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Chapter 30

Meredith heard her pager go off and managed to pick herself up off the bathroom floor and answer it. She noticed that it was Derek and hoped it was work related, she wasn't ready to talk about it, she wasn't ready to deal with this. Part of her regretted telling him but she didn't know what else she could do.

The room was 2035 and when she got in there she saw him talking to a couple with scared expressions and a happy, healthy looking toddler sitting in the middle of the large hospital bed, she felt her emotions getting the better of her knowing that something must be wrong with the little girl. She always hated seeing kids sick and hurt but especially now..

"Half her brain?" the mother gasped, Meredith looked over at Derek to see him pointing to a cat scan "You need to cut out half her brain?"

"If we don't the rest of it will become diseased and die of, and it will be too late." Derek said.

"But how is that even possible!" her father asked.

"Her age makes it possible." Derek said, he glanced at Meredith with a look of relief, he handed her a chart and she flipped it open and read it, she was hit by a wave of nausea again. "She could go on to live a full healthy life after this."

"How did this happen?" Her mother gasped and burst into tears.

"Mrs. Hiatt I assure you that Jamie is in the best hands here and Seattle Grace." Derek said "And this is Dr. Grey, she'll be assisting me on this case. If you have any questions please page either of us."

They nodded, Meredith glanced up at him to see a slight smirk on his face. He nodded, gesturing her to follow him out of the room. She did and he went down a side hallway and around a corner to a dead end where only a few empty rooms were. He turned around to face her with an unmanageable smile across his face.

"So." he smiled "We're having a baby."

"What." she hissed "You call me out here to talk to me about this? I thought you wanted me on this case."

"I do want you on this case." he said "But we should talk about this."

"We really don't have to talk about it at all." she said "I don't know why I told you."

"Meredith." he scoffed a little "We're going to have a baby, we need to talk about this."

"WE?" she grimaced "No Derek, WE are not having a baby...I'm an intern, and my mother is Hitler, and she still can't know about us, now I'm also pregnant and I'm scared and not sure what to do yet."

"Well obviously there's only one thing to do." he frowned.

"No." she shook her head slowly and gulped "There's not just one thing to do....I have options."

Derek pursed his lips as he tried to wrap his head around what she was saying and suddenly it hit him. His eyes glazed over and turned hard, the hostile man that she first met here at SGH was suddenly back and standing in front of her.

"Fine." he muttered through his teeth "I suppose you have the RIGHT."

"Derek."

"You don't want to talk about it." he muttered "And honestly neither do I." he shoved the chart into her arms "Take Jamie down for another CT scan and do blood work, call the OR we need to get her in as soon as possible."

He turned and stormed off with out another word. She sighed as she looked over the chart and winced when the broken look on his face kept showing up in her mind. But she had no idea what she was going to do...she valued life and unborn life at that. But this was the worst of all time to have a baby, she just couldn't see how it could work out at all.

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