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 mother's house. I turn off the car and get out of the car.
"Meredith, can we talk about this first? I don't want to fight in front of the kids," he stops me at the front door.
"No, Derek. I don't want to talk about this, we're picking up the kids. Open the front door," I say.
"You can't do it?" He scoffs.
"No, it's your mother," I say. He rolls his eyes and opens the front door.
"You have to knock, idiot," I knock a few times before going inside.
"Mommy! Daddy!" The twins run over to me as they see me walk in.
"Hello, babies, did you have fun with grandma?" I crouch down to hug them. They both nod. I stand up and they run over to Derek. They hug him.
"Are you two ready to go back to the hotel?" I ask.
"No! Can stay here with Nana?" Mallory asks. "Sweetheart, Nana has a busy day," I tell her. She whines.
"Did you ask her, did she tell you that Derek says looking at me. "I thought you didn't want to do this in front of the kids," I glare. He glares at me.
"Ask who what?" Carolyn walks into the room. "Nothing, it's fine," I force a smile.
"Why don't you tell her and then she can decide if she has a busy day or not," he says.
"Right back to where this started, so I was right?" I say. "Or maybe you shouldn't answer for other people," he says.
"Alright, you don't you two leave the kids here for a bit longer until you have whatever argument talked out," she says.
"Yay!" The twins say. Derek gives me a stupid smirk that says 'I told you so'
"You want to talk this out? I'm not the one at fault for this, you don't like that I can't trust you that's your fault," I say as I walk out of the house.
"What do you want me to do? I told you when I came back that I wanted to be in their lives!" He says closing the door behind him as we're now outside.
"Yeah, the twins. You weren't expecting a third, you couldn't stay for the twins why would you want to stay for three of them.. you'll be here the entire pregnancy, pretending to be supportive and then when the baby's actually born your new wife will show up and then you'll move, and then when the baby is two years old you'll come back crying whining about some depressive state and that's your excuse!" I say.
"Meredith, how many times do I have to tell you it's not like that? All I wanted was for my mother to spend some extra time with the kids because she doesn't see them very often, why are you taking it the wrong way? Why do you assume it's because I don't want to be a father?" He says.
"Because that was the reason you left someone alone with your kids two years ago and you never came back!" I yell.
"Do you really think that's going to happen again? Do you really think I'm going to leave after this baby is born?" He asks but he's no longer yelling, his voice is calmer.
"I don't know what's going to happen when this baby is born, all I know is the last time I gave birth you left for two years, how am I supposed to know that's not going to happen again, how am I supposed to be sure I won't be raising three kids alone?" I stop yelling, letting the tears fill my eyes.
"Because I'm saying I won't," he pleads. "You said that last time, you were there for the entire pregnancy, you were happy when you found out we were having twins.. I actually believed you wanted to be a father... and then Addison came, she drugged me and kidnapped our children.. and you left with her, you chose a mentally insane woman over a sane woman and your newborn twins... how am I supposed to believe you actually want to be with me and have a third child?" I say as a few tears fall.
"Because it won't. I know how to be a father now and I'm happy with it, I've seen the way Burke is with Theo, I can see the regret in his eyes when he talks about him or looks at him... I don't look at Mallory or Miles that way and I won't look at our baby that way... I know that I want this, I can't picture my life any other way than with you and the kids.. I go to therapy so I don't go back to where I was three years ago," he says.
"Whatever. I don't want to do this anymore," I sigh. I don't have the energy to argue anymore.
"You don't want to do what anymore?" He asks.
"I don't want to argue anymore, the kids can stay the night with your mother if she's fine with it. I'm just too tired for this," I say.
"Fine, I'll go talk to her," he says. He turns around to go back into the house. I look at the living room window and I see Mallory and Miles looking at me through the window. they were watching us argue.
Derek walks into the house and they turn to look at him. They jump off the couch and run over to him.
When Derek finishes talking to Carolyn, I give him the keys and he drives us back to the hotel.
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