Second Chances

Two

|Meredith's POV|

Marcus laughs as I talk to him about how I had my hand on a bomb "Every time" I say "I think back to that moment, I can't believe I put my hand on a bomb" Zola is with Alec and Jane, Marcus's twins who he adopted with his late wife Dydime.

The door opens and in comes Cristina, she looks at me confused and shocked along with the twins and Marcus "Mere?" She asks looking at us "what's going on?"

"Cristina this is Marcus and his children Alec and Jane" I introduce them "this is Cristina, she's my twisted sister"

She waves her hand to them warily "Congratulations on the baby" Alec offers, how does he know? He makes a face as Jane glared at him, he then glared at her before looking to Cristina "you have that glow? That pregnancy glow" oh, that makes sense "plus I have a very good gift for telling when a woman is pregnant"

"That's weird" Cristina says, looking to me "why are you in here?"

"I stole a baby" telling her as I take Zola back into my arms not wanting to let her go.

"First of all" Cristina shakes her head waving to me "you didn't steal the baby, she's your baby. What you did was take her for a nap...in a very odd location and failed to answer your phone or pager"

"Or" Marcus looks at me "I can say we are old friends and you lost track of the time, that you turned in your pager and your phone was left in your car"

Cristina nods her head agreeing with Marcus "Yes, that can explain why you were gone for an hour"

"Four" correcting her and she gives me a look "Janet was going to take my baby" I shouldn't have lied to Janet about me and Derek in an argument and how we are living separately, I shouldn't have messed with the Alzheimer's Trial. But if I just kept what I was doing, Adele could have been given the drug while the other person the placebo. The original drug was going to be given to someone who died, I didn't technically mess with anything. Plus Richard kept begging Derek for Adele to be given the drug and he begged for her to be in the trial.

"Okay" she holds her hands out nodding her head "okay" clapping her hands together holding her hands out "you know? People make mistakes, today I almost killed Alex in the OR" I'm sorry?! What?!

"How?" I ask

"We'll figure something out" she assured me

"No" shaking my head "how did you almost kill Alex" looking to Marcus who is staring at me "Alex is our friend, he's like a brother" he nods his head.

"With a CC of epi" my eyes widen opening my mouth in an o "What-whatever, you know. He'll be fine" she waves her hand.

"Let's go" Marcus stands up holding out his hand "I'll speak to this Janet"

"Okay" nodding my head, taking his hand standing up. We leave the closet and head over to the lobby where Janet was.  When we see her, she looks our way with a tense expression and I hold my child close.

"Allow me" Marcus placed a hand on my shoulder, he walks over to Janet and speaks to her. She looks at him then to us.