AN: I tried to update yesterday but the website wouldn't let me. Happy 4th of July!

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Chapter 7

"Mer, where's the Muesli?" Derek called to Meredith who was in the trailer's bedroom.

"It's in the cabinet where it always is." Meredith told him securing the necklace he had bought her for the anniversary of their first shift and surgery together. A few months had passed and Meredith had been staying at the trailer more and more often. It was now fall and Meredith just happened to be wearing Derek's favorite t-shirt of hers. Yes, you guessed it, the old ratty Dartmouth one with the holes in it.

They had just gotten back from their morning walk with Rocky. All Meredith could hear was the cabinet doors opening and closing. Derek wasn't looking for his usual breakfast cereal, he was trying to get her to hurry up and sit at the table with him. Meredith laughed. He was always bugging her about eating a proper breakfast. Lone gone were the days of leftover grilled cheese and cold pizza. Now in its place were cereal, pancakes, waffles, and pretty much any other breakfast item you could think of.

"Oh, Meredith, I still can't find it." Derek said in a singsong voice.

"Let me just change my shirt and I will be right out to help you find the cereal." Meredith told him laughing.

"Hurry up; I wouldn't want you to have to skip breakfast like you used to." Meredith could hear the smile in his voice. He knew how much it annoyed her to no end when he talked about how breakfast was the most important meal of the day. She was a doctor, she knew all about how breakfast in the morning started your metabolism and blah blah blah.

Meredith walked out of the tiny bedroom and walked into the itty-bitty kitchen and without even looking grabbed the box of Muesli and set it down on the table which was already equipped with the proper tools and accoutrements for the morning meal.

"What's that?" Derek asked pointing to the small, thin object in Meredith's hands.

"What, you've never seen an iPod?" Meredith asked putting one ear bud headphone in her ear and the other in his.

"It's our song!" Derek exclaimed. He had gotten a little more excited since he and Meredith had gotten back together.

"I downloaded it just for you." Meredith told him smiling as Tainted Love by the Clash played on.

"Thanks, Mer." Derek said kissing her passionately. The Clash was temporarily forgotten for the moment.

Meredith came up for air. "Come on, let's eat, we can continue this at work." Meredith smiled mischievously.

"You know Meredith Grey; you are a very bad influence on me." Derek told her smiling that McDreamy smile of his. "Be a bad influence on me tonight at Joe's." Derek suggested.

"I can't, I have to go visit my mother. The woman from the nursing home keeps calling me and telling me that my mother has been very lucid lately. Then tomorrow afternoon we have surgeries until late at night so we can't do it tomorrow either." Meredith replied.

"We could go visit your mother together right after Joe's." Derek suggested. "I think she might want to meet me."

"And, why is that?" Meredith asked grinning.

"You'll just have to wait and see." Derek told her smiling. He got up and kissed her on the forehead on the way to put his bowl in the sink.

"Oh, alright, I'll think about it. It depends on how my day goes." Meredith told him sighing jokingly.

"Good." Derek told her bluntly. A few minutes later they jumped into Derek's Mercedes and drove to the dock where the ferries were docked. It was now their usual mode of transportation to get to the hospital.

"Hey guys," Meredith said acknowledging her fellow interns. Soon they would be residents.

"Hey Mer," They all said in unison. Izzie had finally returned to her old self, making brownies and cupcakes once more. She had decided that she hadn't really loved Denny as much as she thought. She had only loved the thought of someone loving her. Now she had Alex.

"How's McDreamy this morning?" Izzie asked.

"He's good," Meredith told them changing into her scrubs.

"You know who I saw looking for you yesterday, Mer?" George asked. He and Callie were still together. They spent more and more time together.

"No, who?" Meredith asked looking confused. Yesterday had been her and Derek's day off.

"Finn, he came by and he's like 'George, where's Meredith?' and I was like 'I don't know, around somewhere.' Then he rode on the elevator for about 3 hours and then he finally left." George explained.

"He just does not understand that Derek and I are together now." Meredith said angrily putting her hair up into a pony tail.

"The McVet just doesn't know when to quit." Cristina said. She was sitting there tying and retying her shoes.

"Cristina, are you alright? You keep tying and untying your shoes." Meredith noticed.

"My mother is coming to town, she wants to properly meet Burke, and she wants him to meet my step-father." Cristina said miserably.

"Oh, is that all?" Izzie asked laughing.

"Yes, and it's a really big deal. Burke will finally know what kind of crazy family I grew up in." Cristina sighed. "Come on, we don't want Bailey to scold us for being late." They all got up and grabbed their respective coffee cups, only a few more days and they would be residents with their own interns.

"You're all set Mrs. Fisher; one of the other doctors will be in here to discharge you." Meredith told a young neuro-patient.

"Thank you Dr. Grey." Mrs. Fisher thanked Meredith.

"No problem," Meredith told her walking out of the room. She crashed right into the person they had been talking about earlier. Derek that is.

"Hey Mer, how is your day going so far?" Derek asked kissing her forehead.

"The going to Joe's option is looking brighter." Meredith smiled.

"Good, I'll see you at lunch." Derek told her walking away.

"I love you Derek." Meredith whisper shouted down the hall. She couldn't make too many whispered proclamations in the halls; the whole special treatment thing would come up again. It would be okay, just this once, though.

"I love you too." Derek told her.

They didn't get to see each other at lunch as it turns out. Each group of interns was called into Richard Webber's office sometime or another. It just so happens that Meredith's group was called during their lunch. "Okay, I know you are all probably wondering why you are here. Well, we are now offering fellowships. A fellowship is when each resident gets to pick the specialty of their choice and spend a year learning the ropes to that area. We are offering neuro with Dr. Shepherd, cardio-thoracic with Dr. Burke, general surgery with Dr. Bailey who is now one of the newest attendings, plastic surgery with Dr. Lionel, neonatal with Dr. Jane, and orthopedics with Dr. Torres. There are other options for the other interns but I believe that you will do great things with these specially picked doctors. Now, I'll be taking names for whatever specialty you want to enter." Dr. Webber told them.

"I would like neuro," Meredith offered.

"Great, who wants to go next?" Richard Webber asked.

"I want cardio-thoracic with Burke." Cristina told him. George chose orthopedics, Izzie chose neonatal, and Alex chose plastic surgery.

"Great, then it's all settled. Get back to work." Dr. Webber told them.

"Did you hear?" Meredith asked excitedly.

"Maybe, tell me." Derek said clearly something was on his mind.

"I'm going to be in your fellowship." Meredith told him smiling.

Derek smiled quickly and then that smile disappeared just as quickly as it came. Meredith swallowed loudly. The last time he had done that Addison had showed up. "Derek, what's wrong?"

"You're mom is here, she's in a coma."

AN: DUN DUN DUN! I wish I could get out of this 4th of July party so I could continue writing but my mom won't let me. GRR.

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