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Meredith sat in the resident's lounge drinking seltzer early mid-afternoon. She hadn't seen Derek all day. He was paged late last night and then had surgeries all day. She looked up when Alex entered the lounge.
"What is up with you and that stuff? You've been guzzling it all day." asked Alex as he took a sandwich from his cubby.
"Can't I like seltzer?" asked Meredith as she put it in her cubby. As if on cue both their pagers went off. "The ER, let's go." said Meredith as she stood up and they quickly jogged down the stairs.
There had been a minor car accident which basically meant sutures and stitches. She was stitching up a little girl's forehead for about ten minutes when Nurse Olivia ran into the ER screaming. The Chief who had been down there checking everything out immediately looked up.
"Olivia what's going on?" asked Richard as he walked over to her. She shook her head as she pointed a shaky finger to the stairs.
"There's a hostage situation in the OR. The guy… he shot and someone's hurt and bleeding because I slipped in it." said Olivia as everyone now noticed her surgical gown that blood all over it. She let out a gasping breath. "I ran out as soon as the gun-shot went off because I was near the door. I think I heard a shot in the next OR too." said Olivia.
Richard's face immediately paled he stood in silence for a moment before once again going into action. He turned to the front desk. "Call the police and get them here, explain the situation.". He turned and led a shaken Olivia to a chair. "Olivia who's surgery were you in?" asked Richard calmly.
"I was scrubbed in with Dr. Shepherd." answered Olivia.
No one heard anything else after that except Meredith's instrument table clashing to the floor as she dropped it. Hearing word's that no wife ever wanted to hear. Her husband was possibly in danger.
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Within in ten minutes police cars and other emergency cars were piled outside the hospital. Everyone was now on the main level of the hospital. It was completely abuzz with doctors and nurses' wanting to know what was going on. Suddenly after about half an hour a swarm of doctors came out of the OR all in surgical gowns. Hunt being the last to step out.
"They talked the other guy out of shooting." said Hunt as he walked up to the Chief looking slightly shaken up. "They led us the other way, so I couldn't what was going on in the next OR." said Hunt as he looked at Meredith slightly as he said this.
"What the hell is going on?" asked Mark as he walked up.
"Sir," said a police officer with a bullet protected vest on. "Their was another gunshot fired. We're not sure if it was aimed at someone, or the consequences of it."
"Well why don't you know?" asked Meredith as her pitch changed in her voice to panicky.
"Dr. Shepherd….." warned Richard sensing a tension build-up.
"Can't you people just do your god damn job and find out if my husband is dead or alive?" asked Meredith
Richard stood there and looked at the woman in front of him slowly breaking down, as the police officer, stood quiet not knowing to respond to that. Mark led Meredith over a set of chairs. She collapsed into the chair as her breathing became more rapid as thoughts started to whizz by in her head.
"Meredith I know this is scary, but you need to relax and calm down." said Mark as he watched her breathing pick up more. "Meredith you need to breathe."
Mark's words weren't even reaching Meredith at this point. She was in her own little bubble. Finding this out all at once, felt like someone kept stabbing her in the lung. As every piece of bad news was given, it became harder for her to breathe.
"Meredith?" asked Mark as he say how she was still starting to hyperventilate and not calm down. Seeing he wasn't going to help her he turned towards the group of men standing in front of her. He rubbed Meredith's back coaxing her to breathe while he talked.
"Someone get Yang." said Mark
"She's in surgery with Shepherd." said Hunt quietly.
Meredith's face paled more then it was to begin with. Her person and her husband could possibly be dead. She gasped for air. Derek had promised her a lifetime.
"I want to die at 110 in your arms."
They had plans. Plans that Derek needed to be here for. And Cristina was her person. What was going to happen if she lost her. Who could she turn too?
Meredith let out a gasp of air that she didn't realize she was holding in. She looked up at Mark as her breathing became less hitched.
"Mark you don't understand he can't leave me. He can't go off and die leave me here all by myself. He just can't." said Meredith as tears formed in her eyes.
"Meredith he's not going to, I promise you that. If Derek knew had to leave you he would fight every battle had to, just to get back to you. I understand that you're feeling worried…." started Mark before Meredith cut him off.
"No Mark you really don't understand." said Meredith as she stood up and stood in front of him.
"Meredith…." said Mark trying to calm her down.
"Mark I'm pregnant."
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