This Life

Chapter 24

Beep, beep, beep.

"What is that noise?" Derek said his voice groggy with sleep.

"Stupid alarm clock," Meredith muttered.

"Turn it off".

"You turn it off," Meredith replied

"Your side of the bed".

"I would – only I can't move – I think I'm stuck to the bed sheets," Meredith giggled.

Derek was now definitely awake and rolled over on top of Meredith and turned off the annoying alarm clock. He kissed her on the lips. "Stuck to the bed sheets?" he said as he raised an eyebrow at her.

"You must have missed some of that chocolate sauce last night," Meredith smiled.

"Must have... "Derek said as he started to kiss down on her neck and down to her breasts.

"Um Derek... needs to get up... work..."

"Quickie, need my Saturday morning quickie," Derek said in between kisses.

"Mama, dada!" Beth choose that exact moment to start singing and demand their attention.

"Perfect timing Beth," Derek said as he stood up and got out of bed. "I'll get Beth and start breakfast."

"Okay – I think I will go shower – get the chocolate of my body," Meredith said as she too got out of bed and headed for the bathroom.

Derek groaned at the image in his brain "Beth could you not have slept for another ten minutes," he muttered as he headed for room.
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Forty five minutes later and they were all in the car and heading to the hospital.

"Remind me why you are working today?" Derek asked Meredith

"Because I had a check up yesterday with Dr Torres and Weller and thought it would be easier to take the day off, and Mel wanted to swap shifts so she covered my Friday shift and I cover her Saturday. Besides I want to see how Toni is getting on," Meredith answered.

"Toni?" Derek asked.

"New member of baby room staff evenings and weekends. From what I have heard from Mel and the others she is not exactly a team player and sits around all day and does nothing. I want to see for myself before I say anything to her," Meredith explained.

Twenty minutes later and they were all in the crèche. Beth was giving Derek twenty goodbye kisses while Meredith chatted with Helen one of the nightshift staff.

Derek finally escaped Beth and ran over to Meredith "I have to go – I have a tumor removal to prep for – I'll meet you for lunch later?"

"I don't know if I can get away – we have a few more babies in than I thought," Meredith said.

"Well in that case I will bring lunch to you" Derek kissed her "I'll see you later," He said as he headed for the lift.

By 7am Meredith had an hour of her shift over and was sitting playing with Carrie one of the new babies to the crèche. She was only twelve weeks old and it was her parents first week back at work and both were on call today. An hour in and Meredith already had one cup of coffee in her as she and Helen chatted about everything non work related when Megan and Toni arrived for their shifts.

Helen stood up and yawned "My cue to leave, I'm going home get some sleep, meet my daughter for lunch and see you all again at 4pm," she said as she walked out of the baby room.

"Lucky you," Meredith said before greeting both Megan and Toni and filling them in on the plan for the day.

Only problem was the babies did not want to co-operate with Meredith's plan.
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Derek meanwhile was not having a good morning. His tumor removal patient had taken a turn for the worse and died before he could start surgery. Derek had then been paged to the pit for a consult and now Mark wanted to talk to him.