You've got a Way

57.

Somebody should have told Meredith and Derek that life could be this wonderful because as they lay on the couch of their small apartment, they didn't think they could be any happier. They missed their daughter who had left last week with her stepmother and his mother to go to New York. She would be gone another week then she would be home and things would be even better. Their three week marriage thus far had been perfect.

The sex was great, everything was great and the planning on getting pregnant thing didn't scare her anymore. Emma deserved to have someone else around while her mother and father worked insane hours, which would start to happen in a year or two and Meredith wanted Emma to be happy. They would all be insanely happy and Meredith thought someone would tell her that it wasn't normal to be this happy.

But she couldn't stop smiling and Derek was stroking her back and kissing her head and she was sure that they could never be apart again. Everything seemed like the perfect new beginning, except for the fact that her leg had fallen asleep. That sucked and the idea of moving it sucked even more because she was warm and in a sex haze.

Everything they had done in the three weeks since their wedding had led up to sex or ended with sex or been initiated with sex and they were good at it. No doubt about that. Sex was their thing and Meredith knew that she was one lucky girl. Not that it was all about the sex. It was about the happiness because they had once been unhappy.

There was s time when Derek didn't know he had a baby. He had gone to perform a planned year residency in Spain, which turned into more then a year and then he had come back to find Meredith hiding an eleven month old daughter from him. He had been with Addison but after the fighting and the breaking up with Addison they had found that they were the ones for each other. She had always been in lovewith Derek Shepherd and he had loved her just as much. So without much more fighting the idea, their old history had gone out the window. Every now and then they fought about it, but it was no longer anything big. They had been friends with benefits, she got pregnant and never told him while he was in another country and it had been a mess. Their mess and it was perfect. Not that it hadn't been horrible. It had but now it was amazing and they were back where they belonged. They had an infant daughter, who would be two in a few months and a baby they were trying to make.

The baby they were making while she was halfway through her third year of Med School. Having Emma had thrown her behind, but now she was on track and she would figure something out when she got pregnant because she was going to be a student. A med student who was going to have to slow down again during the pregnancy and then figure out some sort of something. Even his mother told her she was crazy to go to school and then get pregnant again before her internship. But, this is what they wanted. They wanted this and Derek deserved another baby too. He had missed the most important moments of Emma's life and she could never let that happen again. They would be fine with this, especially with Derek being an attending now. They were ready. "Mmm...."

"We need a fireplace...we should lie in front of the fire...naked..."

"We'll have one in the new house."

"Speaking of the new house..." Derek smiled, kissing her neck.

"Hmm?" She giggled, running her hands over his chest.

"I talked to the contractor the other day."

"And?" She yawned, looking at the empty floor in front of them where toys normally stayed.

"It should be ready to move in this summer."

"Really?" She looked up, a deep smile on her face.

"Really." He nodded.

"Wow...that's big." She breathed, lifting her head.

"Of course...I had to bribe him..."