Meredith spent the next three days going back and forth between Derek's hospital room and spending time with her kids. Mrs. Shepherd was very helpful at the house, making dinner for the kids and watching them when Meredith was with Derek. Zola and Bailey came in every day to visit their dad and color on his casts and read books with him. Once she went back to work she would check up on him between patients and surgeries. After two full weeks in the hospital Derek was finally being discharged.
"Here you go Dr. Shepherd everything's all signed and this is the prescription for your pain meds." "Thank you Dr. Bailey." Bailey smiles and walks out of Derek's room knowing that her good friend was going to make it. "Okay I have everything all ready for you and the car is out front, you ready to go?" Meredith had been fidgeting all day wanting to make sure Derek's homecoming was perfect. "Mer I'm fine. Just ready to get out of here and see the kids." "Okay" she responds with a smile. She knew that spending time as a patient was hard for her husband and that the past two weeks had been even longer for him than they had for her.
By the time they got home Mrs. Shepherd had already put the kids to sleep. "Thank you for watching the kids tonight ma." "I don't mind at all I love getting to spend time with my grandkids. I'll see you in the morning." She smiles at Derek and gives him a kiss on the cheek before giving Meredith's arm a squeeze. She and Meredith had been getting along since her arrival but she knew that Meredith wasn't the type of person to open up easily. "Lets get you to bed" Meredith says to Derek with a smile. "You know I have some ideas of what we can do instead of sleeping" Derek says with a smirk. "Derek!" Meredith responds in a slightly higher octave, a voice she uses only when mocking and chastising him at the same time. "How can you even be thinking about that right now?" "Because it's been two weeks since I've had sex with my really hot wife." "No" she replies while smiling and shaking her head at her husband.
"How's Derek doing?" "He's doing pretty well actually. He spends a lot of time with the kids now which is great, but I think they're going to be pretty upset when he comes back to work." Maggie looks at Meredith annoyingly and says "You're back to being one of those I'm so blessed people aren't you?" "Hahaha yes I am!" Meredith responds with a smile. "My life is pretty great right now. My kids are happy, my husband isn't dead and he's happy, and I'm happy. Feel free to eat lunch somewhere else if the pure happiness of my smile is blinding you." "Ha ha ha very funny." "I know" Meredith says with a smirk. They sit in silence for a few minutes just enjoying the few minutes of free time during their lunch break. "Do you know when he's coming back to work?" "His cast is coming off in two weeks and by then the bruises on his pelvic bones should be fully healed so if he's cleared then he'll be back." "That's great!" "Callie's been coming over to update him on their research project and he's getting back into it. I think this break is good for him, helps him adjust to really working under Amelia." "I thought he said it wasn't going to be a problem." "Well he's Derek, used to being number one or whatever so it's not so much a problem as an adjustment. And I think the fewer hours in the hospital will help with that." Meredith's pager goes off, "sorry gotta take this!"
Meredith and Derek are in bed kissing. Derek has a small cast on his right arm and Meredith still can't lean on him because of the pelvic bruising. It's about 10 o'clock at night and it's the first time since Derek was discharged that he's been awake when Meredith got home because of the pain meds.
"Mmm. So you can handle the kids tomorrow morning until the nanny arrives?" "Yes. And then I'll drive to the hospital in the afternoon for my physical" Derek responds between kisses. "I can push my surgery back until later in the morning if you need me." "Meredith I can handle the kids for an hour." Meredith gives him a look. "Seriously! Zola has been very helpful." "When did she grow up so fast?" "I know, she seems so mature and grown up all of a sudden." Meredith pauses and looks at Derek, "you know she's 4 right?" Derek smiles and kisses her. "I know. I just miss having her so little. She was such a cute baby." "I miss her baby smell." They just lay in bed for a minute looking at each other and thinking about baby Zola. "See this is why we need another one!" "Are you still serious about this?" "Yes! Are you seriously going to tell me you haven't been thinking about it?" "Oh I've been thinking about it" Meredith replies seriously but with a smile on her lips. "Really?" Derek says with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "Really" Meredith says happily.
"So Edwards what do you think we do next" Stephanie looks up confidently from the suction work she is doing and confidently says "we release the clamp to resume blood flow and check for any leaks." "Good. Release the clamp." Stephanie release the clamp and everyone in the OR watches, praying that there are no leaks. "No leaks Dr. Grey." Meredith look up from the patient and smiles behind her mask. "You can close Edwards." "Thank you Dr…. Dr. Grey are you all right?" "What time is it?" "Its uhh 8:15 why?" "Dammit" Meredith replies. "Someone get me a bucket and take my mask off." "Dr. Grey?" says Stephanie as she looks at Meredith in confusion. "Get me a bucket and take. my. mask. off. NOW." A nurse rushes over to Meredith and puts a bucket in front of her face while another nurse removes her surgical mask. As soon as the top string of her mask is pulled off Meredith leans over and throws up into the bucket. No one in the OR says anything, but the older nurses and the anesthesiologist look away to give her some privacy. "This OR is Vegas. What happened just now does not get out to anyone. Is that understood?" Meredith looks up at Stephanie and glares at her. "Yes Dr. Grey." "You can go ahead and close Edwards." Meredith slowly walks out of the OR with a nurse following behind her.
Alex is standing at the nurses station by the OR filling out patient charts when Meredith walks up behind him and grabs his arm. "I need a favor." "No, no more tequila. I have plans with Jo tonight and I think you've actually destroyed my liver." Meredith glares at him and gives him that disapproving look when he says something he shouldn't. "Not that kind of favor. Just come on." Meredith drags Alex into an exam room and jumps up on the table. She leans into him and says in a quiet voice "I need you to take my blood." Alex just looks at her for a second and replies "oh" and shrugs before grabbing a supplies basket from the counter. He sticks her with the needle and she grimaces but neither of them saying anything. Alex stands up to put her blood in a bag for the lab and suddenly looks Meredith up and down. "What?" "You think you're pregnant." Meredith looks shocked for a second and then starts stammering "what, I, uh, no I don't think, I just, you know, it's just, why would you even think that?" "Well your breath smells like vomit and since you never get sick I'm guessing morning sickness and when you spend enough time in peds you get this sixth sense about this kind of thing." Meredith gives him another look, this time more incredulous than condescending. "I'm telling you I just know." There's a long pause before Meredith takes a deep breath and says "fine I think I might be pregnant, happy? I've been throwing up at the same time every morning for the past week and the last time this happened Bailey popped out 9 months later." Alex just smiled down at his best friend. "I have to tell Christina now" Meredith says while scowling at him. "Why? She's on the other part of the world." "Because she'll kill me if she finds out that you knew before she did." "You two make no sense." Meredith just pulls her phone out of her scrubs and dials Christina's number and puts her on speaker. "Hey Mer what's up?" "I think I might be pregnant. Again." There's a long pause before Christina finally says "you think?" "Well I just had Alex take my blood so I can know for sure but I'm pretty positive. I'm only telling you because he guessed and I don't want to jinx it." "Evil spawn found out before me?" "Thirty seconds before you Yang don't get your panties in a twist." "See, this is why I called" Meredith said before glaring at Alex, while he just innocently shrugged his shoulders. "Wait why would you jinx it?" Meredith looked down sheepishly before saying "well last time I told one person before telling Derek there was a mass shooting and it turned out I have a hostile uterus." "Oh Mer telling someone before Derek doesn't mean" "I just want to cover my bases" Meredith says cutting Christina off. Alex looks at Meredith with sympathy and Christina waits a minute before saying "well let me know when you get the lab results back so I can figure out if I need to book a flight to come visit my next god-child." Meredith smiles a little and says "will do. Bye Christina talk to you later." "Bye Mer bye evil spawn." "Bye yang." Meredith hangs up and smiles sadly at Alex. "Come on let's get your blood to the lab. The sooner you know the sooner you can tell Shepherd."
Meredith stands in the doorway to Amelia's room in her dream house when Derek comes up from behind her and wraps his arms around her waist. "What are you doing?" Derek kisses Meredith on the head and she leans into his embrace. "Just thinking of how we can redecorate this room?" "Why would we need to redecorate? This is Amelia's room." "Well she's probably going to move in with Owen soon." Meredith turns around, kisses Derek quickly and walks around the corner to the kitchen. Derek stands on the other side of the island counter just looking at Meredith, knowing she has more to say. "I just think it's time we do something else with that room, something more kid friendly." "But the kids already have a playroom." "Yeah I know it's just….never mind I got you this" Meredith says as she pulls out a small box. Derek looks at her not understanding why he's being given a gift and Meredith says "just open it." Meredith fidgets with her hands while Derek slowly unwraps the little box. He takes the top off and just stares into the box for a minute before looking up at Meredith with a huge smile on his face. "Are you really?" He asks as if he's too excited/nervous to say it. "Yeah" Meredith replies with a huge smile on her face. "We're having another baby!" Derek exclaims as he walks over to Meredith and envelops her in a hug. "I know" she says with a huge smile on her face. They kiss passionately, each so in love with the other and so excited over the fact that they're having another baby. Meredith breaks the kiss first and looks up at Derek. "I'm only three weeks so it's still early and" "Meredith stop worrying everything will be perfect" Derek said cutting her off and kissing her again. Meredith laughed and for the first time in weeks she felt truly happy.
