NINE MONTHS LATER
"Oh crap," muttered Meredith picking up her cell phone and calling Cristina. "Come on pick up…pick up…pick up."
"What do you want?" said Cristina on the other end of the phone.
"My water broke," said Meredith simply.
"Uh…okay, where are you?" said Cristina calmly.
"Uh…at the house, I came back to do motherly stuff and…"
"Motherly stuff?" scoffed Cristina.
"I straightened out the diapers," sighed Meredith. "OWWWW Cristina, help me!"
"Alex will be there in two minutes tops," said Cristina.
"How?"
"We sent him to check up on you," said Cristina. "He should be pulling into the driveway now."
"I see him," cried Meredith so relieved she could have cried.
"Stay calm, grab the bag Izzie packed for you it's in the hall closet and Alex is going to bring you in," said Cristina. "We'll be waiting."
"No Derek…"
"We'll whisk you off to the baby wing before McDreamy even gets out of surgery," said Cristina. "We were never going to let you give birth at Mercy West even if you do work there."
Meredith had never gone back to Seattle Grace after her 'abortion'. The truth was she couldn't do through with it, she just let Derek think that she had. She had transferred to Mercy West and hadn't heard from Derek in nine months. She knew from her friends that Derek was still with Rose, and apparently very happy.
"Alright okay…I can do this," said Meredith more to herself than anyone else.
"Okay Grey lets do this," said Alex taking the phone from Meredith, grabbing her overnight bag and leading her by the hand to the car.
"Alex I'm going to be a Mom, a baby…shit I'm going to give birth to an actual person," gasped Meredith clutching her stomach.
"Wow you're a bright spark Grey," chuckled Alex.
"Sorry but it's scary…really scary and Derek…he won't know promise me you won't let him find out," begged Meredith.
"I'll be more effective than a rottweiler I promise," said Alex.
"Thank you."
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At 3:14am Meredith Grey gave birth to a healthy baby girl, with a full head of black curly hair and sparkling blue eyes. Six hours later Meredith painfully shuffled down to the nursery to see her new daughter and found Derek standing in front of the window staring at the babies.
"Third from left, in the back row," he said dangerously seriously.
"What?" said Meredith.
"Our daughter, is the crib third from the left in the back row."
"No."
"Yes."
"You don't know that, any of it," said Meredith too tired to decide what the smartest thing to say would be.
"I do know," said Derek. "Are you saying that you didn't give birth to that baby?"
"You could have seen her chart to know that."
"I haven't seen her chart, Karev told the nurses not to let me in," said Derek. "Check if you want."
"That's not necessary," said Meredith knowing he was telling the truth. She knew which baby was hers without any doubt, obviously it was the same for Derek he could pick his daughter out of a crowd.
"How could you lie and tell me you got rid of our baby?"
"How is Rose?" snapped Meredith.
"She's fine," said Derek stiffly. "You told me you got rid of our baby."
"I know," shrugged Meredith.
"Can I see her?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because she doesn't need you in her life, neither of us do," said Meredith bluntly. She didn't mean to be cruel, she just wanted him to understand that she didn't want to be around him but she couldn't get rid of his baby. She barely understood it herself, she just knew that she didn't want Derek back in her life, he had hurt her enough the last time and she couldn't risk her baby getting hurt.
"Meredith I am her father," said Derek raising his voice.
"Says who?"
"Me? DNA?"
"Her birth certificate will read Father Unknown and I will not consent to a DNA test," said Meredith pushing the door to the nursery open.
"I'll get a lawyer," he called after her. But she didn't hear him, she was too mesmerized by her beautiful daughter who reminded her so much of the man staring at them through the glass window.
"Don't worry baby, he won't hurt you," she murmured to the baby as she rocked her to sleep. "We'll be fine, just the two of us."