Remember for me

Chapter twenty nine:

"See, here's the picture!" Meredith smiled. She still had the picture Mark took at the baby shower, of her and Christina and Bailey. All with baby bumps, big smiles, and matching lavender dresses.

"Those dresses are ugly!" Ellie laughed.

"It was the only colour the store had with three in stock in all of our sizes" Meredith chuckled "it isn't easy fitting a bowling ball under clothes you know"

"No, they wouldn't" Derek smiled "because you all are over twenty and we still don't have any grandkids!" Everyone groaned. Derek loved kids, and he wanted grandkids so,etching fierce.

All of the kids, and even Meredith too, thought he wanted Meredith to live just to see her first grandchild. And if that meant peer pressure baby style, that's what he was going to do.

"Mom, what happened to the baby?" Lexie suddenly asked. It was a giant, looking question that no one wanted to ask. No one felt like they should ask.

Meredith sighed and smiled a sad smile "you'll find out, don't worry"

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Meredith's POV:

Twenty two weeks. That's how long I've been pregnant.

And it kinda sucks because pregnancy is kicking my ass.

There's all these women who say pregnancy is a breeze, and it's nothing to worry about. Not if you're me.

I'm constantly sick, nothing tastes right, and ever since little one started kicking, he hasn't stopped. Not even long enough for a small nap.

That means I can't scrub in as often, because my bladder is constantly being stomped on by a little unborn Sloan midget. 

"Mark your kid is being way to hyper" I complained as I rubbed my belly. "Talk to him" truth be told, talking to him doesn't really help. He still keeps on running laps, no matter how many times Mark talks to him.

"Hey little dude" Mark smiled as he talked to my belly "I know you're probably a little cramped in there, but you'll be out soon. Eighteen more weeks and you won't be so squished in there anymore"

I sighed, the kicks lessened, and I was beyond great full.

Until Marks pager went off.

"Sorry, Merry. I got a burn case in the ER" he quickly kissed my forehead and my belly before heading off. I stood up, off to do my rounds.

Patients don't wait just because my baby keeps kicking.

I didn't look at the name on the chart, I just grabbed it and walked to the room. I was still looking down at the chart, my free hand rubbing my belly to keep the baby semi-calm. I sighed, and started talking.

I explained the condition, carefully, before looking up from the chart.

I really really wished I had read the name. Because I was face to face with my sister Molly, and my father.

"Meredith" my dad asked, surprised "you're pregnant"

I never had a close relationship with my Dad, so I had to bribe Lexie not to tell him or Molly. If he really wanted to know how I was, he could ask me and not my baby sister.

"Uh yeah" I say "I'm due in July"

"So baby Laura will have a little cousin" Molly smiled as she rubbed her own belly. I totally forgot she was pregnant, even though I brought cupcakes to her baby shower.

I smiled "I'm sorry I never told you sooner, I've just been swamped lately" I sigh. I wasn't actually sorry though. I had better things to do than give my father a play by play of my life, which he could care less about.

"Do you know what you're having?" My dad asked.

"A baby boy" I smile.

"Do you have a name picked out?" Molly asks me.

"Not really" I laugh "Mark loves the name Ethan, but I'm not too sold"

"Do you like any names?" She asks me. "Because I liked Lilly, but my husband liked Maura, after his Mom, so we kinda mixed the two names and went with Laura"

"I like Michael Joseph" I say "but Mark isn't sold, so we're trying to compromise. I think the top three right now are Tyler, James and Max"

"Those are nice names"

"Yeah, they really are"

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Later that night, I was sitting with Christina in the cafeteria eating some graveyard shift food. I hated the graveyard shift, but it was better than trying to sleep with a kicking baby in my gut.

"Have you and Burke thought of baby names?" I ask Christina. She shrugs, and swallows her mouth full of brownie.

"If it's a boy we're naming him Preston Burke Jr." Christina says "and if it's a girl we're naming her Kelly"

"Why those names?" I ask, trying to find ideas to think of my own name.

"Well" Christina says "I wanted to name the boy after Burke, because all other boys names are either overused or weird sounding. Like, come on. There's a million Alex's and Brady's and Eddies and Ryan's. And it's either that or something dumb like Waldo or Dustin which sounds like dusty, or Reese which sounds like the chocolate" Christina sighs "point is, Preston Jr. Was a nice in between name I like and Burke likes"

"Why Kelly?" I ask.

"I had a patient, she wasn't more than twenty or so. And she was going to have twins, two boys. She told me she wanted a girl, but she'd love her boys. I asked what she was naming the boys, then she told me. I asked what she'd name a girl and she said Kelly. I liked the name, and Burke didn't mind since our boys name was his name" she tells me as she sips her water. "It's a nice mature name, not too childish or weird"

"Burke likes the name Kelly? That wasn't on his baby board" I say. Burke was so excited for the baby, that he put a baby board in the lounge. If anyone came up with a really nice name, they wrote it on the board. At the end of the day, he and Christina would see which names were worth a second glance and which ones weren't. I remember Christina telling me Burke liked all these weird names that no one was even sure how to spell.

"He didn't get a say. I'm the fat one who's going to hatch his spawn" Christina says, and I just laughed.

A/n- WHOOO LONG CHAPTERRRRRR.

if your name is any of the names mentioned by Christina, I feel like I should say I have nothing against those names I just picked some random ones for Christina to bash. They're all lovely names.

This is a really long chapter!!!

Thanks for reading!

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Btw the crowen fic will be posted a day or two before this book ends. Btw I don't know how many chapters I have left in this book, but I don't think it'll pass forty. Or even be really close to forty. Maybe thirty five or so. I think if I counted right there's maybe seven chapters left???

~DAISYYYY