Chapter 21. I decided that school work can wait and that this is more interesting. So this chapter is another filler. It has a flash back from the year before. The rest is just Meredith and Derek enjoying the snow.

Enjoyxxxx

Meredith wakes. It's the first of June and the first day of winter. She gets up out of bed and changes into her school clothes. She pulls her trackies on and sits them under her pregnant belly. Her hands stop at her belly and she smiles.

She puts the rest of her school clothes and puts her year 12 jumper on.

"4 more weeks of school until holidays."

She puts her uggies on and opens the door to go up to the house. She takes in the coldness before walking up to the house. She walks into the kitchen where Jackson, Charlie, Alice and Amelia are all sitting and eating their breakfast.

"Morning kids." She says taking a bowl and pouring cereal into.

She sits down and starts eating her breakfast as Derek walks in and starts eating his breakfast.

"This is what I love to see all the kids up and eating their breakfast." Carolyn says.

"Mer we have to go in early today." Derek says.

"Oh we do too. What's it for again?" She asks.

"The formal and everything else that's coming up in the next 4 weeks."

"Okay. It's going to be freezing having the formal this early."

"That's what they want to talk to us about. They want to move it to December."

"When we get our results back."

"Yeah I think so."

"Okay then. We'll have peanut then."

"I know. How exciting." He places his hand on her stomach and smiles. "Let's go."

"Oh just to let you two know that it is supposed to snow today." Carolyn says to them.

"Okay then. Will you keep us informed?" Derek asks.

"Yes dear."

They grab their school bags and leave for school.

...

Meredith and Derek leave school.

"So straight home or do you want to go somewhere?" He asks.

"Um I'm hungry. Can we get something to eat and go for a drive?"

"Sure. I wanted to go back. What food are we getting?"

"Something warm. Hot chips?"

"You read my mind."

They drive to the fish and chip shop and buy some hot chips. They then take the trip out to the land.

They pull up at the land and Meredith takes in the view. She takes a deep breath and gets out of the car and walks towards the hut that is there. Derek and his dad made the hut before he met her. Michael thought that it was a good escape for when it was wet and raining and they had been out fishing. She walks through the door and goes and sits down on the lounge. Derek follows in behind her.

"I'm just going to get the fire started to warm the place up."

Meredith nods her head and watches him start the fire. The crackling noise sounds the room as the wood starts burning. Derek sits down next to her.

"So how was school today?" He asks her.

"It was alright. Just the usual classes and the usual lectures from all my teachers about the same thing."

"Same for me. That just kept saying that if we don't put in the effort then we won't succeed in the certificate."

"Did they also mention that if we fail then we have failed the teachers and that we shouldn't blame them for failing when we were the ones with the test papers?"

"Yes I got told that one in as one." He says.

"We're not going to fail. We're going to succeed and go off to med school and become famous doctors."

"Yes Med school. It seems so unreal doesn't it?"

"Yeah it does." She says quietly.

"What's wrong Mer?"

"I'm scared that I will become my mother and not be here for peanut."

"You won't become your mother. You have a bigger heart and you are so much nicer and motherly then Ellis."

"You really think that?"

"Yes I do."

"Okay good."

"What else are you thinking?" He asks.

"I'm not sure that I won't to go to med school next year."

"Why?"

"I'm thinking of taking a gap year and spending it with Peanut."

"Well that shouldn't affect anyone. It's your choice and if you want the gap year then you go ahead and take it."

"Well I do but everyone else is starting next year and I won't be able to go to med school with them all."

"I'm sure if you have a talk with them all and see what they are actually doing then you could work around it."

"Yeah I probably could. I shouldn't worry about it should I?"

"No you shouldn't."

"Okay then. Are you going to go to med school next year?"

"I think I am. I can take a year off when I have finished med school."

"Yeah that's always an option."

"Anyway that is 6 months away. We have more important things to worry about than that."

"Yes we do like Peanut." Mer says placing a hand on her stomach.

"Yes Peanut." He places a hand on her stomach and smiles.

They share that moment for a few minutes.

"Should we let your mum know where we are?"

"I think she'll survive."

"You sure?"

"If she is worried she can call me but she should know that I am out here with you."

Meredith just nods her head.

"So your birthday is in the holidays. Don't you think we should plan it?"

"Well I don't really want to do much. Just have some friends over and have a barbie and chill."

"And drink." She adds in.

"Yeah that too."

"I kinda chose the wrong time to become pregnant. The year everyone turns 18."

"Well yes but you're not missing out on much apart from the hangovers the next morning and the puking."

"Hey what do you think this is?" Pointing down to her stomach and laughing.

"Well yours doesn't come with the headaches and the little noises that send your head crazy."

"I know."

"Do you want a drink?" He asks getting up.

"Yes a drink would be lovely." She says. "So have you thought of any ideas for the hut?"

"Not really but I was going through some photo's of when it was being built and you wouldn't believe what I found."

"What?"

"Well do you remember that weekend we went away with everyone; Mark, Izzie, George, Cristiana, Alex, Arizona and Callie."

"Yeah that camping trip we took in the Christmas holidays."

"Well I found the photo's from that trip."

"Oh that was a fun weekend wasn't it."

"Yeah it truly was."

Flashback

Meredith is packing your bag for the camping trip. She is running around the house trying to find everything. The door bell rings.

"Jackson can you get that for me please." She yells.

Jackson gets up and opens the door. Derek and Mark are standing there.

"Hey Jacko, is Mer ready?" Derek asks.

"Um almost she is getting the last few things ready."

Meredith then comes down the stairs with her hands full.

"Ready." They both ask.

"Yeah I just have to get one more thing."

"Let me take your gear to the car then." Mark takes her gear out of her hands and walks down to the car.

She walks out of the kitchen with another bag.

"Okay I'm ready now." She tells him. "Okay Jackson the baby sitter should be here any minute now. Please behave and don't answer the door or phone to anyone else. I will see you on Monday morning when I pick you up from the hospital."

"Okay Mer. Have fun."

"We will." She hugs him goodbye.

She walks outside and shuts the door and follows Derek down to the car.

They arrive at the campsite half an hour later. Alex and everyone else followed them there. Mer gets out of the car.

"Wow it's beautiful." She says.

"I know. We found it last time we came camping." Derek says.

"Well it's amazing."

"There is something more amazing that I will show you once we unpack."

"Okay then."

...

After unpacking and settling in Derek decides to take Mer to the amazing place.

"Okay put your swimmers on." He tells her.

She ducks into the tent and puts her swimmers on.

"Okay we can go now." He tells her. "Guys we'll be back."

"Okay have fun don't get into too much mischief." Mark says with a sly grin.

"Mark shut up." Mer says.

They set off with Derek leading the way. She is getting annoyed that he won't tell her where they are going but he tells her that she won't be annoyed when they get there.

"We're close."

Meredith can hear water flowing and they come to a clearing where there is this huge river with a water fall.

"Do you like it?" He asks.

"Yes I do. It's so beautiful."

"I told you it was." He says looking at her. "So are you going to get in or not?" He asks as he strips down to his boardies.

"Yes I am. I'm just taking in the view."

"We'll while you do that I'm going to go and jump in for a swim."

He runs off and goes into the water. Mer strips down to her bikini and goes and gets in the warm water. She swims over to Derek who is under the water fall.

"This place is amazing." She says. "How did you find it?"

"I went for a walk when we went camping and found it. I knew that we would have to come here next time we were here and I wanted us to come here first so we could enjoy it."

"Well I am."

"There's also so much more. There are under water caves that are pretty and jumping off the rocks is fun as well."

"Well let's go and try the rock jumping."

They walk up to the top of the rocks. They stand on the ledge and hold each other's hands.

"1,2,3." They say as they jump into the water.

They resurface and are smiling. They look into each other's eyes and share a look of love. The two of them have a friends with benefits relationship going on so If something happened between the two of them nothing could hurt their relationship.

They share the same look for a few minutes when Derek leans in and kisses her quick and soft. Mer then capturers her lips on his and wraps her arms around his neck and wraps her legs around his body. With the kissing getting more passionate between the two of them. Derek pulls away.

"Follow me." He says swimming away to the cave.

Mer swims after him to the cave.

...

"Oh god I forgot about how much fun we had that weekend." Mer says.

"I know. It was such a good weekend and back then we had that friends with benefits thing going on."

"Yes we did. I remembered." She says smiling.

"What?" He asks.

"And we had sex that weekend as well." She says laughing.

"And that's funny why?"

"I don't know. It shouldn't be funny but it is just funny to say."

"Okay you have a weird sense of humour."

"I know I do." She says laughing.

"Okay. Well I'm going to go for a walk if you would like to join me?"

"No I'm fine. I think that I might just have a nap. I'm exhausted."

"Okay. You do that and I will be back soon."

"Okay." Mer yawns and lies down on the lounge. She is fast asleep.

Derek smiles and drapes a blanket over her body and leaves the hut for a walk around his land.

...

Meredith's phone goes off a couple of hours later. She looks around at her surroundings to remember where she is. She picks her phone up and presses answer.

"Hello." She asks sleepily.

"Hi Mer. Where are you at?" Cristina asks.

"I'm at Derek's land why?"

"Because we had that afternoon planned for the two of us at the plaza to shop."

"Oh crap I forgot."

"I can see that. Do you think you could still make it back?"

"What time is it now?"

"It's almost 5."

"I don't think I could because I don't even know were Derek is. Crap where is he?"

"What you don't know where he is." She says chuckling.

"No I don't. I said that I was going to have a nap while he went for a walk around."

"Well I better let you find him, just so your baby has a father and all."

"Thank you. How about a rein check for Saturday?"

"Sure. That sounds good."

"Okay see you on tomorrow." Mer says.

"We don't go to school tomorrow."

"Yeah I knew that. I meant Thursday. See you then."

"Okay bye Mer. Hope you find McDreamy."

"Me too. Bye."

"Bye."

Mer hangs up and puts her shoes on to go outside just as Derek comes running in.

"Hey I was just about to come and find you." Mer says standing up.

"Well I'm here. Are you ready to go now because it's supposed to start snowing like now and Ma sent me a message telling me that we should get home before it actually snowed and we got trapped here for the night?" He says rambling.

"Okay sure but did you just realise that you were rambling?"

"Yeah I do that when I'm nervous."

"I know it's a trait that I have learnt."

"At least I don't ramble like you."

"I don't ramble, well I do but only sometimes and only when nobody stops me and my point is that I don't ramble." She states. Derek just looks at her. "Fine I do ramble."

"Good I made my point. Now you ready to go?"

"Yes I am."

Derek puts the fire out and they go out to his car. Sleet is hitting the windscreen. He pulls out of the land and they start to head home. They make it onto the main road when they see that the road has been closed due to black ice.

"Crap what are we going to do now?" Mer asks.

"We can stay at the hut for the night. We have food, water and a bed to sleep on." He suggests.

"Okay fine but you better leave now before they close that road."

Derek turns the car around and they head back to the hut. The sleeting had gotten heavier and it had turned into snow. They pull up outside and Mer runs inside while Derek grabs some bags from the back of the car. He walks inside and goes and starts the fire.

"It's not suppose to snow this early in the winter." Mer says warming herself up in front of the fire.

"I know and it's only the first of June. How do you think it will be in July and August?"

"Hopefully not this cold." Mer says.

"I better call Ma and let her know that we are staying here for the night."

Mer nods her head. As he walks into the small bedroom and calls Carolyn. He walks back out and sets himself on the lounge next to Meredith.

"She knows that we are here."

"Okay good." She says. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"How cold does it get in here in the winter?"

"It depends. We can leave the fire going while we sleep to make it warmer and we have a lot of blankets as well."

"Okay."

"And we have each other. You can just snuggle up to me if you get cold." He says smiling.

"If you think you're getting lucky then think again."

"I wasn't thinking about getting lucky I was just thinking about keeping you safe and warm."

"Okay sure you were." She says. "If I get cold then I might consider it but don't count on it."

"I will count on it because I know that you will get cold and need me."

"Whatever Derek. Do you have some hot chocolate or something?"

"Yes I do. Would you like a hot chocolate Meredith Grey?"

"Yes I would Derek Shepherd."

"Well I will go and make you one. You just stay here and relax."

He gets up.

"Thank you." She says smiling

...

Meredith is lying down in bed. Shivering trying to get warm. She toss and turns trying to warm herself up. With Derek's words going through her head. "You can just snuggle up to me if you get cold." She smiles to herself at these words. "I suppose that it wouldn't hurt." She says to herself. She gets up out of bed and walks into the small lounge room. There is a light still shining in the room. She walks in and sees him sitting in front of the fire. With a few blankets wrapped around him. He looks up at her.

"So you're taking up my offer?" He says with a smile.

"Yes I am. Only because I am freezing my arse off and because I need to be kept warm for the night."

"Okay just wait for the fire to die out and I will come and join you." He says.

"I sit with you." She sits down next to him and he moves the blankets to sit over her body. She lays her head on his shoulder and watches the fire die out with him.

Half an hour later Meredith is asleep on Derek's shoulder and the fire had died down. He shakes Mer.

"Mer wake up."

She stirs and opens her eyes.

"Go lie down and I will be there in a moment." He says to her.

She gets up and walks into the bedroom. Derek grabs the blankets, locks the door and turns the light off and goes into the bedroom with Mer. He throws the blankets over Mer's body and climbs in next to her. He moulds his body into hers and wraps his hands around her. She relaxes her body into his and she feels the warmth of his skin warming her body. They both fall asleep.

...

Derek wakes to find Mer not next to him. He looks at his watch. 6.37 am it reads.

"Where is Mer at this hour of the day?" He says to himself.

He gets up and walks out to the lounge. The fire isn't going and there is no Meredith. He starts the fire.

"Good morning." Mer says handing him a cup of tea.

"What are you doing up this early?" He asks.

"Blame peanut and the fact that there is a fresh blanket of snow."

"Okay well is it too cold to be outside?"

"Not really it's beautiful."

"Well let's not waste a perfect opportunity for the first fall of the season."

He says walking towards the door and opening it.

"Derek you will need a jumper." Mer yells after him.

He turns back around and grabs a coat and puts it on. He also puts his shoes on and runs outside to the snow. Mer follows him and is hit with a snow ball by Derek.

"Hey that's not fair." She yells.

"Who says it's not." He says throwing another snow ball at her.

"Well let me make it even then." She bends down and makes a snow ball and throws it and it misses Derek.

"You'll have to try harder Grey." He yells again throwing another one but misses you.

"Same to you Shepherd."

They continue throwing them at one another. Until Derek sneaks up behind her and catches her off guard and hits her in the back of the head. She puts her hand on the back of her head and turns around.

"You can't be that close Derek. That's not fair." She whines.

"Oh you'll get over it."

"Still it's not fair."

"Okay I'll let you hit me from there. Go on."

"Okay fine." She bends down to make one. She stands up and throws her arm back to. She then throws it but he ducks. "Derek." She whines.

"Ha ha you never trust me when it comes to these games."

"So you said that I could hit you."

"I said you hit me but I was allowed to duck."

"I'm going to get you for this." She says.

"You are not." He runs off.

She chases him around and he turns and he wraps his arms around her waist. He pulls her down to the ground into the white snow. They both are giggling at what has happened.

"Only if Peanut was here to see." Mer says.

"Peanut will experience it."

They lie down in the snow for a good while even with the snow melting and soaking their clothes.

"You ready to go home?" He asks.

"You bet cha I am." She says.

"Let's go then."

He stands up and helps her up off the ground.

What did you think? Please let me know or any suggestions for the story. I'm up for ideas.

I'll try and have the next one up after I do my assignment for history but the assignment will not happen and you will have a next update.

The next update will be midnight cravings for Mer, a day out at the movies along with a bowling date. Then a huge bombshell from Richard. What do you think the bombshell is, let me know.