Chapter Two

"Meredith!"

Derek ran after Meredith and Christina as they were in the parking lot.

"Not now Derek!"

"Let me explain…"

"Let you explain what Derek? Explain why you still are chasing after me after that display in the bar. Explain why you made a point to say all these things about wanting the happily ever whatever! Or maybe explain why after you have clearly moved on but still trying to stab the dark and twisty heart of mine? One which I had thought might have turned not so dark until I found out that you were making out with some other person. This really shouldn't matter to me because we were broken up…but you have said things. Always these things! So not now Derek! Not now!"

These statements visibly affected Derek.

"Ok…but soon Meredith. Things are not black and white. We need to talk."

Back at Meredith House: Christina, George, Izzy & Lexie are present.

"Things are not black and white? What the hell is that suppose to mean…we are in the grey?"

"Oh...McDreamy is getting McClever?" Christina slurred as she was looking through Ellis's surgery tapes.

"Maybe this Rose person is overbearing. Maybe she has stared Derek down and has given him no choice" added Izzy.

"I really don't think that it is the case" added Lexie "I have seen her in surgery before and she is pleasant and is an extremely excellent scrub nurse."

"Nurse Fallon was an extremely excellent scrub nurse…This Rose person will be pale in comparison… McDreamy has hit rock bottom with scrub nurse Rose…A Nurse! At these he could have hit on an intern…Then we could make their life hell on earth for at least a year maybe even more. Sorry Meredith…but a nurse…That is a low blow…who would even consider to go down that road…(George Looks Away)..Sorry Bambi…but even you didn't get out of the nurse situation very successfully… At least Miss Olivia stuck to interns…This Rose person is boldly going to go where no nurse has gone before…go for an attending that isn't McSteamy…But I will shut up now."

The group found a surgery in which they hadn't seen before and started to watch it. Meredith was the only person that wasn't watching... she was just thinking of how she had completely no clue where her life was going to go.

The Next Morning / After the Residents had given their interns assignments.

Meredith by mistake took the elevator to pick up some labs which she needed to look at. Right before the door closed. Derek entered. Based on their history Meredith should have known that the elevator was the best choice when she was trying to avoid a person that was the king of them.

Meredith looked around and realized that they were the only ones in the elevator she attempted not to make eye contact due to the fact that she was not interested in another confrontation and more importantly not another confrontation in the hospital where her life was viewed as just another episode of "General Hospital". Which character would she be or would they would they just write one for her. That thought brought a smile to Meredith's face.

Derek hadn't taken his eyes off Meredith since he entered the elevator. He noticed the smile and desperately wanted to know what she was thinking about. Definitely not him at that moment...that was a given. This silence was very painful for him to withstand. The only thing that made it manageable was that he knew that he had another resident supervising Meredith's interns for the day so that they would have an opportunity to really communicate where they both stood with each other. He needed answers and he needed to give some answers…and this would be a perfect time for that to take place.