A week later. Meredith was having the day off, so around 8 o'clock she decided to get out of the bed. It was the first sunny morning after a whole cloudy and rainy week. She had some coffee and some breakfast and than she thought she should take advantage of that day and go and run in park.
Once she arrived there, she put her ipod on play and turned the volume loud. After a few rounds she felt tired, so she collapsed on the grass and she started to stare at the sky. She wasn't thinking on anything; she felt that it could be a good way of meditation, but nothing was coming in her mind. So she just continued to stare. She was feeling like she was really enjoying that.

Derek had his day off too that day, so he didn't hurry to get Doc out for a walk very early in the morning.
While they were walking (actually Derek wanted to walk, but Doc was dragging him), Doc started to bark at someone and pulling Derek even faster after him.
Soon Derek saw why Doc was barking. It had seen Meredith laying down and wanted to run to her.
Derek smiled "Well Doc, I think we are lucky today!"
Listening the music loud, Meredith didn't hear Doc barking.
Derek noticed that too, so because he wanted to take Meredith by surprise he tight up Doc's leash on a bench, not very far from the place that Meredith was.
Derek: Now be a good boy and wait for me here! I want to be the first who says hello to her!
But Doc kept barking. It definitely didn't like to stay on leash and less to stay tight.

Derek went to the place where Meredith was laying and laied next to her.
Meredith was staring at the sky like hypnotized so she didn't feel Derek coming and sitting next to her.
Derek stood there staring at the sky too for a couple of minutes. In the mean time Doc got tired of barking and wobbling so he gave up and set down with his head on his paws and just looked at his master.

After a couple of minutes, when he realized that Meredith wasn't going to move very soon, Derek rolled aside and looked at her.
Soon Meredith felt someone's gaze on her and came back from her trance. She found Derek standing right next to her and smiling. She took the headphones out of her ears. "Dr. Shepherd?"
"No, it's Derek!"
Meredith stands up "What are you doing here?"
"I have the day off so I came to walk Doc!"

When Meredith stood up, Doc saw her and it stood up too and started to bark.
"Doc?" And she turned her look over the place where Doc was barking from "This is how you're walking Doc?" she then left to Doc.
Derek laughs "I wanted to be the first one who tells you hello!"
Meredith gave him a blame look.

"Hi Doc! Oh poor you!" she cuddles it "your owner doesn't have any clue about dogs!"
Derek laughs "That is why I want a nanny for it; this way I can learn more!"
Meredith laughs and rolls her eyes. She uncords Doc's leash and release it.

When it felt itself free, Doc started to run around them and jump on them.
"I guess this means that you are begging for a run, right?"
Doc barked.

All three of them spent around 2 hours there, playing and running with Doc, until Doc finally was tired and set down, without any mood to run again.

"Come on Doc, you've been waiting for this day all week, now what are you doing? What if tomorrow will rain again, then you won't see Meredith?"
But Doc was so tired that it didn't even open its eyes while Derek was talking to it!
Meredith laughs "Let him rest! It's time for us to go home, even Doc is tired!"
Derek sighs with disappointment "I guess you're right! I hope the whole month will have at least sunny mornings!"
"I hope so too! I'll see you tomorrow at work Dr. Shepherd! Bye Doc!"
"Or maybe tomorrow for another jogging session!"
Meredith just smiled at him and waved.

Around noon Meredith decided to take a ride with the ferryboat.
She wanted to clear her mind, to clear her feelings, but same as in that morning she couldn't, so she just stared at the Seattle's surroundings.

"So you don't have time to show me the town, but you do have time to take yourself for a ride with the ferryboat"
Meredith's trance was broke again. She looked on her right side and saw Derek standing again next to her smiling.
"Sorry! This was something spontaneous! Is this your first ride?"

"Yes, and I was feeling nervous to travel alone by it for the first time!"
Meredith smiles "I guess you won't be alone now!"
"I am very lucky today! I feel that lucky that I can even dare to ask you to join me for dinner!"
Meredith laughs "You shouldn't consider yourself that lucky!"
"I know, but I can't help it!"

The silence felt over them for a few minutes.
Meredith without looking at him "What brought you to Seattle?"
Derek sighs "The need of a change!"
Meredith looks at him "And did you find a right change?"
Derek looks at her "Yes, I think I did!"
Meredith looks back at water "That's good!"
"What brought you back?"
Meredith sighs "I thought I know, but now I don't!"
"That bad is the returning?"
Meredith looks at him again "No, not that bad!"

After another minutes of silence.
"Do feel like for a confession?" Derek asks her
"No!"
"Too bad; this place is the best place for a confession!"
"Why?"
"Because here, right in this moment we are not co-workers; I am not your teacher and you are not my intern."
"Why? Did you resign?"
Derek smiles at her "No, but we are not in a hospital, we don't have lives to save; we are doctors only when our shift starts and when we are being paged! At least I am not considering myself a doctor in my free time! In my free time I am just Derek!"
"You have a point on that! Do you have any confession to make?"
"No, you?"
"Me neither."

Both turn to face each other. The wind was blowing making her hair to cover her face. There wasn't any distance between them, Derek was staying very close to her; so close that her hair was touching his face too. Derek brushed her hair from her face and he was trying to keep it behind her head; brushing her hair, his hands were also touching her face.
He felt something magic in that moment; he liked Meredith from the first time he saw her, but now … now it was different.
They were looking in each others eyes like someone put a spell on them and the time froze. He was charmed by her eyes and by the scent that she was exhaling.
Derek's smile and his touch made Meredith's body, her soul to fill with a warm feeling. He was indeed a McDreamy.
Holding her hair tight on back, he pulled Meredith close to him and after their body got in touch with each other, he pulled her mouth close to him and all their feelings were now trying to be released through that kiss. It was a hot kiss from all points of view.
At one point Meredith pulled back; she covered his lips with her hands and turned the sight back to water.
"My mother told that if I want to be the best I have to play by the rules."
Derek turned his sight in the same direction as Meredith's and put one of his hands on her back "Some rules are made to be broken; some rules are made for a good reason, but others are useless"
Meredith looked at him and smiled "You're saying that just to get into my pants!"
Derek looked at her and smiled too "I don't need to say this, because I already was in you pants, remember?" then he looked back at the water. "Didn't your mother marry with her boss?" he asked her looking again at her.
"They were having an affair since they were both attendants!"
"Meredith, this is an unwritten rule! Do you have any ideas how many from the medical stuff are having a relationship with: an intern, a nurse, a resident, an attendant? Nobody speaks about this, because then everyone would see them favored and trust me I don't do favors!"
"Then what's the point in sleeping with the boss!" Meredith said joking.
Derek just answered her with a smile.
"How about we go now and show you the town and maybe to eat something too?"
"I've thought you will never ask!"

They got Meredith's car and left. After a small tour town and a meal at the restaurant, they arrived at Derek's apartment.
"Now that you are here, come and say hello to Doc!"
Meredith saw again the McDreamy smile on his face and she said ok, but just for a few minutes.
Those few minutes turned into a few hours and soon the evening came and found Meredith still there.
"It looks like I owe you now with a dinner!"
Meredith looking at the window "It's already evening!"
"This way you'll get your first pay for sitting with Doc!"
"Are we going to order the food here or we'll go out?"
"None!" he said smiling
"I am telling you from the beginning that I don't cook!"
"Seriously! I wouldn't put my nanny to cook; I…"
"Correction: Doc's nanny!"
Derek laughed "That's right! I wouldn't ask my … Doc's nanny to cook! I'll cook! Maybe this way I'll impress her! You go now and do your "job"!"
Meredith laughed and went to stay with Doc.

After dinner they went out to walk Doc and after walk, they returned home.
Doc fell asleep somewhere in a corner of the living room and Derek and Meredith set down on couch. Mark wasn't home yet.
Derek put his arm around her shoulder and Meredith rested her head on his shoulder. None of them was saying anything; they were just enjoying the moment. When Derek kissed her head, Meredith raised her head and looked at him. Then Derek lifted up her chin gently and gave her a soft kiss. Meredith's lips got back his and got them connected into o passional kiss. Then Derek's kisses went on her face, then on her neck and her shoulders.
Meredith was running her hands through his hair "It's… very…late"
Derek continued to kiss her "this means … you'll have to … sleep here" and then he stopped and looked at her.
Meredith just smiled and gave him a kiss, she slipped her hands under his shirt and then she started to unbutton it.
Derek just from one move removed hers and his lips moved to her breasts, where also very easy he removed the bra.
"I think your bed is more comfortable then this couch."
"You're right!" And saying that he took her in his arms and carried her to his bedroom and closed the door
The clothes went down very fast exposing their naked bodies.
They collapsed in bed and Derek started to kiss her all over her body. Every spot he was kissing made her moan of pleasure. Being a neuro surgeon and not a regular one, one of the bests, he knew what nerves to kiss to make her moan harder.
Later Meredith wanted to take over the control, but Derek pulled her back under him again. After all he was the teacher and she was the student, so she didn't resist him and let him teach her further.

The next morning Derek woke up first, holding Meredith on his chest; he looked to see what time is, and seeing that in just a few minutes the alarm was going to wake them up, he decided to be the one who wakes her up. So he cuddled her and gave her a kiss on forehead. Meredith opened the eyes when she felt Derek moving. Opening her eyes she saw him smiling.
Derek got on top of her and kissed her "Good morning!"
Meredith was running her hand trough his hair "Good morning! What time is it?"
"Almost the time to wake up!"
Meredith groaned and wanted to turn around "Then let me sleep more!"
"What? We should not waste the time with the sleep …" and he started to kiss her again, first on her neck then down her body.
Meredith giggled and tried to escape from under him "you should stop"!
Derek stopped and came back to her face "Why? Are you afraid that we won't be able to stop?"
Meredith laughed and pushed him away, then she gets on top of him "If I had known that the sex with a neuro surgeon is like that, I would have sleep with many by now!"
Derek was holding her hair back "That would have been impossible, because not all of them might have been as good as me!"
Meredith laughed "You are overestimate yourself!"
They rolled again and Meredith was again under him "I don't think so!" and he grabbed her legs and put them around him.
Meredith giggled "Derek stop! We don't have time!"
"So do you admit that I am the best!"
"I suppose you are!"
"What do you mean you suppose! Now I am offended!"
"Ok, ok ! You are the best!" she gave him a kiss "So we don't have time" right in that moment the alarm went off "See? It's getting late!" and she pushed him away.
Derek sighed "Fine!"
Meredith grabbed the sheet and wrapped it around her, and then she got out of the bed. She couldn't make even a step, because she felt herself pulled back into bed.
Derek grabbed a part of the sheet and laughing "Where are you going with this?" he got her back in his arms.
"Do you want me to go all the way to shower naked?"
Derek nodded with a dirty smirk.
Meredith laughed "I am sure that your roommate will love it!"
Derek unwrapped the sheet from her: ok, you can keep it! But you have to share it with me!
"No!"

"You still owe me a shower, remember?"

"Derek, we will be late!"
"Don't worry about it, I am your boss's boss!"
"Didn't you say yesterday that you don't do favors?"
Derek kissed her "I did, but after last night I can make an exception for you!"
"Then I am out of here!" and she struggled to get out of his arms "And we are over!"
"Come on! I was joking! If you'll be late, Bailey will scream at you, will torture you and you'll stay away from the surgeries!"
"And you're saying this like it is a good thing!"
"It is not good for you, but it is good for me! Because then I will feel so guilty that I'll have to make it up to you!"
Meredith laughed "Shut up! Ok, you can come with me, but just to get a shower!"
They stand up and Derek, staying behind her, wraps the sheet around them "I can wash your back"
Meredith laughed "Wash it only!"
"The best way that I can!"

Coming out of the bedroom they were greeted by Doc.
"Not now Doc! Later!"
Entering in bathroom, Meredith blamed him "You are definitely a bad owner!"

They managed to shower only and Derek to wash her back.
After they returned in bedroom, Derek went to find Mer's clothes.
He fond Mark laying on the couch in living room.
"Mark, what are you doing here?"

"Since you and your new girlfriend didn't let me get to much sleep last night, and this morning neither, I took your dog out for a walk and now I am trying to pull myself together to go to work! You should tell me from now on when you are planning to stay here over night, so that I can go and sleep somewhere else."
Derek looked at him with a huge grin on his face "Are you jealous?" and started to look around the living room.
Mark stood up and handed him a shirt and a bra to Derek laughing "Take this, I don't think our intern would like to walk naked through hospital today! And I thought I get the best sex!"
Derek grabbed them "Thanks!" and he turned around to go back to Meredith
"This dog seems to help you even with the untouchable chicks! I think I will walk it more often from now on!"
Derek laughed "I don't think you will be as lucky as me!"
"I'll try my luck anyway!"

Coming back in bedroom, Meredith took the shirt and the bra from him and started dressing.
"We should hurry otherwise Sloan will find me here!"
"Mark already knows you are here!"
Meredith looked worried at him "He does? How?"
Derek kissed her and smiled "It seems that we were pretty noisy last night!"
"oh, no!"

"Hey, don't worry about him! He won't say anything to anyone!"
"Ok, but still it is awkward!"
"You don't have to feel ashamed in front of him; he is like the biggest manwhore alive!"

After they got dressed, Derek told Meredith to come with him in kitchen for a coffee and some breakfast.
In there they found Mark who has just poured himself some coffee.
Mark smiling suggestively at them "I made coffee! Good morning dr. Meredith!"
"Thanks! Derek took the cups for him and Meredith
"Good morning dr. Sloan!"
Mark wanted to say something, but Derek saw him and made him a sign to shut up thinking that he might say something nasty and Meredith will feel more embarrassed then she already does.

All three of them, together with Doc, who was going to stay with the building's administrator, went outside the apartment and called the elevator.

"So … Meredith, can I call you Meredith?"
"Mark!"
Meredith looked back at him and smiled "You can call me Meredith, if you want!"
"Ok. So, tell me Meredith, you and Doc seem to be friends and knowing each other from some time."
"She walks it from time to time, and now shut up!" Derek interfered fast.
After a short pause.
Mark was laughing "She is doing dog sitting? Like a nanny?"
Derek just glared him.
Mark was still laughing "And you are sleeping with your dog's nanny? Awesome! I want a nanny too! Meredith, can you be my nanny ?"
Meredith laughed "I don't think so!"
"Mark, shut up!"

"Come on, I can even bark and lick your face if you want! Linking the face …hmm.. I kind of like the idea of being a dog!"
"You can even pee on a tree, but you would still be a tramp dog and tramp dogs do not need a nanny!" Derek snapped at him for his dare.
"You know Meredith, I can be reclaimed!"
"Mark!!!"
Meredith just laughed and shook her head.

After dropping Doc to the administrator, they went down in the parking lot. Derek leads Meredith to her car and gave her a kiss, and then he went to Mark's car.