TWELVE IIIIII
Motion Of The Ocean
Thursday
"I can't believe you are working today." Cristina said, as her and Meredith leant against the nurses station checking charts.
"Oh, pur-lease. Like you wouldn't do the same."
"Fine. Whatever. You and McDreamy have a ultrasound today right?"
Meredith looked at her watch. "Yep, 10 minutes time."
"So he's going to finally find out."
"Yep. I just hope he isn't too scared. I am."
"You can handle it." Cristina said as she pushed herself upright. She made a finally note on the chart before flicking it closed. "You're the McDreamy's" she said smirking before walking away.
Meredith led on the hospital bed, wincing as her OB/GYN spread gel onto her abdomen. Derek squeezed her hand and she looked up into his smiling face.
"I can't believe its taken you six months to make it to one of these. You better not be like it after the birth." she said.
"I said I was sorry. People just seemed to like smacking their heads on things when I was meant to come to these. I'm here now. And I promised I'll be there every time you need me after the birth." he said.
"Dr Grey, Dr Shepherd." The OB/GYN Dr Paterson got their attention, motioning towards the screen.
Paterson and Meredith exchanged a conspiring look which Derek who was gazing at the screen missed.
"Is that…?" Derek trailed off, squinting and tilting his head to the right. "Are those…?" he stuttered before looking at Meredith and breathlessly whispering "Twins?"
Meredith grinned, her eyes a sheen with tears. She nodded.
"We're having twins. Whoa! I love you Mer" he grinned kissing her.
Cristina dropped her tray onto the table next to Mer.
"Hey"
"Did you tell him?"
"Yep." Meredith answered, used to her friends brusqueness.
"And…"
"He was happy." Meredith grinned at her friend.
"Good. Otherwise I'd have kicked his ass."
"Kicked who's ass?" asked Burke as he and Derek walked up to join their table.
"McDreamys." Cristina said after waiting for the two surgeons to sit down.
Derek choked on the bite of his turkey sub. After recovering he asked "Why?"
"Babies."
"Ohhh" he said nodding.
"Babies?" asked Preston.
"We're having twins. Mer told me this morning at the ultrasound."
"Congratulations Derek." said Burke grinning and reaching out his hand for Derek to shake.
Cristina shook her head at the weird man bonding and turned to Meredith, voice low "So.. no-one knows right?"
"Right. Tomorrow is a go." she smiled.
"I'm staying at yours tonight right?"
"Yep. Derek, you and Preston will be alright with Luca and John right?"
"We'll be fine. Relax. I took the travel bed this morning, so all I have to do is pick him up later."
"You guys will have a fun stag night then" snorted Cristina.
"Oh yeah, cause ours will be so much more fun. There's me, you, Derek's mum, I can't drink. Wow. What a party!" Meredith snapped.
"Whoa." Cristina whirled round with a smirk. "Hormones!"
Meredith just glared at her friend, grateful for Izzie and George walking up to join them, forcing the wedding topic to be dropped.
Derek met his Dad in the entrance hall of the hospital.
"Hey, I thought you'd like to meet Meredith's Dad, Chief Webber. He's in his office with Mer."
"Sure" grinned John, following Derek up the stairs to the office.
The door was open and the two men walked in. Richard stood from his chair and walked towards Derek's father.
"Chief Webber!" John exclaimed.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Doctor Shepherd. Call me Richard." he said, reaching out his hand.
"You too. And please call me John. We're practically family." John said, shaking out the chiefs hand.
"I hear you've come to watch these too do the craniotomy. I haven't got anything scheduled so I thought I'd join you. I can do my charts whilst we watch."
The group moved towards the door, heading to the OR, "That would be great Richard."
After completing the surgery Meredith and Derek scrubbed out meeting their fathers in the hallway.
"Hey, great work son." said John grinning at the younger Shepherd.
"Thanks Dad." he turned to Meredith. "Do you want to go to post-op with him, any problems give him 10 of morphine and page me."
Meredith smiled. "See you later Dad and.. uh.. Dad." since Fiona had told her last night that she should call them Mum and Dad now she was family. Meredith grabbed the chart from Derek's hand and turned towards the lifts.
Meredith and Derek met at Joes with Cristina and Preston after work. It was the last time they'd see each other before the wedding the next day.
Cristina rolled her eyes as they said goodbye.
"I cant wait for tomorrow" Derek said gazing dreamily at Meredith.
"Me either" she whispered, pulling him down into a kiss.
When they finally parted, Cristina grabbed Merediths arm and pulled her away.
"McCheesy." she muttered, before dragging her out the door.
Preston watched his girlfriend drag her best friend away. The man next to him turned to him and said "How do you… She's.. scary."
Preston chuckled at Derek and said "I know."
Derek shook his head in amazement. Crazy crazy people he thought.
Meredith laid in bed, unable to sleep missing her two boys. She looked at her bedside clock and rolled onto her back, she stared at the ceiling and finally drifted off dreaming of the next day.
Derek looked in on his son one more time before laying down on Burke and Cristinas' guest bed. He flipped open his mobile and sent a quick text to Meredith before falling asleep with a contented smile on his face.
A/N: So.. They are having twins! How will they cope with that. lol. Next chap will be the wedding. Most prob posted tomorrow.
In regards to those who said that a trolley is a shopping cart.. well I'm sure it is.. if you are American.. but I'm not.. and in my world everyone uses English in the sense of English English.. thus.. a 'shopping cart' is a trolley.. a 'cell' is a 'mobile phone'.. 'sneakers' are 'trainers' and 'diaper' is a 'nappy'.. and of course an 'elevator' is a 'lift' lol..
If you don't get what a word or phrase means ask and I will hopefully explain it.
Enjoy this chance to discover the wonder of the English English Language.. :o)
Take Care all you crazy Yanks..!