A Choice to Make:

Grey's Anatomy

Setting: After 13x24

Characters: Meredith Grey, Alex, Maggie, Cristina, Nathan

Chapter Five

"Hey Mer. Zola has a lot of questions and I think she's figured it out." Alex said as he walked down the hallway and back into her bedroom.
"What does she know?"
"Well she knows you were with Riggs."
"What? How?" Meredith was startled and confused all at once.
"She saw him. The other day. I don't know details but she told me that."
"Damn it. How?"
"Meredith-"

Her phone rang, it was Cristina.

"Finally" Meredith said.
"Hey" Cristina said over facetime
"Hi. I need to tell you something and I need you to tell me what to do." Meredith's face was red and full of tears. Cristina's mood quickly changed when she saw this. She knew, Meredith didn't even have to say it, Cristina knew.
"You're pregnant." Cristina said softly.
"yes." Meredith's voice broke down
"Mer, it's going to be okay. You took the test right? And you took it more than once right?"
"Yes. I'm sure, or at least seven tests said so." Her voice was soft
"Mer, who's is it? Is it that Nathan guy?"
"Uh yea, it has to be his."
"Have you told him?"
"No, his fiancé was found alive. You know, Megan?"
"Oh okay. So what are you thinking of doing? Are you going to keep it? I mean you already have three kids. Or are you going to get an abortion?"
"I don't know. I know I have three kids, and I don't know if I want a child with Nathan. He's nice and all but he's not Derek. I just want Derek." Her voice fell apart. Cristina looked at her and she knew that Meredith was falling in love with this new man. But she also new no one will ever be Derek. She knew how hard it had been on Meredith.
"Mer do you want me to come home? I can try to get on a plane tonight."
"No stay, you have surgery's and lives to safe. Don't waste time on me, i'll figure it out."
"Okay? I don't want you to become dark and twisty again though. I plan on coming home soon through."
"Cristina, I need help now. If I am going to get an abortion I have to do it before it's too late."
"Okay, just think about it and call me back. I'm sorry but I have to go."

She ended the call and the room went back to being silence. Alex standing in the hallway and Meredith sitting on her bed.

"Hey do you remember way back when this house was a frat house. Or at least it felt like one."
"Haha yeah. Those good old days. Remember the time when you let George and Izzie move in? And the party Izzie threw for her boyfriend."
"Yes, and the time you brought Ava home, and she peed on my couch." Alex laughed
"Or the time your were holding on so tight to that tequila bottle when Derek's mother was coming into town." Meredith didn't laugh. "Oh sorry."
"No it's okay. I just still miss him so much, we had so many great memories."
"Okay well what do you want to do? Drink? Cry? Sleep?" Alex said. Meredith grinned when he said drink. "Oh sorry."
"No I wish I could, but-well-you know.."

For a short amount of time Meredith got to relive the good old days but reality always comes back. She felt like she was going to throw up again. She ran into the bathroom. Alex looked around Meredith's room and he say that she had taken out the post-it note. From there, he realized that the drawing of the giant tumor was gone. He got up and started to look around the room. He wondered out into the hallway and he could see it in Amelia's room.

"Hey Mer!" Alex shouted from the hallway.
"Uh what?" Meredith replied weekly.
"Why is the tumor drawing in Amelia's room?"
"Uh what?"
"The tumor drawing..."
"Oh um I gave it to her."
"Why?"
"Uh- I don't know-"
"Well okay..."
"Yeah..."

Meredith came out of the bathroom and Alex came back into her room. She stood there in the room, it was silent and all the memories came back. The memory of her and Derek trying to get pregnant and the memory of her telling Derek the stories from Europe. They were laughing and smiling, they were happy.

"I have to tell him." Meredith finally said. Alex nodded his head.