Next chapter 29. Richard comes to visit and Meredith and Derek seek comfort in each other.

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Kaylee starts crying. Meredith gets up and takes her out from the bassinet. She lies back down in bed and starts feeding her. Kaylee is now a week old. She had been asleep since her last feed which was 8 hours ago but throughout the day she is every 4 hours. She wakes up for her feed then has her nappy changed then she falls back asleep. Kaylee finished drinking; Mer burps her and lies her down next to her and the two of them go to sleep.

She wakes at about 8 o'clock that morning. Jackson tapped her on the shoulder. She wakes and sees him standing there.

"Did Kaylee wake up?" She asks.

"No, she is still asleep." He says pointing to Kaylee.

"Oh, what's wrong?"

"I'm going now to Luke's."

"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow and I'll come and pick you up."

"Okay I'll tell Luke's mum. Bye Mer."

"Bye sweetie." She gives him a quick hug.

"Bye Kaylee, sweet dreams." He whispers.

Jackson leaves her room. She shuts her eyes for a little more rest when Charlie walks in and taps her on the shoulder. Mer turns and faces her.

"Are you going now Charlie?" She asks.

"Yeah Hollie's mummy is here."

"Okay, I guess I'll see you tomorrow afternoon when I pick you up."

"Okay. I love you Mer."

"Love you too Car."

Charlie leaves Mer's room. Meredith lies back down and closes her eyes. Kaylee then starts crying ten minutes later. Derek walks into her room.

"Let me take her Mer." He says.

"She wants to be fed Derek and I don't that you have magically grown boobs overnight."

"I was going to use one of the bottles out of the fridge."

"It's fine my boobs are leaking with milk, which I need to use up."

"Okay." He says. "Do you want some breakfast?"

"Yes please."

Derek leaves as she feeds Kaylee. She takes Kaylee downstairs after feeding her and lays her in the cradle. She walks into the kitchen. Derek places a plate in front of her and a glass of juice.

"Thank you."

"No worries. So we have no kids today any plans on what we can do?"

"I don't know. Maybe we could go for a drive out to the hut and show Kaylee the land and where she was born."

"Okay that sounds like a good plan. When do you want to leave?"

"After I have a shower and freshen up."

"Okay. While you shower I will pack her bag and maybe some lunch for us."

"Sounds like a good idea." She puts her plate and glass in the sink. "I'm going for my shower now. I'll be back in 5 minutes."

"No you will be back in 20 minutes after you have had a nice long shower and take care of yourself properly. Kaylee will be fine, she should be out for the next 4 hours and if she wakes it will be because she needs her nappy changed."

"Okay fine but if you need me come in and get me."

"We will be fine. She is my daughter and I think I can look after her."

She nods her head. "I will be back down in 20 minutes." She heads upstairs.

Derek starts cleaning up the kitchen and goes and packs gear for Kaylee. He is just about to change her when the door bell rings. He picks her up and goes and answers the door. Izzie is standing there looking upset.

"Hey Iz, what's up?"

"Um its nothing. Is Mer here it's really important?"

"Um yeah she is just upstairs. I'll go and tell her your here. Can you just take Kaylee for me?"

"Sure." Derek hands Kaylee over to Izzie and goes upstairs. He walks into her room he hears the water.

"Mer it's just me, I'm coming in." He says walking into the bathroom. "Um Izzie is here and she is upset and she wants to talk to you its important."

She shuts the water off and steps out of the shower. Derek's eyes gaze over her body quickly before she wraps a towel around her body.

"Don't look at my body, its ugly."

"It is not, it's amazing and plus it's only been a week since you have given birth."

"It will just take me a while to get back to normal size again."

"And that will be in no time. Anyway Izzie is downstairs waiting."

She grabs her dressing gown off the back of the door and switches the towel and the dressing gown over quickly. She heads downstairs and Derek follows her.

They get into the lounge room and Derek takes Kaylee.

"I'll go and change her upstairs." He says taking her clothes upstairs.

"What's up Iz?"

"I think I may be pregnant again."

...

Flashback 2 years ago.

Everyone is on the school ski trip. Izzie, Cristina, Meredith, Arizona and Callie are all in one room together. Only Izzie and Meredith are in the room as the other girls were out.

"Meredith can I talk to you about something?"

Meredith looks up from the magazine she is reading and moves over to her bed.

"You can tell me anything."

"I think I'm pregnant."

"Why Iz?"

"Well I'm late, my boobs are inflating every second, I've been needing to pee constantly and I have been really tired lately."

"Iz you've probably been tired because of the skiing. It takes a lot out of you."

"No it's been for the last week."

They hear the girls getting closer.

"Okay tomorrow when were leaving we'll buy a test and we'll take it and go from there."

"Okay thanks Mer."

The girls walk inside the room.

The next night, they stop at the nearest town for dinner. Izzie and Meredith go across to the supermarket. They go and get a test along with some other things. They walk down to the nearest toilets. Izzie takes the test out and goes and pees on it. She walks out and they sit it on the sink waiting for the results. One line appears then the second positive line appears. The yes line, the line that means that Izzie is going to have to think about her options. Meredith just pulls Izzie into her arms and hugs her, which is the only think she can think of at that moment.

...

Izzie is in Meredith's bathroom taking a test. Mer is sitting on her bed folding clothes waiting for her the door to open. Izzie opens the door and Meredith walks in. The test is sitting on the sink. The five minutes pass and the only line that appears is the negative line. Izzie is relieved and so is Meredith.

"Okay that's good. I really didn't need another pregnancy."

"I know. At least you were being safe."

"Yeah anyway thanks for being here with me."

"No problems."

"Meredith." Derek calls out to her. "The phone is for you."

"Okay, I'll be there in a second." She calls back out.

"The phone is on the bed." He says.

"You clean yourself up and dispose that test."

Meredith picks the phone up.

"Hello?"

"Hi Mer, its Richard."

"Hi Richard."

"Um do you know how I was talking about that conference last week? I'm just letting you know that it is on this weekend and I'm in town right now."

"Oh okay then. Do you need a place to stay?"

"No its fine. The hotel stay is included. I was just letting you know so maybe we could have a coffee or dinner."

"Sure sounds lovely. I think dinner sounds good. We can all come out for Kaylee's first outing. But the kids are not here."

"That's fine. I might drop into the house tomorrow or Sunday."

"No that's fine. We're not doing much so that sounds good."

"Okay as soon as I get my rental car I will drive by."

"Sure anything."

"Can I ask were your mobile is?"

"That's out at the hut. I left it there when I went into labour with Kaylee."

"Okay because I was calling your mobile and it wasn't being answered but that explains it now. Anyway the car person is here. See you soon."

"Will do, bye Richard." She hangs up as Izzie walks out.

"I'm going to be on my way now." Izzie says.

"Okay Iz."

"I'll just let myself out." She goes downstairs.

Meredith grabs some clothes from the draws and starts getting changed. Derek walks into her room.

"Opps sorry I did it again." He says.

"Derek don't worry about."

"What did Richard want?" He asks.

"Um he has just arrived in town and we're going out to dinner with him."

"Okay and were taking Kaylee?"

"Of course we are. We're not going to leave her here by herself."

"I know that but I think that if you fed her then put her to bed she would still be asleep when we arrived at home."

"Probably but we aren't going to do that. We would be bad parents and our daughter would probably be taken away from us." Mer says. "Which I don't want to happen."

"Me either. Are we going to make it out to the hut today?"

"I don't think so."

"That's fine. We can go another day."

"Yes we can."

"So Richard's swinging by soon?" He asks.

"Yeah as soon as he organises the rental car and he will be here."

"Okay, I better get dressed then."

"Yes you better." Mer says.

...

There is a knock at the door half an hour later. Derek answers it to Richard.

"G'day Derek."

"Richard, how have you been?"

"Good, what about you?"

"The same."

"That's good."

"Yeah, um Meredith is just grabbing Kaylee she should be down in a second. Do you want tea or coffee?"

"A coffee would be great."

They walk into the kitchen. Meredith walks in with Kaylee asleep in her arms.

"Hi Richard." He turns around and sees her.

"Hello Meredith."

Meredith goes and sits next to him and passes Kaylee to him. He settles Kaylee in his arms; she doesn't wake up when changing.

"She is so cute and a spitting image of you Derek."

"She has my obvious features but she has Mer's lips and nose."

"That's true but in the photo you sent me you can't go past her big blue eyes."

"Yes you can't. Jackson said the same thing." Derek says.

Derek puts the coffee down in front of Richard.

"Mer do you want tea?"

"No I'm fine."

"Here I will give her back to you." Richard says. Meredith takes her back and goes and lies her down in the cradle.

"So how has it been? The whole first week of parenthood."

"It's been great. Nothing to bad yet and we have figured out her sleep pattern. 4 hours straight she sleeps for of a night time longer sometimes. Then she wakes for her fed. Then she is back asleep." Mer says.

"Well she is a good baby then, I remember Jackson was very clingy and woke every 2 hours for a feed and Charlie was every ten hours she would wake for her feed then go back to sleep."

"Yeah the first couple of days she was every couple hours but she has settled for 4 hours but I think it could be longer."

"She is a great baby." Richard says.

"Yeah she is."

"Anything else happen when you brought her home?"

"Remember the jealousy bug?" Mer says.

"Oh yes very well."

"Well Charlie was like that the other day, Jackson just sat in her seat that she wasn't sitting in then she just got angry and attacked him. She kicked Jackson and since he was next to me he bumped me and the baby and I was feeding her and let's just say I was in pain."

"Did you sort it all out?"

"Yes we did. We talked through to Charlie and made her realise why we spend most of the time with the baby and she came around. Then Derek talked to Jackson."

"I told him about the jealousy bug and that just how it affects the younger kids he understood and I told him that I knew he didn't start it." Derek explains.

There is a silence between the three of them.

"You should have heard the song he wrote for Kaylee." Meredith says.

"It was amazing." Derek adds in. "It was called Kaylee's song and all he did was chose different songs and composed them all together and added a few lines himself."

"He'll have to play it for me."

"You will be blown away at the talent." Mer adds in.

"If he doesn't become a surgeon then I think he could become a song writer." Derek says.

"But he will become a surgeon he'd be crazy not to."

"He sounds just like Cristina." Meredith mumbles to herself. "Yeah we know that but kids always change their minds and you can't force them to do things that they don't like and are not interested in."

"Yes I know that but you know that Ellie won't be happy if he doesn't become one."

"Why does that matter to her? She left us, abandoned us. She shouldn't have the right to have an opinion in this. If she wanted an opinion she would have been at home to raise them, not leave us, abandon us then move across country because work is her life."

"Yeah I know Mer. Anyway I have to go. They are having afternoon tea at the hotel for the people attending the conference."

"Okay we'll see you for dinner."

"Yeah, 6.30 at the Italian restaurant right?"

"Yes."

"Okay I'll see myself out. Bye."

"Cya later."

He leaves the kitchen and they hear the door shut.

Derek looks at her and sighs.

"Sorry but it's true, if the kids chose a different career path she won't be allowed to have an opinion. That's all I'm saying."

"I know but you did unload it all on him."

"Yes but he is part at fault for this. He needed to know what she had done all this time."

"Mer, I'm sure he did but he did make an effort to come home and see you when he had the time. Being Chief is an important job and your free time usually has to go into the hospital and making sure it is running smoothly."

"I know but I always had this feeling that Ellis forced him not to come home." Meredith says upset.

"Meredith your mum is the wicked witch of America. Actually for a matter of fact the whole entire world. She probably always made excuses to Richard not to come home and spend time with you and the kids. She probably always had an excuse that you's were sick, that you's weren't home or that there was an emergency that he needed to assist with."

"My mother is the wicked witch she always has been. But in a way I have always felt like Cinderella and that Ellis is the evil step mother." She has a single tear sliding down her face.

"That works to." Derek pulls her into his arms. "Anyway if you feel like Cinderella then you will go to the ball and your prince charming will be there, he will dance with you and spend the night with you, at midnight you will leave the ball behind and drop your shoe and that shoe will be the key to rescue you from that hell hole."

"Well I already have been rescued from that hell hole. You are the one who rescued me from her."

"How did I rescue you?" He says pulling her to face him.

"Okay this is my version of the story and go with it."

"Okay."

"Well you met me in year 8. We became best friends and you were always there to be my saviour when Ellis yelled at me. Then our relationship bloomed and then came falling apart. We experienced everything together. April then came along and she was like the evil step sister and she wanted you. Then the night your dad got shot it was like the ball in a way. You went to Mark's got drunk, came knocking at my door at midnight. I let you in and made you shower. You came into my room sexed me up. Well you sexed me up that whole week. 5 weeks later we found I was having a baby and the next week I got shot at. Ellis found out, kicked me out then you came and you rescued us from her."

"Oh yes but that isn't really like Cinderella at all."

"I know. But the baby thing was the thing that saved me from her and just like in Cinderella the shoe saved her from her family."

"So you're saying that you're grateful for me getting you pregnant and kicked out of home from the wicked witch."

"Yes." She says nodding her head. "I definitely am."

"Then I should have sexed you up and gotten you pregnant long ago."

"Derek are you serious."

"I was making a joke."

"You better have been."

"I was. Come here again."

He pulls her in for another hug and kisses her temple.

"Anyway what I'm saying is that you were my prince charming in my story."

"Okay could I be your prince charming in the future?"

"Maybe."

They stare at each other for a few minutes, Meredith leans in to kiss Derek, Derek leans in as well, and their lips almost touch when Kaylee interferes with her crying.

"I guess we will have to wait." Derek says.

"Yes I guess we do."

Meredith walks into the lounge room and picks Kaylee up.

...

Meredith lays Kaylee down on Mer's bed. She just bathed her and dressed her. She looks over at the clock.

"I don't have long to get ready."

She grabs clothes from the draws to change into. She starts getting changed when Derek walks in on her again.

"Dam not again." He says. "Maybe you should start shutting your door so I don't keep walking in on you naked."

"Derek it is fine, every time I feed Kaylee you look at my boobs."

"I do not."

"Then what's this?" She tilts her head to the side and pretends to do Derek's face.

"You see that?"

"I think the whole world does."

"Well I'm just scratching an itch."

"And scratching your itch is staring at my boobs?"

"Well you have nice ones. The best I've seen."

"Derek you have only seen mine."

"Yes I have but you are beautiful and everything about you is beautiful."

She throws her dress on.

"Nice try." She walks into the bathroom.

He follows her and stands behind her. Right up close behind her. Meredith can feel her heart racing. Her breathing starts pitching.

Derek places his hands down on the sink.

"What I said is true, you are beautiful." He whispers onto her neck.

The warm air is making it even harder for Meredith to resist him. Derek is moving his body closer to her. She turns around to face him and leans up against the sink. Derek's lips crash down onto hers. The kissing is getting more deeper. He is kissing her neck and Meredith looks at her watch.

"Derek we have to go."

"He can wait."

He picks her up and carries her back out to the bedroom. To lay her down on the bed.

"Kaylee's there." Mer says.

He carries her down to his room and lays her down on the bed.

"Be quick." Meredith says.

"I will be."

They both discard their clothes quickly.

...

The two of them are both getting dressed quickly.

"God were late and Richard is going to be asking questions." Meredith says.

"Who cares if we are late?"

"I do. His going to know what we were doing and that is bad because I just had a baby and now I'm having sex and leaving her unattended."

"Meredith calm down." He says holding onto her wrists. "Okay here it goes. A) We're old enough to both be having sex and B) He doesn't have the right to judge us and what we do."

"But still we were having sex when we were supposed to be meeting him for dinner."

"Okay our excuse for being late is that when we were about to leave you had to start feeding Kaylee and the girl has your appetite and if you take the food away from her then she starts to cry. And babies can't be rushed. Okay?"

"Okay. Can you go and call him and tell him that we are leaving now and explain the situation."

"Sure will and Mer."

"Yeah?"

"Just breathe and that there will be our little secret. Our secret that we can do whenever you are upset or need a friend."

"Okay Derek thanks for being, for being you." She says giving him a quick kiss on the lips.

"Anytime."

They both go their separate ways.

They arrive at the restaurant 10 minutes later. Derek is carrying the capsule in. They find Richard and go and sit down at the booth.

"Hi sorry we're late." Meredith says apologizing.

"No that's fine. Babies are like that. As soon as you want to leave they need their feed or their nappy change."

"Yeah." Meredith says picking the menu up and reading it to buy her some time away from the questions and the looks. "What are you going to have Derek?"

"I'm not sure. I'll have a look." He picks up the menu and starts looking.

Richard eyes them both. Seeing their behaviour and making eye contact. The waitress comes over to them.

"What drinks can I get you?" She asks.

"Um I'll get a lemonade and a water please." Mer asks.

"Just a beer for me." Derek asks.

"A glass of water please."

"Okay I'll go and get them." She stops and stares at Kaylee. "Oh she is just gorgeous. How old?

"A week today." Meredith answers.

"Well she is gorgeous. Anyway I better get your drinks." She says walking away.

Richard eyes the two of them again.

"What?" Meredith asks.

"Nothing, just the two of you look like you got caught at the prom having sex."

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh you's were having sex instead of leaving to come and meet me."

"No we weren't." Meredith says.

"Don't lie."

"Fine we were but you don't get to comment or make opinions."

"I wasn't going to but can I just say that it's inappropriate to be having sex with a baby around."

"Okay can I say that A) you don't get to judge, having sex is something personal and the only people who should talk about it is the people involved." The waitress walks over with their drinks and sits them on the table.

"Are you's ready to order?"

"Um we just need a few more minutes." Derek says.

The waitress walks away.

"B) We are both old enough to be having sex and C) Kaylee was asleep and in another room. I think that it would be wrong to perform an activity as such in front of a baby. So we are not animals and go and do it in front of our baby. And finally you shouldn't talk." Meredith bites back.

"Wait what are you talking about?" Richard asks taken aback by her comment.

"All those times I came to the hospital and you and my mother where going at it. The times I laid awake at night and heard you's going at it and then there were three kids. Which was totally inappropriate and wrong. So you shouldn't talk to us which is wrong or right."

"Okay sorry."

The rest of the dinner goes by, slower then Meredith had wished.

"I think we're going to go now. It's getting late and she will be due for her feed."

"Okay, yeah I have an early morning tomorrow so I better be going as well."

They leave their money on the table and Richard goes and pays for them.

"Bye Richard." They both say.

"Cya guys."

Meredith picks up the capsule and Derek grabs the bag and they leave. She buckles Kaylee's seat into the car and they leave.

Derek pulls up at the house and turns the engine off. They both sit there.

"God that could have gone better." She says.

"Yeah I know."

Kaylee's cries then fill the car.

"Are you tired?" He asks Mer.

"A little but I want to relax."

"Okay well I'll run you a bath, you can feed Kaylee. They you go and get in the bath and I will put her to bed. While you relax."

"Okay."

They get out of the car and take Kaylee inside.

So what did you think? Please please please let me know. I love your reviews and comments and they make it easier to know what you are interested in and not interested in.

Next chapter will be first exam, bowling, Jackson's holiday story and they both seek comfort in each other again.

I'll try and update in a few days.