Grey's Anatomy, Season 8

Derek:
I still don't understand what you possibly could've been thinking.

Meredith:
They fired me. Janet basically told me that they were gonna take Zola away. I mean, possibly send her back to Malawi. You and me... I just needed some time. I just needed to hold her and look at her and just think about how everything, everything got so screwed up. You should take Zola. Janet has a problem with me, not with you and we need to do everything that we can to make sure they don't take her away and if that means that you have custody of her and I don't... then that's what we need to do.

Derek:
You're not fired. Richard's gonna take the fall for you.

Meredith:
What? He can't do that. I'm not gonna let him do that.

Derek:
Yes, you will. If you wanna keep this baby you will let him protect you.