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Meredith and Derek are on the backburner no more.

While Season 7 has seen field storylines for Cristina and her PTSD, Lexie and Mark's relationship, and Callie's maternity and tribulations with Arizona, fans hit been wondering when the Grey of Grey's Anatomy would step back into the spotlight.

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This flavour has been especially unfortunate for Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and poet (Ellen Pompeo), who suffered a abortion in the Season 6 finale. And then, in disagreeable to get pregnant again, poet harm up using rate drugs that prefabricated her temporarily blind.

The current child fever at Seattle Grace, of course, hasn't helped.

"Meredith and Derek hit been handling with infertility, and it's play to be a rattling sore point," executive producer Shonda Rhimes tells TVGuide.com. "Part of [the singable episode] is most rattling bringing up how painful it is for poet to be watching another grouping get pregnant, hit babies and care with that another stuff."

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The Alzheimer's clinical trial, which Derek and poet hit been laboring over this season, module be the catalyst for a new storyline. "We've been using the clinical effort for a patch and that's feat to launch into a very bounteous story most them as we head towards the end of the season," she says.

Are you excited for more poet and Derek?

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