I planned to update a day or two after I posted chapter 3, but life hit me like a ton of bricks. Family problems.

I am no where near done with this story, however, I am drawing up plans on a new MerDer story taking place in season 5. Or one that starts before Meredith's internship...but I know that there are a lot of those out. Feel free to give your opinions (or ideas) in the reviews, I will gladly appreciate it, and I can begin writing out the plans as I continue to update this story.

Chapter 4

When Amelia arrived home, she saw Meredith's car in the driveway and sighed. She knew that Meredith being home meant that she was probably fighting with Derek over the phone, something she did not want to hear after the day that she had.

However, when she walked in, she saw her brother sitting on the couch holding hands with her sister-in-law. Amelia had shut the door just as Meredith was beginning to confess something to Derek, which was quickly ended when Amelia was noticed.

"You're home!" Derek said cheerfully.

Amelia stood behind the door still shocked at seeing her brother home. She definitely did not see his car outside. "I'm home," she confirmed before adding, "what the hell are you doing here? What happened to D.C.?" As soon as Amelia asked, she saw Meredith tighten are grip on Derek's hand. From that alone she knew some serious had happened.

"Well, there was an accident," Derek started, "it was on the shortcut that I took..."

"I told you there were no shortcuts," was Amelia's attempted joke, but she stopped the effort when she saw Meredith get up, leave the room and swiftly shut the bedroom door. "What happened, Derek?"

Derek looked at the door longingly, wanting to know what Meredith wanted to tell him before he turned back to his younger sister. "There was a semi truck that crashed into my car. I made it out with just a few scratches and bruised ribs. Bailey said I was fine, I just can't go to work for a few weeks."

Amelia was at a loss for words after Derek had gave a brief explanation of what had happened. She walked over to Derek and hug him tightly, mindful of his ribs. "I'm glad you're okay. Just...no more shortcuts. I can't lose another man that means everything to me."

While Amelia and Derek were in the living room, Meredith had retreated to their bedroom. Derek was giving Amelia details of what the day had held for him and she couldn't stand to hear it again, especially after living it. Today she could have lost her husband forever; her kids would no longer have their father around; their dream house in the woods would feel too big for just Meredith and the kids, and Amelia when she's home. She's not sure what she would even do if something had happened to Derek. All Meredith knew for sure was that she couldn't live without him, and she doesn't ever want to.

He wanted more with her, and she with him. Had they succeeded in making a baby that morning, that would be a child that never got to meet their father, and that was a heartbreaking revelation that Meredith never wanted to deal with. She couldn't imagine being a single mom of three kids.

She was so lost in her thoughts that Meredith hadn't even noticed that the bedroom door was opening. When Meredith looked up, she saw that Derek was making his way into the room. As she was sitting on the edge of the bed, Derek had joined her, taking her hand in his like they were in the living room.

Meredith could feel Derek staring at her with those McDreamy eyes and she knew she was going to break before he was even able to question her. "You were going to say something before Amy walked in. Would you like to tell me now?" She could hear the hope in his voice, so she turned to look at him.

Her eyes were shining, something Derek hadn't seen in quite a while, definitely before the whole D.C. incident. She was biting her lip in a way that indicated she was nervous, so Derek didn't know what to expect Meredith to say.

"This morning, you said you wanted more..." she started off.

"Hopefully we accomplished the more part," Derek said, wanting to add humor into what seemed to be a serious conversation.

"And I want it too," she continued as if he hadn't even interrupted. "I just...we...before I got worried today, before I knew that you were missing, I was thinking about this morning. And I had this patient today, and I just thought that...it's been...we had been fighting all the time and when you were home, we had angry sex...and, well...we accomplished 'more' a couple months ago, apparently," Meredith said, she hated that she rambled but she didn't know how to explain the situation to Derek. "There was just so much stress these past few months with all the fighting, being a super doctor by not losing any patients, raising Zola and Bailey alone, I just never realized...until I was in the attendings lounge thinking about this morning."

Derek looked at his wife shocked, and worried seeing as she just blurted everything out in one breath. "Breathe, Meredith," he said with a slight smile showing on his face. "We're having another baby?"

Meredith looked up at Derek and smiled, though still worried about said baby considering it had been around for a while without being noticed. Anything could be wrong. But Meredith was determined to get through this pregnancy without any negative thoughts like she did with Bailey. "We are having another baby," Meredith confirmed before Derek had her wrapped in his arms. It wasn't a tight hug because of his ribs, but they had managed. "I'm sorry there aren't any shirts this time around."

The rest of their night was short; both Meredith and Derek were tired out from the days events, Derek especially, but the rest of the night they were awake, they discussed their baby.

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Meredith was still paranoid the next morning, so she made an appointment with the OB in the hospital. She and Derek had dropped the kids off at daycare before they had made their way up to the third floor. The closer they got to the floor, the more anxious Meredith grew. Derek was comforting her, placing a comforting hand on her back.

When they were called back, Meredith sat up on the exam table ready for the doctor to walk in. Doctor Ryan smiled when she walked in at the sight of Meredith and Derek in the room again. She still felt bad about the last time she had seen Meredith-on an operating table in the middle of a super storm, just minutes before her patient would fade into unconsciousness. Connie had heard about it, but never asked about it, however, she made sure that she was always the one to close now.

"Welcome back, Doctor Grey, Doctor Shepherd. How are you feeling Meredith?"

Meredith looked at Derek before looking at Connie again. "I feel a lot better now that I'm getting checked out. I didn't even notice I was pregnant until yesterday."

"Any morning sickness, aches, cramps?"

Meredith shook her head. "None."

As Connie began looking over Meredith's vitals that had been taken by the nurse, and her weight gain, she asked the parents-to-be about their son. "And how is Bailey?" She had found out the name through hospital gossip. At first she thought it was strange to name a boy Bailey, but after hearing that he was named after the woman who saved his mother's life, Connie understood.

"Oh, he's great. Getting around everywhere," Meredith said with a smile on her face.

Doctor Ryan kept the small conversation up as she began to examine Meredith. "Okay, so by the looks of it, you're about three months along. As you know that means you have a lower risk of miscarriage. I'd say about you're going to have an early Christmas baby, as I like to call those who are born just two weeks before Christmas. Developing nicely. In a couple weeks time we'll be able to detect if there are any abnormalities, and if the baby isn't shy, the sex," Connie said as she printed out pictures of the scan. "Make an appointment for a month from now."

"Thank you, Connie," Derek said as they were escorted back to the waiting room. After making the next appointment, Meredith and Derek headed up to the attendings lounge.

"Bailey is going to flip if she sees you here, Derek. Seriously, go to your office and just stay there until I'm done my shift."

Putting on his scrub shirt with a little difficulty, Derek shook his head. "I'll just do consults. Besides, it's not like Amy is going to let me operate."

"Whatever, it's on you when you get caught. And you will; Bailey knows everything," Meredith said while shaking her head, a small smile on her face as the two left the lounge together. "I'm off at five. I'll meet you at the daycare because there is no way you're going to make it through this hospital with Zola pulling on your hand trying to drag you to the car, along with holding Bailey and their bags with those bruised ribs."

"Yes, mother. I'll see you later."

That evening, Derek was making dinner while Meredith put the scattered toys away. She made her way into the kitchen and went over to Derek. "What do we tell the kids. I mean, Bails probably won't even understand, but Zola...she'll understand. I know what to tell them, I just don't know how. The last time we had to do this, she was tiny and almost three, she couldn't really understand."

"We will sit Zola down, talk to her first. Let her see the scans, let her ask questions. And Bailey...well he can be there when we talk to Zola, but I think you're right, he won't really understand."

"Well maybe when I'm an elephant and he can actually see it he'll understand?" Meredith questioned, mainly to herself.

"Like I said, sit Zola down, have Bailey there. Let Zola ask whatever, we'll handle it as we go."

Like I said, I am super sorry about it being this late. Sick father and everything. I'm not sure how I feel about the quality of it. I began writing it when everything started happening and finished it as well. Just forgot to post it.

Any who, bring Cristina back? Yay or nay? And I am trying to make the updates longer, I really am, I just feel like it would be bad if they were long because it would probably be rambling.