This Is What Dreams Are Made Of: Merder

Are We Out Of The Woods?

Meredith had set up an appointment to run basically every single test Alex could at 12 weeks. She had Alex set up on as soon for as soon as he was available, which he did. Meredith couldn't get any of this off her mind, and she really really wanted to be able to think about other things and not stress out over the baby 24/7. 

"So, Alex set us up an appointment at 3 to run the tests." Meredith said as she met up with Derek on the neuro floor. 

"Well, just come get me when you're ready to go up." Derek said. 

"You're not freaking out about all of this?" Meredith asked. 

"No." Derek said. "Because I know that everything is going to be fine." He said kissing the top of her head as he walked behind the nurse's station to get charts. 

"What if everything isn't fine?" Meredith asked. 

"Everything is fine." Derek said. 

"You better be right." Meredith said. 

"I always am." Derek said with a smile. "Go be a doctor, do great things. Come back at 3." 

"Yes, Dr. Shepherd." Meredith said as she walked away to go round on patients. 

Time went by very slow all day. Meredith looked at the clock every other second to see if magically time would just speed up. Once the clock hit 2:55 Meredith went on her way to find Derek. 

"Do you know where Dr. Shepherd is?" Meredith asked the neuro nurse who was behind the nurse's station desk. 

"He got pulled into an emergency craniotomy about half an hour ago." The nurse said. 

"And he didn't think of telling me?" Meredith asked. 

"Sorry, Dr. Grey." The nurse said. "Do you want me to page him?" 

"No. Thank you though." Meredith said as she went on her way to the OR floor. 

She walked into the gallery where there was no one sitting in, since it was /just/ a craniotomy. 

"Derek Christopher Shepherd." Meredith said over the intercom. 

"Meredith Ann Grey-Shepherd." Derek replied. 

"Do you know what time it is?" She asked. 

"Um 2:58, my love." Derek replied. 

"My love?" Meredith asked. "That's not my point. We have an important thing in 2 minutes and I have a feeling that you're going to miss it." 

"I'm sorry, Meredith." Derek said. "I'll be out of here in the next half hour, I can meet you there if you want." 

"Yeah. I'll see you there." Meredith said before leaving the OR. 

She went up to the cardiac floor, in search of Cristina. 

"Hey." Cristina said as she say Meredith get off the elevator. 

"Hi. I need you." Meredith said. 

"For?" Cristina asked. 

"Alex is running tests on the baby and Derek's in the OR, and I can't do this by myself." Meredith said. 

"Aw, you need your person." Cristina said. 

"Yeah.. sure." Meredith said. "I need to be up there in like 5 seconds to make my time slot so we better hurry." 

"Well let's go." Cristina said. 

Meredith and Cristina made their way up to the PEDS floor where they met up with Alex. 

"So, you told her?" Alex asked. 

"It kinda slipped in the middle of the OR." Meredith said. 

"So, i'm going to take blood from you, then sweeping of the uterus and i'll take a sample of the amniotic sac." Alex said. 

"Don't screw any of this up." Meredith said as she put her arm out for Alex to take blood and moved her other hand to grab Cristina's. 

"Do I screw anything up?" Alex asked as he poked the needle into Meredith's vein to retrieve the blood.

"Be a little gentle about it, please." Meredith said sarcastically. 

"Shut up." Alex said. 

"No wonder why you didn't ace your attending exam your bedside manner sucks." Meredith said. 

"For that I might just not give you the numbing medicine for the amnio but I guess i'll be nice just because you own the hospital." Alex said. 

The tests were done and over with in about 25 minutes. Alex rushed the test results like he always does. 

"You know, Derek said he would be like 30 minutes and it's been like 45.. craniotomy's don't take that long." Meredith said. 

"I'm sure he's fine." Cristina said. 

While on the way back from the lab with the results, Alex walked through the OR floor to check in on a PEDS surgery that Arizona was doing. He walked into the wrong scrub room and saw Derek. 

"Hey, Meredith's been asking for you." Alex said. 

"Yeah.. I know." Derek said. 

"Dude, what's wrong?" Alex asked. 

"What if the baby isn't okay?" Derek asked. "I've been telling Meredith all week that the baby's okay and that she has nothing to worry about, but what if i'm wrong. She will resent me forever." 

"Listen, she loves you. She worships the ground you walk on. She won't hate you. I have you kid's results in my hand as we speak. I think you should go to her, go be with her. She needs you." Alex said. 

Derek shook his head and went up to Meredith, while Alex went to find the right OR and check on the case. 

A couple minutes later, Derek got up to PEDS and walked into the room that Meredith was in. 

"Hey. I'm sorry. Surgery ran a lot longer than I expected." Derek said. 

"It's fine." Meredith said. 

"We're you in here by yourself the whole time?" Derek asked as he walked over to Meredith and took her hand. 

"No. Cristina came up with me and left like 3 minutes ago, she was paged 911." Meredith responded. 

"So, she knows?" Derek asked. 

"Yeah." Meredith said. "She's known for like a week or so." 

"Oh." Derek said. "Well at least she knows now." 

"Yeah." Meredith said. 

Alex walked in the room a couple seconds later. 

"So, I read through the results." Alex said before he was interrupted by Meredith. 

"Spit it out Alex." Meredith said. 

"You're fine." Alex said. "The baby's fine." 

"Thank God." Meredith said. 

"I know the gender too if you want to know." Alex said. 

"Yeah, I didn't ask you to screen for that." Meredith said. 

"Yeah, I know. I wanted to know." Alex said. "So, do you want to know?" 

"No." Derek said. "We know we have a healthy baby and that's all that matters."

"Yeah, you're right." Meredith said. 

"Well, I guess i'll just keep this secret to myself." Alex said. "I'm glad that you guys are having a healthy baby. You two deserve it." 

"Thanks." Meredith said with a smile. 

"We're having a baby." Derek said with a smile. 

"We're having a healthy baby." Meredith said with a smile.