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Chapter 29

Meredith heard what George called out to her and made a mental note to thoroughly beat him to death later, especially if any of the nurses or *gulp* her mother heard him. But she couldn't help but wonder on it, especially when her flu had dissipated mid afternoon. She counted in her head the hours she'd been sick and then decided to make a trip to the pharmacy....outside the hospital.

She took her loot and went straight into the first bathroom she could find. She sat on the toilet as she stared at the result window aimlessly, she picked up the instruction paper and read it over a few times then she stared at the little white stick again and gulped.

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Derek was walking the halls, he was looking for Meredith and hoping to check on her but he couldn't seem to find her, and that worried the hell out of him. He heard his phone go off in his pocket and felt a jump in his chest, hopefully some information.

MEG216: We've got problems.
DASH109: How are you feeling? I've been worried.
MEG216: You have NO idea.
DASH109: You're not really making any sense, where are you?
MEG216: In hell!
DASH109: Explain please?

Just as he pressed send someone came barreling around the corner and she gasped, he caught her and sighed with relief to have her in his grasp again. She looked at him with a terrified expression in her eyes, he felt her slip something into his pocket but didn't bother, all he wanted to do was take her in and make sure she was ok.

"Oh, Derek!" he heard called across the hallway before he could get a word out, he looked up to see Ellis standing there with a red head in salmon colored scrubs, smiling at him and waving him over. He looked at Meredith and then at Ellis and cursed under his breath. "Meredith you come too." she said in a not so friendly tone.

They both walked over to her, Meredith gulped as she felt a knot and wave of nausea hit her again, she wondered if it was the salmon scrubs.

"This is Dr. Addison Montgomery, she's joining our team as a neonatologist." Ellis said "Addison this is Dr. Meredith Grey, she's just one of the many interns you get to torture this year."

"Grey?" she asked in a soft voice "Is she related to you Ellis?"

"Yea." Ellis mumbled "My daughter.

"Wow!" Addison gasped "You've got some big shoes to fill...I bet everyone hates you."

"You have no idea." Meredith moaned through her teeth.

"Anyways I really wanted to introduce you to this man." Ellis glowed "Dr. Derek Shepherd, he's our head of neurosurgery." Ellis giggled as they shook hands "And he's single."

Meredith felt another wave of nausea, she knew something wasn't right. Her mother was too happy, she was trying to set them up. She rolled her eyes and turned into the bathroom that was right behind them with her hand over her mouth. Derek's eyes followed her in as if by habit, he realized what he was doing and then turned back to Ellis and Addison.

"Is she ok?" Addison asked, looking rather concerned.

"Oh don't worry about her." Ellis brushed it off "She's just a weak link."

Addison looked a little surprised at the cold behavior Ellis seemed to display towards her daughter. Derek glanced at the bathroom door again and then shook his head as he turned back to the two woman.

"Um, yeah." he said clearing his throat "I'm head of neurosurgery, welcome to the hospital."

"I look forward to working close to you Dr. Shepherd." Addison said sincerely.

"Addison, let me show you down the hall where the NICU is." Ellis said pointing. Addison nodded and smirked at Derek as her and Ellis started to walk off.

Derek was torn between going with them and checking on Meredith. Ellis gave him an expectant look.

"I'm going to check on something at the nurses station, I'll be right with you ladies." Derek said.

"Don't be too long." Ellis said. He nodded.

Derek frowned after they disappeared around the corner and wondered how Meredith was doing, she still hadn't come out of the bathroom yet. He then remembered her sticking something in his pocket and reached in, feeling something long thin and plastic. He pulled it out and saw a white stick with a window thing in the middle. There were to dark pink lines on it and he squinted a little, wondering what it was and why she'd given it to him. He knew he should know what it was but he for some brainless reason had no idea.

"Oh, who's pregnant?" he heard in front of him and jumped a little to see a red head in front of him.

"Huh?" he asked. She smiled and pointed at the object in his hand.

"That's a pregnancy test." she giggled "And a positive one at that!"

Derek felt his heart pound as his mind slowly took everything in and it all fell together to what she was trying to tell him. Addison bounced on her toes a little and smiled at Derek expectantly.

"So who's pregnant?"

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