"Derek?" Meredith asked once their food had come.

"What are we? I mean, we aren't together, but, I can't hate you. So what are we?"

Derek looked at her with the "McDreamy look."

"Mere, I think we would qualify as more than just friends."

"I'll settle for friends." Meredith told him and rested her hands on her stomach. It had become a habit. Ever since the results came back positive.

Derek looked slightly hurt but soon recovered when Meredith laughed.

"You know, it's kind of funny. Christmas is usually the worst holiday for me but, right now it's not so bad.

"Yeah, it's not." Derek said happily and took a chance by taking her hand in his.

She let him hold it for a couple of seconds before pulling it away.

He smiled and began to eat his food.

Meredith seemed different to him somehow.

Not a bad different but a more happy, glowing different. Maybe she was moving on? Derek tried to push away his jealousy.

Maybe she was just happy?

How could she be though? She was hurt. Just last week he saw her crying in an exam room. He would have come in if Bailey hadn't yelled at him to leave her the hell alone.

"Meredith is there something...I don't know that happened?" Derek asked not expecting yes for an answer.

Meredith looked up and dropped her fork.

"How, how did, how did you know?" Meredith stuttered.

"I haven't told anyone. God Derek! Now what am I supposed to do?" Meredith buried her face in her hands.

"Mere. Well first you have to tell me what's wrong." Derek said as he walked over to her side of the table.

"Wait you didn't know!" Meredith asked frustrated with herself for blowing her cover.

"No but I know you well enough to know something is different."

"Well since you don't know can we please continue with our meal. I don't want to tell you." Meredith said and pushed him away from her.

He nodded sadly at her but before he got up he said, "Mere, you know you can talk to me right? Remember, we're friends."

"Derek I can't even talk to Christina about this. I can't talk to you."

"Is it that big?" Derek asked worried now.

"Derek, lets not ruin lunch." Meredith said. He smiled at her and played with a lock of her hair before getting up to sit down in his own chair.

Meredith arrived home around three. She told everyone that they were only friends staying in touch. Alex had to add, "Yeah touch." No one laughed but him.

"Christina can I talk to you?" Meredith asked and pulled her friend outside on the porch.

"If I tell you this, you have to promise not to tell anyone. No one. Not even Burke."

Christina just nodded.

"Im pregnant."

Christina's face was blank, she opened her mouth but nothing came out.

"God Mere, are you going to keep it?" She asked.

"Yeah I can't well you know. It's Derek's, I can't do that. But what will I do? I can't hide it forever."

There was a clatter down on the driveway and both Meredith and Christina looked down to see what it was.

"Crap." Meredith said

"Oop's" Christina replied.

"Meredith!" Derek shouted.

"I'm going inside." Christina told Meredith and left.

"Meredith!" Derek shouted again.

"Derek I..."

"Pregnant! Were you even going to tell me? God Mere! This is, Oh my God." Derek said angrily but smiling at the same time.

"Derek..." Meredith said as tears spilled down her face.

Derek calmed down instantly and walked upstairs to her. He pulled her close and she buried her face in his coat.

"What do I do?" Meredith asked him.

"Well first of all you should be laying down." Derek told her. He was beaming. This seemed to annoy Meredith a lot.

"Derek I don't know why you're taking this so lightly. This isn't a thing to be taken lightly! Go away Derek!" Meredith shouted at him.

"Meredith I'm not leaving!"

"Yes you are. You are getting in your car and going back to your wife. You are going to stay the hell away from me and love your wife Derek. You can't love me." Meredith told him tears spilling down her face.

"Meredith, I can love you. I'm in love with you. Please, I wont let you take this child's life away from me, I'm the father."

Derek said as he picked up the box he had dropped.

He walked back up to her and handed her the present.

It was a locket. On the inside were two pictured of them together. One by the ferryboats and one at his trailer outside by the lake.

"It's beautiful Derek." Meredith told him still staring at the pictures.

"What did you get your wife?"

She knew it was harsh, she hadn't meant to say it but she did.

"I'm getting her a divorce." Derek said, kissed Meredith on the cheek, and walked away.

Meredith stood there stunned.

A/N: Next chapter even more drama! Ha ha hope you enjoyed the story so far if you think it's okay please tell me I love reviews!