After staring after her friends who left hastily Meredith sensed Derek's hand which was still intertwined with hers, his thumb gently stroking the back of her hand.

She snatched her hand away and gave him a glance. "This is not exactly what I meant by being discreet, you know." Meredith stammered irritated.

Derek's grin grew wider. "I don't know what you mean. This is our break. We are not working right now so I am allowed to be happy with my girlfriend. By the way, I have already been professional today, very professional indeed. I was able to resist the urge to request you as my intern today."

Shaking her head in disagreement Meredith could not resist a smile as well. "Ok, now that all my friends know that I am acting against the rules again it won't take long until the whole hospital will know. You realize gossip travels unbelievably fast in here." She responded.

"I know how fast it travels. That's why I suggest that we should be faster then gossip anyway."

With that her face grew enquiring. "What exactly do you mean with that? I hope you don't mean what I just thought you meant." She asked suspicious.

"I am not quite sure what you thought, but I think we should go to Richard and talk to him about us and everything." Despite her shaking her head he went on.

"It is like you said yourself this morning. We want to make things right this time and that includes talking to Webber and making us official."

"I don't want to upset you but I am not sure if I am ready to take a huge step like this. Maybe it is too soon." Meredith said.

"Maybe it is. But if we don't do this sometime soon he will hear it from someone else and I strongly believe it would be much better if we are the ones he talks to first." Derek said.

"If you would be more discreet no one would have noticed and there would be no need to talk to Webber. She retorted.

"Either way there is a need to talk to him and you know it as well as I do. No matter when, eventually we would have to do it anyway. You know he was kind of angry when he found out last time. He is keen on knowing what is going on in his hospital. He does not like to find out things by accident. And I don't like being the one to keep a secret from him which he deserves to know. Actually we are the ones acting against the rules again and I think he won't say or do anything about this fact.

Anyway I doubt we would be able to hide the thing between us for long. But I am much too much into you for that!" Derek finally smirked.

"We could not hide it because you couldn't keep your hands off me.

No seriously, I know. We need to talk to Webber. I don't want him to be angry with neither of us. So when do you think we should do it?" She asked.

"Hmm, do it? I would say we should do it immediately since we didn't do it yesterday, nor did it today." He smirked again but was interrupted by her slamming his arm.

"I told you why we don't do it! But contrariwise to you and your questionable thoughts I was talking about something different and you know it."

"Just trying to convince you that doing it could be some fun. But I know what you meant. How about today after our shifts and before going home together?" He laid the emphases on 'together', just to make her finally smile a bit, too.

"Ok, see you there" she rose and leaned forward to grab her tray.

When she nearly had it Derek's head shot forward and he sneaked a kiss on her cheek.

"Yeah, see you there." He said.

Meredith flushed and shot him a forced serious glare, as serious as she could manage in this moment. Then she turned around and hurried away.

Leaving Derek behind, with an idiotic grin on his face…

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