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Chapter 47

"You need to tell her." Derek pleaded

"Really I don't." Meredith shook her head as she flipped through charts "I mean it's a fact of life, do I need to tell her every time I have to pee too? No, it's none of her business."

"It's her grandchild." Derek sighed "She might want to know."

"She barely wants to admit to the fact that she has a daughter Derek." Meredith rolled her eyes "I doubt that she even wants to think about the possibility of a grandchild."

"It's your decision." Derek sighed "But I vote that we tell her."

"Well me and the baby vote no, so that's two to one."

"How can you possibly vote for the baby." Derek frowned defensively "It doesn't even have a voice yet."

"As long as it's in there jumping up and down on my bladder, I get to vote for it." Meredith said "So our vote is no."

"You can really feel it." Derek's eyes lit up. Meredith saw the look in his eyes and realized where they were and saw it as a danger.

"Yes." She hissed and shot him a warning look "But I swear to god if you touch my belly here in the hospital I will throw you down the stairwell!"

"Right." He gulped and looked to be obviously holding himself back. "I'll see you later Dr. Grey."

"Bye." She said as if without emotion but flashed him a sideways smile as he turned to walk off.

Meredith sighed as she turned into the stairwell to go check on a patient and only made it up one flight when she stopped and shivered as her mother stopped and stared down at her.

"Making a mess of things as usual?" She snipped.

"Just learning and doing my job." Meredith said. Ellis scoffed and took a step around Meredith but she stopped her by stepping in the way. "Mom."

"Meredith." Ellis said coldly "Do not refer to me so casually while we're at work. I am your boss!"

"Sorry." Meredith mumbled "So um, I know this is going to sound sudden but I guess I need to tell you something, since you're my boss and all."

"You're rambling is very annoying." Ellis narrowed her eyes "Just spit it out, I'm in a hurry."

"I'm pregnant." Meredith blurted, Ellis stood there shell shocked and Meredith took the lack of yelling to be a good sign, a flicker of excitement that she'd always hoped her mother would be happy about something like this flashed in her mind "You're going to be a grandmother."

"No." Ellis choked out and suddenly the hard expression was back "No I'm not. There will be no baby, and you are no daughter of mine!"

Meredith didn't have a moment to react. Ellis shoved her arms out into Meredith and pushed her backwards, sending her sailing down the stairs.

Meredith screamed and her eyes opened to a dark room, she heard a shushing sound and felt a large warm hand on her. She gulped and sat upright on the on call room bunk and squinted through the dark to see Derek looking at her concerned.

"Don't worry, no one saw me come in here." He said "I made sure of it."

"Ok." She nodded "I just, I had a bad dream."

"Another one about telling your mother?" he asked, she nodded "We still have a while longer until you can't cover it up anymore. You should try to relax, stress isn't good for the baby."

"I know." Meredith sighed "I just feel so torn. Like I want to tell her thinking maybe, just MAYBE she'll be happy over it. But then again I feel like she'll kill me when she finds out. She's been so Jekyll and Hyde lately, something is wrong with her."

"Something is definitely wrong with her." Derek chuckled and kissed her on the forehead as he flipped the lamp light on. "Here this might make you feel better."

"What is it?" she asked while taking the Styrofoam cup and bringing the straw to her mouth already.

"Strawberry milkshake, like you were craving this morning."

"Mmm!" she moaned as she took a big sip "Thanks, you're a life saver." She heard a loud screeching noise come from her hip and groaned as she pulled the black pager from her waistband. "Damn it."

"I guess I'll see you later." Derek said "Hopefully she won't put you on another 52 hour shift again."

"I don't know." Meredith shrugged as she stood up "I guess that depends on if it's a Jekyll day or a Hyde day."

"I love you." He chuckled and kissed her "See you at home."

"See ya." She smiled and turned and walked out of the on call room.

Her mother was waiting at the nurses' station desk holding a stack of charts and looking slightly annoyed. She gulped and stalled a little before walking forward, Ellis looked a little relieved at the sight of her daughter and held the charts out.

"I need you to get these done before you leave today." She said.

"You mean I'm actually leaving this place?"

"Don't get too attached to the idea." Ellis said "I'll need you back in here tomorrow afternoon. Just home enough to get some rest."

"Ok." Meredith nodded.

"Did you take a lunch break?" Ellis asked, eying the cup in her hand, Meredith looked at it as if not even realizing it was there.

"Oh um no D—" she stopped herself "Someone brought me a strawberry milkshake, they said I looked a little starved."

"Strawberry milkshake?" Ellis almost scoffed "Interesting."

"What is?"

"Oh just that I used to crave those all the time when I was pregnant with you." She said. Meredith gulped, it must be a Dr. Jekyll day, she seemed far too sentimental to reveal that kind of information. "So get those done by four and you can go."

"Alright." Meredith nodded and turned to walk off and get the work done so she could go home and lay in her own bed.

"Oh one more thing Meredith." Ellis said.

Meredith stopped but didn't turn around.

"Were you going to tell me about your baby anytime soon, or should I just keep pretending like I don't know?"

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