AN: Hey guys! I know it has been a long time! i was stuck on this chapter even though i have some idea where i want the story to go. So i finally got it finished today! I have some more chapters writting already just needs some adjustments and finishing touches. I hope you still enjoy the story :)
Chapter 11 Ferryboat
It was Monday afternoon after class I was walking down the stairs of the university when I saw Derek waiting for me on the street. He has been calling me since I ran out on Saturday morning but with my mother in town and dropping the bomb on me of her taking a job at NYU Medical, I just didn't feel like talking to anybody at all. It feels like she is taking over my life all over again. I know she wants to be there for Liam I am just not sure how I feel about it.
Just for a second I hope he doesn't see me but he looks up and smiles his dreamy smile at me, eyes are sparkling. I feel my knees weakening already. He pulls me in for a hug. "Hi." He whispers in my ear. "I have been trying to call you al weekend. Are you avoiding me?" He goes on still holding me close. "No, I have not been avoiding you, just been busy with my mom and stuff." He pulls back a little bit and tries to look me in the eye but I stare at the ground because I know that when I look into his eyes he will see right trough me. "Meredith, are you oke?" he asks I can hear the concern in his voice. "I am fine, Derek." I say trying to sound convincing. "Than why can't you look at me." He says and my head shuts up. "I am fine." I say pleading silently with me eyes for him to let it go. "Right oke, I was wondering if you have time for me to show you something." He says but I know he will come back to it later. "I was actually on my way to pick up Liam and spent some time with him. My mother was hogging him all weekend." I say. "He can come along as well I won't mind." Derek chimes in. "Derek." I sigh. "To early?" He says and I just knot. He looks a bit disappointed but doesn't press on it. "I just want to spent some time with you." He says. "Derek, I know that. I am just not ready for you to meet him but I have some time tomorrow, Liam goes to his grandma for the day so I don't have to leave him in daycare." I say hoping he will understand. "I have to work tomorrow." He sighs. "Crap, that sucks." I say feeling guilty. "I have an early class on Wednesday so we can do something afterwards." I say hopeful. He looks happy again. "I can make that work." He says. "Do you want to walk with me?" I ask not wanting him to leave actually. "Yes sure, which way are we going?" He asks. I point in the right direction. He starts to walk but I reach for his hand and pull him close. "I am all for the hugging but I would love to have a proper greeting." I say with a smirk on my face. I lean forward and kiss him. I can feel him smiling. "Is that better?" he asks smirking when we are done. "Yes much better." I giggle. He grabs my hand and we start walking. My hands are fitting perfectly in his bigger ones. "I am sorry I didn't answer my phone. It is just that my mother was around and that didn't make things easier." I say. "I am not mad at you I was just worried, you left in such a hurry on Saturday morning and I wanted to know if you were alright." He says. "Did you do anything after I left?" I ask trying to change the subject again. "Well after you ran out on me, I had breakfast alone instead of with you.'' He says winking. "Derek, eating muesli is not something I would have enjoyed." I say trying to tease me. "Good thing I didn't eat muesli than I made blueberry pancakes with maple syrup." He says. "You are a health nut why are you eating pancakes for breakfast?" I ask surprised. "Mom used to make pancakes on Saturday morning, so I think is more like a habit. Every time I have off on Saturday I am making pancakes." He says laughing. "Well I am looking forward to have breakfast with you on a Saturday than." I wink at him. "After breakfast I prepared to go to work." He says. "Ugh work, did something interesting happen?" I ask. "I did actually, there was a bad car crash on the freeway so we where all assigned to the pitt there where multiple victims but I was a little distracted. And my chief resident noticed and put me on scut." He says letting out a laugh at the end. "Apparently you can be placed on scut even if you are not an intern anymore." He sighs. "Why were you distracted?" I ask and he is looking at me like I know already the answer to that question. "This happened on Sunday morning and you didn't answer my calls, I was worried." He says with a tiny smile. "Sorry." I just mumble. "Don't worry I learned my lesson, doing scut as an intern isn't fun but as a resident it really sucks I missed out on really good surgery." He says looking sad. "Oh Derek, I am really sorry I will answer my phone in the future." I say feeling really guilty at the moment. His sad face turns into a smirk and I say while hitting him on the arm: "You ass, you try to guilt trip me into picking up the phone next time you call." "Maybe, maybe not." He says smirking again. That earns him another slap. We reached to corner of the street. "The day care is over there." I say while pointing across the street. "Right, that is my cue to leave than. Have fun with Liam." He says while pulling me in for a hug and a kiss on my cheek. "I will and I will see you on Wednesday." I say while hugging him tight. "Bye Meredith." "Bye Derek." I say while he pulls away and I slowly let go of his hand. I wonder how long this is going to last. I know he is patient but I could see the disappointment in his eyes. I try to let it go. If he is worth it he will stick around.
I was lying on the couch on Tuesday night Liam against my chest sucking on his bottle. I was holding the bottle with one hand and I my other my biology book. I was reading out loud to him. Not that he understood a word I was saying but I needed to read the boring chapter for class tomorrow. But my mind get going to the fact that my mother was moving into town and taking a job at the hospital non the less where the man was working whom I was interested in. This was going to suck big time. I was lowering Liam's bottle without even noticing it. But instead of Liam making a fuss because he was not done yet. He pushed up the bottle with two hands. That snapped me from my thinking. "Good job, Liam" I cheered him on. I heard a soft giggle. I let go of the bottle completely and he was keeping it in place. I went back to reading. Liam was content after his bottle and snuggled deeper in to my chest. I was rubbing his back and I could see his eyelids getting heavier. "Sweet dreams, Liam" I say before his eyes fall completely shut. I finish my reading. It was getting harder and harder to keep up with my schoolwork with Liam being mobile and trying to spent time with Derek. Something had to change. And the only option was Derek meeting Liam and preferably before my mother started at the hospital. I needed to warn Derek because he was going to be working with her. I heard the beep from my phone it was a text message from Derek. "Are we still on for tomorrow?" it said. I heard a snore coming from Liam's chest. "Right buddy time to go to bed." I whispered. I tucked him in and I went into the kitchen to clean up dinner I was exhausted.
I was doing the dishes when my phone started ringing. Drying of my hands, I fished my phone out of my back pocket. The caller id said Derek.
"Hi" I said while balancing my phone in between my shoulder and my ear. "Hi, what are you up to?" Derek said. "Well I am washing my dishes at the moment so if you lose contact the phone fell in to the water." I say giggling. "Did you get my text?" Derek asks. "Yes I did get your text, I was busy getting my little one to bed and I was trying to catch up with my homework. But to answer your text I am looking forward to tomorrow. Where do you want to meet?" I say while I hear a sigh of relief on the other end of the phone. "I was thinking of meeting outside of the university and we will go from there. At what time does your class finish?" he asks. "12:30" I say as I hear is beeper going off. "Right see you at 12:30, I have to run an in coming trauma, have fun doing your dishes." He says while I hear him jogging down the hallway. "Go save a life Dr. Shepherd." I giggle into the phone.
"Hey Mer, are you coming to the library with to study?" George asks. We are walking out of the lecture hall. "Nope not today. I am meeting Derek." I say. "That is a shame I was hoping you could help me study with bio chem. I have the feeling I am drowning." George says defeated. I felt sorry for George. "If you bring over dinner tonight, we can study together." I say. "Great so will see you around 6:30 pm." George smiles again he gives me a hug. And then walks towards the library.
I walk down the steps and I see Derek leaning against his motorcycle. I saw him searching the steps. It was busy because everybody was on lunch break. I stand still for a moment watching him. I saw a couple of girls stopping and looking at his motorcycle trying to get his attention. I can bet they want a ride from him. I see one of the girls flirting with him. I don't like it at all. Derek says something while he keeps searching for me. He didn't even give the girls a look. When he catches my gaze. He flashes me a full-fledged Mcdreamy smile. When I reach the bottom he pushes away from his motorcycle, and pushes the girls a way. Pulls me in for a kiss and says: "Hi beautiful." My hands go automatically into his hair. Just to claim him as mine. When he pulls away he asks: "Do you wanna go for a ride." Gesturing at his bike. I just knot and Derek reaches out for the extra helmet and put it on my head, tightening the strap. He sat down on the motor and mention for me to sit behind him. I putt my arms around his middle resting my head against his shoulders. Just before Derek starts the engine I say to the girls with a smirk on my face, who were giving me a dirty look like I had stole their man candy away. "Sorry girls, he is already taken."
Derek drives towards the New York Harbour. He parks the motorcycle when he pulls of his helmet I whisper into his ear: "I have a thing for ferryboats." He turns his head around with a big smile on his face. "I have a thing for ferryboats too." He says. I step off the motorcycle and give him the helmet. He takes my hand and we walk towards the ferry terminal. He purchases two tickets. He leads me to the top deck. The sun is out but it is a little bit windy. I stand against the railing looking over the water, just for a moment I am thinking about Finn and Boston. It all fades away when Derek puts his arms around me resting his chin on my shoulder. "What are you thinking about?" He asks. "Just thinking of Boston." I say. "Do you miss Boston?" He asks. "No I don't miss Boston, everything was just so much easier in Boston, life was just less complicated. I was a normal teenager in high school. I just did my homework and went out with my friends. And now I am a mother of a little boy whom I am responsible for. Don't get me wrong I love him to pieces, but sometimes I wish I was still in high school. Do you miss high school?" I say. "No I don't miss high school." He says and I just stare over the water again. We just stand there for a moment. "You want to go back to being the pink haired girl?" Derek chuckles. "Maybe I will lose the pink hair." I say smiling. "I still can't believe I am going out with the pink haired girl from high school." He says grinning I turn around facing I hit him on the chest. "You were probably the jock and very popular" I say. Derek shakes his head. " In high school I was a 110 pounds, I had a large afro because I didn't figure out how the use hair products. I had acne and I wore a band uniform, I played the sax. So I was not a jock and not very popular." He says. "I can't believe I am going out with the band geek." I try to mock him. He fakes being hurt but then lowers his lips to mine. He mumbles: "We are quite the pair, aren't we?" I just respond to him with a kiss. When I pull back I hear the horn of the boat going off we are almost at the destination.
"Come on, let's go grab some lunch." Derek says and leads me off the ferry and we walk to a tiny café. We sit down and order. When the waiter brings us the coffee I ask Derek. "So when did the band geek turn into Mcdreamy?" I ask while I take a sip of my coffee. " After I survived high school I thought everything would get better. I still had the afro and I was still 110 pounds. The acne was a bit better. But still I was the geek and no girl wanted to go out with me. Mark was having the time of his life the first year of college while I was studying in the dorm. So the next summer I started working out and I figured out how to tame my afro. When the second year started I was a completely different Derek on the outside and nobody except mark recognised me." He says while giving me a little smile. I try to picture Derek with an afro and a little bit of acne. But I can't. "Do you have a picture by any change?" I ask. "No I haven't, it is in the past. My mother has loads of pictures tough, just to torture me when I take a girl home." He says and let's out a chuckle. "I can't wait to see those picture's." I giggle. Derek just rolls his eyes. " So why did you have pink hair in high school?" He asks with a smirk on his face. I giggle. "I just had pink hair because my mother hated it. She didn't give me much attention so I guess I just seeked her attention in the wrong way with pink hair and staying out late going to parties. I got home drunk one time thinking my mother was at the hospital but she was in the kitchen when I stumbled in because I couldn't walk straight anymore. I was in so much trouble that she made me come to the hospital for a month after school and on the weekend to do my homework and help the nurses with clean up. On a Saturday she made me come in with her at 4:30 in the morning she send me to the ER when she heard there were some very drunken girls they puked all over the ER and she made me clean it up. I was disgusted. I learned my lesson. I still went to parties I still drunk but not that much. And I made sure my mother didn't catch me." Derek was just looking at me. "How old were you?" He asks. I am looking down at my fingers I felt my cheeks redden. "Sixteen." I mumble. "I didn't have the best childhood." Derek takes my hand that causes me to look up at him. He is looking at me with is blue eyes. "You didn't have the best childhood but you turned out really great." He says. I feel my cheeks get red. "I am glad you figured out how to use hair products." I giggle. "Because I wouldn't want to date someone who looks a band geek." I say with a smirk on my face. Derek lets out a chuckle. "Come on let's go." Derek says when he paid. We walk back to the ferry.
It is not busy on the ferry at all. We sit on the upper deck. When the ferry leaves the dock Derek pulls me on to his lap. I lay my head in the crook of his neck. He wraps his arms around me. And he kisses the top of my head. We sit like this for a while. "Der." I say. "Hmm" I hear him say. "You don't mind the waiting?" I ask. "Waiting for what?" He says. I pull back a little so I can look at him. "To be intimate." I ask scared of the answer. "You are sitting on my lap, don't you think that is intimate." He says. "Derek, that is so not what I meant." I say hiding my face in his neck. "You are adorable." He says stroking my cheek. He puts his finger under my chin that forces me to look up at him and before I know it his lips cover mine. He sucks on my bottom lip. I open a little being surprised by his move. As I open my mouth I feel his tongue slip into my mouth. He kisses my gentle with no urge for anything else behind it. When he pulls away he says: "I am oke with waiting, we are doing this your pace remember." I see a reassuring smile on his face.