Open Your Eyes

He Would Keep His Girls Safe

"Okay Derek the kids are all good to go home." Miranda says signing the discharge papers for them all.

"Thank you Miranda for everything especially the past 10 days."

"It's my pleasure Derek." She says smiling at the kids. "Now let me hold Noah one last time."

Derek passes Noah over to Miranda and he starts dressing the kids. Amy and Carolyn were flying in later tonight so he had the chance to get the kids settled in the house and try and get the routine set up again and finish the nursery off. Noah was being discharged tomorrow night so he had the chance to get the house ready for the new baby and find the car seat and the pram and the basinet and everything else that they had packed away ready for a month's time not now.

But Derek had decided it was best that they stay in the house in town so it was close to town and they could visit Meredith. They had always kept this house and rented it out to Lexie but she soon packed up and moved so they were the owners of the house and made use of it especially if they had a late shift.

Miranda's pager sounded. "That's me." She says lying Noah down in the bassinet.

"He'll still be in the nursery today and tomorrow. So you'll still be able to see him."

"I know. I just wanted another cuddle while he was still out with you." She says. "I'll see you around Derek. Bye kids."

"Bye Mandy." They all say.

Derek finished dressing Kendall and he was ready to take the kids home. He had to buy a new car as well considering theirs was no way driveable. He also had to replace the car seats. They had gotten their stuff back from the car and it was waiting at home already.

"So I will pack these clothes away then we will see mummy. I'll take Noah to the nursery and then we can go home." He tells the kids.

"Daddy when will mummy come home?" Sophie asks.

"Hopefully soon. She still needs to recover. Remember that."

"I will."

He packed the bags and the 5 of them walked down to the elevator to get to the floor Meredith was one. She had been moved to a private room and was no longer in ICU. She still had ICU restrictions and always had someone checking her close to the hour.

"Okay here we are kids." Derek says.

All three kids run over to Meredith's side and climb up onto the bed.

Derek picks Noah up and walks outside the room.

"Hey you going home?" He hears and turns to see Mark coming up behind him.

"Yeah we are. Just getting the kids to say goodbye to Mer then this little one is going back to the nursery and we are heading home and I am getting the nursery finished."

"Well I'm off at 5. I'll come around and give you a hand."

"Thanks." He says.

"Say when the kids are finished I'll take them to get something to eat and you can sit with Mer for a bit and Noah can have some time with his mummy."

"Thanks Mark."

The kids had spent 10 minutes saying goodbye to Meredith and just talking to her. They kissed her goodbye and headed down to the cafeteria with Mark. Derek walked into her room and laid Noah by her face for some skin to skin contact. He kicked his legs and started to suck her face. Derek smiled knowing that Noah knew that this was his mummy and that he missed her.

"Meredith Noah is here to see you. He misses you and hopes you wake up in the next few days so you can come home soon and be his mummy."

Derek held him and sat on her bed.