A/N: I am so so so sorry about being MIA for a long time! I can't even apologize enough! Okay so right now I'm having extreme writers block and i don't even know where the story is going. School is starting up pretty soon and I'm going on a cruise for two weeks so I might not update for two weeks but I'm going to try. I can't thank everyone who added me to their favorite story and reviewed. You guys are my inspiration to keep going. Please try to review my story. It would really mean a lot to me.

Chapter 6: It's Better If You Don't Know

Meredith POV

"So Bella's surgery is today." Derek said the next morning at the kitchen table. He was drinking his normal black coffee with some dry toast. We had not spoken of the fight that we had last night, instead we swept the issue under a rug.

"Yeah." I replied. Just the mention of Bella or any of the Cullens sent shivers down my spine. I knew it, George knew it and even Jackson knew that there was something up.

"Good morning guys!" Izzie said walking in the kitchen. Alex followed behind looking a little drowsy.

"Good morn—" I was cut off by the sudden urge to vomit. I covered my mouth and ran into the bathroom.

"Mer?" I heard Derek call. He rushed into the bathroom as I emptied my contents in my stomach into the toilet. "Oh I guess the morning sickness started…"

"No duh Sherlock." I snapped back at him. Men can just be so stupid sometimes.

"Umm, okay." He muttered.

As Derek and I waited for the elevator, Mark approached us.

"Hey Shep. Some game last night right?" Mark said.

"Yeah it was pretty good." Derek said taking a long sip of his coffee.

"And what did you think of the game Mer?" Mark asked me.

"Well, it was boring, but that number 12 guy was pretty hot." I said. It was true, when that other team won and the number 12 guy took off his helmet I almost died!

"Umm, the Seahawks don't have a number 12… but we have Kelly Jennings who is number 21!" Mark said.

"No, number twelve on the navy blue team... the uhh…" I couldn't remember the team name.

"Patriots?" Derek added in for me.

"Yeah, that's it!"

"Oh you like Tom Brady…" Mark said making a face.

"Yeah, what's wrong with him?" I asked.

"Nothing, nothing," Mark started. He then *cough cough* "Idiot." *cough cough*

"Why?" I asked. Nothing seemed to be wrong with him.

*Cough Cough* "Pompous moron" *Cough Cough* Derek Faked cough.

"But he has a hot wife…" Mark said

"Oh yeah Gisele Bundchen is so—" I shot a glare at Derek. He knew that he had to change his wording about Gisele or whatever her name is. "Ugly, very ugly." Derek concluded.

"That's what I thought Derek." I smiled to myself and watched as the metal slide doors opened. We all walked onto the elevator. Rarely we get on an empty one, but today it was just Mark, Derek, and I.

"So what do you guys say we check on Ex-Blondie and his family after rounds to see how there doing?" Mark offered.

Derek and I both agreed. Even though it was a minor procedure, families often worry.

We all walked off of the elevator. I went to the resident lockers, Derek went into his office and Mark went to the Attending's locker room. I soon met up with Derek in Bella's room.

"Charlie, I know you're scared but trust me, it's going to be okay." Carlisle soothed.

Then a sudden wave of happiness filled the room. Carlisle turned to Jasper who just nodded. Derek didn't seem to notice and kept making notes on Bella's charts. Okay now something is definitely up with the Cullens.

"Charlie, why don't you and I go get some fresh air? You have been with Bella since midnight." Jasper offered. Jasper had this certain… I dunno power. One minute Charlie is freaking out and I'm tired and the next I'm feeling happy.

"Sure, that would be good for me to have." Charlie responded. Jasper and Charlie walked out of the way. Edward still sat on the couch in the room. He had an angry expression on his face. He muttered something so softly that I couldn't hear.

"Edward…" Carlisle warned.

Wait? How could Carlisle hear that? He was all the way across the room farther than I was away from him. And also Carlisle wasn't even paying any attention to Edward.

"Oh Carlisle, you dyed your hair back to blonde." I pointed out to avoid the awkwardness.

"Yeah, I couldn't stand another day with it." Carlisle responded.

"Okay Bella, how are you feeling today?" Derek asked Bella who looked pretty tired and hungry.

"Bored." Bella responded.

Derek smiled. "Okay, but besides bored, like do you have any pains, headaches, stomach aches, blurry vision, seeing double?" Derek asked.

"Well I have a head ache, but then again, I did tumble down thirty feet…" Bella said.

"Okay so no blurry vision or seeing double?"

"Nope. Only seeing one."

"Well that's good to hear." Derek said making some notes on her charts. "Okay, now I need you to stand up for me." Derek helped her stand up. The morphine often does make people a little dizzy and tired. "Okay so hold onto my arm with your right hand." Bella did what she was told as Derek held out his forearm for balance. "And with your left index finger, touch the tip of your nose."

Bella touched the tip of her nose with her left index finger and then did the same movement again with her right index finger.

"Very good Bella. Now sit at the edge of your bed and try to sit up straight." Bella followed commands. "Very good, now follow my finger with your eyes."

Bella had almost perfect eye movement.

"Dr. Shepherd, can I have some more morphine? My legs are really starting to hurt along with my head." Bella asked.

Derek nodded and ordered some more morphine for her.

Just then Mark and Emmett appeared in the door way singing Heart of Glass by Blondie.

"Dear God, why must I have the weird kids?" Carlisle asked to no one in particular.

"Tell me about it, I swear Mark is always over…" I responded.

Carlisle gave me a smirk and continued to listen to the song, which both guys got the lyrics completely wrong, but it was a good try.

Once they finished Mark went right into doctor mode, and started to examine Bella's leg. George slipped into the room and stood next to me.

"I have an idea…" George whispered to me. I nodded and we both walked into the hall. "Okay, so I was talking to Cristina and she was talking about some mega-book in your husband's office…"

"Yeah that like million page medical book…" I started to trail off. I then answered his proposition. "Yeah, I forgot all about that. You on-call tonight?"

"No I don't think so." George answered.

"Great, then come on over to my house and we can look over it."

"Umm, that might not be the best idea…"

"Why?" I asked.

"Your husband wants to kill me already. I swear he gave me the death glare like two seconds ago. Oh there he's giving it again." I looked over and saw Derek quickly look back down at Bella's charts.

"Don't worry about him, I'll talk to him at lunch."

"I don't know… I'll have to talk to Olivia and see what she's doing tonight. She may want me at the apartment since I haven't really been there in a while, but I'll talk to her."

"Sounds good." I told him.

Usually I sat with Alex, George, Izzie and Cristina at lunch, but today I decided to go eat lunch in Derek's office. With everything being so hectic lately, we really haven't had any one-on-one time to just talk.

I walked swiftly over the cat walk. Through the glass windows I could see Derek doing his normal paperwork. Maybe now wouldn't be the best time… No, I think he'll be pretty happy to see me.

I knocked once and opened this office door. He looked up and smiled at me.

"Hey Mer."

"You busy? I thought that maybe we could eat lunch together."

"No, I need a break, come on in."

I nodded and closed the door. I sat down on his extremely comfy couch. "So how was your day so far?" I asked trying to make small talk.

"Great how was yours?"

"Pretty good." I opened my salad container and started to eat my lunch.

"I saw you in the OR gallery during surgery. You did a great job." He commented.

"I really hate ortho…" I announced.

"Yeah, I know, you are going into neuro like your awesome neuro-god husband."

"Well neuro is so much more interesting than any other specialty." I said. "But enough hospital talk for now. It seems like that's all we ever talk about nowadays."

"That's true. What do you wanna talk about?" Derek asked.

Maybe I should get his impression on the Cullens. "So do you like the Cullens?"

"Sure, they seem nice. And Carlisle is a great general surgeon as well."

"Okay, now what I'm going to tell you is something you cannot tell anyone."

"Okay." He agreed. "But does Cristina know what you're going to tell me?"

"No, this is how big it is. Okay, so remember when George and I spent the afternoon in the library?" Derek nodded. "Okay, that's because me and George swear that we saw their skin sparkle. There is definitely something up with the Cullens." Derek tried to open his mouth to protest, but I didn't let him. "Let me finish. Carlisle also has like supersonic hearing. Edward muttered something and Carlisle wasn't even looking at him or listening and was at the other side of the room and he heard him. Also, I think Jasper has like this certain power. He like calmed down the room and Carlisle like thanked him. And Bella was saying something about monsters and werewolves and other immortals."

"Okay, there is some medical reason behind all of this I bet. Skin sparkling, it's probably some hallucination that your having because of all of your hormone are mess up, and when you told George he made himself believe. Carlisle, I have noticed has great hearing and that's just something that he was born with. Also Jasper's 'power' is again with your hormones. You are going to probably experience some mood swings, but that is totally normal. And finally Bella was on morphine. People will say a bunch of crap on morphine. I remember when you when you were on morphine." Derek concluded.

"Bella called him Dr. Sparkle Pants and that was after I saw him sparkle. Don't you find it a little weird? And it only sparkles in the sunlight."

"Okay, yes it is a little weird that this is happening." Derek agreed. "But I bet that this little idea started in your head and it's just growing and growing. I'm sure it's really nothing."

Not wanting another fight I just nodded my head. I continued to eat my salad.

I was checking up on Mrs. Jones, a very sweet old lady who just had a hip replacement. She just complemented my work. She told me that I was a talented surgeon, something that you really wouldn't hear too often from patients.

I promised to check up on her soon as I walked out of her room. As I walked back out into the hall I heard a commotion. It was coming from Bella's room. I sprinted into her room where Bella was seizing. A nurse was elevating her bed and a nervous Edward in the corner.

"Someone page Dr. Cullen and Chief Shepherd!" I yelled.

One of the nurses nodded and went off to the nurse's station. I rolled Bella over to her side. Edward was still panicking, "What's going on? Will she be okay?" He asked with pure panic in her voice.

"Edward Bella will be fine. Go tell your family and her father what is going on." I instructed.

"No, I can't leave her."

"Fine, just talk to her. Tell her that she'll be okay and that you are here for her."

Just then Carlisle sprinted into the room. Wow, that was pretty fast, considering he just paged him a few seconds ago.

Carlisle took over my position. Derek arrived a few minutes later. It was getting a little crowed in Bella's room so I decided to go try to find their family to let them know what was going on. I wandered down to the cafeteria to see if they were there. Not only did I find Rosalie and Emmett, but I also found George, Alex, Izzie, and Cristina. I first went over to Emmett and Rosalie. They looked very affectionate with each other. I guess they come from a pretty close family.

"Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that Bella had a seizure, and now Derek and your father are just checking on her head right now." I decided to use the first name basis with them, because it would make them feel a little more at ease.

"Is everything all right?" Emmett asked worried.

"Yes, I don't think it's anything major." I told them.

They both seemed to relax a little bit. Emmett even smiled. "Well you know worst case scenario Edward just—"

Emmett was cut off by Rosalie. "Yeah thanks for the update Meredith."

I was utterly confused. What would Edward do? Hmm, it sounded a lot like George's old saying. 'What would Keanu Reeves do?' Yeah, that statement lasted for all of a week, partly because Alex wouldn't stop making fun of him for it, and also it really didn't make any sense.

"Yeah, umm anytime." I turned and walked away from them. This was starting to get a little weird.

I walked over to all my friends and pulled up an empty seat.

"How was lunch with Derek? Did you guys make up?" Cristina asked.

"Yeah, we're good now I think." I replied.

"George told us what happened last night. I'm so sorry I couldn't be there!" Izzie said.

"No, its fine, Iz."I told her.

Just then, both Izzie and Alex's pagers went off. "Duty calls.' Alex said.

"Bye." Izzie said before they both left.

"Okay, Mer, I know I wasn't suppose to say anything about the Cullens, but Cristina saw them sparkle and she find them different too. So I told her everything." George explained.

Cristina nodded her head. "Mer, I'm with you and Bambi here. They are not human."

"Well, George don't be mad, but I told Derek. He looked at me like I had two heads and claimed it was all just because of my pregnancy and my hormone being all screwed up."

"That's fine I guess." George said. "Oh and I talked to Carlisle like a little while ago. But It had to be cut short because of a 911 page for Bella. Do you know if she's alright?"

"Yeah she's fine. Did you say he was in the cafeteria when he was paged?" I asked.

"Yeah…"

"No, that can't be. He came up only seconds after he was paged." I said.

"Seriously?" Cristina asked.

"Seriously." I answered.

"Okay Mer, I just talked to Olivia and she wants help cleaning the apartment tonight so I can't be there."

"That's okay. Can you come Cris?"

"When am I ever not there?" She asked.

That was pretty much true. Cristina always came without invitation.

The rest of the day passed by quite quickly. I walked over to Derek's office to see if he was ready to go home. From the catwalk, I could see Carlisle walk into his office. I fastened my pace and tried to see if I could walk in on their conversation.

I opened the door and heard. "Why don't you and Esme come on over?"

"Sure, we'd love too. Esme has been worried sick about Bella, and I think she needs to spend some time with people outside of the hospital." Carlisle said.

"Great, we love having company over, right Mer?" I was still standing in the doorway witnessing Derek inviting Esme and Carlisle over.

"Yeah, company is great." I replied.

"Yeah, so why don't you and Esme come over around seven?" Derek asked.

"Sounds great. I can't wait to see you and Mer's house plans."Carlisle said. "Well I should probably go check on Bella but I'll see you guys at seven."

Carlisle brushed past me. "So you ready to go home?" Derek asked.

"Did you seriously just invite him over?" I asked in disbelief.

"Yeah why?"

"Derek, I tell you a secret about how the Cullens aren't exactly normal and the next minute you turn around and ask him over to our house. What are your main intentions here?"

"To show you that there is nothing wrong with the Cullens. They are just normal people."

"Did I tell you that Cristina saw them sparkle all on her own? Doesn't that tell you something? That maybe your wife is not just hallucinating and having hormone issues, that maybe she's telling the truth?"

Derek's face softened. "Mer, if this is really what you think happened then I believe you. If you really think that the Cullens aren't normal then I'll call up Carlisle and cancel."

"Are you kidding me? George and Cristina are coming over and we need to talk to Esme, and see if she'll tell us anything about them." I smiled.

"Mer, you don't know that they are people, not lab rats…" Der asked smiling.

"Fine, then I'll not have her give us a DNA sample." I joked. "And by the way, thank you."

"For what?"

"Believing me."

"Anytime." He said pulling me into a hug.

After about a minute, we parted. He grabbed his briefcase and led me out the door. As we walked down the hall our hands would casually bump into each other, until he held my hand. Personally that was too much PDA for me, which most people wouldn't find it to be that much at all, but I held onto his hand anyways.

"So tell me how was the rest of your day?" I asked.

"More paperwork, it was a pretty slow day. And how was the rest of yours?"

"Same old, same old." I told him.

We walked up to the the elevator and as normal Derek pressed the down button like five time. He claims that it comes faster, but it really doesn't. But like all men, they always think they're right.

We talked more about our day until we got home.

When we got home the door was surprising unlocked. We both ignored that and walked in.

"Well it's about time you guys got here!" We heard Cristina yell from the other room.

"You know, normal people don't just break into their friend's house when they aren't home." Derek said to Cristina.

Cristina emerged to the front hall where Derek and I were taking off out jackets and shoes. "Well normal men don't use that much mousse, but well look at you."

I couldn't help but laugh at Cristina's come back. Derek looked at me as I tried to hide my laughter.

"Well, I'm gonna start dinner." Derek said walking to the kitchen.

"Don't bother, I already ordered pizza and it should be here pretty soon." Cristina said.

"Of course you did…" Derek said.

"Oh and Izzie called. Jackson, Lexie, her and Alex are going out for dinner and they invited us but I told them we had plans. Oh and Mark switched shifts with someone and so he's on-call tonight. Looks like it's just the three of us!" Cristina said excitedly.

"Actually Carlisle and Esme are coming over tonight." I told her.

"No freaking way!" Cristina said.

"Cristina, shouldn't you be home with Owen?" Derek asked her.

"Nah, he's being all moody lately so I told him to just take it easy tonight and sleep. Besides it's just him and Arizona tonight and trust me, she can make anyone happy just by looking at her."

After we all ate our pizza we hung out and watched old surgeries. We didn't even notice the time until we heard a knock on the door.

Derek got up answered the door while Cristina and I tried to make the room look more presentable.

They came for about an hour until they got a call from their house that one of the kids broke something. They didn't seem to mind. According to them it was pretty normal.

"Thank you so much for having us over. It's been hard for us to find people to hang out with since we move so much." Esme said smiling.

"Yeah it's been fun having you guys." Derek agreed.

"Oh dear me, I forgot my sweater on the back porch." Esme said.

"Oh don't worry about it. I'll get it." Derek said going back into the house to get her sweater. Once Derek was inside Carlisle and Esme both looked at Cristina and me.

"I know that you two and George don't think we're exactly normal people. And yes, that is true, but trust me we are absolutely harmless." Carlisle assured us.

Cristina and I were both nervous at that moment. "Well then what are you?" Cristina asked with all of her courage she had.

"It's better if you don't know."

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