Title: Just Can't Live a Lie

Category: Romance/drama

Chapter: 20

Name of Chapter: A New Day

By: Der4Mer4ever

MerDer story

Meredith sat up in bed. She felt sore after the surgery, not to dimension that she had slept since after the surgery the morning before. As she looked around in the room, she found Derek sleeping in a chair next to her. She smiled as she saw him.

He looked peaceful. She turned her head so she could look at the clock. It was 4 am and Derek started at 5 o'clock. She took her right hand and placed it on her left hand. It was once more covered in bandage. Meredith reached her good arm out, and placed it on Derek's shoulder. "Derek?" she whispered as she strokes his arm.

"Derek," Meredith said again a little louder. "Meredith?" Derek opened his eyes. She smiled to him. "Your awake," he said and smiled. "How are you feeling?" Derek stood up and touched her left arm. "It's sore, but I'm fine." Derek didn't smile anymore. "You know, Dr Burgeon didn't do the surgery," Derek began.

"Then who did?" Meredith asked. Derek sighted. "I did." Derek took his hands to her face. "You will have to wait a few more hours before you can try moving your hand," Derek continued. "Yeh," Meredith replied.

"Your shift starts soon so you should maybe get going." Derek nodded. "I will come by as soon as I can," he said and kissed her softly. "Try get some more rest, okay?" Meredith nodded. "I will," she said and Derek left.

Just as Meredith was about to drift back to sleep, some one knocked at the door. "Cristina?" Meredith said as Cristina opened the door and came in. "Hi," she said and stepped closer. "So, you're okay?"

"As okay as I can be," Meredith said giving her a weak smile. "You should have seen Shepherd after the surgery yesterday. He was like some lost kid. He couldn't even close up, he just left." Cristina sat down in a chair, and they were both silent fot a while. "I have to tell you something, and when I tell you, you not get to react in anyway." Meredith raised her eyebrows. "Okay?"

Cristina sighed. "Burke wants me to be religion," Cristina said quickly. Meredith tried not to laugh, but she couldn't hide that she was smiling. "Mer," Cristina said angrily. "Oh, that's, well that's, it just that I never looked at you as the girl to pray to God and it's just not quite you and…" Cristina interrupted her.

"Stop it." They looked at each other for a second before they both brush into laugher. "No way. I'm not religious, and have no plans of becoming it either," Cristina said as they continued to laugh. "Crap," Cristina said as her pager went of. "Bailey doesn't give me a freakin' minute," she said to her selves as she walked out of the door. Meredith turned in the bed and tried to get back to sleep, since Cristina had interrupted her nap. Thinking about Cristina and what she told her made her smile even when she closed her eyes.

Derek sat in his office. The hospital was a mess. They needed more rooms, a new OR and not to dimension some new instruments and a new MRI. "Chief," Patricia came into his office.

"The meeting is schedule to 4 o'clock tomorrow. And Dr Warner told me to tell you that there are two patients waiting for a new liver, and we need to send someone to get them." Derek raised his head.

"Get them from where?"

"Tacoma hospital and it has to be done today." Derek sighed. "Send Dr Hays if he's available." Patricia nodded and turned to the door. "Oh, and one more thing. Dr Grey wants you to come by as soon as you can. I think she has something to show you."

Patricia disappeared, and Derek looked down at his papers again. What was Meredith going to show him? Could she move her arm? Derek stood up left his office and headed for Meredith's room, just when his pager goes of. He sighted and hurried down to the ER.

"Dr Shepherd, we have a 23 year old male. Shot him selves in his head after he had killed two kids. Pulse is weak, and he's bleeding a lot." Derek looked at Bailey with big eyes.

"Fucking fool," Derek said just high enough so Bailey heard it. They moved him quickly into the EM, and starting to treat him. "He needs surgery Dr Shepherd," Bailey said. Derek shook his head.

"This ass doesn't deserve to live," he said to him selves as they move him to OR 1 and prepped him for surgery.

Three hours later Derek walked out of the OR. He had survived, and he would wake up in a few hours. Derek went to get a cup coffee before he was going to see Meredith.

He hadn't seen her all day, and had no idea how her arm was. "Hi," Derek said as he stepped into her room. She was sitting up in the bed reading in some magazines. When she saw him, she putted the magazines down.

"Hi Dr busy," Meredith teased. Derek smiled. "So how's your arm doing?" Meredith tried not to look too exited, but she couldn't hold back the smile. "I can move all my fingers now, and raise it up a few centimeters," Meredith grinned as she saw Derek's face.

"So Dr Grey, you're working on next Friday then," Derek said gently, and acted like a professional chief. Meredith laughed. "Stop it," she said as he took out his hand to greet her.

"Hey, I'm trying to be a professional boss, talking to his intern here." Meredith shook her head. "Dr Shepherd, right now I would have wanted some special treatment from my fiancée," Meredith said acting like she was hurt. Derek couldn't hold back anymore and grinned from ear to ear.

He bent down and kissed her softly at her cheek. "I would be more than happy to give you special treatment too," Derek replied and kissed her again, but this time on her lips. Softly their lips touched, and Meredith felt numb. How cold she ever have doubt that Derek wasn't the one? Derek stood up again.

"Work," he whispered to her, and smiled. Meredith crossed her arms. "Derek, seriously." Derek laughed. He enjoyed looking at Meredith right now. She wanted to just wrap her arms around him and kiss him forever, and Derek teased her. "Fine," Meredith said. "Dr Shepherd when will I get discharged?" Derek got serious again.

"We need to observe your arm until tomorrow, and then if everything is normal you will get out tomorrow afternoon." Suddenly Izzie came into her room all jumping and happy. "This is great," she screamed and walked, no ran over to Meredith. "Okay, I'll see you later," Derek said and gave Meredith a quick smile.

"Don't leave," Meredith formed the words in her lips to Derek. "Work," Derek whispered back.

"It will be so good having you back at work, you know. Derek was really good in there; you should have seen the surgery. And this other surgeon was like really jealous when Derek told him to leave, and Derek looked so great and…" Meredith shook her head.

"Izzie," she said frustrated. "Oh, and did I tell you about Bailey's surgery? There was a girl with three knifes through her foot and when we opened the scar up…" Meredith took her hand up to shout her.

"IZZIE," Meredith screamed to her. "What?" Meredith leaned back. "Please stop talking." Izzie wrinkled her eyebrows. None of them had realized that Cristina had stood there the entire time and watched them.

"What's going on?" Cristina said and walked over to them. "I was just telling Meredith how great it is to have her back, and about the cool surgeries I have performed lately."

Meredith smiled to Cristina. "Izzie tell me more about the surgeries," Meredith said still smiling. "What?" Cristina whispered to Meredith. "I though you didn't want to hear about all the crappy stuff from Izzie," Meredith grinned. "It's so boring that it might help me to sleep, so I'll let her continue," Meredith whispered back.

"Oh, good point," Cristina said back and disappeared out of the room. Meredith leaned back again and closet her eyes. "Meredith? Are you listening?" Meredith opened one eye. "Yes, you carry on. I will just close my eyes and listen to you."

Meredith closed her eye again. "Okay," Izzie said before she continued with every detail of the surgeries, and about how great it would be when she came back to work.

Unknowing that her listener had fallen asleep long time ago!

A/N: So Meredith's arm are fine after the second surgery. AND I decided to let Derek be the one to operate in the previous chapter! Soon the story will make a huge chance, but what's happening I can't tell you. You just have to keep reading and see: )

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