Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten

Author Note: Meredith in the beginning of this story Meredith was a fellow, but now she's an attending.

Meredith hands shook as she picked up the white stick. Two pale pink lines appeared inside the window. Her heart speeding up as she felt her world change drastically. She was pregnant, and if her math was right in about seven months she would be having a baby. A smile crossed her face as she imagined a little boy with his father black hair, or a little girl with big blue eyes. A hand landed on her still flat stomach there was a baby growing inside of her.

It had been seven months since she met Derek's mother. And four since she and Derek said there wedding vows, on their wide land. Less then thirteen weeks since they had first decided to start trying for a baby. And five days since the contractors broke the ground for their house. It wasn't the greatest time for her to be pregnant.

But right at that moment none of it seemed to matter.

"Mer?" She jumped as she heard the gentle knock on the bathroom door, "You okay in there."

"I'm fine." Meredith told him clearing her throat, "I'll be out in a minute." She answered wrapping her pregnancy test in a piece of tissue. She opened the door with a wide smile, "Hi!" She said once she reached him to kiss him.

"Hey." He told her putting his arms around her, and one hand pushing back her hair, "You look happy."

"I am." She told him putting her head down on his shoulder.

"You planning on telling me what got you so happy?" She shook her head, "Okay." He told her with a smile and kissed her forehead, "You'll have to tell me eventually."

"Yeah," She said pulling away from him, "I thought that you would be still out with Mark?" She questioned going to seat on there bed.

"Mark met some girl at the bar. I figured I could be home with my wife."

"I'm glad I rate so high up on your list." She told him as she sat down beside her.

"Beside I figured I could catch the end of the game."

"The game?" She questioned unbuttoning her shirt, "Are you sure about that?" She asked him straddling his lap.

"It can wait…" Derek told her laughing as she leaned in to kiss him.

Meredith looked above her at the all white ceiling, as Alex turned on the ultrasound.

"Tell me you didn't make a chart?" Meredith begged her friend. The last thing she wanted was her impending motherhood getting out before she could tell Derek.

"No I didn't make a chart." Alex told her with a sigh, "I can't believe you talked me into this. When the chief finds out about this tell him I didn't look at anything."

"Alex he won't care." She told him with a smile, "Besides he'll be to excited about the baby."

"Okay." Alex said putting cool jelly on her belly, "Theirs your baby." He said with a smile, "Your about 12 weeks along. So you should be scheduling a regular exam sometime soon." He looked at her for a second. A smile on her face and tears in her eyes as she watched her baby.

"Yeah." She told him her voice husky with emotion.

"I'll be right back." He said as she wiped her tears away.

"Come in." Derek said as he heard the knock on his office door. He looked up and smiled as his wife walked in. Wife he loved the way that sounded in his ear. After his divorce last year he wasn't sure if he would ever be ready to marry again. Meredith changed all that. Meredith had become everything, "Hey I thought you were in surgery?"

"I gave it to Dr. Muller." She told him, "I had an appointment that I needed to keep."

"An appointment?" He questioned her, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." The smile was back on her face, "I think will both be fine and exhausted in about seven months."

"Seven months?" He said putting a hand on her stomach, "Your pregnant…" He asked her a smile crossing his face. She pulled out the ultrasound picture.

"You got an ultrasound?" He said looking at the picture.

"I wanted to be sure. I took a home-test, but it could have been wrong. I asked Alex for a exam and…"

"Your pregnant." He repeated.

"So your happy?"

"Mer." He told her smiling again and picking her up and swinging her around. Meredith was still laughing as he put her down, "Let's go meet our baby."

Seven Months Later….

Meredith sat beside Derek in the passenger seat of his SUV. A hand on her growing belly, and her eyes covered by a blindfold.

"I can't believe your actually doing this. I can't believe you're the guy that blindfolds his pregnant wife." She told him biting her lip.

"It's for a good cause." He told her taking her other hand and kissing it gentle, "Trust me a little."

"Okay." Meredith sighed, "I'm trusting you."

"That's all I'm asking." He said as he turned off the highway. The trees were in full bloom, and the birds were flying welcoming in the spring. He came to a stop in front of a house. A large home with great big windows that Meredith had always wanted. A banner was wrapped around the columns welcoming them home.

"We've stopped." She told him.

"Yes." He answered watching her hand reach for the door, "Let me open the door for you." He said opening his own, "Here we are." He said placing her in front of the house,

"Surprise!" He said as he took of the blindfold.

"Oh my god!" She said, "It's the house. I thought that they said…"

"I had them tell a little white lie." He said as he took her hand, "I paid them a little extra to finish before the baby came."

"You really are McDreamy." She told him as tears filled her eyes and she brushed them away. He led her inside of the house, "It's so amazing."

"Surprise!" She jumped as she looked in her living room that was filled with their friends and families.

"Mom! Dad!" She said walking over to hug him, "I thought you'd still be in Asia."

"We were. Then Margaret called us to tell us about the baby shower." Ellis said hugging her tightly, "This house is amazing."

"Yes it is. I'll show you around after I greet everyone."

"We'll be here." Richard told her kissing her forehead.

"So are you excited?" Ellis asked her daughter as they stopped at the nursery.

"Yeah." Meredith said with a smile as her fingers danced over the brand new crib her mother bought, "Scared out of my mind, but excited."

"The day you where born." Her mother started with a small smile, "They put this tiny, red, infant in my arms. I was certain I was going to mess it up." She laughed, "And then you started crying and I knew what you needed. I knew that I could do it."

Meredith looked at her mother for a second.

"I can do this." She said after a while.

"You can do this." Ellis said taking her hand and squeezing it gently, "You and Derek are going to be wonderful parents."

"Thank you mommy." Meredith told her hugging her tightly.

Meredith smiled with tears shinning in her eyes as they put her daughter in her arms. Her eyes were big and blue with tuffs of black sticking out. She was tiny and the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her life.

"Hi little girl." She said her voice thick, "I'm so happy to meet you." She said kissing the top of her head.

"She's beautiful." Derek told her running his hand up and down the baby's cheek, "I love you so much Mer."

"I love you to Derek." She told him sitting up in her bed a little, "Do you want to hold her?"

"Yes." He said holding his daughter. Her little head snuggling into the crook of her fathers neck.

"Daddy's little girl." Meredith said with a smile, "She already has you wrapped around her finger." Derek kissed the top of her head her tiny hand wrapped around his finger.

"She's perfect Meredith." He told her looking at her.

"Except…"

"Except Meredith she's an angel."

"She doesn't have a name Der."

"A name…" He sighed walking with the baby to the window, "You don't think Baby Girl Shepherd has a nice ring to it?"

"I think she'll get more then her fair share of teasing."

"Annabelle?" He suddenly said.

"Annabelle Grace Grey-Shepherd." Meredith suggested.

"Is that your name?" He asked her, "Annabelle Grace Grey-Shepherd."

She cooed a little.

"Let's hope that wasn't just gas." Meredith said once Derek came back over to her with the Annabelle, "She's going to have a great life. Right?"

"She's going to have an amazing life Mer." He said putting Annabelle back in the arms of her mother, "Were all going to have an amazing life Meredith."

The End

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