A/N: So sorry it has been so long; I'm going to be honest with you here, I have been storming up new ideas for both of my stories (and in the process thought of an idea for a new story but I won't publish it until I have more chapters up of both this story and be with you), but I have also been binge watching Private Practice (and I love Addison now, but I feel like they could have given her a better ending **SPOILER if you haven't watched the series** I absolutely love her/ her relationship with Jake, but I feel like the writers could have given them a miracle baby rather than Naomi's pregnancy. But that's just me, and I had binge watched Grey's up to until the season 13 premiere (are we EVER going to hear Jo's side? Alex did a hell of a job to DeLuca's face—not even the semi destroyed Derek's face and that's saying something)…rant over.

Also, thank you for the reviews and those of you who checked in with me

Correction to content in the previous chapter: I'm basing the time off of the episodes, so Derek's accident was on April 25 and the following episodes had the first holiday as Easter (but Easter in 2015 was April 5th), so I'm having this story start at the accident which in my story happened in the middle of March, but the time in which Meredith got pregnant was 3 months prior so she got pregnant in late December making her due sometime in late September/early October.

Sorry for such a long authors note.

Chapter 5

It was honestly a shocking turn of events for Derek. He hadn't expected to get into a car accident that was so bad half of his car was practically gone; so bad to the point that he very well could have died. When he had told Meredith he wanted more, he meant it, but he hadn't expected it to have happened already. For a man who was in such an accident, Derek was still just as happy as the day Zola had arrived at Seattle Grace Mercy West for the first time. He and Meredith had beat the odds of her hostile uterus again, something he took great pride in for the both of them.

He was laying in bed the next morning staring at his sleeping wife. At a closer look of her, Derek realized just how much weight he had put on her shoulders. But she still looked just as good as the day he met her in Joe's bar all those years ago. The only sound that filled the room was Meredith's soft snores which he had grown accustomed to over the years, the sound now rather soothing to the neurosurgeon. After their talk the night before, the pair had decided to spend their day off by telling the kids—mainly Zola—about the new baby that would make its way into their family. He only hoped that the young girl would be happy about it.

Derek was about to attempt to sleep again only to be kept awake by the sounds of tiny footsteps making their way to the master bedroom. He didn't move an inch, but he did smile when Zola had tiptoed up to Meredith's face before poking her mother.

Zola wasn't big enough just yet to climb her way onto the bed, so the poking had to suffice for the time being. Meredith moved a little at the poke. She knew exactly who it was, and she could already picture the small smile that her daughter had on her face. It was something that had started when Derek had first left when Meredith left the kids on their bed so the bed wasn't empty throughout the night. Whenever Zola had wanted her mother to wake up, she would give her a gentle poke to the face near Meredith's nose. The blond was thankful the her daughter didn't try to squeeze her nose at the sound of her snoring, she would most definitely not appreciate that wake up, nor would she think it was cute like she did of the poking.

Finally giving into the persistent poking, Meredith smiled at her little girl. "Good morning, Zo. Where's Bailey?" Normally her daughter was accompanied by her little brother.

"He's sweeping, Mama." And Meredith knew what that meant. Princess tea party. Rolling over, Meredith looked at Derek who had the same smile on his face. He knew what their current situation meant as well.

Before she knew it, Meredith was being pulled by the arm, courtesy of her daughter with Derek laughing at her. As she was moving to get up, Meredith pulled Derek out of bed with her, mindful of his bruising. "You're not getting out of it just because you're injured, Derek. Everyone has to attend this party."

And that's how the morning was spent until Meredith heard Bailey waking up. They were getting closer and closer to the time of telling their kids about the baby brother or sister. Both she and Derek had agreed that after breakfast they would tell their kids about the growing family.

That is how they found themselves sitting on the couch; Zola was carefully sitting on Derek's lap after being told she had to be gentle because "Daddy has a lot of owies", while Bailey was sitting on Meredith's lap.

"Okay, Zo…Daddy and I have something really important to tell you," Meredith started out. She wasn't sure how to continue on so Derek began for her.

"Remember before Bailey was here, he was in Mommy's belly?"

The young girl nodded her head before giving her own innocent reply. "Mama got big, big, big."

Meredith was shocked by her daughter's words and was doing her best not to laugh. Her daughter had the filter of her Aunt Amelia.

"Yeah, I got big, big, big. Zo, there's another baby in Mommy's belly…"

The little girl sat on her father's lap with her mouth open a little. "My mama is gonna be all big again?"

This time, both of her parents couldn't help but laugh at their daughter. She definitely took after Amelia in the way she talks.

"Yeah, Zo. I am. But what Daddy and I need you to know is that soon there's going to be another baby in the house."

Zola nodded her head, somewhat understanding the situation. "I gonna have a sister? Can I have a sister, Mama. Bay isn't always fun."

"I don't know. Maybe. We'll have to see."

After telling the kids of the new arrival, Meredith and Derek decided to take advantage of the sunny day by taking the kids out on the land. Knowing that soon she wouldn't be able to spend all her free time with her grown up babies, Meredith was more than happy to chase around the land with her little boy who wanted to run around in the spacious 'yard' while Derek sat on the dock with Zola who wanted to use her rarely used pink fishing rod.

Meredith finally caught Bailey as he was making another lap around his mother and began tickling him. When she gave into the boy's pleas to stop, she looked up and a feeling of happiness flooded through her. Being able to see Derek fishing with their daughter sent a warm feeling to her heart. She was thankful that she still had her husband, that her children—all three of them—would be able to have their father around.

As if sensing his wife looking at him, Derek looked up from his spot on the dock and gave Meredith that McDreamy smile he saved just for her. At that, Meredith carried their son over toward the second half of her family and joined the father-daughter duo who were fishing, but nothing was taking the bait. With Bailey on her lap, Meredith grabbed Derek's free hand and held it tightly before looking at his face and giving him a small smile.

It seemed as though time outdoors had worn their kids out because Meredith had a sleeping Bailey leaned against her while she saw the look of drowsiness on Zola's face. That was when Meredith decided they should head back into the house for a little while. She had put Bailey in his crib upstairs while Derek setup the television for Zola to watch one of her movies.

It wasn't long after Meredith had walked down the stairs that Zola had fallen asleep during her movie. Both parents had picked the pillows off of the couch before moving their daughter closer to the back of the couch and surrounding her with pillows to prevent her from falling before they headed outside to sit on the deck.

"All those years ago, if you were to tell me that we would be married, living in this big house with two, almost three, kids, I would've called you crazy. I never saw it happening like this. It was like one minute I blinked and then we had Zola, and after suffering months of agony trying to get her back, we had her again. And I think that's when everything kind of hit me. I'm all grown up, no longer that tiny intern who was dating the married attending. We've all grown up. I mean…Cristina is running her own hospital, we own part of Grey-Sloan, Alex is…well, he's a changed man. Everything has changed. I mean I never thought I would have my own flesh and blood in my life, around me all the time. But then Lexie happened, and as much as I said I hated it—her—I never did, I liked the idea of being someone's older sister, the one they went to for help," Meredith continued on as memories of her time with Lexie flashed through her mind, "and then she's taken from me, and I had to be strong because Mark was dying, Cristina had PTSD, Arizona's leg was amputated, and you had your hand and nerves to worry about. I was never able to properly mourn her. And then Maggie shows up, yeah that pissed me off, but it worked out because she's great, and we get along better than I ever thought. And kids, I never thought it was going to happen, you know after the miscarriage? I never saw this happening, and then it did, and I was happy. I am happy. And if you had told me back then that this would have happened, I would have called you crazy, but I would have been wrong."

Derek sat there soaking in everything that Meredith had revealed. He knew pregnant Meredith was a very hormonal Meredith, so he was waiting for the emotions to arrive, and well, here they are. He nodded his head while holding Meredith's hand tightly. Derek had never realized how much everything affected his wife. And now was his time to make it up. "I never thought I wouldn't be married to Addison. Never would have guessed I'd meet a girl in the bar—the perfect girl in the bar. Everything was supposed to be different. But I wouldn't change any of that. But Mark is supposed to be here, we're supposed to be raising our kids together. That crash ruined everything. You know, Lexie would always come find me, you know after she found out about us, whenever she had something she wanted to know about you because you would shut her down. She always asked questions; Lexie was so excited to finally be a little sister, so to speak. When I would give her the answers, she got so happy that she finally had another piece of information on her sister, she was closer to solving the puzzle of Meredith Grey. Hell, she even came over and yelled at me when she found out about Rose. You really miss her, huh?"

Meredith nodded her head with tears running down her face, the lump in her throat made it impossible for her to talk. "I really miss her. She told me to go and find you…she was dying and she didn't want me to see her go. I hated myself for leaving her. And I know it sounds terrible, but there are times when I wish that Arizona, or even Cristina" Meredith continued but mumbled the second name, "there are times when I wish that one of them were the one under the wreckage. I'd have my sister, only she would have one less limb. It makes me so selfish, but it's the truth. But then I feel bad about that because one of them would be dead. She loved Zola so much, and I'm sure she would be head over heels with Bailey, and this new baby. It hurts to even think about it. I just hope that I'm not treating Maggie as if she's a replacement for the sister I lost. Because she's not. I love them both." Both Meredith and Derek were quiet for a few minutes before Meredith spoke up again. "I want this baby to have some tie to Lex. Middle name, a first name would be too hard to use all the time, especially when I even think of Lexie I start crying a little. So, a middle name. Alexandria, or even Lexie for a girl. Alexander for a boy. I think we should do that. I mean, Bailey is named after Miranda Bailey."

Derek nodded his head. "A tribute to Lexie. What if we have a boy and named him after Mark and Lexie?"

"Marcus Alexander…I like it. Now we need a first name for a girl. Well, it's never been that easy before."

Derek smirked at Meredith before replying in a teasing manner, "Sebastian Shepherd?"

Okay, so I apologize for 1) the really LONG wait, some stuff happened & 2) the mile long A/N up at the top. So, family time, MerDer time on the deck…I hope it was good. I teared up a little as a wrote about Lexie because I loved her character so freaking much! Also, I know hardly any of it is true, but my brain had an idea itself because that was NOT planned. I'd also like to note that I hardly watch season 11 because I cry during the last few episodes and always hearing the carousel never stops turning drives me CRAZY. Will post new updates ASAP I had them written, but decided against them...and also I can includeanything/suggestions from reviews as I edit.