Hi guys, another 2 chapters, not many to go now!!! Merry Christmas everyone!! I may be able to squeeze an update in tomorrow night, if not it wont be until Sunday! Dani xx
Chapter Forty-Five: Boys!
Meredith hurried as quickly as her exceptionally large body would let her to catch up to the other interns, hoping that Bailey wouldn't notice her lateness. She didn't want special treatment just because she was pregnant and that included being late because of appointments.
"Dr Grey nice of you to join us" Dr Bailey said turning to look at Meredith how was now out of breath.
"Sorry Dr Bailey I had an appointment" Meredith replied, just because she didn't want special treatment it didn't mean she wouldn't use them as genuine reasons.
"Oh is everything okay?" Bailey asked concerned that Meredith had had an appointment and hadn't notified her.
"Yeah just a routine appointment" Meredith replied wanting to get to work and not talk about her personal appointment.
"Very well, Dr Montgomery needs an intern so you can go find her" Bailey said resuming her superior position.
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"Hey Addie" Meredith said approaching Addison outside a patient's room. She had clearly just finished rounding on her.
"Mer what's up?" she asked wondering why Meredith was there and not working.
"Bailey said you needed an intern, so here I am" Meredith said with a smile.
"Oh alright then, you seem happy" Addison noticed the smile that had not left Meredith's face since she had arrived.
"I am, everything is great. Baby B is still a little smaller but it's okay. Two perfectly healthy babies" Meredith beamed.
"That's great Mer, but you said it, I thought you were going to find out their sexes" Addison said surprised. Meredith had seemed so excited about finding out the sexes of the babies so she could finally being preparing for their arrival in less than 3 months.
"We did, well sort of" Meredith said.
"How do you sort of find out?" Addison said fighting to hold back the laughter that had risen; sometimes she wondered where Meredith's words came from.
"We could only see one of the babies; the other had its back to us. But Baby A is a little boy" Meredith said with a smile.
Addison let out a little squeal and hugged her best friend. "That's great Mer, now you can finally start buying some stuff" Addison continued.
"Yeah Dr Clarke said since different sex twins are rare we are most likely having two boys" Meredith told Addison.
"Mark must be thrilled" Addison replied.
"I guess, he was happy but I wouldn't say thrilled. He has always had his dream of having a little girl, it's not like he is going to resent having boys it's just something we've always talked about" Meredith said sadly.
"I wouldn't rule it out Mer, she said usually that's not always" Addison reasoned with Meredith.
"I guess, oh well, so what do you need me to do?" Meredith said realising she should probably do some work instead of gossiping about her impending motherhood.
"Can you go check on the bloods for Mrs Jenkins, she is scheduled for the removal of an ovary, and you can scrub in when we have the bloods" Addison told her.
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"Geez Mer, you look like crap" Cristina commented to her 'person' as she flopped into a chair at the table where the 'gang' was already seated.
"Thanks Cris, that's what happens when you are 6 months pregnant with twins and you've just been in surgery for 4 hours" Meredith snapped. She was hungry, tired and her feet were killing her. To say the least she was in no mood for Cristina's sarcasm.
"Wow those hormones are in full swing this afternoon" Alex sniggered at her.
Too tired to even argue Meredith simply threw a fry in Alex's direction.
"Maybe you should think about cutting back some of your hours Mer" Izzie suggested knowing that Mark had been trying to get her to cut back for the past few weeks. He had asked her to help.
"I can't, I'm going to be put behind when the twins are born anyway with maternity leave and all" Meredith said with a mouth full of food.
"The extra stress can't be good for them either Mer, at least think about it" Izzie tried persuading her friend.
"You have been spending too much time with Mark, are you two conspiring against me or something" Meredith huffed clearly upset that they had been talking about her.
"Be careful Mer we all know what happened last time a friend of yours got close to your husband" Cristina joked not thinking what she had just said.
Meredith just glared at her, not even getting into how uncalled for her joke had been.
"Sorry Mer, I didn't think" Cristina apologised. "So how are the Mcbabies?" she asked trying to change the subject as quickly as possible.
"Kicking and moving a lot. I guess it's no surprise that one of them is a boy" Meredith said with a small smile as she watched her friend's faces react the news of one of the babies being a boy.
"Seriously Mer, boys" Alex cheered with a huge grin. "We definitely needed more guys around here and now we have two" he continued.
"Maybe two" Meredith interrupted him. "We could only see one of them, the other had its back to us, Dr Clarke said it's most likely to be two boys but not to rule out one being a girl" Meredith explained.
"See Alex, I could still be right" Izzie teased since her money had been on the babies being girls. "So I guess the nursery isn't going to be all blue since you don't know for sure yet?" Izzie asked.
"I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet, might need your help there Izz" Meredith said knowing it would make Izzie's day to be able to help out with the nursery, Meredith was counting on Izzie knowing that she had been around kids.
Before Izzie was given a chance to reply Meredith's pager signalled she needed to be somewhere.
"That's weird" Meredith said not knowing why a nurse would be paging her. "Later guys" she said before waddling off to see what she was required for.