Hi all, I did not forget about any of the stories I have going on, however, I will tell you what has kept me from posting/writing.

I discovered the show Charmed on Netflix and binge watched my way through it.

I re-watched all seven seasons on Gilmore Girls.

Netflix released the Gilmore Girls revival.

I've been searching through the Gilmore Girls fan fiction Luke/Lorelai filter for days looking for story that I wanted to read, but I couldn't find it. (Any GG fans out there? If so maybe you could help. The story is about how Emily made Lorelai give Rory up for adoption and once she did, she moved to Stars Hollow and never talked. She wrote everything on a chalkboard or whiteboard or something like that until she started speaking again…I wish I had a better recollection of the story, but that is all I can remember of it.)

Lauren Graham released a new book, so I spent a whole day reading that, which leads up to the most current event, her book signing in NY.

Anyhow, on with the story…

He was gone and Meredith knew it. She could tell just by the absence of his car. And he didn't even bother saying goodbye to his children. Typical Derek, Meredith thought. As she opened the door, she led her children into the house hoping that Zola wouldn't notice Derek's absence and ask questions that Meredith had no answer to.

Luck was in her favor when Zola ran straight for the table so she could wait for the pizza they had picked up on the way home. Meredith placed the pizza on the kitchen counter before sitting Bailey in his booster seat they used so he could eat at the table. Once she had served her kids their dinner, she quickly made an excuse and went to check her bedroom.

Just like before, there was a tie laying on the floor that must have fallen in Derek's haste to pack, two hangers were on the floor of the closet, and a few drawers were left open. Meredith was having deja vu, the only difference this time is that she is pregnant. She just couldn't believe that he would just up and leave his family behind a second time, especially given what happened the last time he left. Sighing, Meredith returned to her children who were just about finished dinner and looked like they were ready to fall asleep at the table.

Meredith had decided that she would just give the kids their baths in the morning considering she had already decided she wasn't going into work, so just helped her children into their respective beds, which would only last a few hours before they woke up after re-energizing and joining Meredith in the 'big bed' as Zola once referred to it.

If this were a few years ago, Meredith would have called Cristina so she could bitch about Derek and his recent actions, but ever since her person had left for Zurich, they had hardly spoken; she didn't even know about Derek's leaving earlier in the year along with the accident he had found himself in. But now, things had changed and Alex was her go-to person. Cristina had been pushed behind while Alex became the first person she thought of when she needed a friend, he became her person the minute Cristina had left for good.

"Derek left," Meredith spoke into the phone before Alex could even ask why she was calling.

"Want me to kick his ass?"

Meredith gave a small smile as she remembered the conversation she once had with Alex in the bathroom, back when Derek had first brought up kids and Izzie filed for divorce. "I just need someone to talk to."

"I'll bring the alcohol," Alex said before remembering that she was pregnant and couldn't drink beer or tequila. "I'm gonna need it," he recovered quickly before Meredith could even respond to the first part of his response.

"Then I will see you when you get here."

She still couldn't believe that Derek had just up and left. And he didn't even bother to call her to let her know that he had made it to D.C safely. For the next hour, Meredith sat in the same spot of the couch waiting for Alex to arrive. She wasn't surprised when she heard the door opening and Alex walked in; Amelia was on call that night.

Amelia. The next person on her list who she probably had to tell about Derek's leaving. And boy is she going to be pissed. Before Meredith could think about Amelia any further, she felt Alex sit down on the opposite end of the couch.

"So…he just left?" Alex asked as he opened a bottle of beer.

Meredith nodded. "He didn't even tell me. I just came home to find him gone. It's like he didn't even care about the fact that we're not having one baby, we're having two."

Before she could go any further, Alex interrupted her, "Shep got you pregnant with twins?"

"Oh, yeah. There's two of them. One of each apparently. And it's like he doesn't even care because I come home from work to find him gone. At least a week's worth of clothes, maybe more because you know Derek, everything has to be perfect, even his quitting the D.C job. He didn't even say bye to the kids. That's not like him. Okay, so he did it the first time he went to D.C too, but other than that? Never has he left without a word to anyone. He's just so frustrating sometimes."

"At least you know he'll be back this time. We had no idea if or when he was coming back that last time," Alex offered in reassurance.

"Exactly! And we still have no idea because the last time, he could have ended up dead. What if he's actually dead this time? Then what? I'm left all alone to raise four kids, Alex, four. How is that fair? I could barely do it with Zola and Bailey, but now we're adding two more into the mix."

"You could always go out there," Alex suggested as he interrupted what he knew was going to be a long rant on Derek leaving.

"And do what with my kids?"

"Well, you could take them with you this time; maybe you'll actually make it to the airport this time. Can't do much jumping in your underwear with two kids with you," Alex said as he reminded her of the last time she had attempted to go to D.C.

And so, that is how Meredith Grey found herself standing in the middle of Sea-Tac with her two children after checking her bags into the airline that night. She was making the effort this time…again; for real this time. She only hoped that it would end up as a win for the Grey-Shepherd family and not a lose.

Next chapter is going to come later today hopefully. I know this is super short, but I didn't want to overlap what happens in the next chapter, this was like a filler to introduce whats going to happened. I wrote this when I was babysitting over the weekend and had no wifi. I'm also working on each of the other stories as well