Adulteress Love Child

Chapter 23 Keep Breathing

Chapter XXIII
Keep Breathing

The storm is coming
But I don't mind
People are dying
I close my blinds
All that I know is
I'm breathing now

Meredith waddled down the halls of the hospital, her stomach having Braxton hicks contractions which caused her slight pain. Both babies wanted to move like crazy when her stomach tensed and she didn't even want to be touched. She was thankful they were so uneven and only happened every ten or fifteen minutes. She saw Izzie and George talking quietly as she walked to them, George angerly stumbled off and Izzie stood dumbfounded.

"What's wrong Iz?" Meredith asked.

"Nothing," she shook her head and walked away. Meredith wanted to know, Izzie told her earlier that morning that she was looking for another place since Meredith was about to have the babies. She couldn't tell her no because it would be nice to be just her and Derek and their babies but she also felt bad. She continued to walk around until she found Cristina looking at charts.

"Do you know what's going on with Izzie and George?" Meredith asked.

"Nope, but my guess is that Barbie and Bambi did the nasty because Callie always gives Izzie the evil eye and it's so weird around them," Cristina shrugged.

"There is no way, they couldn't have," Meredith said shocked, thinking for a minute. It could be an explanation why things have been so odd. She just shook it off.

"How's married life?" Meredith asked.

"Eh, it's alright. Burke wants kids," Cristina said as she put the chart down and the two of them started walking down the hall.

"Well, kids aren't so bad," Meredith said.

"For you maybe, but for me they are. I don't do kids," Cristina grumbled.

"What about the girls?" Meredith asked.

"I'll love them of course, but I won't have to wake up every other hour for them to latch to my breast and suck me dry and I won't have to change dirty diapers. I'm alright being the cool aunt but I would be a shitty mom," Cristina said.

"Well I hate to agree with you but it's true. You're career driven, so was my mom. She was shitty as a mother but she was a damn good surgeon," Meredith agreed. She had to stop with another Braxton hicks hit, this one actually hurt her.

"Are you having contractions?" Cristina asked concerned.

"No, Braxton hicks. I'll be fine," Meredith shrugged. They both were paged to the ER, and hurried down.

"There was a four car pile-up," Bailey said as she was telling them more information about the crash. The ambulances were five minutes out and they all rushed to get suited up. Derek came down along with Burke and Mark, they each took a resident. Cristina with Burke while Meredith went with Derek. Each resident assigned their interns on what to do as they all went straight to the ambulance bay. They were unloading each crash victim, two DOA's and nothing else majorly wrong with the rest of the patients. One head lac and one with a possible punctured lung. The rest just cuts and bruises. Mark left and said he had better things to do and the chaos was dying down.

"How are you feeling?" Derek asked Meredith as they stood outside the CT room.

"I'm good, they are killing my bladder," Meredith didn't want to worry him that the Braxton hicks were possibly real contractions so she kept to herself. Their patient didn't have any brain bleed and they let a 5th year resident stitch up the head lac.

Derek followed Meredith to the nurses station, they were both filling out the charts and Meredith let out a slight groan as she held her stomach. Derek looked concerned as he stopped what he was doing.