Chapter 11

Meredith is not stable enough for surgery in the afternoon and they have to wait until the next day. Mark, Dr Webber and Addison together with Dr Bailey forces Derek into an on-call room and keeps him there until he has slept for 6 hours. They will not let him perform Meredith's surgery otherwise. Mark and he have reached a professional understanding but Mark misses his best friend as much as Derek does. Addison had seen them having coffee in the lobby and when she saw all the looks they got from the females all around the place and she couldn't help start giggling again, McDreamy and McSteamy. Their nicknames were so suitable.

Meredith is kept on heavy drugs and sleeps most of the time. She always has one of her closest friends in the room. Lt Karlsson visits but it is impossible to communicate with her due to her drugs. He is really worried for her sister. Thatcher and Susan Grey visits as well and are horrified for the prospect of their daughter when they see what Meredith looks like.

The gallery is swamped with doctors and nurses at 10 am when Derek and Mark are scrubbing in. It is not a possibility to close the gallery even for the privacy of one of their own when two world renowned surgeons are to work together. The surgery is not that unique, it is the surgeons that are in focus. Mark and Derek walk into the OR together and an audible sigh is heard from the female spectators. Mark sends a smirk and a wink up to the gallery while getting a gown and glows. Derek is focusing on Meredith and hasn't let her out of focus since he entered the room.
"It is a beautiful day to save life, let's have some fun."
"It is a beautiful day to make the world even more beautiful."

The surgeons are so well paced that their work seems like a rehearsed dance. They don't need to speak but for ordering specific instruments. The gallery is silent and everyone stares in awe. When a titanium plate is fastened on the scull and Mark has rebuilt her cheek and reset her nose he remakes the stitches on her stomach. Derek thanks the surgical team and the surgeons leave the OR to the sound of applauses. Dr Webber enters the scrub room and asks how the dream team would feel to work together in the future.
"What, work together in the future?" Derek asks.
"Yes, I would like to offer you a position here at Seattle Grace Hospital as our head of plastics" he adresses Mark. "Would you consider such an offer Dr Sloan?"
"That would be up to Dr Shepherd."
"Up to me?"
"Yeah, you moved here to get away from me and I would not like you to feel imposed with me working here. I have hurt you more then enough."
"I would not want to stop your professional career. I believe we can work together."
Derek looks into his friend's eyes and sees sincerity. He nods to him and gets a smile in return from Mark.
"Let's go to your office Dr Webber and you can show me what you're offering me" Mark says with a bright smile.

Addison meets them outside with a giggle.
"How are the stars of the dream team, McDreamy and McSteamy?"
Both men blush and stare at her with grim faces before leaving for different reasons. Addison looks long after them.

Lexie is trying to see what is happening outside. At about 5 pm and dusk when a police officer and another man knocks on the door. Mary speaks with them for a couple of minutes before they turn and walk around the corner of the house. Lexie wonders if she could do something to get them to notice her. She doesn't dare to break the window and she can't open it the supposed way. She decides to just stand as close as possible flashing her windowl amp and hope that they would look up and see her before returning to their boat. The officers return to their boat not noticing Lexie in the window. She slides down onto the floor crying her hearth out and that is how White finds her before supper. He is nice to her and wraps her in his arms and hugs her until she has no more tears.
"Why are you crying?"
"I miss my sister. I miss Meredith."
"So do I."
"You do?"
"Yes, she was my wife."
"Why did you let Black hurt her?"
"She deserved it."
"No one deserves to get hit and raped."
"She asked for it."
Lexie stares him. She really doesn't like how he justifies everything Black does. Together they walk down for supper.

Derek is back by Meredith's side when she wakes up after the last surgeries. She stirs slowly and gags on the tube. He checks her vitals and decides she is stable enough to pull the tube. Meredith's eyes follows his every move.
"Mer, I am going to pull out the tube on the count to three. I need you to cough when I say three. Can you do that?"
She blinks two times as a response and coughs on three. He pulls the tube and hands her some ice chips. She keeps looking at him not saying a word.
"Meredith, you have had three surgeries in the last 48 hours."
"Why?"
"You were brought in to the ER with multiple injuries. A lot of them on your head that caused your brain to swell, the first surgery were not enough and I had to go in and open your scull-flap up. I closed it during the last surgery where Dr Sloan fixed your nose and cheek."
"Why?"
"What is the last thing you remember?"
She just stares at him.
"Who am I?"
She just stares at him.
"What do you know about me?"
Still no answer fromher and he continues.
"Who are your closest friends? What do you know about them?"
She looks at him and he is close to freek out. Is there a neurological damage? Why doesn't she respond? The suddenly he can see her lips moving and leans forward to hear her soft whisper.
"You are…you are Derek…Shepherd neuro surgeon…my boss…my…my married boss…with Addison…she came and told me…you left me…you…" her eyes started to water and Derek stops her.
"Mer, I got a divorce and I haven't had the opportunity to tell you yet."
"You have?"
"Yeah, I have. It was my choise." He gives her his Mc Dreamy smile and continues. "Can you tell me about your friends?"
"Cristina…is my person…George and Izzy…lives in my house…Alex…evil spawn…Lexie…LEXie…LEXIE where is LEXIE? Black hurt her…"
She is crying heavily out of both physical and psychological pain. Derek pushes a mild sedative into her IV before stroking her hand waiting for her to calm down. He knows that he can't hug her yet even though he only wants to cradle her into his arms.
"Meredith, the police needs to talk to you. Lexie is still not found and they hope you can help them. Can I ask them to come?"
"Yes" she slowly nods her head.
Derek motions to the nurse standing by the door to call the police and he sits stroking her hand until she sleeps again.

Lt Karlsson is reading the reports from the search the day before. He has a couple of pages left when the hospital calls and tells him that they can question Dr Grey. He brings the papers to read in the car while being driven to the hospital. Dr Grey is moved to the ICU and he meets Dr Shepherd and a psychiatrist, Dr Wyatt, outside her room. He gets a short up-date on her vitals and what she told Derek. He warns him that they will sedate her if she gets too stressed. He will be outside the room but Dr Wyatt will be in the room the whole time. Derek walks in first and Cristina who has kept her company leaves after a long look at her person. Meredith has not spoken since she agreed to speak with the police but to tell Derek that she didn't want him listening to her story. He had agreed but demanded that Dr Wyatt was there instead.
"Meredith, are you awake? The police are here. It is is Lt Sven Karlsson. He has been on your case since you were reported missing. Can he come in together with Dr Wyatt?"
Meredith opens her eyes and looks deep into his eyes before she nods.

Meredith watches the two people entering the room as Derek leaves it and closes the door behind him. After some awkward questions about how she is feeling Lt Karlsson asks her to tell him as much as she can remember. She tells them about the abduction, about the first place she was kept at and then the wedding, drugs and Lexie's pregnancy but then she starts crying and can only whisper rape. Dr Wyatt steps in and holds her hand while saying that she doesn't have to tell that part right now. It can wait. Her voice is soothing and Meredith can continue after a couple of minutes.
"Can you describe anything about the island or the people living there?"
"They fish, all men fish. The man is the boss of everyone. I think that he is the father of Black and White."

"Black and White are they brothers?"
"Yeah, I was made to wear white clothes and dye my hair ultra blond and marry White. Lexie wears black and has dyed her hair black and had to marry Black. White is nicer then Black but does everything he is told by Black. They share everything even wife" she begins to cry again.
"You have done very well. In the next couple of days the police will need a full statement. Would you be comfortable to give it to me or do you want someone from the special crime unit to do it?"
She looks through the window at Derek hovering there and at Dr Wyatt by her bedside before whispering.
"I would like to do it with you and Dr Wyatt." She closes her eyes and is almost asleep when Lt Karlsson opens the door. "Please tell me as soon as you found my sister." She is exhausted and is sleeping before the door closes behind the doctors.

Lt Karlsson picks up the reports from the search the day before and flips through them until he finds the right page. The Black and White was visited last evening but nothing suspicious reported. He calls a judge and gets a warrant and will be allowed a full house investigation. A team in three different boats consisting of the Coast Guard, police officers and technicians from the CSI meet in the harbor. They leave, as soon as all their equipment is loaded, for the island and hope they will be there before the fishermen returns from sea.