I can't think of anything to say up here so I guess I'll just write lol. Here is chapter 8 :D

Meredith's POV:

After everything was sorted out at the hospital, Derek and I decided to head home to call Addison. It would be a while until she could get here anyway and it didn't make sense to wait around. To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the idea of Derek's ex-wife coming to town, let alone her working on me but she was the best in her field and I guess I'd just have to live with it. Professionally, she was incredible. If I wanted the best for the baby and to support the pregnancy.

That night I was sitting in the living room when Derek emerged from the bedroom, his phone in hand. "I called Addison." he said. "She'll be here late tomorrow so she can meet us the next morning. The kids are asleep, Christina got a hotel room for tonight. Did you take your vitamins yet? I can get them for you, you'll need water too." His hair was a mess from running his hand through it and I could tell he was stressed.

"Derek have you slept at all since this morning? You didn't sleep at all last night because we were in the ER."

"I'm okay. Did you take your meds?" He said, his eyes not leaving his phone. He was probably researching my condition, his doctor instincts kicking in.

"Yes, Derek. I'm not three." I snapped at him. Although I had taken a nap and gotten rest, the stress of everything really was a lot to deal with. I couldn't imagine how Derek felt running on no sleep at all.

With that he glanced up from his phone. I hadn't used such a harsh tone since we were fighting about DC. "And you think that I'm stressed, huh." he retorted, looking back down at his phone.

"You haven't slept for over at least 24 hours, or at least that's all I know of, you're stressed, you've been stressed since I got in that accident."

He lowered his phone and stared at the ground, which told me that I was right.

"For right now, I'm okay. I'm right here." I told him, although he just stared at the floor.

"Derek are you even listening to me?"

He finally looked up at me, his sadness written all over his face. He slowly walked over to the couch I was on and sat down. "Do you remember when you had Bailey, and you almost bled out from your fall on the stairs? I had no clue that anything was wrong at the time. I was in a completely different room. And then, all of a sudden Christina comes and tells me that you're in bad shape. Dr. Bailey came out of the OR and she made it sound like you had died on the table. Everything in that moment just seemed so unreal. I thought you-" he paused, gathering himself again, "I thought I had lost you for good. The reason I'm so worried about you is because you almost died because of a problem I didn't even know of, so yes, I'm going to be very protective of you."

"Thank you. That means a lot, but Derek, for right now, nothing is wrong. You getting no sleep and stressing isn't helping either." I said, reaching out to grab his hand. "Come here and lay down."

He sighed and put his head down on my lap and I covered him with a blanket. I reached out to turn off the light and began to comb my fingers through his hair.

"You know you were just doing all those nice things for me when I was hurt so that I would have to pay you back. It's cruel, really." I laughed.

"Oh, shush."

"Do you want me to stop?" I asked.

"I didn't say that." he said, giving me his best McDreamy smile. After that he drifted off and so did I not long after.

Derek's POV:

The next morning I woke to Zola's feet on my shoulder and her head in Meredith's lap. She must have moved me out of the way to lay there. I laughed at the thought and watched my two girls sleep. Not long after I got up Meredith started to stir.

"Good morning," I told her.

She rubbed her eyes and looked at me. "Good morning," she smiled.

I got up from the couch and put my blanket over Zola. "I'll go make us some breakfast. Do you want to get Bailey?"

"Sure," she responded as she got up.

I started to get out the ingredients for waffles when Zola walked in to the kitchen. "Hi, daddy!" she said as she looked up at me.

"Hey Zo-Zo, want to help me make breakfast?" I asked.

Her eyes lit up at the thought as she nodded her head. We cooked and laughed as we made breakfast and spent quality father-daughter time together.

"Daddy?" she asked.

"Yes?"

"Why were you and mommy fighting before?"

I was taken off guard by her question as I paused my cooking. How do you answer a question like that to a child?

"Well Zola, mommy and I didn't agree on something and we started yelling at each other which was the wrong thing to do."

"Are you and mommy going to move into different houses like Carly's mommy and daddy?"

Carly was Zola's best friend and her parents had gotten a divorce. They were always fighting and they had finally called it quits. It never occurred to me that Zola would know what all of that meant.

"No, of course not." I said, picking her up. "I love your mommy very much and I would never leave her. I told her I was sorry for yelling and we worked it out. I promise." I reassured her.

"Okay," she giggled as her attention quickly changed back to the food.

Meredith's POV:

I walked down the hall towards the kitchen carrying Bailey right as Derek was talking to Zola. Not wanting to interrupt, I paused before entering. "I love your mommy..." I heard him say to her, "...I would never leave her..." I caught myself smiling again and finally entered the kitchen.

"Hey!" Derek said happily as I entered. "It's just about done."

"Okay," I said smiling at him as I took Zola's hand. He returned my smile and I brought the kids to the table to get them ready to eat. Derek brought out the food and we ate together as a family, something that was hard to come by in the life of a surgeon.

"You know, you have to go back to work eventually." I told him.

"Let's just see what Addison says and then we can go from there, okay?"

"That's fine. It's just that I don't think I'll be working a lot anytime soon and we're going to need some kind of income."

"I know, I know."

The conversation ended when I heard a knock at the door and got up to answer it. I opened it up to find Alex.

"Um, hey Alex!" I said when I saw him standing in the doorway. "What do you need?"

"You're pregnant?"

"Yeah!" We just found out." I had barely finished my sentence when his arms were around me, pulling me into a hug.

"I'm so happy for you!" he said, giving me a genuine smile.

"Thank you," I laughed, thinking about how the old Alex was nothing like this. He really turned out to be a great friend and a great guy. "Do you want any breakfast? There's a little left." I still had the habit of taking in strays.

"Jo made us breakfast already but thanks for the offer."

"Okay, well come in anyway." I told him and he entered the house. Zola and Bailey were overjoyed at the visit of Alex and he let them play doctor with him.

I had everything I ever wanted in life. A husband who I loved, beautiful children, great friends, an incredible job, it was perfect. Even with all the bad things that happened, I still made it this far. We would get through this, we always did.

So this chapter was more like a random filler because I have things planned and we need some happy MerDer thrown in more often. Leave some reviews about how you fell about this story! Reviews help me get ideas and they give me motive to write more :) Thanks for all the support so far as well! It really means a lot :D

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