This is where Meredith tells Adam about who is father is. Remember italics are flashbacks. Enjoy!
When Meredith walks into her bedroom, she finds Derek getting dressed; Derek walks over to her and pulls her close.
"When are you taking Adam to the park?" he asked.
"As soon as I get dressed" she says quietly.
"I know your scared, Mer"
"I just..." Mer trails off.
"Meredith, what?
"Nothing"
"Mer, don't do that"
"Do what?" knowing exactly what he means.
"The avoiding, the shutting me out. Meredith I want to know what you're worried about"
"How do I explain to a five year old, that everything he knows is a lie. I don't know if he will understand"
"Just explain that he has two daddies, or something. I don't know" Derek said frustrated. "You're his mother Mer; you'll know what to say"
"Okay" Meredith says gently, still feeling terrified.
Meredith decided to take Adam to the park at the bottom of the beach, when they arrived at the park, she remembers that this was the park that Ellis had taken her too, to tell her that her father had left. She still remembered that day so clearly, the day her whole world fell apart, the park hadn't changed much, and Adam ran off to play, while Meredith sat down on the bench, before being transported back to that day.
They had just arrived in Florida when Ellis decided that she was going to Meredith to the park, Meredith was 5 years old, and she was playing on the swings, calling out to her mother.
"Mommy...Mommy look at me" Meredith shouted. She knew that her mother wasn't playing an attention, so she swung herself higher into the air, knowing that her mother would hate it.
"Mommy, look how high I can go. Mommy" she shouted, Ellis looked at her.
"Meri not to high please, you could fall"
"I won't mommy; I'm a big girl now" Ellis walked over to the swing, and grabbed it, to stop Meredith and picked her off the swing and walked over to the bench that she was sitting on.
"Meredith, i told you not to go too high, you need to listen to mommy"
"Okay" she answers her mother, they sit there quietly, and Meredith looks at her mother, wanting to ask her something.
"Mommy" she says.
"Yes Meri"
"When are we going home?"
"I don't know yet, Meri"
"When will daddy be home?" she asks, remembering mommy and daddy fighting the night before they flew down to Florida.
"Daddy's not coming home"
"Why" she asked with the innocence of a five year old.
"He left us, Meri" she tells her daughter giving her a cuddle, has Meredith cries into her mother.
"Meredith, go and play"
"Okay, I love you mommy"
"I love you too, Meri" Meredith jumped up and ran back over to the swings.
That was the last time that could remember her mother telling her that she loved her, the memory brought tears to her eyes, she noticed that the tears had spilled down her face. Adam looked at his mother from the roundabout that he was playing on and could see his mommy looking sad. He leaped off and ran over to his mother, and sat besides her giving his mother a cuddle.
"Mommy you're crying"
"Mommy fine"
"Mommy you always say that" Adam says, not realising what it means.
"Mommy does, doesn't she?" Adam just nods his head, agree with her.
"Adam, mommy needs to talk to you"
"I've been a good boy mommy, I haven't been naughty" Adam says trying not to cry. Meredith looks at her and Derek's son, and can see that Adam is about to cry.
"Hey, baby don't cry, you're not in any trouble, you have been a very good boy, and mommy is so proud of you. It about daddy and Uncle Derek"
"Is Uncle Derek going to be living with us, mommy?" he asks, not quite understand what his mother is talking about.
"No, not yet. Listen, Uncle Derek is your daddy"
"But I already have a daddy, he lives in New York" Meredith knows that he doesn't understand what she is telling him, she tries to think of a way to make him understand.
"Your friend Jack, has two daddies. One that lives with him and one that he sees at the weekends.
"Yes, mommy"
Well, Derek and Russell are like that. Derek is your daddy, like Jack's weekend daddy and Russell is more like Jack's other daddy."
"So, Derek is my real daddy"
"Yes, darling"
"But I have a daddy. Do I have to call Uncle Derek daddy" Meredith just shakes her head, knowing that it would really hurt Derek if he didn't call him daddy, but she knows that in his own time he will.
"Can I go and play, mommy" Meredith nods her head, watching her son, running over to the seesaw and playing with his new friends. Meredith lets him play for a while, before deciding to head back to the condo, she knows that Derek will be there waiting for her to return, she is a little worried about Adam reaction to all this, but she has no idea what to do with it, she just hopes that it will all work out.
She gets back to the condo, two hours after she left, she can smell that Derek is cooking, she missed his cooking. Adam heads straight for his bedroom, went they enter the condo, Meredith walks into the kitchen.
"Hey" she says quietly.
"You're back"
"Yeah" she says walking up to him and kissing him.
"How did it go?" Derek asked, he saw the look of panic in her eyes, and could tell that she was ready to avoid.
"Meredith, what?"
"I think he understood, but..."
"Just tell me."
"He won't be calling you daddy anything soon" she said, sounding worried.
"Is that all Mer" he said trying not to laugh but it escaped.
"You laughing at me now" she said, has she turned Derek grabbed her arm and spun her back towards him.
"Meredith, I don't expect him too"
"But you said..."
I know what I said Mer, but he is 5 years old. He loves Russell I know that, I do not want to replace what he means to him"
"If I had said something..."Derek pulls her in for a kiss, to silence her, when Derek finally breaks away, she can't remember what she was saying.
"Go and get Adam, and we will sit down and have some lunch"
"Okay, love you"