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A/N: A BIG BIG thanks to those who reviewed. OK, so now, on with the story. Hope you'll like it.

Derek slammed the door behind him. His whole body shaking from anger and hurt combined. He quickly made his way out of the house, got into his car and drove away.

"I don't need you for this!" Meredith's harsh words kept ringing in his ears. It hurt to hear her say that. To hear the person he loved more than life itself say that she didn't need him. It hurt big time. But right now, he was more angry than hurt. He was furiously angry at Meredith.

Meredith lay on her over sized bed, staring at the dancing shadows the curtain made on the ceiling, tears uncontrollably streaming down her face. She had been crying all night, it was becoming hard to breath. A mixture of feelings going through her. Anger at her mother. Sadness for her mother's condition. The fight she had with Derek. Anger at Derek. Self pity. Anger at herself. She juggled all these feelings inside of her. Feeling each one of them over and over again as she cried herself to sleep.

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Beep, beep, beep! The alarm clock went off. Meredith reached over to turn it off. She just had an hour of sleep. She got up, took a shower, got dressed and went downstairs. Doing everything like a zombie.

"Hey," Izzie greeted softly, walking towards her from the kitchen. And from the look on her face, Meredith could tell that she heard what went on last night. It was impossible not to, with how loud they were yelling at each other.

"Hey," Meredith replied with a blank expression on her face, receiving the coffee from Izzie. "Thanks."

"Mer…" Izzie started.

"Iz…." Meredith said holding her hand up to Izzie, "just….let's just go." And she walked out to the car, Izzie following behind her. They drove to the hospital in silence. Izzie sat in the passenger seat quietly looking out the window. This avoiding really needs to stop.

They didn't utter a word towards each other. They just walk side by side from the parking lot to the elevator, to the locker room. And just as they arrived –

"Rounds, people!" Bailey's voice boomed in the locker room referring to the other interns. Then she walked towards her interns. "Yang, you're with Dr. Montgomery toady. O'Malley, you're with Dr. Shepherd. Karev, Dr. Burke, Stevens, Dr. Sloan. And Grey, pit!" And with that she left to attend to her own patients for today.

"I hope I get a good case today," George said to nobody in particular, rolling his stethoscope and putting it in his pocket.

"Burke has a killer surgery scheduled for today, that should be awesome," Alex grinned before putting on his top srub.

"God!" Christina moaned, "And I'm stuck with the vagina squad." She grunted as she changed the batteries of her pager.

The whole exchange was cut short as everybody was startled by Meredith slamming her locker door. All four gave her a confused look but she just ignored them and hurriedly trudged out.

"What's wrong with her?" Christina questioned, looking at Izzie.

"She got into a big fight with McDreamy last night." Izzie sighed as she closed her own locker.

"Really? Do you know what about?" George asked.

"Yeah...about her avoiding."

"Oh…," was all George, Alex and Christina could say. They all knew about the avoiding. They've all tried to talk to her. Yes, even Christina tried. And it was getting frustrating.

"What are y'all still standing there for?!?" Bailey suddenly appeared, startling them. They hurriedly stood up, closed their lockers and scurried out of the room to find their respective attending.

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It wasn't until lunch time that any of them saw Meredith again. George and Izzie were talking and eating their lunch when Meredith plopped herself next to them.

"Hey, Mer," George greeted quietly.

"Hey," was all she said in reply as she busied herself in opening her bottled water.

"Meredith -- " Izzie started.

"Izzie…" Meredith pleaded for her to drop it.

"No," Izzie said firmly, "you don't have to talk. We'll do the talking." She finished.

"Yeah," George quipped.

Meredith sighed, leaning back on her chair.

"Look," Izzie started, placing a hand on Meredith's arm, "we know you don't want to talk about it. And you don't have to tell us. But Dr. Shep….Derek….you have to talk to him. He's your boyfriend."

"Yeah, he cares about you. We all do." George offered.

Meredith muttered a thanks in reply to that and resumed eating her lunch. Izzie and George shared a concerned look.

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Meredith was doing sutures in the pit when an ambulance arrived. And the hospital door flew open and the paramedics rolled in an unconscious little girl, blood gushing out of her head.

"Oh my God, oh my God! Jeanie, someone help her!" the girls mother followed closely behind, hysterically screaming.

Meredith immediately rushed to the girl's side, running alongside the paramedics. "What happened?" She asked as she checked the little girl's head injury.

"She fell off a tree," One of the paramedics replied.

"Somebody page Dr. Shepherd, stat!" Meredith called out as she led the way to the trauma room.

In a matter of seconds Derek came running to the trauma room with George behind him.

"What do we have?" He asked, addressing nobody in particular.

"7 year old girl, unconscious. Injury the head. She fell off a tree." Meredith replied looking at Derek. But he didn't look back at her. Instead, he went over to the girl to look at the head injury.

"Dr. O'Malley!" He called out, "I need a CT and an MRI, stat."

"Ye…yes…Dr. Shepherd." George replied, confused and surprised as to why he didn't give the case to Meredith. He looked over to Meredith as he hurriedly pushed the gurney out of the room. Meredith looked back at him for a moment then walked back towards the pit.

"Dr. O'Malley! Let's go!" Derek snapped at George, startling him. "And book an OR, we'll go in as soon as we see what's going on."

"Right away, Dr. Shepherd."

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Meredith was waiting for the test results of some of the patients when Christina arrived.

"Hey," Christina said, not looking at Meredith. And to the guy in front of her, "I need the results for Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Mendez."

"Hey," Meredith greeted back.

"So…" Christina sighed, "George told me…"

"Yeah…" Meredith had a pained look on her face.

"Look, just tell him. Talk to him."

"You're my person. You're supposed to be on my side." Meredith let out a frustrated sigh.

"I am on your side." Christina replied. "And I'm telling you that you want to tell him whatever is going on. You're just too stubborn to recognize it. You do want to tell him, right?" Christina questioned, already knowing that the true answer is yes.

"No…yes….no….I don't know…"

"Yes," Christina took hold of Meredith's shoulder, giving it a little squeeze, "The answer in yes, Mer." And with that she grabbed the test results and sprinted away.

Meredith didn't see Derek the whole day. Except for that time in the trauma room and a couple off times in the elevator with a bunch of other people and wherein he totally ignored her.

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Meredith sat on the gurney in the deserted hallway looking into space, an abandoned sandwich in one hand.

"Hey," Alex suddenly appeared in front of her and she jumped a little in surprise, "you gonna eat that?" Alex smirked boyishly.

"No, you can have it." Meredith replied handing her sandwich over to Alex. Apparently Alex was also on-call tonight.

"You Ok?" Alex inquired, sitting next to her, through his mouthful of sandwich.

"I'm fine."

"Yeah, right." His voice laced with sarcasm, which earned him a death glare from Meredith.

"Yeah, yeah, Ok." Alex said, holding his hands up in surrender. "Look just talk to him. You'll feel better after you do."

"Yeah, except that he's mad at me and totally ignoring me." Meredith replied bitterly, holding back tears that have been threatening to fall the since the trauma room incident.

"I'm sure he is. He wouldn't be if he didn't care." And then his pager went off. "Just do it. Go for it. He means well." His face serious. And he playfully ruffled Meredith's hair before running away, only turning once to flash a grin at her.

"You'll pay for that!" Meredith yelled after him, smiling despite herself. She knew she had to talk to Derek soon. Practically all her friends are saying so. Her heart says so too. She was just wasn't sure if she can really do it. What if he's too angry at her to care anymore?

Beep, beep, beep! Her pager pulled her out of her musings. She put her hair into place before running off to answer the page.

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A/N: So, that's the second chapter. I know…I'm sorry there isn't really a Mer/Der in this one. But I wanted to show Meredith's friendship with George and Izzie, her person to person talk with Christina. And I just love the Meredith+Alex friendship. So I dedicated this whole chapter for that. I promise the next chapter will be Mer/Der.

Thanks for reading! Review please!