Why we love MerDer.

Because they were the very first couple on Grey’s…

Because they were the 1^st thing we saw on the show…
Because they have their own theme music…
Because they have great chemistry…
Because we love the way he looks at her…
Because of the way he cups her face…
Because he wanted her to take advantage of him again…
Because he looks at her like he’s seen her naked….
Because she told him to stop looking at her and he never did…
Because she did her 1st surgery with him…
Because she’s dark and twisty and he needs her so much despite that…
Because their thing is elevators…
Because she wasn’t just a thrill of the chase…
Because she has tiny ineffectual fists and he likes her hair…
Because he “took her for a ride”…
Because he makes her scream and hit the headboard so loud it keeps her roommates up…
Because even though Bailey made her life hell, she didn’t break up with him…
Because she’s a handful enough for him as it is…
Because he likes glow in the dark condoms and she knows this…
Because he called her flexible…
Because she loved his trailer…
Because she was drowning and he saved her…
Because she was drowning and he saved her…
Because even when they weren’t together it didn’t seem like it…
Because he comforted her in supply closet…
Because Addison wasn’t the ‘she’ he was asking for…
Because she imagined Derek being with her when she could have died…
Because he was jealous of Viper, Finn, George and even Steve…
Because he hit Mark with his 2-million-dollar-a-year hand when he saw him just talking to her…
Because the only two people in the hospital who don’t know that Derek loves Meredith are Derek and Meredith…
Because she told him not to call her a whore…
Because she can’t breathe with him looking at her like that…
Because she drives him crazy…
Because she makes it impossible for him to feel normal and he feels sick to his stomach thinking about his veterinarian touching her with his hands…
Because he admitted he’d been in love with her forever…
Because he’s human and he made the wrong choice…
Because he’s the one…
Because they got back together where they met…
Because he wanted sex…
Because he’s her knight in shining whatever…
Because he tried to breathe for her…
Because he held her when she wanted to be held…
Because she’s the love of his life…
Because he couldn’t walk away…
Because even after they broke up, they still had sex…
Because he wanted to go away with her…
Because he wanted a lifetime…
Because she didn’t want him to date other women…
Because all she could think about was his tongue in her mouth…
Because when he slept with Plant, all he could think about was Meredith…
Because they are legendary…
Because they are an amazing surgical team…
Because she built a house of candles…
Because she got whole and healed for him…
Because he asked where their bedroom was…
Because they could be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart…
Because he gave her a kidney in a jar…
Because he couldn’t have done any of it without her…
Because he danced it out with her…
Because he sees things in black in white but she doesn’t…
Because he needs her…
Because when she went to a murderer’s execution, he was there to pick her up…
Because he wants all her crappy babies…
Because she knew when it was time to break out the alcohol…
Because when he pushed her away, she pushed back…
Because he proposed in an elevator…
Because he kissed her in the stairwell after the surgery…
Because he knew she was going to be an incredible surgeon…
Because he knew he needs her…
Because she knows they’d survive too…
Because he thinks that her dark and twisty-ness it’s not a flaw, it’s a strength. It makes her who she is…
Because he didn’t get down on one knee…
Because he didn’t ask a question…
Because they want to spend the rest of their lives together…
Because he wanted to get married naked in a field of flowers and she laughed…
Because they wanted to get married in scrubs…
Because he suggested that they make her a bouquet of scalpels and clamps…
Because it had nothing to do with them, they were just the bride and groom…
Because she was excited about the marriage, not some wedding…
Because they gave a wedding to Izzie because it wasn’t theirs…
Because she wanted to go again…
Because the one night stand she was determined to forget became the love of her life…
Because she didn’t want to spend another day not being married to him…
Because they love each other even when they hate each other…
Because there’s no running ever, no body walks out no matter what happens…
Because they’ll take care of each other, even when they’re; old, smelly, and senile…
Because if she gets Alzheimer’s and forgets who he is, he will remind her every day…
Because they are forever…
Because they have newlywed sex on the stairs…
Because they have newlywed sex in the kitchen…
Because she can’t think of a reason he’d withhold sex…
Because he holds her when she cries…
Because he wanted to sit by her head when she donated her liver…
Because their post-it is in a frame on their wall…
Because he drew on the wall and she called him crazy…
Because she gets him…
Because he gave her five almost perfect seconds…
Because she was done talking; if he wanted to stay mad, he could, but she was just going to be there kissing him…
Because she just makes him want to…
Because she told him that when in doubt always go with blue because it brings out his eyes…
Because even if she was mad, she thought he’d do a great job…
Because she brought him coffee before a big speech…
Because she sat in his office late until he finished work…
Because she’s not Mrs. Shepherd…
Because she went even though she didn’t want to or have to…
Because she yelled at him when he stole her surgery…
Because she wasn’t mad, she was in whoville…
Because he was just thinking how pretty she was…
Because he was just thinking how pretty their children would be…
Because he thinks she looks even prettier in her scrubs…
Because they tease each other…
Because if anything should happen to him, he doesn’t want it to just be her…
Because she thinks they’d make pretty babies…
Because she was thinking about it…
Because she called the girl ogling him a whore and a love-struck intern…
Because she called him Chief Shepherd…
Because of their secret love…
Because she dusted off his desk with her bottom…
Because she played the part of the love-struck intern…
Because she loves him and he loves her too…
Because she makes fun of his parties…
Because they’re building a house…
Because he shoved her into a supply closet to keep her safe…
Because she threw up right after they figured out who the gunman was going after…
Because she went looking for him…
Because she started to scream when he got shot and had to be restrained…
Because she shoved her best friend into a filing cabinet to get to him…
Because she told him to hold on…
Because even though she was his only chance to live, he told her to run away for her own safety…
Because she commanded him not to die…
Because she can’t live without him…
Because if he dies, she dies…
Because she picked him, she chose him…
Because he asked her to kiss him before surgery…
Because he tried to assure her he wouldn’t die…
Because even when he was near death, she can make him laugh…
Because just thinking about him on the table, she starts to cry…
Because she told the gunman to shoot her, that she was his eye for an eye…
Because her final words were going to be “tell Derek that I love him and that I’m sorry”…
Because collapsed to the floor, in heartbreaking sobs when she thought he was dead…
Because she sat by his head and stroked his hair…
Because he woke up and asked for her…
Because she bailed him out of jail twice…
Because she left him in jail…
Because she told him he smelled like…
Because she avoided him after leaving him in jail…
Because finally she told him she miscarried and he was speechless…
Because of the way he holds her…
Because he tried to make her feel better about her uterus being hostile…
Because of the way he kissed her neck…
Because of their adorable kissing…
Because he doesn’t care that he could have an 80-year-old drooling wife and a 50-year-old drooling kid…
Because they have a lot of sex…
Because they are just going to live…
Because of the way she wraps her arms around his neck…
Because he’s determined to find a cure for Alzheimer’s…
Because he worries about her…

To be continued possibly endlessly…