-1Meredith walked across the bridge, wrapping her arms around Gibbs as he towards her.
'What are you doing here?'
'Came to see my favourite wife,'
'That's good to know,' Meredith started laughing, Gibbs putting his arm around her waist and walking down to her office with her.
'What time you expecting to finish here?'
'Couple of hours at least,'
'At least?'
'I have a surgery in half an hour,'
'Anything good?' Meredith looked at Gibbs, smiling at him.
'When did you become interested in the cases I get?'
'When you started stressing about wither or not you were good at your job,' Meredith sighed and stood up, Gibbs pulling her to her feet and round in front of him.
'So you and Tony were talking then,'
'We do tend to yeah, since I work with him all day,' Meredith placed her hands on his hips, gently leaning down.
'Richards been gone for nearly three years now…Derek is doing my head in, giving me paperwork that I have no idea how to fill out or the best of it stuff I'm not even supposed to fill out. Then he yells at me for not doing it properly,' Gibbs hugged her tightly, Meredith inhaling the scent off his jacket.
'When your finished Dr Gibbs, your needed in surgery,' Meredith stood up, Derek standing with his hands on his hips at the door.
'Actually Dr shepherd, it was me that was holding her back. I came to see her, wondering when I should be back to pick her up. You know, since I married her five years ago and have picked her up from work since then,'
'I don't need you covering for her,' Gibbs stood up off the desk, Meredith placing her hand on his stomach.
'Jethro, leave him be,'
'Dr Gibbs, I recommend you get your ass back to work,'
'Watch who your talking to,'
'Jethro, I have surgery anyway. I'll call you when I'm finished,' Meredith gently kissed him, passing Derek on the way out.
'I would ask that you don't come back here and interrupt her during her working day,'
'See, Derek. I would listen to you, but I only take orders from people above me in rank and even then, I rarely listen so no. If I want to visit her during the day, I will. If I want to call her, I will. And if I want to take her away for a weekend, I will,' Derek stood up straight.
'what is that supposed to mean?'
'It means that next time I plan on taking her away for a weekend, I won't tell you and she'll be calling in sick from a plane,' Gibbs walked past Derek, smiling smugly. He stopped just outside the door.
'And I hear you talking to her like that again, I'll kick your ass shepherd,'
'Is that a threat?'
'No Dr shepherd,' Gibbs came up beside Derek, leaning into his ear.
'it's a promise,' Meredith looked up to the gallery, the place packed with interns eager to watch the chief of neurology at work. One figure caught her eye, the glare in his eyes alerting her to the fact he was pissed and was after her. Putting his face out her head she turned to the scrub nurse.
'Put the album on,' she nodded, Meredith inhaling deeply. She focused on the music as she picked away at the crumbling bone. As the monitor started beeping frantically she kept her cool, remembering what Gibbs had said to her.
'when everyone else is loosing their heads, keeps yours, cause whatever's slipping through your fingers can always come back when your calm,' Meredith stopped the bleed, instantly repairing it and finishing the surgery. She stood scrubbing out when the scrub room door opened, Derek standing holding it open.
'My office, ten minutes,'
'No can do. I'm going home. Somewhere I should have been half an hour ago,'
'My office, ten minutes,' before Meredith could protest again, Derek was gone.
'Ass,' she changed, calling Gibbs as she walked to his office.
'Jethro, I'm finished up here,'
'I'll be there in five,' Meredith pushed Derek's office door open, the office empty.
'Yeah, funny Derek,' she turned, Derek coming in the door behind her.
'So you actually came,'
'I have five minutes, use them wisely,'
'Your husband made a promise to me today,'
'Oh really? I'm so happy for you,'
'I could have you sacked for what he said,' Meredith nodded her head, something inside her snapping.
'You know what Derek? I don't give a damn. You can fire me, I don't care anymore. Since I became chief of neuro, you've been treating me like crap and I'm sick of it. I don't care what Jethro said to you today. I really don't care. You might be bitter and twisted because I got over you and I found some one who I love more than anything else in the world. You can be all bitter and twisted if you want. But you know, it's sad that you never found someone after Addison left you. It really is. it's sad that after seven years that your still bitter about being alone. But I don't care because I can't…I just can't care,'
'I'm not going to fire you,'
'Then what? What is the point of me being here at this moment in time?'
'I want you to realise that this isn't a meeting place for you and your husband,' Meredith turned and walked out the hall, Derek following her.
'I'm talking to you,'
'Fuck you Derek. I work my ass off for this hospital. I bring in half of the fucking revenue. I keep the neuro department running without a hitch. I put up with the constant shit you throw at me. Fuck you and fuck your stupid plans for having a state of the art hospital. Trying having a fucking heart for once in your life,'
'I loved you once Meredith. I loved the woman who put her work first and wanted to be something. What the hell happened to you?' Meredith stopped on the bridge, unaware of the gathering crowed below.
'What happened to me? You Derek, you happened to me. You broke me, you made me crazy, I thought I was in love with you. Thought being the operative word. You need to realise that when I met Gibbs, I realised that I didn't need to settle for second best, I didn't have to put up with an asshole like you treating me like something he picked up from the street. I got some self respect. I fell in love. I don't think I'm in love Derek, I know I am. I know I am. You…you were nothing compare to him,' Derek stood silent, Meredith walking away from him. She kept her head down, ignoring the looks. Gibbs sat outside the hospital, Meredith slamming the car door shut. She looked straight ahead. Taking in a deep breath she closed her eyes, Gibbs watching her.
'What happened?'
'Derek shepherd, that's what happened,' Gibbs went to get out the car, Meredith grabbing his arm.
'Please, just take me home. I'm sick of him and I'm sick of the hospital. I just want to go home with you and sleep,'
'Sure?' Meredith nodded once, Gibbs leaning across the car and kissing her gently. She smiled, the few interns that left the hospital looking at her through the glass.
'What did you do?' Meredith started laughing.
'I told him to fuck his hospital,'
'what?'
'I told him to get over it, stop being a bitter ass,' Gibbs took hold of her hand, glad that she had stood up for herself and hadn't taken anymore crap. Meredith draped her jacket over the banister, throwing her bag at the bottom of the stairs.
'food?' Meredith shook her head and for a second time, grabbed his arm. She pulled him over against her, crashing her lips against his.
'Thank you, for promising to do something to him,'
'He told you?'
'Don't exactly know what you've promised to do to him but thank you,'
'Promised him I would kick his ass if he disrespected you,'
'Poor shepherd,'
'Why?'
'Cause he's going to have one sore ass,'
