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"Mommy, mommy, MOMMY!!" Ava screamed happily nearly knocking Meredith over at the front door. "Ava I missed you!" She told the girl as she bent down to her level and wrapped her in a huge hug. Derek crept out from the kitchen not wanting to disturb the scene in front of him. Meredith noticed him right away and her stomach did a flip flop at seeing him for the first time in days. They liked eyes, and suddenly she was lost in his powerful gaze. The baby growing inside of her felt more real than ever now that she was seeing him for the first time.

Derek kissed her awkwardly on the far head, not sure how to greet her anymore. He went back to the kitchen and the girls followed shortly after. Meredith wanted to hear all about New York and listened intently to her daughter's tales. She could tell by the two new suit cases sitting in the foyer that Derek's family had spoiled her rotten with gifts and expensive clothes.

Derek forgot all about Ava's new fascination with divorce as he took in the feeling of sharing a meal with his family. It hadn't happened in a long time, and he missed it. They ate and laughed and Derek was surprised to see Meredith feeling better and so happy. He couldn't remember the last time her eyes lit up so much. They had hardly talked at all while he was in New York and he wondered if maybe that time had done them some good.

Ava chatted on and on and suddenly he remembered he was supposed to talk to Meredith before she had the chance to talk to Ava. He kicked himself for forgetting when Ava said, "Daddy used to love Aunt Addie, isn't that silly mommy? Don't do something bad like her did or daddy wont love you anymore."

Meredith looked at Ava first confused, and then to Derek as her daughter's words began to make click in her head. The smile was gone from her face and was replaced with a shocked look.

"Uh...Ava," Derek began looking at Meredith. "I thought daddy already told you this.." He said to his daughter trying his best to dig himself out of the whole. He flashed Meredith his trademark smile in an attempt to gauge her reaction. She didn't return the smile so he knew she wasn't happy, but she didn't look mad either...which he did not expect at all.

"Derek..." Here voice was sharp and to the point and she took her time getting the rest of the sentence out on purpose to torture him. "Yup, there it is..." He thought, preparing himself for the worst. "You, told our 4 year old...about Addison?" Ava was bored with the conversation and asked Meredith if she could be done dinner. Derek answered yes for her, anxious to get the girl out of the room.

"No, I mean yes, but only after Nancy told her the whole story..." Meredith's face scrunched up like she was trying to grasp all the information. "Wait...you mean your sister went and told our daughter personal information that was not her business at all to bring up?" Derek nodded, bracing himself for her to blame it all on him. She stopped talking...and just stared at him. He waited, and waited, and waited some more...for the yelling. But, to his surprise, it never came.

"She had no right Derek. No right at all. Addison will be so hurt if Ava tells her what she told us tonight. We've come so far in the past 5 years I will not have your sister ruin it." Meredith was using her mom voice, talking to him sternly but still not yelling. Her voice sounded angry but her features were calm and unstrained. Derek just sat, speechless, not sure what to make of her reaction.

Finally Derek got the nerve to say something. He started cautiously, not wanting to make her suddenly mad. "I'm sorry Meredith, I had no idea she would say anything like that..." Meredith cut him off before he could finish. "No, it's not your fault. Tomorrow, you will call her and explain that if she can not keep her mouth shut...she will not be able to spend time with Ava. End of story."

Derek nodded, agreeing wanting to give Nancy a piece of his mind, but also wanting to please Meredith and keep her in the laid back mood she was somehow in. He was still rather confused. He knew that if he had told her this a week ago she would have flipped and probably kicked him off their land entirely...so he wasn't sure what brought about this sudden change.