WARNING: Skipping ahead about 2 weeks in this update! Yeah, I know I said no skipping, but it's only 2 weeks! Which means only about 2 more weeks until the Sloane/Grey wedding!
It was a couple weeks later, and Meredith and Derek were both working that day...They had just arrived about 20 minutes ago, and dropped the kids off at the daycare...Meredith only planned on working half a day, if everything went according to plan…They both headed up to Derek's office and got changed...They both had about 15 minutes before they had to do any rounds or anything, so Derek sat down at his desk and started on some paperwork he had to catch up on and Meredith took a seat on the opposite side of the desk and put her feet up.
Meredith: Ah gosh, I'm exhausted.
Derek: Babe, you haven't even started your shift yet.
Meredith: I know that, but were you up with 2 toddlers last night who decided to both have nightmares and not want to sleep?
Derek: Eh, that's right...sorry hun.
Meredith: I think I'm going to go get some coffee.
Derek: No babe, let me go...you stay.
My husband got up and walked over and kissed me on the lips.
Derek: I'll be right back.
I am so glad to have a husband like him.
He comes back about 5 minutes later with the largest cup of coffee the cart sells. He hands it to me and starts to walk back to his desk, but I grab his arm and pull him towards me.
I lean up and kiss him, long and hard.
Meredith: Thanks, now I have to go..I'll see you later...I love you.
Derek: I love you too. Have a good day.
With a final kiss, I part ways from his office...but not without my coffee!
Halfway through my day, I brought lunch up to Derek's office, but he wasn't there...I find that odd because every day, unless he is in surgery or I am in surgery, we eat lunch in here together...unless otherwise stated. I just walked past the OR board and he isn't in surgery...This is odd; we were supposed to have lunch together. I sit the 2 salads and 2 bottles of water down on his desk, take a seat in his chair, prop my legs up, and pull my cell out and hit speed dial #1.
He doesn't pick up his cell, it goes to voicemail...I don't bother leaving a message..I will text him.
I send him a text
Babe...where are you? I'm in your office with lunch and you're not picking up your phone..I'm concerned...Love you
Derek texts back about 1 minute later
Sorry, was with a patient..I'm monitoring her, doesn't look like I can make lunch...just stick mine in my little fridge...I love you.
I find this really odd and am determined to find out what the heck is going on, he has never been like this..I get up and storm out of his office and walk up to the nurse's station.
I walk up to Nurse Anne, who has been here on Derek's floor for quite a while now, she is a family friend.
Meredith: Anne, do you know what patient Derek is with?
Anne: Yeah, he is with Ms. Gregorizcki. Been with her pretty much all morning.
Meredith: His Jane Doe from yesterday...So they identified her?
Anne: Yeah, she has been awake all morning talking with Derek. He didn't tell you?
Meredith: No, he didn't...What room number is she in?
I'm a little furious right now with Derek, why would he keep this from me.
I immediately think the worst and I try not to start crying in front of Anne.
Anne: She is in room 54A.
Meredith: Thanks.
I walk, well really jog down there and find Derek sitting in there talking with her.
The door is closed and Derek is laughing..I don't care if I am intruding, this is MY husband...So, I open the door and Derek looks back.
Meredith: Dr. Shepherd, a word please?
I try to stay professional in front of the patient, but it is really hard.
Derek: Sure Doctor.
I find it really really odd that Derek hasn't introduced me or even called me Dr. Shepherd. What the hell is going on?
Derek: I'll be right back Meghan.
Meghan: Okay, thanks Derek…you're a doll.
OH NO SHE DIDN'T...SHE JUST CALLED MY HUSBAND A DOLL...WHAT KIND OF NIGHTMARE AM I IN?
Derek walks out and gives me his mcdreamy smile- like nothing is wrong.
Derek: Hey Honey.
I am furious; I grab his hand and pull him into the nearest on-call room. Determined to find out what is going on.
I pulled my husband into an on-call room and he doesn't seem to find anything wrong. I am furious, and he is all giddy and cheerful.
Meredith: So you want to tell me what's going on?
Derek: What are you talking about? Mer what is your problem?
Meredith: Oh please Derek..tell me, what the hell is that?
Derek: What the hell is what? Meredith, are you insane? What are you talking about?
Meredith: Oh, I probably am going insane. I mean, first my husband doesn't eat lunch with me, and then come to find out he is busy flirting with a patient who he didn't bother to tell me she woke up, even though we both worked our asses off yesterday to save her life.
Derek: You're upset about me spending time with Meghan?
Meredith: Ms. Gregorizcki...You must be besties with her because it sure as hell isn't professional to be calling a patient, let alone a female single patient who has the hots for you by her first name.
Derek: Honey, your blowing this totally out of proportion.
Meredith: Derek Christopher Shepherd, don't you dare honey me.
Derek: Mer, seriously...let's talk about this…Just calm down for one second and let me explain.
Meredith: What is there to explain? Did you sleep with her Derek? Is that what you have to explain?
Derek: MEREDITH ANN SHEPHERD..SHUT UP FOR ONE DAMN MINUTE SO I CAN EXPLAIN THIS…
My husband just yelled at me, so I know nothing happened, but he just yelled at me and called me by my full name while yelling at me..so that makes me more pissed so I storm out of the on-call room, however my husband is faster than me.
I run out of the on-call room and get close to Derek's office when he catches up with me and grabs my arm and pulls me into his office.
Derek: Mer, sit.
He locks his door and I decide to sit and act like I'm listening...then I can leave.
Derek: Now let me explain...
Derek: Meghan, the patient…is Julie's best friend from high school. She moved out here for college after high school and Julie never spoke with her again...She recognized me since I am her doctor. She recognized me this morning and I've been talking with her and reminiscing with her.
Meredith: Okay, so nothing happened between you two?
Derek: Meredith, no..I love you and I'll always love you...We've been married for 5 years...we have two kids together, you should know I'm not going anywhere by now.
Meredith: I know, it's just..I still get really jealous...I mean, you're a sexy neurosurgeon and you get a lot of single female patients and a lot of married ones who make googly eyes at you..So, I get jealous...okay, forgive me?
Derek: Mer, I have nothing to forgive you for. (He leans against his desk as saying this) I understand you're jealous. I understand I'm sexy and a hell of a neurosurgeon. I get jealous anytime a man is around you without me, hell even if I am around...like that patient from yesterday. I wanted to punch him.
I laugh and go to kiss him...I forgive him.
I walk out of my husband's office feeling much better than before, not to mention...I'm now holding hands with my husband walking down to meet the famous Meghan he has been spending all morning with. I'm not nervous, just passive aggressive I guess you could say...He is mine and not hers, I'll be sure to make that clear to Meghan...it just seems she wants him...but she cannot have him.
We arrive at her room and Derek walks in first.
Derek: Meghan, there is someone I would like you to meet.
Meghan: Hey Baby Doll. Who is it?
WAIT a minute, did she just call my husband baby doll with me in the room?
Derek: My wife, Dr. Meredith Shepherd.
Derek wraps his arm around my waist and I lean into his embrace
Meredith: Nice to meet you Meghan.
Meghan: Well, nice to meet you too Meredith. It's nice to finally put a face to the girl who swept my baby doll off his feet.
OKAY, can she stop calling my husband baby doll? This better just be the meds talking or I'm going to inject her with a HIGH dose of the nearest drug I can find and stick it where the sun don't shine!
Derek: So, Meghan...on a scale of 1-10, how's your pain?
Meghan: Oh please, stop talking medicine for one minute..I've got to grill your wife.
Derek: I don't think that's necessary.
Meredith: No, go ahead Meghan.
Meghan: Okay. So, how did you and Derek meet? He's never told me.
Meredith: We met in a bar. The night before I started my internship. We fell in love, and that led to our engagement and then our wedding...then we had 2 wonderful kids....Brayden and Liam...Now we are hear…anything else we need to discuss Meghan?
Meghan: No, that pretty much covers it.
Derek: See, Mer knows about her life..No reason to grill her.
Meghan: Oh, I've got a question she won't know.
Derek: Meghan, I'm sure she knows everything about me.
I was getting annoyed with Meghan, and I could tell Derek was too. So, I decided to stop being so nice…and luckily, my pager beeping helped with that.
Meredith: Look, Meghan I'm sorry..I have to take this…but maybe I can come back later and sit with you and answer your non-sense questions about my husband of 5 years.
I grab Derek's face and pull him into a deep kiss, and when my hands wrap into his hair, I make sure to let Meghan notice my wedding ring.
I pull away after about 30 seconds
Meredith: I'll see you later Babe. (Quick kiss) Love you.
Derek: Love you too. Another quick kiss and I'm off
I take my page and it's for a craniotomy. I complete the procedure and then walk out of the scrub room and all I want to do is collapse in an on-call room and scream into a pillow about this stupid Meghan girl.
But instead, I see Izzie just getting done with her surgery and decide to go talk to her.
We decide to grab some coffee and head to the cafeteria to sit and talk.
Izzie: So, what's going on in the life of Meredith Shepherd?
Meredith: I'm being bitchy to Derek about his patient and he probably hates it.
Izzie: What? Okay, what's going on?
Meredith: That Jane doe patient me and Derek had from yesterday is actually Derek's sisters best friend from high school. She's all over Derek. She's spent time catching up and is all over him..I met her today officially and she was calling Derek baby doll right in front of my face and didn't even care.
Izzie: What? She does know you're married with 2 kids right?
Meredith: Yeah, and she doesn't care. She's a whore.
Izzie: I'll go cage fighter for you...Just say the word.
Meredith: Okay, I will…I think I'm just going to talk to Derek about it..I mean, she can't be in our lives forever, can she?
Izzie: No, she's a patient here…And do you think Derek would really leave you for her?
Meredith: No, I know he loves me...I just get so jealous when women go gaga over Derek.
Izzie: I understand Mer. I'm the same way with Alex. I think every woman in America with a sexy husband is like that.
Meredith: Yeah, you're right.
Izzie's pager went off.
Izzie: OH YAY! Another baby today!!
Meredith: Oh the joy!! I suppose I'll go try and find my husband.
Izzie: Okay, good luck Mer. And remember…cage fighter.
It was later that night and Meredith was already home with the boys, they were sitting down eating dinner. Derek was staying a little late to finish up a surgery and to discharge Meghan.
Meredith's mind floated back to the conversation they had earlier that day in his office after she met Meghan.
Meredith: Derek, she needs to be discharged. There is nothing physically wrong with her and you cannot keep her here just because you want to have her love up on you more.
Derek: Meredith, what is your problem?
Meredith: Oh seriously Derek, don't pull that crap with me. You know just what I am talking about.
Derek looked at her and then realized: You're talking about the baby doll stuff?
Meredith: That's exactly what I'm talking about. Who does this woman think she is? I mean, your wife is right in the room with you and still she flirts openly.
Derek: Mer, she wasn't flirting.
Meredith: Oh, what would you call it, baby doll?
Derek: Baby doll is what her and my sister used to call me when we were younger. They did it to make fun of me.
Meredith: Okay, so she still calls you it?
Derek: I guess so. Mer, today was the first time I've seen her since high school.
Meredith: And today should be the last day you ever see her.
Derek: Mer, I think you're blowing this out of proportion.
Meredith: I don't think I am Derek. You don't understand it from my point of view. A single woman hitting on my husband. I get jealous. Derek, she didn't even care I was in the room earlier, hell she probably would of just started ripping your clothes off had it not been for her roommate.
Derek: Mer, your being crazy.
Meredith: Derek, how can you not see she is in love with you?
Derek: Because I'm in love with you and I don't see anything else but you.
Meredith: That was corny.
D: But it is true. He walked up to her and kissed her lips.
Meredith started getting calmer
Meredith: Okay, well. I forgive you. But I still want her gone...tonight...I have some patients to finish up on and I'm going to head home.
Derek: Okay, she will be gone tonight. I have a quick surgery and then I'll discharge her. (Kisses her) I'll see you later. At home. (Kiss her) I love you.
Meredith: I love you too.
A couple kisses later and she was off.
That was the last time she saw Derek, so she hoped the next time she saw him, he would walk in the door and say that Meghan is gone!
Derek walked in the door about 10 minutes later; the boys were finishing up with dinner.
Derek walked into the kitchen and kissed the boys heads and rubbed their hair. He said hey to Meredith and then grabbed a plate of food and sat down and started eating.
Meredith immediately knew something was up because Derek was hardly saying anything and he hadn't even kissed her when he walked in the kitchen. She figured that this wasn't the place or the time to do this...They would have whatever conversation they needed to have later tonight when the boys were asleep.
Derek finished dinner as quickly as the boys did and Meredith told the boys they needed to get ready for bed and Derek went into the den. Without a word to Meredith.
Something was really going on and Meredith had no idea what it was.
About 30 minutes later, Meredith tucked the boys into bed and then headed downstairs and headed to the den to see what was wrong with Derek. He looked lost in his laptop, doing some research.
Meredith sat down on the edge of the desk and looked at Derek. He was focusing intensely on the screen.
Meredith: Derek, do you want to tell me what is going on?
Derek looked at her, finally after about 2 minutes.
Derek: I don't know, you want to tell me what is going on.
Meredith: Derek, what is your problem?
Derek: Would you care to explain this? (Derek pulled a piece of paper from the desk drawer and handed it to Meredith)
Meredith: What is, (Meredith looked down at the paper and immediately knew why Derek was upset)
Meredith: Derek, where did you find this?
Derek: Your office at the hospital. You left a couple charts in there and I stumbled upon this.
Meredith: Der, I was going to tell you about this...I swear.
Derek: So, why haven't you? Meredith, this is huge and that letter is dated 3 weeks ago. Why in the world did you keep this from me for so long?
Meredith: Derek, I didn't know how you would react.
Derek: Mer, how do you think I'm going to act?
Meredith: I don't know, probably pissed because if this happens, they we won't see each other as much.
Derek: Meredith, seriously. You haven't taken this because you're worried we might not see each other as much as we do?
Meredith: Well yeah. It's huge to consider Derek. I have you, and 2 boys who are waiting every night for me to tuck them in. If I take this, I won't see you as much at work and probably at home and who knows how often I'll see the boys. I need to consider all the options here, because I don't want to miss out on family life because of this.
Derek: Mer, this is your dream. You should take this. You know it will be busy, but you're still going to see us. The hospital will work with you to accommodate your hours. You're not going anywhere, the hospital knows who you are and will still accommodate you.
Meredith: Are you sure?
Derek: Mer, seriously. You should take this. It's your dream.
Meredith: That was before I had you and Brayden and Liam.
Derek: Well, in this case you can have both dreams.
Meredith leans in and kisses him.
Meredith: Well, it looks like I'm going to start a pediatric neuro fellowship.
Derek: It does look that way doesn't it. Congratulations (He leans in and kisses her)