Over the next week Derek and Meredith had been texting, trying to plan a day where Derek could meet Ellyse. It had been a long time coming and Meredith felt ready to introduce him to her, he should have been there from the beginning but he weren't and that was her fault. Today, they were meeting and Derek wanted to make his daughter as comfortable as possible so they decided that he would come around to their apartment so that the young girl had some familiarity. They had planned for him to come around at 4pm because Alex had taken Ellyse out.

Meredith hasn't told her daughter what was happening yet but she was nervous at how she would react. She was usually quite shy and as attached to Meredith as she could be, but she had a feeling that Ellyse would pick up on the similar features between her and Derek, after all they were very alike. Scott didn't like the idea of Derek being in their apartment, he had told Meredith that he had ulterior motives and that he didn't trust him around her or Ellyse.

"I don't get what your problem is?" Meredith sighed as she fought back with Scott.

"If you don't see it then your dumber than I thought. I don't want him here Meredith!" He shouted back.

"That's not your decision to make, he's her father and like it or not that's never going to change."

"This is my apartment too!"

She rolled her eyes, "really? I had no idea."

"Don't be an ass Meredith." He scrunched his face.

"Your the one being an ass. Derek hasn't done anything wrong so what's the problem with him being here?"

"He's still in love with you Meredith!" He shouted.

Meredith looked at him, her words currently lost as she shook her head.

"He's not. He has Addison." She said quietly.

"Maybe but he still loves you. I saw the way he was looking at you in the coffee shop last week." He sighed, his hand scratching his stubble.

"He- your being ridiculous Scott. Me and Derek are over, we have been since I was 18." She told him.

"Whatever Meredith." He rolled his eyes.

"You don't believe me?" She scoffed.

"No. No I don't believe you, because I'm a guy and I saw the way he was looking at you and I'm the only one who should be looking at you that way." He spat.

"What, so your calling me a liar? You think I'm having some dirty secret affair with him?" She was getting angry.

"I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth Meredith." He paced.

Meredith sighed and picked at her fingers trying to calm herself down.

"Look, he's Ell's father not you, I'm not doing this for any other reason other than for her. She deserves to have him around." She sighed.

"I know I'm not her father, you've made that pretty clear since you saw him again but this isn't fair to me."

"This has nothing to do with you though!" She snapped back, she was getting tired.

"It has everything to do with me Meredith, I'm the man that's been in her life, she knows-" she stopped him.

"You've been in her life for a year, you think that makes you some replacement father?" She scoffed.

"No I don't, but this is my life that's being disturbed too."

"Whatever, just go." She told him.

"What?" He asked in shock.

"You heard what I said. Go." She repeated.

"Go where?" His arms swinging around.

"I don't care, just leave, I can't even look at you right now." She was seething with anger.

"Your a child Meredith." He scoffed grabbing his keys off the kitchen counter.

"Yeah, yeah." She muttered as the front door slammed.

She fell back into the sofa and sighed before falling asleep, she had at least an hour before Alex brought Ellyse home.

"Mer, wake up." She was shaken by Alex.

"Oh, hi, I'm sorry." She muttered as she sat up rubbing her eyes.

"It's fine, the spare key was in the plant pot so I let myself in."

"That's fine. Where's Ells?" She asked looking around.

"She's in the bathroom."

"Oh." She nodded.

"You okay?" He asked looking at her, he noticed something was off.

"I'm fine."

"Mer." He sighed.

"Talk to me." He sat next to her.

"I fell out with Scott, we had a massive argument about Derek, who will be here in an hour." She sighed looking down at her watch.

"Okay, what happened?" He questioned putting his arm around his shoulder.

"He said that he didn't trust Derek, that he still loved me and that him meeting Ell would disrupt his life because he had been there when Derek wasn't." She rubbed her head, a habit that showed she was stressed.

"Just let him cool off. Where is he?"

"I have no idea."

"Okay, I'm gonna get you some water and paracetamol because you have a headache." He smiled before getting up.

"Mommy!" Ellyse came running in.

"Hi baby, did you have a good time with Uncle Alex?" She hugged her.

"Yeah, we had a water fight." She giggled.

"You did?" Meredith gasped.

"Yeah." Ellyse laughed as she sat next to her mom.

"Here you go Mer." He handed her the pills and water.

"Thanks." She smiled before taking them.

"So, I'm gonna go, call me if you need anything." He grabbed his jacket.

"Thanks Alex. I really appreciate it."

"It's fine. Come here bean, I'm going home." He said hugging Ellyse. Since she was born he had called her bean, a habit he couldn't seem to break.

After Alex left, Meredith was sitting down with Ellyse chatting away before she had to tell her about Derek.

"Ells. You know how mommy told you that your daddy was working away?" She looked at her daughter.

"Yeah. Daddy doesn't live here but he loves me lots." She said nodding her head.

"That's right, but what if I told you that daddy does live here now and you can see him... today." She added watching her daughters face carefully.

"Daddy's here?" She asked, her small eyes widening.

"He is, and he wants to see you today so he is coming here." Meredith breathed.

"When!" Ellyse clapped.

Meredith looked down at her watch, "in about 30 minutes."

"Yay! Daddy's coming! Daddy's coming home!" She jumped.

Meredith laughed at the girls reaction.

"Can I wear a pretty dress for daddy?" She asked.

"Yeah, let's go and find one." She said standing up and taking her small hand.

"I want that one." Ellyse pointed to the white sundress in her closet.

"This one?" Meredith held it up.

"Yep." She nodded.

It was a white sundress with two frill sleeves.

She quickly got her dressed and Ellyse wanted a yellow bow in her brown curly hair so Meredith clipped one in before kissing her cheek.

"You look beautiful Ells." She said.

"Thanks mommy." She twirled around.

"When will daddy be here?" She asked just before the door bell rang, she turned to Meredith with wide eyes.

"I think now." Meredith giggled.