Title: Forgotten Past

Disclaimer: I don't own them.

Chapter 2

"Page the Chief, Bailey, Yang, Stevens, Karev, O'Malley and Mark" he said the last name a little reluctantly be he knew that Meredith had formed an almost kinship like relationship with his best friend.

"Is she ok man" Sam knelt down next to Derek and tried to check Meredith's pulse but the second year resident only flinched away from his touch and closer to Derek.

"I don't know, I honestly have no clue as to what triggered this." Getting up with some help from Sam and Naomi as Meredith refused to let go of him, carrying her bridal style he headed for the closest empty exam room. He could tell that she had finally stopped muttering to her self but the tears she had been holding at bay were now silently streaming down her face, as stared at nothing.

"Derek?" her voice was scratchy and quite as if she was unused to using it but he heard anyway and bent his head down to look at her now tired and withdrawn face.

"Yeah, I'm here, I'm here and you're going to be ok" He pressed a kiss against her forehead and looked up to see that Naomi had found them an empty room. Meredith just sighed before closing her eyes, her breath evening out signalling she had fallen asleep.

Derek carried her into the room and placed her on the bed before checking her pulse and blood pressure. A knock at the door drew his attention.

"Um excuse me DR Sheppard but I saw you bring in Meredith and I was just wondering if she is going to be ok?" Lexie Grey stood at the door fidgeting nervously, with a concerned look on her face.

Derek knew Meredith wouldn't want the whole hospital knowing about what had happened to her, but lately she had been getting better at talking to her sister so he nodded his head letting the younger Grey come in.

Things were silent as they waited for the others to arrive, Derek only wanted to go through this once and he didn't even have all the answers so the four of them waited silently until Naomi said she was going to check on Archer. This reminded Derek about his other patient Jen.

"Dr Grey, I have a pregnant patient waiting for an aneurism removal, could you please inform her and her husband that her surgery is going to have to wait until tomorrow, and that they will be having another doctor doing the procedure. " Lexie nodded and hurried out of the room, not showing her disappointment that she couldn't use her prize for winning the games today.

"Oh Mere, what's going on in that brain of yours?" Derek leaned closer to the bed and grasped onto her hand tightly, letting her know that he was still here for her. Sam came and patted his back gently letting Derek know that he was there for him.

Three minutes later and everyone they had been waiting for rushed into the room all talking at once. Derek for the most part ignored them and sighed at the peace being broken. Finally Richard took charge.

"Quiet!" Once he had every ones silence he finally turned to his head of Neurosurgery for answers.

"Derek would you mind filling us in on why exactly did you page us" Derek nodded and stood up, but before he could speak Meredith began thrashing and mumbling in her sleep. Christina went to the other side of the bed to help Derek hold her still, while he tried to wake her up.

"Come on Mere, wake up" In all the times he had shared her bed he could never remember her having such a vivid nightmare like she was now, looking over to Christina he was shocked to see that she wasn't all that surprised and by the way she was gripping her friend told him that she had done this before. Before he could think any further Meredith read forward screaming.

"Please just kill me" Then just like on the walkway all her strength seemed to leave her making her collapse back onto the bed as she began to cry. Christina frowned Meredith never cried, never, she would be a little unsettled after a nightmare but she never cried, not even after the real bad ones that involved Derek dying on her.

Derek just gathered her close and held onto her until she stopped. Taking a deep breath Meredith pulled away from him and finally noticed every one else in the room, blushing slightly she dropped her gaze to her hands which now rested in her lap.

"What are you guys doing here?" She couldn't look up at them, she didn't want to see there disappoint at how weak she was, crying over a stupid nightmare, however she couldn't stop the shudder that ran through her body, when she remembered exactly what she had been dreaming of.

"Dr Montgomery paged us 911 Meredith Grey, so here we are" George finally answered. Meredith nodded then started to get out of bed resisting both Derek's and Christina's attempts to keep her there.

"Well that was sweet of her, but really there's no need for you guys to be here I'm fine" She tried to get pass everyone that was blocking the doorway but no one seemed to move. She was about to forgo manners and just shove her way through when she felt a hand on her elbow, looking up she saw Derek looking at her concern written all over his face, making her sigh, she knew she wasn't going to get out of this that easily.

''Excuse me, I know you don't know me but you really didn't seem all that fine when you collapsed out in the hallway earlier." Now she really had every ones attention making her sigh again. She didn't have time for this, she had a very important phone call to make but she needed to come up with something believable so they would leave her alone long enough to do it.

"Oh that, that was nothing, I just have eaten today, so if you guy's don't mind I'm just going to quickly go to the cafeteria and get something to eat before getting back to work." This time she didn't give anyone a chance to argue she got passed everyone and through the door before anyone could stop her.

Derek didn't believe for a second, he knew that the phone call she had received was the cause for everything, and he wished he knew what it had been about. He was also worried; they had gotten much better at talking about things to each other lately. So now that Meredith has gone back to the avoiding didn't help him get any calmer.

"Sheppard what has the girl gotten herself into now, and should I be worried about her killing any patients today." Derek looked over to the short Chief resident and just shook his head before following his girlfriend out.

He'll be damned if he doesn't get the answers he's looking for and soon. Derek refused to let Meredith go back to hiding and avoiding all her problems. They were in this together now, and he was going to remind her of that.

A.N I don't know if I like this chapter, that much. I'm trying to get the right feel for this but part of me feels like I'm falling flat. So any suggestions will be really appreciated as I wanna do our favourite character justice. Also more on the mysterious caller next chapter.