Chapter 8

As Meredith felt the cold barrel of the gun pushing against her temple, she also felt terror. Not the terror that you get when you go through a haunted house or the terror of a test you know you're going to fail but death terror. She felt as if her life would end, at this moment and there was nothing she could do about it. Derek stepped forward with his hands out to show he didn't have anything in them.

"Take one more step and a bullet will go through her head," he gripped Meredith tighter.

"I'm just here to talk," Derek tried to reason with the man. He wasn't young nor was he old, maybe in his early 40's late 30's. He didn't seem like the type of man to come into a hospital or even a grocery store to pull a gun and start shooting, but I guess you can't judge a book by its cover.

"I mean it, come any closer and she'll be gone." Derek stopped in his tracks; he really didn't want to find out if he was blushing or not.

"Like I said I just want to talk."

"About what," he sounded irritated by this point.

"Why are you doing this?" Derek knew he was testing him.

"People like you make me so angry, making mistakes every day of your life, killing people. You misdiagnosed my wife, she's now dead, in the ground. She ended up having breast cancer instead of just a 'benign' tumor, it was cancerous. She's now dead."

"I'm very sorry for your loss. I truly am, but do you think your wife would've wanted you to do this for her? Because someone made a mistake, do you think she would've wanted you standing here killing other people, families even for her?"

"Shut up! You don't know what she would've wanted."

"I know she would've wanted the best for you. Is this really the best of you?" The man started to cry and shook his head. He let Meredith go and she ran to Derek, hugging him and sobbing. Addison then walked into the room, confused and scared. Derek turned his head for a second to see Addison walk in the room, his blood went cold as he turned back to the man pointing the gun at Meredith and fired two bullets into her chest. Cristina prevented her from falling to the floor as Derek tackled the man to the ground, punching him repeatedly. Once the man was unconscious, he ran toward Meredith's side. He stroked her now pale cheek as he put pressure on the wounds.

"Derek, it hurts," she said shaking.

"I know, I know," tears now fell from his eyes, "someone get a stretcher!" He turned back to Meredith who was losing blood and losing it fast. "Mer, stay with me now ok? Don't fall asleep, can you do that for me?" She nodded her head holding Derek's free hand. "You're going to be just fine," he lied. He knew she would be in good hands but he wasn't positive that she would be ok. And that's what terrified him to death.

When the stretcher finally arrived, Derek and Alex carefully put her on it. They wheeled her back to the OR as fast as they could. Bailey saw Meredith on the stretcher and immediately went to the OR, scrubbing in. She didn't even have to ask what happened, she had heard the gunshots. Derek also attempted to scrub in but was interrupted by Bailey.

"Derek, you should sit this one out," she said sympathetically.

"With all due respect, Dr. Bailey, but this is my girlfriend, I'm not just going to sit back while she's dying."

"Fair enough." They both went into the room and started right away. They had to pump blood into her because she had lost so much in such a short amount of time. Dr. Bailey took the bullets out with ease but then blood splattered everywhere. Her monitor showed her heart rate was dropping and so was her blood pressure. Derek panicked and started resuscitating. Pushing on her chest to help get her heart pumping again, he started crying in front of everyone, but he didn't care. Meredith was on the brink of death. She flat lined, but that didn't stop Derek from trying to bring her back.

"Come on, Meredith," he said as he pumped harder, "I lost you once and I'm not about to do it again." Bailey then brought out the defibrillator and gave her a shock to get her heart rate back. Nothing. "Again," Derek yelled.

"Clear," Dr. Bailey thought there was no hope. She shocked her again, and Derek waited. That's all he could do was wait.

I know this a shorter story but I wanted to continue this in a different chapter. Let me know what you guys think.