She climbed down the stairs, looking around her when she reached at the stairs bottom.

"Derek" Her voice echoed in the large empty space of their new house.

Out of nowhere, Derek showed up from behind the stairs, sneaking an arm around her. Meredith screamed and jumped scared, when she felt herself grabbed by someone's arm.

"Sorry" Derek chuckled picking her up a little to take her off from the last stair. After he gave her a kiss behind her neck, Derek turned her around.

For his little joke, Meredith rewarded him with a playful slap over his back. "I heard that someone misses me" She said hanging on his neck, after the fear disappeared. "Do you have any idea who that person is?"

"Hmm- no" Derek answered with a quick kiss on her lips.

He put a protectively arm around her shoulders and walked her to living room.

"I heard shouts earlier; is everything alright?"

"Yeah" Meredith tried to sound fine, but as the word came out a sighed came out with it too and betrayed her.
Derek brought her from the dim light of the hallway into the strong light of the living room. He came in front of her, taking her waist into his hands and trying to read her. She was easy to read since her eyes were still red.

Derek brushed her cheeks looking lovingly into her eyes. "Who called you?"

"I guess you want me to talk about this with you!"

Derek pulled her by waist closer to him and smiled. "It would be nice of you if you do"

"My mom called"

"Oh" Derek smiled nodded understanding the cause. "About me … again"

"About Anthony, about… you" She smiled slightly and leaned on him for comfort. "And you can imagine that she didn't call to comfort me!"

"I am sorry, Meredith!"

Meredith looked up at him curious. "What are you sorry for?"

"For being one more reason to fight with your mother!"

"I am sorry too!" She said hugging him and resting on his shoulder.

"Now what are you sorry for?"

"For all my issues!"

Derek smiled and cupped her face bringing it upper to him and kissed softly her lips. "I love playing the shrink with you!"

"You are a good shrink" Meredith giggled kissing him back.

Meredith let her forehead rest on him sighing heavily. "What did I do wrong? What makes me such a bad daughter?"

"Mer" Derek took her head into his hands and saw her eyes tearing. "You didn't anything wrong! You are a good daughter and a wonderful person."

"Then what did I do to deserve her coldness? I always tried to make her proud of me, I had the best grades and I did everything she asked me to, but all these were… useless! Nothing can make her change!"

"I try to understand her too, but I don't know Mer… she is… you have the bad luck to have her as mother I guess. You are great person, Meredith, never doubt of it!"

"But I am lucky to have you!" She said with sadness, but looking in the same time to get a cuddle from him. She wrapped her arms around him and her entire weight fell on him.

"I am telling you this everyday, but you seem to ignore it!" Derek joked.

"Keep reminding me everyday then!"

"You can be sure of that!" Derek led her to couch and set her down, taking a seat next to her. He pulled her into his arms and stayed like that for several minutes.

"So what do we do now?" Derek asked starting to rub intensively her back.

When Meredith looked up at him, Derek took her chin between his fingers and lifted it to him. He breathed over her lips, gently his lips brushing over hers as his thumb was caressing her cheek.

"I cook, you unpack you stuff!" Meredith said breaking Derek's attempt to go further.

"What?" Derek asked with disbelief thinking that maybe she was joking.

Meredith pushed him away from her and stood up smiling. She knew very well how much that was teasing him, but it was exactly what she needed to have some fun and feel better.

"I cook and you unpack your things."

"Mer" Derek groaned with a pleading look on his face. "Are you hungry?"

"No, but I am in the mood to cook!"

"Mer" Once again Derek pleaded her.

Meredith bent over him and dropped a quick kiss on his lips. "Later Derek!"

"Argh" Derek rubbed his face frustrated. "Why didn't you unpack mines too?"

"Because I unpacked mines. Those are your things, you take care of them!"

"But I stocked the fridge and I cleaned up a little around here! These are our things!"

"I am cooking the dinner for us, while you are unpacking your things and we are equal!"

"You know, Meredith, we will have to share the house work!"

"And we will, but I am telling you from the start that I won't become a housekeeper!" Meredith turned around to leave, but after just a single step she stopped and looked back at Derek. "Oh and I won't wash your underwear either!"

Derek burst into laugh and shook his head. "It's fine, but I wanna wash yours!"

"I am sure you want!" Meredith laughed and returned to her track.

Derek hurried to stand up and followed her outside the living room, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and walked out with her.

"Where do you think you are going?" Meredith stopped when she saw Derek coming with her to kitchen.

"If you want to cook then you will need my assistance, remember? You can't cook!"

"Derek" Meredith removed his arm from her and turned him around to direct him towards the stairs. "You have work to do upstairs!"

"Meredith, I can do those some other day, but now I can't let you alone in kitchen!" Derek opposed and now he was the one who grabbed her shoulders and turned her towards the kitchen.

Meredith walked ahead and released herself from his hands. Without any word she hurried up on stairs.

"Hey, where are you going now?" Derek followed her and shouted from the stairs bottom seeing her so hurried. "The kitchen is downstairs in case you still don't know the house."

"Funny Derek, but I need something first!"

"Do you need me? Because if you do, then I am on my way!"

"Derek, you have something else to do so please stop stalking me!" Saying that, Meredith climbed down the stairs holding a book in her hand.

"What is that?"

"This" Meredith showed him the book "This is Jamie Oliver and so I won't be alone in kitchen!" She gave him a big and proud smile and walked passed him.

Derek stood there doubtful for a few moments, but then he smiled and continued to follow her.

"Seriously Derek" Meredith groaned when she saw him walking inside. "You are so annoying sometimes!"

"Why?"

"Because you look too happy for me!"

Derek walked over to counter where Meredith had taken out some bowls and hugged her back kissing her behind the neck. "You can't stand to see me happy?"

"Not always. Usually, I am a depressed person, so you have to take me easy with this!"

"I will do my best" He said massaging her waist and kissing her neck. His hand slowly slipped under her pants but in the next second he was pushed away by Meredith's back.

"Derek" She looked back at him with serious glare. "Go watch TV or something, just let me focus, ok?"

"Just a second" Derek whispered moving his kisses on her other side of the neck.

Meredith started to giggle when she felt his hand running from her abdomen up to her chest. "Derek" She wasn't able to command him anymore, so she asked it as a plea.

"A second" Derek repeated tracing the kisses to her cheek.

When she felt her knees getting weak, Meredith made an effort and pushed him again, this time turning around to him threatening with a spoon. "Leave Derek!"

"Fine" Derek pulled apart groaning and took a hurt puppy face "But I won't take care of you when you will chop your fingers and burn your hands!" As he said that, he started laughing and hurried to leave the kitchen.

Meredith grabbed a metal bowl and threw it after him annoyed. She didn't have the power to send it so that it can reach him, since he was just walking out from kitchen. The bowl made a loud and painful noise for her ears and Meredith clenched when it hit the floor. In the next second, Derek sneaked his head back in laughing. "Thank God we don't have neighbors!"

"Get out, Derek!"

"I am out! I am out! You are going to be so sorry later!"

Meredith heard him laughing as he was going in living room.

A few minutes later, Meredith was cooking, same as the last time, stuffed chicken. She had just taken out all the ingredients when Derek showed up back in kitchen. Meredith didn't notice his presence, so he leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed and watching her smiling.

Meredith stirred up when she saw someone with the corner of her eyes, in the doorway. "God Derek!" She gasped pressing on chest. "Do you already want to get rid of me?"

Derek chuckled and came over to her, giving her a sweet embrace and quick kiss. "I could never do that!" He said leaning on counter. "So what are you trying to do here?" He asked looking over her book.

Meredith pushed the book out of his sight and glared him. "I am not trying! I am doing!"

"Ok" Derek just not could abstain himself not to get back behind her and hug her. "What are you preparing here?"

"Stuffed chicken!"

"Meri, but you remember how the last one ended!"

Meredith looked back at him with a deadly look. "It ended burnt because of you, remember?"

Derek chuckled remembering that evening.

"And this time I want to prove you that I can do it, so get off my back!"

Derek pulled away and took a seat on table.

"Why did you come back anyway?"

"I have to call the cable company- we don't have cable!"

Meredith looked back at him and rolled her eyes.

"Btw, we don't have heat either and therefore, no hot water!" Derek continued.

"What?" Meredith snapped turning around at him. "Derek!"

"I am sorry- I didn't know!"

Meredith sighed angry and leaned on counter. She stood like that, quiet and glaring Derek for a few moments. "That's it! We are going back home!"

"What? No" Derek stood up immediately. "We can't go return there! We agreed to spend the first night here!"

"Derek" She wanted to yell, but she took a deep breath and tried to calm down. "If we stay here, then don't even dare dreaming that we are going to have sex tonight!" Saying that, Meredith turned around to her ingredients.

"Why?"

"Because-" Meredith snapped again turning around to him. "We don't even have sheets!"

"This didn't seem to bother you earlier today!" Derek gave her a suggestive smirk.

"Because that was once and quick and I told you I hate once and quick!"

"This should not be a problem, Meredith! I will warm you with my body!" He said it with a seductive tone.

"Leave the kitchen, Derek!" Meredith asked him without looking at him.

Derek stood there sitting on table and took a few moments to think. "Mer"

"Derek, why are you still here?"

Derek showed her a pleading face. "Please don't send me away!"

Meredith giggled at his silly face. "Don't tell me you are scared!"

"Actually, I am scared! The house is too big and empty and… I am scared!"

"See? My house was better!"

"This house is the best, otherwise you would not be able to yell and throw with everything around the house when you have the neighbor right next to you! Let me stay here with you and I promise I will behave myself."

"You would better do it, I am already pissed off because of this stupid house!"

Derek gave her a quick kiss on cheek and joined her helping her with the cooking.

Derek helped her indeed, with little teases from time to time, but always making her laugh.

When everything was ready, Meredith put the tray into the oven and set its alarm for 40 minutes.

"Ok" Meredith shut off the oven and then she wiped the hands on a towel. "See?" She showed Derek her fingers. "I have them all!"

Derek laughed taking them in his hands and brought her into his arms. "You're brilliant!"

"I know" Meredith giggled and gave him a kiss.

Derek wasn't satisfied with just one short kiss and took her head into his hands to serve himself with more. Surprisingly for him, Meredith didn't protest as she had done minutes ago; she wrapped her arms around his waist and surrendered in his arms.

They saw the lights flickering and in just a few seconds getting into a complete dark.

"Great" Once again, surprisingly, not Meredith was the one who groaned. "The electricity is down too!"

"I think this house hates us!" Meredith giggled.

"Too bad for it, because it will have to like us, since we are not planning to move!" Derek found her lips easily through dark and kissed her. "We'll fix all these tomorrow!"

"If you want me to live here with you" Meredith wanted to mention. "Do you have a flashlight?"

"No, I didn't think that the electricity will fail!"

"How about candles?"

"Mer, as much as I love you, the candles weren't on our shopping list today!"

Meredith sighed and rested on him. "Now what do we do?"

"We could try to get in our room, but- I don't know the house that well."

"And we'll sleep in kitchen?" Meredith asked him laughing.

"Or" Derek grabbed her legs and picked her up wrapping them around him. "Maybe it's not from our house and the entire neighborhood is on dark, so someone will have to come and fix it!"

"Maybe, but what am I doing up on you?"

"We wait!" Derek chuckled kissing her.

When the electricity went off, they were not far from table, so it was easy for Derek to find it. He placed Meredith on it.

"Derek, we eat here!"

"We'll buy a new table!" Derek said. He stood between her legs, but pulled himself away a little to take off his shirt.

Meredith saw through the moon light what he was doing, so she giggled and helped him with the pants.

"I knew you can't resist me too long!" Derek joked when he felt her hands unzipping his pants.

"Shut up and hurry, because if the electricity comes back, then you won't get any!" After she finished with his pants, Meredith took off her sweater and started to unbutton her pants.

Derek leaned on her, taking her bare skin back into his hands and meeting again her lips. "Mer" Derek groaned when his body pressed on hers and felt her breasts still covered by her bra. "You could have saved me from the hard work!" he mumbled from her mouth as his hands were trying to remove the inconvenient obstacle.

Meredith helped him with that and handed it to Derek. Derek gladly threw it behind him and flipped her onto her back, making room around her. Bowls, spoons, vegetables, they all fell instantly on floor allowing to Meredith to lay back. Derek set himself on her kissing her feverish as his hands were outlining the form of her breasts.

Meredith moaned loudly when she felt him licking and sucking each nipple.

He got off her and with efficiency to remove her pants together with the panties.

"Derek" Each time she was moaning his name, Derek was returning to her mouth, biting each lip, inviting her lips to rub against his into a deep kiss, placing himself more comfortable over her, parting her legs. His body laid heavy over her, to let his hands smoothing her hair to back as they were kissing with even more passion. His right arm met something on table that was on its way, so he pushed it hard. Immediately the sound of broken plates brought them out of their passion.

"Those were brand new" Meredith giggled.

"We'll eat from pot, don't worry!" Derek laughed. "Now back to our business!"

He restarted the tracing of kisses along her neck, down the collarbone.

Meredith gripped her hands into his hair, guiding his head to every spot she needed to feel him.

Derek gave in and pleased her in each way she wanted.

He opened more her legs; easily he lifted her thin waist with just one hand and with one slow thrust he entered her.

"Oh God… Derek" Meredith moaned softly feeling him tight inside of her and thrusting slowly at first and then accelerating more and more.

Her moans got louder once she started to feel tiny spasm building within her. Each of her sweet moans and the feeling of her starting to tighten around him turned Derek on even more.

Derek look her for her loudly mouth, catching her bottom lip when he found it. "You feel sooo good!"

"Oh God, you do too," Meredith's voice trembled under the pleasure that Derek's presence inside of her was giving her.

Derek's mouth was barely leaving hers, letting his hand to add more pleasure by running it up and down her body, squeezing hard her breast, caressing intensely her shaking waist, moving it into the rhythm he needed to feel himself more and more inside of her.

That was when her orgasm hit her and her body tensed under him. She tightened even more around him. "Oh, God Derekkk", she yelled as another wave of pleasure hit her, just as Derek spilled himself deep inside of her.

They lay there, stuck into each other as one, for a moment, trying desperately to control their erratic breathing and to get back to their senses.

"Oh…My…God…" it was all that Meredith could say in that moment.

"Yeah…"

Derek's head rested next to hers, breathing inside of her neck curve, lazy running a finger along her jaw line.

Meredith looked away at him and rested her forehead on his, smiling exhausted.
He slipped out of her and stayed there next to her, bringing her body against his caressing lovingly her entire body. They just lay there on the kitchen table in that complete dark, none of them daring to make a move to break the moment.

Gently and lovingly kisses they shared, until……….until the light came back.

They groaned at the sudden and strong light.

"I should finish the chicken!" Meredith sighed looking with disappointment at Derek.

"No" Derek pleaded her and wrapped an arm tighter around her. "Finish my chicken!"

Meredith giggled and kissed him, letting her hand to run seductively along his body's curve. "Your chicken is finished" She laughed and jumped off from table.

"No it's not! I am ready for another 40 minutes!"

"I am sure you are, Derek, but this time I don't want to screw up the chicken!" Saying that, Meredith started to look around her after her clothes.

"You're a bad cooker!" Derek pouted and stood up too. "You screwed it with me!"

"Oh, you'll survive!"

Meredith picked up the bra from counter.

"Please, don't" Derek stopped her when he saw that she was planning to put it back on. "We'll save a lot of time later!"

Meredith rolled her eyes smiling and folded the bra.

They dressed back and just then they saw the casualty that their sex session had caused to their kitchen. Everything was thrown all around the kitchen, but the most horrifying thing was the image of white broken pieces from their new set of plates. Derek saved just one, from the set of 10.

"You clean that, while I clean the rest and wash them." Meredith told him directed him to pick up the pieces.

"Why me? You clean them and I will clean the rest."

"You sent them off to ground!"

"I did it, but it was your fault!"

"Shut up Derek and start sweeping!" Meredith told him into a serious and commanding tone turning around to check on her chicken.

"My oh my, aren't we bossy!" Derek walked over to her and hugged her back kissing again her neck. "You have no idea how much this turns me on!"

"I think I have an idea, now please don't start again!" She dropped a quick kiss on his lips and pushed him away.

Derek chuckled and with one last caress over her hair he returned to his mess.

"And clean the table too after that!" Meredith demanded him keeping her back on him.

"You have to stop with the bossing if you don't want me to jump on you right now!"

Meredith looked back at him and giggled.

Before getting the broom to pick up the pieces, Derek leaned on counter thinking on something.

"Don't dream Derek!" Meredith said seeing his dreaming face.

"I was thinking" he started into the same dreamy manner. "We had sex in our bedroom, now we had sex in kitchen… where next?"

Meredith rolled her eyes amused.

"I know…" Derek answered to his own question. "We still have to do it in the rest of the rooms, bathroom and shower, swimming pool, living room and… in closet!"

"In closet?!" Meredith burst into laugh. "Why there?"

"Yeah… you are right… it's strange in closet! But hey, we can try it in basement!" He smirked suggestively.

"God I moved in with a sexual obsessed."

Derek smiled and came again to her, this time just giving her a kiss on cheek. "Thank you Meredith!"

"What for?"

"For not leaving earlier!"

Meredith smiled brightly and kissed him back. "I am glad I didn't leave either."

Derek was staring at Meredith with an amused face, while he was washing the dishes.

Meredith was sitting up on counter, not very far from sink, digging deep into an ice cream box. Though she was much focused over her chocolate dessert, she could still feel Derek's stares.

"You will make that plate disappear from so much scrubbing!" Meredith said it keeping her entire attention over the ice cream and without looking at him.

Derek chuckled and put the plate aside taking after that the last pot. "I have never seen you with such an appetite so far!"

"It must be the cooking! It's exhausting!" She replied with the mouth full.

"Especially when you add some extra activity between its processes."

Meredith grinned and stuck the spoon back into the ice cream, taking it out full. "Here!" She handed it to Derek. "And stop drooling at my ice cream!"

"That's very generous of you!" He leaned to her and kissed her quick, taking then the entire spoon into his mouth.

"Don't make fun of me or I will move back with Alex."

"What, now you are going to threat me with this each time you are not satisfied?"

"Do you think it would work?" She grinned at him and took another spoon of ice cream.

"No! Now you are stuck with me. You won't be able to leave not even if I ask you to leave."

"I don't love this house that much, so it might be easy for me to leave."

"You don't love the house, but you do love me." Derek gave her a smirk and shut off the water. He moved away a little when Meredith hit him with her foot for what he said, and then he grabbed it and moved between her legs taking the ice cream and the spoon from her hands.

"Hey, that's my ice cream" She cried out and stretched her arm after her ice cream.

"Enough with this." Derek said and went to take it back to freezer.

"Derek, you can't deny me what to eat and how much I want to eat."

"Meredith, come!" Derek walked to exit and stopped looking back and giving her a hand to follow him.

"Where?"

"Into the soon-to-be our favorite room." he gave her a suggestive look and gestured her to come.

"I hope it will become our favorite room, because right now…"

"I know, I know; it's not your favorite and you hate the house entirely."

Meredith tried to look at him as if she was pissed off, but she did jump off from counter and walked over to him taking his hand.

Derek put an arm around her shoulders and brought her closer to him. Derek watched her smiling when she put the head down on his shoulder and wrapped the arms around him, walking like that out of the kitchen.

"I don't hate the house entirely!"

Derek looked confused at her mumble.

Meredith looked up at him smiling understanding the puzzle look he was giving her in that moment. "I don't hate the kitchen!" She cleared his confusion and put the head back down on his shoulder.

Derek smiled happy kissing her head and continued their way towards their bedroom.

Walking inside, Meredith turned on the lights and both remained there, at entry analyzing the room.

If the dark wooden floor and the white walls, together with the striped bed and the wooden floor's closet color during the daylight seemed fine to Derek, in that moment, all those were as depressing as they were ever since for Meredith.

"I can't believe we forgot the sheets!" Derek sighed looking over the big cold bed.

"We could go back to my house and take some from there." Meredith told him.

Derek looked at her and shook his head. "And then they will start making fun of us – of me."

"No, they won't"

"Come!" Derek took her hand and led her to bed. They took a seat on its edge and Derek put his arm, again, around Meredith. "You can use my arm as pillow; you use it often and you seem to love it."

Meredith looked up at Derek and smiled seeing him smiling; she kissed softly his lips and then she put the head back on his shoulder. "I would sleep on this floor too, only to sleep with you."

Derek smiled and put his other arm around her bringing her into a tight hug. "Thank you!"