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Chapter 48

Meredith felt as if she were having an out of body experience, she was numb and frozen in step, she could feel her heart beating wildly in her ears and forced herself to breathe. She had a growing belly but it wasn't that big yet. She'd upped a size in shirt and pants in order to hide it better, how did her mother know, and what else did she know? Meredith slowly turned around to face her mother and gulped.

"Baby?" Meredith stuttered, hoping that maybe she'd heard her mother wrong, or that she could play it off as a rumor. "What baby?"

"Don't play me as stupid." Ellis said narrowly, she glanced at Meredith's midsection "I know you're pregnant."

"Ho..how." Meredith choked out "How did you know?"

"Because I'm a mother." Ellis said "I may be a cold hearted bitch and drive you insane and have sky high expectations from you Meredith, but I'm still a mother. And you have a look."

"A look?" Meredith frowned.

"The look women get when they're expecting, it's pretty obvious, and you trying to hide it only emphasizes it more." Ellis said "So who's is it."

Phew, she didn't know about Derek "Um.. just, someone. Someone I'd been seeing."

"Does he have a name?"

"Yes he does." She nodded "He has a name."

"And?" Ellis raised a brow, looking at her daughter expectantly.

"And he's happy about the baby but would rather remain anonymous."

"You will tell me," Ellis muttered "Or else."

"Or else what? You'll fire me." Meredith scoffed "You can't. Firing me professionally over a personal issue would be a conflict of interest."

"Fine." Ellis sighed "Go get that Christina girl and tell her to meet me in OR 4 for my whipple. I need an intern."

"What." Meredith gulped "If you need an intern why can't I just join you."

"Are you going to tell me who the father of your baby is?" Ellis asked, Meredith stared blankly "Then no."

Meredith watched Ellis skirt away and felt a sinking feeling in her gut. She was free of one secret but still holding onto another, with her life it seemed, or career at least.

"Hey." She heard next to her and glanced over.

"Hi."

"What did your mother want?" he asked. "Sending you out to the battlefield for more hours?"

"No." she mumbled.

"Really?" he frowned "That's kind of odd."

"She knows about the baby." Meredith mumbled, Derek did a double glance and Meredith finally looked up at him "She's known for a while."

"Does she know about..."

"No." she shook her head.

"Is she mad?"

"Yes." Meredith sighed "But only because I didn't tell her sooner....and tell her who the father is."

"So tell her." He shrugged. "Maybe she'll be ok with it, she seemed nice enough about finding out about the baby."

"Or maybe she's just putting up the act in order to get me to tell her who to fire."

"Meredith," he sighed "I'm a world renowned neurosurgeon, I can get a job anywhere."

"Maybe," she shrugged "but I won't be the cause of you losing your job. You won't feel the wrath of Ellis Grey over me."

"It'll happen eventually."

"Eventually feels a lot different than actually."

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