Thank you to those who reviewed!! You are amazing!! I love it! I loved hearing what you guys thought! Here is an update; I'm going on vacation for a week and a half so you won't get another update until after the fourth of July. Hopefully this update will last you till then. Hope you enjoy!

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The past two days had been hard, but easier than the first. She didn't have to work with Addison anymore, she had seen Derek but he hadn't bothered her as much as before. And he had collected his clothes from her room.

She still missed him, and loved him. But it would be too hard to take him back. She couldn't let her guard down and let him in yet either. She knew he wanted to talk still, and she wanted that too. Get closure and hopefully try to move on.

She was filling out charts when someone came up next to her.

"The guys pretty much a goner right?" he asked her reading over her chart.

"Sensitivity, I like that in a stranger. Are you new here?" she asked him.

"Visiting. Confounded by all the rain and it's only my first day in town." He told her with a smile.

"You get used to it." she told him with a smile as she finished signing the chart.

"Makes me wanna stay in bed all day." He told her with a suggestive smirk.

"We just met and already you're talking about bed. Not very subtle." She said with a giggle.

"Subtle has never been my strong suit. So, do you ever go out with co-workers?" he asked.

"I, um, make it a rule not to." She said thinking of Derek.

"Then I am so glad that I don't work here." He told her.

"Are you hitting on me? In a hospital?" she asked with a smile.

"Would that be wrong?" he asked.

"Meredith." She said introducing herself.

The guy was about to introduce himself when Derek suddenly punched him causing the stranger to land on the floor in front of her.

"What the hell was that?" she asked still surprised.

"It's Mark." Derek answered her as he turned to look at her.

"Oh, why would you punch him Derek?" she asked confused.

"Because, he slept with my wife." He answered her like she was dumb.

"So, this is just to get back at him for sleeping with your wife?" she asked him.

"Yes." He told her as he shook his hand and flexed it to see if it was broken.

"See, you do still care about her." Meredith told him before she went to Mark and helped him up.

She led him off to an exam room as Derek stood there mad at himself for not telling her the truth. He had punched Mark because seeing him flirting with Meredith pissed him off more than him sleeping with his wife. It was too late to tell her that though, she had already taken Mark to an exam room to fix his cut.

"So, you're the intern who has been sleeping with Derek. You're famous, I've heard about you all the way in New York." He told her as she cleaned his cut.

"Well, you're pretty famous too. I've heard about you all the way here. You're the guy who slept with his best friends' wife." She said as she dabbed his cut.

"We're dirty mistress's." he told her.

"I guess we are." She said with no smile. She didn't want to be a dirty mistress.

"You know, it's funny. Derek walked in on me naked and actually in bed with his wife and he just turned around and left. But he sees me so much as talking to you, and I'm on the ground. Don't you find that interesting?" he asked.

"No, because I talked to him and he said he did it because you slept with his wife. He's just paying you back now." Meredith told him.

"That's not true. I know Derek, I grew up with him. He punched me because I was flirting with you. He doesn't love or care about Addie." He told her.

"Whatever, we're over. It doesn't matter." She told him.

"Does he want you guys to be over? He signed the papers a long time ago." He informed her.

"Doesn't matter, she's here, he's here. They could get back together."

"But they won't. He doesn't love her, he loves you." He told her as she finished cleaning the cut.

"You've been here less then ten minutes and you already think he loves me?" she asked.

"Like I said, I know Derek. We were practically brothers. He loves you; he wouldn't have punched me if he didn't." Mark told her.

"What are you doing?" he asked her as she tried to start stitching him up.

"Stitching you up." She told him.

"Hold the mirror." He instructed her as he began to do it himself.

Mark was stitching himself up so Meredith left him alone and joined her friends outside.

"McSexy wanted to stitch himself up." She informed them.

"McSexy?" Cristina asked.

"Not good?" she asked referring to the nick name.

"No, how bout…McSteamy?" Cristina asked turning back around to ogle at him.

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Meredith was walking through the halls on her way to the cafeteria when Derek almost collided into her as he turned the corner.

"Oh, sorry." He told her, and then realized who he almost ran into.

"It's fine." She said making a move to try to go around him.

"Meredith, wait. Can we talk? In here?" he asked as he pointed to the on-call room next to them.

"Oh, right. Yeah, let's talk where we used to have sex all the time." Meredith said with an eye roll.

"Meredith, please. Just talking, I swear." He told her.

"Fine." She said as she walked into the room and he shut the door behind her.

She sat on the lower bunk of the bed on the right and he did the same but with the bed across from it.

"Look, I'm sorry Addison is here. I'm sorry I put you in this position and I'm sorry you've had to deal with her this week. But she is only here because the Chief called her in for a case. She's leaving soon though. I didn't ask her to come. Our divorce is final; we got the final papers in the mail yesterday. I didn't punch Mark because of him sleeping with Addison; I should actually be thanking him for that." Derek told her as he took a breath of air that was needed to continue.

"I love you. I miss you and I want you back. I saw him flirting with you and I just saw you slipping even further away from me and I thought if he got to you, I would have no hopes at a future with you. He would take you away from me. I couldn't stand the thought of you in bed with him. It was like I was re-living the scene in my head where I opened the door and saw him in bed with Addison, but instead of Addison, it was you and it made my blood boil. I've never felt that much jealousy before, never." He said, pausing.

"So you punched him." She said with understanding.

"So I punched him," he said looking up at her and seeing understanding in her eyes.

"Now what Derek? Where do we go from here?" she asked.

"That's up to you Meredith. I can continue to beg and plead for another chance, take you out on dates, spoil you and love you for the rest of our lives, or you could shut the door and lock it, never letting me back in. I'm really hoping you won't do the last one, because I am hopelessly in love with you. I love you more than I have ever loved Addison."

"Derek…"She said with warning as if she didn't believe him.

"It's true Mer; I'm not going to say I didn't love her, because that would be stupid and a lie. But I have never felt this way about anyone, especially Addison. We just weren't right together. With you I feel like I'm home. Like I was drowning and since I've found you I've come up for air. You've saved me." He told her with love shining in his eyes.

"Are you sure Derek? Because I don't think I can open up and let you in again just to be hurt again because you made a mistake leaving her. Or worse you find someone better…"

"Never, there is no one else for me Meredith, I love you. Only you. Forever." He told her as he moved to her bed and sat next to her, afraid to touch her.

"Don't say forever Derek. You don't know what will happen." She told him looking away.

"Meredith, I will love you forever. Forever and always, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to hurt you or let you run either. I mean, unless you don't want to be with me anymore, then that's…"

"I…I want to be with you, I do. I'm just terrified of something happening again. Of you realizing I'm just an ordinary person or that I'm unable to love. I just, I can't say it yet. I can't, you…this just hurt too much. I can forgive you, but I can't say it back yet. But I do want to be with you." She told him.

"Meredith, I will never intentionally hurt you. Never. I don't have anymore things from my past that could come up. I told you about Addison, and you forgave me, I know it hurt you to hear about that, but I didn't lie to you about it. I didn't know Addison was coming, if so I would have told you. She had tried calling me and I had ignored her, not wanting to talk to her. I should have so then I could have told her not to come, or to have warned you. I'm sorry; I wish I could take it all back. But I will never hurt you again. And you are not ordinary Meredith Grey, you are anything but. You are such an incredible person and it makes me love you more. You are extraordinary. And I understand if you can't say it back, I do. I just hope I can gain back your trust and love, and I hope you will let me." He told her somewhat asking her the last part.

"Yeah, ok…let's try this one more time. But Derek, if you hurt me or do something else….it will be over. I can't keep doing this, it…it takes too much." She told him.

"I promise that will never happen. I won't let anything happen or screw this up. I can't lose you again, it hurts me too much to see you go through that and to go through it as well." He told her; grateful she was willing to forgive him.

"Also, Derek, is it ok if we take things slow? I mean, I don't think I can have you back at my place for a while. I need to go slow this time." She told him.

"Yeah, that's ok Meredith. I understand." He wanted nothing more than to fall asleep with her in his arms again, but he knew he needed to go at her pace. He was just thankful she was forgiving him.

"Ok, good." She told him with a smile. "I missed you." She whispered.

"Oh, Meredith, I missed you too." He told her smiling at her. He was so tempted to reach out and pull her to him and hug and kiss her, but he was afraid she would get mad.

He was surprised when she wrapped her arms around his middle and rested her head on his chest.

"Will you just…hold me for a little bit?" she asked shyly.

"Of course." He told her as he reclined back against the bed and pulled her closer to him as he wrapped his arms around her, breathing in her scent. "Your hair smells different." He stated.

"I changed shampoos." She told him.

"Oh, uh…" he didn't know how to tell her he didn't like it.

"I'll change it back." She said with a smile as she pecked his lips.

"I would love that," he told her.

He still smelled like Derek to her. His after shave was still the same.

"I missed this," she told him in a whisper as she laid there wrapped up in his warm embrace, feeling safe once again.

"Me too, so much." He told her as he placed a small kiss on her forehead.

She lifted her head off his chest and looked into his eyes. He was staring right back at her with his eyes showing all the love he had for her. She leaned in and placed her lips against his. He was hesitant and didn't want to push her too far, but once she placed her arms around his neck and he felt her tongue against his lips he willingly kissed her back with as much passion as he could. He had his Meredith back, and he wasn't going to screw this up. They were working at her pace, and he was ok with that. He wouldn't loose her again; she was too precious to him.

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There you go! They are back together!! Did it work out well for you guys? I hope it did!!

Little question, Do you guys want Mark to stick around?

And do you want Addison to stick around?

I have some of it written where Addison goes to California, and Mark sticks around. But if you guys are thinking about something else, let me know!

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