Meredith looked to Derek who had kept his arm around her waist. She shifted nervously. She had yet to talk to her mother or Richie.

Derek pulled her close and wrapped his other arm around her bringing his hand to rest on her stomach.

Meredith sighed as he shifted his hand under her scrub top. He chuckled when he felt her squirm. "You're starting to show." he whispered as he then moved to nuzzle her neck.

"I hope i didn't get paged to see that." Addison quipped.

Meredith blushed.

Addison looked at her curiously. "The baby ok?" she asked.

"It's fine." Meredith smiled.

Addison frowned.

"Really it is." Meredith promised. "Right Der."

Derek beamed. "The baby is wonderful."

"Please just sit." Meredith encouraged. "Mark and Lex will be here soon."

Addison nodded and moved to the couch.


Mark and Alex rushed into the room. "You paged?" Alex asked a look of concern on his face.

"Sit" Derek told them.

Mark looked at Derek and folded his arms in defiance.

"Please Mark." Meredith pleaded.

Mark frowned, but did as he was asked and moved to sit beside Addison.

Alex didn't move.

Meredith turned to Derek, who let her go. She then moved forward and took Alex's hand.

"Guys, Dads just gone with Burke. We are worried that he may have had a severe panic attack or a small heart attack." Meredith told them.

Mark froze. Addison quickly put an arm around him, while Alex stepped back. "He's ok" she reassured them, "he's just getting some tests done. But that's not why you were paged."

Alex looked at Meredith. It was obvious that she was worried. Meredith sighed and Derek stepped forward and rested a hand on her shoulder.

Addison was running her hand up and down Mark's back.


"When mom left," Meredith said through her shaky breath. "When Mom left, she, she was pregnant." she finished.

Alex's head shot up and looked over at Ellis. Mark had tensed up and Addison just stared at Meredith.

"We... we have a brother." Meredith stammered.

Richie stepped forward. "Hi guys, i'm Richard, Richard Webber."

Richie stood there uncertain.

Alex didn't say or do anything. His expression was unreadable.

Mark moved away from Addison. He felt like breaking something.

Meredith watched as her brothers were breaking. She felt helpless. She had had all night to digest the news.

Ellis remained quiet the whole time. She was busy observing her children's reactions.

"I... i need air." Alex said quickly.

"Me too." Mark added.

"I'm... i'm coming too." Meredith sighed, Derek squeezed her shoulder.



Addison sighed knowing that right now this was something that they needed to do.

Meredith reached for Alex's hand again. Mark nodded and they slowly left the room.

Addison moved from the couch towards Derek. "You'll get used to this." she whispered. "But let's go to the roof. That's where they are going, and they'll need us soon."

Derek nodded. "We'll be back in later to do your obs." he told Ellis.

Richie stood with his head hanging down.

"They'll come around." Derek told him. "Just let them digest this first."

Richie nodded and watched them leave the room