Title: Do you remember me?
Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy. If I did there would be new episodes on every night.
Summery: Meredith and Derek had a one night stand when she was in medical school and visiting friends in New York. She got pregnant and had a daughter. When she starts her internship in Seattle will they remember each other? Will he ever figure out that he has a daughter with Meredith?
Authors Note: This update is two weeks after the last one. Meredith and Derek are closer but they still haven't slept together. She still doesn't know about Addison. None of the other interns or anyone knows about Erica. They also don't know about Meredith and Derek's relationship the only one who kind of knows is Cristina. Erica doesn't know that Derek is her father yet. The last thing is Derek has basically moved in with Meredith and Erica.
Ready or not
"Stevens you get to cover the pit today, Yang deliver the weekend labs, Karev you get to trauma pages, O'Malley you get the code team, and someone's popular Grey Shepherd requested you. Now go all of you."
The interns all looked at Bailey complaining about not getting to do a surgery and she gave them the death glare in return.
"Every intern wants to perform their first surgery. That's not your job. Do you know what your job is? To make your resident happy. Do I look happy? No! Why? Because my interns are whiny. You know what will make me look happy? Having the code team staffed, having the trauma pages answered, having the weekend labs delivered and having someone down in the pit doing the sutures. No one holds a scalpel until I'm so happy I'm Mary Freakin' Poppins." Bailey yelled earning looks from passer byers. They interns scattered around the hospital leaving Bailey smiling.
Meredith went to find Derek up in Neuro. She waited at the elevator for it to come to her floor. Derek was the only one on the elevator leaning on the back wall looking intently at his palm pilot.
"Dr. Shepherd." Meredith nodded her head to him waiting for the elevator door to close.
"Meredith," Derek ignologed her.
"Derek, I am working tonight. This is the first time that I am working that you are not. You can still stay at my house-our house but you don't have to." Meredith was interupted by Derek.
"Mer, you are rambling. I think I will stay at our house. I like the sound of that by the way. Do you want me to pick Erica up?"
"You don't have to. It would be nice for her to have alone time with you before we tell her that you are her father."
"Yeah I'll pick her up. I get off at four. We'll go to dinner, play Barbies, watch Cinderella, and I'll put her to bed." Meredith smiled.
"I wish I was there to watch you play Barbies." She snickered a little as Derek blushed. "How come the man is always working and then he goes home and sleeps? Since I won't be there you have to actually play with Erica not try to feel me up the whole time."
"That's what makes playing toys fun. You bend over I get a view of your ass. Or you go to far forward I can stare down your shirt."
"Derek stop we are at work. So what is the case about."
"Case what case."
"Fine I will just get Bailey to reasign me."
"Okay, okay our case is a rape victum found in the park currently unconsious. Her daughter is in the lobby she called it in-saw the whole thing."
"How is the daughter?" Meredith asked with genuine concern.
"She is not talking and won't let us look at her. That is why I requested you. I thought you could help because you are a mother. If you don't want to I can have another intern."
"No, I can do it. I will be fine."
"Okay then." The elevator stopped on their floor both of them getting off and heading towards the patient's room.
"How old is her daughter?"
"Six I believe. She is cute but extremely scared right now. The police want to talk to her but she isn't talking."
"Oh, god I will see what I can do."
"Check her for injuries." Meredith nodded her head and disappeared down the hall.
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Derek slipped out of the patient's room shortly after Meredith and went to the closest on-call room. He grabbed his cell phone off his waist band and dialed the number of his lawyer.
"John Freeman, Attorerny at Law."
"Hey John, this is Dr. Derek Shepherd."
"Hey Shep, let me guess you want to know the statis of the divorce."
"Yup, that would be good. Did she sign yet?" Derek was pacing around the room now running his hands through his perfect hair.
"She is still refusing. She left a statement I guess she still thinks you are in New York."
"What does it say? I give you permission to read it." Derek said annoyed that Addison still wouldn't sign.
"She wrote 'Derek I never meant to hurt you. Mark was a fling and it wont happen again. Come home to me. I am nothing without you. We are Derek and Addison. You have to believe me that I am not having an affair it was just one time.' She goes on trying to beg you and a lot of other stuff you probably don't want to hear."
"Can you just force her to sign the divorce papers? I am moving on with my life and she is stolling it."
"You have been legally separated for four months now and actively trying to get a divorce. After six months the state of New York can force her to sign the papers basically giving you everything."
"So I am married for another two months. What a joy."
"I feel your pain Derek."
"Thanks again for doing this buddy. I don't know who I can trust to this besides you."
"No problem. I will have the lastest papers sent detailing that you get the ski lodge, the Hamptons, and half of everything. You can also have any many that you inherited from your parents and your trust fund."
"Okay great doing business with you. I gotta go save some lives."
"Have a great day." Derek hung up his phone and continued pacing the length of the room. Addison was once again ruining his day. She had now refused three different copies of the divorce papers.
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Meredith caught up with Derek when he was leaving the on-call room ten minutes after finishing his phone call.
"So the girl doesn't have any injuries but she still wont talk about what she experienced. I can only image if that was Erica in that situation watching that happen to me and then not having anyone around."
"You have me and your mother." Derek said trying to cheer her up a little.
"My mother is traveling around the world coming up with new methods and helping the needy."
"Do you want to scrub in on the surgery?"
"Yeah I would love to help this little girl anyway I can." Meredith cracked a small smile towards Derek.
"So I was wondering if you wanted me to stop by with Erica after we have dinner."
"Umm…no one here knows about Erica."
"You haven't told them about your daughter." Derek asked almost shocked.
"No, but I do want to see her. Park near the south side and page me when you get there I will come and give her a kiss."
"If you just told people we could come in the hospital."
"I don't want anyone to know. They treat you different when you are a mother like I cannot handle it. All of them will try changing their schedules with me so I have less hours and more time with her. I will be almost forced into an easier career. This is my choice and that is what I want." Meredith said sounding angry with tears rimming her eyes.
"I guess I understand but it just might be easier if you didn't have to lie." Derek said comfortingly to Meredith.
"Yeah I know."
"So the surgery is after lunch. It should take about three hours if all goes well. I will check on her shortly after and then I am off."
"Do you know all the bed time procedures and her routine?" Meredith asked biting her bottom lip the only other person she ever trusted with her daughter was Rose.
"Mer, we have been unofficially living together for two weeks I have caught on." Derek harshly whispers to her. "We will be fine." He says more lightly knowing she is nervous and doesn't mean to take it out on him.
"Okay, I am going to have lunch with the other interns. I am glad I am on call tonight. I have to keep making up excuses why I cannot hang out with them and go drinking."
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Meredith grabbed a hot dog from the cafeteria before joining the other interns for lunch on the patio. She sat down and joined them in discussing their interesting cases.
"I have got to find a place to live. My mother irons my scrubs." George groaned just thinking about it.
"Well I am in the same boat. I need somewhere to live my apartment lease is running out and it is so far from the hospital." Izzie was complaining about insect problems but Meredith was to busy trying to eat the hospital food. She thought she heard them ask if they could move in with one of them.
"You don't want to live with me. I am a slob. Seriously I have old pizza and clothes all over my floor and besides I only have one bedroom." George looked relieved about not having to live with Cristina she was hard enough to deal with during work hours let alone live with.
"I am currently living in a two bedroom apartment with my cousin Jon it is so cramped in there as it is sorry guys." Alex said genuinely upset about not being able to help them which surprised all of them. Meredith couldn't talk to them about her current living situation because how would she tell them I am living with Dr. Shepherd and we have a daughter together.
"What about you Mer? I bet you have a nice house. Have any of you seen her car. What do you have a 2008 BMW. I didn't even think they made them yet." Izzie said talking rapidly.
"My mother operated on the owner of the entire corporation a couple years back. I get the newest model of any car I want as soon as it comes out because she saved him when every one else gave him two weeks to live. I also have a Saturn depending on where I am going I use different cars." The other interns nodded their heads like it was normal to have multiple cars when none of them even had a car.
"So where do you live?" Cristina asked suddenly interested in Meredith's home life none of them knew much about her.
"I live in Emeraldheightsgatedcommunity." Meredith rushed the last part hoping they would here it wrong or not understand her.
"Oh my God, you live there Mer. Those houses go for almost a million dollars and they are perfect location from the hospital not to far but not close enough to hear the sirons."
"Don't those homes have like a million bedrooms." George asked hinting about moving in with Izzie.
"I think I have 12 bedrooms or something like that." The other interns mouths are hanging open.
"We could all move in at Mer's." Alex said.
'I am thinking house party." Cristina nodded her head already planning the fun they could have.
"It's not that kind of neighborhood. Most people have kids and families." Meredith said trying to come up with a good excuse as to why they couldn't move in. "Besides I am living with someone."
"You have time to have a boyfriend, Mer." Izzie asked her curiously this is the most information they ever got out of her in two weeks.
"No, I live with another female."
"I never pegged you for a lesbian Mer but I am cool with that. Kind of hot when you think about it." Alex said nodded his head lost in thought.
"In your dreams Alex. I am seeing someone that spends the night over sometimes." George looked a little crushed but tried to hide it.
"So that is what three bedrooms if that." Izzie was trying to think but ended up doing it out loud.
"Then there is my mother's bedroom and any guests that she might have over if she is bringing someone rare in for a surgery. I cannot deal with roommates right now anyway."
"Come on, Mer. We are begging you. I cook and I am very neat." Izzie said Meredith felt bad but knew it would never work. They were young, went to bars, had one night stands, drank, and worked just as weird hours as her. She didn't need to introduce more people into Erica's life to complicate it so more.
"Mer I will be neat and pay on tim…" Meredith was tapped on the shoulder by Derek.
"Good thing I was able to find you. They are rushing the patient in to emergency surgery. She took a turn for the worse." Meredith got up not even bothering to throw her trash away.
"Just think about it, Mer." Izzie shouted after her.
"I really need a place to live, Mer." George shouted after her as well.
Meredith and Derek left the patio area at a fast walk. They made it to the elevator quickly.
"I thought you said it was an emergency. Shouldn't we take the stairs." Derek had a sly smile on his face.
"You would have been paged if it was an emergency but we were bumped up twenty minutes and you looked uncomfortable so I figured I would save you."
"So your saying that you are my knight in shining…whatever." Meredith could think of what he would be shining in that wasn't a cliché.
"I am your knight in shining whatever. I like it very different you could have said armor but you didn't. Orginality I like that."
The elevator comes and once again they are the only ones on it. Derek steps on first with a sly smile on his face. Meredith entered the elevator with a look in her eyes. Before either of them knew it Meredith had pushed Derek up against the wall of the elevator. She surprised Derek but he quickly turned the table on her pushing her into the cold steel walls. Her thin scrub shirt let the cool air through turning her on even more. She arced into Derek running her hands through his hair which she had been dieing to do all day. His tongue traced the outline of her lips so lightly and softly causing her to open her mouth to him. Her tongue darted into his mouth turning their kiss into anything but innocent. It was now about lust Derek's hand went up the front of Meredith's scrubs and up to her bra. Meredith removed one hand from Derek's perfect hair and glided it up his back under his shirt feeling every muscle contract on his strong back. Before either of them knew it the final bell on the elevator rung signally they reached their destination before either of them wanted to.
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The surgery went well Meredith was able to determine what was inside the rape victum's mouth and now had custody of a penis. Meredith and Derek engaged in eye sex through out the whole surgery. Both of them were desiring to be with the other one. Two weeks of them living together and they had not been able to get past making out. Something always happened a page, Erica waking up, the dinner burning, or injuries. Meredith had just found out that she gets to keep the penis until the crime scene investigator shows up. She ran into Derek on his way out of the hospital. He already was dressed in his black dress pants and 'good looking red shirt' that she could barely resist on a normal day.
"Dr. Shepherd." Meredith was standing on the bridge when he walked up to her trying to stand casual like they were nothing more than attending and intern.
"Dr. Grey." Derek said and looked around to make sure no one was watching. "I am leaving in a few minutes."
"Good for you. I will see you and Erica after you have dinner." Meredith notices someone coming within hearing distance. "So tonight I will monitor the patient and do post-op notes for you." Derek looked confused but then heard footsteps of none other than the chief.
"That is right Dr. Grey. Make sure you take detailed notes I wont be in until tomorrow." The footsteps faded into the distance and out of hearing range.
"So the crap crime scene guy can't get out here till tomorrow. So I get to spend the night with my penis! Only it is not the penis I want to spend the night with." Meredith looked at Derek flirtaciously Derek smirked back at her.
"Don't have to much fun." Meredith lightly smacked his arm. "I'll see you later, Mer."
"See you later, Dr. Shepherd." Meredith walked away in the opposite direction of Derek. Before she got far enough away Derek ran up to her. "I cannot give you a good bye kiss in the middle of the hospital."
"That is not what I wanted to ask you but I am deeply hurt over that. Does the daycare know that I am aloud to take Erica home."
"Oh shit. Good thing you thought of that. Let me call them before you get her." Derek directed Meredith into a storage closest that was a tight squeeze for both of them. Meredith's body was pressed right up against Derek's. Meredith dialed the number of the daycare on her phone. Derek's hands wondered underneath Meredith's shirt and underneath her bra. He smirked at her before he went to kiss her neck in the spot that he learned drived her wild on her neck. Derek silently laughed as Meredith tried to keep her voice steady to have a conversation. She tried backing up but was pushed into the wall and now could not get away from Derek at all.
"Yes, hi this is Meredith Grey." Meredith had to bite her bottom lip to supress a moan from getting out of her lips.
"Hello Dr. Grey, what can we help you with." The voice at the other end of the phone asked.
"I was wondering if I could add a person to the list of people who could pick up Erica." Meredith felt her knees go weak as Derek nibbled on the skin right below her ear.
"Who is this person and the relationship to you?" The monotone voice on the other end asked.
"Derek Shepherd he is Erica's father." Meredith felt herself smile at this she had never before been able to call anyone Erica's father.
"How do you want him to be identified besides ID? We usually make you come up with a code that you both would know until you update the paper work." Derek was able to hear the person on the phone and whispered into Mer's ear.
"Our phrase can be sexy intern and hot attending." Meredith swatted his arm and whispered into his ear so that the voice of the daycare representative who was giving her sample phrases couldn't hear.
"This is for a daycare, Derek, do you seriously want to scar our daughter." Derek guitly shook his head.
"Fine The Apple Martini." Derek said causing Meredith to smile. "Without it Erica wouldn't be here."
"Oh thanks for all those suggestions I have come up with one we both would know The Apple Martini." Meredith said into the phone the lady wrote it down and Meredith thanked her for her time and was able to hang up.
"You are so going to pay for making me suffer like this." Meredith said as Derek continued to attack her neck with his lips.
"You don't seem to be in pain. In fact I think you were enjoying yourself." Derek smirked and backed away and out of the room before Meredith was able to hit him.
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Derek arrived at the daycare and entered the front entrance. He looked around looking lost until a young friendly nurse came up to him.
"Can I help you sir." She asked sweetly throwing herself at him.
"Yes I am looking for where I pick up my daughter. I have never been here before usually her mother just runs in and grabs her."
"The front desk is this way I will show you." The girl wiggled her hips as she walked trying to get Derek's attention he just followed her without paying to much attention. "Here you are, sir."
"Thank you.' Derek said politely as he walked up to the desk. "I am here to pick up Erica Grey." He pulled his wallet out and showed his hospital ID badge. "I am Dr. Derek Shepherd that is my ID now I understand there is a code and I know that to do you want it." The same lady whoses voice he recognized from the phone nodded her head. "The Apple Martini." The lady offered a small smile to Derek before dialing on the phone and telling someone to send Erica Grey out.
Five minutes later Erica came walking through the double doors leading to the rest of the center with her back pack on that was the size of her. Derek smiled and stood up to help her. Only he could have a Cinderella back pack on and still look sexy. Erica grabbed Derek's hand and walked to the front desk with him. Some of the woman sitting in chairs waiting for him offered small smiles. He went up to the front desk and signed Erica out.
On the way to the car Erica talked about everything that happened in the day rambling on and on about learning to ride horses, which to Derek was a head injury waiting to happen. She told him about learning to speak German and started saying simple things like 'Hallo' or 'Guten Tag' to him. Derek was so proud of his daughter and could remember a happier moment in his life than walking to the car holding the hand of his daughter listening to her talk about her day and carrying her back pack. In the two weeks since he found out about his daughter he had went out and bought her a booster seat for his car so he wouldn't have to share the one in Meredith's car that they always hide in the trunk when they leave the daycare center after dropping off Erica.
"Are you hungery, Erica?" Erica nodded her head angelically and flashed her McDreamy smile that was to cute to resist.
"Can we pulease have McDonalds. Pretty please with sugar on top." Derek normally didn't eat fast food but his daughter was to cute to resist and she knew it and used it to her advantage.
"Just this once." Erica jumped up and down at the prospect of getting what she wants that easily. It had been a long day for her and she was getting tired so she lifted her arms up signally she wanted Derek to carry her.
"Carry me. Mommy says I am to big but I say you carrying mommy up the stairs when she had her boo boo that night." Derek flushed a shade a of red that could only be compared with a tomato. He picks her up and hugs her close to his body.
"I can carry you but you are to big for mommy to carry you." Erica smiled she loved how easily Derek gave her everything.
"Derek, do I have a daddy?" Erica looked at him right in the eye. She was smart and knew the other kids she was with all day long had to parents and wondered why she didn't. Anyone who didn't know the situation would be able to pick Derek out as her father because of the striking resemblance but she was to young to know about genetics.
"Your mommy and I were going to discuss this with you but I guess I can tell you now." By now Derek was strapping Erica into her car seat. "I am your daddy but I wasn't able to be in your life until now. It is complicated." Erica nodded some what comprehending what he was saying.
"Are you going to leave me again." She seemed scared to lose him and he just cracked a smile.
"I'm not going anywhere."
"Good because I love you. I love grandma too but she leaves and goes to Africa to help sick people. Do you help sick people? Mommy does." Erica never ceased to amaze Derek.
"I love you too, baby." She smiled a little and reached her arms out to hug Derek. "I help sick people like your mother and grandmother do to. But your mommy and me do it right her in this country so we can see you." .
"Daddy I am not a baby. I am four years old."
"You are my baby." Derek smiled and reluctantly let go of Erica.
"You and mommy can have another baby like Jessica's parents. Her daddy was helping her mommy feel better and they made a baby. You helped mommy feel better did you make a baby." Erica's curiousity was good to an extent but now she was asking questions that she is to young to know the answeres to and it drove Derek nuts.
"I don't think mommy and I will have another baby anytime soon."
"Why, don't you help mommy feel better enough?" Erica looked curiously at him. "Maybe if you did then you can have a baby." Erica smiled at this and nodded her head.
"You know what we have to go see mommy after we eat dinner so let's go do that. I don't know about you but I am starving."
"Yeah, me too. I am going to have a Happy Meal." Erica said nodding her curly head.
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Fathers and daughters were everywhere it wasn't until Derek had a daughter that he saw them all the time everywhere. On the short walk through the McDonalds parking lot Derek say three different fathers and now he could be included in that group. He proudly clasped Erica's hand hoping to protect her from the rest of the world.
"Daddy," Erica said wrigging her hand out of his hold.
"Yeah princess." Derek had a glimmer in his eye everytime he thought about his daughter.
"Can I go play over there with those kids? I promise I will be good pretty please." Erica pointed towards the indoor play area and was jumping up and down with excitement.
"Fine, but as soon as I have the food you have to come and eat like a big girl." She nods her head and runs off. Derek waits on line that is moving as slow as ever. He is keeping an eye on the play area the whole time knowing he is fully responsible for Erica's well fare. He walks straight ahead and is first in line but doesn't realize it he is to busy watching Erica play on the slides hoping she doesn't hit her head.
"Can I help the next customer, please?" Derek was tapped on the shoulder by the lady behind him and he walked up to the cashier.
"I will have one south west salad and a chicken happy meal." Derek handed the kid $10 and told him to keep the change. He was waiting for the food to be ready when he saw Erica trip and fall on her knee. She had tears running down her face and stayed on the floor. Derek ran over to her.
"Erica hunny, where does it hurt?" His normal deep blue eyes filled with panick and concern.
"My knee hurts I think I have a boo boo." She stuck her thumb in her mouth as the tears flowed down her face. Derek picked her up off the ground getting curious looks from passer-byers. He went over to a table and set her down.
"Let's let Dr. daddy look at your leg, okay." She nods her head sniffling a little.
"Mommy always makes it better. Can you make it better." Derek nods his head. On her tan capris he can see a small amount of blood seeping through scaring him more than anything in the world. He rolls up her pants leg and take a look at her injury and wants to laugh at himself for being so worried. Derek grabs his doctor's bag that he always carrys and pulls out antibacterial cleanser.
"This may sting a little, Erica, but I promise it will make it all better." Derek cleaned the injury with the disinfectant. Erica didn't cry once only winced slightly from the sting. "You are very lucky I just happened to put some Disney Princess's bandaides in my bag. Which one do you want?" Erica pulled one of Cinderella out of his hand wich didn't surprise Derek that was her lastest obsession.
"Can I have a feel me better present?" Erica smiled up at him sweetly with unshed tears still lining her eyes.
"Yeah, daddy will buy you a new Barbie doll. Come on let's go see if our food is done."
"Carry me I am sick just like mommy." Derek picked her up and went over towards the counter and his food still wasn't done. The lady that was behind him in line was also waiting for her food.
"You have an adorable kid. I wish my husband was as good with our kids as you are with your daughter." Derek smiled and thanked the lady. Erica must have been tired because she put her head on Derek's shoulder and clung to him tightly.
"Daddy." Erica picked up her head slightly and then put it back down again.
"Yes, princess."
"I want to see mommy." Derek kisses her on the fore head.
"As soon as we eat dinner we can go see mommy."
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Thankfully that was the last of their McDonald's night mares that trip. There was no chocking on their food. Derek quickly strapped Erica in her seat and made his way into the hospital parking lot to the nearly deserted south side. Derek paged Meredith and waits sitting in the car talking to Erica. Meredith came rushing out a back exit five minutes later.
"Hey hunny, was she any trouble." Derek shakes his head no and captures her lips throught the open window.
"Don't start anything you cannot finish." Meredith whispered seductively into his ear before gently nibbling on it. She back away from the window and jumps in the back next to Erica. Erica gave Meredith a big kiss and starts talking animately about her day. Meredith wasn't really paying attention just catching bits and pieces enjoying the few minutes with her family.
"…and then I said to daddy maybe he should help you feel better more…I am not a baby but you can have one…daddy fixed my knee when I felled down…the horse went up and down…I am getting a new Barbie…I missed you today…"
"I missed you too." Meredith looked at her watch. "Derek I have to go meet Cristina for dinner can you drop me off near the front of the hospital please it is closer."
"Yeah baby." Derek dropped her off and waved good bye making the short trip home. It felt good for him to be able to say that and family. "Bye I love you." Meredith stopped in shock for a moment and stared back into his eyes and saw how sincere he was.
"I love you, too." Meredith wiped the tears from her eyes before entering back into the hospital alone.