"Derek" Meredith shoved his hand smiling, but it was obvious for Derek that she was starting freaking out.

"Ok, so I have this idea." He started hesitantly which made Meredith even more nervous.

"I am officially freaking out now, Derek so you would better say it fast or at all." She warned him with a serious look.

Derek smiled widely and took her face in his hands for one more kiss. "It's not that bad."

"Oh so it is bad." Meredith stated pulling back from him.

"It's not bad, Mer." He smiled confidently. "I was thinking that it would be nice if we will invite Richard for dinner tonight."

Meredith remained quiet for a second and then the confusion crossed her face. "Why?"

"To see the new house… he is practically your father, Mer." He smiled tenderly at her. "Maybe like this he will agree more with our relationship. I can still feel his deadly glares when we meet in the ORs or on hallways."

"Derek" Meredith whined unhappy with his idea.

"Mer" Derek whined exactly like Meredith, copying her attitude.

Meredith giggled at his silly attitude and slapped him playfully. "Do we really have to?" She asked him hopeful.

Derek put his arms around her and brought her back to him. He smoothed her hair to back and kissed her softly. "We have to, because this is the right thing to do. Richard loves and I am sure that this is going to impress him." He tried a way to make her accept his idea. Meredith never doubted of Richard's feelings for her and she was also found of him and had a huge respect for the man who replaced her birth father. "Besides…" Derek continued. "I want my soon-to-be father-in-law to like me."

Now that was something that made Meredith turn white. She froze as he heard Derek's last statement. "Derek" She looked at him with stunned eyes and she could hardly find the energy to say his word.

Derek understood her fear, but he continued to smile lovingly at her. "I am not proposing you, Mer." Holding her in his arms, Derek felt her sighing relieved. He was a little disappointed by that, but he expected that reaction from her. "At least not yet." He whispered to her ear.

Meredith looked up at him and smiled. "Ok"

"Ok what?" Derek asked her confused. "Ok we can invite Richard to dinner? Or ok, I am going to ask you to marry me later?"

Meredith smiled at him. "Ok to both."

"Thank you!" Derek kissed her.

"Thank you!" Meredith kissed him back, thanking him for his patience. "We should invite Alex and Izzie too and the other guys. They haven't seen the new look of the house yet."

"Mer" Derek smiled at her. "Why are you so uncomfortable with the idea of having Richard with us?"

Meredith sighed. "He is… intimidating." She muttered as she looked down at her hands. "I am feeling great, Derek." She looked at him with smiling eyes. "I am happy and I don't want his lectures to ruin this."

"Meredith, he gave us so many lectures until now, do you think he still has more?" Derek asked her trying to make her feel more confident.

Meredith smiled and then she turned around on her seat. "I am hungry, Derek."

Derek smiled happy to see her caving and returned to his pancakes. "Eat your toast then." He teased her.

Meredith sniffed smiling and pushed the plate with toast away from her. "No more toast please!"

"Are you going to tell me how did you burn the scrambled eggs?" Derek asked her curios to find out how could she burn something that simple as scrambled eggs.

"No" Meredith answered simply and started playing with her cup of coffee.

"Then you should eat your toast." Derek was forcing her to confess.

"Ok" Meredith was not ready to give up, so she brought the plate back to her.

Derek rolled his eyes amused by her stubbornness and grabbed the plate from her. "It won't last long."

Meredith grinned proudly and stood up from her chair. She walked behind the counter where Derek was also, and took the dirty pan. "I will wash this in the meantime." She said.

In the next second, Derek grabbed the pan from her hand. "We will still need this pan, Mer!" He laughed making fun of her.

Meredith glared him and grabbing the pan back from him, she hit him with it without carrying too much about the food that would spear on his clothes.

Oil and some eggs landed on Derek's t-shirt. "Meredith" Derek yelled at her and grabbed a rag in the same time to clean his t-shirt.

Meredith froze with the pan in hand when she saw the mess that she had caused and stared at him like that for several seconds until she couldn't hold it anymore and burst into laugh.

Derek was mad of her only for a second, because when she was laughing, she was glowing and charming each time. "Are you finding this funny?"

Meredith held back the laugh and biting her bottom lip, she shook her head.

"This isn't funny, Meredith!" Derek warned her laughing and made a giant step towards her.

When she saw his threatening move, Meredith threw the pan in sink and quickly ran on the other side of the counter.

"You'd better stop running, Meredith because I am going to catch you anyway." Derek made a smaller step towards her getting to a side of counter.

"Derek, don't you dare to touch me. Go and shower!" Meredith giggled keeping a large space between them.

"After you dirtied my clothes with whatever you tried to cook there, are you expecting me to leave just like that without sharing some with your clothes too?" He chuckled and took another small step towards her.

"Derek" Meredith giggled, begging him this time. "Please!"

"So you are begging me, huh?" Derek chuckled and made another step forward with a smirk imprinted on his face.

"Derek" Meredith laughed with a pleading voice and ran across the counter.

"Ok" Derek stopped. "If you don't want to come and hug me, then you won't get anything else for breakfast besides your toast. So what's your choice: a hug and pancakes or toast?"

"Toast" Meredith giggled and gave him the answer right away.

"Really?" Derek could not believe that she had just refused his pancakes only not get her clothes dirty.

"Go and take a shower, Derek!" She urged him. "I can make myself pancakes."

At her statement, Derek looked at her frightened. "Meredith, we just got a new kitchen, so please sit down on table and stay still." He warned her very serious as he walked out of kitchen. "You will get in big trouble if you do anything, Meredith! I mean it!" Derek shot her another serious look.

Meredith giggled and rolled her eyes amused.

"Meredith" Derek called her again to be serious.

Meredith rolled her eyes again and set down on a chair at table to calm Derek down and make him leave from there already.

Derek nodded content to see her obedient and left the kitchen to shower. Right after Derek was out of her sight and she was sure that he reached to stairs, Meredith stood up and walked over to sink.

Derek walked out of their bedroom and pleasant smell filled his nostrils. At first, he was confused not recognizing it; but when his stomach started growling he knew what it was. He started running downstairs and from there straight to kitchen. When he walked inside, Derek froze. Meredith was flipping pancakes from one side to another and the kitchen around her looked exactly how he had left it. "Meredith?" Derek could not believe how she hadn't burned the kitchen yet, especially after she had tried to prepare some simple eggs earlier.

"See?" Meredith smirked at him. "You should apologize."

Derek chuckled as he walked over to her and stopping behind her, he looked over her shoulder and then at the pancakes she had already made. "What have you done?"

"Breakfast, Derek." Meredith replied with a giggle.

"That's … impressive." Derek admitted impressed with her always-surprising cooking skills.

"Thank you!" Meredith smiled proudly at him and came on tiptoes to reach for a kiss from him.

Derek put an arm around her waist and kissed her. "Now you have to tell me how in the world did you burn those eggs?"

"Derek" Meredith cried out to leave her alone with that.

"Meredith, this was not the first time you cooked, so?"

"Fine" Meredith took the pan from oven and put it aside. She sighed as she turned around to face Derek. "I had just put the pan on oven, when Alex called me on my cell-phone. I picked it up and I took my eyes away from it for only a minute."

"Meredith, a minute is how much you need to make scrambled eggs and what was so important in your chat with Alex so that you couldn't make him wait?" At first he asked her amused and then he crossed his arms as he mentioned Alex.

"Well…" Meredith bitted her bottom lip and looked at him guilty.

"What?" Derek asked her curious.

"I didn't really want to stay home all day today, especially since we are going to be gone for the weekend and I am going to miss from work."

Derek leaned against the counter and shook his head smiling at her.

"But there is nothing interesting happening there, so I guess that I am going to stay home." Meredith added and at the end, she let out a disappointed sigh.

Derek grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her to him. He brought her into his arms and kissed her. "I don't have to be at hospital until noon, so let's eat and then we'll find a way to entertain ourselves."

"Ok" Meredith giggled and kissed him softly. "I made some delicious pancakes."

Derek chuckled and took her hand leading her to table. "I made those."

"What?" Meredith looked him hurt. Was he really assuming all the merits for their breakfast?

Derek smiled and rolled his eyes. "I mixed the ingredients… you put them on pan… our pancakes."

Meredith smiled satisfied. "That's much better!"

Derek held out the chair for her to sit down. "May I serve you?" He asked her leaned down to her ear.

"You may." Meredith turned her face to him having it an inch away from his and kissed him.

Derek kissed the top of her head and went to bring their breakfast.

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