This takes place at the beginning of season 2. After Meredith found out about Derek wife and is trying to move on from him. But something comes up might change her life forever.
we arrive at Derek's mothers place. I had to carry Mallory out of the car because she was nervous. Miles doesn't seem to worried if their going to like him or not, he's more like Derek and Mallory's more like me.
"Mommy, I scawed," Mallory whispers as she presses herself into my coat.
"I know, me too," I kiss her head.
"You to have nothing to be scared of, you've met my mother and loves you and the kids,"
"You said Auntie Nancy mean," Mallory says.
"I look like Daddy, they like Daddy," Miles says.
"See? Miles isn't scared," Derek says. "Yeah, for the same reason he just mentioned," I say.
"You two will live, you might have some mental scaring but you grew up with Ellis grey as a mother and Mallory's too young to remember anything," he says.
"Just knock on the door, they probably heard the car and wonder what we're doing so knock on it," I say.
"No, I used to live here," he says before opening the front door and walking in.
"he makes everything so complicated," I whisper to Mallory who still has her head pressed into my coat.
"I have to take off my coat, can I put you down," I say as Derek closes the door behind us. she nods.
I place her down on the floor and she wraps her arms around my legs as I take off my coat and hand it and my purse to Derek.
Carolyn walks into the room. "Mama," Mallory says putting her arms in the air.
"it's okay, it's your Grandma," I pick her up again.
"Gentle," I tell her as she accidently kicks my stomach.
"baby?" she asks. "Mhm," I nod. Carolyn looks at me a bit before looking down at my stomach.
"the others aren't here yet so you two can relax a bit, Nancy's kids are here because was here but she forgot her husband so she'll be back later," she says.
Carolyn greets us and we talk to her for a bit before she turns her attention to Miles.
While Carolyn is talking to Miles Derek places his hand on my back and leads me into the living room.
"if you feel uncomfortable or if you have to throw up or feel sick let me know, okay?" he whispers in my ear.
"Okay," I say.
Derek sits down and I sit down next to him.
"Do you want to go play with Miles?" I ask Mallory as she's sat in my lap.
she shakes her head no.
"Why are you so scared, only Nancy's kids are here and they haven't turned into her yet. if you get scared you can go play with Miles," Derek tells her.
"if you get too scared you can come back to me and Daddy," I whisper to her before kissing her head. she hesitates for a bit before she slowly slides off my lap and goes over to where Miles is.
"she's really shy, we should try to get her out of her comfort zone a bit more," he says as he wraps his arm around me.
"I don't know, I don't want to make her nervous or make her upset.. I agree she should be around more kids which she will have to do when she goes to pre-school," I say.
"why do you seem scared of that idea?" he asks.
"I don't know, I was a lot like her when I was a child and I grew up preferring to be being alone and I hated when people tried making friends with kids I hardly knew and didn't want to know," I say.
"So you're looking at this from five year old Meredith's perspective?" he asks.
"Yes, five-year-old Meredith wouldn't wish that on anyone, especially her own daughter," I say.
"Well, maybe Miles can help her, he's the more extroverted one," he says.
"he gets it from you, and Mallory gets it from me," I say.
"I hope the new baby looks like you, I'm happy to have twins that look exactly like me but want a little you running around," he smiles.
"that would be scary," smile.
"No it wouldn't, it would be cute. I want to know what you looked like as a kid," he says.
"I have photos, and just picture Mallory but blonde," I say.
"Either way with our genetics the baby will be beautiful, at least we don't have to worry about having an ugly baby," he says. I laugh.
