He was a neurosurgeon, one of the the best. She was just starting off. He had been married with children before his wife left him before one day he received divorce papers in the mail. They had been alone ever since.
He asked a couple of nurses for Meredith's room number and eventually, he got an answer.
A couple of them just turned the conversation into flirting.
After about twenty minutes of searching for her room, he found it. He's been working there for a couple of months but he still didn't know his way around the hospital.
When he got there she was still asleep. You could tell she had lost some blood since she was paler than usual.
They were both asleep and the room was quiet. Her vitals were fine, everything went smoothly.
The baby was a bit underweight and would need to stay in the hospital for a while longer.
The baby would need to stay for a couple of weeks before they could take the baby home.
He sat down in the chair next to her bed. The baby cart was right next to her. He hadn't held the baby yet, he hadn't seen her before, and they hadn't told him if the baby was a boy or a girl.
When he saw her he could tell it was a girl. She had a pink hat on and she had Meredith's feminine features.
He sat in the chair and waited for Meredith to wake up. After around thirty minutes he felt her hand move slightly.
She started to stir awake. She immediately tried sitting up but he was quick to help her so she wouldn't hurt herself.
"How is she, how is the baby?" She asked. "She's fine, she small but she's healthy," he said.
"Have you called anyone, what time is it? someone needs to pick up the kids," she said.
"Calm down, Mark will pick up the kids when school ends. Do you want to hold her?" He said.
"Yes, give her to me," she said. He stood up and removed the baby from the cot and handed her to Meredith.
"You should go home and get her bag, we don't have any of her things," she said.
"I will, not right now, I'm going to stay with you for a while first," he said.
"I'll be fine, go get her things and maybe get some actual girl's clothes, everything we have kinda boring," she said.
"I don't think she cares what she's wearing Meredith," he said.
"No, but she needs diapers and other clothes, Cristina's here, I'm sure she'll stop by for a bit, I'll be fine alone. Please go get her bag," she said.
"Fine, but if you need anything call a nurse and then me," he said.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine," she said.
He kisses her on the cheek before getting up and leaving the room and then the hospital.
She just felt like she needed to be alone for a while. She loved Derek and he cared for her but his constant worrying overwhelmed her and made it hard to think.
She wanted some time alone so she could think. She had a baby now, everything was going to change.
Derek was used to it, he had done it all before, three times but this was her first.
She had never thought her life would come to this, being a mother. The thought had crossed her mind a couple of times like it had every girl but she had never thought it was a good idea.
Neither of her parents was good at doing their job as a parent. They did the bare minimum, at least her mother did, her father poured milk in her cereal until she was five and then left.
She had many nannies whom she had never gotten close to. She didn't have many interests like normal kids would.
She had a few toys but her favourite was a doll she had gotten for her birthday, well it was supposed to be for her birthday but her father had given it to her two weeks early.
She carried it around everywhere, she slept with it. She took it to school every day and memorized all the correct names of the organs of her anatomy Jane doll at recess since she never played with anyone.
She never really had friends which also never seemed to bother her. She had learned to get used to being alone, she got so used to it she learned to like it until she chose it over people.
When she was seventeen She had decided she would be like her mother, except not a mother.
She would be alone with a career. She had never planned on ever-changing her mind and letting anyone else change her mind.
She was cold she was depressed but it was her life even if she didn't like it. She thought all she had was a career.
But now she had so much more, she had a fiancée, she had a daughter, her first daughter. Maybe she would be her last child or she would have more.
She learned to live in the moment and now always worries about the future, what could and what would happen.
But now that she has a child she started to worry about the future. She didn't know how to raise a child. She barely even knew what to name her.
She would have to pick out pre-schools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and then colleges.
But for right now she has to figure out how to take care of her daughter while she is still a baby.
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