New fanfic- Merder, obviously... includes Izzie, George, Denny, Mark and Addi.

Summary- Meredith and Derek are married and have a daughter. Everything is groovy until some devastating news that turns their world upside down.

Got the idea from Will Youngs song Dance the Night Away- do not ask!! lol...

Meredith was walking at snail-pace speed towards the doors of the hospital where she worked. She was deep in thought about Seattle Grace and the time she had spent there. She had survived the whole of her internship, residency and fellowship having not started well by sleeping with her boss and making a few enemies on the way, but overall she had survived. Just.

She was now, with her husband (the person who got her into all the trouble she had been involved in during her residency) one of the 5 attendings of surgery. Over the last few years she had almost died, lost her mother, fallen in and out of love with Derek countless times, been a dirty mistress, become a married woman and experienced the most painful event in any person's life- no matter what men said about being kicked in the groin- childbirth. Childbirth was the worst thing she had ever been through until she saw the light at the end of the tunnel which was the little girl who was stood beside her. At that present time she had found something extremely intriguing, that being an autumn leaf, and had stopped her slow walking altogether to pick it up.

"Mummy, a weaf," She pronounced differently. She had not quite mastered the essential consonants such as L's, R's and T's which not only made her language cute but also incredibly hard to decipher.

"Yeah, it is," Meredith replied, as enthusiastically as she could at six in the morning.

"It's preddy," She giggled.

"Yeah," Meredith smiled, "What colour is it?"

"Wed!"

"BINGO!" Meredith exclaimed and started laughing at her daughter as she did her infamous happy dance. This dance was the definition of her being and she certainly carried it off well. When she was in her mother's womb she would kick and move furiously whenever a song was played. She had rhythm from the offset and came out of Meredith literally dancing. Hence, the name Maika, meaning dance child, was given to her.

Meredith didn't want to break it to her daughter that the leaf was in fact orange and yellow so let the dance continue.

"Do you want and come in and see daddy?" Meredith asked her daughter, having a feeling the dance and distractions of such things like pigeons and leaves could go on for a while.

"Yeah," the little girl's face lit up even more, if possible, at thought of her father.

"Let's go then," Meredith said, holding out her hand for her daughter to squeeze tightly as they crossed the courtyard to the entrance of Seattle Grace.

"DADDY," A scream appeared from the depths of the corridor behind Derek. He turned around to see the little legs of his daughter running towards him as fast as she could. Her arms were up by her shoulders and her head was thrown back in concentration that was needed for her to run.

"MAIKA," Derek imitated the high-pitched scream that was aimed towards him back at his daughter and bent down to receive what he knew was going to be a bear hug. She hit him at full force in the middle of the walkway that was hovering over the entrance hall to Seattle Grace.

"What are you doing here?" He asked into her shoulder whilst standing up and bringing her with him.

"Mummy," She said simply as if it was ridiculously obvious. She pointed in the direction of the archway she had just emerged out of and moments later Meredith appeared smiling at her loving husband.

"What are you doing here?" He asked again to a person that would actually be able answer him with some useful information. He walked over to Meredith and placed a kiss on her cheek, lingering slightly to whisper under his breath, "You look damn hot today."

She giggled at his inappropriate comment and hit him gently on the arm that was not holding Maika.

"I have a shift and Didi couldn't babysit again," Meredith said with a fed up tone.

"I'm telling you," Derek told her whilst walking towards the elevator with Maika still in his arms and still resting her head on his shoulder, "She is the most unreliable babysitter I have ever come across. Fire her already."

"No," Meredith argued, "Maika loves her and she can usually do things its just lately she's been busy. She's just a teenager trying to get through college. Cut her some slack."

"I will if you will," He smirked as the elevator doors opened and both walked in to the empty enclosure.

"Can you take her around with you today?" Meredith asked, ignoring the sarcasm her husband was exuding that day.

"Who? This little princess in my arms?" He looked down to Maika who was giggling at her daddy. "I don't see why not. I got no surgeries scheduled but if an emergency comes in I'll just take her to I-Z-Z-I-E."

The two parents had taken an oath with each other saying that they would never mention the name Izzie unless they were able to guarantee Maika they would actually see her within the 5 minutes of mentioning her name. Maika's love for Izzie was unreal. The last time they had broken this oath, Maika had held her breath in defiance and refused to breathe until she could see Izzie. Meredith had not taken her seriously but once she had gone blue in the face and passed out, that was when the oath was finalized. Maika had spunk to say the least and Derek knew exactly where she inherited it from.

"That sounds good," Meredith said, kissing Maika on the forehead, then Derek on the lips and got off the elevator at the surgical floor.

"Where we going Daddy?" Maika asked once the elevator had started going up again.

"Guess!"

"To see Auntie Izzie?" Maika questioned excitedly.

"Oh crap," Derek muttered under his breath. "I guess so!"

Derek privately prayed that Izzie was in the canteen eating her lunch otherwise the entire hopsital would know that Maika was not happy about the situation.

Should i continue- yay or nay? If you like it please review and i'll continue but i'm the kind of writer who needs reviews to get motivation to continue. Seriously, reviews are like the kick up the backside!

Exxx