A/N: I know, I know. I'm sorry. I really am. Honestly. Seriously. I'm really really deeply sorry. You don't have to believe me but I am. I never meant to go 2 months with out updating, seriously. If you don't believe me go ask Patrick Dempsey he'll tell you. I REALLY am sorry. So here is the chapter that I should have had up a long time ago.

Thanks for all the reviews from the last chapter, 2 months ago. GAH

"Good morning Meredith, how are you feeling?"

It was eight o'clock in the morning. Addison waddled into Meredith's room to check her stats. Meredith was thirty seven weeks pregnant, and could go into to labor any minute so Addison made it routine to check on her a few times a day.

"I've been having contractions for about an hour but they aren't very bad. I was waiting to have the nurses page you until they got really bad."

"You've only had them for an hour?" Addison asked.

Meredith nodded and placed her hand on her stomach when she felt another one.

"How far apart are they?"

"About five minutes." Meredith answered.

"That's very close Meredith. I'm going to check your cervix to see how far along you are okay?"

Meredith nodded as Addison placed a glove on her hand and sat at the foot of Meredith's bed.

After a few seconds Addison stood up and placed the rubber glove in the garbage.

"Are you sure that the contractions just started an hour ago?"

Meredith nodded her head. "Why?"

"Well, you're almost six centimeters dilated. If I didn't know better I would say that you were in labor all night."

"How is that possible? I didn't feel anything last night."

"It's possible. Now, have you and Derek talked about drugs?"

Meredith shook her head. "I don't think we did. This always seemed so far away but its here, now."

"Okay. Tell you what, I'll go page Derek and tell him to come to your room. While you guys talk this over I'll go check on my other patients and I'll be back in twenty minutes, okay?"

"Okay." Meredith smiled.

Addison walked out of Meredith's room and up to the nurses counter where she paged Derek. She then continued on her way to her check on her other patients. Half way there, Addison felt a sharp pain go through her body. She had never felt anything like it. She held onto the wall for support. Once the pain had gone, she continued walking, only to be hit with another pain a few minutes later.

Addison sat down on a chair outside of her patients room and clutched her stomach.

"It's too soon baby. You can't come out yet. It's too soon. Lexi, you can't come out. Not yet baby, not yet." Addison began to cry as she rubbed her hand over her stomach.

"Addie, are you okay?"

Addison looked up to see Derek standing over her. "No. I'm in labor, Derek. I'm in labor. I'm a month early, Derek."

Derek cupped his hands around Addison's face and wiped her tears away with his thumb.

"It's going to be okay, I promise. Now, stay here. I'll go get some help."

"Thank you Derek."

Derek slowly jogged over to the nurses station and drummed his fingers along the counter until a very annoyed nurse looked up at him.

"Yes Doctor Shepherd?"

"Addison…Dr. Montgomery is in labor. She's over there on the chair. Can you page an on call doctor?"

"Sure. I'll page him now. Why don't you take her over to room 302 and I'll send the doctor down there as soon as I can?"

Derek nodded his head and walked back over to Addie.

"They told me to bring you to room 302. They are paging the doctor now."

"Okay."

Derek helped Addison up and led her down the hall to a room that was only a few rooms down from Meredith.

Once Addison was situated in the bed, Derek pulled a chair up and sat down next to her.

"How far apart are the contractions Addie?"

"They were very close before but now they're spacing out."

"Good." Derek grabbed Addison's hand and kissed it. "I'll be by your side the whole time. I'm going to help you through this, okay?"

Addison nodded while she squeezed Derek's hand and was hit with another contraction.

Once the contraction pasted, Addison let go of Derek's hand and gave a slight smile.

"You know, I help women through this everyday. I deliver babies everyday. I know what labor is. I know what it should feel like, but never in a million years did I expect it to hurt this much."

Derek chuckled.

Just then Dr. Moore walked into the room.

"Hello Addison. It's good to see you."

Addison gave the doctor a weak smile.

"How far along are your contractions?"

Addison looked at Derek for an answer.

"I'd say about ten minutes." Derek supplied.

"I'm only thirty six weeks."

"I know. I'm very aware of that. I'm going to see if you're dilated and then we'll take it from there."

Addison nodded and grabbed a hold of Derek's hand.

"You're only three centimeters, which is good."

"Do you think you can stop the labor?" Derek asked.

"At this point…I can try but I don't know if it will do much good."

"Please try." Addison pleaded.

Dr. Moore nodded. "I'll go get the medicine."

xxxxxxxxMEREDITHxxxxxxxx

After waiting for Derek and Addison for an hour, Meredith called for her nurse.

The nurse didn't waste much time on getting to Meredith.

"Are you okay sweetie?"

Meredith shook her head, and finally started crying.

"Dr. Montgomery checked on me about an hour ago. She should have been back forty minutes ago with my…my…with Derek. She hasn't come back yet and my contractions are only three minutes apart."

The nurse got a look of panic on her face.

"Has your water broken yet?" She asked.

Just as Meredith was about to answer, she felt her clothes and the everything underneath her get wet.

"It just did."

"Okay…okay. I'll go page a doctor."

"Please get Derek."

The nurse (Anne) nodded and walked out of the room. A few minutes later Doctor Chan walked in with the nurse following her.

"Hello. My name is Doctor Chan, how are you today?"

"Not so good."

"I see that you are thirty seven weeks pregnant with twins."

Meredith nodded.

"You did an excellent job keeping these babies inside for so long."

Meredith tried to smile at that, but couldn't find it in her to do so. "Where's Dr. Montgomery?"

"She's in labor, Meredith."

"Oh."

"I'm going to check your cervix now okay?"

Meredith nodded and bit her lip as she was hit with another contraction.

"It hurts. It hurts. I NEED DEREK!"

Anne held on to Meredith's hand.

"Meredith, sweetie. I have tried several times to page Dr. Shepherd. He won't answer his pages. He canceled all of his operations for the day. I can't get in touch with him, I'm sorry."

At that moment in time Meredith's face fell and she began to cry even harder.

"I need him. I NEED him."

"Mere…"

"No. I am about to push two humans out of my body through a little hole. I am in pain. I was promised an epidural over an hour ago. My water has broken and all I am asking is for Derek to be here by my side. That is all I am asking! Now get me DEREK!"

Anne looked at Dr. Chan hoping he could help her out. He just shrugged his shoulders.

"Okay. Meredith, you are at eight centimeters. I think its time we move you down to labor and delivery."

"No. You can't do that. My babies can not come out unless Derek is standing right by my side."

"Okay, Anne I would like you go look for Dr. Shepherd. When you find him I would like you to bring him down to labor and delivery."

"Okay."

"Dr. Chan, can I still have my epidural?"

"Meredith, giving it to you now would be a waste. In less then two hours these babies will be here."

"So I shouldn't take it?"

"No, I don't think so."

"Can you maybe page my friend, Cristina Yang? If I can't have Derek, I'd like to have her with me."

Dr. Chan called another nurse into the room to get Meredith ready to move down to labor and delivery.

"I'll go page Dr. Yang and I'll meet you down there, okay?"

"Okay."

xxxxxxxADDISONxxxxxxx

It had been an hour since Dr. Moore had tried to stop Addison's labor, but he had not succeeded.

"Addison, we're going to have to proceed and deliver this baby today."

"Can't we wait a little longer? It's only been 60 minutes."

"Addison, your contractions are getting closer together instead of further apart as I'd like. You're going to deliver this baby today."

Addison nodded.

"Can I have drugs?"

"You know the rules, Addison. You can only have drugs after you have reached six centimeters."

Addison nodded again.

"I'm going to go check on my other patients now. I'll be back in about thirty minutes to check on you."

"Okay."

"Derek, you won't leave me right?"

Derek looked at Addison and took her hand in his once again. "No, I won't leave you. I will be here for you the whole time."

"I'm so scared Derek. She's four weeks early. What if there really is something wrong with her? I don't think I can deal with that."

"We'll deal with that together. We'll make it through this. As long as the baby is healthy that is all that matters. I don't care if she has a disorder or if she has a learning disability. All I care about is if she is healthy. If she can breathe on her own, and eat, and is not sickly that is all that matters to me."

Addison breathed in deeply. "I'm getting another contraction."

"Okay. Just breathe."

Derek began to breathe the way that he had learned in birthing class with Meredith, and Addison mimicked him.

"There you go. Contraction is over."

"Derek, I'm never having a baby ever again, okay?"

Derek smiled at this. "Okay Addie."

"I'm not and if I EVER talk about having another one you will stop me, got it?"

Derek nodded and decided to hold back his laughter for the time being.

xxxxxxMEREDITHxxxxxx

"Hey Mere."

Cristina walked into Meredith's room and plopped down on a chair.

"You paged me?"

"I'm in labor Cristina."

"What? Really?"

"Yes and they –ow- they…they…they. Can't. Find. Derek." Meredith's words were cut up as she tried to breathe through the contractions.

Cristina stood up and read Meredith's stats.

"Mere, your contractions are only two minutes apart."

"I know. The nurse went to get me a clean bed and then I'm going down to the delivery room and Derek isn't anywhere to be found."

Meredith started to cry again so Cristina went over and sat on the bed.

"You might not want to get any closer. My water broke all over the bed."

Cristina stood right back up and brought the chair that she had previously occupied over to Meredith's bed.

"Listen Mere, we will find Derek. He will be here before you have these babies."

"Oh God, here comes another one."

"Breathe Mere."

"I'm trying to!" Meredith yelled.

"Okay…"

"I just want these babies out of me. I am so uncomfortable."

"How many centimeters are you?"

"The last time Dr. Chan checked I was at eight."

"Dr. Chan? What happened to Dr. Montgomery?" Cristina wondered.

"She's in labor."

"Do you know what room she's in?"

"No, why?"

"Maybe Derek is with her."

"No, no. If Derek was with her, she…oh God here comes another one." Meredith started to do her breathing exercises again. "She. She. She would have told him. She knows I'm in labor."

"Maybe she didn't tell him because she wanted him with her."

Before Meredith had a chance to answer the nurse walked into the room and made Meredith get into the other bed. She then wheeled her into the hallway and towards the delivery room.

"I'm going to go find where Addison's room is, okay?"

"NO! Don't leave me. Cristina, don't leave me."

"Okay. Okay. Um…" Cristina looked at the nurse. "Hi…I'm Meredith's person. I'm an intern here. So this is what you are going to do. You are going to leave Meredith with me. Then you will go back to the nurses station and find out what room Dr. Montgomery is in. When you find out the room number you will go there and tell Derek he needs to get down to the delivery room." Cristina said politely.

The nurse just stared at Cristina. "GO!"

Meredith giggled and the nurse ran off to find Derek.

As soon as Cristina got Meredith to the delivery room, Dr. Chan was there waiting for her.

"Okay Meredith, I'm going to check to see how far dilated you are again. Once you get to ten we will start pushing okay?"

Meredith nodded and squeezed Cristina's hand when she felt another contraction.

"Meredith, you're almost at ten. You are progressing very fast. You are a very lucky lady. Hopefully in an hour so this will all be over with. We are going to start pushing okay?"

"No." Meredith cried. "Not with out Derek."

"Meredith we need to get these babies out."

"Not with out Derek."

"Dr. Yang. I need Meredith to push. Can you try talking to her?"

Cristina nodded. "Okay so…Mere. Listen to me. That nurse. She is going to find Derek, and he will be here before the babies come out but in order for that to happen, you need to start pushing."

Meredith nodded.

"Okay so when I say to push you're going to push."

Meredith nodded again and waited for the doctor's cue.

"Okay I need you to push now."

Meredith squeezed Cristina's hand and pushed as hard as she could.

"When I am done here, Derek is a dead man!"

Cristina laughed and stroked the top of Meredith's head. "Relax Mere, this will all be over with soon."

"You need to push again."

Once again Meredith pushed with all her might, nearly breaking Cristina's hand.

"Shepherd better get here soon or he's going to hear it from me." Cristina snickered which caused her to receive a death glare from Mere.

"Okay, I see the first baby's head."

Meredith sighed. "I need Derek."

"He'll be here Mer, he will."

"No, no he won't."

"Meredith, just a few more pushes and the first baby will be out. On the count of three I want you to push. One. Two. Three."

xxxxxAddisonxxxxx

"How far apart are your contractions now?" Dr. Moore asked.

"Still ten minutes." Addison replied.

Dr. Moore nodded. "I'm going to check you cervix again."

Addison nodded her head.

"You've only moved up to four centimeters. I have a feeling this is going to be a very long day. You could be in labor for a very long time and as soon as you reach six centimeters I will give you pain killers."

"Okay. Thank you."

"I'll be back in another thirty minutes, okay?"

"Yeah okay."

Just as the doctor was leaving, a nurse ran into the room almost knocking Dr. Moore over on her way.

"Dr. Shepherd?" The nurse asked, almost out of breath.

"Yes, that's me."

"Your girlfriend I guess…she's in the delivery room. She's about to give birth. We've been trying to get in touch with you all morning."

Derek's face fell. "How long has she been in labor?"

"Since around eight o'clock. She's moving very fast. I would come now if you don't want to miss the births."

"Okay…okay."

Derek stood up and began to follow the nurse but soon remembered about Addison.

"Will you be okay? I'll be back as soon as the twins are born."

Addison looked at Derek, trying hard not to cry. "That's fine. I'll be okay."

Derek nodded and kissed Addison's cheek. "I'll be back."

xxxxxMEREDITHxxxxx

"Oh my God, Meredith I am so sorry."

Derek ran into the room and stood on the other side of Meredith. He grabbed the hand that Cristina wasn't holding.

"Don't start Derek. We're going to have a LONG talk after this."

"Meredith, one more push and the first baby will be out."

Meredith squeezed Cristina and Derek's hands, Derek's harder then Cristina's. She pushed the hardest she had all day.

Soon after, a cry was heard and the first twin was out.

Dr. Chan held the baby up and placed him on Meredith's stomach.

"Would you like to cut the cord?" Dr. Chan asked Derek.

Derek nodded and took the medical scissors from the doctor.

After the cord was cut the doctor handed the baby to the nurse to weigh him and clean him up.

"One baby down, one to go."

Derek and Cristina laughed at the doctor's joke but Meredith did not find it funny.

"You need to start pushing again."

"Okay." Meredith agreed.

Not long after the first baby was born, baby number two decided to join his brother. After the second baby was cleaned up, the nurse carried both babies over to Meredith and Derek.

"This is baby number one. He weighed in at six pound two ounces." The nurse pointed to the slightly bigger newborn. "This is baby number two and he weighed in at five pounds twelve ounces." She then pointed to the other baby. "Do you have any names?"

"Cameron and Daniel." Meredith stated.

"What about the other names?"

"Those names don't suit them. They're Cameron and Daniel."

"I like those." Derek agreed.

"Cameron is the bigger one. Daniel is the smaller one."

"They're beautiful, aren't they?" Derek asked.

"They are."

"I'm going to take them now. You need your rest. When you wake up you can feed them."

Meredith nodded and kissed her baby boys.

"Thank you Derek. Thank you for giving me the most beautiful boys in the entire world."

Derek smiled and kissed Meredith. "I'm going to go check on Addie now. Get some rest and I'll see you when you wake up, okay?"

"Yeah okay."

Once Derek left, Cristina said her good byes and Meredith cried herself to sleep.

A/N: So, what did you guys think? Any good? This is only part one. I promise I am going to start working on part two as soon as I upload this.

Count Down to Izzie's daughter needing a transplant (says so in the preview): 3 Days 10 Hours 45 Minutes