Thanks for the wonderful response to the last chapter! Glad everyone doesn't want to murder me for what situation I put Derek in. She's pregnant! I told you guys she would be sooner or later you just had to wait. Well enough of my rambling, on forth with the next chapter!

Meredith sat in a chair watching as the frenzy continued. After telling Mark her news, he had made her sit down and promise not to get up. Like something wasn't going to happen to her if she didn't remain there. It bothered her that nobody was telling her, or therefore any doctors any bit of information. She sighed as she put her head in her hands. She heard someone sit down next to her and looked up.

"I heard the police are trying to talk the guy into letting them in and putting the gun down." said Alex. "I also overhead little announcement before." said Alex.

Meredith shook her head slightly. "I was probably whole hysterical and loud the whole damn hospital probably knows. Another thing I need like a hole in the head." said Meredith. She stayed silent for a moment looking at the floor tiles. She then looked back up at Alex. "He can't leave me here with our child. I … can't… I…. won't. He just can't leave me, I can't do this without him." admitted Meredith.

"He won't leave you Mere. He'll be fine and everything else will be fine. Just wait and see." said Alex as he patted Meredith's knee gently.

Meredith smiled slightly at Alex's thoughtful and heartfelt. "Thanks Alex." Said Meredith as she sat up slightly more, feeling slightly better. "Now would you mind doing me a favor?"

Alex nodded. "Yeah sure, what is it?"

"Get my seltzer bottle, because otherwise I will end up puking on your shoes. And we both don't need that." said Meredith as she and Alex laughed.

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Meredith sat hours later, still waiting for some news. The police were still there and the hospital was now swarmed with them, one on every corner. Patients were still here though, some more freaked out then others. Meredith stood up, deciding she needed a walk. She started off just walking in a circle, but yet somehow ended up in the NICU. She walked over to one of the incubators and flipped open the chart. This little baby in front of her was premature, but fighting like a trooper. She was born early and had many complications. Meredith reached out and stroked her tiny, delicate fingers.

"Her mother hasn't been in yet too see her. Is having doubts and early signs of post partum depression." said a nurse as she opened the incubator." Besides the oxygen tube in her nose, the baby just looked tiny and small. "She's stable enough to hold if you want too. Normally we take them out ourselves, but I actually have some other patients to check on. I won't say anything." said the young nurse as she winked and left the room.

Meredith approached the baby slowly and gently lifted her from the bed, cradling her in her arms, like Derek had shown her. She sat down in one of the chairs and adjusted the tube that was falling-out. She smiled as the baby's lips curled ever so slightly as she did so.

"Well you're a little fighter aren't you?" asked Meredith. "Believe it or not I was once scared of people like you. Something so small, was so scary to me. I guess I overcame it, because now I'm having one of you. A little tiny person that I'm responsible for. And I think Derek, my husband will be thrilled. But if he doesn't make it out of that room alive, how can I do this by-myself?" asked Meredith.

The baby slept soundly and peacefully through this. Meredith smiled slightly before kissing the baby's forehead. "You're a good listener. You know that."

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Meredith somehow ended up back again in those same chairs that she had been sitting in all day. Nothing had changed since she'd taken her walk. Police were still there, and nobody knew the damage in the room yet. She ran her hands around her face as she someone approach and sit. She looked up to see Lexie sitting there with a tray in her hands.

"I figured you had eaten all day. I didn't what you liked so I just got you a sandwich." admitted Lexie modestly.

Meredith smiled as she took the tray from her. "Thanks Lexie." said Meredith as she cracked open the water bottle she was given with her meal and took a large gulp.

They sat there in a almost awkward silence as Meredith chewed. Finally Lexie turned more to talk to Meredith.

"I think that every good relationship has a test. To show like how strong your relationship is, with your boyfriend or spouse. I think you almost to need to prove it, to whoever wants you too; that you can really handle anything that life throws at you. I think this is yours and Derek's. He'll be fine. It's just a test." said Lexie as she quieted down and turned back to face forward and sat in silence.

Meredith nodded and patted Lexie's hand. "You're such a good sister to me… even though I've treated you like crap."

"You're not a bad sister. All the time's you've taken me in, when I had a bad night or something. You easily could have ignored me, but you didn't." said Lexie. "That's a sister."

They sat their in comfortable silence. Until all of a sudden Mark came running into the room. He grabbed the nurse's desk slightly out of breath.

"The door's open."

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Meredith sat ten minutes later watching as doctors and nurses in surgical gowns fled form the elevators, looking scared on so many levels. She stood on her tip-toes looking for Derek or Cristina. She finally spotted her. She ran up to her.

"Thank God." said Meredith relief in her voice.

Cristina pulled at her scrub cap. "It was insane in there. I hid behind a bin for almost three hours."

"Have you seen Derek?" asked Meredith.

"I haven't." said Cristina as she walked a few feet away to talk to Dr. Hunt.

Meredith sighed as she sat back down. He'll come, she assured herself. Just give him time. Please God let him come.

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Derek raced down the halls as soon as he stepped out of the elevator. He had to get to Meredith, know that she was safe and unharmed and wasn't in the next room where the gun went off. He quickly bounded to the main area looking around at the crowds of people. He spotted the Chief standing there.

"Where is she?" he demanded, feeling déjà vu as the words escaped his lips.

"There had to some holdup on getting down to the floor.." warned the Chief just as he had last. Derek continued to look around.

"Where is she?" he demanded his tone harsher then it had been the second time.

"Derek!" he heard as he turned to see Meredith quickly walking over to him. He walked to meet her half-way and immediately wrapped his arms around her, engulfing her tightly and never wanting to let go. He felt her clutching at his scrub top, as if se wanted to make sure he wasn't going to leave. He buried his nose in his hair as he felt her relax against him. She looks up at him and smiles at him gently. "Derek?"

"Hmm?" responds Derek feeling calm and peaceful now that he's out of the OR and knows Meredith okay.

"I'm pregnant."

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