"Hello?" Derek asked, his voice raspy from sleep, having just woken up.
"Hello Mr. Shepherd, my name's Amelia, I'm from social services. How are you this evening?" She asked her voice high and perky.
"I'd be a lot better, Amelia, if I hadn't been woken up." He said as he rubbed his eyes.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Mr. Shepherd." She said alarmed.
"Amelia please, you just woke me up, call me Derek." He joked.
"Oh, well Derek, I'm calling to schedule a time that you could come down to one of our offices? It's on a serious matter." She said nervously.
"Okay, well go ahead." He said sitting on the edge of the bunk, picking at a loose thread on his dark blue scrubs.
"Well, actually I need you to come out to one of our offices…as soon as you could?"
"Alright, well I'm currently on-call at Seattle Grace. Would—" He said, getting cut off.
"Oh, that'd be perfect actually!" She said excitedly
"Well, that sounds good; do you know where they're located in the hospital?"
"I can look it up. Hold, for just a moment." She said, clicking out. He sighed annoyed that he was woken up after performing a four hour emergency surgery. "Alright, well it's down on the first floor, I assume there are signs to get you further."
"Will it be ok if I go down there now? Do they know I'm coming?"
"Yes, it's all scheduled." She said confidently.
"Thank you Amelia, you have been very helpful."
"Anytime, Derek." She said before he hung up the phone.
He got up from his spot on the bed and started walking towards the elevator to get to the bottom floor. As he walked, he thought about what reason social services could possibly want to talk to him.
"Hey stranger." Meredith, the gorgeous young resident that just happened to be his fiancé, called out smiling. "Dr. Shepherd, don't think so hard, I can smell your brain burning." She teased.
"Excellent diagnosis, Dr. Grey." He laughed with her. "You look beautiful today." He said after wrapping his arm around her, pulling her closer, and kissing her temple.
"Dr. Shepherd, not here." She giggled.
"Why not? No one cares what we do." He said smiling down at her.
"You seem very happy…" She asked skeptically.
"I am; I get to see you, what could be better?" He smiled at her again, taking in her small figure, her curly blond hair, her intense eye.
"Sleep, sleep would be better than look at me Der." She said, yawning.
"We can sleep once we get home Mere." He said kissing her forehead. "I have a quick meeting, and then I'll be in my office until you're done, alright?"
"Sounds good Derek, I only have on patient left. I get to go check on her now." She said bouncing a bit, clearly excited.
"Is this the little baby up in peeds?"
"Yes." She blushed a bit.
"Have fun love, I'll be back soon."