It was Wensday after school and Derek was driving him and Meredith home when he noticed that she had fallen asleep on the fifteen minute car ride.
When they arrived at his house he sat in the car for a few minutes letting her sleep. When she slumped forward, in what looked like the most unconforatable postion ever, He decided to wake her up. "Mer" He said in a quiet voice after kissing her lightly on the lips. "Mer, were home. You have to wake up now." He heard her groan. "Come on Meredith and we can go and sleep on the couch together. It will be a lot more confortable." She only let out a low groan that sounded like a no.
He got out of the car and went over to her side of the car neeling down. "Come on Meredith lets go inside." She only put her arms around Dereks neck with he took as a sign that she wanted him to carry her. He put her bag around his arm and picked her up. She placed her head on his shoulder and started to snore lightly once more. Derek could only chuckle at the noise that he loved to hear.
Once they got inside Derek placed their bags on the counter and layed down on the couch with Meredith on top of him. They layed there for about five minutes before Derek started to speak again. "Meredith, are you awake?" He asked as she opened one eye giving him a death glare for waking her up. "Sorry I just have a question to ask you." She then opened both eyes showing him that he held her attention.
"What, I was having a good dream."
"Well...its just...that." He didn't know how to get the words to come out of his mouth.
"Derek you are starting to sound more like me than I do."
"Its just that I have been walking on egg shells trying not to upset you." She put on a mad face from the comment. "And I totally don't mind doing it but I want to beable to say that that is my baby in there. I want to talk to your tummy and say that this is daddy. But I don't want to make you upset by doing that. So you can decide either way. Do you want me to do the proud papa thing even though it might not be my child or do you want to keep doing things the way were are doing them. You choose and I will be happy with anything." She rested her chin on his chest so she could look in his eyes.
"I have kind of been thinking of that too." She said closing her eyes breifly. When she opened them she said. "I want you to be its father."
Derek ran his hands up and down her back. "Meredith you know that no matter what happens I will always treat it like my child."
"No I mean that I don't want it to know about Mr. Lee." She looked into his eyes and he saw the tears in hers. "I don't want it to be afraid like I have to be." Derek pulled Meredith closer to him knowing that she was still afraid of him. "It should be able to feel safe with us not like it could be taken away or hurt because its not your child. So I want you to be its father. No matter what it looks like." He wipped the tears off her face with the pad of his thumb.
"I would love to. Nothing would make me happier than that but what would we tell it if it doesn't look like us?"
She had seemed to have thought everything out already because she already had an answer to that. "We can blame it on Thatcher."
"Mer, as much as I would like to I really don't think that we can blame its weird looks on your absent father."
"Well if he was so absent in my life whats to say that he will never even see his grandchild. So we can say that he had the weird looks like the bleach blonde hair."
"Ok its a deal we can tell everyone when ever we see them. I don't think anyone would have any real problem with it."
"Great." She got a big smile and layed her head down again. They both started to fall asleep when Meredith was jolted awake. "Derek where are we going to put it?"
"What do you mean?" He looked at her confused about what she was talking about.
"Where are we going to put the baby. This house only has three rooms."
"Well since you are not techniqually sleeping in the other bedroom it can just use that. As long as my parents are ok with it."
"Good. Now I am going to go back to sleep."
"Good" He said with a smile.
