Thank you for your reviews. I really like reading them. I´m really sorry, but at the moment I´m not able to post regularly because I have a lot to study for school. But I will give my best to post once or sometimes twice a week.

Now I have an extra-long chapter for you.

Have fun reading it!

Maggie's POV

Today was my twenty-four hour shift and there were a lot of things going on, a new patient that was just arriving in the E.R. had passed out at home. I was tired and exhausted because during my shift today, I had one surgery after the other and there hasn't been time to relax or lay down for a while and just today, there wasn't a lot of surgeons here. Meredith and Amelia were at home, Richard was visiting Catherine in Boston and April and Jackson also were at home. There were just Dr. Bailey, Dr. Hunt, Alex, a few others and I who were still working today.

I just got back from a surgery as I got paged; I had just performed a bypass surgery which was my third surgery within the last fifteen hours, I have been here for a while. On my way to the E.R., I met Dr. Edwards and her interns. It seems like they also got paged here.

"Dr. Pierce." She greeted me.

"Dr. Edwards." I greeted back.

We hurried up so we would be at the E.R. in time. When we have arrived, we immediately wore our trauma gowns then went outside to be ready before the patient arrive. At the time we got out of the E.R., the ambulance arrived, too.

The Paramedics got off the ambulance and opened the door. "Forty-nine year old man, found passed out by his wife. He has cardiac arrhythmia. He is awake." One of them informed us.

They got him off the ambulance and I came closer to the patient. I was frozen when I recognized that the patient was Derek who was my sister's husband. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a woman getting off the car but the woman wasn't my sister. I have never seen her before. I don't even know if Meredith knew that Derek was alive. Edwards was as shocked as I was.

Dr. Deluca, one of the new interns, groaned and the woman who got off the ambulance next to Derek sneered at him, "Don't stand around, your job is to help my husband." From the first moment I saw her, I knew that I wouldn't like her and now, I'm really sure. She was like a know-it-all, bossy b*** and I have never liked those people.

However, she pulled Edwards and I out of our initial shock, "Prepare ECHO and page Dr. Grey." I told Edwards and her interns as we brought Derek inside.

"Dr. Grey isn't working today." One of the interns said.

"Just do what you're told." I yelled at the intern. The new interns were much more incapable than the ones from last year or at least it seemed to me like they are.

Just as one of the interns was on their way to the Day Care so he could get Meredith, I heard a voice behind me say, "I'm here!" I turned around and saw Meredith standing behind me.

"You know about Derek?" I asked her.

"Yes. Derek, this woman and two other men were at my property when I arrived home. He passed out in my lawn." She gave me the short version of the story.

"You're not supposed to chitchat. You should help my husband." the woman snarled at me.

"Renee, it´s okay. They are still doing their job" Derek said.

"No, they aren't. She is just listening to the newest gossip and tittle-tattle." she answered. This continued for a little while, I rolled my eyes. This was too absurd. Fortunately, one of the interns arrived just in time with the ECHO and I immediately examined Derek.

"Now that's enough. Please wait in the waiting room!" I interrupted them, telling the woman to leave. I could really concentrate on my task but with a constantly looking over the shoulder, worried-wife-Meredith, that was not so easy. Well, she didn't really bother me, what annoyed me the most was the continuous fighting of Derek and the woman who he came with in the ambulance. And I'm not in the mood for this now.

"But she also goes!" the woman said and nodded in Meredith's direction.

"Dr. Grey is going to stay here!" I said firmly.

"Well, if she is staying then I am also staying." the woman said.

"Dr. Grey has every right to stay!" I said.

"It's okay Maggie. I'm leaving." Meredith was tired.

"But you don´t have to." I say to her.

"It is better if I leave." she countered. Then she went away, thankfully, the stupid b*** left, too. I finished Derek's examination and instructed Edwards to run more scans. The interns would only mess this up and this would be the final straw. I decided to look for Meredith but instead of her, I found Alex.

"Do you know where Meredith is?" I asked him.

"At home with her kids, where else should she be? She isn't working anymore today." he answered. Obviously, he didn't know anything.

"Okay, thanks." I said.

I was about to continue looking after Meredith but Alex stopped me, "Why did you ask? What is going on?"

"Nothing." I only said.

"Something is going on; otherwise you wouldn't ask me about Meredith." Alex continued.

"It's not my place to say." I answered.

"Just tell me what´s going on." Alex insisted. He had a worried expression in his eyes.

"Derek is alive." I tell him.

"What?" I heard Dr. Bailey and Alex saying at the same time. I turned around and surely, Dr. Bailey, the new chief, was there. She shouldn't be out here, she should be sitting in her office and doing some paperwork but instead she is wandering around the hospital and eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

"Stop telling such stories and don't tell Grey anything. The poor woman has been through enough already." she told me.

"You don't believe me." I said.

"Of course, I do not believe you. We have buried Derek about a year ago. You were there." she answered.

"Yes, don't you think that I know all these?" I said.

"Stop arguing!" Alex interrupted us. "It would be the best if you tell us the story from the beginning but not here." he continued saying. I nodded and we stepped into the next room.

"So, how did you come to this preposterous idea, that Derek is still alive?" Dr. Bailey asked me promptly.

"Edwards is just checking his scans right now." I only say.

"Right from the beginning." Bailey reminded me what we have agreed, so I told them the story right from the beginning but I didn't mention Meredith for now. Bailey and Alex were really shocked.

"Does Meredith know?" asked Alex.

"Of course she knows. Why else would I be looking for her?" I asked back, because of this, I earned warning looks from both of them.

"Why did you tell her straightaway?" Alex asked me.

"She had already known it. Derek, his supposed-to-be-wife and two other men were at her property when she came home. Derek passed out in her lawn." I told them everything I knew.

"And?" Dr. Bailey asked me.

"And what?" I asked her back.

"What else did she say?" she asked me more precisely.

"That is everything that she has told me before she left. While Edwards brings Derek to the EKG, I wanted to talk to her but I couldn't find her." was my answer to Bailey's question.

"I think I know where she is." Alex said and we got going.

Alex guided us into the basement of the hospital. "Are you sure that she is somewhere in the basement?" I asked Alex.

"Yes. Just think. She doesn't want to see anyone but she also doesn't want to leave the hospital in case there is something wrong with Derek. If you were her, where would you go?" Alex asked Dr. Bailey and me.

"I would never ever go to the basement." I said.

"Meredith would. Good thinking, Karev." Dr. Bailey praised Alex. "It seems like you know Grey, pretty well." she continued saying. "The basement; this didn´t come to my mind. A few years ago, she hid herself and Zola in the basement, didn´t she?" Bailey said.

"Why would Meredith hide with Zola?" I asked confused.

This has happened pretty often in the past. All these people know Meredith much better than I do. They know what she has been through and which subjects they shouldn't talk about around her. And I, her very own sister, know nothing. I just felt so stupid sometimes.

"Back then, Janet, the social worker, wanted to take Zola from Meredith and Derek, because Meredith and Derek were apart after Meredith had manipulated the result of Derek's trial. Meredith had also lost her job. Anyway, Meredith was in panic and had taken Zola with her and hid in the basement." Alex told me the story.

I looked around more self-consciously, somebody walked over my grave. I have never liked basements, they have always been creepy to me and that was why I couldn't think about hiding myself in the basement. "And where exactly did she hide back then?" I asked.

"I don't know. Back then, Christina found her. I don't know exactly where she has hidden." Alex answered.

"Does that mean we have to look for her in the whole basement?" I asked terrified.

"That's what it means." Dr. Bailey answered. I groaned. This will be a long day.

We started looking for Meredith. The basement was really big and mainly used as a storage area. That was really a waste. There where so many possibilities what you could do with this space. You could make more ORs or labs. The possibilities were sheer endless. We looked from one room to the other but we couldn't find Meredith. We have been searching for a little while when Edwards paged me. The results from Derek's EKG were ready. While Alex and Bailey were still looking for Meredith, I was on my way to Edwards.

I found her immediately; she showed me the result of the scans. It was fine. I couldn't see any arrhythmias but the ultrasound has showed me an abnormality. And also the results from the blood test which I had ordered before showed me also some disagreements. "Run a few more tests and request his medical report." was what I told Edwards to do next. Right after this, I went back to Dr. Bailey and Alex and helped them looking for Meredith.

When I arrived in the basement, I found the two of them staring in front of a door. "What's going on?" I ask them. Alex put a finger onto his mouth to tell me to be quiet.

"She is inside." Dr. Bailey said quietly.

"Then why are we staying outside?" I asked the two.

"We want to hear first if something else has happened." Alex said.

"I am going inside." I said. I opened the door.

In the far corner was Meredith, she was crying silently. "He has forgotten me and he has married another woman." she repeated always and always to herself. I went to her and put my arm around her.

Alex also stepped inside and put an arm around her. Even Dr. Bailey did it. The three of us were sitting around Meredith and had simultaneously put an arm around her. None of us said anything; also Meredith has stopped her horrible chant. Slowly, she has stopped crying. A few sobs escaped her from time to time. I lost track of time of how long we stayed there.

After sometime, Dr. Bailey got paged. Then it was only the two of us who were sitting next to Meredith and had put an arm around her. We were sitting many hours here, there was a constant coming and going but Meredith was never alone. At least one of us was always with her. We gave her what she just needed. We gave her safety.

Derek was alive. He wasn't dead. Forgetting her was not the worst thing that could have happened. His memories would come back sooner or later. And everything will be over and everything would be like it was before Derek's accident or even better. Everything would turn to out well but until that time, we could only be there for Meredith and hope that Derek's memories would come back soon. And until this happen, it will be a long road and there will be a lot of pain for Meredith but, hopefully, with our support, she will be able to go through this.

Meredith is a strong woman but what's more important, is that she has us. She has marvellous friends, a great sister-in-law, the best children of the whole world and she has me. We will always stand by her side. We are her family and it doesn't matter what will happen in the future, we will always be there for her.