"So," Meredith began "Where do we go from here?"

"What do you mean?" Derek replied, rolling onto his side so that he could look at her.

"I mean now that we have had sex…um…so are we official, or what are we?" she asked, her voice waning as she confused the question more. Chuckling at her uncertainty he raised his raised his eyebrows at her as he waited for her to try and get out the question she so desperately wanted an answer for. "Shut up! I know I'm not making sense but…"

"You want to know what are we going to tell everyone else and what we are going to refer to each other as?" He questioned.

"Yeah…kind of," she replied.

"You, my sweet," he started as he moved his body over hers and kissed her nose, "You are my girlfriend, but not in the true sense of the term- you are my colleague, my best friend, my lover, my soul mate, the person I want to spend the rest of my life with…" he continued between placing fairy kisses over her face.

"Ok ok, I get the picture!" she grinned wrapping her arms around his neck, "You are my everything," she softly whispered against his lips before pulling him closer and deeply kissing him.

Their kisses grew more passionate and their hands started to roam before getting interrupted by the harsh tones of the alarm, each groaning as they were forced to pull away. "Shower?" she offered, already pulling him out of bed and towards the bathroom.

As they stood beneath the hot spray he wrapped his arms around her as he announced, "I want to do right by you this time…I want to tell the Chief straight up."

"But…" she went to disagree when he shushed her.

"Only the Chief, he already knows we are friends and actually asked me a couple of weeks ago if we were dating again. Last time we hid it and look what happened," he sighed.

"Ok, if we tell the Chief we should tell Bailey as well, she is still my supervisor and I'm guessing already suspicious."

"Deal, you tell Bailey and I will tell the Chief," he offered as they stepped out of the shower. "But everyone else can just find out in their own time or as we tell them?"

"Kind of like how George and Izzie found out?" she grinned over her shoulder as she dropped her towel and walked to the dresser naked.

"I think they definitely heard about us being back together," he replied slowly as his eyes stayed fixed on her slim body moving around the room. Her lingerie clad body began to move towards him offering a hug but he backed off, "Oh no you don't- not if you want to get to work on time!" he chocked out as he dodged her arms and turned his back towards her as he tried to calm his breathing, "And I think we should definitely get to work on time if we are going to be telling them about us today."

"You sure?" she asked, "We could be quick…"

I'm going to have enough trouble getting you out of my head as it is." He replied as he peaked over his shoulder at her.

"Fine," she pouted as she pulled on her jeans.

"Hey," he turned, "Don't be like that…I'll make it up to you tonight."

"Promise?" She asked as he pulled her into a hug.

"Promise." He grinned, leaning into kiss her soundly, "Now lets get to work so I can start telling people!" He grinned.

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A/N

Ok sorry it was crap - I'm still struggling with the whole d/m relationship. Thanks to those of you who have been asking me to write, hope I can pick it up in the next chapter sson.