Disclaimer: Grey's Anatomy is not mine- too bad.

Rating: KT
Summary: So for right now its just some fluff- but I promise a story line will develop. Things aren't always perfect.


"Your turn," Meredith said sleepily pushing against her husband's bare shoulder.

"Hmm?" Was the sleepy and incoherent reply.

"I got up at two, now it's your turn to deal with the child that never sleeps," Meredith turned and tossed the baby monitor at him.

"Ouch! What happened?" Derek sat up rubbing is head where the monitor had hit him.

"We had sex two years ago and eight months later Kieran was born and now he is up again… it's your turn. That's what happened," Meredith responded rolling over and covering her eyes realizing she had only forty five minutes before she would have to get up and start getting the kids ready.

She heard Derek sigh and turn to face her,

"He has to be up in hour anyway… let's just let him be and maybe…" Derek kissed Meredith shoulder.

Meredith giggled and pushed him away

"Us maybe-ing until one this morning is why I am so exhausted,"

"It was fun though," Derek replied over his shoulder as he got out of their bed and walked out of the room.

Meredith closed her eyes once again only to open them at the annoying buzzing coming from her clock.

What! I've only been asleep for a second.

Picking her head up she looked at the time 4:45

"Guess not," pulling herself out of bed she made her way to the adjoining bathroom and started the shower and proceeded to get ready for the morning.

Pulling open one of her drawers she found her favorite pair of scrubs and slipped them on. Hearing Derek in the shower she looked at the clock 5:30,

"Derek hurry up we need to be on time today!" She called as she walked into her son's room.

"Andy, bubba come on baby. It's time to wake up," she said sitting down on his racecar bed rubbing her five year olds' back.

The little boy stretched and turned over to face his mother while rubbing his eyes.

"It's so early," he mumbled.

"I know baby, but why don't you get up, get dressed, brush your teeth, and when you go downstairs Daddy can make you some chocolate milk and toast?" Meredith offered running her hand through his thick curls.

"Yeah, ok." He replied starting to get up.

Meredith smiled and kissed his forehead before standing and walking out of the room and down and across the hall to the next door.

Opening the door she was greeted with the soft glow of a night-light illuminating the lavender wall it was plugged into.

Walking over to the white canopy bed in the center of the room she softly sat down on the lavender bedding next to her sleeping daughter.

"Lillana, come on little girl, time to get up,"

The three year old yawned before pulling the covers over her head.

Meredith smiled at the game they played every morning.

"Oh no! Where did my Lilly go?" She exclaimed

She heard a giggle and the little girl's brilliant blue eyes peeked out over the top of her blankets.

"I see you…" Meredith laughed as she leaned down and tickled the little girl.

Laughing Lilly kicked off the blankets and stretched.

Walking over and opening her daughter's closet, Meredith grabbed a pair of jeans, a pink shirt with flowers on it and looking out the window determining it would be another cold, windy, and rainy November day she also pulled the small Dartmouth sweater off its hanger.

"Ok girlie let's get you out of these and into some clothes,"

Meredith changed her daughter into clothes for the day and put socks on her little feet.

"Ok baby, go potty and don't forget to wash your hands, then I want you to call down to me when you're ready to come down. Ok?"

Lilly nodded as Meredith turned and continued down the hall to her youngest child's room.

Kieran sat on the floor playing with blocks. Once she walked in he looked up at her and smiled waving at her.

"Well hey bub. Daddy must have gotten you ready already. Ready for breakfast?" She asked scooping him.

Kieran nodded and leaned his head on Meredith's shoulder.

Walking downstairs she smiled as she heard Andy and Derek talking animatedly.

"…and then the quarter was gone! And I even checked his pockets Dad!" Andy exclaimed taking a big bite of his toast.

"Checked whose pockets?' Meredith asked placing Kieran in a high chair and surveying the scene in front of her. Andy sat at the table dressed in his favorite Spider Man shirt his dark curls a mess on the top of his head. Smiling she made her way to the fridge stopping to kiss Derek.

"Uncle Preston's," Derek replied watching his wife prepare Kieran's breakfast.

"Ah, did he do his quarter trick for you again?" Meredith asked Andy kissing the top of his head as she made her way over to Kieran.

"Yeah last night right before you picked me up from Aunt Christina and his house,"

Meredith nodded and reflected on the past eight years since she had first come back to Seattle. After choosing Derek they had been off and on dancing around each other before giving in. A year later during her first year of Residency they had been married.

Much had changed in seven years since, Christina and Burke had married a year after they had and had had a little boy Lilliana's age, George and Callie had been off and on for a couple months before finally pulling it together and had been engaged for the past year. Izzie and Alex… well after Denny, Izzie wasn't quite sure where to turn and through their close circle of friends had found a way out of her pain- Alex somehow had been the one to offer the most strength though.

Meredith laughed a little thinking about how different Alex was. Izzie was his everything and vise versa. Izzie didn't know it yet but this weekend on their three year mark Alex planned to propose. Christina warned him it would be cheesy to no end but it will be perfect for Izzie.

"What's so funny?" Derek grinned at her. Meredith went to open her mouth when Lilly called down.

"Mommy?"

"I got it,' Derek replied.

For a three year old Lilliana Grace Shepherd was one of the most independent people Derek knew, but she was three and still little. Last Christmas she had fallen hard on the wood stairs in a hurry to catch up with her older brother and his rush to get to presents causing her to fracture her ankle. Now Derek and Meredith didn't even take a chance. When it came to going up or coming downstairs Lilly had to wait until one of them opened up the baby gates at the top and bottom of the stairs.

Stopping at the bottom of the stairs to open the gate Derek looked up to see his daughter slowly climbing over the gate.

"Hey!' he exclaimed

"Good Morning Daddy," she said as she got one leg over the side of the gate and tried pulling the other with it but getting it caught on the handle, losing her balance and falling forward.

"What did Mommy and I tell you about the gate?" Derek asked taking the stairs two at a time catching her before she hit the hard wood.

Lilly looked up guiltily,

"I know but Daddy…"

Derek held his daughter close kissing her forehead,

"Daddy nothing. You don't want to have to go see Aunt Callie at the hospital again do you?" He asked taking her down the stairs and into the kitchen.

"No," the little girl answered wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Good me either, now where is my morning kiss?"

Giggling Lilly lifted her head and kissed his stubbly cheek.

"Ewww," she exclaimed.

"What's ewww?" Meredith asked setting down toast and milk for her daughter as Derek sat her down in her booster chair.

'Daddy has owies on his cheek,"

Meredith smiled at Derek and put her hand to his cheek slowly rubbing her thumb over it.

"He does doesn't he?"

Derek gave her his McDreamy smile before taking her hand and kissing it.

"Gross!" Andy exclaimed.

Lilly smiled and Kieran repeated after his brother.

Smiling Meredith checked the time.

"6:15 everyone we have fifteen minutes!" She said cleaning up Kieran's bowl.

"Andy, go brush your teeth, Derek can you get Kier's shoes and Lilly baby hurry up so we can brush your teeth and put your shoes on,"

Working together like a well oiled machine Derek and Meredith had all three of their kids ready and out of the house by 6:30 and in the car on their way to the hospital.

"Mama, how long today?" Andy asked

Meredith sighed and looked at Derek.

"It's an overnighter tonight bub," Meredith answered.

Andy nodded,

"Everyone's working?" Lilly asked

"Yup we are all working," Derek answered looking into the review mirror.

"Which means…"

"Sleep over!" Kieran called from the back.

"Yup," Meredith and Derek replied as he pulled into his parking space in front of the hospital.


"Oh god, here comes the Brady Bunch," Christina Yang-Burke said allowed as the Shepherd children came running out of the elevator.

"Aunt Christina!" Lilly exclaimed running up to Christina. Bending down Christina picked the little girl up and sat her on the counter where she had been working on some case notes.

"Hey wild thing long time no see," Christina said. She would be the first to admit she never imagined her life to be the way it was. Surgery was all she used to care about, but now… now life was different.

After all they had all been through they managed to all be just as close as ever. Even after marriage and kids they managed their time well. Everyone switched off babysitting depending on schedules for the week. This particular week they got lucky, anytime she or Burke were working some one was off to take their three year old son Jason, the same for Meredith and Derek. Every child meant the world to the group, and though a pain in the ass sometimes everyone loved the three Shepherd children and Jason.

"Good morning," Meredith said leaning against the counter looking at Christina's cases for the day.

"You seem busy," Meredith noted flipping through the charts.

"Nah, I'm throwing the dirty work at the interns, all I have to do is operate,"

Cardio hadn't been her ambition in med school, but being married to one of the best Cardio surgeons in the nation had influenced her decision. Much like Meredith, who specialized in neurology.

"Can I watch?" asked Lilly who now had Christina's stethoscope and was checking the counter for signs of a heart beat.

"We'll see wild thing," Christina answered taking back the stethoscope.

Lilly nodded as Meredith picked her up and stood her back on the floor. Derek who had taken Kieran and Andy over to the OR board came back down to the nurses station.

"Ready little girl?" he asked as he took her hand and led her in the direction of the hospital day care.

Lilly smiled as she took her fathers hand and waved bye to Meredith.

"Jason feeling any better?" Meredith asked as she and Christina turned and made their way towards the locker room so Meredith could drop off her purse.

"No more fever, Burke and I decided he'd be fine to come back to daycare, just has the sniffles now but…"

Christina was interrupted by George and Callie's loud voices coming in the door,

"…wait so now we are saying the 16th?" George asked confused.

"No!" Callie exclaimed

"The twenty-sixth,"

"Of June?" George asked. Callie turned to him and glared.

"Seriously George, May… I have been saying May for the past month,"

George shrugged as stepped next to Meredith and opened his locker,

"Wedding date," he whispered to her.

"I figured," Meredith smiled at him.

"Anything good today?" George asked pulling his shirt over his head.

"Craniotomy in an hour and then a splint replacement at two. You?"

"Back to back cabbages until tonight," George responded.

"It's going to be a busy day," Meredith warned as she pulled her hair up in a clip.

George nodded and slammed his locker shut sitting down on the bench to tie his shoes.

"Oh George remember tomorrow night is at our place," she called out to him as she walked backwards out of the room.

"Oh yeah! We'll bring something!" He yelled back. It had taken almost a decade and numerous fights with Callie but George was finally getting over Meredith. He loved Derek and her kids to no end, hell, Derek had even become a good part of his life but still there was always that voice in the back of his head, but it was finally getting softer and softer.


Meredith leaned against the scrub room sink. Throwing her surgical mask into the trashcan she sighed as she watched the nurses wheel her patient out of the OR and into ICU.

Rubbing the back of her neck she stepped out of the OR for the first time in four and a half hours. The surgery on the seven year old girl had been difficult not just in that it was a tough surgery but since having kids any surgery on someone under the age of twenty-one was hard, especially a seven year old who was so close to Andy's age.

Stopping at the nurse's station to make some final notes in her patient's chart she felt arms come around her waist. Immediately she leaned against Derek's strong chest.

Kissing the back of her head his words were muffled against her soft hair,

"How'd it go?" he asked.

Nodding Meredith turned around in his arms,

"Good, she'll make a full recovery," she responded wrapping her arms around him.

Derek smiled and nodded his head. Just like Meredith anything involving children had become much more personal since his children were born.

"Please, can we break this up?' Alex Karev called as he made his way down the hall dropping a chart off.

Meredith smiled at him as she hugged Derek closer.

"Who is picking the munchkins up?" Alex asked flipping open another chart and reading it over.

Meredith and Derek looked at each other,

"I've got surgery in an hour," Derek said looking up at the clock. The daycare closed in two hours at eight.

"Um, I need to go talk to my patient's family, check on her and then do post ops," Meredith contemplated the time.

"I got it," Alex shut the chart he was looking over, "I'm done for the night except for some paperwork but I can go get them now, take 'em down to the cafeteria get them some dinner and we can all go hang out in the on call room,"

Meredith shook her head,

"Alex you are such a big help, but seriously I can take them,"

"No, it'll be fun, I haven't hung out with them since Sunday night when they were at Iz and my house. Plus I'm supposed to meet Izzie in the cafeteria in half an hour," Alex smiled and pocketed his pen as if the discussion was over.

"Ok, thanks that'll be a big help," Derek answered squeezing his wife's shoulders.

"Yeah, Alex you're great," Meredith answered visibly relieved.

"I know," Alex replied as Derek clapped his shoulder as he walked past to go check on his patient that was being prepped for surgery.

As Meredith walked away from the nurse's station Burke came up next to Alex as he gathered the work he would do in the on call room with the kids.

"Karev," Burke acknowledged his friend.

"Hey, I'm picking the kids up and taking them down to dinner. When was the last time Jason had his meds?" Alex asked knowing Christina probably had their son on some medication for his minor cold.

Burke smiled at his friends knowledge of how his wife dealt with colds, either take the drugs or don't whine was Christina's motto.

"I think Christina went down there around one, so seven should be a good time," Burke said. "Thanks for this,"

"Oh no problem I'll be bored by myself," Alex replied walking off towards the day care.


Wow so I really missed writing!!! I decided to start this off because I hadn't procrastinated in a while and would rather be doing this than my mid-term english paper... any way enjoy. I promise a story line will be forming! Have a great day everyone!

-Loti