Set after 9x10. It will be a group story, but the main focus will be Meredith and Derek and their road through pregnancy and expanding their family. It's about time that these two get a real happy ending, no more tragedies for them and for the rest of the hospital as well. All the main couples will appear, there might be some returns as well! Hope you'll enjoy this.
The days following the wedding that wasn't and then was again turned out to be pretty chaotic for all the Seattle Grace Mercy West hospital doctors. Richard had organized a beautiful ceremony to bid farewell to his beloved wife Adele and she was now resting next to her niece Camille in the cemetery. Cristina and Owen had signed the divorce papers, but this had brought them closer than they had ever been, even if it seemed impossible to their friends. They were now inseparable and were both, separately, thinking about going back to live together. Jackson felt like an idiot after the one night stand he had with Stephanie, in a car out of all possible places. He shouldn't have pulled a Karev on her and now he didn't know how to act around her and all the other interns. She was a bit embarrassed as well, mostly because she didn't know how to tell him, that, even though he was one of the hottest guys she had ever met, she just wanted to learn from him and that the night in the car had to be forgotten. Alex and Jo had formed somewhat of a bond after the drunken night together they spent sharing stories from their crappy childhoods. He hadn't tried to take advantage of her and they could consider themselves sort of friends after the time spent together. April had been working some more with Shane, he showed real potential and she was happy to teach him as long as he didn't mention the whole wedding reception fiasco for the rest of his life. Arizona and Callie were getting closer everyday, one step at a time, and were both hopeful about their future together as a family. Ben and Miranda had left for a ten days honeymoon in Bahamas after they had attended Adele's funeral, leaving Tuck with her family, they were set to come back just in time for Christmas Eve. Meredith spent most of her time at the hospital, she stayed during the nights as well dividing her time between Derek and Lizzie, leaving Zola in the capable hands of Callie and Arizona.
"I've been meaning to ask you about my release…" said Lizzie one morning, five days after her surgery.
Meredith looked at her and shrugged "You know I'm not the surgeon assigned to your case…"
"I know that, but we've established that you're my sister, right?" Meredith just nodded and the other woman kept talking "Then you should find out, because I have a husband and four kids who would like for me to be home for Christmas!"
Meredith's mouth fell open, it was going to be Christmas in eight days, how could she had forgotten that? "Well, I could find out for you… but I'm not so sure you'll be able to organize a Christmas feast…"
"Who said anything about me organizing?"
"I just assumed…" Meredith was once again cut off by Lizzie "My mother will be cooking, this year. My family will be spoiled from her since both Nancy and Kate will be at their in laws for the holidays and Derek and Amy are here on the west coast…"
"Seriously?" the brunette just nodded staring at her sister in law.
"I plan to take full advantage of that" she added after a short pause.
"Well… since you probably will have trouble standing and your sisters won't be there to assist you and you already told me how much of a bad sister in law I have been and… well, your kids are very much looking forward to meet their cousin… maybe, yeah well… you could tell your family to come over here for Christmas… if you don't have any other plans of course… I'm not a very good cook, but I guess your mom could cook here if she wanted to come as well and…" she rambled on until Lizzie interrupted her "Would you really invite us all here for Christmas?"
"Well… you're Derek's family and that makes you my family as well and… I'm not very good at the family stuff, but I want my little girl to have a happy childhood filled with family, laughter, good memories and amazing Christmases!"
Lizzie was beaming at her "Do you think they would like to come over? Maybe I could call Amy as well, she liked me when she met me, and…"
"I think it would be great!"
"Ok… why don't you call your husband and your mother? I'll go tell Derek… there's no need for a hotel, cause your brother built a freaking mansion in the woods and we could finally be able to use some guest rooms!" she added getting up from the mattress and smiling at her nervously.
"Are you sure? My kids can be a little intense…"
"I'm positive… you're family, end of discussion!"
"Okaaa-y, if you're sure…" said Liz taking out her phone while Meredith left her room still smiling at her.
Seconds after she had closed the door behind her Meredith started to panic… had she really invited her sister in law's family at their house for Christmas? Along with her mother in law and maybe another sister… why in the world did Derek had to have all these sisters?! As she was asking herself those questions she arrived in Derek's room.
"Good morning!" she exclaimed upon entering.
"Hey, you've been gone for quite a while"
"I went to see your sister, since you were sleeping and I also spoke with Callie asking her to bring over some breakfast for us, along with Zola… don't worry I told her you want muesli and fresh fruit!"
"Good idea!" he smiled at her as she hopped on the bed next to him giving him a quick kiss on the lips "How's the pain?"
"Not too bad…" he murmured kissing her once again.
"On a scale of one to ten?"
"I'd say a six… maybe five and a half" he gave her his infamous McDreamy smile and she smiled back.
"Uhm, I've been meaning to talk to you… I may have invited your sister and her family here for Christmas, along with your mom… I hope that's okay with you!"
He laughed out loud "You what?" he was surprised.
"Yeah we were talking and one thing led to another and… you know how I ramble a lot, right?" she stopped and he just nodded "So I told her they should have Christmas here, I mean we do want Zola to have happy childhood memories, like you had, right?" he nodded again and reached out with his good arm to give her a hug.
"You know my family can be a bit intense for me as well, right?" she snuggled closer and sighed "Family is good… I wish Lexie was here to see this happening… me hosting Christmas with one, maybe two, of your sisters and possibly your mom…" she trailed off and he hugged her even more.
"She would have been very amused" he murmured after a while "but she would have been really proud of you!"
"I miss her" she whispered after a little while.
"I know, me too… I miss her and Mark everyday…"
"They would have been so excited about becoming an aunt and an uncle again, don't you think?"
"Oh yeah, definitely…" he kissed her one more time on the lips and gave her a peck on the nose as well "How about you tell me a wish you have, but it has to concern the baby… so only happy thoughts, all right?"
She nodded, feeling a tear escaping past her eyelashes "Okay… uhm, this is hard… I just want the pregnancy to go full term and for us to have a healthy baby" she said after a little while.
"That doesn't count!" he retorted "It has to be something like… I wish the baby will be a great baseball player… or a dancer… or I hope the baby will have blond hair…"
"Okay… no need to get so worked up about this!" she stuck her tongue out at her husband "Let me think some more… why don't you go first?"
"Okay… I really wish the baby will have your eyes, you have very pretty eyes…" he said to her right away.
"You're such a flatterer!" she exclaimed giggling.
"It's part of my charm!" he conceded "I do want the baby to have my hair though, I have been told my hair is amazing!" he went on.
She punched him lightly on the right forearm "You're so full of yourself!"
"Still part of my charm… comes along with being a hot neurosurgeon!"
"I can't believe you!" she laughed "Do I have to remind you how long it takes for you to style your amazing hair in the morning?!"
"Nope, I know that full well!" he retorted grinning "Your turn now!"
"Okay… I really want the baby to have your smile, it could charm anybody to do just about anything…" she finally said.
"Good wish!" he smiled.
"I have another one though… I want the baby to have my nose!" she added sticking her tongue out once again.
"Ouch! You shouldn't make fun of a hurting man!"
"You are such a baby!" she giggled as he hugged her once more and kissed her passionately.
"Are we interrupting something?" asked Callie's voice entering the room with Zola, Sofia and Arizona.
"Of course not!" exclaimed Meredith hopping off of the bed and gathering Zola in her arms right away. She gave her little girl a big kiss on her cheek and a hug, then she deposited her on the bed next to her dad.
"Hi princess!" he kissed her on the nose and the little girl giggled, he could swear she had the same giggle Meredith had.
"Thanks for bringing her over guys and thank you so much for breakfast!" said Meredith kissing Sofia on the cheek and taking the to-go containers from Callie's hands.
"It was no problem, really" said Arizona smiling, while holding onto Sofia's hand.
"How are you doing Derek?" asked Callie.
"Pretty good… I will feel even better if you'll discharge me before Christmas!" he grinned while tickling Zola.
"Don't worry about that… Christmas is still eight days away, you have plenty of time to go home and enjoy it!"
"I don't know about the enjoying it part, since my wife here has invited half of my family over to our house for the celebration!"
Meredith glared at him while Arizona asked "What did Meredith do?"
"I invited Lizzie and her family, along with his mom and, maybe, Amelia to spend the holidays here with us at our house…"
"At our house?!" asked Derek disbelieving, but still grinning widely.
"Of course, why should they book a hotel if we have a freaking mansion in the woods with a billion guest rooms?! And besides we will eat at our house, so it's just more practical if they stay there…"
"Sounds like an awesome plan!" said Callie, while Arizona nodded.
"Yeah is does" agreed Derek taking Meredith's hand in his.
"We'll see you guys later… we have to take Sofia to daycare now" said Callie opening the door.
"Okay, thanks again… can you tell them that Zola will be in a little later than usual today? I want her to spend some time with her daddy" asked Meredith in awe at the amount of fun her husband and daughter were already having.
"Will do!" said Arizona smiling.
"Bye" added little Sofia waving, just as Zola waved back at her.
The door closed and Meredith started to set breakfast on the table. Sure she was no chef, but she had learned some basics in the recent years and she was a mother now… hosting Christmas was not going to be a problem… at least not with Derek by her side.
"I love you, you know that?!" he whispered in her ear a little while after, munching on his blueberries, bananas, yogurt and muesli.
"Yeah… I love you too" she whispered back eating a raspberry muffin, looking at their daughter enjoying hot chocolate with a banana-nut muffin.
"It will be all right" he promised her smiling, she nodded taking a sip from her vanilla tea and smiled back at his handsome face.
"I know it will…" she answered a little while later, kissing the top of Zola's head.
So, what did you think? I've been meaning to write a MerDer story for quite some time now, the new events sparkled my inspiration… I know I said it was going to be a group story and it will be, this was just the first chapter… there will be the rest of them in the following ones! Please press the pretty blue button and drop me a line, I appreciate every comment, even criticism! Just remember English is not my first language… I hope I didn't mess up too much, though!