I'm skipping time slightly; Iz and Mer are 6mths along; Kitty still doesn't have a name and these hormones are becoming slightly hilarious!!
"Whoa no, no, no!" Meredith cried.
"What?" Derek exclaimed.
"I refuse to choose between pink and baby blue!" she said folding her arms; a gesture that defined her stubbornness all too well.
"So find out the sex of the baby and we won't have to choose!" Derek shot back as he put down the paint sample at the hardware store.
"I told you that I want it to be a surprise!" Meredith picked up a white sample and flashed it at Derek. "This white is nice, it's called fair bianca…"
Derek raised his eyebrows and shrugged.
"Tell me again why everything is white…?" he dared to ask; at that moment, however, her hormones were so haphazard that the slightest wrong question could send her into a fit of rage.
"Because I change my mind on colours so frequently I need to settle with something that is plain and simple!" Meredith told him as she put her hands on her hips. "Something I am not going to get bored with…so that if I want to change the throw cushions or buy a new rug or…"
"But it's so plain…sterile…like a hospital…" Derek whined.
"Seriously Derek…it's not that bad!" Meredith said. "Stop whining and tell me if you like it!"
"It's fine, whatever, go for it…" Derek sighed. He walked up behind her and wrapped his hands around her waist touching her belly; at six months pregnant she looked beautiful; her belly wasn't big, but against her usually slender frame it did look rather large.
"You're grabbing my fat…" Meredith told him as she picked up a colour chart and flicked through it leisurely.
"No…" Derek replied; there wasn't the slightest, hinting amount of fat on her; if anything, her body was only slightly curvier than usual and he loved it. New or old, she would always be beautiful to him. "I love your belly…it's beautiful and curvy and…"
"And fat!" Meredith shoved his hands away.
Derek rolled his eyes.
"Don't roll your eyes!" Meredith warned; her back was still turned and Derek wondered how on earth she could have recognised the gesture that was happening behind her back. "How do I know that?"
His eyes widened even more.
"When you roll your eyes you exhale in a way that is so god damn freaking loud that I cannot even hear my own self think…" she told him. "You think you're doing it quietly but you're kidding yourself if you think I don't know…I know you all too well Derek Shepherd and it is very difficult for you to hide anything from me!"
Derek chuckled lightly and hugged her again, resting his hands lightly on her belly, giving it a gentle rub.
"You do…" he kissed her cheek.
"Stop touching my fat!" Meredith warned.
"Stop touching my fat!" Izzie exclaimed in the highest of pitched tones as she swatted Alex's hands away from her belly.
Alex groaned and looked at her with the most drained and exasperated gaze that could only have come from the past six months of hormones.
"Iz…you're pregnant – and beautiful!" he sighed. Izzie and Meredith's pregnancy insecurities were as bad as each others.
Izzie shook her head; she didn't see that when she looked into the mirror. The reflection that stared back at her was completely contrary to that in fact; she saw a fat ass, legs that rub together and melon sized breasts that were twice the size of what they used to be.
"No! I am a whale!" she told him. "My legs are so damn fat that they rub together when I walk! I can't fit into my pretty blue scrubs and my boobs have grown so big they could rule a small country!"
"Babe you're pregnant…" Alex sighed as he rubbed her belly. "If you are gaining weight, it's only because the baby needs you to…" his eyes conveyed sympathy and love for the beautiful blonde that stood before him.
"The baby wants me to be a Japanese wildlife target?" Izzie asked him with all ounces of fury crossing he usually sweet voice.
Alex pulled her over for a hug.
"Come here…" he sat down on the chair and pulled her to him; however, he winced as she put all of her new baby weight on his knees. She looked at him before he could change his expression.
"I told you!" she yelled as she jumped up. "I used to be able to just come and sit on your knee with no problem!"
Alex smiled at her; god, she was beautiful when she was mad.
"Come on, put the wooden spoon down, have a rest from the baking and we'll go upstairs and have a rest…" he suggested as he rubbed her arms lightly and kissed her forehead sweetly.
Izzie shook her head.
"No!" she said stubbornly. "I refuse to be one of those stupid pregnant women who take midday naps because they can't handle the tiredness…"
"You took one yesterday…" Alex pointed out.
Stupid answer – he thought as he so desperately wanted to stop those words leaking from his mouth.
"So what?" she yelled. "I said I don't want to take a nap! I did yesterday, but I don't today!"
Another voice sounded through the door.
"I don't want to take a nap!" Meredith yelled.
Derek followed her into the kitchen and widened his eyes at Alex as he and Meredith threw down the shopping on the bench.
Meredith rested her head on Izzie's shoulder.
"I'm so tired…" she told her.
Izzie nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, me too…" she agreed.
"A nap maybe?" Meredith suggested.
Alex and Derek let their mouths gape open with the automated shock that arose from that one sentence.
"Yeah, sounds good…" Izzie agreed.
"But I…" Alex went to say something.
Derek quickly cupped his hand over Alex's mouth to restrict his newly found word vomit.
"Shut up…" he muttered as he gave Meredith a gentle smile. "Just let it be…" he managed to say on the side.
Meredith and Izzie looked at them.
"Problem?" Meredith asked.
"No honey…" Derek smiled and kissed her forehead. "I have to go into the hospital and check on some labs,"
Meredith nodded.
"Okay, well don't be long…also, can you stop by that deli I love on the way home…maybe a chicken salad?" she asked him.
Derek nodded quickly; he wasn't about to argue that chicken was Meredith's least favourite dish yesterday.
He picked up his keys and made a mad dash for the door.
"Derek!" Meredith called after him.
"Yes honey?" Derek tried to sound as sweet as possible.
"Extra, extra thick strawberry milkshake!" she called.
Derek breathed out a heavy sigh and didn't say anything.
"Okay…" he said.
Meredith turned to Izzie and smiled.
"Your bed or mine?" she asked.
"Mine!" Izzie said. She turned to Alex. "Don't go out…"
"Not going anywhere Iz, I'm just gonna watch some TV…" Alex told her.
Izzie nodded, satisfied with the response.
Lexie was at the apartment when George burst through the door.
"Okay, she has been Kitty for four months now!" he told her.
Lexie nodded.
"Yes…"
George held up his To Kill a Mockingbird book.
"She is now named Scout!" he announced.
Lexie raised her eyebrows and smiled.
"That's perfect!" she exclaimed. She picked up the cat off the lounge. "You really do look like a Scout!"
George laughed and joined her on the lounge.
"So how was your day?" Lexie asked as she scratched Scout's head.
George shrugged.
"Oh not bad…" he said. "Did a bit of scut…passed my intern exam…"
Lexie stopped.
"I'm sorry?"
George whipped out his intern exam results.
"I passed the intern exam!" he yelled excitedly.
Lexie squealed in excitement causing Scout to run into the bedroom.
"Oh my god!" she cried happily as she hugged him.
George stopped her hugging him though, and instead of dancing around like a fool as he had just been, he ran his hand down her cheek and looked into her eyes deeply. They were green like Meredith's eyes; but this green glimmered in happiness right back at him as he cupped her chin in his hands.
"Lexie…" he whispered.
Green coloured the brown and formed a gaze that neither had ever known.
"George…"
George didn't allow her to speak anymore, instead, he leaned in and let their lips graze for an instant, little pressure, but a tingling touch that caused shivers to erupt down Lexie's spine. George felt sparks zapping his body in ways he had never known possible; he dreamed of a moment like this…a moment where shattered dreams and love combined to form the passion of their existence.
"I'm in love with you…" George whispered.
The words clung to her heart like an unstoppable force and at that moment Lexie couldn't find the words…
But at that moment her twinkling and now tear glistened eyes were all George needed for his answer.
"I love you too…" Lexie said softly.
Meredith groaned loudly as her phone rang loudly, the new ringtone had been driving her mad and she wondered why in god's name Derek had made it the stoned smurf.
"Seriously…" she reached over tiredly and attempted to pick it up but it slipped out of her reach and fell to the floor with a light thud. "Damn it…" she groaned. It continued to ring and she sat up in frustration. "I hear you, stupid dumb stoned smurf!" she flicked it open abruptly. "Hello?"
"Meredith!" Lexie cried.
"Lex…it's three in the morning…what's going on?" Meredith groaned.
"Georgetoldmehelovedmeandthenwehadsex!" Lexie exclaimed.
Meredith groaned and flopped against the pillows.
"Lexie, do you need to go back to preschool and learn to use your words in coherent sentences?" she asked.
"George told me he loved me and then we had sex…" Lexie said, still at a fast pace but no where near as incoherent as before.
"You had sex with George?" Meredith shot back up.
"Yes…" Lexie's voice was meek and quiet.
"Okay…this is big…" Meredith couldn't find the words. "You didn't cry or anything…because that sends him into a tormented world…"
Lexie laughed.
"No, Mer…I don't follow your example…you may be my big sister, but I am somewhat wiser as to who I have sex with…" she joked.
Meredith laughed.
"This is true…well, I guess I'll come over in the morning and talk to you about it…" she said.
Lexie smiled.
"I'd like that, I'll make you breakfast…this time, no eggs!" she added.
Meredith giggled.
"See you then…" she hung up the phone and rolled over to see Derek stirring.
"Who had sex with George?" he asked.
"Lexie did," Meredith replied.
Derek groaned.
"Slightly cute…but not at three in the morning," he told her.
Meredith nodded and rubbed her belly.
"Kicking?" Derek asked.
"Yep…" Meredith muttered. She tried to ease the pain a little with her hand, but it was a belly burn she couldn't control. "Oh, come on…not a belly burn…"
Derek sighed heavily and wrapped his arm around her.
"You okay…?" he asked. "You seem not okay…"
"I just haven't slept in like weeks because of the belly burns that the baby is giving me…" Meredith told him. "It's like clockwork…at three a.m. and already it's starting…"
She rolled on her side and shoved a pillow between her knees.
"Close your eyes," Derek whispered as he leaned over and rubbed her belly with all attempts to ease the pain. His other hand made lazy circles on her back and for a moment Meredith managed to sleep…for the first time in weeks…
Lexie heard Meredith walk into the apartment the next morning.
"Lex..." she called.
"One second!" Lexie called back.
However, something caught Meredith's attention out of the corner of her eye.
"Holy..."
Meredith ran into the bedroom where Lexie was throwing a sweater on.
"You have kittens in your kitchen..." Meredith told her.
"What? I have a cat in my kitchen..." Lexie answered.
"You have KITTENS in your kitchen!" Meredith said again.
They walked into the kitchen and gasped.
Scout was a mommy.
"Oh...my...god..." both girls said.
Okay, a little crazy I know...but it would be nice to see Lexie bring the kittens to the hospital...he he.
REVIEW pleeeeeeeeeeeease!
