Futures
The futures holds a lot of promise. A lot of sadness, happiness, faith...but above all Hope. It's the one thing we all seem to hold on to. Through everything hope is something we all have. So it as no surprise when Meredith gave birth to Derek's first child, that he would name her after the very thing he and Meredith share. It was hope that brought them together again. So when the black haired baby with piercing blue eyes was born. Derek named her Hope.
Hope was small for her age. She was born three weeks early on November 11.They are all not to much older then one another. Grace is way older by ten years. But then follows with Stephan. Just two months older then Lilly and Jason. Stephan born August 30th, Lilly and Jason October 5th. Then there is Ethan, nine months later in July the 26th. And since Meredith became pregnant while Izzie was between her 6th and 7th month mark of Pregnancy, Hope was born in November. She's the youngest of them all.
All of them they believe will be siblings together. They will go through everything together and will most liking, because surgeons blood runs thickly though their veins, will go to Medical school together. And Grace. Will lead them all. She's the oldest by at least ten years. She will help guide them on their way to greatness. When she looks at them she likes to guess their professions. She thinks Lilly will be a Pediatric Surgeon. Jason an Orthopaedic Surgeon like his mother. Stephan will follow in the Cardiac surgeons field like his parents. Ethan will be a plastic surgeon seeing as he loves to mold stuff with playdow. And No she doesn't think of inserting bigger boobs but trauma patients. (Gees guys). Hope, she's not so sure yet. She's only just been born. She knows that she herself will be in neurosurgery. Maybe Hope will follow suit.
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"She looks just like you Derek." Meredith says looking down at her beautiful bundle. Hope as a thick mass of black hair. Her eyes are closed and she is sleeping. Her tiny ineffectual fists clenched, one around Meredith's finger. Derek kisses Meredith's forehead and down at his daughter.
"Now we are a family. All I have to do it adopt Grace." He says. He's smoothing down Meredith's honey hair. She looks up at him and smiles. She's got everything she's ever wanted. Hope opens her tiny mouth and yawns. Meredith can smell that sweet scent of baby. One she remembers from when Grace was born. And she's so soft. She can't help but grace her fingers over her small fingers. She looks at her tiny nose and arms and legs and ears. She is just a tiny person. Brand new and untouched by life.
"She's so adorable." Grace walks in and touches her sisters hand gently. "And look at that hair." She looks at Derek and ruffles his. He laughs at her and brings her into a hug. They look back at Meredith an Hope. Hope opens her eyes. She's got those deep blue piercing eyes of Derek. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that this is his daughter. Hope looks at them all, curiousness setting in. She then closes her eyes once again and falls asleep.
"Come on kiddo, you mom needs her rest."Derek says to Grace. He kisses Meredith again on the forehead, places his hand gently on Hope's little head and leads Grace out of the room. They start walking down the hallway to the waiting room. No one was aloud to see Meredith yet and wont be able to since she is now sleeping.
They come up to everyone else. It's a mass of faces. Callie had finally come down half an hour after Meredith was brought in. The waiting room was full of strollers. Ethan was sleeping in Izzie's arms Alex wasn't there, he must have gone to get coffee for Izzie. Stephan was asleep in Christina's lap. Burke was holding Stephan's hand. Callie and George where sitting in seats next to each other. Jason was hanging over the side of his stroller with his head on George's lap. Lilly was awake. Derek stopped to look at the scene, it was comical and touching at the same time. He had all these friends, his Family.
George looked up to see Derek and Grace standing there, "How are they?" He asks./
"Sleeping, she's really tired." Grace says Grace walked over to Lilly and picked her up. She was the only one who didn't seem to be tired. Grace held her close to her. She treated her like she was her sister. She's been the only girl for a while. Grace treats them all like siblings. Now she has her own but will never stop treating any of them any different.
"Grace? Come over here for a minute, I want to talk to you." Derek said.
"Hold on dad," Yeah she's started calling him dad. It brings a smile to his face every time. Grace hands Lilly over to Callie and goes with Derek down the hall.
"I've been thinking. Now that we are a family now...and we have Hope...I want to adopt you, make you officially my daughter." Derek says. He's unsure of what her answer will be so he's nervous.
Grace hugs him tight, "that's the greatest idea." She says into his shirt. He hugs her tighter to him and smooths down her hair. He kisses her forehead after letting go and they head to the cafeteria.
Grace will now be a Shepherd. Even though her mother married him and took on his last name, she wasn't his daughter. So now she will be known as Grace Shepherd. It sounds nice to her. And her sister is Hope Shepherd. So many Shepherds.
Meredith didn't fall asleep right away she just laid there combing her fingers lightly through her new daughter's mass of hair. It's funny. People will look at the four of them and think that they all don't look the same. Because Grace looks just like Meredith, and Hope like Derek. No traces of the other parent. But that's what makes them, them. Because if you were to look at them, you'd know that they were a family. Looks down mean a thing. But if you do think about it. A lot of kids look like just one parent and still have the blood of the other parent in their veins. It's all how you process it.
Meredith smiles at the thought of all her friends and their kids. They are like her kids too. They all take care f each other and treat each others children like their own. It's one big happy Surgical family. There is no doubt in her mind that they will all grow up to be like their parents. Follow in the foot steps of greatness.
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First day of highschool. Stephan his rushing around his room trying to get ready when he hears the door open downstairs.. He quickly jumps into a pair of clean jeans and throws on a T-shirt. He then swings is knapsack over his shoulder and thumps down the stairs to see Lilly and Jason sitting at the table. His Father is placing a plate of pancakes in front of them.
"Don't forget me pops." he says a little out of breath as he sits down next to Jason.
"Hello you two." Christina says walking into the room. She's got a fresh pair of scrubs in her hand. Preston hands her a mug of coffee and kisses her good morning.
"Hey mom, early surgery?" Stephan asks through a mouthful of pancake.
"You bet." Christina ruffles his hair and sips her coffee. "I'll see you all later." She says leaving the room, she goes to open the door and Ethan runs in. "Ethan's here!" She yells before closing the door behind her.
"Hey man. And Lilly." Ethan says to the three of them. He throws his knapsack onto the floor beside him. He sits down a crossed from Jason. Preston gives him a plate and digs in.
"You parents couldn't come in?"
"Nope, Dad had a surgery and mom had to deliver a baby." Ethan gulps down his orange juice.
"Oh yeah, Meredith says Hope needs us to pick her up." Lilly remembers. She gets out of her chair and puts her plate in the dishwasher. Preston doesn't have to be in until noon and he guesses Derek and Meredith are busy.
"Uh huh." Jason says also remembering.
"Okay, finish up and we'll go get her." Grace is younger then all of them but is going into highschool with them. Derek and Meredith thought she'd want to go to school with them all at the same time so they put her into kindergarten early.
They all finish up breakfast and put on their knapsack's and head out the door. They drive to Hope's house. She's waiting on the porch when they pull up. She gets into the van next to Lilly in the back seat. The boys are in they way back..
"Nice outfit where'd you get it?" Lilly asks Hope when she sits down and buckles up.
"Kohls. Mom and I went shopping yesterday." Hope answers. Hope had her black hair down and straightened. She was wearing a cranberry long sleeved shirt. The sleeves drooping down longer then normal sleeves. They had a vine pattern on them. She wore a dark pair of blue flairs with the patter snaking up one pant leg. "Not so bad yourself." she then says, commenting on Lilly's choice of clothes.
"Thanks, JC Penny's." She smiles. Lilly is wearing a baby blue V-neck shirt with a white long sleeves shirt underneath. Her pants were blue jean flairs with a silver chain hanging from both side pockets. She was also wearing a black belt.
They pulled up to the highschool and everyone got out. Preston wished them al luck on their fist day as being freshman. He then left them there on the curb.
"Ready?" Jason asked, looking at them all.
"Ready." The other two boys said in unison. The girls looked at each other and giggled.
"Ready."
Later on that day Lilly and Hope are sitting down to lunch. They all have the same lunch and each of them has at least one class together. They were all afraid they'd be split up.
"Grace called me last night." Hope says happily.
"How is she?" Lilly asks. She take's a drink of her perpel water.
"Very good, she says she starts her internship tomorrow."
"For real?" Jason says. He sits down a crossed from his sister.
"Yep!"
"Seattle Grace I hope." Ethan sits down next to Jason as he says it.
"She said she wouldn't have it any other way." Hope bites into her salad.
"So she gets to help one of our parents with surgeries?" one of them asks her.
"Uh huh." She answers. Stephan finally shows up and sits down next to her.
"What are you guys talking about?" He asks.
"Hope was saying that Grace starts her Internship tomorrow." Lilly informs.
"Seriously?"
"Seriously." Hope answers with a laugh.
"Freaken awesome." Ethan puts in. They all laugh.
"That is going to be us someday." Jason says dreamily. They all go silent, dreaming about the day they go off the medical school, and then the day they become surgical interns at Seattle Grace Hospital. A dream not to far out of this world for any of them.
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Jason pulls up to a parking space and looks next to him and then to the back seat.
"Ready?" He asks. Lilly and Hope nod and they get out of the car. It's a sunny day in Seattle. So different from the usual rain. The three of them wait as two motor cycles drive up together and park next to the three of them. The helmets come off to reveal the handsome face's of Stephan and Ethan. They all smile at each other. Excited fr what the day will bring for them.
"You all ready?" Ethan asks them.
"I know I am," Stephan tucks his helmet under his arm. The girls nod. They all walk away from their cars and start walking. When they get to the entrance they all link arms and walk into Seattle Grace Hospital arm in arm.
They all take the elevator to the second floor and go into the locker room. They change into their light blue scrubs. They all like the feeling of them on their bare skin as they slide into them. These scrubs will be their new attire. They will be of new importance to them for the next year.
"Who've you go?" A guy asks from beside Hope. Lilly, Jason, Stephan and Ethan all pop their heads out from their lockers.
"Shepherd." The five of them say in unison.
"Really? I have Bailey." He says shutting his locker and walking away.
"Miranda Bailey's Bailey?" Lilly asks. Hope nods. They all shut there lockers almost at the same time and walk out of the locker room together. They don't know where to find their resident so Stephan asks a near by doctor.
"Do you know where we can find Dr. Shepherd?" He asks.
"Which one?" the doctor replies.
"The She-Shepherd." Ethan asks getting impatient.
"Again, which one." the doctor asks.
"The resident." Hope asks. The doctor points over his shoulder towards the nurses station All five heads turn. Standing there in all her glory, is Grace Shepherd.
THE END!
So, you can all guess what they all become. It's kind of obvious. I had so much fun writing this for all of you Grey's Anatomy fans! You guys are the best! Tell me what you think!
