40 Weeks
Hey! I am sorry, that it has been so long since I have updated. You have no idea how busy I am. I'm sure you don't want to know, but I have a tremendous homework load, and I'm in student council, 2 sports at the moment, plus keeping in touch with friends and family leaves little time to just write this. I know its weird coming from 3 chapters a night to less than one a day, But, I'm doing the best I can to make time. I'm just as curious as you are to find out what happens next, and I love coming home and having reviews in my mailbox!
A/N: I don't own Grey's Anatomy. Never have. Never will. No Addison. Don't like her. Haha. Also: I don't think any of you have asked this, but my friend Julie asked if I am going to finish the story, and I don't want anyone to think that this is going to be a project given up on, I fully intend to write through all 40 weeks, which is like, at least 31 more chapters, plus, its going to end up being more than that, because I am going to continue writing after the 40 weeks, what happens after that. Alrighty! Review
Week 9
George walked into the breakfast area of Meredith's house to find Derek asleep on the couch.
George was on a misson: To find his ipod. This shiny piece of music-holding goodness had gotten lost on one of his many tours from chair to chair to couch of the living room. He needed this ipod. This is what he used to work out, and what he hooked up in his car on the way to work.
George took a lap around the room, and what do you know.
Shining in all its glory was the ipod, under Derek's leg. Crap. George had two options. Risk getting the ipod and waking Derek, or leaving the ipod.
This could be complicated. George observed the ipod from many angles, as to figure out the best way to remove it.
Nudged under Derek's right leg, the ipod lay lonely. George didn't know whether to attempt to escape the ipod with his hands or with some other object. Silently, and breathing as quietly as possible, he moved forward. George grabbed the larger body of the ipod and removed it quickly.
Alas, the headphone was still stuck under Derek's shin. George wasn't sure how to proceed when Derek's eyes popped open.
"Hello George."
"Dr. Sheperd! Nice to see you. I was just…"
"Getting your Ipod?"
"Extactly."
Derek lifted his leg, freeing the headphone, and George grabbed it.
"Well, thank you Dr. Sheperd."
"George, how many times do I have to tell you, I'm engaged to one of your best friends. You are allowed to call me Derek outside the hospital."
"Hey guys." Meredith said walking into the living room still half-asleep.
"Meredith." Derek said.
"What were you two talking about?" Meredith said looking at Derek, wondering if he had told George yet.
"I was just getting my ipod." George said.
"Wait, George. We need to talk to you."
Derek looked at Meredith. "Now?" Derek laughed.
Meredith nodded and took a seat next to the now-sitting Derek.
"You cant move Meredith. We need you to stay in the house. You are our good friend."
"Who said I was moving?"
"Raj, in psych."
"Raj in psych? Raj still doesn't remember my name."
"You're not moving?"
"We're not moving."
"What else could it be? I mean your already engaged, oh my God."
"What?" Derek asked.
"You got kicked out of the internship program?"
"What?" Meredith laughed. "No, George, nothing like that."
"I cant think of anything else!" George complained.
"Well, you know the room in between yours and ours may become a nursery sometime in the next seven months." Derek said with a grin, and his arm around Meredith.
"Izzie's pregnant? IZZIE! COME HERE!"
"No, George. I am."
"You?"
"Me. We."
George started laughing. "You cant be pregnant. Cristina does that kind of thing, so does Izzie. You are 'Miss I'll never be a parent."
"Things change George."
"Well, congratulations!" George said giving Meredith a big hug.
Shaking hands with Derek, Izzie then walked in.
"What, George?"
"Oh, nothing. I just thought that you were pregnant."
Izzie laughed. "Meredith told you?"
"You knew?"
"For like, a month."
"And, neither of you three bothered to tell me? Who else knows?"
Meredith cringed. "We were just waiting for the right time-"
"Who else knows?" George interrupted.
"Bailey, the Chief, Derek's sister Sara, Cristina and Izzie, and Burke. That's it."
"And the baby's doctor." Derek added. "But that's it."
"And you didn't tell me? I'm George."
"George, I really am sorry, it wasn't planned…"
"I live here! I live here!"
"George, please."
George took a deep breath. "Fine, Derek, I thought one of you would tell me. I do live here and have a right to know these kinds of things."
"Im sorry." Derek and Meredith said in unison.
George sat down by Meredith.
"So, how far along are you?" He said with a smile.
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Meredith walked into the study of her home. She was thirsty, and there was one of those Water Coolers in that room.
Nearing the door, she heard tapping. Who was up this late?
Opening the door slowly, she shed light on Derek.
"Derek?"
"Hey Mer." Derek said turning around and opening his arms to envelope her into a hug.
"What are you doing, its 2am."
"I know, I was just looking up some baby stuff on the Internet. Do you know that since you are nine weeks pregnant, our little guy is the size of a grape?"
Meredith sat down in his lap. "No, I had no idea. What else have you learned Mr. Baby Doctor?"
"Well, we did a good thing telling the chief early on, it says here that your workplace is considered stressful, so not the best place for the baby."
"Oh, that's good to know. Have you already picked out names?" Meredith giggled.
"No, I was thinking that we should do that together."
Meredith cracked up and leaned her head on his shoulder. "you are really into this, aren't you?"
"Yeah. I am. You wanna know why?"
Meredith gave him a curious look. "Enlighten me."
"Well, I have had a lot of girlfriends in the past, but I've never felt like this. I've never loved so deeply that I have wanted to make it my life, and get married, and now I'm going to do the one thing I never thought I would, have a baby. Babies, have always been one of those, sure, they're cute, I'll operate, but have one? I don't know. But with you, its different. You make me think that we can do this."
Meredith smiled and gave him a kiss. "I want to do this too. Where were those names?" Meredith laughed.
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Derek and Meredith lay in bed before work. Meredith was sound asleep, lying on her back so not to "Smush the baby" as Derek put it. She knew that that couldn't happen, but he was so worried that she did it just for his sake.
Derek lay awake looking at how beautiful she looked as the morning light lit up her hair. Her tanktop was coming up over her belly, and he looked at the smooth, barely there bump. Although it was very little, he could definitely tell a difference from her usual extremely flat stomach.
Derek's first instinct was to reach out and touch her stomach, but he hesitated in waking her up. Finally, he reached out and lay his hand on it. Derek whispered slowly to the belly making sure that Meredith was still comfortably sleeping.
"Hey baby. This is Daddy. Well, I hope that will be what you call me. My name is Derek, and I hope you will just call me daddy. Dad is okay, too. Just do me a favor and don't call me pop. That's what you can call your granddad. He doesn't know about you yet, but he is going to be thrilled. Your mommy is a surgical intern. That means that she is under a lot of stress to save peoples lives. I would appreciate it if you weren't too hard on her, these next couple months. Your mommy is training to be a surgeon, just like me. We do a lot of things, we help people who may die, if we don't fix whats wrong with them. It's a great job, but we are really going to cut back once you get here, because we don't want you to grow up without a family. Your mommy and I are very excited about you finally getting here, even though it is going to be a long time. You have a lot of people who really love you. You will have four aunts and two grandparents and lots and lots of cousins. And your mommy and I love you more than the world."
Derek kissed Meredith's forehead, and went out to make coffee for himself, and decaf for Meredith before she woke up.
What Derek didn't see was the tear of joy tricking down Meredith's cheek, or her eyes opening and rubbing her belly gently.
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