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1:00pm

It was 72 hours later when Meredith awoke to something rough bristling against her already sensitive hand.

As Meredith peeled her eyes open, the brightness of the sun washing through the hospital window was blinding, causing her to immediately snap her eyes shut.

Attempting to take a breath to prepare herself for opening her eyes again she realized that something was seemingly choking her and burning down her throat. After a moment of terror Meredith realized that she must be intubated, Meredith relaxed just a little knowing that the sooner she could get someone's attention the sooner she could get this severely uncomfortable tubing out of her throat.

Slowly, Meredith opened her eyes again, suffering through the brightness until her eyes adjusted and she was able to take in the room.

Her mind was brought back to the sandpaper feeling against her hand that had originally woken her up, so she turned her attention in that direction, only to find a shaggy, disheveled looking Derek sleeping on her hand, with a scraggly beard and deep bags under his eyes, despite his appearance though she was glad to have him here by her side.

Once her thoughts slowed down a little Meredith began wiggling her hand to try and wake up Derek and it worked like gem, Derek shot up wide awake and immediately began reading Meredith's stats on the monitor before turning his deep blue eyes, stunned that his gaze was met by hers.

Looking into Meredith's eyes was something that Derek had been longing for, for three days now, and here that moment was and he couldn't be happier to have her sparkling blues looking back at him.

"Hi" He said unable to say more as he leaned closer to her running his hand through her hair.

Meredith pulled her hand up to her mouth and made the motion to have the ventilator pulled out.

Derek turned back to the monitor to review her O2 levels again, and after feeling satisfied with them agreed to pull it out.

"Cough." Derek instructed as he intubated her in one fluid motion.

Meredith continued coughing for a minute, rubbing her throat trying to rid herself of that deep burning sensation.

As Meredith rubbed her throat her hands caught the bandage on her neck. For a minute Meredith had forgotten everything that had happened, but it all came back in a rush of tears.

Immediately, Derek was at her side in the bed, spooning her careful not to hurt her or disrupt any of the tubes and wires. "It's ok, you're ok" He soothed.

2:10pm

It was some time before Meredith finally calmed down and ended up falling asleep in Derek's arms.

Derek was thankful however for this mental break, it meant that she wasn't keeping this horrific event locked up inside her, insisting on telling everyone she was fine.

Derek just lay there with her, overwhelmingly happy to have her cradled in his arms.

4:00pm

It was a couple of hours before Meredith woke up, and when she finally did she was surrounded by many of her closest family and friends, all sprawled out in different places throughout the room.

Derek was still in bed with her, Christina was in the chair that Derek had once occupied, Mark was leaning against the wall, staring at Lexi who was cuddled into Jackson's arms on the sofa, Alex was sitting at the table texting, while April sat in the chair next to him, reading something that Meredith couldn't quite make out.

It was Mark who first noticed that Meredith was awake. "Well good morning sunshine." Mark boomed coming closer to her side.

Everyone immediately perked up, at the realization that Meredith was awake. All of them giving her their best smiles.

"Good Morning." She mouthed with a slight smile.

Derek perked up quickly, hopping out of bed and straightening his clothes out, a little embarrassed that everyone was in there while he was in bed with Meredith.

Alex looked at Derek with a mischievous grin on his face, "Can I tell her?" Alex asked eagerly.

April slapped him on the arm, "Alex!" She spat, "Derek should get to tell her." April sternly said looking back at Dr. Shepard for approval.

Derek chuckled a little, "You know what Alex, it was your find, you tell her." Derek said proudly.

Alex's grin couldn't have gotten any bigger as he went over to a very confused looking Meredith.
"Dude, you are never going to believe what I am about to tell you…" Alex started practically jumping out of his skin with excitement.

"WHAT?" Meredith mouthed, completely unsure of what was going on.

"Twins! That's what!" Alex burst out.

Meredith snapped her head over to Derek for confirmation, but she didn't need to as she listened to all of the laughs coming from everyone in the room.

Derek just nodded, and knelt down at her side. "Twins." He said as he placed a loving hand on Meredith's abdomen.

"Twins…" She whispered dreamily, tears pricking her eyes now.

5:56pm

Everyone but Derek had just left Meredith's room after having spent some time in there just carrying on various conversations, keeping away from the heavy, but making sure to let Meredith know that they all loved her.

When it was just Meredith and Derek again, Meredith tugged on Derek to come down to her mouth, so she could whisper in her ear. "We're having twins." She whispered, a slight twinge of fear laced in her words.

Derek looked down at Meredith his eyes glittering with excitement. "Yes we are, and they are going to be the perfect siblings for Zola." He said reassuringly.

This made Meredith smile, "Yes, yes they are." Meredith said beginning to doze off.

9:00am

After a few more days of recuperation Meredith was sent home to mend, with an unfortunate three weeks of required bed rest.

Meredith sat in the wheelchair, her bag in hand, eager to leave the hospital and the sympathetic stares that went along with her stay here.

Derek came into the room, another of Meredith's bags draped over his shoulder. "Are you ready?" Derek asked tentatively.

It wasn't that Derek didn't want her home, he did, but he was terrified that something else could happen or go wrong, not only with her but with the twins too, and they would be so far from the hospital when it happened, it wasn't until Derek was in the back of his car, applying pressure to Meredith's wounds, trying to keep her from bleeding out, that he realized just how far her house was from the hospital, and what's worse the house they were building in the woods was even further, this all made Derek very nervous.

"More than ready." Meredith wrote on the little white board that she clasped in her hand.

Meredith was coming around to speaking again, but the pain it caused in her throat was still fairly substantial, so she opted to use the whiteboard that Lexie had generously given her.

"O.K. then here we go." Derek said as he lifted the break on the wheelchair and began to guide her out of the hospital.

Surprisingly to her, Meredith was met with claps and cheers from various doctors and nurses lining the hallways.

Meredith blushed unsure of how to act with this kind of attention, but one thing was for certain, it made her feel very loved.

When they got downstairs and Derek rolled Meredith over to the car, she was surprised to see that it wasn't Derek's Porsche Carrera, this was a Porsche, but a whole different kind and color.

"What's this?" Meredith asked with her whiteboard shoved in Derek's face as he began loading her things in the back seat of this mystery car.

"It's a Porsche Cayenne Coup." Derek said matter of fact.

Meredith took a deep breath and exhaled in frustration as she began fervently writing a new question on the whiteboard.

"Where's the other Porsche?" The sign read with multiple questions marks.

Derek sighed, "I got rid of it, it…it was tainted." Derek said his eyes flashing off to the not so distant memory of Meredith bleeding to death in the back of it.

The day they brought Meredith in he remembered going down to the car to get his wallet, but when he opened the door, Meredith's blood was there glaring back at him, and it was everywhere. He would never be able to look at that car again without thinking about Meredith dying in his arms.

Derek asked Mark to take care of this with the dealer and within a matter of hours Derek had this shiny black coup parked in his spot.

It had taken a moment for Meredith to understand what Derek meant by "tainted", but then she remembered that this had been their make-shift ambulance and she completely understood.

Dropping the subject, Derek assisted Meredith into her seat, returned the wheelchair, and then they were on their way home.

But there was something that everyone had completely overlooked.

10:40am

It was a long car ride home and between the pain medication, the pregnancy, and the excitement of the day Meredith had fallen asleep halfway there.

When they arrived at the house Derek didn't want to disturb her so he gently scooped her up in his arms and carried her in the house and up to the bed, tucking her in with a kiss before heading back outside to retrieve her things.

2:00pm

When Meredith finally awoke, she looked around the room in confusion before realizing that she was home. She wondered where Derek was and decided to venture downstairs to find him.

Getting out of bed was slightly difficult, she was still sore from the surgery on her back, and it shot pain through her body as she stood up, she waited a moment for the pain to pass before making her way to the stairs.

Once Meredith had descended the stairs, she looked around for Derek and didn't see him, and then she heard a noise coming from the study.

Slowly, Meredith walked in that direction, and gently pushed the door open. Meredith froze.

There Derek was sitting in his office chair crying, but it wasn't that, that had Meredith frozen in place, it was the large red blood stain spread throughout the carpet. She could tell that someone had tried to clean it as best they could, probably April, but Meredith was terrified, all of a sudden she could feel the taxi driver standing behind her, his hot breath on her neck, the cold blade pressed against her throat.

Meredith screamed out for help, Derek jumped up in his chair, and was at Meredith's side in a second, "Meredith! Meredith!" Derek yelled her name, gently shaking her, trying to get her out of this trance she was in. It wasn't working though, Meredith just stood there, staring straight ahead, blankly, screaming bloody murder.

Derek couldn't take it anymore, he scooped Meredith up in his arms, and ran outside with her to the car, putting her in the passenger seat.

Then he jumped in the driver seat and looked over at Meredith who had stopped screaming, and then just like that she snapped out of it and looked at Derek with tear filled eyes.

"Derek, I can't go back in there." Meredith whispered, embarrassed.

Her throat was on fire from all of the screaming, and she was suddenly so tired, this whole thing had just drained her of any energy she may have had.

"We'll go, We'll go right now." Derek said assuring.

"I need to go inside and get my keys, I will come back for anything else we may need. Are you going to be ok?" Derek asked not wanting to leave her, but having no other choice.

Meredith nodded that she would be ok, and like a bolt of lightning Derek ran in the house for his eyes, and a minute later he was running back to the car with them in hand, starting up the car, and reversing away from the house.

4:20pm

Originally, Meredith had wanted to stay at the trailer, but Derek wasn't going to let Meredith be that far away from the hospital

When they pulled up to where Meredith said she wanted to stay, Derek paused for a moment, "Are you sure this is where you want to stay?" Derek asked somewhat confused by her choice. He was sure that she would have picked Christina, or a hotel to stay at.

Meredith nodded, and Derek shut off the car, coming around to Meredith's side to let her out.

When they exited the elevator and walked down the hall, taking baby steps for Meredith's back, they knocked on a baby blue door, which opened only moments later to a grinning Mark Sloan.

"Welcome!" Mark said having spoken to Derek on their way into town asking if they could stay there for a bit.

Derek and Mark helped Meredith over to the couch, where she sat down eagerly, even walking from the car to Mark's door had been exhausting.

"I'm honored that you chose to say with me." Mark said, jokingly, but Derek could tell that this meant a lot to him.

"Meredith was very adamant about asking if we could stay with you, you helped save her life, besides we're close to the hospital." Derek said, looking over at Meredith who had already fallen asleep on the couch.

"I need to run to the house and pick up a few things, will you be ok watching her for a little bit?" Derek asked walking over and placing a kiss on Meredith's forehead.

"You forget that I am a world renowned surgeon myself, and very capable of looking after a patient." Mark said scoffing.

"She better not have a boob job when I get back." Derek said laughing.

Mark wacked Derek on the arm. "So little faith." Mark said snickering as he let Derek out.

"Just take care of her." Derek said seriously as he descended down the hall.

5:15pm

It wasn't long after Derek left that Meredith woke up.

"Well hello sleeping beauty." Mark said noticing Meredith stir.

"Morning…" Meredith mouthed as she stretched.

"I have a surprise for you." Mark said walking around the back of the couch and reaching down for something.

Meredith's face lit up when she saw what the surprise was.

"Sofia!" Meredith whispered, so excited to see the beautiful little girl.

"I thought you could use some baby therapy." Mark said looking down proudly at his daughter.

"Thank You!" Meredith mouthed, as she pulled Sofia into her arms, cooing and tickling the infant, who giggled back at her in response.

7:18pm

When Derek returned, he was surprised to see Meredith wide awake, and glowing. Then he realized why she looked so happy, cradled in her arms, was baby Sofia.

Derek looked over at Mark who was beaming.

"Thank You! I think this is exactly what she needed." Derek said, setting down his things and walking over to Meredith and Sofia, joining in the play session.

Things were going to be alright Derek could feel it deep down inside.

Their next focus needed to be on how to get Zola back to complete their little family.