iLove

Chapter 52

Derek was scrubbing out from a successful surgery and sighed as he worried about his pregnant wife and all the hours that she was working. He wanted very much to respect her wishes, but at the same time he knew, as a doctor, that a pregnant mother working that hard and on her feet so much would lead to trouble. The room to the scrub room opened, he looked up at gulped.

"Dr. Grey." He nodded.

"Dr. Shepherd." She smiled "I've been looking for you."

"I was in surgery." He explained "I thought the OR board would have been the first place you would look."

"All is well, it's nothing important." She giggled "I just heard something funny this morning."

"About me?"

"Yes." She said "I heard that you were the father of my daughter's illegitimate child."

"Oh." Derek mumbled in shocked.

"Isn't that funny?"

"Is it?" Derek frowned.

"Well of course." She laughed again "To think that someone so highly esteemed as yourself would mingle with my daughter, an intern, that way. And everyone knows that you are quite fond of Addison."

"Do they?" Derek asked "I wasn't aware that our friendship was being taken that way."

"Well she's a good looking woman, you're a fairly attractive man. I would say it's only a matter of time, everyone knows that."

"Huh." Derek mumbled "Well I guess people surprise you."

"Yes, they can."

"Actually Dr. Grey I..." he was cut off by the sound of the beeper, Ellis reached down and grabbed it from her pocket.

"Well I won't waste any more of your time Dr. Shepherd." She said "I just thought you might get a kick out of that."

Derek frowned and after she left he rolled his eyes and sighed. He left the scrub room and walked down the hallway, he looked in and out of a few patient rooms before he spotted the object of his desire standing against the nurses' station, filling out a chart and massaging her lower back with her free hand. He walked up behind her with a slight smirk on his back and glanced around to make sure the coast was clear before he grabbed her waist and started massaging his thumbs in tiny circles. She jumped and whipped her head around to see him.

"What are you doing!" she gasped.

"You really need to sit down." He said "You look like hell."

"Why thank you dear," she muttered "you're looking really great today too."

"You know what I mean." He said "You're almost thirty weeks pregnant, you need to stay off your feet as much as you can."

"And you know very well that I can't do that." She argued "I'm a doctor, and doctors don't get time to sit."

"Fine." He sighed with defeat. "You'll never believe what I heard out of your mother's mouth today."

"Oh." She mumbled and looked up from the chart, "I bet I can take a pretty good guess."

"Have you heard the rumor too?" he asked.

"The one where we're in love, married and having a not so illegitimate child together?" she asked

"Yeah." He frowned. "Where did you hear it?"

"Out of the horses' mouth." She mumbled. Derek frowned in thought "I told her."

"What!" he mumbled.

"She made me feel bad that I hadn't told her who the father of the baby was yet." Meredith explained "And George kind of pushed me off the edge by mentioning my marriage and she heard him. So I told her."

"Really well..um..well what did she say, how did she respond?" Derek stuttered.

"She laughed."

"She laughed?"

"Yeah, she laughed. Like hysterically, it was really kind of freaky. And of course she didn't believe me. She thought I made it up and that you and Addison are about to fall in love any day."

Derek chuckled, Meredith tilted her head and narrowed her eyes at him which made him laugh harder.

"Why is this my reaction from everyone today?" she muttered "And there is nothing funny about people thinking you're with Addison..."

"We're just friends." Derek smiled.

"How can I be so sure of that?" Meredith frowned "She's been very nice, but obviously my mother has the right to think it's more than that."

"You're mother is delusional."

"This I know." Meredith agreed but still had a deep crease in her brow "but not comforting to me."

"Meredith, I love you, I'm married to you. You have nothing to worry about." He smiled, she pressed her lips together, still not convinced "If I tell you something that will ease your mind will you swear yourself to secrecy."

"Of course." She said, now curious. Derek leaned in to her and whispered in her ear.

"Addison isn't interested in men."

"Well why not, who else could she possibly be interested in?" Meredith frowned, Derek smirked and scanned down her body and up again, Meredith gasped "Oh god, are you serious?"

"As a heart attack." He said. Meredith thought about it a minute and then got a disturbed look on her face.

"But she's..."

"A hundred and ten percent professional." He smiled "Besides, I think she has a thing for brunettes."

"Whew." Meredith breathed "That actually kind of makes sense."

"Really?" Derek frowned "I had no idea until she told me."

"Well you're not very observant either."

"What do you mean." He seemed offended "Well it's like all the hot guys, they're either taken or gay. And Addison is.. well very pretty. And she never really looks twice at you, when all the nurses can't keep their faces straight when you're walking down the hall. And if that weren't enough of a clue, she's always leaving the bar with Dr. Torres, you never want to assume...but after a while it makes you wonder."

"Huh." Derek sighed "I never even noticed that before."

"Like I said," she smirked "You're not very observant."

"Maybe I just have my eyes on other things." He said, she rolled her eyes "So since your mother knows, can we finally be more public about us?"

"Yes, I told her. But Derek she doesn't believe me." Meredith said "I think if she saw you plant one on me she might have a stroke!"

"And that would be a bad thing?" he raised his brow, she swatted his shoulder "Owe! Ok, no PDA."

"Thank you." She sighed.

"I still think you should sit down, your ankles looked a little swollen this morning." He said, she turned and placed a hand on her hip and glared.

"Are you saying I'm fat!" she muttered

"Swollen and fat are two entirely different things." He stuttered.

"Well they're bigger, and bigger is fat. So you're calling me fat!"

Derek opened and closed his mouth three times before he sighed and cleared his throat. So this was how the next ten weeks was going to go...

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