A/N: I took the day off from work, and I should be getting my car inspected this morning, but instead, I decided to work on fanfic LOL. Enjoy:) Oh, and congrats on Greys for winning the SAG award! YAY:)

"Warming up?" Derek asked Meredith as he sat down beside her on the blanket in front of the warm, roaring campfire.

"Yeah. A little bit." Meredith wore one of Derek's t-shirts which was long and oversized on her small frame and was wrapped up in a heavy blanket Derek had brought. "If my hair wasn't so wet, I'd probably be a little warmer."

"Well it smells nice," Derek commented, giving her a smile.

"Fire's nice and warm. What'd you do? Rub two sticks together or something?"

"No, I had to do it the hard way. I used a lighter."

Meredith laughed.

"You know, I have another way to keep you warm."

"Oh yeah?"

"Mmm-hmm." Derek placed his hand on her chin, slowly bringing her mouth to his and kissed her softly. "But first, I have a very important question to ask you."

Meredith smiled. "Okay…"

"How do you like your marshmallows?"

"Huh?"

Derek smiled, pulling out a bag of jumbo marshmallows from behind him. "Marshmallows. How do you like yours? Lightly toasted or burnt and gooey in the middle?"

"Burnt and gooey in the middle."

"Good. That was the right answer. That's how I like them too." Derek handed Meredith a skewer and opened up the bag of marshmallows.

"Roasted marshmallows. Oh my god, I think it's been forever since I've had these."

"Well you can't go camping and have a campfire and not roast marshmallows. It's like a rule."

Meredith watched Derek as he placed a marshmallow on his skewer and moved it around in the fire. He pulled it back and quickly blew the flame out. The outer skin of the marshmallow was black and burnt to a crisp.

"Look at that. Isn't that just beautiful?"

"Mmm-hmm. But you know what goes really good with roasted marshmallows?" She said as she bit a marshmallow in half and licked the stickiness from her finger.

"What's that?"

"Sex."

Derek laughed. "I couldn't agree more."

"Good, because I'm pretty chilly here and I'm waiting to find out how else you plan to warm me up."

Derek gently laid her down on the blanket, covering her mouth with his. As his hands roamed up and down the length of her body, he was surprised to realize that underneath his shirt that she wore, she was wearing nothing else at all.

Meredith caught the look in his eyes and gave him a smile. "Oh yeah, I seem to have lost my panties again. I have a bad habit of doing that."

"It's okay. I don't think you'll be needing them much tonight anyway."

Meredith laughed as Derek suddenly rolled her over, switching positions with her. "I don't think you'll need this either," he said, referring to the shirt. "Although I do have to admit that you look incredibly sexy wearing my clothes."

She gave him a smile as she raised the shirt over her head and tossed it to the ground. "I think you look incredibly sexy with no clothes." Meredith leaned down, kissing him again as her hands worked his zipper down…

xoxoxo

Sometime later, Derek and Meredith made their way into the tent.

"Cozy," Meredith said with a laugh as Derek laid her down on the sleeping bag.

"You know what?"

"What?"

"This is the first time I've had a woman in my sleeping bag. And it's really turning me on."

"Ooo, lucky me."

Derek closed the distance between them, kissing her mouth, then moving on to that spot on her neck.

"Derek…" Meredith whispered.

Derek reached for her hands, lacing his fingers with hers as he continued kissing her.

"Derek…I heard a noise."

"It was probably just a raccoon," he whispered.

Meredith closed her eyes, figuring maybe Derek was right. Some animal. Maybe a raccoon. Maybe a squirrel eating all their food in the tree. No, it sounded too big to be a raccoon or a squirrel.

"Derek, I heard it again."

"The woods are full of all kinds of noises." He kissed her again, hoping it would distract her enough to stop worrying about what was going on outside.

"No, it was a strange noise. Like a rustling sound. You didn't hear it?"

"I'm sure it was nothing, Mer."

Suddenly, a loud crash was heard outside their tent.

"Well I heard that," Derek said, alert now that there was definitely something out there. He opened the tent to take a peak outside.

"Derek?"

"Shh."

"Derek, what is it?"

Derek turned around and looked at Meredith. "I need you to listen to me. Stay calm, and do not panic."

"Derek, when people say to stay calm and do not panic, it's usually because there's a reason to panic!"

"It's a bear."

"A bear!?"

"Shh! Not so loud!"

"A bear?"

"It's just a little one."

Meredith sat up and moved over to get a glimpse. Sure enough, there was a bear. He appeared to be rummaging through their things. "I thought you said you put all of the food up. Up in the bear bag or whatever…"

"I did! He must have found something else…or he's looking for something. Not laughing so much at the bear bag now, are you?"

"Derek, what do we do?"

"He's not a large bear, but he's still a bear. I think the best thing for us to do is to just stay out of sight, stay quiet."

"Can't you scare him off?"

"He's a wild animal, Meredith. What am I going to do? Go after him with my axe?"

"Oh. Well no, I suppose not. Do you think he'll go away soon?"

"He might. Let's just wait and see."

Derek watched the bear, noticing that there was something that had caught his interest. "What the…"

"What? What is it?"

"He's gotten into something. I can't quite make out what it is. It's dark."

Meredith squinted her eyes, trying to get a better view. It was dark, but there was just enough moonlight for her to detect some sort of bag in his claws. "Oh no." Meredith realized what it was.

"What?"

"Izzie's snacks! He found the bag with Izzie's snacks in it."

"What?! You had food and didn't tell me? Meredith! Why the hell didn't you bring it to me? I told you all food had to be out of the way!"

"You said you had taken care of it! I assumed you would have realized I had snacks in that bag considering the fact that you ate most of it on the drive here!"

"Well there was still enough food in there to attract a bear!"

"Shh! Look! He's going!"

Derek turned around just in time to see the bear disappearing behind the bushes and leaving their campsite.

"Do you think he'll come back?" Meredith whispered.

"No, probably not. But just to make sure, I'm going to go take a quick look around, make sure there's nothing else laying around that will attract anymore wildlife. Stay here."

Meredith nodded, watching as Derek grabbed a flashlight and crawled out of the tent to investigate.

He was only gone for a few minutes. When he came back, he held the shredded remains of the bag.

Meredith's eyes grew wide. "Oh my god, Izzie's going to kill me!"

"Why?"

"That was actually her bag."

Derek held up the shredded bag, and he and Meredith couldn't help but laugh.