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Meredith didn't know how the months had gone so fast, it felt like time had just been

completely fast forwarded. It suddenly went from February to the middle of April, almost two weeks before Meredith and Derek's wedding. Apparently Meredith had insomnia, because she hadn't been able to sleep the last few nights. Due to the stress of the whole "getting married" thing and the beyond stupid paper that the Chief was making the residents write on choosing their specialty, Meredith just wanted to crawl under a rock and block out the world.

"Mere?" called Derek as he walked into the bedroom to see Meredith sitting with her laptop on her lap staring intensely at the computer. "Meredith." said Derek as he sighed and pulled the laptop away from her.

"Derek!" cried Meredith as he placed it on the nightstand beside them. "I'm working on the paper for the Chief."

"I know you are, but you've been working on it for hours. You need a break." said Derek. "Come on I have a surprise."

"Derek." whined Meredith as he pulled her off the bed and out of the bedroom. "I'm never going to finish my paper. And then I' won't get a chance for a fellowship at Seattle Grace and then I'll have to blame you." said Meredith trying to be mad, but grinning and laughing slightly at the same time.

"You can blame me. Come on grab a light jacket." said Derek as Meredith grabbed a sweater from off the coat rack as Derek led her to his car and he opened the door for her.

She shook her head and grinned at his chivalry. He really was the perfect guy. Meredith sat down and buckled her seatbelt as Derek eased down onto the road and started heading towards the land.

"Why are we going towards the land?" asked Meredith.

"You know they've been working on the house." said Derek.

Meredith nodded. They had been working on the house for quiet some time now. Between her and Derek making the blueprints of what the house would look like, to meeting with the architect, they had been planning and building their house officially since they had gotten engaged. The foundation had gone up about a month ago and the structure shortly after that. They even had furniture on the way for when it was finally complete. She couldn't even believe after all her and Derek had been through, they were on their way to being husband and wife, along with finishing their dream house.

"Well I got call this morning, while I was at the hospital." said Derek as they pulled into the area where their house would be built. "They finished."

Meredith looked up from twiddling with her thumbs and her eyes widened at the beautiful house that sat in front of her. There stood their house. A Victorian style house with tan stoned brick siding up to the second level, where brown siding took over. The windows edged in white. The brown wooden door that Meredith had picked out stood at the center, with the front porch painted white wrapped around to a halfway point.

"Derek I…. it's…. I'm speechless." said Meredith as she got out of the car and stood on the dirt admiring the house at bit of a better distance.

"How about taking a look inside?" asked Derek as he walked over to Meredith and placed his hand on the small of her back.

Meredith quickly spun around, after hearing those words. "Inside? Do you mean it's furnished?

Derek nodded a smile evident on his face. "Apart for the few things that we were planning to take from your house, all appliances, furniture, electronics, and décor are set up." as he led Meredith up the stairs opening the door and walked into the foyer.

Meredith gasped at what she saw. As she walked in further of the entry way, she saw the beautiful wrap around stairs case. She looked towards her left and started walking into the living room. She walked over to the suede tan couch they had picked out and ran her fingers over it, she did the same with the matching chairs. She looked at the freshly painted fire place, with beautiful brick outline. She then looked the espresso color stained coffee table. She turned around in awe looking at Derek.

"How'd you do this?" asked Meredith walking back over to him, where he stood at the edge of the room.

"A little help from the movers, Mark, Lexie and few other supporters." said Derek. "Do you like it?" asked Derek.

Meredith leaned in and kissed him hard and passionately, she then pulled away and looked at the bemused expression on his face. "Does that answer your question?"

Derek smiled at her, his blue eyes shining in delight, at how Meredith liked the house. "Well then, on with the tour."

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Meredith and Derek walked back down the stairs after seeing the rest of the house. Between the gorgeous kitchens, which Meredith wasn't sure how much use she'd get out of and the master bedroom it was perfect. The extra bedrooms for the moment were painted a nice white with a creamish color plush rug. They stood in the foyer Meredith's eyes still darting around in amazement that this was actually going to be her house. The house she'd come home to every night. Where Meredith and Derek would spend their days as newlyweds, where their future family would live and grow and where Derek and Meredith would grow old together.

"There's still one more room, I need to show you." said Derek.

Meredith turned and tried to smile knowing the last room, was like the future staring back at her. The playroom. Don't get her wrong, Meredith wanted kids, she just wasn't ready right this second. They slowly walked towards the French doors to the side of the kitchen adjoining to the room. Derek reached and opened the door, and Meredith gasped at what she saw. The lovely shade of yellow they had chosen to paint the room, the tan colored carpet. Inside the room sat one item. She was immediately drawn to the old, slightly ridged looking rocking horse.

"My mom sent it from the house. She figured… we could use it, whenever we decided to have kids." said Derek cautiously not wanting to scare or make Meredith nervous.

"It's beautiful Derek." said Meredith as she ran her fingers over the wood. "Was it yours?"

Derek nodded and smiled gently. "This was the only toy not passed down through my family. None of my sister were ever interested in it."

Meredith smiled as lay her hand on his chest and kissed him gently. "It's the perfect addition to the room." said Meredith as she smiled up at him.

"Well there is one more thing." said Derek as he pointed to the wall to the right side of them. To the right in script black letter's was the saying.

"Believe in Extraordinary."

Meredith smiled as silly, unnecessary tears filled her eyes. She then laced her fingers with Derek's.

"Only two more weeks."