All of Your Life

Breakfast

Derek woke up to an empty bed; he usually woke before Meredith; as she wasn't a morning person but apparently that was not true to say this morning. He grabbed his robe off the chair and he made his way downstairs to find Meredith in the kitchen; standing at the stove. He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist, and buried his nose in her hair taking in a deep breath, breathing in the smell of her lavender conditioner, before dropping a kiss in the crook of her neck.

"Good morning beautiful" he whispered in her ear. "What are you doing?" he asked, knowing full well that she rarely cooked breakfast.

"Cooking breakfast, i do have a two year old to feed and pancakes I can do as long as I don't get distracted" she told him, even though he knew that.

"Is that a hint?" he said, nibbling on her earlobe, his hands working their way underneath her shorts when they heard Ava calling out through the baby monitor.

"Mama...dada" Derek groaned and dropped another kiss on the crook of her neck.

"I'll go and get her, you finish cooking breakfast, please try not to burn the house down" he said with a laugh as Meredith threw a tea towel at him.

"Go and get our daughter" she said to him; before turning back to the stove seeing the burnt pancakes in the pan. She muttered to herself 'that is why i didn't want any distractions'.

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Derek walked into Ava's bedroom expecting to find her as usual stood up in her cot, babbling to herself, but has he walked in, he found Ava with her leg over the top of the bars.

"Ava, what are you doing?" he cried out, rushing over to her, on hearing her daddy's voice she looked up at her daddy and smiled.

"Dada, Av out" she said excitedly, not understanding why her daddy looked upset at her.

"Ava, you have to stay in the cot, you could fall and hurt yourself" he told her, grabbing her, scared that she would fall.

"No" she cried out. "Av wan mama"

"Ava"

"No dada, Mama, Mama" she cried out.

"Derek is everything alright?" Meredith asked standing in the doorway.

"Mama" Ava said wriggling in her father's arm, at hearing her mother's voice. On seeing her mommy, she outstretched her arms and Derek put her on the floor as she continued to wriggle in his arms, as soon as he let her go, she ran over to her mommy, who bent down and picked her up. "Av...Big gurl" she said, resting her head on her mother shoulder.

"I found her trying to climb out of her cot" Derek told her, Meredith nodded before turning to her daughter.

"Ava, mommy told you to stop doing that, you will fall and hurt yourself" Meredith said to her daughter running her fingers through Ava's curls like she did every morning.

"Wait, you never told me she tried to do that"

"Derek she has been trying to climb out of her cot since she was 18 months, i think it time we try her with a big bed. What do you say Ava?"

"Bed, mama and dada bed?" she asked innocently.

"Not quite baba" Meredith said smiling at Ava as she turned back to Derek "The cot
transforms into a child bed, so I think we should maybe do that today"

"Is she old enough, i don't think it's safe"

"Derek, she is 2 and half, i was going to take her out of the cot in a few months anyway, and I would rather do it early than risk her hurting herself. And if it works, next year she can have a proper bed" she told him, giving Ava another kiss on the head. "Let's go and get some breakfast?"

"Pan...pan momma"

"Yes, mommy done you pancakes, it is the only thing mommy knows how to cook" she said. "You coming?" she turned back to Derek.

"Yeah i will there in a minute"

"Okay, love you" Mer said carrying their daughter out of the nursery taking Ava downstairs, while Derek looked around Ava's bedroom, thinking about what Meredith said, and decided that he would transform her cot his afternoon, since he had the day off.

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Meredith placed Ava in her high chair, placing her pancakes in front of her and Ava tucked right in, just has Derek came into the kitchen.

"Derek, you okay?"

"Yeah" he said as she put his plate in front of him, Derek pulled her down onto his lap.

"Derek; what are you doing?" she squealed, as he started to nibble on her neck and
run his hands up and down her sides.

"Nothing"

"I should hope not, our daughter is at the table" she said, taking a quick glance over to where Ava was sat and satisfied that she was still eating and not paying any attention to them, before she made the move to quickly straddle him. She quickly gyrated her hips over him and kissed him hard before she pulled away and got up to sit on the other side of the table.

"Meredith" He groaned at her as his pants became entirely uncomfortable

"Derek" she said in response, making eye contact with him whilst grinning seductively at him before looking away and busying herself with Ava. As he watched Meredith and Ava, the plans that he had made earlier fell to the wayside. He decided that he needed to spend time with them as a family, he needed to spend time with Meredith and Ava, but also alone with Meredith, smiling to himself he started eating, while sneaking glances towards his girlfriend and daughter, the two women in his life who meant more than anything to him.