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After rounds of dirty living room sex, Meredith threw on Derek's button down shirt along with her underwear and made her way back to the boxes. Derek followed in his boxers and wrapped his arms around her as she looked down at another box.

"You wanna go through them?" he asked her gently.

"Yeah, I think I do. Want to help?" she asked turning to him with a smile.

"Absolutely." He said with a grin.

She opened up the box that was closest to her and pulled the tape from the box. She pulled back the flaps of the cardboard and looked inside. There sat a few photo albums covered with a hat she wore when she was younger.

"I remember this hat!" she said with a smile as she pulled it over her head and looked at him. The little fuzzy ball on top bobbed with every move she made and he couldn't help but smile. He pictured Meredith as a little girl wearing that hat and his heart melted.

"You look adorable." He told her with a smile as he placed a soft kiss on her lips.

"Thank you, I loved this hat. I would wear it all the time. Inside and outside. No matter what." She said with a smile on her face as she pulled it off and set it next to the box. She then bent down and picked up a photo album.

She started flipping through the pictures and landed on one she remembered. It was of her sitting in a red wagon she had gotten for Christmas with her parents on the side of her. They weren't embraced together in a loving fashion, just standing there. Meredith now knew they weren't in love then. But when she was younger, she didn't know that.

"Is that you?" he asked her with a chuckle as he took in the image. She was sitting in the wagon with a bright smile on her face with curly blond pig tails. He loved it and he couldn't help but hope that one day his little girls would look just like that.

"Yeah, that's me. With my parents, who at the time were starting to fight apparently. But I was happy I got that wagon." She explained.

Derek then took in her parents. They didn't look happy, but Thatcher at least had a fake smile plastered to his face. Ellis just stood there acting like she had something else she rather be doing, and knowing her it was probably either surgery or Richard Webber.

Derek thought of how unfair it was that Meredith had to deal with that. He knew that once they got married that would never happen to them. They would take tons of pictures, and in each one it would show just how much he loved Meredith, and vice versa.

"I'm sorry Mer, you deserved better." He told her.

"Yeah, but if you think about it maybe I had to go through all of that to get where I am. And if I weren't where I am now, we may have never met." She told him.

"I don't think so. I think it was fate for us to find each other, we would've some way." He said with a smile as he flipped to the next photo.

This one was of a little baby Meredith on her first birthday. Her face was covered in smashed chocolate cake and white frosting. She had a smile on her face and he knew just by that smile that she was giggling. That beautiful giggle he loved so much, and also hoped his daughters developed. She was pointing at the camera with a frosting covered finger and she looked like a happy baby.

"Awe, this one's cute!" Derek told her with a chuckle as he took in the image. Meredith was going through another box and came back over to look at what he was talking about.

"Yeah, I guess I forgot about this album. They didn't take many pictures, but when they did it was always my dad. Once he left, they stopped. Ellis didn't care. There's a lot from when I was a baby." She told him as he turned another page.

"Now this one needs to be framed." He told her with a full hearted laugh.

She looked over at the picture he was admiring with a loving twinkle in his eye and saw that it was a picture of her when she was a baby in the bath tub.

"No, it's not. It's embarrassing and needs to be thrown out." She said trying to steal it away from him.

"Oh no you don't. This is the first time I've gotten to see a look in your past life, and I am not letting you take this away from me. Look at your cute little butt!" he told her with a laugh.

"Stop teasing, or you won't see this butt naked ever again." She told him with a serious tone.

"You're kidding, and you forgot to say cute little butt." Derek told her leaning in to place a kiss on her lips. She turned away before he could kiss her to make him think she was mad at him.

"Mer, are you seriously mad?" he asked her.

"No, I guess not. But when we go visit your family, I get to look at all your embarrassing baby pictures." She told him without thinking. She kissed him lightly and noticed he hadn't moved.

"What Derek? What's wrong?" she asked.

"No…nothing. Just, you said when we go visit my family. You want to visit my family?" he asked her surprised.

"Well, I thought maybe you'd want to since I thought we were so serious. But if not, then that's fine. I get it. I mean I'm not really the meet-the-family type and mothers tend to not like me. So I totally understand. I thought we could go around the holidays whenever we get time off, but if you don't want me to go, you can go by yourself and I'll just stay here and hang out with Doc or something…"

"Meredith, Meredith. Stop rambling. I want you to meet my family. And you are not staying here alone with Doc for the holidays. We'll go see my family and you can meet them and I'm positive my mom will love to share memories with you and bring out my embarrassing baby pictures." He assured her with a heart warming smile and then placed a soft kiss on her lips.

"You do?" she asked surprised.

"I do, I don't want to be away from you at all. I was just surprised you brought up meeting my family, I was going to ask you I just didn't know how." He told her.

"Ok, well now you know." She said with a smile.

"Now I know." He said.

They finished looking at the few photos there were of Meredith and moved on to other boxes. Meredith went through her school stuff they had saved for some reason and found her Anatomy Jane doll.

"Anatomy Jane!" she exclaimed from the couch she was sitting on.

"What?" he asked confused.

"It's the doll I used to play with all the time when I was younger. I renamed every part and I remember people would get annoyed of me playing with her all the time. When kids were playing with Barbie's I was playing with her." Meredith said as she opened up the doll and looked at all the body parts inside her.

"I bet that was cute. A cute little Mer walking around with her Anatomy Jane." He said with a chuckle. He was loving going through all these things with Meredith and learning more things about her.

"Probably more annoying then cute, but whatever. Our little girls can play with Barbie's." Meredith told him.

"Or Anatomy Jane, we'll let them decide." He told her with a warming smile. He loved hearing her talk about the future so easily.

"That sounds good," Meredith said turning to another box.

Derek turned to the box in front of him and pealed off the tape and opened the folds to discover tons of leather journals piled in the box.

"Mer, you might want to come see this one." He told her looking up at her.

"What? Is it more embarrassing pictures? Or hats?" she asked with a smile.

"No, it's journals." He told her as she came near.

Meredith looked down and picked up some journals then looked back at Derek with some in her hand. There were tons of them. Her mother had kept journals her whole life.

"What do I do with them?" she asked unsure of what to do.

"What do you want to do with them?" he asked. He couldn't answer this for her. It was up to her.

"I don't know. I guess I'll just leave them here for now and think about it." she said trying to forget about them.

"Are you ok?" he asked her turning to embrace her. She turned away from him and went to another box.

"I'm fine." She said shortly.

He hated those words. She said them when he knew she really wasn't fine.

"Meredith, talk to me." He told her, moving over to her and wrapping his arms around her.

"No, Derek. I'm fine. Let's just forget about them." And just like that she had put a wall up again. He had loved where they were at lately. She was back to trusting him and with that came her talking freely about their life together in the future.

"Meredith, please don't shut me out." He told her in a whisper.

"This isn't about you, Derek." She told him. "It's not always about you."

"Meredith, you were doing so well with talking to me and opening up. We've been talking about our future and moving on." He told her.

"That doesn't change my past Derek. These boxes are all my past! Every single one has something in them that reminds me of my childhood, and in case you've forgotten, my childhood was horrible! And those journals tell me exactly everything my mother hated, including me. So leave me alone Derek!" Meredith yelled at him and left him shocked standing in the living room.

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Well, that ended differently then I thought it would. It's also short. Oh well, it works. Tell me what you think I would love to hear from you. I thought I'd update again since I had no homework. I don't know when I'll update again. Definitely not tomorrow because I have a game called Big Ball that I am in. heheh, but I'll try before the weekend.

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