It was a Saturday night and Meredith and the kids stayed up late watching cartoons and eating popcorn. All three kids had fallen asleep on the couch, there was popcorn everywhere, and 3 different colored sippy cups sitting on the floor. Her family was perfect, except for the fact that her husband died in a car crash years ago. She finally got up and carried all the kids to their beds, one by one. She turned on Zo's nightlight, she knew that if she woke up in the middle of the night and her light wasn't on she would freak out, she was scared of the dark. She headed back to the living room and was picking up their mess. She wasn't on call and fell asleep on the couch.
She woke up a few hours later to a knock on the door. It was 1 am and she was very annoyed someone would be knocking on her door this late at night. She pulled her blanket around her and opened the door.
"Hey, Meredith."
She was in complete shock. It was Derek. Her dead husband was at the door. She just stared, probably for 5 minutes. She thought this was all a dream, yet she hoped it wasn't.
He seemed to know what she was thinking.
"This isn't a dream, Meredith. I'm back. Can I come in?"
"Yeah.. yeah…" she was drowsy, confused and scared. Was she dead? Did she die and Derek was coming to take her back up to Heaven?
Derek walked in.
"Meredith, you aren't dead. It's really me. I'm alive. I have so much to explain, can we sit?" he looked at her with the same look he always had, pure love and happiness to see her.
They sat down on the couch and he held her hand.
"Meredith, I missed you. I missed you, and the kids, Amelia, my mom, and sisters everyone. I needed to come back to see you guys."
"We thought you were dead. I pulled the plug. We had a funeral. What do you mean you needed to come back and see us?"
"The president decided that we should fake my death and change my name. I honestly have no clue how you guys had that funeral because I definitely wasn't there." he chuckled, "We faked my death and continued working on the brain mapping project. Every night since then I regretted leaving you and the kids, and Grey Sloan, and my mom and sisters. So I came back."
She stared, she didn't know what to say. She was happy, mad, scared, pissed, and didn't know how to react. She knew she couldn't yell, she didn't want to wake up the kids. Oh my god, the kids. He doesn't even know Ellis existed.
All she could do was cry, she cried from happiness, from sadness, from being so angry that she didn't have any other way to react. She just sobbed. She heaved and then she kissed him. It felt natural. Not like the forced kisses she'd been having with all the other men since he 'died'. It felt right and she wanted it to last forever. He was the love of her life and he was back. Right now she didn't want to think about him leaving their family, she just wanted to be with her husband.
