Hi :)

This was meant to be a one-shot, but somehow I wrote this chapter and I am planing to write more. As I told you, I have made some changes into my universe of Grey's Anatomy, so don't be surprised. Also I saw last Grey's episode and started to cry when Meredith said - You stood over my dying husband... and this is my FAVORITE scene at the moment.

And I am so sorry if there are some grammar or spelling mistakes, because English is not my native language.


Meredith was walking around their land with her children. Twins, who were five, were running before her, Bailey, who was two, was walking next to his mother and pointing at everything around him, and little Ellis, who was three months old, was sleeping in her stroller.

Meredith loved walking around their land. Before Derek's death they all every Sunday walked around the land. That was their little tradition since Meredith had got pregnant with twins.

"Mommy, look!"

"Yes, Bailey, there is a waterfall." She smiled. Bailey was too smart for his age, but that was nothing new to her. The twins also were in his age. She still remembers how they used to talk all the time while other kids were only learning how to do it. It was a Shepherd thing.


"Daddy, what is this?" Asked two years old Chris.

"It's a salmon, son." Derek proudly answered. He was holding it in his hands.

Derek had gone fish flying early that morning and the twins wanted to see him, so she took them to him.

"What is salmon?" Asked Matt. He was Derek's little clone. Chris also were, as they are identical twins, but he got Meredith's green eyes while Matt got Derek's blue.

"It's a fish, Matt." Meredith answered. She was feeling proud. Her little boys were too smart for their age, but soon they won't be her little boys anymore.

"Are you alright, Mer?" Derek asked Meredith. She looked at him and saw his worried face. She smiled and toke a step closer to kiss him.

"Never been better, Der." She smiled and kissed him. She wanted to remember this moment forever and enyoy it, because in a few months there will be no peace.

"Der?"

"Yes."

She looked into his eyes and smiled before she said their news to him. Meredith knew how much he wanted it and this was a perfect time for it.

"I'm pregnant."


This was the place where she had told him about Bailey. She still remembers his big smile and happy laughs. She remembers how he took her in his arms and kissed with love. She remembers him saying ´I love you'. She remembers everything.


"I, Derek Christopher Shepherd, take you, Meredith Grey, to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life." He said and smiled.

"I, Meredith Grey, take you, Derek Christopher Shepherd, to be my husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life." She said and smiled.

"By the power vested in me by the State of Washington, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride."

And he kissed her.

She was his and he was hers.

She was his wife.

He was her husband.

And they were made for each other.


Derek promised to love her all of his life and he had kept his promise. He had loved her until his last breath. He had promised her love and happiness.

He had promised her family and home and she got it. She had four beautiful children and two dogs, who all were running around together. He had built her a dream house on his land.

She had everything he had promised. She had everything, exept one thing. She didn't have him…


It was ten in the evening and the kids were sleeping. Her sister-in-law had come home two hours ago and had gone straight to bed, leaving Meredith the only one awake. She went to the living room and sat down on the sofa, taking an old photo album with her.

The old Meredith would have taken a bottle of tekila and drank it, drinking her pain away, but the new Meredith – a widow and a single mother of four won't do it. She haven't had a drink since Derek's death and lowkey she was feeling proud of it. She needed to be there for her children and Amelia. They didn't need to see her drunk and crying her ass out. She was strong and kept her promise not to drink.

Suddenly she heard someone coming down from upstairs. It was Amelia.

"Hi," She said. Amelia's red hair was in mess. She had dyed them last night, because Owen broke her heart. They were together for a few months until he decided to take a break. Amelia was upset about it and decided to make changes in her appereance. She cut her hair to shoulder length and dyied them red. The colour was close to Addison's - Derek's ex wife's hair colour. She had seen her only in pictures.

Under Amelia's eyes were bags and she was still wearing her work clothes. She smiled to Meredith before went to the kitchen and started to make a coffee for herself.

"Do you wanna some?"

"No, thank you."

After ten minutes Amelia came and sat next to Meredith. She saw Meredith looking at the photo album. "What is this?"

"A photo album."

"I can see it, Mer." Amelia rolled her eyes. "Whose - ?"

"Derek's." Meredith looked at her siser in law and saw her suprised features.

"I have never seen it before."

Meredith smiled before putting it on a coffee table next to her. She turned to Amelia. "Because it was made here, in Seattle." Meredith looked outside where her dogs were running around. Max and Doc prefered to live outside. It was a miracle if they both slept inside the house for a whole night.

"When he moved here… He wanted to have a fresh start. Forget about Addison and Mark, about your family who hated his decision to move here and work under Richard. He was tired of New York and his fancy life."

"He didn't belong there." Amelia said.

"Yes… When he first came here… he started taking pictures of everything. His land, his trailer, ferryboats. Everything. And then - "

"You came."

Meredith nodded. "He started to take pictures of me, of us. Soon there were too many pictures of everything that he decided to make a photo album of us." Meredith took it again and showed her the first page of it. There was a photo of them. She was laughing and he was kissing her cheek. They both were lying in a grass on his land, which now was hers.

Below it was written:

You were like coming up for fresh air.

It's like I was drowning and you saved me.

Thank you for everything!

Eternally Yours,

Derek.

"It was his present to me in our first anniversary."

"It's beautiful!" Amelia said. "Can I see it?"

Meredith gave the photo album to Amelia, but then heard Doc's barking. Meredith slowly got up and went to get him, but when she opened a the door, she saw an unfamiliar man. He was tall, most likely in his late thirties. He had grey eyes and light brown hair, who were made in a man bun.

He spoke the first. "Hello! My name is detective Luke Green, and I am sorry for coming here this late. I'm here to find Meredith Shepherd, the wife of Derek Shepherd."

"You are talking to her." Meredith answered.

"Can we talk inside?"

"Yes, of course." She moved from the door and let him in.

"Mer, who is there?" Asked Amelia, when she stood up and made her way to them. "Who are you?"

"Who are you?" He asked back and looked at the person on the other side of the room. Meredith saw their eyes meeting and smiled. "Maybe it was for the best," she taught. Amelia needed someone, who wasn't Owen. He make her cry for most nights and at the end broke her heart by getting back to Cristina – his ex-wife.

Amelia was starting to blush. Her eyes were shinning and so was detectives.

"I'm Amelia… Amelia Shepherd."

"Derek's sister?"

Amelia's eyes widened and she broke the eye contact. She took a step closer to Meredith and stood next to her. "Who are you?"

Luke took out a photo from his jackets pocket. "I came her to speak about him." He showed the photo and they finally saw it.

It was Derek, their Derek.