A/N- Sorry for the wait, little filler that follows on from the last chapter. Thanks for all the reviews/follows/favourites. You guys make my day. Enjoy :)

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Meredith waited until after rounds, before she made her way to paeds, when she knew Mia would be a little more awake and able to talk after her surgery. Izzie was on paeds that day, and had agreed to let her in to visit Mia for a while before the two of them scrubbed in on other surgeries. Bailey had assigned her to general that day, so that she could do a post op on Mia and spend a little time with her just to be sure for herself that Mia really would be fine.

"Hey Mia!" she greeted as she entered the room "how are you feeling?" she asked as she took a note of Mia's vitals and checked the incision from the night before.

"I'm good, my tummy doesn't hurt anymore, but I wish my mommy and daddy were here." She pouted a little, clearly a little distressed at her lack of company.

"Oh, where are your mom and dad?" Meredith asked, concerned. She knew what it was like to be stuck in a hospital with no company, her mother had left her countless times with little to do except wander around and find some of the nurses to play with.

"My daddy had to go to work, and my mommy had to go home to be with my baby brother and sister, my grandma couldn't look after them for too long on her own."

"Oh that's a shame." Meredith commented wondering what she could do to make the patient feel better. "Would you liketo do some drawings with me? I have a little time, maybe dr. Stevens would like to join us." The patient nodded and cracked a small smile at the gesture. Meredith grinned back and went and found some paper and pens from the day room in the paediatric department and brought them and Izzie back to Mia's room.

"Okay, what are we gonna draw Miss Engles?" she asked as she laid the supplies out in front of the three of them.

"Um princesses and weddings." She decided after much thought.

"Okay, what do I have to draw?" Izzie asked. The theme was classic Izzie, Meredith was a little less enthusiastic at the concept. She had much to learn about princesses, particularly if she was going to meet Derek's nieces anytime soon.

"Do you have a prince?" Mia asked in return, taking Izzie's long blond hair and sunny exterior to mean that she must have found her prince, whereas very little about Meredith aside from the glint in her eyes screamed happily ever after.

"No, I haven't found my prince yet, but dr. Grey has." Mia deliberated the thought for a moment. Meredith saw confusion find the little girls face. Meredith had always seen herself as more of a Rumplestiltskin than a princess. She shrugged her shoulders, quickly accepting that Meredith could be a princess, maybe a pre-fairy godmother Cinderella, but a princess all the same.

"Okay, you can be the princess and dr. Grey can be the bride. You have to draw the wedding, and dr. Grey has to draw the ring that the prince gives her, and I can draw the magic palace they go back to when they're done with the wedding and she's a princess."

"Okay," Izzie and Meredith smiled getting to work on their given tasks. Meredith loved the interaction between Izzie and the young girl, Izzie was the mothering type, the kind you wanted as your kindergarden teacher or babysitter. If Derek ever convinced her to have children, Izzie would be the one she'd want close at hand to provide a little bright and shiny to their lives.

"What's your favourite movie Dr. Izzie?" Mia asked not looking up from her drawing. Meredith knew that the breakfast club probably wouldn't be the answer Izzie gave, despite it being the truth. It might be a little difficult to explain iconic eighties movies to a girl who was clearly solid Disney.

"I think it's probably 'The Lion King'" she grinned at the little girl as the pair reached for pink and purple crayons while Meredith stuck to grey in the absence of a silver.

"I love that film!" Mia squealed bursting into chatter of a bird a nasty lion and many names that Meredith was unfamiliar. "Who's your favourite Dr. Grey?"

"Um," Meredith stuttered. "I've actually never seen it." she confessed, her lack of Disney film knowledge causing both Mia and Izzie to stare open mouthed at her.

"It's a classic!" Izzie spat a little too harshly before softening somewhat, "You've really never seen it?" Meredith shook her head and bit her lip, as Izzie sighed. "Who do we think Dr. Grey is most like?" she asked of the little girl.

"Not Nala, cause thats you Dr. Izzie, maybe Timon, she's skinny like Timon is." Izzie snorted before nodding at the little girl, a secret grin passing between the two. Meredith played with her scrubs, trying to hide just how tiny she was thanks to her mother's metabolism.

The three continued their colouring for a while, Meredith feeling much better about leaving Mia to heal, knowing that she was already friends with Izzie thanks to their shared knowledge of all things Disney. Meredith was horrified to see that Mia had opted for an all pink palace complete with turrets and a unicorn for company. Izzie had gone to similar extremes, giving her wedding a lilac colour scheme and opting for a big poofy white dress for her Meredith drawing, complete with top hat and tails for Derek. Mia lapped it up, and was even thrilled by Meredith's ring design, simple though it was.

"What's your prince called dr. Grey?" Mia asked her as she began to yawn, the nights events catching up with her.

"Dr. Derek Shepherd." She answered emphasising the fact that he too was a doctor, like she did when she was approached at Joes. Letting people know that she already had a good guy in her story and wasn't looking for another. And if Mia and Izzie had their way, she'd end up being his princess forever after.

"So you'd be dr. Grey-Shepherd?" she yawned, not able to hide her drowsiness now.

"Something like that Mia, but probably not for a long time yet. We haven't known each other long." Izzie smirked as her friend tried to hide her insecurities when it came to marriage from their patient.

"So, some princesses get married on the same day they meet the prince, they just know it's right. Go get you're happy ever after dr. Grey." Mia told her as she let herself drift off. "you can keep the pictures for your prince." Izzie smiled as she packed up the supplies ready to go back to work.

"You heard the girl," she shooed, "go tell prince mcdreamy what you expect of him." Meredith shook her head as she made her way back to the surgical floor. She too stifled a yawn as she reached the nurses' station. Smiling when she saw Derek filling in a chart.

"There you are," he said turning to her "I was about to send a search party. What've you been up to this morning?"

"I was colouring with Izzie and my patient from last night. She planned us a wedding." She showed him Izzie's drawing, "and a pink castle and I got to draw the ring." She showed him the other pictures. "The little girl said that you were my prince and way into the future I'll go from bride to princess. She also said I should've married you the day I met you, but I'm not sure fairytale logic works in real life. Then her and Izzie went all Disney on me, I got a little lost there. I was never a Disney kind of kid."

"Well I like these." He grinned, "especially the unicorn, I've always wanted one of those." She went to take the pictures back from him, but he pulled them towards himself. "no, I'm putting these up in my office, so I remember what our house and our wedding will look like when the time comes. May have to get Izzie and your patient to help out though. Especially if I have to transform you into a princess. If you don't know Disney then clearly you're going to need an education." he laughed kissing her as his pager went off signalling the free OR for his next surgery. "I'll see you later," he smiled as he walked away. Meredith shook her head. There was no end to her prince's cheesiness, she'd have to get used to that she thought as she picked up the charts for her surgery and following afternoon of charting.

As Meredith sat down to dictate her first chart, she thought about what Derek had said, there was no if we get married, it was when. Which meant that she'd get a proposal one day, a wedding and a marriage. She knew it would be a while. It'd only been a few weeks since they decided to try again, they had a lot of settling back down to do before they started thinking about marriage, but that hope, the kind that wouldn't be out of place in the movies Meredith missed out on growing up. The hope that one day they would have those things, that made the journey to get there so much more exciting.

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