Happy Families

Chapter One: MerDer

Meredith and Derek Shepard peacefully lay in a warm, cosy bed together. They were gently cuddled up to each other, embracing the warmth from each other's bodies.

A cry was heard from the other room, a baby screamed from the top of it's lungs. Derek Shepard was used to working long hour shifts, after all he was a surgeon, he just never expected parenting to be so difficult, he slowly got out of the warm bed, the coldness of the room quickly engulfed him. Derek quietly walked across the room from his, a two month old baby, Ryan Thomas, was crying his lungs out.

"Ssshhh, please, be quiet ... please," Derek looked at the small human being. He was certainly an offspring of MacDreamy, his dark brown hair was coming through, and his sea blue eyes certainly captured everyone's attention. The baby immediately stopped crying when he was held by his father. Derek adoringly looked at him, and the baby looked right back at him, a powerful connection was felt between them, one of a father and son.

"Does he need feeding again?" Meredith asked, walking into the room zombie like. She rubbed her eyes, and ran a hand through her messy hair, she walked over to where Derek was holding Ryan and planted a kiss on the baby's forehead.

"No, he just can't get to sleep," Derek whispered to his wife, as the baby was quietly drifting to sleep.

"Oh ok ... I'm going to bed-"

"Wait, wait, I'll join you in a bit," Derek softly put the baby into the crib.

"What are your thoughts Dr Shepard?"

"Oooo I don't really know, maybe an exchange of looking at each other's anatomy's-"

"Derek Shepard!"

"Ok, that sounded really corny ... ok, sex. I'm having thoughts of sex."

"You're not the only one," Meredith grinned and pulled him out of room to their own bedroom.

"Meredith, Derek," Cristina Burke loudly thumped on the large wooden door, "Jesus Christ, what the hell are they doing? It's two o clock in the afternoon," Cristina turned to her husband, and complained even further to him.

"Well, it's not really our business is it?" Burke said simply.

"Who's side are you on?" tears began to fill Cristina's eyes. Burke quickly reached for his pocket and got out an handkerchief. Cristina momentarily sobbed and blew her nose into it before handing it back to her husband. "I can't wait for this baby to come out! ... I feel so ... fat," she began to sob again. Burke wrapped his arms around her allowing her to wet his shirt with her tears.

Meanwhile upstairs, Meredith and Derek were running around trying to look for some appropriate clothing to put on.

"How long did we sleep for?" Meredith asked in a flustered tone.

Derek quickly looked at the clock, "six hours," he replied.

"Six hours, wow, and the baby didn't cry once ... miracle," she tossed another one of the fancy pillows onto her bed.

"Are Burke and Cristina still outside?" Derek asked. Meredith reached to have a look outside the window.

"Yeah, I better let them in, you see if Ryan is ok." Meredith quickly raced down the stairs and opened the door.

"About bloody time," Cristina pushed past Meredith into their house. Meredith looked at Burke.

"Don't ask," he quietly said to her as he walked past her into the house.

"So, how have you guys been?" Meredith walked into the living room, where the guests were already seated.

"Fine," Cristina snapped and looked at Meredith sharply in the eyes.

"Good good, that's all good," the there was a momentary pause, "Cristina, how long have you got left?"

"Two weeks."

"Wow, that all-"

"What do you mean that all? This baby is never going to come out! I look so fat, and I hate being fat because I've always been skinny, SKINNY, and now I have this huge lump on me, and my back hurts, and I'm still throwing up, I can't even see my toes!!!" Cristina broke into sobs. Meredith and Burke exchanged glances at each other.

"Oh come on Cristina, it isn't all that bad, just wait till you have the baby-"

"I don't do babies, never have, except this one," she pointed at Burke who was sitting on a sofa across her, "got me knocked up, I was at the height of my career and I get pregnant," Cristina began to cry even louder.

"Um, being pregnant isn't all that bad-"

"How do you know?" Cristina snapped.

"What? Do you think the stork brought Ryan to us?" Meredith retorted back. Cristina hiccuped, she was left with nothing else to say.

"Good afternoon everyone," Derek cheerfully came into the open living room. They all nodded and smiled at him, "anybody want pancakes?"

"Yeah, er ... pancakes sounds great, except we did come here to eat lunch Derek," Burke answered. They both exchanged warm smiles before going into the kitchen.

"Come on, we better see what they're doing in the kitchen," Meredith helped Cristina get up from the sofa. Cristina gave another hiccup.

"Meredith!" Cristina quickly stopped in her tracks.

"What?" she looked back at her friend, Christina's face was filled with fear, "Cristina?" Meredith looked at the floor where Cristina was gaping at, "Oh."

Screams were heard through out the corridors of Seattle Grace hospital.

"Ok Cristina, you have to push for me," Addison ordered her.

"I can't do this!!" Cristina screamed, "I hate you Preston Donald Burke, I hate you!" she gave deathly glares to her husband.

"I love you too, dear," he sarcastically said back.

Meredith and Derek along with their son, where in the waiting room. "You think she will be ok?" Meredith asked her husband. Derek nodded. "Yeah you're right, I mean it's only childbirth, Cristina can do childbirth, right?" the couple looked at each before shaking their heads.

"It's a girl, it's a girl!" Burke gasped for air before running back to his beloved wife. Meredith and Derek were left with confused expressions on their faces.

"A girl, I had a girl," Cristina said to herself.

"We had a girl," Burke cheerfully said as he cradled the baby in his own arms, "what shall we call her?"

"I don't know," Cristina simply replied.

"Well, what names do you like?"

Cristina thought for a second, "Alayna, Paige, Madison, there are a thousand names I like."

"Well which of those names do you think will suit her?"

"Why can't you choose?"

"Because we made a deal Cristina, if it was a girl you got to choose the name," Cristina sighed.

"Annabeth," Burke smiled at the choice of name, "Annabeth Madelyn Burke," Cristina settled with her decision.

"I like it," Burke kissed the top of Cristina's head. The family of three sat on the hospital bed, happy, exchanging hugs and kisses, until they eventually all fell asleep.