After Derek left the room, he decided that he should go and see the driver. He had told Izzie to take care of him and told her only to consult him when something went wrong as he had not been able to look into that face yet. But now he really needed to face him. He was not sure wether Izzie already told him the whole story or not, as he had been uncounscious until last night.

He went in, looked on the ground and grabbed the chart without saying anything. The man looked at him.

"So you must be Dr Sheperd, the man who saved my life, I guess? Thank you so much!"

Derek looked at him coldly.

"Well, I guess you are right. That is my name. I do not know if Dr Stevens already told you what happened?"

"She told me that I crashed into another car with my own car, and that there was a woman inside that car, who is in this hospital, too. I did not see her yet and I do not know her name, but I think as soon as I am able to get up I will go see her and apologize. I was so stupid. Damn cellular phone, was lying on the passenger seat… then it rang and fell down on the ground. As I wanted to grab it, it suddenly crashed…"

Derek felt that tears came up to his eyes: "There is nothing you can even apologize for! That woman you almost killed because you wanted to answer your damn phone is a doctor, too. Her name is Meredith Sheperd…"

The man looked at him quite confused. Why was he that emotional? And the name of that woman… Was she one of his relatives?!?

Derek went on: "She is my wife. And she was pregnant with our first child!"

The man was shocked. He had already felt sorry for the woman and her family although she did not know he killed her child, but now he was amazed by the fact that this doctor over here was able to operate on his brain. He was even more thankful now. He said:

"Dr Sheperd, I am so, so sorry! I don't know what to say right now! I am very thankful that you were able to put the personal stuff aside and save my life! I can't tell you how thankful I am!"

Derek interrupted him: "Don't say anything! I did only do it as I made an oath to help people when I became a doctor! And I did not want you to get away THAT easy! I wanted you to take responsibility for what you did to us! I will call the police that you are ready to talk to them now! You will be punished for that! And I hope that beside these consequences you will always remember that you nearly killed a young doctor, and that there is the blood of our baby on your hands… Have a nice life with that!"

He shut the chart, put it back on the table. Then he quickly left the room. The driver was left paralyzed and in shock with that.