Meredith started clearing up when she heard the front door open.

'Mom? Dad?'

'Crap,' Meredith pulled her hair back out her face. Edith smiled at Meredith and headed out into the hall.

'Lindsey! How are you doing pet?'

'I'm fine mom, where's dad?'

'He's in the garden, there's a couple of people here to see us,'

'Who?'

'Go into the garden and you'll see,' Meredith listen as Edith took her through the living room.

'DEREK!' Lindsey ran over and flung her arms around Derek.

'Hey Linds, hower you?'

'I'm fine. I'm gonna kick you're ass.'

'What for?'

'Not phoning,'

'There's somebody I'd like you to meet,' Derek walked into the kitchen and took hold of Meredith's hand.

'This is Lindsey. I'm closest to her,' Meredith followed Derek out to the garden.

'Linds, this is Meredith, my fiancé,'

'Hi, I'm Lindsey, call me Linds,' Meredith was pulled into a hug and smiled.

'One down, three to go,' Derek whispered in her ear.

'There's something else we'd like to tell you,' Meredith looked at Derek.

'Satan's not here is she,' Meredith burst out laughing.

'No, it's not Satan, she's in Seattle,'

'I'd have to kill you if you brought Satan here,'

'She's my very distant past,'

'Glad to hear it. So what else have you got to tell me?'

'Mere's pregnant,'

'Congratulations!' Meredith smiled and watched as Lindsey and Derek interacted. They looked exactly alike. She was the female version of him. The hair, the eyes, it was all the same. She had that sense of control that Derek had that Meredith loved. When Derek walked in an OR he was in control, Lindsey was the same only it was she was in control of what was happening.

'So how did you two meet?'

'Long or short Version?'

'Short, I would like to be alive at the end of the story,'

'We met in a bar the night before we started working. Turned out she was a new intern and I was her Attending,'

'Trust Derek to get things complicated,'

'You're not wrong,'

'Let me guess, Satan came into the equation.'

'How did you guess?'

'Cause I know what he's like,' two tall blonde women walked in. It was obvious that they were Derek's sisters. The deep, intense blue eyes ran in the family.

'Carol! Karen!' Derek walked over and hugged Karen first. She was tall, looked a lot like Edith but with a hint of Bob with those eyes. Carol was the same. She had short spike blond hair. She was heavy built but she was beautiful. Meredith smiled as Derek talked with them. He seemed so happy but it was to be short lived. Derek's face turned white.

'Ill be back in a minute,' Derek pressed down on his stomach. Meredith looked over to Derek's dad. Meredith followed Derek up the stairs. Derek staggered into the bedroom where he collapsed on the floor. The pain shot through him like a knife. Curling up he hoped it would ease.

'Derek…' Meredith pushed him on his back and made him lie out flat.

'It's you're stomach again, I need my bag,' Meredith pulled the bag opened and rummaged through it.

'Derek, I need you to stay with me,' Meredith's hands were shaking as she removed the liquid from the small glass bottle. Pulling his shirt up her face went white. Inserting the needle, she watched as his stomach flattened out. Falling back against the bed she threw the needle in the small black bag.

'Mere…' Derek's voice wasn't more than a whisper.

'Derek, its ok, just relax,' Meredith took hold of his hand and rubbed the back of it.

'I'm here, its ok,'

'Derek?' Lindsey pushed the door open and turned to face them.

'Meredith, what's going on?'

'Leave him, he's ok. His stomach went into a spasm. I need to get him up on the bed. Can you give me a hand?'

'Yeah, are you ok?'

'Me? I'm fine,' Meredith went to lift Derek but he started protesting.

'No, leave me here. I'm too heavy Mere, please, I'm ok,'

'I don't care if you're ok. I'm not leaving you on the floor. You're not too heavy. I'm not going to argue with you,' Lindsey lifted Derek's arm and wrapped it round her neck. Derek pushed himself to his feet. Stepping back he layback down on the bed.

'Do you need anything?'

'No, thanks Linds. Don't tell mom and dad,'

'Derek,'

'No, please Linds, don't tell them,' Lindsey shrugged her shoulders and left Meredith and Derek on their own. Meredith started packing the small bag away.

'I need to phone Richard,' Meredith didn't want to talk to him.

'Meredith, look at me,' she kept facing away from him.

'Derek, look at it from my point of view. If I hadn't found out I was pregnant, I would still be lifting you. You have been shot, you need help. You're lying on a floor and because you think you're too heavy, I've just to leave you there. No, it's not gonna happen. Get used to it,' Meredith lifted her hand bag and left Derek lying on the bed. Meredith lifted the house phone and dialled for a cab. Climbing into the cab, Bob came out.

'Meredith, where are you going?'

'I'm going to pick a car up, rental. I won't be long. I need to go to the hospital anyway to pick up some tolazoline hydrochloride from the hospital anyway. Will you keep an eye on Derek? He's just had another turn. I won't be long,' Meredith slammed the cab door shut and closed her eyes.

'I hate you right now Derek,' the tears streamed down her face.

'Where we going to love?'

'The airport,'

'No problem,' the drive to the airport was short, perfect for how she was feeling. She could stay near anybody at all for much longer.

'I need a rental car, preferably something sporty,'

'We have got a BMW 8 series,'

'I'll take it,'

'How long for?'

'Standby,'

'Ok, that's Fifty Eight dollars a day,'

'Fine, he's paying anyway,' the attendant laughed and handed Meredith the keys. Climbing in the car she knew she had to just drive, she didn't know where to, but somewhere quiet.

'Do you now anywhere close by that's kind of secluded?' The young attendant raised her eyebrows and smiled.

'Head out of the city and go to liberty state park. It's always deserted around this time. He must have really pissed you off,'

'Your so right, thanks,' Meredith put her foot on the gas and speed away from the rental place with only one thought on her mind. 'Liberty state park had better be empty'.

Derek lay facing the ceiling, wondering where Meredith was. She had been gone over an hour and was beginning to worry.

'She's away to go and get a car and pick something up at the hospital. That's what she said to dad but I have a feeling theirs something else. What happened Derek?' Lindsey helped Derek sit up and she sat next to him on the bed.

'She doesn't understand why I don't want her to help me up. She's four months pregnant and she's trying to lift me. It's crazy,'

'Derek, think how she must be feeling. She's having to inject the man she loves to stop him being in pain and then she can't pick you up off the floor because she's pregnant. So not only is she feeling like shit because of how you are she also feels useless. Give her some slack,'

'I know but she just doesn't see it,'

'Let her see it in her own time. I have a feeling I know where she is. Does she know New York very well?'

'Barely,'

'Ill be back in a bit. Go back down the stairs and relax. I'll find her,' Lindsey left Derek.

'I should be the one going to find her,' Derek fell back on the bed and sighed.

Meredith was standing with a cup of coffee looking over to New York. The statue of Liberty was huge in comparison to what she thought it would be. That's what she thought. Small things are actually big. To Derek, helping him up was a small thing to her, it was massive. Her hair was flying all over the place. The park was empty except for a young couple. They were so loved up, Meredith was envious. Why couldn't she and Derek go back to the way they were? She loved him more than anything and knew that he loved her but she wasn't going to be seen as an invalid. Finishing the coffee she turned to back to the car.

'How did you find me?'

'Anybody that doesn't know New York comes here to get piece and quiet.'

'I didn't think anybody knew I was gone,'

'Derek knows you're gone,' Meredith felt embarrassed. The fist sign of trouble and she had ran.

'You feel like shit and you feel useless. He won't let you help him and you don't know what to do,' Meredith sat on the bonnet of the car.

'Derek's new to all this. He doesn't know what you're feeling, thinking or wanting to do. He's seeing the woman he loves getting upset over something he see's as small but it's not small. He just doesn't see it the way we do,'

'I don't want to be left behind because I have the baby,'

'You won't be left behind. Derek wouldn't leave you behind. Come back with me and speak to him. He's a bit stressed over where you are. My mom and dads phone bill is going to have you're number on it about fifty times,'

'I couldn't face him, not then. Thanks Linds,'

'It's what I'm here for,'

'He's still gonna pay,'

'How?'

'Fisty eight dollars a day, you're sitting on it,' Lindsey started laughing.

'I'd of done the exact same. Come on, let's get out of here,' Meredith smiled and climbed in the car, know that she and Derek were new to pregnancy and it was going to be an adventure for them both.