B for Babies

13

"I told you I'm fine." Meredith complained. She's over worked herself during her rounds, and ended up with a nasty case of dehydration. If she worked any place other than a hospital, maybe she would have gotten away with it, but Arizona wasn't letting her off that easily.

She sat up on her hospital bed, drip leading into her arm. She hated this, absolutely hated being a patient. It felt so constricted and completely put her into one of her bad moods. Alex had been paged, but it had been fifteen minutes and he still hadn't shown up. This just made her even more upset. Maybe she really wanted to see him, maybe she thought he would get her out of bed. She didn't know which was more correct but she did know every second he didn't show up, the crankier she felt.

When Alex did eventually turn up, it had only been 25 minutes since he'd been paged. He'd finished in a surgery which explained the delay, but Meredith was still in one of her moods. It didn't help that her baby loved laying on her bladder at night, which made sure she got no sleep at all. That's why the mood was so dark, she was running on no sleep. "There you are." She said as she shot up into a seated position. Alex nodded grimly as he wandered further into the room. He had closed the door behind himself, allowing them a little privacy.

"I had surgery." He answered, in a mood himself. He's had such a long morning, and really it was still very early. He had so many stresses to worry about that everything work related just made his head spin. Luckily for him, it seemed like some of his cases were going to work out alright, which was amazing news when you worked with tiny humans.

Meredith frowned, but she expected as much. "You didn't have to come." She told him, although just a few moments ago that's all she had wanted him to do.

"We're having a kid, it's not like I would leave you here all by yourself." He reminded her, moving to take a seat beside her bed.

"We're not having a kid. I'm having a kid. When you get to shove a human out of your vagina give me a call." She snapped, hardly able to look at him now.

Alex just rolled his eyes, he knew she was moody but this was just ridiculous. His voice raised a little when he spoke again. "Fine. You know what? Maybe I won't come next time I'm paged about you because clearly you're just going to push me away like you do to everybody else."

"Fine." She quipped, her arms folded neatly over her chest. She didn't want to fight with Alex, she didn't want to fight with anybody. It just hurt her knowing that she was the one who made him apart of this mess, of all of her messes. She was responsible for his part in her messy life. It wasn't fair, and she was taking it out on him, the wrong person.

"You want me to go and get your boyfriend?" Alex asked after a long pause of silence. Meredith turned to look at him, her face softened at the hint of truce in his tone.

"He's not my boyfriend." She said firmly, shaking her head.

This made Alex start to smile again, knowing how his teasing could drive her up a wall. "Well you're having his baby. What else do I call him?" He asked, moving over so Meredith was in arms reach.

She rolled her eyes fiercely and reached out to grab him by his wrist. "My mistake?" She offered, causing Alex to chuckle.

The pair stared at each other for a moment. Meredith held one hand against her belly, the other held onto Alex as if she were scared he would leave her alone. He didn't, he wasn't going to. He just stayed there with her, not saying a word because he didn't have to.

He left for a few hours to tend to his patients, and although Meredith was back to her hydrated self, Bailey had made it very clear that she wasn't allowed to work again that day. Meredith didn't let that stop her though. She wore plain clothes and followed Edwards around like her own personal puppy, a puppy that critiqued her every move and made sure Edwards didn't have a second to herself the entire rest of shift.

"She's not riding you too hard is she?" Alex asked Edwards later that same afternoon. She turned to look at Meredith, before giving Alex a fake grin.

"I've been ridden harder." She told him. Meredith pretended to gag in the background. She wasn't too impressed by Alex needing to check on her, but at least he wasn't Bailey, who would have yelled at her for disobeying her orders of bed rest.

"Edwards is fine, we're fine. You don't have to check up on us." She told her partner in crime. "We are perfectly fine." She kept repeating as if he hadn't heard her the first couple of times.

He raised his hands in defence, finding it quite amusing actually. He knew Meredith better than anybody, so he was well aware of her reaction before he'd even made a move. "Alright. Well I'll see you at home then." He said to her, leaning across to give her a peck on the lips. This was to get her to shut up of course, but Edwards didn't know that, and Meredith certainly wasn't expecting it.

Her eyes widened, but Alex's head was in the way of anybody seeing that. She didn't have a point of reference that told her what to feel about this, did she like it? Did she hate it? She had no idea. It was hard to even find the words to explain this to her. "Right. Home." She spluttered, losing her train of thought.