Disclaimer: I do not own Grey's Anatomy but if I did we'd have McDreamy moments all the time.
Title: Winding Road
Summary: Meredith and Derek dated for 4 years until he began his internship at Seattle Grace. 7 years later she sees him again but there are only two problems. He's engaged and she's his wedding planner. AU
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"Hi Meredith." Finn said to her, "Is it okay if I come in?"
Meredith nodded and opened the door wider to allow him in. They were seated on the couch when questions flew.
"What are you doing here?" Meredith asked.
"I think you made a mistake."
"Excuse me?"
"I understand why you broke things off with me." Finn told her.
"You do?"
"You think you're too scary and damaged to be married."
"No Finn, that's not it."
"Then what i…" Finn didn't get to finish before the door rang.
"Hold that thought." Meredith said and walked to the door.
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She opened it and found Derek on the other side.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"We need to talk about what happened yesterday."
Meredith looked back into the living room, "Now is really not the best time."
"I know that you're mad at me but we can't pretend that the kiss didn't happen."
"Derek please, not right now."
"Meredith I know you have felt things in the past several days that you haven't felt in a long time because I have too."
She sighed, "Maybe I have Derek but you're engaged."
Derek was about to open his mouth when Finn appeared at the door and wrapped his arm around Meredith's waist.
"Hi." Finn said.
"Hi." Derek said, you could see his face tensing up.
Finn extended his hand, "I'm Finn Dandridge, Meredith's fiancée."
The look on Derek's face with priceless. His face seemed to show a mixture of shock, anger, surprise and most of all – hurt.
He looked at Meredith, "You're engaged? I thought you had called it off."
Meredith was about to speak when Finn cut her off, "We decided to give it another go."
Derek looked at Meredith and it almost looked like his eyes were about to water.
"Well I'm going to get going. Goodbye Meredith and it was nice meeting you Finn. And Meredith I'm glad you found that guy who makes your heart beat fast and the guy you can't live without."
Meredith turned to Finn, "Do you mind going inside, I need to talk to Derek and then we need to have a talk."
Finn seemed oblivious to what was happened and agreed.
Meredith shut her door and faced Derek.
"You don't get to be mad about anything involving my love life. You're engaged Derek and yes you were the love of my life but now you're engaged. You don't get to be mad. Just for the record I am not back together with Finn."
"That's not what it looked like." Derek spat out.
"Seriously! You need to get over yourself. Finn wants me back but I am not sure I going to get back with him. You are the most brainless brain surgeon I have ever met. You are such an idiot Derek Shepherd."
Derek was about to walk away when he turned around, "He's not the guy for you Meredith."
"You don't get to say who is right for me. You said things to me Derek that destroyed me. You broke me. You made me feel like a loser for not wanting to follow in my mother's footsteps. You are the only person that has ever made me feel like that."
He looked at her, "I'm sorry."
"Derek we can't try to be friends anymore, it just isn't working."
He nodded.
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Later that night Meredith was on the phone with Izzie.
"So I hear you made out with McDreamy." Izzie said to her.
"Just for the record, I did not make out with him. It was one kiss."
"How was it afterward?"
"Miserable. We didn't talk and if we did it was just about the wedding. He couldn't even walk next to me. It was awful."
"You liked the kiss thought, didn't you?"
"Ye… that's not the point. The point is that I kissed Derek and now Finn wants me back."
"Whose Finn?" Izzie asked.
"My ex-fiancé."
Izzie dropped the spatula that she was holding, "Your what??"
"I was engaged and I broke it off but he came over today and said he wanted to get back together and then Derek showed up and it was a mess."
Izzie laughed, "You should seriously get your own TV show. It would be the best thing on TV. Oh you could name it something like Grey's Anatomy."
"Why Grey's Anatomy?"
"Because it sounds cool and it your last name and there's a book with the same title but spelled differently. It would seriously rock."
"Okay Izzie I'll contact ABC."
"Okay good."
They both began laughing.
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Three days later, Meredith was in her office going over a few things with Addison and Derek. Addison had arrived back in town yesterday.
"So you want the wedding here in New York right?" Meredith asked.
"We were actually thinking about the Manhattan Loft."
Meredith put on a fake smile, "That's a great choice."
She was writing something down when her door opened. Derek turned his head to see who came in.
"Finn!" Meredith said and jumped up to hug him.
Derek looked pissed and Addison could tell.
"I'm sorry to bother you but I wanted to bring you some breakfast." Finn simply told her.
She smiled, "Thanks." She gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Addison stood up to introduce herself, "Hi I'm Addison Montgomery and you are?"
"I'm Finn Dandridge, Meredith's fiancé."
Addison grinned, "Meredith didn't tell us she was engaged."
Finn proudly put his arm around Meredith, "We just got back together."
Meredith forced a smile.
"I am so happy to hear that. Meredith makes so many people happy, it's about time that she makes herself happy."
"Yeah." Meredith said softly, "I'm the happiest."
She sounded like she was trying to convince herself of that.
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A/N WOW! You guys seriously rock. I was completely blown away by the amount of reviews. I had such a bad day and you guys made it a hundred times better.
Next Chapter: Fast forward three months. Cristina get's a surprise visitor and she's not sure if she's happy about them. Meredith, Derek AND Addison have dinner where a surprise will be revealed. Okay then.