Hey guys. I am so sorry for the long delay if updates! I don't know what happened life just got really busy and I had no time to write:( I hope I haven't lost all of my readers..?

To make it up to you, I have a new chapter up for you, which is also the longest chapter in this story ( thought I better make it a long one after the long wait)

Please leave a comment after you have read it so I know have many out there is still reading…

Anyway here it is after the long wait chapter 17 "Taken your place" Enjoy!

When Meredith heard the wordgirl, she couldn't help the tears from falling.

"Really we have a little girl?" Meredith asked with joy and happiness as Derek laid the tiny baby on her chest.

"Really Mer, we have a little princess" Derek smiled and gave Meredith a kiss on the lips. He then sat down carefully on the bed next to Meredith and looked down at his daughter. De actually had a daughter. A little princess. Everything he ever wanted, he had. He was married to the love of his life. And now she had given him the greatest gift anyone had ever given him. A daughter. And she was perfect! He had everything he ever wanted so now he was just going to enjoy every moment of it.

"And there is nothing wrong with her right? She is healthy and has all her fingers and toes?" Meredith asked looking at Addison.

"She is perfectly healthy and yes she has teen fingers and teen toes" Addie smiled.

Meredith looked down on the baby in her arms. Looking at that sweet baby with Derek's cheekbones and her nose- thank god she had her nose. Because lets face it; Derek doesn't have prettiest nose. And the dark curls just like her father sticking out from the little pink hat on her head to keep her warm. And just to be sure she checked her fingers, then peeked under the blanked and saw teen tiny little toes.

"Oh thank god!" Meredith breathed out a sigh of relief.

That made Derek chuckle at his wife. "Look at you, already being overprotective" Derek said with smile and gave her a kiss on her temple.

Meredith turned her head to look at him "You're an a…" but she stop and looked down at her daughter and smiled. She couldn't curse in front of her daughter "Be quiet" she said with a smile. Even though Meredith knew she was overprotective, that didn't mean that she wanted Derek mocking her about it.

"Yes dear" Derek chuckled again. Right now all he could focus on was all the love he felt for this tiny person lying in his wife's arms.

Having witness the first minutes Meredith and Derek had with their new born daughter, Addison cleared her throat to get their attention.

Both Meredith and Derek had completely forgotten that they weren't alone, being completely focused on their daughter, so when Addison cleared her throat, they both looked up at her with puzzled looks.

"Sorry Addie, we were just… well in amazement of our daughter" Derek said with such a big smile that Meredith was sure his cheeks would hurt.

"Don't worry, I completely understand. I just wanted to tell you, I would give you a couple of minutes alone before we have to take her up to the nursery and give her a complete check up"

"Thank you for everything Addison. We both really appreciate it" Derek said as he got up from the bed and gave Addie a small hug. After that he went back to Meredith and the baby.

"Yeah thank you Addison" Meredith said with a smile and then turned her attention back to her daughter.

"Don't worry about it. I was just doing my job" Addison said with a smile. But on the way out she stopped in her tracks.

"There is just one thing" Addie said as she turned around.

"What?" Meredith asked.

"What's her name?"

"Her n.... name" Meredith stammered. Meredith was quite for a moment and then she looked at Derek. "Derek she doesn't have a name! How could we forget to give her a name?" Meredith exclaimed, starting to cry.

"Shh Meredith calm down" Derek said in a comforting voice while he gave her a hug. But seeing that the hug didn't do its magic to calm her down he turned her head to look him in the eye. "Meredith we didn't know if she was a girl or a boy until five minutes ago. Remember we agreed that we would wait to see after she was born so we could see what she looked like so the name would fit her?" Derek asked, trying to get Meredith to calm down before she woke the baby up.

Derek looked up to catch Addison's eye, who mouthed sorry before she left the room, closing the door on her way out to give the couple some privacy.

Looking down at her new daughter Meredith couldn't believe it. She hadn't even been a mother for an hour and already she was her own mother.

As if he could read her mind Derek cupped her face to make her look him in the eye again.

"Meredith listen to me. You are not your mother! Simple by the fact that you care this much about her not having a name in her first fifteen minutes out here in the real world proofs that you are not your mother! Do you hear me?" Derek said with a stern but loving voice and gave her a kiss on the lips. "Okay?"

Once again Meredith looked down at her beautiful daughter and smiled. Just then the tiny girl opened her eyes and looked her mother in the eye. Meredith gasped when she looked her daughter in the eye; it was exactly like looking into Derek's deep blue eyes.

"Meredith what is it?" Derek asked having heard her gasp.

"Look Derek she has your eyes!" Meredith smiled.

"But she has your beautiful nose and mouth. I am pretty sure with a mouth like that she will have the same big appetite as you" Derek chuckled.

"Hey, it's not nice to make fun of your wife who has just given you a perfect little girl!" Meredith pouted.

"You're right. I'm sorry for making fun of you. It wasn't nice to do that when you did in fact give me a perfect little princess whom I really love and adore" Derek started to say with a mocking tone but when he started to talk about his little princess there was nothing but love in his voice.

"I'm sorry I freaked out like that. Its just that I so badly want her to have the perfect childhood that I never had and be the mother for her that I so badly wanted my mother to be" Meredith said with tears in her eyes.

"There is nothing to be sorry about! And Meredith I know that you will a perfect mother for our daughter because if I didn't think that then I wouldn't have wanted to have a baby with you. I love you so much!" Derek said as he leaned in and gave her a kiss. "But there is something I have to tell you" Derek said in a serious tone.

"What?" Meredith asked in a nervous voice. Was he going to tell her that he didn't wanted to have the baby after all? That he had changed his mind and wanted to be with Addison instead.

"You have been beaten as my favorite girl" Derek said with a smirk.

Oh my god, is this really happening? Is he going to say Addison is his favorite now?

"Oh yeah who?" Meredith asked with a nervous laugh.

"Isn't it kind of obvious?" Derek asked.

Okay here it comes. Meredith you have to be strong now for your daughter's sake. Unless he thinks that he can take her with him. But would Addison want a baby that Derek had had with another woman? Or maybe he doesn't want her since she also has some of my crappy DNA. I mean can you blame him?

But following Derek's gaze Meredith him looking down at their daughter with that big grin of his.

"Oh you mean our daughter has taken my place!" "Thank god" she mumbled. But of course he heard it all.

"Why do you say it like that? Who else would I be talking about, Meredith?" Derek asked now looking at Meredith.

"No one. Of course you are talking about our daughter. Its no like I thought you were talking about Addison or someone else because that would just be stupid right? Since it is quite obvious that you love your daughter and I like to think that we live in a happy marriage, but hey I could be wrong, that wouldn't be the fist time that has happen. Just look…" Meredith was stopped by Derek's lips crashing down on hers.

First Meredith was shocked by his action but she soon caught up with him. Before the kiss got too heated they stopped remembering that their daughter was in between them.

"Meredith I love you. I love you so much, I thought you knew that?

"I do and I love you to, so much Derek you have no idea"

"Good. Now of course I meant our daughter! But that doesn't mean that I love you any less. It actually means I love you more now then before" Derek said with a smile and gave her a kiss on the lips.

"I know and I wouldn't want it any other way" Meredith smiled. "But Derek she still needs a name!"

Looking up at her parents with curious eyes and saw that they didn't give her the attention she wanted she did the only thing she knew how.

Shocked by crying from their use to be quite baby was now screaming her lungs out and they had now idea why.

"I think we should handle this first and then take care of her not having a name later" Derek smirked.

"Well aren't you clever! But if you are that smart why don't you fix this?" Meredith snapped over the crying.

Meredith snapping only made the crying worse. "Perfect, just freaking perfect!" Meredith exclaimed.

"Well as much as I would to honey, you are the only one who can help her of the two of use" Derek smirked at her, loving how his daughter had such big lungs but he was pretty sure he wasn't going to love them in tree in the morning.

"What are you talking about? Now is really not the time to play games with me Derek!" Meredith snapped. She couldn't handle this not with Derek playing games with on top of everything.

"Meredith I'm not! I think she is hungry and unless I have suddenly grown boobs you are the only one of the two of use that can feed her" Derek smiled.

"Ohh" realization hit Meredith. Her daughter was hungry and needed to be breastfeed but she didn't knew how to do it.

"I don't know how to do it. I have never done it before" Meredith admitted quietly.

"That makes the two of use" Derek chuckled.

"Derek, can you please take this serious? We have to do something; she is completely red in the face!" Meredith snapped.

"You're right I'm sorry. Do you want me to call the nurse to come in and help you?"

"NO! No nurses. I don't need the whole hospital knowing that I can't feed my own baby"

"Well then I guess you will just have to give it a try"

"I guess your right" Meredith sighed and moved the baby to get her gown down so her breast would be free.

"Do you want me to leave?" Derek asked. There was nothing more that he wanted then to see his beautiful wife to feed their perfect daughter, but if she wanted him to leave then he would do it.

"Why would you? It's not like you haven't seen them before. Besides I thought you wanted to be a part of it, well as well as you can since it is me with the boobs but I totally understand if you don't want to watch it. They are probably not that sexy when there is coming breast milk out of them" Meredith rambled.

Derek couldn't help but laugh. He loved it when his wife rambled. "Meredith I just asked you to give you privacy if you wanted it. There is no place I would rather be then right here with the two of you" Derek smiled and gave his wife a kiss on the mouth and his daughter a kiss on head. "Now I think you better feed the kid"

"I think you are right" Meredith laughed.

Meredith placed the little girl so she could latch on and she began to eat right away.

"She defiantly has your appetite!" Derek chuckled.

"Wow that feels so strange" Meredith said.

"Good strange or bad strange?" Derek asked.

"Wonderful strange" Meredith smiled.

Meredith and Derek sat in the small hospital bed looking down on their daughter eating her first meal. That was when Meredith really knew what it was like to be a part of a family.

So what do you think? Was it worth the wait? I now that it was mostly fluff but I loved it anyway=)

Did you love it too or did you hate it? Let me know what you think or have something you would like to see happen in this story :)

Also if you have any ideas for any names I would love to hear them. I am pretty sure of the name but maybe you have a better idea…

- Catherine