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So here's the next chapter.

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One month later...

It's the middle of the night and the Shepherd household is quiet. Quiet that is until thunder and lightning began and a wailing cry fills the air.

"Derek, it's your turn to get Lyss." Mere groans while rolling over.

"No Mere your turn." he says putting his face under the pillow. It has only been a month since they had brought Alyssa home and the two have had little sleep, they wondered how their other girls slept through her constant crying. It was even worse when one of them was on-call.

"Fine, I will be the adult here." Mere says sarcastically getting up hitting him with her pillow as he groans again. As Mere opens the door she finds Sophia sitting there sniffling. "Honey, what's wrong did Lyss wake you up." Sophia shakes her head whimpering then crying as another bout of thunder comes. "Oh, the storm." Mere says picking her up as she is now crying even harder.

"Derek, can you get Phia, the lightning woke her up, I gotta get Lyss."

"Fine." he says getting up and taking his daughter from Mere. "Shhh baby Daddy's here the thunder won't hurt you."

Mere walks into the nursery where Alyssa is crying. "Hey Lyss Shhh Mommy's got you everything will be okay." Mere cooed cursing under her breath as she realized that she can now here Paige and Hayley crying. Bouncing her up and down she walks into the twins room. Paige is sitting up crying while Hayley is trying to get out of her crib.

"DEREK!" Mere calls into the hallway.

"What?" came her response.

"Hayley and Paige are up," she said over Alyssa's cries. Mere was still bouncing her up and down as she stopped Hayley from falling and picked her up.

"Hey Hayl." Mere says picking up her daughter, "It's okay the storm won't hurt you lets sleep in Mommy and Daddy's bed," she tells her as she nods leaving the room as Derek gets Paige. The only one still crying is Alyssa. She puts Hayley down onto the bed and continues to comfort Lyss.

"Come on Lyss, Mommy's got you, come on baby stop crying," Mere whispers into her ear noticing Hayley is asleep on Derek's chest. Her cries slowly quiet as she starts to close her eyes. Seconds later she is asleep.

Mere gently lays her down in her cot and picks up Paige and lays down next to Phia who looks like she is asleep. She isn't so when Paige falls asleep Sophia tugs at Mere's shirt.

"Mommy."

"What sweetie."

"I'm scared of the thunder."

"It's okay just lay close your eyes," she says turning to face her. Paige is wrapped around her neck and sandwiched between them.

"But I can still hear the thunder Mommy." she whimpers, looking at Derek who is asleep too.

"Here." Mere says covering her ears while Paige hangs off her neck. "There we go."

"Thanks Mommy" she says while yawning falling asleep seconds later. Mere closes her eyes relived that everyone is asleep although in her bed and falls asleep.

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5 months later...

"Hey Derek what time your family coming in?" Mere asked while picking up Alyssa to change her diaper.

"They should be arriving any minute." he said looking at his watch, "Which means they will be here in like 10 minutes." He picked up Hayley and placed her on the couch next to Paige and Phia who were watching T.V.

"Daddy, Aunt Nancy and Uncle Frank coming?" Hayley asked.

"Yes and Aunt Kathleen and Uncle Robert, Aunt Lyndsey and Uncle John, Aunt Emma and Uncle Jason, and Nana." he answered her.

"Yay!" she said clapping her hands Paige joining her.

"Anyway, that's good." Mere said finishing their previous conversation placing Lyss on her hip. "That gives me enough time to get this one ready. Come on Lyss, we're gonna meet some of your other family." she tells the baby who smiles.

A minute later Mere walks down the stairs with Lyss in her arms wearing a light pink ruffly dress with a bow in her short dirty blonde hair.

"Someone looks pretty." Derek said to Lyss who laughed as Mere handed her to Derek. "Yes you are baby." he cooed as he tickled her and she went into a fit of laughter.

"Daddy, when are they gonna be here?" he heard Paige ask hopping off the couch running toward him.

"Sweetie." Mere answered for him, "They will be here any minute, why don't you turn off the T.V and wait at the door."

"Okay!" she said excitedly and ran to turn the T.V off and told her sisters to wait at the door.

A few minutes later the doorbell rang.

"Daddy they're here!" Sophia said excitedly all three girls bouncing up and down.

"Okay let me get to the door," he rushed over quickly handing Alyssa to Mere.

"Der Bear!" the girls at the door screamed hugging their brother and son their hands bearing gifts.

"Hey guys!" he said hugging them back half-heartedly.

"Hey girls." Nancy said to Paige, Sophia, and Hayley the others chorusing in. "Where is your new sister?"

"With Mommy." Hayley said.

The women immediately pushed past the girls calling Meredith's name to find her coming out of the kitchen. "Oh my gosh Mere she is so cute." they said running over to her reaching out their arms to hold the baby.

"Thanks love you guys too." Mere responded pretending to be jealous that they noticed the baby first.

Nancy, Elizabeth, Lyndsey, and Emma hugged Mere while Kathleen got to hold her first. Although she was quickly passed from woman to woman.

"Here Mere these are for Lyss, god she looks just like you." Elizabeth said. Each of the women handed her the bags in their hands. They all contained clothes and such.

The rest of the day went smoothly everyone cooing over Alyssa and the girls.

"So Derek." Emma asks, "How does it feel being the only man in the house." everyone began laughing.

"Shut up Em and I will let you know I am planning on at least one boy." Derek said scowling at his sister.

"Whatever Derek, think what you want." Mere said as everyone except the men continued laughing.

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Four months later...

Meredith and Derek got both families together for Christmas Eve at their house. It wasn't necessarily dinner, just a bunch of food. But they only did this so Sophia, Paige, Hayley, and Lyss could see Christina, Owen, Lexie, George, Richard, Adele, and Miranda since they would not see them the next morning. It also involved opening their presents much to Sophia, Hayley, and Paige's enjoyment.

As the three of them were finished opening there presents and were playing with them among the scattered wrapping paper they were giving Lyss her presents. Of course she was having more fun playing with the wrapping paper she was crawling around. Most of them were clothes but Christina and Lexie got her a baby doll and a glow worm.

"Thanks guys," Mere said as she watched Lyss hold onto the baby doll and crawl around. She stopped and looked around.

"Dada," she said unable to find him.

"Aw, Derek," Emma said.

"What?" he asked popping his head into the living room.

"You daughter wants you," Elizabeth said.

"Aww baby," he said going up to Lyss who smiled.

"Dada," she said reaching her arms out to him. He tried to pick her up but she used his arms to hoist herself up. She stood still for a second and Derek backed up confusing her.

"Come on baby," Derek said reaching his arm out for her. She stared at him for a second and looked as if she was going to walk but sunk to her knees and crawled to him.

"Oh you little cheater," Mere cooed as she picked her up. She kissed her on the cheek and Lyss laughed.

"Mere she is just the cutest thing I have ever seen," Izzie said. She was just happy since she lived next door and would see Lyss that morning too. She turned around to Alex who was holding their daughter Allison Sarah Karev who was born 5 months after Lyss. Though Alyssa was a little older they already were really good friends.

"That outfit is so cute," Lexie cooed referring to the silver dress that made Lyss sparkle. It had a little sweater to go with it.

"I know," Mere said as Lyss begged to be let down. Mere placed her down but Lyss immediately crawled over to her toy box and helped herself stand. Derek was sitting a little ways off with Sophia.

"Dada," Lyss said and caught his attention. She warily took and step, then another, then another, and finally into Derek's grasp.

"Yes!" he exclaimed loudly and picked her up. There was a lot of commotion over her first steps that Lyss started to feel overwhelmed by all the noise that she started wailing loudly.

"Oh baby," Mere said and picked her up. "Shhh, it's okay. Mommy is so proud of you." It was fine for the first second until Mere's stomach lurched and she ran to the bathroom after putting Lyss down. She was even able to go unseen for a while. She was in the bathroom for awhile until Derek knocked on the door.

"Mere, are you okay?" he asked. She walked out holding a stick. Derek's eyes lit up.

"Derek, I am pregnant."

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I fixed it but since some of you like the bold I will keep it like this.

I will explain the story more in the next chapter, like a better summary.

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