iLove

Chapter 42

"Meredith!" she heard her name called from a room as she was hurrying down the hallway that morning, she stopped and turned see her mother "Meredith come here and help me!"

"What do you need?" Meredith asked while walking into the room.

"I need to turn this patient." she grunted as she was trying to roll a very large patient in a better position to do a chest tube. "Please help me."

Meredith started to help but she remembered that it would be a very bad idea for her in her condition.

"I..." she stuttered "I can't."

"What!" Ellis hissed "Of course you can! Now come help me!"

"This is a nurses job anyway." Meredith argued "Why haven't you called one."

"I did but they're all morons!" she growled "Now, help me!"

Meredith panicked, she wasn't ready to reveal to her mother just why she couldn't help her lift a probably 300 pound patient, she saw someone walking by the door and felt relief.

"George!" Meredith gasped, he stopped and turned into the doorway "George, please help Dr. Grey lift the patient."

"No!" Ellis hissed "Meredith I asked you to help me, now you help me!"

"George would be of better help, let him help you." Meredith stuttered, George nodded and started to walk over to the bed.

"Dr. O'Malley if you touch that patient I'll have you cleaning up emesis basins for a week!" Ellis hissed "Meredith stop being lazy and help me!"

"I can't!" Meredith muttered.

"And why the hell not!" Ellis demanded.

Meredith stared at her choking over her own words...I'm pregnant. That's right, I'm pregnant. And Dr. Shepherd is the father. I'm knocked up with an attending's baby. Why was that so hard to say?

"Meredith has a hernia." George blurted out, both Meredith and Ellis snapped their heads over to him as he shifted a little uncomfortably "I'm sorry, I wasn't supposed to say anything. She didn't want anyone to know because she doesn't want to take any time off work. I keep telling her to get it treated but she won't listen. That's why she can't help you lift the patient Dr. Grey. So please let me help you so she doesn't make it worse than it already is."

"Oh." Ellis mumbled after a long silence "Well Meredith, why didn't you say so!"

"I um..." Meredith stuttered "I didn't want anyone to know?"

Ellis nodded and she and George moved the patient so she could start a chest tube. Meredith turned to walk out of the room and George shortly followed.

"Thank you George." She breathed "I owe you!"

"It was lame," he sighed "I'm sorry it was all I could think of."

"No it was really good." she giggled "It was better than telling her the truth."

"Yeah well lets hope she doesn't make you have surgery for it." he mumbled. She rolled her eyes "So have you seen Shepherd this morning?"

"Not since I ran out of the house after breakfast." she said.

"So you're still freaking out about the marriage thing?"

"Pretty much!" she said "Who does that anyway? I mean we've only known each other for a few months. We can't get married!"

"You're having a baby." George pointed out "Not to say you have to necessarily get married, but if you think getting married is moving too fast just remember you've got his spawn inside of you right now."

"Yeah, but people can't always help having a baby." She said "They can always help getting married."

"Unless you're drunk and in vegas." George said "You can't really help that."

"True."

"Meredith let me ask you something." he said, stopping her around a corner "You say you love him, and he obviously adores you. If you can imagine your life without him then why are you with him? And if you can't imagine your life without him, then why not? And do me a favor, don't use the baby as an excuse for anything."

Meredith just stared at him for a moment thinking about what he said.

"Oh and by the way, something's wrong with Izzy."

"What?" Meredith asked, thankful for a different conversation "What do you mean?"

"I don't know, but she keeps disappearing and not talking."

"Not talking?" Meredith raised her brow "Something really is wrong."

"Exactly." George said "After work will you help me corner her and get it out?"

"George, I'm really not good with touchy feely." Meredith groaned "And I barely have the energy to drive home after work."

"You owe me." George smirked. She glared at him but realized he was right.

"Fine."

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