thanks for the reviews...on the whole kids thing, didn't realise that some people would be happy with 3...yes, i'm a freak of nature who wants loads of kids when i'm older blushes severly...

The next day, Meredith was sitting in the cafeteria with Cristina and Izzie.

She opened her can of soda before saying, "Derek asked me if I wanted to have more kids last night"

Izzie smiled, "What did you say?!"

While Cristina snorted, "I hope you said no, I've had enough of your brats as it is"

"Brats?"

"Ok, fine, darling angels"

"I said Ok"

Izzie squealed, "That's great"

Cristina took a bite of her cookie, "So, you've basically just told us that you're having sex, which we, and the whole hospital, pretty much know anyway…in fact all you've told us is that now there's no protection involved"

Meredith hit Cristina, "Whatever"

XXX

2 weeks later

She was standing at the nurses' station, looking at a chart, when he wrapped his arms around her waist and started kissing her neck.

"Derek, I'm working"

"So? I can do this while you look at the chart…mmm, tumour in the frontal lobe…interesting"

"Seriously…stop hovering"

"I'm not hovering…this isn't hovering, if you want me to show you hovering, I'll take you to the on-call room"

"We're trying for a baby, we'll be having sex tonight at home, so you don't need to take me to the on-call room now"

He laughed, "If we're trying, we need to be having sex more than once a day"

"It's been two weeks since we've decided to have another baby and we've been having sex at least twice a day"

"So, doesn't mean we can't go for three"

"Well, not today" Meredith said decisively

Derek laughed, "Why not?"

"Because Mr Smith has a tumour that needs removing and preferably today"

"Doesn't mean we can't have sex beforehand"

"He's been prepped right now, I'm scrubbing in at 3…that's in 5 minutes"

"So, tell your interns you need 5 more minutes and we'll be done"

Meredith turned round to face Derek and raised her eyebrow, "Ten minutes?"

"Ten minutes"

"I don't believe you"

Just as Derek was about to tell her that he prove it, one of the interns ran up to the station, "Dr Shepherd…"

They both looked at him

"Dr Grey-Shepherd…Mr Smith's blood pressure is rising…he needs to go into the OR now"

Meredith ran off and Derek was left shaking his head, "You'll never know now" he called after her

XXX

They were sitting round the table, eating dinner, when Oliver asked, "Dad, can you come speak in class next week?"

Derek smiled, "About what?"

"About being a brain doctor"

"Brain surgeon" Meredith corrected

"Yeah, that"

"Why don't you want your mom to speak?"

"Cause you've been doing it longer" Olly said as he picked up some pieces of pasta with his fingers and ate them one by one

"Oh…sure…what day?"

"Friday"

Derek stood up and went into the hallway and came back with his pocket organiser, "Sorry, kid, Friday's no good"

Olly looked disappointed for a moment and then turned to his mother, "Can you do Friday?"

Meredith got her organiser from the kitchen counter and looked, "Sorry, I can't either"

Oliver put down his fork and stood up, "It's not fair!" he yelled, "You guys are never around-you suck!"

He ran upstairs and there was silence. Then Anna said, "I thought that we couldn't say that"

Meredith was washing up when she asked Derek, "I am a bad mother?"

He sighed, "No…neither of us are bad parents…we just have demanding jobs"

"So why do I feel like I'm being exactly the kind of mother mine was?"

"Olly's just pissed off that we can't do that school thing…give him a bit more time and he'll come down to apologise for yelling"

"But, Derek, he's kind of right…we are never around" She turned to face him

"We do the best we can" he stood up and put his arms on her shoulders, "And it's not like the kids don't reap the benefits…top schools, best toys, nice clothes…and we take holidays whenever we can…and you don't forget that once Olly was born we made sure we were around more…he's just angry that neither of us stay at home 24/7...most of his friends' moms are housewives"

"Yeah…I guess you're right" Meredith gave a small smile.

He put his hand under her chin and tipped it up to face her, kissing her lips gently.

"You are a great mother to our 3 kids and you'll be same with our next one"