I skipped ahead a few months now just to move the story along faster, I was starting to get a bit stuck.
Chapter Forty-One: Pop!
3 months later….Meredith is now 6 months pregnant.
"Meredith hurry up we are going to be late" Izzie called from the bottom of the stairs trying to get Meredith to be quicker. Mark had had to get into the hospital early for an emergency surgery leaving Izzie to get Meredith to work.
"Sorry" Meredith mumbled making her way down the stairs.
"Are you okay?" Izzie asked concerned as she ushered Meredith out the door and into the car.
"Yeah just babies are kicking really badly lately, I barely slept" Meredith told her.
"Oh I can't believe in 3 months you will have two tiny little babies" Izzie gushed.
"Yeah I will remember that excitement Izz when you are complaining they kept you up all night" Meredith laughed as they pulled into the hospital parking lot.
"So have you and Mark decided if you are going find out the sexes" Izzie asked as they made their way into the hospital.
"Yeah we want to find out; I have an appointment tomorrow actually so we are going to find out. That way we can do the nursery and start getting stuff" Meredith told her friend.
"How exciting" Izzie bubbled as they entered the locker room.
"What's exciting?" Cristina asked as the two girls made their way over to her.
"Meredith is going to find out the babies' sexes tomorrow" Izzie exclaimed.
"Oh so you mean Mcbabies are finally going to get names" Cristina asked.
"Well options anyway" Meredith said changing into her scrubs. She was completely changed standing there talking unaware of why everyone was staring at her.
"WHAT!?" she exclaimed at them all. "Is my shirt on backwards?" she asked as she looked down noticing what everyone was looking at. Her shirt stopped just short of her bump that was sticking out from the bottom of her shirt.
"Crap!" she exclaimed. "I have freaking popped!"
"Its okay Mer" Izzie said trying to calm her friend. "Alex do you have a spare shirt?" she asked quickly.
"Ah yeah of course I do" he said not realising why.
"Well give it to Meredith, you are a bigger size it won't look so bad" Izzie said taking control of the situation.
Meredith had just swapped the shirts when Bailey came in with assignments. "Right everyone assignments, there will be no swapping around today either, you think I don't realise but I know everything" she barked at them. "Karev Hahn, O'Malley Shepherd, Stevens Montgomery, Grey Sloan and Yang you can stick with me" Bailey ordered.
Meredith went to walk out the door when Bailey stopped her. "Meredith you look bigger than you did yesterday" Bailey said noticing the difference in her size.
"That's because I am" Meredith snapped at her walking off in a huff.
"Hormones, she only just realised she popped, she had to borrow a shirt from Alex" Izzie exclaimed to a shocked Bailey.
"Right well what are you fools still standing here for, move!"
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"Hey you" Meredith said coming up behind Mark wrapping her arms around him as he stood at the nurses station.
Mark turned around a smile across his face as he saw it was Meredith. He kissed her cheek and greeted her good morning having missed seeing her before work. "How you feeling today?" he asked.
"I'm fine, I'm your intern today" she said with a smile.
"Okay well I have a rhinoplasty in a couple of hours so we need to go see the patient and explain it all to her" Mark said passing her the chart.
"I have to get new scrubs" Meredith mentioned as they made their way to the patient's room.
"Why what's wrong with those ones, they seem okay" Mark said not even noticing what Meredith had also failed to notice.
"These aren't mine Mark" she told him with a small smile. "I had to borrow a shirt from Alex because mine wouldn't fit" she continued.
"It fit yesterday" he said annoyed by Meredith's complaining.
"That's because yesterday I hadn't freaking popped" she snapped at him walking on ahead clearly upset with the fact he hadn't noticed or even understood what she was saying.
"I'm sorry Meri" Mark said as he caught up with her outside the patient's room. "You are so beautiful" he said kissing her lips.
"You're not getting away with it that easily" she snapped as they entered the room leaving their personal issues outside.
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"Well it was a smooth surgery, no complication, you did good in there" Mark said to Meredith as they scrubbed out from the surgery.
"I'm still not forgiving you" she told him firmly.
"I told you I will make it up to you" he breathed against her neck causing shivers to run through her body. "Tonight" he whispered.
"Ah you're forget, I am having dinner with Addison tonight" she teased him.
"Oh is that tonight?" he asked clearly forgetting.
Meredith nodded. "Yes why did you have plans?" she asked.
"No I just didn't realise, so things must be okay between the two of you if you are having dinner again. The past 3 months have been good for you two" Mark noted.
"We are getting there, I really did miss her though" Meredith confided in her husband.
"I know you did sweetie" he said pulling her into a hug. He placed a kiss on her forehead before releasing her.
"I have to go change and then I will meet you in the lobby and we can go home, I'm meeting Addie at the restaurant at 8" Meredith told Mark as they went their separate ways.