All of Your Life

Working Together

Derek POV

Derek was looking forward to working with Meredith... 'No Dr Grey' he reminded himself. Once he got into the scrub room and saw Dr Grey already in the OR he couldn't help but smile, and has he entered the OR he said his trademark saying;

"It is a beautiful day to save lives; lets gave some fun" causing Meredith to smirk underneath her mask but keeping her head down so that Derek didn't notice.

Derek was surprise to find out; how well they worked together, he couldn't ever remember a time where he was so in sync with anyone especially not his best friend or his wife, and it threw him.

During the surgery Derek tried to ignore the whispering of his surgical staff, he felt as if people was stepping on egg shells around him, and he didn't know why. Every time he looked over at Meredith, she would look away from him, and he didn't know why but it annoyed him.

Once the surgery was over and he found himself alone with her in the scrub room, he wanted to reach out and touch her, press his lips against her, until he didn't remember his own name, when she rushed out of the scrub room, he wanted to rush after her, but he knew how bad that would look, he was married for god sake and he loved his wife, but there was something about Dr Grey.

Meredith is outside, swaying drunkenly and drinking. Derek stands watching her.

"You know, in some states, you could get arrested for that" he says to her, watching her has she walks towards him.

" So you blew me off for a bottle of tequila. Tequila's no good for ya. It doesn't call. It doesn't write. It isn't nearly as much fun to wake up to" Derek finds himself saying, remembering their discussion earlier at the nurse's station. Meredith smile, the smile that makes him weak at the knees and when pulls him in for a kiss, all reasoning goes out of the windows, and Derek deepens the kiss, before Meredith pulls away slightly.

"Take me for a ride, Derek" she says to him, he smiles at her and taking her by the hand leads her over to his car.

Derek noticed Meredith climbing onto the elevator and quickly stopped the doors from closing and stepped into the elevator, he didn't know why but he felt himself drawn to her.

"Meredith, are you heading home?" he found that he needed to talk to her and found that he couldn't look away from her.

"I am about to pick my daughter up from day care, then I am heading home" Derek remembered the little girl so vividly, and Meredith mentioning that the father wasn't around.

"How is Ava?"

"She is really good thanks Dr Shepherd"

"Well, we are heading down to day-care to pick up Josh, so we will walk with you" Derek wasn't sure why but in that moment Meredith looked totally heartbroken, and he didn't know why, Josh was his nephew, and when he heard Mark explaining that fact, Derek was confused especially when he noticed the small smile that covered Meredith's face. She was so beautiful when she smiled, and when she lifted her head up and caught his eyes, he felt himself being drawn and it felt so natural as if these were the eyes of his soul mate.

The dinging of the elevator brought them both back to reality.

Meredith rushed past Derek and Mark, wanting to get out of that elevator as quick as possible; it was all just too hard. Once she reached the day care centre she greeted Katie, and went call out to Ava, who looked up and gave her mom a huge smile, her father's smile.

"Mama" she called out as she ran toward her mother. "Miss me"

"More than you know, baba"

"wub you mama"

"I love you too baby" Meredith whispered back to her daughter, running her fingers through her daughter's curls, she could feel his eyes on her, and the feeling made her want to melt into his arms.

"Hi" Ava said waving at Derek.

"Hi Ava" Derek said back to her, Meredith took a deep breath before turning to face him.

"Ava we are going home now."

"Mama pay..."

"Mommy will play with you" Meredith said grabbing her bag, Ava leant forward and held her arms out to Derek.

"Dada" Ava said innocently. Meredith gasped, her heart beating a mile a minutes.

"I'm sorry Dr Shepherd, she has been doing that a lot lately" Meredith lied, she saw the soft look in Derek's eyes, like he was looking at Ava as his daughter, and it scared her. "Drs Sloan, Shepherd, I will see you tomorrow" Meredith said quickly, rushing pass them again, but this time Derek reached out and grabbed her arm.

"Please don't touch me, Derek, please let me go" she said so sadly that it broke Derek's heart, he let her go, and suddenly he remembered something else.

"Meredith, is everything alright?" Derek questioned her holding on to her arm, Meredith quickly withdraw her arm, like she had received an electric shock.

"That is none of your business DR Shepherd"

"Meredith..."

"Dr Shepherd, it is Dr Grey to you" Meredith said coldly.

"Mer..." Derek said, and Meredith winced as he called her by her shortened name, like he used too, before he chose her.

"Dr Shepherd, until i leave Seattle, you will call me Dr Grey, and only if you have too, otherwise I don't want to hear from you unless it is for a professional reason" Meredith said, tears threatening to fall, before quickly walking away from him. Derek stood there watching her, confused at what she meant about leaving.

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