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Chapter 50

"Finally!" Meredith moaned as she gently fell down into her bed after working another long shift "I hate being an intern."

"It won't last forever." Derek chuckled as he kicked his shoes off and sat down on the bed "How are your feet?"

"Feet?" she asked and mimicked a glance down "Do I still have those?"
Derek chuckled again "Yes, and how do they feel?"

"Like they've been walked around on for the last hundred hours." She moaned and settled against her pillows, Derek took the liberty of taking them into his hands and beginning to softly massage them, she moaned in pleasure and smiled at him over the large lump between them, Addison wasn't kidding, she'd really popped in the last week and of course the hospital was all abuzz about who could have caused the bump. "Thank you."

"Any time." He smiled "Has your mother eased up any?"

"No." Meredith groaned "She's intent to give me hell until I tell her about.. well, you."
"Meredith tell her."

"No." she sighed "Because that's what she wants, and I'm not ready for the both of us to face that kind of wrath."

"And I don't want you and the baby suffering just because of me." Derek said "If she keeps it up she'll throw you into pre-term labor."

"I'm fine." Meredith assured him "I haven't felt a twinge." She gasped and placed her hand over the spot on her belly where she felt the pain. Derek looked at her wide eyed and worried. "Oh!"

"What is it!" he stuttered nervously "What's wrong, was it a contraction!"

"No." Meredith said through her spreading smile "It was a kick."

"Really?" Derek grinned, his eyes sparkled so brightly they could have lit up a midnight sky.

"Yes." She smiled, and grabbed his hand and placed it over the spot where she felt the first kick. A second later there was another one, Derek's smile was response enough that he'd felt it too. "Amazing how it can go from feeling like gas to that."

"I'll take your word for it." Derek laughed, "You know we're going to have to find a name for the little kicker."

"If he keeps it up we'll just call him Soccer." She said "Or maybe Rugby."

"No." Derek laughed "We're doctors, we can be more creative than that. And what do you mean he?"

"Just a feeling." She shrugged "But yesterday I was thinking 'she' so don't listen to me." She sighed "Open my nightstand drawer."

Derek cocked an eye brow and smirked "In the mood for a little fun, huh."

"The book!" she scoffed "Get your mind out of the damn gutter!"

Derek rolled his eyes and opened the drawer, he saw the book '10,000 baby names' and it made sense. He smiled as he flipped it open.

"So I guess just start anywhere?" he asked, she nodded and he flipped through the pages "Let's start with girls... Olivia?"

"No." Meredith curled up her lip "I've heard like at least three a day in the ER."

"Madelyn?"

"Same thing."

"This is a heavily populated area Meredith." Derek sighed "There's going to be a lot of names."

"So lets find one that we don't hear daily." She said and rubbed her belly affectionately "Our little kicker deserves a name unique enough as he or she is but not something totally off the wall."

"Ok." He nodded "Scarlet?"

"As in fish lips Johansen?" Meredith raised her brow "No."

Derek shook his head and saw a name and smiled "How about Megan?"

"Megan?" Meredith frowned.

"Yeah," he said "As in Meg, your screen name. What started this all."

"Ok that's kind of a cute idea." Meredith smiled "but I don't like Megan enough. And if it's a boy I am not naming him Dashiel, this isn't the seventeen-hundreds."

"Then how about the initials then."

"We could do that."

"Ok, M names. This'll be easy." Derek said, Meredith raised her brow "Easier.." he flipped to the middle of the book and sighed "Margaret?" she shook her head "Madeline?" another head shake "Marion?" she thought about it for a second then shook her head "Mathilda?" she shook her head vigorously and scowled, he let out a sigh and looked thoroughly across the page and smiled "Morgan?"

"Oh!" Meredith gasped as she rubbed her belly where she felt another kick "I think the baby likes that, and I do too."

"So Morgan it is...now onto the E names." He said flipping through the book "Emma?"

"Morgan Emma." Meredith pondered "I like it."

"What about the G?" he asked

"Grey." Meredith said "Morgan Emma Grey Shepherd...God she'll hate us when she has to write that out."

"Perhaps." Derek chuckled "Now, what about boys?"

"Give me the book, it's my turn to annoy the hell out of you for names." She said "I ask, you veto."

"Ok." Derek rolled his eyes. "Give me your worst."

"Dallan?" she asked.

"Veto."

"Dallas?"

"Veto."

"Dakota?"

"Veto!" he scoffed "I was kidding about the worst part."

Meredith rolled her eyes "Denver? Dempsey? Dillon?"

"Dempsey has a ring to it but I can't picture it on a kid." He said "You know, we don't have to do the dash thing with a boy."

"Oh thank god!" Meredith sighed "I'm really not liking and D names for a boy unless you want a Derek Jr."

"No." he said immediately.

"Kameron?" she asked, he thought for a second then shook his head "Aiden?" he shook his head "Ryder?" he shook his head dramatically "Carter."

"Carter." He repeated it "I kind of like it."

"Then Carter Alexander Shepherd it is." She sighed with relief "I think it'll suit him well."

"You know his initials will be CASH right?" he smirked.

She rolled her eyes and tossed the book across the room "I'm done with baby names, now I want some fun."

Derek grinned as his eyes darkened and smoldered.

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