This day is going to be spent together. It might be boring at beginning, but the second part it is better.
The next chapter will be much interesting, I promise!
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How can a knock out change your life
Chapter 10- I am not old
The sun's rays soaked inside the trailer through the small windows, reflecting over Meredith's face. Her closed eyes started to blink intense, as she was waking up. Meredith turned on her back sleepy applying a few rubs to her eyes, so that she can open them. She first gave a glance to the spot where she knew that Sandy and Derek were sleeping just to find it empty and then her eyes moved over the clock from Derek's side and saw that it was already 7 a.m.
She didn't have to be at hospital until noon, but she didn't know what Derek was going to do or if he had already left and took Sandy with him. As her head was waking up more and more, Meredith heard something coming from outside that seemed like a far giggle. She recognized immediately Sandy's giggle and she thought that she heard Derek's voice too. A last run of her hand over her face caught her attention over the ring that Derek had given to her in the previous evening. Last night she ignored it completely when Derek put it on her finger; his confession, his proposal, Sandy's happiness, all these made that ring to be insignificant and a minor detail from the row of all the events that happened.
When she heard them again, Meredith instantly woke up completely and let herself out of bed; she changed into her clothes and put on the shoes, hurrying to go out to them.
Outside the weather was chill, even if it was very sunny. She went out on porch, putting the jacket on and trying to see where Derek and Sandy were. Their silhouettes appeared in her eyesight, at the lake's border.
They were sitting down on a blanket each of them holding a fishing line in its hands; actually, Derek was helping Sandy to hold hers too because it was like three times bigger than she was. They turned their heads back when they heard footsteps approaching them.
"Mommy, look!" Sandy shouted excited showing her the fishing line she was holding so careful.
Meredith knelt between them and bent to Sandy to kiss her "Are you fishing sweetie?"
"Yes mommy and I caught a fish too!" she turned around a little to the bucket from her side "See?"
It was indeed a medium size tout in it, the only one that they had caught it so far.
"Congratulations Sandy! Your daddy didn't catch any fish?" She asked smiling and looking at Derek. When Derek pretended to be pouted, she bent to him and kissed him "Morning!"
"Morning!" Derek responded her kiss and put an arm around her to bring her closer to him.
"He didn't mommy, but I am going to share mine with you!" Sandy turned her face from water to them with a serious expression of her face.
"Thank you baby!"
"Why to share yours? We still have time to catch a few more fishes." Derek told them.
"No daddy because I am bored!" Sandy looked at him and let the fishing line down from her hands.
"Since when are you here?" Meredith stood up back on her knees and looked at them.
"6 o'clock" Derek told her as he threw one more time the fishing line in water.
"Both of you?"
Derek and Sandy nodded at Meredith's question.
"But you don't like to wake up so early!" Meredith looked surprised at Sandy.
"She does when she knows that she doesn't have to go to daycare and she is going to spend her day with mommy and daddy!" Derek gave her a peak on cheek and grabbed the fishing line from Sandy, who had just dropped it.
"Ok, but today she has to go to daycare, or what you are not going to come back to work?"
"I am, but not today!" he leaned on her and repeated the kiss from earlier "And you are not going either!"
"What do you mean? Why?" Meredith asked him suspicious.
"Because I asked the chief for a day off for both of us! He owes me!"
"So… you stepped back after he gave you the chief of surgery and he owes you?!" Meredith smiled suspicious at him.
"What can I say… I am irresistible… even for Richard Webber!" he chuckled and returned his attention to water.
"Let's play now, daddy!"
Sandy's call brought their attention on her again, and just then they saw that she had left the spot they were sitting on and she was running around, not very far from them.
"She loves to say that word!" Meredith was watching amused Sandy's running in circle and the joy that she was doing it with.
"And I love to hear her saying it!" Derek had started to pick up the fishing lines, so he wasn't having the attention on Sandy. He turned to Meredith and gave her a quick kiss "I guess that she will have to share the trout with us!"
He put the fishing lines aside and stood up, heading straight to Sandy, who started to run into one way when she saw Derek coming to her for the thrill of the chase. Derek didn't have to run too much or too fast to catch her, so she soon landed on Derek's arms, who picked her up and started to walk her in air. Usually, as much she was enjoying to be picked and held with the head down or to be twisted in air, she was always screaming to be put back down. This time, just her laugh was resounding in the morning's silence.
When he felt his arms numb and heavy, Derek put Sandy back on ground.
"I want more!" Sandy hung on his jacket so that Derek can pick her up again.
"It was enough for the moment! Let me breathe a little, ok?"
"Why?"
Derek laughed amused at her question "Because I am too old for this!"
In the next second, Meredith burst into laugh and made both, Sandy and Derek to look at her. Sandy didn't understand why her mother was laughing, but Derek did and he faked a pouted face.
"You are not old, daddy!" Sandy mentioned with a very serious tone, as if she wanted to say 'what stupid things are you are gabbling'.
Derek found her tone so cute that he couldn't resist not picking her up again and kissing her. He released his jacket from her tiny fists and picked her up "Thank you for your compliment sweetie!" he thanked her properly with a kiss.
Sandy giggled and started to play with his hair.
Derek returned to his fishing spot and started to pick up with his free hand the fishing lines, while Meredith folded the blanket and took the bucket and the bait box.
Sandy had played in all this time with Derek's hair; but at one point, she stopped and let her hand to slip out from it.
Derek felt that something was wrong with Sandy, so he stopped and looked at her to see her disappointed face.
"What happened, Sandy?" he asked her a little worried.
"You are old!" her voice also sounded disappointed.
"I am old?" Derek asked amused but a little offended too, because earlier he said it just as a joke. "I am not old!"
"You have white hair and mommy told me that only old people have white hair"
"I do not have white hair!" Derek sounded now more offended.
Sandy sustained her statement with a nod.
"I am not old!" Derek looked shocked at Meredith, who was right behind them laughing.
Meredith abstained herself not to laugh, when Derek looked at her; she bitted her lip amused and lifted up on her toes to have a better look at his hair.
Then she came back on heels and patted his back smiling "It's just one little… tiny hair wire" and hurried her footsteps so that she can be in front of them and to laugh.
Derek knew that she was laughing in that moment, so he hurried too and slapped her butt with the fishing lines.
"Ouch Derek!" Meredith looked back at him laughing while she was rubbing hard the spot that Derek had hit.
"Old man, huh!" he hurried his footsteps even more and arrived next to Meredith. But he soon stopped and put Sandy down "Now down with you missy because I am too old to carry you!"
Sandy didn't protested and just took his hand and followed him. When she saw that they were heading towards to trailer, Sandy pulled back her hand from Derek and stopped.
"I don't want to go inside!" she said with a crying tone.
"It's cold outside Sandy, plus we have to eat!" Meredith, who was right next to Derek and not very far from Sandy, gave her the hand.
Sandy hided her hand to back and pouted.
"Come on Sandy, you've stayed long enough outside! You'll get cold!" Derek also sustained Meredith and gave her his hand hoping that she will accept it.
Sandy remained still and shook her head. Only after a couple of more pleadings, she decided to follow them inside.
Meredith undressed Sandy from her jacket and helped her to clean herself, while Derek took out of from fridge, the milk and the cereals, Sandy's favorites.
During the breakfast, Sandy sat between Derek and Meredith, mixing the milk and the cereals with the spoon, before bringing it to mouth; from time to time she was looking up at each of them, clearly listening their conversation about the new house.
"It will be big, big?" she asked them.
"It won't be a castle, but it will be big and you will have a big room and a lot of space to play!" Derek told her and stood up from table, taking his bowl to sink. "I can show you how it might look!" Derek turned his head back to the table where Sandy had left the spoon down and looked at him thrilled. "But after you finish the breakfast!"
When she heard that, Sandy grabbed the spoon again and started to quicken her moves, giving up on mixing.
Meredith waited for her to finish, before getting up from table, while Derek was outside to pick up his fishing utensils.
"Ready mommy!" Sandy put the spoon down into the empty bowl and handed it to her mother.
"Very good sweetheart!" Meredith gave her kiss before taking the bowl from her.
Sandy immediately jumped up on her feet and ran straight to door. Grabbing the door handle with both hands, she was struggling to open it, by pushing it and pulling it.
Meredith watched amused her determination to open the door [I "At least here I am sure that she cannot sneak out." [/I
"Mommy!" Sandy looked at her with a pleading face and a crying voice. The entire weight of her body was hanging on the door handle.
"Stay inside Sandy! Come and help me with the dishes and later we will go out again!"
"No, I want to go out now and I will help you later!"
Meredith shook her head smiling "Do you want to go outside dressed like this? Take your jacket and the hat!"
In the next second, Sandy left the door and went over to bed, where Meredith had put her clothes. She dressed the jacket very fast and place the hat disorderly over the head while she started to run already to door, before her mother to change her mind.
"Stop!"
Sandy was already back to door, when Meredith called her and made her stop. She hesitantly turned around to look at her. When she did that, she saw Meredith coming to her and bending down to arrange her hat and to zip the jacket. Then, she opened the door for her and Sandy ran out fast giggling and calling for Derek "Daddy"
Derek was near porch when Sandy came out calling for him, with Meredith watching her from the doorway.
At first Derek looked up at Meredith questioning, but when Meredith nodded him that it's okay, Derek went over to take Sandy and Meredith closed the door.
Derek picked her up from porch and as he did that, he felt her legs wrapping around him.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him looking over his shoulder.
"I am cleaning the fishing line and I am putting the bait in order in box!" Derek put her down from his arms "Do you want to help me?"
Sandy was not very thrilled by his proposal, so she shrugged and followed him to the small chair that he was sitting on. He gave her the chair, and he took a seat down on ground.
Sandy's help consisted in a very close look to what Derek was doing and asking from time to time 'what is that?' She couldn't resist staying too much there like that, since the entire energy she needed to be released. So, she stood up and moved not very far from Derek, taking a seat on ground too and started to play bored with the leafs; she had started to gather a lot around her, and then to cover the legs with them. It was not the kind of play she would have wanted, but it was fun.
Because no sound was coming from outside, Meredith decided to go out and check them. She put the jacket on and went out on porch. At the first sight, she didn't see them, but she could hear sounds coming from the other side of the trailer. She climbed down those few stairs and surrounded the trailer to find them.
"Derek!" Meredith snapped at him and started to hurry to Sandy, who was still covered by leafs.
"What?" Derek asked her confused and looking as she was heading to Sandy. He guessed the reason of her anger "Leave her Meredith! She is having fun!"
"Look mommy, my legs disappeared!" Sandy pointed smiling to her feet that were very well hided under leafs.
"Fun, Derek? The ground is still wet from rain and she will get all dirty and wet!" Meredith knelt next to her and grabbed her arms.
"She has other clothes, Meredith!"
"No mommy, I want to play here!" Sandy had started to move her arms away from Meredith's hands "Please!"
Meredith knew that she was to overprotective and that Sandy's play was not dangerous, so she caved.
"Where did they disappear?" she asked Sandy smiling and raising an eyebrow suspicious.
Sandy calmed down seeing her mother ready to play with her and started to laugh shrugging and raising her hands by shoulder "I don't know!"
"You don't know huh?" Meredith stood up and immediately she picked Sandy up and letting the leafs to fall from her legs. "Here they are!"
Sandy was laughing happy balancing the legs "You found them mommy!"
"Of course I did! I am good detective!" Meredith put her down to stay on her feet kissing her forehead and arranging the hat over it.
Sandy moved from the spot that she had previously used and found another one near, where the leafs were untouched. She placed herself in her sit and laid back. "Hide me mommy!"
Meredith found amusing her daughter's new play so she decided to continue. She went over to her and took a seat next to her pulling her back up in her sit "Let me arrange you hat better first"
"Mommy!" Sandy felt disturbed by Meredith's concerned.
"Ready!" Meredith let her go, so that she can lay down on back.
Sandy laid down standing still and with the arms glued to body, letting out frequent giggles.
Meredith started to collect the leafs with both arms, throwing them then over Sandy's body. With each mass of leafs that Meredith was throwing over her, Sandy was laughing more.
Soon, her entire body was under a carpet of leafs, just her head had remained uncovered. Her face and her light brown hair was perfectly matching with the leafs' colors.
Meredith knelt right next to her head and bent over it too kiss the forehead.
"This looks like a nice and comfortable place to sleep!" Meredith whispered when she was bent over her.
Sandy closed the eyes right away and pretended she is sleeping.
"Sleep well Sandy! I am going to find myself a place to sleep too, if you left me alone here!"
Sandy heard her mother and also heard the sound of the leafs when Meredith stood up, so she could not stand anymore and jumped up in her sit "I am awake mommy!"
Meredith laughed and returned to her to pick her up. This time she didn't care about Sandy's dirty clothes and placed her on her hip, so that she can carry her.
"Did you have a good sleep?"
"I did!"
Meredith started to walk towards to trailer, but when Sandy saw that, she started to fuss and asked her mother to put her down.
When she was back on ground, Sandy grabbed her mother's hand and started to drag her back to the spot that they were playing earlier.
"Where are you taking me?"
"Let's hide!" Sandy was heavily speaking because of the effort she was doing to drag her mother after her.
Meredith let herself leaded by Sandy, and Sandy took her on the other side of the trailer, where they were out of Derek's sight.
"Here mommy! Lay here!" Sandy instructed her mother.
"Okay!" Meredith set down where Sandy had shown her.
"Lay back mommy!" she started to push her shoulder so that she can put her down.
Meredith didn't oppose and laid down on back "Do you want to hide me?"
"Uh huh" Sandy started quickly to pick up leafs and to throw them over Meredith.
Because she was having small arms and Meredith was having a longer body than hers, this process took her a while, but in the end, she managed to cover her entirely, letting only her neck and head uncovered.
Satisfied with the result, Sandy knelt near her, just as her mother did when she was under leafs "I'll go bring daddy to find you and you will jump up and scare him, okay?" Sandy explained her into a very serious manner.
"Okay baby, but hurry up because it is cold already!"
Sandy stood up fast and started to run to find Derek.
Derek had just finished with his work and he was ready to go and find them, when he saw Sandy coming in a run.
"Daddy!"
"Sandy, where is mommy?"
Sandy stopped at his legs and took his hand, starting to drag him after her too "Let's go find mommy!"
Derek knew they were playing, so he didn't get worried and entered in their game.
As they arrived at the place where Derek was supposed to look after Meredith, he saw the mass of leafs and Meredith's head too, but he continued to play his role.
"Go and find her!" Sandy pushed him from back, as she stayed there to watch them amused.
"Okay… I wonder where she can be!" Derek was looking around him, avoiding the spot where he knew very well that Meredith was, starting to walk in the same time through her direction.
When she saw that Derek was about to find Meredith and to end the game too soon, Sandy shouted "Not there! She is not there!"
Derek gave her a look back over shoulder smiling and changed a little the direction "She is not?"
"No!" and she was continuing to point to a different spot from the one that Meredith was.
Derek pretended to follow, Sandy's instructions but he didn't deviate too much from Meredith.
"Where is she Sandy?" he looked back at her as he was still walking.
"Not there!" Sandy desperately shouted when she saw that he was getting closer and closer to Meredith.
Derek pretended to trip and fell over Meredith. Even if Derek fell purposely, the impact was still too big for Meredith, whose breathe was cut for a second, when she felt him over her.
"Derek!" Meredith gasped and tried to push him away.
This was exactly what Derek wanted, so he did give up at her struggles and placed himself better over her, starting to kiss her.
"Derek, you did it purposely, didn't you?" Meredith pretended to be mad, but still wrapping the arms around his neck.
"Mommy!" Sandy came to them very pouted and with a crying tone.
Derek and Meredith interrupted their kiss and looked up at her. She was standing up near them, very pouted and with the arms crossed to chest. "You didn't scare him!" she reproached her.
"Oh, you should have been scared too?" Derek asked her amused.
"Yes, but mommy didn't do it!" she forgave Derek for interrupting the game too soon and spilled her disappointment on her mother.
Derek let out a gasp, pretending to be scared, but Sandy was not so easy to be fooled, turned her heels around, and started to walk towards to trailer.
"Thank you mommy!" Derek gave her one more kiss smiling and then he stood up from her helping her to stand up too.
Once she was back on her feet, Meredith slapped him and rubbed her waist because of the pain that Derek had caused her "I would have scared you, but you scared me first so it's your fault!"
Derek just chuckled and took her hand to walk together after Sandy.
They found her sitting down on porch sustaining her chin in hands and looking down on ground sad.
Derek let Meredith's hand go and went over to Sandy. He picked her up and placed her over his shoulder with the head down, making in this way her sadness to be transformed into a very happy giggle.
Getting inside the trailer, Meredith took Sandy's shoes off and took her under shower. Then she helped her to get dressed with some clothes that Mark had bought them for her and let her under Derek's care, so that she can shower too.
When she came out from shower, Meredith found them in bed watching something on laptop.
"Mommy, come to see the house!" Sandy motioned her to join them.
Meredith dried her hair better and just then she joined them. She took a seat next to Derek, who was holding the laptop on his feet, wrapped her arms around his and snuggled into him, making herself comfortable.
"These are the plans?" she asked Derek, seeing a 3D model.
"Yes, but we already made our choice!" Derek gave her a suggestive smirk.
"You did or just Sandy?"
"I did mommy, I like this one the most!" Sandy answered her quickly and very excited. "And we'll paint it in pink and we'll have many flowers around it, like my dollhouse." Sandy was now making her own plans about their future home.
"Do you want to paint the exterior in pink?" Meredith asked her. She wasn't thrilled with the idea and Derek seemed either.
"Yes, the exterior and the interior and my room!"
"But your dollhouse is white and it looks better like this than in pink!" Meredith was trying to convince her to give up on this idea.
Sandy took a second thought and shrugged as a sign of indifference.
Derek showed Meredith the other plans too, but since they were all nice and for her it wasn't that important the design they agreed to approve Sandy's choice.
"I've already chosen my room mommy!"
"I bet you took the biggest room, didn't you?"
Sandy giggled and kept looking in monitor "It has rooms for Izzie, Addie and Christina! I will ask them to choose theirs too! Izzie will stay next to mine."
Derek and Meredith looked at each other a little worried.
"Sandy, sweetie, they won't come to live with us!"
When she heard that, Sandy looked up at her mother worried "Why?"
"Because they have their home and because we will live here together as a family. They will have their own families soon too!"
Just seeing her disappointed face, they understood that this break up and change might be very difficult for Sandy.
"We are not their family?" she asked her mother, hoping that she will find a way to bring them to live with them.
"No sweetie, we are not! They are our friends, our best friends!"
"Okay!" she said it with a heavy sigh and put her head down on Derek's shoulder.
At that point she was no longer very thrilled by the idea of moving, since the person she grew up with her won't live there too.
"They can come and stay over night from time to time and they can visit us each time they want!" Meredith was now trying to make her up with this idea.
Sandy just shrugged and continued to look into monitor, but without the delight from earlier. She was not living with them now either, but because of those two levels that were keeping them apart, they were together all the time on evenings, when everyone was home. Izzie was baking goodies for her and each time she was craving for some, she was sneaking out and running up to her. Addison was coming to play with her very often and Christina… well, Christina was not very involved in Sandy's activities, but since she was one of her mother's best friends, she was part of the picture too.
Because that didn't work, it was now Derek's turn to try to cheer her up.
"If they will come to live with us, then your brothers and sisters where are going to live? Will you accept to share your room with them?"
Derek's question received two different answers from Meredith, who looked at him worried and Sandy, whose face had started to light up a little again.
"I don't want a brother! I want a sister and she will share the room with me!" her face lighted at the little hope that she was still having that she will bring Addie, Izzie and Christina to live to them, but also because she was thrilled by the idea of having a sister. "When I will have a sister?"
Derek smiled first at Meredith, who was still looking at him more worried than surprised, and then he kissed Sandy's temple and smiled "Not right away, but in the near future! But you might have more sisters or brothers so you won't be able to share your room with all"
"How many?"
"That's right Derek, how many?" Meredith spoke for the first time since the subject about sisters and brothers for Sandy came in discussion.
Derek repeated the kiss he gave to Sandy on Meredith too "I am not sure… maybe 4 or 5! Maybe more, we'll see!"
"Who are you planning to have these kids with?" Meredith snapped at him in that moment.
"With you of course!" Derek answered her calm and keeping his big smile on face; he knew that Meredith was freaked out in that moment, but he loved to see her like that.
"We need to have a serious talk about this, Derek!"
Derek chuckled and kissed her again "We will! Now, Sandy, you see, we cannot bring everyone to live with us! But as mommy said too, they can come in visit whenever they want."
Sandy was now just half disappointed. The idea of having more siblings to play with seemed like a good one.
After Sandy's plan over the decoration of her room, they started to prepare the lunch together.
Sandy was helping them the best way she could, carrying a bowl from one place to another, spicing the food with Derek's help, or she was supervising them.
She was standing near her mother watching how she was chopping the onion. Very soon, she started to rub her read eyes and to feel tears coming out from them.
"Mommy, I am crying and I don't know why!" she told her worried and still rubbing intense the eyes.
Meredith looked down at her amused "Stay away from onion then. Go and splash some water on face!"
Sandy stood up from her chair and headed to shower to wash her face.
While she was still in there, Derek and Meredith heard the rain starting to drip over the trailer and along the windows.
"It might not stop too soon!" Meredith told Derek a little worried.
"Unfortunately it won't!" Derek sighed too watching how the rain was growing in intensity.
Sandy came out from shower with the face wet, as well as a part of her head. As she returned to them, she heard the rain too and instantly the disappointment installed on her face.
The lunch was quiet, because of Sandy's sadness, and after it, she helped her parents to clean around, but still depressed because of the rain.
Meredith came with the proposal to return to apartment and Sandy gladly agreed. Derek convinced Sandy to leave her new book at trailer for other nights that they will spend there.
During the ride back home, because of the boredom Sandy fell asleep in her seat. Derek pulled the car into the building's garage first and then they got out of car.
"Do you want me to carry her?" Derek asked Meredith, while she was opening the door from the backseats to pick up the sleepy girl.
"No, I'll take her!" she unfastened her safety belt and picked her up slowly. Sandy startled a little, when she felt herself removed from that position. "It's okay baby!" Meredith took her in arms and let her head to fell on her shoulder.
Feeling her mother's embrace, Sandy calmed down fast and closed again the eyes. She slept on her mother's shoulder all the way up to their apartment.
Derek unlocked the door and Meredith went to put Sandy in her bed. She slowly set her down and started to take off the shoes and the jacket. Sandy opened her eyes sleepy again to see what is going on and stood up in.
"It's ok Sandy, we're home now! Go back to sleep!"
"In my bed?" She asked rubbing the eyes.
"In your bed!" Meredith lifted up the covers and picked her up to place her under them. "Sleep well sweetie!" she kissed her forehead and tucked her in.
Slowly, the door was closed and Meredith headed to her room. In there, Derek was laying on bed with the arms over eyes. He heard her coming in, so he stood up and went over to her, wrapping his arms around her and starting to kiss her. Meredith responded him in the same manner and, with the arms wrapped around his neck she deepened the kiss.
"Is she sleeping?" he asked her when he pulled his lips away.
"She is already dreaming!" Meredith smiled suggestively guessing his intentions.
Derek let her go and headed to door to close it and to lock it, without taking his eyes from Meredith now even for a second. When their privacy was assured, he pulled out over the head his sweater and started to unbutton his shirt, while his steps were going back to Meredith, who was now waiting for him sitting on the bed's edge.
She helped him with the pants, while he was still unbuttoning the shirt. Derek removed the shirt and the pants, and took her head in both hands starting to kiss her. He slowly let her fell on back and positioned himself on top of her, continuing to taste her lips and letting his hand to slip under her blouse.
His body was sustained on arm, so the free one left the skin for a while and started to unbutton the pants, revealing with each opened button more from her panties. When the last button was opened, his slipped inside the pants and with frequent moves around her waist, they were slowly removed from there and from her legs. Once that the pants were down, his next job was to get rid of the rest of her clothes, starting with the blouse. He lifted it up a little so that he can reveal her belly, and started to make circles around it until his tongue finally got in it gently sucking the skin.
In all this time, her hands were ruffling his hair, keeping in the same time his head close to her. She let it go, only when he raised the head up to hers so that he can kiss her lips again. She received all this with frequent moans and with gentle moves along his bare back.
"Mommy!"
They tried to ignore this call, hoping that it was just in their imagination.
"Mommy, where are you?"
At this question, they felt forced to pull apart one from another. Derek fell on back rubbing his face frustrated, while Meredith stood up fast and started to put back on the pants.
"This is a nightmare!" Derek said with a groan.
Meredith looked back at him being disappointed too "I am sorry Derek!"
"It's fine! I have started to get used with the cold water!" Derek told her smiling as if he understood the situation.
"Maybe she had a bad dream and I will be right back!" Meredith smiled back at him and hurried out from bedroom, to see what the problem was with Sandy.
She found Sandy in living room looking around after her trying in the same time to clear her sleepy eyes with both hands.
"What happened sweetie?" Meredith took her in arms and set down on couch with her on lap.
"I woke up!"
"Why? Did you have a bad dream?"
Sandy shook her head and put the head on her mother's chest "I can't sleep!"
Meredith saw that she was still very sleepy and that probably she disturbed her sleep when she undressed her earlier. "Do you want me to read you a story?"
Sandy gave her a lazy nod and then Meredith picked her up and took her back in bedroom. She put her down in bed and went to search for a book.
"The sleeping beauty?" Meredith asked looking back at her.
Sandy just nodded, so Meredith came to her with that book.
"Let's get under covers again to stay comfortable, okay?" Meredith motioned her to come and get inside next to her.
Because she was sleepy, Sandy lay down and put the head back on pillow keeping in the same time the eyes over the book that Meredith was holding opened in front of her.
Derek remained in bed after Meredith's leaving for a few more minutes; he knew that this is going to be his life from now on, so he had to get used with it since moments like this are going to repeat. He got off the bed and pulled the pants back on, and then he went out to see what Meredith and Sandy were doing. It was silence in living room, but he heard Meredith's voice in Sandy's room. He just listened through door and thought that Meredith is trying to put her back to sleep, so he didn't go in, not wanting to make Sandy forget about sleep.
While Meredith was reading to Sandy the story, Derek decided to make himself busy with the TV waiting for Meredith to finish.
He didn't realized when the silence fell over Sandy's room, and noticing that Meredith hadn't come out from there yet, he stood up and went to check them.
Slowly, he opened the door and sneaked the head inside; he then saw them sleeping. Meredith succeeded to make Sandy to fall asleep again, but she also succeeded to join her.
Derek was not disappointed to see this; contrariwise, he smiled seeing them sleeping together. He dragged the covers upper over them and gave a kiss to each. Neither Meredith nor Sandy gave a sign of waking up when he did that, showing how tired they were.
He let them sleep and closed the door behind him. Because he still needed a cold shower, Derek headed straight to bathroom.
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Meredith woke up near her daughter, who was still asleep and slowly got off from bed, arranging the covers around Sandy.
She checked the watch and saw that she had slept more than two hours. Without any noise, she headed to door and opened it slowly.
Derek was in living room laying on couch and reading a book when he heard the door opening.
"Hey!" he stood up when Meredith closed the door and came to him.
"Hi" she took a seat next to him and rested lazy the head on his shoulder.
Derek put the arm around her and pulled her back, so that they can lie down together.
"I am sorry I fell asleep!"
"It's okay; you both needed a good sleep after all that play from outside"
Meredith snuggled in his arms and not being completely awake, she closed the eyes.
Derek held one arm over her, while with the other he took back the book and returned to his reading.
Soon, when Meredith fell back asleep, Derek heard the door opening again. Because he was holding Meredith over him, he could not stand up to see what was going on, but he could hear some footsteps approaching them quiet.
Sandy stopped in front of them sleepy and yawning.
"Hey sleepyhead!" Derek greeted her whispering, not to wake Meredith up again.
"What are you doing?" She asked them with a loud voice that made Meredith to open her eyes.
"Look what you have done, you woke up mommy!"
Meredith stood up in her sit at Derek's legs and rubbed her face.
"I am sorry mommy!" Sandy went to her and climbed up the couch to sit next to her.
Meredith picked her up and placed her on her lap "It's okay baby! Did you have a good sleep?"
"I did! It's still raining outside, mommy!" she said with disappointment in voice.
"Now we are home, so we can play inside!"
Sandy shrugged with indifference.
"Do you want to go back to trailer?" Meredith asked when she saw her like that.
"No"
"Okay then, let's wash our faces with cold water and then will find something to do!" Meredith put her down and taking her hand, she leaded her to bathroom.
In there, Sandy climbed her small chair and bent over the sink to turn on the water; just feeling the cold water on her hands, Sandy felt refreshed already starting to giggle.
"We are not playing with the water Sandy, so wash your face!"
Sandy rubbed the face with the wet hands, because she was not able to keep the water in them to splash it over face.
Meredith smiled amused seeing the way she was washing and took water in her hands and helped her to finish. Then, she gave her the face towel, so that she can wipe the face. Sandy handed her back the towel and went out running from there.
"What is with this hurry?" Derek asked her when he saw her running.
At Derek's question, Sandy changed her rout and came running to him. Derek picked her up in his arms and kissed her.
"Let's play!" she told him taking his face in hands.
"What do you want to play?"
"Puzzle!"
"Okay, puzzle it is!" Derek put her down and followed her in her room.
Meredith joined them soon, and as usual, Sandy took an unsolved puzzle and spread the pieces on floor. Lately, she agreed to make the puzzle together with them, but she was still the one who was on command and she was solving it alone into an end.
When the puzzle was done, Sandy stood up "Let's cook now!" and went out of from bedroom.
"Sandy, where are you going? The kitchen set is here!" Meredith called after her.
"I want to cook in kitchen!" Sandy yelled from outside.
"Wow, soon she will cook better than you!" Derek smiled teasing Meredith and leaned on her to kiss her.
Meredith smiled and kissed him back "Funny!" and she stood up to go after her daughter. First she stopped in the doorway and looked back at Derek "Her mother loved to cook! It was cook-obsessed like Izzie!"
"Sandy!" Meredith ran immediately to her, when she saw Sandy taking out a knife from a drawer. She whipped it out fast and put it on counter "How many time did I tell you that you are not allowed to touch these?"
"But this is real!" Sandy looked up at her guilty and hided a hand to back.
"Exactly, because this is real you can hurt yourself with it!"
"What is going on?" Derek came in too when he heard Meredith's yell.
"She wants to play with the knife!"
Sandy was now looking guilty at both of them.
"You know you are not allowed to play with this!" Derek also told her, mostly like a reproach.
"I'm sorry!"
"I have to move these from here or to find a way to lock the drawer!" Meredith sighed and tried to think of a solution, because now that Sandy was big enough to reach to them and because of her passion for cooking, letting knifes and forks near her, could be dangerous.
Derek put his arm around her waist and pulled her for a quick kiss "Don't worry, I will take care of this!" he smiled wide at her "This is why you have a man in house now!" and repeated the kiss.
Meredith could not help herself not to smile, so she wrapped her arms around his neck and forgot for a moment that Sandy was in the same room with them.
"Eww mommy! Let's cook!"
"I think she is jealous!" Derek whispered to her. "First the sex, now the kiss!"
Meredith giggled and pushed him away.
"Okay sweetie, and what do you want to cook!"
Sandy took a few moments of thinking "Chocolate chips!"
"But you already have chocolate chips!"
"I want to bake them!"
"You don't have any chance to escape mommy!" Derek laughed and bent down to take out some bowls from cabinet.
"I'll take them!" Sandy jumped fast when she saw what he was doing and pushed him away so that she can take them.
When they heard a pager ringing, all of them let out a disappointed sigh. Sandy didn't know exactly what was that, but she knew that each time it was ringing her mommy or Derek had to go back to hospital.
"I'll go check!" Meredith told him and went out of kitchen.
"You took out too many bowls Sandy! We won't need all these!" Derek told her when she saw all the five bowls she had taken out from cabinet and took three of them to put them back.
"Can I put the ingredients?"
"Yes you can, but wait to take everything that we need out! This way we won't forget anything!"
"Okay!" Sandy was following him everywhere around the kitchen hoping that soon she will find something to do too.
"It's yours!" Meredith came back to them holding Derek's pager.
Derek sighed and took it from her, then he went to call to hospital to check.
"Is daddy leaving?" Sandy asked worried when she heard that.
"I don't know! Maybe!"
Sandy's enthusiasm for cooking had started to decrease, so to cheer her up a little, Meredith tried to remain happy "We can make the cookies together and we will serve him when he will come back! What do you say?"
"But you don't know how to cook!" she said disappointed.
Meredith admitted that she felt offended when she heard that, but she bent down to her and picked her up in her arms "I don't know how to cook, but you do!" she told her smiling and giving her a wink "You can teach me, if you want!"
Hearing that compliment Sandy got back her smile and her good mood; she wrapped her arms around her mother's neck and started to kiss her cheek "I can teach you mommy!"
"I know, because I have a smart girl!" Meredith kissed her cheek back.
"I have to go for a surgery!" Derek returned in kitchen already dressed to leave.
"I am going to teach mommy to cook!" Sandy bragged quickly when she saw him coming.
Derek came to them and kissed them both "It was about time!" he teased Meredith a little and gave her one more kiss "Save me some cookies!"
"We will!" Sandy assured him and carried by her mother, they leaded Derek to door.
After another series of kisses, Derek left and Meredith and Sandy returned to their work, not before to brush Sandy's hair and to gather it into a ponytail.
They went together in kitchen and just then Meredith realized that she doesn't know the recipe for chocolate chips, so she started to search through drawers.
"What are you looking for, mommy?"
"For the recipe, I am sure that Izzie noted the ingredients somewhere around here!"
"I know the ingredients; Izzie puts umm… flour, sugar… a lot of sugar and chocolate" Sandy tried to remember what else did she see at Izzie "Oh, and eggs!"
"That's great baby, but I also need the quantities!" Meredith listened to Sandy, but also continued to search through some cooking books.
Sandy felt incapable to help her with that too, so she joined her mother's search.
"Let's call Izzie!" she told Meredith, when she had started to feel bored.
"There is no need!" Meredith took out from a book a piece of paper "I found it!" she smirked at Sandy "Ready?"
Sandy nodded excited.
Meredith took out the butter and the sugar and poured them into a bowl to mix them.
"No mommy!" Sandy yelled when she saw what she was doing.
"What?"
"First you take out all the ingredients, this is what daddy said!"
Meredith rolled her eyes amused by the 4 years old girl's bossy tone. She did as Sandy told her and then they were ready to start to mix them.
Meredith prepared the mixer's bowl and with Sandy's help they put the ingredients one by one.
"Okay now 5 more spoons with sugar" Meredith handed her a spoon and held the sugar pot.
Sandy filled each spoon carefully and emptied it into the bowl, counting each time.
"Now we put some flour and then we start the mixer!"
"Can I press the button, mommy?"
"Yes, but press it easy to use a lower speed!" Meredith first poured some flour and then showed Sandy what button to press.
Because it was a little too hard for her to press it, Sandy used her force, so the button ran up to two with three speeds, causing the flour that had just been added to spread all around them, on their faces and hair and around the counter.
Meredith grabbed a towel to clean Sandy's face, who was laughing very amused by that incident.
"We look like two ghosts now!"
When her face and eyes were clear again, Sandy looked up at Meredith "You are old too mommy!"
"And so are you, baby; all your hair is white!"
Sandy giggled and wanted to shake the head, but Meredith stopped her before she could do it "Not here Sandy! You will spread the hair in cookies and I don't think that Derek will like to eat them then! Leave it like this and we will take a bath after we finish!"
"Ok!"
Meredith prepared a tray and then she prepared the dough too, to divide it. From time to time, she was letting Sandy to do it, and of course, she was making bigger pieces. When the tray was full, Meredith handed Sandy the chocolate flakes to put over the cookies, and this time too, Sandy was very generous with the portions covering entirely the cookies.
"Not so many Sandy!" Meredith was trying to convince her to take it easier with the chocolate.
"They are better like this!"
Meredith rolled her eyes smiling and let her do how she wants "Of course they are!"
When Sandy thought that it was enough with the chocolate, let her mother to pick up the tray.
"Oh no!" Meredith let out a sigh and put the tray back on table.
"What?" Sandy looked at her worried.
"I forgot to preheat the oven!" she slapped herself the forehead.
"Mommy!" Sandy snapped at her angry.
"Hey, calm down, it's not so bad!" she turned to oven and turned it on. "In about ten minutes will be ready"
Sandy shook her head disappointed and took a seat on the chair that she was standing up, stealing from time to time some chocolate flakes from the bag that was near her.
Meredith saw her and grabbed the bag from her face "Enough with these missy!"
"Please mommy!"
Meredith moved the bag on counter and turned to her "It's almost 6 o'clock, so we should have dinner before cookies!"
In that moment, the doorbell rang and Sandy jumped out from her seat.
"Hey, hey! Where do you think you are going?" Meredith grabbed her arm and stopped her. "You are not allowed to answer the door alone! Come with me if you want!" she took her hand and Sandy followed her out to door.
"Addie!" Sandy jumped on her when she saw her standing at door.
Addison hesitated a little when she saw her so dirty, but into a final she picked her up. "What are you two doing? Are you fighting?" when she saw them with flour all over them.
"Izzie, Christina!" just when she was in Addison's arms, Sandy saw the other two ladies.
"That's right, what are you doing?" Izzie asked them suspicious.
"We are making chocolate chips!" Sandy bragged proud.
"Oh, so you are devastating the kitchen!" Izzie laughed and followed the others in kitchen.
"We had a little incident!"
"Why are you cooking? Where is Derek? Did he dump you already?" Christina asked her amused when she saw that Derek was missing from picture.
"Haha! Funny! He was paged!" Meredith faked a smile and picked up the tray to put it in oven.
"Okay now shows us the rock!" Christina grabbed her left hand to see the ring.
Immediately Addison, who was still carrying Sandy, and Izzie joined them to see the jewelry.
"Wow!" just Izzie was able to say something.
"He is not watching at money when it comes to jewelries." Christina was also very impressed.
"Derek is my daddy now and he and mommy will get married!" Sandy replayed fast.
"Okay, okay! Enough with this!" Meredith pulled back the hand.
"Don't worry hun, we won't steal it!" Addison smiled and put Sandy down "Can I take her to wash a little?"
"Please! In the meantime I'll prepare the dinner!"
"Or I will prepare it!" Izzie smiled and moved her away from stove. "You are going too busy to tell us what happened and where have you been!"
"I will, but let's wait for Addison to come back!"
"Hurry up Addison!" Christina yelled.
"In a second!"
After she had brushed and cleaned a little Sandy's hair, Addison returned together with her in kitchen.
She took a seat on table next to the others and put Sandy back in her lap.
"Okay, now you can tell us what happened yesterday!" Christina demanded her.
"Daddy bought a big land near a lake and a big car with furniture!" Sandy didn't let Meredith to start.
"A big car?!" Addison looked at Meredith confused at Meredith.
"She is calling him daddy already? Yesterday he was still Derek!" Christina found this more important than the big car.
"That is called a trailer and indeed he bought a big land and yes, starting last night she calls him daddy at his request"
"Wait a minute, he bought a trailer?" Christina laughed ironic "He wants you to live in a trailer? Judging by the carets of your ring, I thought he can afford to buy at least a small house!"
Meredith gave a glare and smiled "The trailer was sold with the land and he will build a house soon!"
"I am going to have a big room!" Sandy's eyes grew of excitement when she said that and looked at everyone.
"That is wonderful Sandy! Now you will have enough space to run around!" Addison kissed her cheek and hugged her tighter.
Unfortunately, Sandy remembered about the moving away from them and her eyes started to tear.
Everyone, except Izzie, who was having her back turned to them, saw the sudden change and that she was about to start crying.
"What it's wrong baby?" Meredith asked her worried and reached her hands over table to take hers. But immediately she understood "Oh"
"What?" Addison asked her seeing that she knew the reason.
"She suffers because we told her that none of you can come and live with us!"
"Aww sweetie! You won't move far from us and we'll come in visit each time we can!" Addison pulled her back into her arms and tried to comfort her.
But as she did that, Sandy started to sob into her chest.
"Now come on don't cry!" Addison took her face with both hands and kissed her red nose, wiping in the same time her cheeks.
"I promise that I will still come and bring you cookies!" Izzie also came to them and knelt down taking one of Sandy's hand.
None of these promises weren't comforting her; contrariwise, her tears were flowing more and more down her cheeks.
"Is she crying for real?" even Christina was impressed by her tears.
Meredith sighed and nodded "Unfortunately!" she stood up and went over to Sandy to take her from Addison "Come to mommy baby!"
Sandy immediately wrapped her arms around Meredith's neck and buried the face in it sobbing. Meredith rubbed gently her back and put her down near the oven "Let's check the cookies, okay?"
Sandy wiped her cheeks and nodded.
They opened the door and saw that the cookies were just half backed.
"What are you cooking Izzie?" Sandy was trying to calm herself down and asked Izzie sighing.
"Soup and French fries!"
"Okay" she responded sad and took the seat that Meredith had stayed earlier.
They changed the subject and Meredith asked Sandy to tell them how she caught that fish. This improved her mood slowly and soon the sadness had disappeared.
During the dinner, she was asking Meredith every each minute if the cookies are ready, and each time Meredith was telling her to have patience.
When the oven's clock rang announcing that the backing was done, Sandy jumped from her chair and ran to Meredith to see how the cookies look.
Meredith took out the tray from oven and carefully she put it down on counter. They were all looking more black than brown because of the huge amount of chocolate flakes that Sandy had put over them. Sandy asked to taste one, but her mother sent her back to table explaining her that she has to finish the dinner first and that the cookies need to cool-off.
"Ready mommy! Can I have a cookie now?" Sandy showed her the empty plate.
"Wait for us to finish too!"
"Mommy!" Sandy protested pouted.
"Please Sandy!" Meredith gave her a serious look and Sandy sighed resignedly.
They heard the phone ringing in the next second and Sandy looked up at her mother "Can I answer?"
Meredith nodded and Sandy ran immediately in living room, where the phone was.
"Good evening!" Sandy answered politely, just as her mommy had taught her.
"Good evening! Is that you Sandy?" a female voice answered from the other line.
"Yes! Who are you?"
"My name is Helen! I am Derek's mom!"
"You are my daddy's mommy!"
Helen laughed a little "That is right, so I am your grandma!"
Sandy was very delighted to hear her, but in the same time she got shy and didn't know what to say.
"Is your daddy there?"
"No! He went to help a sick person!"
"I see! And you are alone with your mommy?"
"With mommy, Addie, Izzie and Christina!"
"Your mommy's friends, right?"
"Yes!" Sandy answered surprised.
"I am glad that I finally have the chance to talk to you!"
At this, Sandy again didn't know what to say, but she did tell the think that she had bragged at her mom's friends earlier "You know what daddy did?"
"What did he do, dear?"
"He bought a big car with furniture and we slept there last night!"
"He did?" Helen asked rather amused than surprised, as if she knew already about this.
"Uh huh! I don't like it, because it is small and I don't have toys there! But there is a lake there and today we went fishing with my daddy and I caught a fish! Just me!" she bragged proud.
"Congratulations sweetie! Your daddy didn't catch any?" Helen laughed amused
"No, he didn't, but I shared my fish with him and mommy!"
" How generous of you sweetie!"
Sandy giggled happy. "Are you coming to visit us?"
"I am afraid that I can't right now, but I am expecting you to come to New York! You will meet your cousins!"
"I'll ask mommy and daddy!"
"You do that! Now can I talk to your mommy?"
"Yes! Mommy!" Sandy yelled holding the phone to ear.
"I am coming!" Meredith answered from kitchen.
"She is coming!"
"Thank you sweetie! I can't wait to meet you!"
"Who's one phone?" Meredith came to her.
"It's grandma!" Sandy handed her the phone smiling.
"Who?" Meredith looked at her confused.
"Daddy's mommy!"
Meredith was shocked to hear that and immediately she started to think on what she could tell for the first time to her future mother-in-law.
"Goodbye grandma!"
"Goodbye Sandy! It was nice to talk to you!"
"Take it mommy!" Sandy handed her the phone again.
This time, Meredith took it and Sandy ran back in kitchen to her cookies.
"Good evening Mrs. Shepherd!"
"Good evening Meredith, but please… your daughter calls me grandma already, so we should let aside the formalities. You can call me Helen or you can call me mom, however you want! Congratulations for engagement and especially for your wonderful daughter"
Meredith felt herself overwhelmed by Helen's friendly greeting. "Thank you… Helen!" she didn't fell able to call her mom. "I am sure that Sandy bragged with this!"
"She sure did, but hey, you can't blame her! I knew already Derek's plan, but I didn't knew the results. I tried to call him on cell-phone, but he is not answering!"
"He must be still in surgery!"
"Sandy mentioned something about a sick person who needs his help!" Helen laughed amused remembering the answer that Sandy had given her.
"She is very communicative!"
"I've noticed and this makes her a great kid!"
"Thank you!"
"As I told Sandy too, I am expecting all three of you to come in visit! I am very impatient to meet the girls who succeeded to do what I am trying for a very long time now to do! To make him change his mind from being the chief of surgery! I don't think that I would have had the chance to talk to him very often if he would have accepted the position!"
"Well, I am not sure when we'll be able to come! We both have a full schedule and … I don't know!"
"Discuss this with Derek, but I really hope that I will see you soon!"
"We'll see what we can do!"
"Okay dear, I am letting you now! I know that you have guests! Good night Meredith!"
"Good night Helen!"
Meredith hung up the phone and remained still looking at it shocked for a few moments. It was a surprise to talk for the first time with Derek's mother and to feel her so nice.
She quickly stepped back to reality and returned to kitchen.
In there she found everyone sitting around the table on which a plate with cookies had been settled in middle and everyone was eating from them. Sandy was, of course, on Addison's lap eating.
"They're good mommy!"
"Yes, they are surprisingly tasty!" Izzie nodded impressed.
Meredith joined them and they stood there until the last tray was out of oven and longer after, talking and playing with Sandy.
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"Sandy, stay nice in bed and try to sleep!"
"I want to wait for daddy to see if he likes my cookies!"
"Sweetie, I am sure he will love them, but now it's is passed 11 o'clock so please try to sleep!"
After her friends leaving, Meredith gave Sandy a bath, read her two stories and now she was struggling to make her sleep.
"Sandy, in about 6 hours we will have to wake up, so you will see him then!"
Sandy stood up from bed and wanted to jump, but Meredith caught her right away and pulled her back in her arms. She started to tickle her tummy and kiss her cheeks, while Sandy was laughing hard and she was trying to escape from her.
Meredith stopped, but kept a firm arm over her body to keep her in bed next to her. "Wait him in bed if you want!"
"Are you having a party that I didn't know about?"
Meredith and Sandy looked to door and saw Derek leaned on the door's frame and looking at them smiling.
"Daddy!" Sandy succeeded to escape from her mother's grip and jumped up in feet running to the edge, where Derek had come too.
Derek took her arms and Sandy was right away twined around him.
"Why aren't you sleeping missy!" Derek tried to sound serious.
"I want you to taste our cookies! They're very good!"
"Do I have any chance to skip over this phase?" Derek looked at Meredith smiling.
"No you don't, but they are very good! Thank you for your trust anyway!" Meredith looked at him a little offended.
"I am sorry! I am sure they are better than Izzie's" He smiled and gave her his had to come with them.
They headed to kitchen and Meredith took out some cookies from a jar and put them on a plate. At first sight, seeing them so black, Derek hardly abstained not to laugh.
Meredith guessed his thought and slapped his back playful "They're not burned! It is because of the chocolate!"
Derek chuckled and kissed her taking in the same time a cookie.
"Hmm… these are indeed good! You should spend more time in kitchen with your daughter!" Derek smiled at them.
Meredith just laughed and shook her head.
"So you like them daddy?"
"Are delicious!" Derek kissed her cheek and Sandy started to cuddle in his arms.
When she yawned, they knew that she was finally ready to go to sleep; so they took her back in her room and Derek put her down in bed tucking her in.
"Good night baby!" he rubbed gently his cheek and kissed it.
"Good night daddy! Good night mommy!"
They made an exchange of 'good night' kisses and Sandy closed her eyes exhausted. Then, Derek and Meredith went out from her room, turning off the light and closing the door behind them.
Derek put his arms around Meredith and started to breathe into her hair and neck "I am going in shower! Join me!"
Meredith giggled and pushed him away "I had one when the girls were here! I will meet you in bedroom!" she looked back at him with a teasing smile, as she was heading to kitchen, where there were still things to be cleaned.
A little bit later, when she saw that Derek was late to come out from bathroom, Meredith went to see what he was doing.
She found him out of shower, with a towel wrapped around the waist and checking careful in window his hair.
Meredith giggled when she saw what he was doing and went over to him and hugged his back "You are not old Derek!"
Derek took out the hands from hair and leaned them on sink continuing to watch himself in mirror.
Only when Meredith started to kiss different spots from his back, Derek turned around and picked her up, placing her on sink. He opened up her legs to get between them and started to kiss her face from place to place. "You bet I am not old and I am going to prove you!" he started then to kiss her passional.
"First I want to make clear one thing!"
"Ok!" Derek agreed but still kissing her.
Meredith pushed him away a little so that he stop from kissing "Kids! I want to talk about out kids!"
Derek laughed and returned to her mouth "We can make one right now!"
"Oh no, no!" Meredith pushed him away "I hope that you were just joking when you said 5 or more children!"
Derek laughed when he saw her serious face "I don't want to force you, but maybe we'll have twins or triplets!"
"It's not comforting, but I hope that this won't happened; and now speaking of families… your mom called!"
"Oh, so you finally met her! I mean you finally talked to her!"
"Yes I did! Sandy talked more with her!"
"She already loves Sandy!"
"Derek, she knows everything about us?"
"Of course she does and she cannot wait to meet you!"
"I know! She already invited us in New York!"
"And we should honor it as soon as possible!"
"I don't know Derek!" Meredith pushed him even further from her and sighed worried.
Derek took her face in his hands and kissed softly her lips "She already loves you too, you will see! Now…" he put her legs back around him and lifted her up "It's time to celebrate properly our engagement!"
They fell asleep with three hours before the clock to give them the waking up call.
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