She put the car in park and opened the door. She didn't stop to think. She couldn't because if she did she wouldn't do it. She hurried up the stairs to recovery and didn't stop as she marched down the hall. When she got to the room, she didn't even stop to think. She just threw the door open. When she looked in, she saw he wasn't alone. She looked around the room as she felt her face redden. There sat four women, Derek, and Mark was in the bed.
"Meredith." Mark said making a confused face.
"Ah, sorry I didn't… know. I'll, ah, come back when you're alone." She stumbled over her words.
"No, it's fine. Can you give us a minute?"
"Who is this?" One said glancing at Mark.
"That's Derek's intern." Another she recognized as Derek's sister, Nancy, said.
"She's not my intern." Derek said. "We haven't been dating for years."
"Meredith, what's wrong?" Mark said from the bed noticing the tears in her eyes.
"Nothing." She choked out. "I'll ah come back later."
She turned to walk away.
"Meredith." He called her back. She wiped a tear that had rolled onto her cheek as she turned back.
"We can talk later."
"You seemed like it was important." A woman said.
"Jessica, butt out." Mark hissed.
"It was just one of those in the moment things. I can't do this right now." She turned to walk away but once again he called he back.
"Mark she said it could wait." Another woman said.
"Be quiet, Marie." Mark snapped. "Meredith, they can come back. I want to talk to you."
She shook her head. "Be with your family or whatever." With that she walked away.
"So you are dating the slutty intern?" Nancy said.
"Shut up, Nancy. Don't call her that." Mark snapped watching her walk away. He could see the stairs door shut. "Derek, man, can you…?"
"You know as well as I do, Meredith isn't seeing anything eye to eye with me these days." Derek said.
"Were you ever going to tell us that you were dating the intern?" The youngest looking woman finally spoke up.
"It's none of your business, Kathleen." Mark said looking at his 'family'.
"We're your family, Mark, we want to know." Kathleen said back.
"Leave him alone." Derek said.
"Who'd the slut leave you for, Derek?" Jessica asked raising an eyebrow.
"Shut up! Just shut up! Okay." Mark yelled.
"I cheated on her. She did nothing to deserve it." Derek said. "And it was a long time ago a lot has happen since then."
"Like what?" Nancy asked.
"Like everyone has moved on." Mark snapped.
"When did you two break up?" Kathleen asked Mark.
"We never officially did. I went to New York. When I came back she was gone."
"So she didn't even wait for you." Jessica said.
"You don't know the story so stop making her out to be a bad person." Mark snapped.
"I don't even know the whole story." Derek sighed.
"You were gone for how long?" Marie asked
"Two months." Mark sighed.
"And she was for?" Marie continued.
"Two years. She couldn't come back."
"Oh, the plane fare was too much?" Kathleen said sarcastically.
"I doubt that seeing as when Ellis died; she got a large chunk of money." Derek said mouthing millions.
"Her finances aren't any of your business, Dr. Shepherd." The voice was harsh and everyone looked up to see Alex standing in the door.
"Who are you?" Marie asked.
"Alex?" Meredith voice came from the other side of the nurses' station. "Where the hell is Katie?"
"I was paged. Izzie, Christina, and George have her." He explained. "I'll be right there." He said holding up a finger. "Dr. Shepherd, I recommend you stop worrying about how much money Meredith has tucked away in her bank account. Mark…"
"What's up, Alex?" Mark said looking up after glaring at Derek.
"I wanted to check up on you."
"Why are you even on this floor, Kerev?" Derek snapped.
"Let's think about this, Shepherd. I went to med school. I started in the surgical program. I do surgery and I send them to recovery. Recovery floor. Recovering patients. They go hand and hand."
"I know that, Kerev. But isn't the NICU on the next floor?"
"So true… But I wanted to check on some friends. You know Mark and Meredith. So did she talk to you?"
"No, she said it could wait." Mark said.
"Great job, Sloan. At this rate she'll never talk to you." He mumbled turning to walk away.
"Why does she need to talk to him? If she left Seattle, why does she have any interest in Mark?" Nancy said. Alex turned.
"Who are you? Never mind, I really don't care." And with that he walked away.
"Why the fuck do you always have to interfere?" He yelled at the girls.
"Because we care about you." Jessica shrugged.
"Well, stop butting in on everything. I'm a big boy now. I can take care of myself. I can have a relationship with out you knowing. I can do whatever the hell I want." He sighed.
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Don't worry. She'll talk to him next chapter.