Derek entered Ellis's room. He was suprised to see Meredith asleep on the couch. Her head was in Richard's lap and her feet rested on Richies.

Christina had followed him in, and had taken the quiet as a nerve wraking response to her presence. That was of course until she too spotted Meredith asleep on the couch.

"Good afternoon" derek greeted them all as he regained focus.

"Derek" ellis said nervously.

"Elle, are you ready for this?" derek asked nervously.

Ellis nodded awkwardly, her focus moving to christina. She was curious about the person who was standing in front of her. If she had understood correctly, then this person was carrying her sons child.

"Now elle, I know you understand the procedure and the risks, and I have been reassured that you have explained the risks to Richie. So do you have questions?" he asked

Ellis smiled as she sat up slightly, her legs were tingling from being in bed for too long.

"I do actually" she spoke as she looked towards christina. She was her decoy, there to take her mind off of the fact that she would undergoing another surgery.

Christina shifted nervously feeling the curious gaze of ellis upon her.

"You are carrying my granchild are u not?" Ellis asked her, and she saw out of the corner of her eye Richard move ready to interrupt.

"I don't believe this is any of your business." Christina answered with as much courage as she could muster.

"I can make it my business." Ellis said as she smiled warmly. "You see I know what it is like to be pregnant during your intern year, and even more so, I know what it is like to be pregnant to a man who is as equally busy, however, I had the issue of carrying twins, where if you are lucky, you will not."

Derek moved uncomfortably. He did not think that it was appropriate for Ellis to be having this conversation with Christina.

"Why are people looking so uncomfortable?" ellis asked as she looked around the room.

"Ellis, this is between Christina and Alex." Richard reminded her.

"Mom, don't interfere, Alex will hate you for it." Richie also added.

Ellis shrugged them off and turned back to Christina. "Are you keeping it?" she asked .

Christina sighed. "I'm not sure." She spoke honestly, "but that is a conversation to be had between myself and your son."

"It's ok to have doubts." Ellis informed her, "I can see you are competitive and extremely work orientated, so very much like me." Ellis noted, "just do me a favour and consider all options, you don't want to regret aborting your child, and yet you don't want to neglect them either."

"Like you did?" christina asked.

"I don't think you understand the situation." Ellis said, she was a little shocked by christina's forwardness.

"But I do" christina replied.

"I have listened to your son talk briefly on the subject, but I can understand the situation. You felt helpless so you cut and ran, when there was something you could do. At least when I felt helpless, I was too young and couldn't do anything. I didn't run, and I couldn't run." Christina finished before moving to the door. "There is no situation that makes what you did ok. And my baby, or alex's baby, that has nothing to do with you and everything to do with Alex."

"Everything to do with Alex has something to do with me." Ellis stated, and yet lacked confidence because she knew that she had lost the right.

"Actually no, and it hasn't for a while." Christina said with a sigh as she left the room.

Derek watched her leave and ran his hand through his hair.
he then turned to look at meredith who was still sleeping. He moved towards her and lowered himself to her level. He had heard the change in her breathing only moments before, and yet, she still seemed to be peaceful.
He rested a hand on her side and stroked it softly.
"How long has she been out for?" he asked.

"About an hour or so." Richard replied. "She started to have a panic attack and she has been asleep since."

Derek nodded and leaned in to kiss her temple.

Ellis watched on with a softness in her eyes, she had never seen someone love someone else as delicately as derek seemed to love meredith. She was glad that derek had found someone who he could focus all his attention on, and was more than thrilled that it was Meredith. However, she witheld such a comment as she did not want to trigger a similar reaction as she had done from Christina. She yearned to be back on a decent level with her children and she could only hope that things would work out for her now and give her the chance to redeem herself.