Okay so here is a new story. Hopefully you all enjoy it. It is called open your eyes for obvious reasons but you will be able to figure that out in a couple of chapters' time. I have had this idea for ages and had the plan written for almost a year and then when I was inspired and finished the story off but haven't been able to get it off my other computer but I have so I will start posting it and start posting the rest of the chapters for watch over me.
Basically an accident happens and there are flashbacks from the most important parts of Meredith and Derek's life from the day they met to the day before the accident. The first flashback is from 25 years ago but will be in the next chapter.
So hopefully you enjoy this story and I promise it will get better as the chapters come along. So read, enjoy and please review.
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Meredith woke that morning. They were going to Derek's mum's farm for the holidays. Derek was asleep at her side. A protective hand around her pregnant stomach. They knew that since it was the holidays that it was their chance to take a family holiday before their 5th child is born. She kissed Derek's forehead and he stirred.
"Morning. We better start getting ready if we want to leave at 11." Meredith says.
"We have plenty of time. Even plenty of time for a quickie before the kids are up." He says as he starts kissing her.
"Nope sorry." She says getting up off the bed and walking into their bathroom.
He laid there waiting for the water to start running. The water started running so he got up off the bed and ran quickly into the shower dropping his boxers as he jumped in to scare her.
Laughter filled the bathroom.
Meredith was standing in front of the mirror after their shower. She was changing when Derek walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her stomach and kissed her neck.
"That was fun wasn't it?" He says.
"Sure was. Hopefully you enjoyed it because that will be the last time for a while before you get any more action." She says with a smile.
"Oh come on. There are some good spots out at the farm where we can sneak off to."
"Yeah maybe but having sex in your mum's house doesn't sound like the best idea."
"We've done it under her roof before."
"Yeah I know but I wasn't pregnant and we didn't have three kids sleeping there as well."
"Oh you worry too much. It will be fine and we will have fun. You even said before how much fun it is to have sex while you're pregnant."
"I know I said that."
They hear Kendall over the baby monitor.
"You're just going to have to wait until we get home and all the sex you can handle." Meredith says to him as he leaves the bathroom.
Derek walks into Kendall's room.
"Morning sweetie." He says to the 16 month old. "You excited about seeing nanny?"
She looks up him with her thumb in her mouth and nods her head. He reaches into the cot and takes her out kissing her forehead.
"How about we make some breakfast. How does pancakes sound?" He asks her.
Kendall takes her thumb out of her mouth and smiles.
"Good." She says.
"That got you awake didn't it? Come one let's go and make them so we can get going."
He carries her out of her room downstairs to the kitchen.
Meredith leaves the bathroom and goes and sits down on her bed and puts her hand under searching for the box that she keeps under there. She pulls it out and stares at the lid. The name Patrick is across it. Her finger traces ever letter.
She opens the lid up and looks through everything. Tomorrow was Patrick's birthday but today was the day that he died. She looked at the picture of him after he was born. He was blue and not moving. She looked through everything else when she hears a noise that stops her and makes her look up at the door.
Angus their 4 year old was standing there.
"Mummy."
"Hey Angus. Come here sweetie."
Angus walks over and sits down next to Meredith. He knows about having another brother. Meredith and Derek had told them about Patrick all the time but they knew that he didn't understand why he wasn't with them.
"Are you sad about today?" He asks.
"A little why?"
"I don't know but I think it's okay to be sad. Do you think it is okay to be sad?" He asks.
"All the time."
The two of them just look through the box.
"Mummy how is the baby this morning?"
"The baby is good. He is kicking me like you wouldn't believe it. Here have a feel." She says taking his hand and putting it on her stomach.
Angus just smiles.
"Mummy why does the baby kick?"
"Because he is stretching and moving his arms and legs. He is only in a small space in my tummy. It isn't like he can run around. This is his exercise right here kicking mummy as hard as he can."
"Do you think it's a baby brother for me?"
"I don't know. I hope so another boy so you have a brother to play with but a girl would do fine. Another baby to dress up in pretty pink things."
"You don't do that to Kendall."
"I know I was only joking." She says closing the lid. "How about you go downstairs and help daddy with breakfast and I will go and wake your older sister up."
"Okay mummy."
Meredith walks down to Sophie's room. Meredith opens the door and draws the blinds to lighten the room up. She sits down on Sophie's bed and kisses her forehead.
"Time to wake up sweetie." Meredith says to her softly.
Sophie opens her eyes and smiles as she sees Meredith.
"Morning Soph."
"Morning mummy."
"Guess what daddy is making?"
"Pancakes?"
"He sure is and guess where we are going today."
"Nanna's."
"Sure are. How about we go downstairs and start eating so we can hit the road. It is quite a long trip."
"I know."
Sophie gets up and hugs Meredith. The two of them walk down the stairs to the kitchen. They enter the kitchen to see Derek making the pancakes and to see Kendal digging her fingers into the batter.
"Kendall what are you doing?" Meredith says.
Kendall just smiles at Meredith.
"Come on let's get you cleaned up and get some breakfast into you." She says picking Kendall up and putting her in the highchair.
Meredith cleans her down and sets a plate in front of her.
They all sit down and eat. Angus and Sophie start gutsing themself.
"Angus Soph slow down you'll get indigestion."
"Sorry mummy we're having a race to see how many we can eat in 2 minutes." Sophie says.
"Well at least slow down a bit."
Meredith and Derek sit there watching the two of them racing. Angus and Sophie both looked like Derek. They both had the dark curly hair and the blue eyes. But Kendal was a mix of both. She had the green eyes and Meredith's nose but she had Derek's dark hair.
"Ha ha I won beat that Sophie."
And Angus had Meredith's appetite.
"Oh that was rigged anyway. You had a head start and I had to tell mum what we were doing."
"I still won beat that." He says standing up on his chair and doing his victory dance.
That is brought to an end when he loses his balance and almost falls off.
"Careful matey." Derek says. "You don't want to have a victory and then hurt yourself."
"Okay if you have all finished then I think it is time that you all have a bath and get ready." Meredith says to them. "And you can all have one together to save water and time."
"Oh come on mum we're not babies." Sophie says.
"Did I say you were? Come on you love sharing them."
"Yeah but that was when we were younger and didn't know any better. Angus isn't a girl, he is a guy." Sophie says.
"Soph who cares it's your brother and no one else is here."
"Yeah but I don't want to."
"Fine Soph go and have a shower in our bathroom and the other two can share a bath." Meredith says to her.
"Thank you mummy." She says kissing her cheek and running off upstairs.
Meredith looks at Derek.
"Okay Kendall Angus bath time. Angus can you help Kendall upstairs and I'll be there in a second."
"Okay daddy."
He lets Kendall out and Angus holds her hand to take her upstairs.
"I wonder what is wrong with Sophie this morning." Meredith says.
"She's growing up." He says clearing the plates away from the table and leaves.
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Meredith packed the last of the kids' clothes and grabbed the toiletries and the nappies and all the other stuff Kendall needs.
She went down to her room and through the last of the stuff for her and Derek. Sophie walked out of the bathroom and sat down on the bed.
"Soph go and get dressed please sweetie."
"Mummy."
"Yeah."
"I'm too old for baths now. That's why I didn't want one."
"You're never too old for baths Soph. You used to love them."
"I know but I want to start having showers now."
"Okay sure it's your choice. Go and get dressed."
She left the room and Meredith followed and walked into the kids' bathroom. Kendall was splashing around and Angus was rambling on about everything and what he was going to do at Carolyn's.
"Do you want me to take Kendall and get her dressed?" She asks.
"Of course."
Meredith grabs a towel.
"Come on Kendall. Let's get you dressed and we can get going."
She lifts her out of the tub and takes her down to Meredith's room. Lying her down on the bed. She dries her down and puts her nappy on and gets her dressed. She starts doing her hair when Sophie comes and sits down next to her.
"Mummy can you do my hair?"
"Sure I'll finish Kendall's and do yours."
She does both of the girls hair and they carry the bags downstairs. Derek walks into the room and gets changed. Meredith goes to pick up the bag but Derek stops her.
"Hey you're not carrying that. No heavy lifting. You're 7 months pregnant and I'm not letting you do this."
"Okay okay I get it." She says.
"Hey it's for the good. I want my son or daughter being healthy this time round and not like Patrick." He says.
The name hits her. Her eyes well with tears.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry. I'm so sorry." He says wrapping his arms around her.
"The way you said it was like Patrick dying was my fault."
"It wasn't your fault. It just happens, those things happen and we always can't control it."
"I know we can't."
He kisses her head. She moves away and he brushes the hair away from her eyes.
"Let's get going." He says.
They go downstairs where the kids are all playing.
"Okay go and grab a toy and bring it down here. First one back wins." He says. "Ready set go."
The kids run off and Derek sits on the floor in the lounge, Angus comes back first, then Sophie then Kendall.
Meredith was packing food and watched them. Angus jumped on Derek and he fell to the ground. Sophie and Kendall jumped on him as well. The kids all giggled away and Derek wrapped his arms around the 3 of them and rolled them to be underneath him. He tickled them and they laughed more.
"Okay that is enough playing. Let's get in the car so we can go and see nanna." He says getting up. "I'll take the kids and the bags and you can bring the food."
In 10 minutes they packed the car and the kids and they were off.
Once they were out of Seattle they were on the road to Carolyn's farm 3 hours away. The kids were busy watching a DVD.
"I don't think I will last 3 hours." She says.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that the baby will use my bladder as a squeeze toy and I will need to pee."
"Okay well if you can last over 45 minutes then we will make it to the rest stop and we can get something to eat and have a toilet break."
"Sounds good." She says smiling.
In between leaving and arriving at the park for a break they had stopped twice because of Meredith needing to pee and because she also had to puke. She was worse than the kids usually were. They were 5 minutes out from the rest stop.
"Yuck." Angus says holding his nose. "Kendall needs her diaper changed."
"I'm sure it's not that bad." Derek says. "Oh wait. Kendall what have you been eating baby girl?"
"Yes Kendall what have you been eating. That is a real stinker." Meredith says.
"Can we stop please? I don't think I can stand this anymore?" Sophie says.
"We are nearly at the rest stop so hold on for a few minutes."
When they arrived at the park Derek got the kids out of the car into the fresh air while Meredith laid Kendall down on the floor of the car and started to change her diaper.
"Kendall what have you been eating?" Meredith asks her.
She just sits there smiling underneath her pacifier.
"You cheeky girl." Meredith puts a new diaper on and dresses her again. She sits her on the ground. "Okay go to daddy."
Kendall runs off to Derek and he picks her up in her arms. Meredith wraps the diaper up and places it in a nappy bag. She closes the diaper bag up and places it in the car then grabs the food bag and brings it over to the table.
"Okay let's see what we have." Derek says.
"Are you hungry kids?"
"Yes." Angus says.
"We know you would be hungry mate. Soph are you hungry?"
"Kind of."
They give the kids food and let them run around for 10 minutes before they have a toilet break. Derek takes Angus in with him while Meredith waits with the girls.
"Come on Kendall." Derek says as he picks her up after he leaves the toilets with Angus. "Angus let's get in the car."
Meredith takes Sophie to the toilet then they leave getting in the car.
When they were back on the road again Kendall and Meredith were asleep and Angus and Sophie were sitting arguing with each other.
"I'm going to ride Chestnut first." Sophie said.
"No I get to ride Chestnut first. Nanna said that to me on the phone."
"Angus I am the oldest so I get to ride him and girls before boys."
"Hey the way you two are going we won't let you ride the pony at all." Derek says looking in the rear view mirror at them.
"Well then who gets to go first?" Angus asks.
"Kendall can go first."
"But she has never ridden him before. She doesn't know what to do." Sophie says.
"Well you were all her age when you got to ride the pony for your first time so let Kendall have a go first then Nanna can decide."
"Okay dad." Angus and Sophie say in unison.
"So what else do you kids want to do when we get there?"
"Well can we go fishing dad?" Angus asks.
"If you want to then we will see if there is a nice day and we can go down to the river and fish."
"Thank you."
"Soph what do you want to do?"
"Well I want to help nanna in her veggie patch and plant some more strawberries and help her with picking the fruit and helping her cook."
"Well I'm sure Nanna would love to have you in the kitchen helping."
"Is Aunty Amy going to be there?" Angus asks.
"Yes she will be. She took time off at California to spend time with us."
"Is Aunt Amy ever going to get married and have kids?" Soph asks.
"Well I don't know. You might have to ask her that yourself when we get there."
"I will daddy."
"Is she there now?"
"Yes she is."
"And how much longer until we will be there?"
"2 and a half hours."
"Oh that is too far away." Sophie says.
"Be patient. We will get there."
"Do you two want to play a game?" Meredith asks.
"Hey why aren't you sleeping?"
"It's hard to sleep when you have a little person inside you kicking and moving every so often. I can barely get comfortable."
"Oh okay."
"Do you want me to drive at all?" She asks.
"No I am fine."
"Mummy can we play eye spy?" Angus asks.
"Of course. You can go first?"
"Eye spy with my little eye…..
On another road a head a car was travelling fast down the road.
"Is it the tree?" Sophie asks.
"No."
"Is it a flower?"
"No."
"Is it the road?" Sophie asked again.
"Soph you're never going to get it. It is the colour red."
"A car?" Derek asks.
"Yes dad. Your turn."
"Hmm okay. Eye spy with my little eye something…."
The car was still fast approaching the upcoming intersection and so was theirs.
"You'll never guess this kids."
"Oh they are supposed to be easy daddy." Sophie says.
"It is but you won't be able to get it mummy should." He says smiling at her.
"A bird?" Angus asks.
"Nope."
"A bag."
Within less than a hundred metres from the intersection both cars were getting closer.
"Nope."
"A blue car."
"Nope, you have a guess Mer."
"Is it the baby?"
"It sure….
Derek was cut off by that incoming car crashing into the side of their car sending their car flipping and jostling the kids and making them scream. Their car rolled and flipped twice before landing against a tree. The other car was brought to a halt on all floors.
Everything was silent excepting for the noise of the smashed up car and the panic of the other driver.
So there was the first chapter. Let me know what you thought of it and I will post the next chapter up as soon as I get feedback about you guys liking it.
The next chapter will be the following moments from the crash and will involve their first meeting but lets just say as they grow up it is not smooth sailing for a few years. Also the flashbacks are in first person, either Meredith or Derek.
Let me know what you thought and an update will be up.
