Recap: Derek promised Meredith a surprise in order to celebrate a year of them meeting

"Can I look yet?" Meredith asked as she took another tentative step forwards. As she did she raised a hand to her face, but it was quickly clasped firmly in Derek's and positioned back down by her side.

"In a minute…" he replied.

Back at the house Derek had presented Meredith with a blindfold and put her into the car. After driving a short distance, he had helped her get out of the car and led her on foot.

"Ok, we're here," Derek said as they suddenly came to a stop. He walked behind Meredith and started to untie the blindfold. "Happy anniversary of us first meeting," he whispered in her ear as he removed the blindfold and she took in her surroundings.

"The trailer…" Meredith exclaimed, trying to inject enthusiasm into her voice. They had lived in the trailer for a while after finally getting together, and being heavily pregnant at the time, it had not been the most comfortable of experiences.

"You're disappointed," Derek sighed. "You were expecting something different, something better."

"No," Meredith said. "The trailer is…"

Derek laughed and put his hands on her shoulders, gently turning her around. Meredith let out a gasp as she took in the sight in front of her - Derek had set up a picnic. Despite it being daylight, there were fairy lights draped over a tree, near which a table had been set up. On it were two champagne flutes and a bottle chilling in an ice bucket. There were two places set and a basket of food placed carefully at the edge.

"When did you do all this?" Meredith asked, approaching the table and taking a seat.

"I had a little help," Derek admitted as he sat down opposite her. "Drink?"

Meredith smiled and raised her eyebrows, lifting her glass towards the bottle Derek was holding. "Yes please," she said, taking a sip when it was full. She waited until Derek had filled his own glass and then raised her glass again. "To us."

"To us," Derek echoed as their glasses clinked together. "Now what would you like to eat?"

He opened the basket and presented Meredith with all of the options for food. When they were in the middle of eating, Meredith's phone rang. Thinking it might be something to do with Mollie, she removed it from her bag and looked at it.

"It's Lexie," Meredith said, setting her phone down. "She can call back later."

They finished the rest of the food and Meredith sat back, content in her seat.

"That was lovely," she said, reaching across the table to squeeze Derek's hand. "All of this was, thank you."

"You're welcome," Derek replied, lifting his glass and finishing the remainders of his drink.

Meredith's phone rang again and at the same time Derek's pager beeped. He looked up at her apologetically.

"I'm sorry, it's work," he said, starting to get ready. "I have to go. I'll drop you home on the way."

Meredith nodded. She knew the drill. There was nothing she could do and knew what she had been getting herself into, entering a relationship with a world class neurosurgeon. As they headed back towards the car, Meredith's phone rang for the third time.

"Lexie?" she said, as she pressed accept and lifted the phone to her ear. "Are you alright?"

"Meredith, thank god," Lexie said down the phone. Meredith heard a strange beeping in the background and other people's voices. "There's been an accident."

"Accident?!" Meredith squeaked back, as she got into the car.

"It's dad, he fell," Lexie replied. Meredith could hear that she was trying not to cry. "He hit his head - we're at Seattle Grace Mercy West. Can you come?"

"I'm on my way," Meredith said and then ended the call. She turned to look at Derek. "It looks like I'm coming with you to the hospital, dad has had an accident and hit his head."

Derek didn't respond, instead focusing on navigating his car down the narrow road from the trailer. He continued to stay silent as they pulled onto the main road and headed to the hospital. As they pulled into a space at the hospital, Meredith turned to look at Derek. She had worked it out almost as soon as they had left the trailer, but she wanted to be sure.

"It's him, isn't it?" she asked quietly. "The reason you've been paged in is because of my dad. It's bad, isn't it?"

Derek sighed and unfastened his seatbelt. "It might not be him Meredith," he replied after some consideration. "It could be anybody, but if it is," he continued. "You know he's in the best possible place with the best people looking after him."

Derek smiled encouragingly and got out of the car. He gave Meredith a kiss on the cheek before heading off to find out why he had been paged. Meredith had arranged to meet Lexie in the lobby. She quickly found her and was enveloped in a hug.

"I'm so pleased you're here," Lexie said. "Mom's with him now, and I came to wait for you."

"What happened?" Meredith asked, as Lexie indicated they should sit down.

Lexie shrugged in response. "I don't know, mom and I were out celebrating, he was supposed to come and join us, but he didn't. We went home and…there he was… on the floor…"

She raised a hand to her face as she recalled finding her dad lying on the floor next to stepladder, with blood seeping from his ear.

"Celebrating?" Meredith asked, trying to distract her sister from the obvious trauma the incident had caused her.

Lexie removed her hand from her face and wiped away a couple of tears. "Yeah, I got accepted for a surgical internship…" she trailed off.

A smile spread across Meredith's face. She'd known her sister had been applying for different internships. "Congratulations!" she reached across and hugged her. "Where is it?"

Lexie let out a little laugh as she pulled away from the hug. "Here," she said, raising her arms to indicate the building they were sitting in. "In two weeks I will be starting my surgical internship right here at Seattle Grace Mercy West."

"Oh Lexie…" Meredith replied, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Lexie made the decision for her when the corners of her lips started to twitch and she soon started to laugh.

"So, you know, I'll soon be working with your boyfriend, his ex wife, and her lover - thanks for making my life easy," Lexie joked, playfully hitting Meredith's arm. "Who's that?"

Lexie's eyes had focused on someone behind Meredith's shoulder. Meredith slowly turned around and smiled quickly as the man raised a hand to wave at her. She quickly turned back to Lexie.

"Mark Sloan," Meredith replied. "Stop looking!" she hissed as Lexie continued to look at him over her shoulder. "That is Derek's friend, the one who Addison cheated on him with - her lover as you called him!"

Lexie smiled across at Mark and then turned her attention back to Meredith. "I can see why…" she said absentmindedly. Meredith sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Meredith Grey…" a voice behind Meredith said causing her to jump. She turned around.

"Dr Bailey," Meredith replied standing up. "How are you?"

Bailey looked Meredith up and down before stopping to look at her, her face full of contempt. She had her arms crossed. "What are you doing back here? Not content with breaking up the marriage of a friend of mine, you decided to come back?"

Lexie looked between her sister and Dr Bailey, neither woman was saying a word.

"My dad… he's had an accident…" Meredith replied, looking to Lexie for support.

"He hit his head," Lexie said standing up.

Bailey turned her head and looked at Meredith's sister. "And you are?"

"Lexie Grey," she replied holding her hand out. Bailey ignored it. "Meredith's sister…" Lexie stretched her arm above her head and scratched her head as if the attempted hand shake had been part of the motion.

Bailey turned and walked away and Lexie hit Meredith on the arm again, this time harder.

"Anyone else you want to annoy to make my internship a living hell?" she asked, crossing her arms across her chest. At that moment she noticed her mom walking across the hospital towards them. Both Meredith and Lexie stood up in anticipation.