A/N: Okay, so this is a companion piece to my one-shot "Sweet Distractions." This fic is actually a series of disjointed one-shots, all compiled into one multi-chapter fic. Each chapter is going to be a standalone one-shot, so there will be no connection between two consecutive chapters. The idea for this fic came to my mind after a guest reviewer asked me to write such a fic in his/her review to "Sweet Distractions." Guest reviewer, I don't know if you are reading this, but if you are, I'd like to thank you for giving me the idea. This fic is going to continue the theme of "Sweet Distractions" i.e., light-hearted MerDer fluff, snuzzles, snuggles, porny goodness, humour and McFamily moments will form the crux of this fic. Light angst will be infused too, but don't worry, it'll be very light. Without further ado, I give you "Sweet Nothings."

Touch my shoulder

Kiss my neck

Whisper your love...

Sweet Nothings turn the ordinary into the extraordinary...

Meredith paced in the nursery, gently rocking baby Ellis in her arms. Ellis had been fussing more than usual that night after her meal, so Meredith was pacing around the room in order to calm the fussy baby. Ellis loved being rocked in her mother's arms, and so far, the trick was working successfully. The baby's tiny head was pillowed on the top of Meredith's right breast, and Ellis was drooling all over her mother's skin amidst her gentle slumber. Meredith placed one palm on Ellis' head and another on Ellis' back and continued rocking her baby girl.

Meredith had returned from work early that day, so that she could spend some time with her three precious jewels. But, from the minute she had come back, she had noticed that Ellis was fussing a lot, which was unusual since Ellis was generally a very quiet baby. Meredith had thought at first that Ellis was hungry, so she had fed Ellis and then Meredith had given her a bath. But, even after the meal and the bath were over, Ellis had been refusing to calm down and go to sleep. Meredith had spent hours trying to calm the baby down, which had spoiled all her plans of having some quality time with Zola and Bailey.

Now, Meredith lowered her head to see that after an entire evening of fussing and crying, her little girl had finally sunk into a slumber. Meredith slowly ceased the rocking and then made her way over to Ellis' crib. She gently lowered the baby in her cradle and then paused for a minute, taking the time to appreciate her baby girl's beauty. Ellis was a photocopy of her father; a miniature Derek, right from the ebony curls to the prominent chin. Only her eyes were like her mother, grey-green and sharp, like a cat. Ellis was already so beautiful; Meredith was sure that her second daughter was going to turn even more beautiful as she grew up. Ellis was going to be a heartbreaker when she finally started dating, Meredith mused. Caressing her daughter's forehead one last time, Meredith dimmed the lights of the nursery, put on some soft music, which was another trick to ensure that Ellis slept through the night, and then slowly retreated from the room.

On her way to the living room, Meredith decided to check on her two other children who had already gone to bed. She made her first stop at Zola's room, where she saw that her princess was sleeping peacefully and emitting loud snores. Meredith smiled unconsciously as she tip-toed inside the room and looked down on her elder daughter's gentle, sleeping face. Zola was growing up so fast, faster than either Meredith or Derek had anticipated. Meredith could already see the features of a beautiful, busy six-year old girl taking over Zola's baby-like face. Six years old, Meredith's baby girl was six years old now, and it only seemed like yesterday when Meredith's eyes had first alighted on her baby. Placing a soft kiss on Zola's forehead, Meredith gently pulled the sheets over Zola's half-covered body, careful not to wake her up from her deep slumber. Then, Meredith tip-toed out of the room the same way in which she had come in.

Meredith's next stop was Bailey's bedroom, and Meredith opened the door of the bedroom ever so slightly to peer inside. Bailey was a light sleeper like his father, and the slightest movement or noise was enough to wake him up from his sleep. However, as Meredith peered in leerily, a movement beneath the bedcovers caught her eye. Bailey was moving under the covers and Bailey rarely moved in his sleep, which only meant one thing, Bailey was awake.

Meredith opened the door wider, the light from the corridor outside flooding the bedroom, and then she slowly made her way to Bailey's bed. When she approached it, she saw that her boy was lying wide-eyed on the bed, his eyes trained on the wall to which his bed was attached.

"Bails?" Meredith whispered through the silence of the night.

Bailey quickly turned on his side and his face was covered in consternation on being discovered lying awake by his mother. "Mommy?" he whispered back in the same tone.

Meredith crouched down beside Bailey's bed and whispered softly, "Sweetie, what are you doing, staying up so late at night?"

Bailey's eyes shifted a little, slightly embarrassed at being caught. After a moment, he rejoined, "I couldn't sleep, Mommy."

Meredith sighed and placed her palm on Bailey's forehead lovingly. Threading her fingers through his thick, honey-blonde locks that resembled her own, Meredith said, "Honey, why didn't you call me if you were having trouble falling asleep?"

A guilty look took over Bailey's childlike features then, and he mumbled out, "You were already having tho much touble in putting Ellie to bed; I didn't want to touble you too."His lisped speech was unclear to everyone else, but not to his mother.

Meredith's mouth fell open slightly at her boy's words, astounded by the fact that Bailey thought he'd be troubling her as well as the fact that a sense of responsibility had already crept into her little boy's disposition at such a young and tender age, unbeknownst to everyone.

She quickly recovered from her profound astonishment, and replied soothingly yet firmly, "Honey, you would never trouble me. I love you so much that nothing you can ever say or do will ever trouble your mommy. So, don't think like that ever again, okay?"

A look of relief crept onto Bailey's facial features and he smiled like a Cheshire cat at his mother, and then nodded his head. "Okay, Mommy. I love you lots too."

Meredith smiled at her boy's words and then asked gently, "Now, tell me, what will help you sleep? Mommy is here for you now, just tell me."

Bailey pondered for a minute, his face taking on a sombre and pensive expression that did not befit a three year old at all, and then replied, "Can you read me a story?"

Meredith grinned at him as she noticed the mischief sparkling in his blue eyes, the eyes that he had inherited from his father. "Oh, so that's what you really wanted, huh?" she tickled him with her fingers and Bailey erupted into a fit of giggles, with his mother joining him.

After mother and son's giggles had ceased, Meredith asked, "Okay, so what do want me to read to you today? 'The Handsomest Husky?' Or 'Hansel and Gretel?' Or, maybe 'Puss in Boots?' Which one?"

Bailey shook his head no. Meredith bit her lip, trying to come up with a good story that she could read out to her son. Suddenly, she remembered.

"Okay, then Mommy will read something entirely new and different today. Wait here, I'll come back in a sec." Meredith quickly made her way to the bookshelf in Bailey's room where all his storybooks were kept. After a bit of rummaging here and there, she finally found the book she was looking for. She held the book in her hand and then came back to Bailey's bedside, this time depositing herself on his bed beside him. She lifted her legs on the bed and covered herself and Bailey securely with the covers, then opened the book in her hand.

"Love You Forever by Robert Munsch," Meredith started to read out to her son, balancing the book in one hand and caressing her son's forehead with the other.

"A mother held her new baby and very slowly, rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she held him, she sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."

"I was like the baby one day, right Mommy?" Bailey piped up, interrupting Meredith's voice.

"Yes, honey, you were. And I used to rock you back and forth like that too," Meredith replied to her son's question, brushing a few strands of hair away from his forehead. Then, she resumed her reading.

"The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves. He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet. Sometimes, his mother would say, 'this kid is driving me CRAZY!' But at night time, when that two-year-old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed, and if he was really asleep, she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him, she sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."

Bailey giggled loudly on hearing that. He quickly sobered up though and chimed in, "That's a very naughty boy, Mommy."

Meredith laughed and replied, "Yes, he is honey. Just like you!"

Bailey burst into peals of laughter at that. Then, he pretended to be surprised and said, "But, Mommy, I've never flushed your watch down the toilet!"

Meredith giggled and said, "Well, I am just waiting for the time when you do that," causing Bailey to erupt into laughter once again.

"The little boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was nine years old. And he never wanted to come in for dinner, he never wanted to take a bath, and when grandma visited, he always said bad words. Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo! But at night time, when he was asleep, the mother quietly opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep, she picked up that nine-year-old boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked she sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."

Meredith looked down at her son's face and saw that his eyelids were slowly drooping. Inevitable sleep was slowly but surely overcoming him, and so, she read the next few paragraphs.

"Well, that mother, she got older. She got older and older and older. One day, she called up her son and said, "You'd better come see me because I'm very old and sick."So her son came to see her. When he came in through the door, she tried to sing the song. She sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always...But, she couldn't finish because she was too old and sick. The son went to his mother. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And he sang this song: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my Mommy you'll be."

Meredith paused and shifted her eyes to her son's face. He had fallen into a deep slumber by then, and he was smiling in his sleep. Meredith ran her fingers through his hair and couldn't help but smile too on seeing her little boy growing up. She wondered for a moment whether she should just stop reading and let Bailey sleep, but then she decided to finish reading the story that she had started. So, she continued, this time, reading more to herself than to the sleeping Bailey.

"When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs. Then he went into the room where his very new baby daughter was sleeping. He picked her up in his arms and very slowly rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while he rocked her, he sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."

Meredith finished the story and was surprised to feel moisture in her eyes. Great, now she was crying upon reading a children's story. If Cristina were here, she would have killed Meredith and called her a sap. This was probably true, because Meredith felt like she had turned into a sap. But, Meredith wouldn't trade this for anything else in the world. She shut the book and let her eyes rest on the peaceful face of her sleeping son. She stared at him for a long moment, before she finally gathered herself and untangled her fingers from Bailey's hair. "I'll love you forever, Bails," she whispered into the dark. Pressing a slightly wet kiss on his forehead, Meredith finally made her way out of her son's bedroom.

Meredith flopped down on the couch in the living room, and picked up a medical journal for reading. Derek had sent her a text a few hours ago, saying that he was stuck in an emergency surgery and he would be late. She was waiting for him to come home, so that she could go and take a shower. After she had come home that day, she had been promptly engaged in calming down the fussy Ellis. She had been so involved in trying to calm Ellis down and putting the kids to bed that she had not even found the time to shower after the long day that she had. By now, Meredith was sure that she stank of sweat and dirt, and she couldn't wait to go and take a long, warm shower once Derek came home.

Lights illumined their driveway and minutes later, the front door flung open and Derek stepped inside the house.

"Hey," Derek greeted his wife, coming up to her and placing a quick kiss on her lips.

"Hey," Meredith greeted back as Derek sat down on the couch beside her and took his overcoat and jacket off. "Be quiet, I just sent Ellis and Bailey to bed."

"Now?" Derek asked as he glanced at the clock hanging on their living room wall.

"Well, your littlest princess was being a fussy baby today, and I had to go to great pains to finally put her down. Then, I discovered that your little guy could not sleep, so I sat by him and read to him till he finally drifted off."

"Whoa, what's with all the 'your kids' thing? I thought that they were our kids," Derek chuckled.

"When the kids are being all fussy and difficult, then they are your kids. Other times, ours," Meredith said simply, causing Derek to chortle.

"Shh...What did I tell you about being quiet?" Meredith admonished in a hushed voice.

"Sorry," Derek said and then pulled his wife into his arms. Meredith easily melted in her husband's strong embrace and pillowing her head on his chest, she said, "Our kids are growing up so fast, Derek. Zola's already six, and Bailey is three. And you know what Bailey said to me today? When I asked him why he didn't call me when he couldn't fall asleep, he answered that he didn't want to trouble me as I was already having trouble with putting Ellis down."

Derek pulled back slightly and looked at Meredith in awe. "Bailey said that?"

Meredith nodded her head. "Wow, Mer, our little boy is growing up," Derek commented quietly.

"I know. All of them are growing up and that too, so fast. Even Ellis looked so grown up today; not at all like a newborn baby. Before we know, all of them will be adults and they will move out and then, we will be left alone, like empty nesters," Meredith rasped out, sniffing a little.

"Hmm...Well, that's why I was saying last night that we should have another baby," Derek quipped.

Meredith immediately pulled back from him and smacked him playfully on the chest. "Derek! Not again." She rolled her eyes at him.

Derek chuckled as he pulled her close again. "What? I am just stating the obvious. They are all growing up, so we should have another baby so that we can experience the joys of having a newborn again," he said smartly, a puckish glint in his eyes.

"Oh, really? And how on Earth are we going to manage four kids? We already have enough trouble managing three. Besides, we cannot just have another baby every time we want to experience the joys of having a newborn. That way, I will still be giving birth at 60."

Derek guffawed at her statement and then quickly covered his mouth with his hand to suppress his laughter. After he had finished laughing a great deal, he panted and said, "Fourth one will be the last one, I promise."

Meredith shook her head firmly. "No way am I having another baby; if we have another kid, I will have to kiss my career goodbye forever, because there's no way to handle four kids and a demanding career. Besides, my body and my hoo-ha can't take any more of it; they are at the end of their tether," Meredith rejoined sternly.

"Oh, come on," Derek cajoled as he pressed her lips to hers. Meredith pushed him away and placed her hand on his mouth. "No way in hell."

Derek smirked at her, his cerulean irises sparkling with mischief. "You say that now. You said after Bailey that he'd be the last, but see, I did convince you to have another one. I will convince you again; you can't say no to me," he replied smugly.

"Yes, I can say no to you and I will. No more kids; that's final," Meredith said once more.

"Hmm...We'll see. For now, I'm very very horny, so..."he trailed off, covering Meredith's mouth with his own once more. Meredith let herself melt in her husband's loving embrace and surrendered to his hard and demanding lips. However, she pulled back after a while and said, "Wow, Derek, I've no idea how you want me right now. I haven't showered since I came home; I'm covered in sweat and grime and baby drool. I probably stink and I don't know how you are even sitting near me right now."

Derek smiled at her words. "I don't care if you are covered in sweat and grime and spit; I love you and you will always be sexy to me, even when you are 60. Besides, sweaty is very hot," he said, wiggling his eyebrows.

"You are a pervert and a horny old man! I don't know about you, but I definitely need to shower right now," Meredith quipped back.

"Hey, I am not an old man! Do you need me to show you that I am not old?"

"Whatever. I'm in the shower if you need me," Meredith threw at him, and then ran upstairs to their bedroom, giggling quietly all the way.

Derek shook his head and chased after her, shedding his clothes on the way to the bathroom. He knew he'd have to clean them later on, but right now, he couldn't care less.

When he entered the bathroom fully naked, he saw that Meredith's clothes were lying in a pile on the floor and she had already entered the shower. Derek immediately hardened at the sight of his wife's naked body through the steamy glass walls of the shower.

He quickly slid the glass door open, and stepped inside the steamy shower. Meredith had her back to him and she made no movement to turn around upon feeling his presence. She stood under the spray nonchalantly, as if oblivious to his presence.

Derek went near his wife's wet, naked body and wrapped his strong arms around her slender hips from behind. Meredith giggled when he did that and then said, "Did I ask you to come inside the shower with me?"

"Mmm...Well, I needed a shower too, so I thought that I'd join you and save us both some time," Derek quipped back as they both stood under the warm spray of water, letting the water cascade down their naked bodies. Derek buried his face in his wife's neck and caressed her hips, waist and sides with his hands.

"Mmm...This feels so good," Meredith moaned as the hot water and her husband's hot touch both worked together to pleasure her. Derek's rough hands squeezed her ass and then went up to cup and weigh her breasts. His hard cock pressed into her ass from behind.

Meredith's hands fell limply by her sides as she let her husband take over her body. She gasped and moaned and panted as Derek bit, sucked and nipped the skin of her neck, her shoulder, and the spot beneath her ear. His hands rolled and pinched her rosy nipples till they had hardened into tight little buds. His hands then made their way downwards, into her slick folds.

"Derekkk..."Meredith gasped, out of breath, as Derek slipped three fingers inside her tight, wet channel at once and flicked her clit with his thumb. His fingers kept moving in and out of her rhythmically as he flicked and toyed with her clit over and over again.

"Oh God..."Meredith moaned, her hands reaching behind to tangle in his thick hair. She tugged on his raven hair with her fingers, and Derek groaned, increasing the tempo of his fingers and the pressure on her clit.

"Derek!" Meredith cried out as she felt the first waves of orgasm start somewhere deep within her, and she tangled her fingers deeper in his hair and tugged hard.

"Meredith..."Derek groaned loudly at the mixture of pain and pleasure shooting through his body when she tugged hard on his hair, and he moved his left palm from her hip to spank her lightly.

"Ow! Derek!" Meredith gasped in surprise at the pain that shot from her ass to all parts of her body. Derek all but growled in her ear and spanked her hard once more, making her quake and tremble in his arms. He kept up the pressure of his thumb and the rhythm of his fingers, and soon, he was awarded with Meredith's soft cries of orgasmic pleasure.

"Oh, oh, Der – Derek, I – I'm coming," Meredith stammered as she released, suppressing her urge to cry out by biting her lower lip. Her orgasm washed over her in strong, rippling waves that left her breathless and craving for more.

Having satisfied his wife completely, Derek now turned Meredith around to face him. His lips collided with hers as soon as she turned around, and Meredith gave in to his hot and insistent mouth easily. Their tongues meshed together as the warm water cascaded around and between their hot bodies, adding to their pleasure.

"Mmm..."Derek moaned into her mouth as he kissed her roughly and passionately, his own cock now demanding attention. Meredith tried to slip her hands between their steamy bodies to caress his rock hard cock, but Derek stopped her hand midway.

"No, not this time. I want to come inside you," he growled roughly before lowering his head to her breasts and taking one of her pert nipples inside his hot mouth. Meredith moaned at the sensation that ripped through her body, the heat in her belly coiling once more.

Derek sucked hard on Meredith's nipple and then lightly bit it, eliciting a gasp of surprise and pleasure from Meredith. He then moved over to lavish the same attention to her other nipple.

"Oh, Derek, please, please..."Meredith implored her husband.

"Please what?" Derek asked gruffly, biting down on her nipple, his mouth and hands unrelenting on her body.

"Oh, oh...Please, please, I want you inside me, please Derek..."Meredith begged desperately, unable to take more of her husband's sweet torture.

"I love it when you beg," Derek said as he finally obliged and picked her up in his arms, letting her wrap her legs tightly around his waist, her arms twining around his neck. They swayed a little, trying to secure their balance and then, finally, Derek slipped inside his wife's more than welcoming body as their lips crashed together.

Both of them moaned at finally being joined, and Meredith squeezed Derek's lean waist with her thighs in order to accommodate his length inside her. Their wet, naked and slick bodies slipped and slid against each other as Derek moved in and out of Meredith, the friction between their bodies adding to their sexual pleasure.

"Fuck, Derek...Harder, please, harder," Meredith begged and Derek complied, thrusting harder and faster into his wife's begging body, his own body aching and desperate for release.

"Oh, oh, Mer, Mer, I – I'm close..."Derek panted as he kissed her once more and his hips picked up speed, slamming into Meredith's hips wildly. Meredith's body met his body thrust for thrust as she kissed him back just as passionately.

Derek's frantic thrusts finally sent both of them over the edge, and Derek covered Meredith's mouth with his own to silence her screams of pleasure; they could not risk waking up the children. Meredith's own hips bucked wildly into his as her body trembled with her release. Derek placed his palm against the opposite wall to support both their trembling bodies as their juices mixed with each other.

Finally, Derek pried his lips away from Meredith's and both of them panted, coming down from their high. Derek put Meredith down and supported her body with his own, her legs too shaky to stand without support. They stood under the warm cascade, their naked bodies locked in a passionate embrace and Meredith's face buried in his shoulder.

For a long time, they just stood that way, and then, Derek murmured into Meredith's ear, "I love you Meredith. I'll love you forever."

Meredith smiled into his shoulder and wrapped her arms tighter around him. "I love you too, Derek. Forever."

"Forever," Derek echoed in the steamy glass-walled shower as their bodies remained tangled with each other for a long time after that.

A/N: There you go. First chapter. Let me know what you think of this and whether I should continue this or not.

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