoying that people thought they knew what she was thinking all of the time. Even when they were right. Especially when they were right. Lexie just looked at her with her eyebrows raised. "Okay fine. I'm gonna tell you but you have to swear you won't tell anyone. Because I already told Cristina and not Derek and he really should have been the one I told first." She was definitely starting to feel the stress of the last few days catching up to her.

"What is it Mere?" Lexie asked with real concern starting to show through.

Meredith just scrunched up her face and said, "I'm Pregnant."

"Oh," Lexie said, a little relieved, "Is that all?" she knew as soon as she said it that it was the wrong move. She was a terrible liar.

Meredith's eyes popped open and she gave Lexie an incredulous look. "What the hell do you mean? 'Is that all?' What else would there be? This is like the biggest thing that's happened since… freaking forever!" Meredith paused for a second and looked at Lexie more closely, "And, oh my god, you already knew!" She pointed an accusing finger at Lexie.

Lexie was at a loss. She tried to act natural, "Oh no. I'm very surprised!" she gulped, "I can't believe it! You're really pregnant?" She paused, "That's amazing!" She looked at Meredith to see if she was buying it.

She wasn't. "What the hell Lexie? How do you already know? Who told you? Because I've only even said anything to Cristina." She was shouting questions very quickly and Lexie was getting turned around a bit. Then Meredith's eyes got really wide, "How long have you known?" The pieces were almost starting to fall together for Meredith.

"Um, what?" Lexie hadn't been expecting that question.

Meredith pulled the stop button on the elevator and turned on Lexie. "It's a simple question Lexie. How long have you known that I'm pregnant?" She repeated the question as she literally backed poor Lexie into a corner.

Lexie racked her brain for anything that would get her out of this but in the end just gave up and said, "A few weeks," before bracing herself for her sister's impending explosion.

"Weeks?" Meredith yelled, "Weeks?" she repeated. Then she continued in a voice that was low and quiet and made Lexie a little afraid for her life, "How the hell have you known for weeks?"

Lexie was trying to think of the words that would keep Meredith from killing her right there on the spot, but in the end she could only come up with the truth. "Alex told me," She sighed in defeat.

"Alex told you?" Meredith couldn't believe her ears. "Alex told you?" She repeated. "Who told Alex?" Meredith asked that question mostly to herself, but when she saw Lexie flinch she knew that her sister knew the answer. "Lexie, who told Alex?"

Lexie just cringed and said in a resigned tone, "I think Derek told Alex." Lexie slid down the wall until she was sitting on the floor of the elevator and Meredith started to pace.

"Derek?" She exclaimed loudly; in shock. "Derek told Alex that I'm pregnant?" Lexie just nodded from her place on the floor. "Oh I see," Meredith began, "And how did Derek know?" she asked with a feigned sweetness that was almost more frightening than the screaming.

"I think he just figured it out," Lexie answered from her place on the floor.

"Figured it out?" Meredith was yelling again. "He 'figured it out'?" Meredith asked with air quotes. Before Lexie had a chance to respond Meredith continued on her own. "So Derek 'figured it out' and then instead of telling me about it he told Alex. Alex! Why would he do that Lexie?" Meredith asked as she turned to stare at her sister.

"Well I think everyone just thought you would take the news better if you figured it out on your own," Lexie paused before continuing, "They thought that you would be more ready for it if you came to the conclusion slowly. But really in our defense no one thought it would take you this long to figure it out. I mean really. Are you even still in your first trimester?"

"I don't know what trimester I'm in because I haven't been to the doctor yet because no one told me that I'm pregnant!" Meredith yelled through her clenched teeth. Then she paused as something Lexie said registered with her, "Wait, what do you mean 'everyone'? Who all knows?" Meredith was starting to lose steam and so asked this last question a little more nicely.

Lexie had really been hoping that Meredith wouldn't ask her that. "Everyone Meredith," she explained quietly, "Everyone knows you're pregnant." Lexie looked her sister in the eye.

"Huh," Meredith said as she sat down on the floor near her sister. "Like everyone everyone?" She asked. As the anger was fading she found herself giving into shock. Everyone knew.

"Yeah but Meredith don't be mad. Derek was really just trying to help. He just told Alex so that he could help keep an eye on you to, you know, make sure you didn't accidentally do anything to hurt the baby. And then they told Cristina so that she wouldn't take you out drinking and I know Derek and Mark went around and replaced basically all the coffee in the hospital with decaf."

"Well that is kind of sweet," Meredith conceded.

"So you're not mad at Derek?" Lexie asked.

"Oh I'm mad," Meredith said calmly, "I'm gonna kill him with my bare hands," she continued. "But it's still kind of sweet," she added with a small smile. Then she seemed to realize that they were still on the stopped elevator and reached over to push the button in before standing up and offering Lexie her hand. As the doors opened to the basement they both stepped out "You know I'm going to kill you too though, right?" Meredith said in a pleasant tone.

"Oh I assumed," Lexie said with a brave voice.

"But first there's Cristina to deal with," Meredith said as they turned to corner to find Cristina sitting and charting on a gurney. "You who call yourself my person!" Meredith yelled before Cristina had even heard them coming.

"Mere?" Cristina asked with a slightly high-pitched lilt to her voice. "How you doing? Did you tell Derek about the…" she looked at Lexie, "Thing?"

"Oh, you mean the baby?" Meredith asked. "The baby that apparently everyone knew about except me!" She added, so there was no misunderstanding her intention.

"Yeah that'd be the one," said Cristina.

"No I chickened out, but then I ran into Lexie here in the elevator and she told me some very interesting things," Meredith responded.

"Oh yeah?" her attempt to feign ignorance was disrupted by the glare she shot at Lexie.

"Yeah," started Meredith, "It seems that everyone already knew I was pregnant. Well, everyone except me that is. You mind telling me why you didn't think that little bit of information was something I needed to know?"

"Alright, that's it." Cristina said while holding up her hands and rolling her eyes. "Stop being a drama queen. I didn't say anything because McDreamy asked me not to and I didn't want to step all over your shinny happy moment or whatever. It was all Derek's idea and you only have yourself to blame. You're the one who post-it married the guy."

"Okay," Lexie started, "The important thing isn't who's to blame for what. The important thing is that you know now, and all of the secrets and lying can finally be over!" Lexie was really looking forward to not keeping this secret anymore.

"Or you could not tell him that you know yet and we could use this opportunity to mess with him." Cristina said with a small smirk and a raised eyebrow.

"Oh I like that!" responded Meredith. "That could be really fun!" She wasn't sure that she was actually really mad at Derek but revenge sounded really appealing at that moment.

"Oh no," Lexie said, "No. No Mere, you know what would be more fun?" She paused, "Telling him!"

"Yeah… No I wanna to Cristina's thing," Meredith responded with glee.

"No, Come on Mere!" Lexie said, "I can't take anymore secrets!"

"Oh come on Little Grey you don't even have to do anything. Just don't tell him that she knows." Cristina responded with a roll of her eyes.

"No!" Lexie started, "I can't take anymore secrets! I've got your secrets. I've got Derek's secrets. I've got secrets of my own you know!" Lexie was definitely whining now.

"You don't have any secrets." Meredith responded with a small laugh.

"I," Lexie gaped at them for a second, "Do too!" She let out a huff and crossed her arms.

"So how do you want to mess with him?" Cristina asked Meredith, completely ignoring Lexie.

"You are both monsters!" Lexie stomped her foot and walked away.

TBC