A/N: I know its been almost a month. I have my excuses as always. I first wanted to wait until the alerts were working. That took about two weeks. Then I moved my computer into the kitchen and I didn't want my parents to see what I was writing so I had to wait until they were out of the room (kind of hard seeing as the kitchen connects a bunch of rooms). Anyway here is the chapter. I lost track of how far along Addie and Mer are so I made them at 32 weeks.
"Good morning Meredith. How are you feeling today?" Addison asked as all of Bailey's interns followed her into the room.
"Tired but relaxed." Meredith answered.
"Karev, what do we have?"
"Um…Meredith Grey. Thirty-two weeks pregnant with twins. Came in two weeks ago with contractions. Has been here since then."
"Very good Karev. Now, if you don't have any complaints, we will be moving on."
"Okay. See you guys later. Cristina stop by after lunch, okay?" Meredith asked.
"Sure."
Ever since Meredith was admitted to Seattle Grace, her days had become filled with eating, sleeping, and watching TV. She wasn't allowed out of bed, and she couldn't even go to the bathroom by herself at first, because she had to drag the IV with her.
Cristina had been a trooper during all of this. Everyday after lunch, she would come up to Meredith's room and tell her about all of the interesting patients that had come in that day. It was far from the same as seeing the patients but it was better then not hearing.
Derek usually came in around ten or eleven, so today when he came in at eight, Meredith knew that something was wrong.
"Hey." Derek flashed his McDreamy smile at her and sat down on one of the hospital chairs.
"Hey you. How are you?"
"Good, I'm good. Very good actually. How are you?"
"Good."
"Did you sleep well last night?"
"Yes, we all did." Meredith placed her hands over her stomach where the two fetuses were.
"Good, I'm glad." Derek paused and ran a hand through his hair. "Meredith…there's no easy way to say this but your mother was admitted again this morning."
"What? What happened?"
"This morning when your mother's nurse went into check on her, she found her beside her bed on the floor. They think she may have had stroke."
"Will she be okay?"
"We can't tell that right now."
"How bad was it?"
"As far as we can see, not so bad. She suffered from a stroke of the right hemisphere."
"Is her left side paralyzed?"
Derek took Meredith's hand in his and kissed it several times.
"Derek, is she going to be paralyzed?"
Derek finally looked up into Meredith's eyes and nodded his head. "Mostly likely yes."
"How long do you think she will live?"
"I don't know. She hasn't woken up yet."
"Can I see her?" Meredith asked.
"I need to ask Addison, but I'm sure that given the circumstances she'll say yes."
Meredith nodded her head and looked away. "Can you go ask her? I should be there if my mom passes."
"Sure." Derek gently kissed the top of Meredith's head and left the room to go find Addison.
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"Addie, hi." Derek grabbed Addison's arm and pulled her aside.
"Hi Derek. What can I do for you?"
"It's about Meredith."
"I'm listening."
"Her mother was admitted today. She had a stroke."
"Is she going to be okay?" Addison questioned.
"I don't know." Derek looked down at the floor and back up at his soon to be ex-wife. "Meredith would like to see her. If I push her down in a wheelchair, would it be possible…"
"Her and the baby's heart rates have been good for two weeks now so I don't see why not. Just don't let her stand up for to long and if anything happens, page me."
Derek took Addison into a tight embrace and sniffed her hair. "Thank you Addie, thank you."
Before Derek had a chance to walk away, Addie had grabbed on to his arm the way he had done to her before.
"Hey, did you go home last night?" Addie asked.
"No. I stayed with Meredith."
"Derek, you haven't slept in a bed in over two weeks. Why don't you go take a little nap? I'll bring Meredith down to her mother."
"No, plus I have surgeries scheduled in two hours." Derek protested.
"So, sleep for two hours. I'll take good care of her, I promise."
"Addie…"
"Derek, you need your sleep. Go, she'll be fine."
"Thank you."
Addison nodded. Once Derek was out of sight, she placed a hand on her stomach and looked down.
"He never lost sleep over us little one. Not once."
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"Knock. Knock."
Meredith looked up as Addison walked into her room. It was the first time the two had been alone together since Meredith was admitted.
"Hey Dr. Montgomery."
"We're not divorced yet." Addison said rather harshly.
"Sorry, I just didn't know what to call you and…"
"Listen, I'm here to take you down to your mother."
"Yeah, okay."
"Okay, so what I need you to do is stand up and then sit in the wheelchair."
Meredith nodded and tried to sit up.
"First, I need to take your monitors off. Same thing we do when you go to the bathroom." Addison snapped.
"Sorry, I forgot."
"Yeah, I can tell."
"Listen Addison, I know that this is the first time we've been alone together. I know its weird. I just…I want to say thank you."
"You can stand up now."
Meredith nodded, and got out of her bed. She stretched her legs and quickly sat down in the wheel chair.
Addison placed her two hands on Meredith's wheelchair and proceeded out into the hospital.
"Doctor Shepherd?" Meredith asked.
"Yes, Meredith?"
"Why did you lie?"
"Why did I lie about what?" Addison asked, sounding more than annoyed.
"You know about what. Why did you tell Derek that you lost the baby if you really didn't?"
"You wouldn't understand Meredith."
"Really? Try me." Meredith snapped.
Addison pulled Meredith's wheel chair into an empty waiting room and sat down in front of her.
"Meredith, when I called you that night and…and I could hear Derek in the background, you have no idea how much that hurt."
Meredith let out a slight chuckle. "I don't know how much that hurt? Seriously Addison? Me? If you remember correctly, you were the one who came here and took Derek away from me, so don't give me that shit. You hurt me first."
"He's my husband Meredith, my husband. I couldn't just let that go, could I?"
Meredith didn't want to answer the question because she knew that Addie was right. "Why did you lie about the baby Addison?"
"I was hurting, and I guess I just…figured…that Derek should be hurting too, not just me."
"So, it was punishment for sleeping with me?"
"Ye-NO! Of course not."
"You wanted to punish him by having him believe that his baby was dead?" Meredith bitterly asked.
"It's complicated."
"Don't 'it's complicated' me. I own 'it's complicated'."
"Meredith…how do you know you're not his punishment for me?" As soon as the words had left Addison's mouth, she had regretted them.
"What?" Meredith questioned.
"Meredith, I didn't mean…"
Meredith's face whitened and her hands were brought down to her stomach. She refused to look up at the red head that she once called a friend.
"Can you just take me to my mother now?" Meredith mumbled, still not looking up.
"Meredith…"
"Please?"
Addison didn't say anything else. She gently placed her hands on the wheelchair and began to push Meredith Grey towards the ICU.
After ten minutes, Addison and Meredith were standing outside Elis Grey's room.
"You need to put these on to go in." Addison spoke gently.
Meredith nodded and slowly stood up from the wheel chair. She tied the paper gown on the best she could and sat back down. Addison handed her a mask, and put on a gown as well.
"You ready?" Addison asked.
"No, but I need to do this."
Addison pushed Meredith into the room and placed the wheelchair on the side of the bed.
"I'll be out here. Just call me when you're down."
Meredith nodded.
Once Addison had left, Meredith picked up her mother's hand and held it in hers.
"So, I know we aren't all that close, but you're my mom. You're all I have as far as family goes and I don't think I can lose you. You have no idea how much it hurts to be seeing you like this." Meredith started crying and wiped her tears away with her other hand.
"You know, in a few weeks, you're going to be a grandma. I'm having two babies mommy. Can you even imagine me a mom? I sure can't. I'm such a wreck mom. My babies' dad got his wife pregnant as well. Yeah, I slept with a married man. I guess we have more in common then you thought, huh? Hey mom, they're kicking."
Meredith took her mother's hand and placed it to the left of her stomach. "This is Charlie, mom. He's the active one. It seems like he is always kicking."
Meredith removed her mother's hand and placed it on the other side of her stomach. "Now, this is Ryan. Ryan is more relaxed. He doesn't kick unless Charlie is kicking him. When Charlie kicks in another direction, Ryan just kind of sits there."
Meredith sat there with her mother for another fifth teen minutes until her back began to ache.
"Mom, I'm really sorry, but I have to go now. I'm not to used to sitting up for a long period of time. I've been laying down for the past two weeks so this is a big change. It's starting to hurt my back, so I'm going to go."
Meredith waited for a reply but when none came she wheeled herself back into the hallway.
"Meredith, what do you think you're doing?" Addison hollered.
Meredith ignored her. "I'm ready to go back now."
"Okay."
After walking in silence for a few minutes, Addison spoke up.
"Listen, about what I said before…"
"Forget it. It doesn't matter. I just want to go to sleep."
"Meredith…"
"I said forget it."
Addison dropped the subject.
Once they got back to Meredith's room, Addison hooked Meredith back up to all of her machines and left her alone.
It wasn't until three o'clock that Derek walked into the room.
"Hey Mere."
"Hi." Meredith said coldly.
"How are you?"
"Good."
"Mere?"
"Hmm?"
"What's wrong?" Derek pushed.
"Nothings wrong, Derek. I'm just tired and I'm trying not to think about my mother, okay?"
"Yeah okay."
Derek walked over to the bed and sat down next to Meredith, placing his hand on her bump.
"If you don't mind I would like to be alone now."
"What?"
"I'd like to be alone Derek."
"Yeah…okay."
With out questioning Meredith, Derek got up and walked out of the room.
A/N: So I know it wasn't the best chapter in the world. I know Addison seemed like a bitch. I didn't really know what to write so I just wrote as it came. I hope you guys liked it. Let me know what you think.
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