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He hadn't know Meredith very well, sure he had worked on a couple of cases with her and she had watched him perform numerous surgeries but he didn't really know her, her personal life, anything concerning her outside of work was a blind spot for him. Like every night he waited for the ferry to dock so that he could go home to his land, land which he one day hoped to build a house on for his family. Oh yeah he wanted kids lots of them; he grew up with four sisters so the thought of having sons was something he wanted to one day make real. He sat on the bench near the edge of the dock watching the son setting, little by little disappearing into the horizon. The ferry had been late it wasn't usual but being as it was a chilly night he decided to get a cup of coffee from the local deli. He likes to think of it as faith that he had chosen to walk when his car was parked just 5 feet away from him. He hadn't walked more then half a block when he heard a faint cry coming from an ally just ahead of him.

"Hello?"

He waited for some sort of response but he got nothing, the faint cry's however continued. He hesitated then walked down the ally. He then saw a small fragile figure lay naked, he didn't realize who it was at first.

"Miss, who did this to you. Listen I'm a doctor I'm going to help you okay"

He took his jacket off wrapped it around her then picked her up. He started running to his car holding on for dear life to the badly beaten women he had found moments earlier.

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It was then that Derek has realized the small delicate figure he held was no stranger. It was the intern he had performed surgery with only hours before.

"Meredith?!?"

He began running faster. As soon as he reached his car he laid Meredith gently down in the back seat and covered her with more blankets he had in his trunk, then got in the driver seat and sped to Seattle Grace Hospital.

"Meredith?….Meredith I need you to stay with me okay?"

Derek sped up to the front of the hospital where Izzy and Christina were sitting outside talking.

"Yang, Stevens, go get a gurney NOW!!"

Christina and Izzy were both taken back by his urgency but ran quickly to grab a gurney they came running back and Derek had already been holding Meredith in his arms ready to place her on the gurney. Izzy was the first of the two to get a good look at who lay on the gurney before them.

"Oh my god Meredith."

Christina's heart stopped when she saw her person laying there in pain beaten and bruised from head to two, bit marks and cigarette burns all over her body.

"What happened to her?"

"I don't know I found her like this."

The three rushed into the hospital pushing the gurney along side them. Derek began to exam Meredith and when he discovered she had been raped his heart tore. This intern he knew nothing about now had his full on attention.

"Izzy" Derek called out to the intern to confirm what he already knew.

"Oh my god."

"Who would do this to her."

Christina stood there in shock she didn't know what to say or do, her best friend, her person was in pain and there was nothing she could do to help her.

had only had a professional life with could break his heart so easily, it wa

Within the hour Derek had bandaged all the burns with gauge and burn crème then bandaged all the bite marks that laid across her body. Derek was in awe how a person he s like suddenly he had seen her in a new light. Derek looked over Meredith's chart again after checking her vitals then walked over to wake a sleeping Izzy and Christina.

"Hey you two should go home and get some sleep."

"No, I'm staying."

"Yeah me too."

"Okay well in that case why don't you go sleep in the on call room, I'll stay with her, I promise the first thing I'll do when she wakes up is page both of you."

"Okay."

Izzy and Christina got up then left the room.

"God how could anybody do that to someone."

Christina looked at Izzy with tears in her eyes,

"Christina are you…..are you crying."

"She's my person Izzy, she's my person and I'm hers, I should have been there to protect to help her, but I wasn't. I'm her person and I let her down."

"Christina you couldn't possible have known this would happen."

"I let her down."

"No you didn't, not yet at least. Now when she wakes up she is going to need all the support and help she can get and you don't get to fall apart because you weren't there to help. The only way you'll let her down is if you all apart when she needs you most. That's when you need to be her person."

Christina just stared at Izzy for a moment, She wasn't exactly one to open up but she was hurting now and after all Izzy was a good friend, not to mention a good listener.

"Thank you Izzy."

"No problem now lets go get some sleep."

Back in Meredith's room Derek began to fall asleep when Meredith started to tap his hand with her own.

"Mer?"

"Water?"

Derek grabbed the tiny water cup that sat next to her beside and put the straw in her mouth. After taken a sip she turned her head and tears began to form in her eyes. She turned back to Derek then spoke her voice was soft and raw, it was clear she had been screaming was it possible all those people at the dock hadn't heard her or was it just that no one wanted to help.

"…"

"Hey none of that , its Derek."

"Derek thank you."

Derek smiled at her and gave her shoulder a small squeeze.

"Meredith when you ready there isn't any rush but the police are going to need a statement, but only when you ready."

"Okay."

"so Izzy and Christina refused to go home until you woke up so I'm going to go ahead and page them."

"Okay thank you ."

"Ahh…"

Meredith smiled at him

"Sorry Derek"

"That's a girl."

Derek loved her smile he didn't understand how he worked with her everyday and he never noticed how beautiful she was. And boy was she beautiful. Her smile was amazing and her giggle made his heart skip a beat.

He could only wish he had gotten to spend time together another way, It broke his heart to thing of what she must have been through. His thoughts were broken when Izzy and Christina entered her room.

"Oh my good Meredith!"

Christina ran to Meredith and grabbed her hand.

"I'm so glad your okay, I don't know what I would have done if you weren't okay."

Izzy grabbed her other hand.

"You scared us missy."

"I'm sorry you guys."

Christina looked at Meredith with pain in her eyes, and hatred for who every hurt Meredith like they had.

"Mer, who did this to you."

Meredith's eyes filled with tears, as the events of the night played out in her mind.

"It was my father, Thatcher Grey."

Derek heard her spoke these words then ran out to find wherever Thatcher Grey may have been hiding. Derek rushed passed Bailey almost knocking her down.

"Whoa Derek what's wrong?"

"I'll kill him!!"

With that Derek was out of the hospital.

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