So this is my first Grey's Anatomy fanfiction. It takes place right after season 7. Please read and review and don't forget to tell me if I should go on writing or not ;)

Let's Make It Right

Finding Out

It was the day that they should eventually become a family but everything turned out to be shattered. Meredith was allowed to take little Zola home from the hospital and was granted partial custody of her, of course together with her husband Derek. They had been dreaming of their very own little family ever since they lost their first kid during the shooting and had been trying, but Meredith had a hostile uterus so she had trouble getting pregnant. So they decided to try anyway until they met Zola, an orphan from Malawi. Derek met her because he was supposed to put in a shunt to drain her spinal fluid. He instantly connected with the tiny human and immediately talked to his wife about adoption. After heaps of paper work and meetings with a social worker they were finally considered to be Zola's parents on the day Derek found out about Meredith messing with his clinical trial about Alzheimer's. It was a trial to cure the awful disease Meredith might have inherited from her mother, but now all the work was messed up by Meredith switching syringes so Adele would get the active agent. Anyway Derek left to think after saying he was not sure he wanted to raise a baby with someone who doesn't know right from wrong. Just then Meredith was granted custody and took her little girl home. It was supposed to be crowded and loud but instead it was quiet and no one was there until Cristina came in telling Meredith she was getting an abortion. Her husband Owen kicked her out because she made the decision without thinking about him. Cristina headed to the couch immediately due to her having a headache. Just then Zola started to cry and Meredith ran upstairs to calm her down.

"Hey baby girl, what's the wrong?" she asked softly entering the room. She picked up Zola and sniffed her diaper. "Oh, I see where the problem is" she said walking to the changing table to put off her romper suit and diaper which revealed a disgusting smell. Zola didn't stop crying. "Shhh, it's okay, but you have to help me here. We're a team, remember?" she asked soothingly. It seemed to calm Zola down as she changed her diaper and dressed her again.

Meredith picked her baby up again and lay her down in her portable crib before going to the bathroom to get ready for bed. When she came back to her room Meredith noticed that Zola was still wide-awake so she took the baby and cradled her what seemed to make her sleepy. Meredith waited until the baby was fast asleep and took her in bed with her. She was really nervous about being in bed with the tiny human but still wouldn't let go of her as Zola grabbed a strand of her mother's hair in her sleep. Meredith let out a small smile before closing her eyes trying to sleep. It seemed impossible to sleep since every time she drifted away the fight she had with Derek crossed her mind waking her up again.

Zola woke up several times that night but always fell back asleep after having her diaper changed or something to eat.

The next morning Derek got up from his mattress he had placed in the nursery of the new still unfinished house. He went to his car and drove to the hospital where he took a shower in the attending's room first before going on rounds. Right after rounds he was paged to the ER.

"Tell me what you got" he told Owen as he walked in the ER. He noticed that it was pretty empty besides the usual emergencies. "Didn't you page any residents to help you out?" he asked confused when he saw no residents but April Kepner who was on Hunts service this day.

"I didn't page you for a trauma, Shep. I need to talk to you about Cristina." He noticed a questioning look on Derek's face and went on. "She's pregnant and decided to have an abortion without considering what I want. Do you think you can talk to your wife so she can talk mine into having this baby?" he asked hopefully.

"I think that's not such a good idea? You know after what you told me about my trial we got in a fight and I never went home last night." He answered quietly.

"So you don't know if Cristina went to your house last night? I told her to leave after she told me about her plan and hoped that she went to your house." You could see that Owen lost all the hope he had.

"No, I'm sorry. Maybe you should try to talk to her, I think she's on Bailey's service this week. I think that's something you should clear that one out with your wife alone. Meredith would just tell her that she should keep it because she wants a baby herself." Derek explained just before the phone started to ring with a big trauma coming in.

Derek walked back to the surgical floor to get the ORs prepped.

In the morning Meredith woke up by Zola crying. She looked at the clock that read 5:30am before getting up with the baby. She changed her diaper and fed her some formula before going downstairs to the kitchen and fix herself and Cristina breakfast. Just as it was ready Cristina entered the kitchen seeing Meredith.

"Morning" she murmured.

"Hey, had a good night's sleep?" she asked trying to be cheerful for her friend when she truly fell apart in the inside.

"No, not really, this damn fetus kept me awake all night hugging your toilet. I'm so happy when this is finally over and I can move on with my life the way it used to be." Cristina sighed.

"You know maybe you should think about keeping it. Wouldn't it be cool if Zola had a friend to play with? You wouldn't have to be a home-staying mom because you have Owen. He can take care of the baby and I could take care of it, too, I mean with Zola and everything." Meredith tried to convince her friend.

They sat there in silence for a few minutes until Zola started to cry again and Meredith got her down in the kitchen with them.

"Chief!" Derek said when he saw the chief walk by. Dr. Webber stopped and turned around and looked at his chief of neurosurgery.

"Shep?" he waited for Derek to start talking.

"Have you seen Meredith? She was supposed to be on my service today but I can't find her anywhere." He hated to admit it but since they had the fight the night before Derek was really worried that his wife didn't show up for work that morning.

"Yea, she called me last night telling me she needed some time off for some family business. I thought it had something to do with you and her adopting that kid from Malawi. I think Zola's her name. Meredith called to get a leave of absent for two weeks so she could take care of the baby" he said.

"What?" he asked both shocked and confused.