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"Hi baby, aren't you a cutie pie!" Amelia said bouncing Scout as she waited for Link. After her conversation with Addison in the early morning, she had decided to introduce Scout and Link to Derek.
A few minutes later Link came downstairs and they headed off to the hospital. As they approached Derek's room, they saw Meredith herding the children out to get them to school before she started work. It was a tradition she had started, taking the children to eat breakfast with Derek and it was giving them a small sense of normalcy.
Amelia and Link waved to Meredith before Amelia entered Derek's room.
"Hey DerBear! So, there are a couple people here I want you to meet if that is ok with you?"
"Bring them in" he replied with a smile. Happy to see the strength of the woman she had become. He knew she was scared to introduce him to her son and partner but she had come to do it anyways showing the immense growth she had gone through.
"Derek, this is my son Scout Derek Shepherd Lincoln and my partner Atticus Lincoln. Link, this is my brother Derek!"
"Derek, lovely to have a chance to meet you, I have heard so many great things about you from all your friends and family here." Link said with a wide smile on his face.
Derek reached up to hug him before responding "it is so great to finally meet you. Meredith has told me how good you have been to Amelia and my kids. It is so amazing to put a face to the name."
Amelia smiled seeing how well Derek had accepted Link before turning to hand Scout over to her brother.
"Hi Scout, I'm your uncle Derek. I'm also the father of your cousins Zola, Bailey and Ellis. They are the ones you live with. You have a lot of other cousins but they live on the other side of the country."
Derek rocked Scout as he talked, enraptured by how small his nephew was. He teared up thinking about how he never got to see Ellis this small. Seeing Derek's tears Amelia got worried, "I know you may think it was irresponsible for me to become a parent and rash for me to have scout when I hadn't been with Link for particularly long but I love both of them and they make me so happy…"
"Amelia! I love scout and Link seems great. I'm just so in awe of how small he is. Amelia you have a beautiful son and I can already see you are an incredible mother. Never doubt that. And if you ever get worried remember that, from what I hear, you have plenty of practice parenting my kids." Derek finished with a small laugh, still staring at his perfect, beautiful, tiny, nephew.
Amelia let out the breath she had been holding in and relaxed as Link put his arm around her waist. They stayed like that, glued together, watching Derek interact with his nephew.