Chapter 21

"You are what?"

"I'm breaking up with you."

Splash – a glass of white wine is thrown at him. She stands up, leans over the table and says slowly into his face.

"No way"

"It is over Addison."

"No"

Another glass of wine is thrown at him, his this time. As Addison walks out the door he wipes his face and their waiter is quick to arrive with more napkins. Derek grabs the offered ones dabbing his soaked shirt and asks for the check. This is the last time he eats here and pays for it. If someone invites him to this frogcooking, small portion, fancy restaurant he might even ask for a rain check. He feels relief when thinking it is over between him and Addison. The whole dinner he analyzed his and Addison's relationship and he didn't understand what he saw in her except her hot body. She only spoke about herself and her things and never once listens to him. Not even when he broke up with her. He sends Mark a quick text from the car and asks him to tell mum good night and he'll meet them for lunch at the hospital.

The sun is not even up when Lisa wakes up feeling strange. She tries to remember her dream. There had been at least two different once. The first one about something job related and the second one about… a car accident? Downstairs in the kitchen she grabbed a travel cup and filled it with coffee. Alex came in through the back door dressed in shorts and a tank top, sweat dripping down his forehead. He grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and stretched his legs on the counter.

"Stop being a freak, Alex."

"What? Why don't you work out?"

"I get enough of running done in the hospital."

"You could use some muscles on that tiny body of yours."

"I could take you down anytime. Don't make me."

Alex sneaks up behind her and grabs her around her waist and throwing her over his shoulder he starts tickling her mercilessly.

"Put me down"

"Make me"

She slaps his back with no result until she get a hold of his shorts pulling at the waistline she managed to pull them down a bit just as Izzy enters the kitchen.

"What are you doing? Put her down Alex and I like your butt but please pull your shorts up."

Alex puts Lisa down red in his face. Lisa is still giggling and out of breaths.

"Cute butt Alex."

"Lisa, I'm going early, want to come and leave the nerds here?"

Izzy grabs a coffee to go as well, kisses Alex and grabs his ass at the same time.

"Your butt is mine and mine alone to admire. Keep your pants on lover boy."

Mark is coming back from an early meeting with Dr Wyatt when he meets Derek in the elevator. Dr Wyatt had asked him to keep his suspicion to himself and wait for Lisa's memory to return on her own. His job was to be ready for when or if it happeneds.

"How did it go yesterday?"

"I got two glasses of wine over me but we are over."

"Now you can be my wingman again."

"You don't need any… you're taken."

"Yeah… but I can be yours."

"Whatever"

"You should go after Dr Grayson"

"I'm her boss"

"You're her mother, her daughter, her sister"

"I can't sexually harass my neurostaff."

"Sure you can and she is hot."

"You already have a girl. Keep your eyes off her."

"Oh touchy"

"Shut it Markie"

The elevator stopped at their floor and they proceeded to their offices.

Lisa was preparing for her first Grey-Shepherd Method in the research room. She had spoken to the patient and the family and she felt comfortable with the procedure. Together with Dr Mohr she had practiced injecting the virus. In the scrub room the nerves began fluttering. She was looking at the staff preparing the room and the patient was wheeled in when the door burst open and scared her enough to drop the soap. She grabbed a new one and started over as Dr Shepherd stepped up to the sink tying his scrub cap on, a cap printed with fishes.

"Why don't you wear you ferryboat scrub cap?"

"What, I'm not?"

He takes the cap off and looks at it confused.

"I could have sworn that this was my ferryboat cap."

He turns and checks the pockets of his lab coat that he hung on the peg by the door. After checking he pulls the ferryboat cap out.

"Thank you, this is my lucky cap that I've used for my very first solo surgery and all of these procedures.

"I know…"

Lisa looks down confused. Did she really know that? Why did she say that? Derek seemed to be doing some mental preparing of his own. The two surgeons finish scrubbing in and enter the OR together to be dressed in gowns. gloves and masks.

Ms. Montenassi is waiting for Judge Ellsworth to finish his first trial of the day. His PA has squeezed her in between two cases. She is rereading the file again when the door to the court room is thrown open and people file out. She sits waiting until the last person is out before entering the room.

"I'm sorry but the court is not in session."

"Excuse me Judge Ellsworth but your PA scheduled me in between."

The door opened and a tall man entered the room from behind.

"Yes I did, you must be Ms. Montenassi from a Boston law firm, and I'm Carl Adams. This is Judge Ellsworth. Judge, Ms. Montenassi has an urgent matter that she needs your help with."

"Ok, what is so important that a lawyer from Boston takes her time to visit an old grump like me?"

"Excuse me Mr. Adams but I need to speak with Judge Ellsworth alone."

"It's fine. Why don't you follow the Judge to his chambers and I'll work on our next case. You have fifteen minutes."

"Thank you Charles."

Donatella follows the Judge to the room behind his court room. Well in there he shreds his robe and sits down in his desk chair dressed in jeans and a tee shirt. Donatella sits in the visiting chair.

"My client has done something unforgivable towards her daughter. She had deceived her for the last four years. Now my client is in need of her daughter due to mental illness, advanced early onset Alzheimer."

"How can she tell you anything then?"

"She wrote down what she did and I received the file yesterday evening."

"Why the secret treatment?"

"My client was a high profile surgeon with a medical procedure named after her. Her daughter is a doctor as well."

She hands the Judge the file and he reads it twice turning pale.

"I have to consider this for a while. Mr. Adams will contact you later with my decision."

"May I have the file back please?"

"No"

"Dr Webber speaking, what can I do for you today Judge?"

"Richard, I need to see you. Are you free for lunch?"

"I can be"

"Fine, meet me at the diner across from the court at one. I have a tight schedule and it is getting even tighter as we speak. Clear your afternoon."

Richard looks at the phone before hanging up. He and the Judge have been friends since they shared a room at college.

Mark was in the gallery watching Derek and Lisa. Lisa was standing back watching the preparations being done. Derek was overseeing the resident going to monitor the patient.

"Ok, it's a beautiful day to save a life, let's have some fun."

He looked at Lisa with a jolt in his stomach and asked her

"Are you up for showing off how to open Dr Grayson?"

Lisa looked around the room feeling the pressure from the staff but she took a deep breath. Some time had to be the first and it might as well today. She looked up into the familiar blue eyes of Dr Shepherd… familiar why did she think that? She let her breath out, looked around the room before saying.

"Ok, let's focus everyone and make this a perfect day, I want my instruments in my left hand please, ten blade."

Derek looked at her stunned… it was four years since he heard that line following his. Focus Shep, it is not Mer it is Lisa. His eyes grew larger when she flipped the scalpel from her left to her right hand in a swift movement before reaching for the tweezers. What the hell was going on? Was he being spunked? She was too much like Mer for his comfort. Lisa began cutting and he watched her well practice movement and her asking for the drill. A short moment later they had three perfect drill holes and she took a step back.

"I haven't done the next part before Dr Shepherd. Do you want to continue?"

He looked at her and she looked like Meredith with only her eyes showing. He felt numb and realized that he wasn't able to take over. His hands were shaking and his breath irregular.

"Go on Dr Gray…son"

Lisa continued as practiced in the skill lab and inserted the isolating fluid completely focused on her work. Then two catheters were inserted into the tumor and she turned again to him.

"We are ready to inject the virus Dr Shepherd."

"Stats"

Derek barked out feeling uncomfortable.

"Everything within normal range doctor"

Lisa handed him a syringe and took the other one herself.

"On three, we are to reach one hundred at the same time."

They began but Lisa was a little faster than Derek.

"Slow down Dr Grayson. Don't look at the display look at me look into my eyes."

Lisa looked up into his eyes and their gaze locked. She felt like she was struck with a hammer. A small gasped escaped her as they finished in sync. Dr Shepherd's eyes were the same as those in her bar dream, when she wore the pink wig.

"Dr Shepherd, one hundred percent are in, patient is stable."

The words uttered by the resident broke the spell. Lisa dropped the syringe and stepped back shaking her head. She looked around the room feeling all the eyes on her and she bolted.

Derek wanted to follow her. The person looking into his eyes was Meredith, his Meredith. How did that work? He had to speak with her but he had an open brain on the table. After locking his heart and mentally focusing on the task of closing the patient he finished. As soon as the patient was ready to go to post-op he ran. He had to get to her.

Mark saw how Lisa ran and almost fell down the steps to catch her. When he turned the corridor he saw her scrub cap turning the other end of the hall.