A/N: I know its been a while. I have my excuses. LOL. I was sick for three days last week. Then I was loaded with make up work. And then I was given two very big projects to do. So anyway, here is the next chapter. I hope you all enjoy it!

This takes place ONE MONTH after Finn and Meredith get back together. Meredith IS on leave!

Meredith woke up in Finn's bed the way she did every morning. She slowly got out of bed and walked down to the kitchen. Finn was there cooking breakfast for her. She smiled at this and sat down at the kitchen table. When Finn saw her, he put down his frying pan and walked over and kissed her.

"Good morning. Did you sleep well?"

"Very well."

"Good. Now, I wasn't sure what you wanted for breakfast so I made you pancakes. I hope that's okay?"

"That's perfect."

Finn put the pancakes on to a dish and placed them in front of Meredith. "Butter? Syrup? Both?"

"Both." Meredith answered.

"Orange juice or milk? You can't have coffee right?"

"No I can't, but orange juice is sounding very promising right about now."

Finn walked over to the table and placed everything in front of Meredith.

"I have a full packed day downstairs. Apparently its tick season. I probably will only be up for a short ten minute lunch."

"Oh." Meredith frowned. "I'll probably go back home and catch up on some reading. Maybe take a bubble bath. I do have to do the grocery shopping that I didn't do yesterday. Wanna have dinner together?"

"I'd love to. I'll stop by your place around six."

"Good."

"I have to get to work. Make sure to come down and tell me when you leave."

"Okay."

Finn gave Meredith a quick kiss before heading down to his office.

Just as Finn left, Meredith's cell phone went off. Izzie was on the other end with Christina. They were rambling about something but Meredith couldn't figure out what they were saying.

"I'm sorry guys, what?"

"Baptisatlrditnetl."

"You guys seriously need to talk clearer."

"Bradpittsinseattleandhebrokehisnose."

"What?" Meredith asked again.

"Brad Pitt's in Seattle and he broke his nose!"

"What?????" Meredith almost screamed.

"You had to have heard us that time."

"I did, I did. Brad Pitt? Seattle? Seattle Grace?"

"Seattle Grace. You better get down here. His nose is huge! Twice the size it used to be."

"Brad Pitt as in Brad Pitt?"

"Yes Meredith. Now get your butt down here."

"Oh I can't. Can I? I mean Bailey would kill me."

"Screw Bailey, Meredith. This is Brad freaking Pitt."

"Is Angelina with him?"

"Oh yeah, and Jen."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously, Mer. You need to come down here!"

Meredith sighed. "Fine, I'll come."

"Good, see you in a few."

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"So do you think she bought it?" Izzie asked Christina.

"No, but I think she's coming anyway."

"Should we have told her the truth? We should've told her the truth."

"She'll find out when she gets here, plus if we had told her the truth, she wouldn't have hesitated to come. You know how her relationship with her mom is."

"Yeah, I know. Hopefully things won't be so bad after she sees her. Maybe Meredith will forget everything."

"These types of things cause people to forget and move on."

"Yang did you call Grey yet?" Bailey yelled.

"We just did."

"And?"

"She's on her way. How is…?"

"I don't know."

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When Meredith arrived at the hospital thirty minutes later, Christina and Izzie were waiting in the lobby for her.

"So where's Brad Pitt?" Meredith asked.

"Here's the thing, he's not exactly here." Christina stated sadly.

"Jennifer Aniston?"

"Not here." Izzie answered.

"Angelina?"

"Nope."

"Guys what's going on?"

Just as Christina was about her answer, her and Izzie's pagers went off. Christina and Izzie began running to the elevator, forgetting about Meredith.

"She woke up. We have to get up there."

"Who woke up and where?" Meredith questioned.

The two interns stopped running and turned to face Meredith.

"Mer…" Christina started.

"You guys go, I'll tell her." A voice from behind her said. It was Derek's.

Christina and Izzie nodded and continued on their way to the elevator.

"Meredith, you might want to sit." Derek spoke.

"No, no, I'm good."

"Mer…"

"Don't call me Mer." Meredith snapped.

"Okay, Meredith." Derek emphasized her name. "You probably should sit."

Meredith shook her head. "You're scaring me Derek so just tell me whatever it is you need to say."

Derek nodded. "Early this morning, your mother was hit by car."

"A car? My mother's not allowed to leave her home."

"She got out."

"How?"

"She just walked out."

"Why? Why would she walk out?"

"Meredith, you need to sit down."

"No!"

"She was bringing you the lunch money that you had forgotten. She wanted to catch you before the bus left."

"But…"

"She was obviously having one of her spells."

"How, how is she?"

"She's doing better. Thankfully the injuries are minor, a few broken bones, a collapsed lung, some stitches. She was unconscious when they brought her here but she's doing much better now. She woke up a few minutes ago."

"Oh my God."

"Are you okay?" Derek placed his hand on Meredith's knee.

"I…I remember that day. She um…we had a fight the night before. I had snuck out and she caught me, so to get back at her, on her day off, I left for school with out saying anything to her. Usually on her day off we'd eat breakfast together, and she'd drive me to school, but that day…that day I just left. After that I didn't see her for two days of so because she was on call. I hurt her."

"Meredith…"

"Can I see her?"

"Meredith…"

"No! Can I see her?!"

"Sure."

Meredith followed Derek up to her mother's room. She waited by the door for a few minutes before going inside. It was the first time she had seen her mother in over a month.

"Hi Mom. It's me, Meredith."

"I know who you are."

Meredith walked over to her mother's bed and sat down.

"How are you feeling?" Meredith asked.

"My arm and my leg hurt."

"Oh."

"Meredith, stand up!" Elis demanded.

Meredith did as she was told.

"Are you…pregnant?" Her mother spat.

"Yes mom. I'm pregnant."

"That son of a bitch knocked you up didn't he? I knew I never should have let you go out with him. I knew he was trouble from the beginning! Oh what are we going to do? You can't keep the baby. You're only fifth teen. Its obviously too late for an abortion. You're going to have to give the baby up for adoption."

"I'm having twins Mom."

"That son of a bitch."

"Mom…"

"Get out! Get out Meredith! I don't want to see you! I need to decide what we are going to do. Go! Go do your homework or something!"

"Mom, please…"

"Meredith, now!"

"Fine." Meredith said sadly and walked out of her mother's hospital room.

Meredith could feel the tears escaping her eyes as she made her way to the elevator. She wished that her mother could just be normal again. She hated that her mom was like this but she knew that it wasn't her fault. Right when she got into the elevator the babies started kicking again which reminded her of all her other problems. Meredith gently pushed the button to the first floor and leaned against the back of the elevator, slowly lowering herself to the ground. She didn't even notice when the elevator doors opened and Addison stepped in.

"Hi Meredith, what are you doing here?"

"Nothing." Meredith wiped her eyes and stood up. "I'm just going home."

"Are you okay?" Addison asked.

"No. I'm not okay, Addison."

"Want to talk about it?"

"Not really. I just…I want all of this to be over with."

"All of what?" Addison asked as she lowered her right hand to tiny bump.

"Everything, just everything. I can't take this anymore, I just can't!" Meredith hit the wall of the elevator with her fist and began to cry again, not only from hurt but out of pain as well.

"Meredith, you need to calm down. This isn't good for…"

"The babies! It isn't good for the babies! The babies! The babies! The babies! Doesn't anybody think about me anymore? Sure Finn does but that's out of pity! If I wasn't pregnant he wouldn't be with me right now! We all know it! You know, Derek knows it, I know! I just…ugh!"

"Meredith, come on."

Addison took Meredith's hand and led her to an empty hospital room.

"Lay down, honey."

Meredith did as she was told. She laid down. Soon Addison began to rub her back. Before she knew it, her crying had stopped and she was asleep.

When Meredith woke up later that day, she had a fetal monitor hooked up to her, and Addison was sitting in the same spot as when she went to sleep.

"What's all this? Are the babies alright?"

"They're fine Meredith. I just want to keep my eye on you okay? You had a little bit of a meltdown before you fell asleep."

"Yeah…"

"Do you want to talk about it?"

Meredith shook her head. "Anything but it."

"Okay. I've been dying to tell you this. I think it will make you laugh!"

Meredith smiled at Addison. If someone told her a year ago that her best friend was going to be Addison she wouldn't have believed them.

"Okay so, about three months, Derek gave me these plain old black panties. He was holding them one day when I walked into the trailer." Meredith flinched at hearing this. She knew that they were hers. "So, the other day, he came home with a bright pink leopard print bra! He handed it to be and said here, this matches those panties I gave you a few months back. He thought I would like it." Addison laughed. "I mean come on, pink leopard print!"

Meredith faked a laugh and then began to cry once again.

"Meredith, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just want to be alone, okay?"

"Yeah, okay. Do you want me to call Finn?"

"No."

"Okay. I'll be in later to check on you."

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Later that night after Christina visited Meredith, she ran into Derek in the hallway.

"Is she okay?" Derek asked.

"Who? Meredith or her mother?"

"Meredith."

"No. No she isn't okay."

"What happened?"

"You and your…you little tadpoles happened. You did this to her! You, you, arg!" Christina threw her hands up in defeat and marched off.

"Wait, what?"

"Nothing Shepherd."

Derek walked over to Meredith's door and looked in through the little window. She was finally asleep again. He couldn't help but wonder what Christina had meant. He did this to her? What did he do to her? Tadpoles? Were those his babies?

"Hey Derek, you ready to go home?" Addison walked up behind him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Yeah."

"Good, let me just check on Meredith and then we can go."

Addison kissed Derek one more time before going into Meredith's room.

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Finn arrived at Meredith's house later that night. There were no lights on and her car wasn't there. He tried calling her cell phone but she wouldn't answer. Where was she? He stayed at her house for almost a half hour before giving up and going home.

A/N: Wow my longest chapter yet for this story. Please tell me what you think! Good? Bad? Please review!