Here is the next chapter. I'm just going to let you get straight into it.
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Later that night Derek and Meredith are walking back up to their rooms after their activities down at the pool and the sauna. They are walking back up to the room when they hear screaming they look over the balcony and see nothing. They keep walking when they hear the screaming again. Derek looks across and notices a girl being chased by a man and the man looks evil and the girl is scared. Derek pulls Meredith down so he can't see them. Derek peeks through the railing just as the girl is pushed from the balcony to the ground floor and the man disappearing.
"Let's go." Derek whispers to Meredith.
The two of them stay level with the balcony and go down to their room as fast as they can.
They make it to the room and get inside as fast as they can. They lean up against the door puffing and panting.
"You okay?" Derek asks.
"Yeah I guess so."
Mark then wanders out of the bedroom.
"It is 1 in the morning do you have to be so loud?"
"Sorry."
Mark looks at both of them and sees that they are puffed.
"Did you's two get caught doing it?"
"No. We had to run because we saw something."
"What did you two see?"
"We saw a ghost." Meredith says.
"I'm not that stupid Grey. Spit it out."
"Okay fine it was dreadful and horrible." She says.
"What was it?"
"Okay we saw a girl getting pushed from the balcony down to the lobby and we had to run so the guy didn't see us."
"Oh god you have to tell the hotel staff."
"We don't want to we are scared that he might hear about us and come after us." Meredith says.
"He won't trust me on this one. Go into the bedroom and call and I will keep an eye out."
Derek and Meredith walk into the bedroom. Derek sits on the edge of the bed and Meredith sits across from him.
"Here we go." He says as he dials the front desk.
Meredith holds onto his hand.
"Hello the Crown Plaza Vince speaking."
"Hi I'm calling from room 1468 I wanted to report something that I just saw."
"Is it about the accident has just happened so if it is about that than any info will do."
"Yeah it is."
"Okay well can I just get your name and we can hand it over to the police."
"Derek Shepherd and there was someone else with me."
"And what is that person's name?"
"Meredith Grey."
"Okay Mr Shepherd I have those details and you will be contacted soon. Goodnight."
"Night."
Derek hands up the phone.
"They are passing our names to the police and we will be contacted soon."
Mark walks back into the room.
"Get some sleep you two. It's been a rough night." Mark says.
Meredith goes and changes into her pyjamas and Derek strips down to his boxers.
Mark turns all the lights off in the other room and he gets into bed. Meredith climbs into bed next to Derek. Derek wraps his arms around Meredith and pulls her close to him.
...
In the morning they wake to a knock at the door. Mark gets up and answers the door. Carolyn is standing there with Kaylee and she looks scared.
"Come in." Mark says.
Carolyn walks inside and goes into the bedroom where Meredith and Derek are sitting up in bed.
"Hi Ma what's wrong?"
"The whole downstairs is a crime scene. Apparently a girl got thrown to her death early this morning." She says handing Kaylee over to Meredith.
"Yeah she did Ma."
"What how do you know."
"We saw it happen." Derek says clearing her throat.
Carolyn is just shocked and can't get any words out.
"You saw the whole thing?"
"Yes."
"Oh god. Oh my god. How are you two?"
"Okay terrified more than anything." Meredith says.
"Have you talked to the police yet?"
"No not yet, we're just waiting for the hotel to contact us."
"Oh okay. I better get back to the kids then. Please come down and see me soon."
"We will."
She gets up and leaves the room.
"I'll walk you down." Mark says.
As they open the door they see two policemen standing there.
"Hi is Derek Shepherd and Meredith Grey in?"
"Yeah they are just in the bedroom. I'll just let them know that you are here." Mark says.
He walks into the bedroom.
"The police are."
"Okay then, thanks Mark." Meredith says.
"They will be out in a sec go in." Mark says leaving.
The two of them get out of the bed and walk out to the lounge room; Meredith has Kaylee close to her body.
"Hi Derek and Meredith is it?"
"Yes it is."
"Take a seat for us." He says.
They both sit down on the lounge and the other officers sit on the other lounge.
"I'm Constable Wilson and this is my partner Constable Green. We had some information sent over to our office at about 1.30 am this morning about witnessing the death of Sally Jones. Was it the two of you that rang?"
"Yes it was as soon as we got back to the room our friend told us to ring and give them our names."
"Can we just ask you some questions about why you are here, what you were doing at that time and describe what you two saw."
"Sure. Well we are here for the weekend for my sisters' wedding."
"Was that the Chambers wedding?"
"Yes it was." Derek says.
Constable Green is scribbling this all down on his notepad.
"Did you two drink at all?"
"She only had a glass of champagne because she is breastfeeding and at the same time I had one beer and that was at 10 o'clock that night."
"Why were you two wandering around at that time of night?"
"We had been down at the sauna and the pool for some alone time." Meredith says.
"What type of alone time?"
"Okay we went down to relax, have time for both of us and because we wanted to have sex." Meredith says softly.
"Why didn't you stay in here and perform that task."
"Our friend was in the room."
"Okay then." He says. "Can you explain what you saw?"
"Well we were walking back from the pool. We heard a scream and we looked around to spot were the scream was coming from. We couldn't find it and kept walking when we heard another scream. We looked directly across and saw a girl getting chased by a guy. She looked scared and he was looking like he wanted to hurt her. So I dragged Mer down so we were in line with the wall and he couldn't see us. I looked back through the railing and saw her being thrown and he disappeared. So I grab Mer's hand and we ran as fast as we could and quietly back to the room."
"Is that the same for you Meredith?"
"Yes it is but I didn't look through the railing until we started running again."
They both scribble down what they just said.
"Can we get a description of what he looked like and what he was wearing?"
"He was about 7 foot 2. He was quite lean. He was bald I think and he had a black hoodie on and black tracksuit pants."
"Did you see anything else?"
"No it was hard to see he was wearing the hood."
"Okay well I have everything so far. Can we just get contact details?"
Derek gives them the contact details.
"Okay we advise that you stay in the city tonight so we can contact you with any information."
"But we have our final exam tomorrow that we can't miss." Meredith says.
"I'll ring the school and explain what has happened so when you get back to school you can take it."
"Okay."
"But we do want to move you to another hotel."
"Sure."
"We will call you when we have that room sorted and where you will be staying at."
"Can you book it for 5 because my brother and sister are here as well?"
"Sure thing. Can I just get the name of your high school?"
"Seattle High."
"Okay that is all done please be ready to leave so when we call over you can leave straight away. We will let ourselves out."
The two officers get up and walk out of the room.
Meredith is scared and upset. Derek pulls her in for a hug.
"It's going to be fine Mer."
He kisses her temple.
Mark walks in with Jackson, Charlie and all their bags and Kaylee's gear.
Meredith runs straight over to Charlie and Jackson and hugs them tightly.
"So what's the news?" Mark asks Derek.
"Mer and I are staying town for another night."
"But we have the exam tomorrow."
"Yeah we know. The officer is going to ring the school and tell them the situation so when we come back we can sit it."
"Okay man. I have to pack my gear and leave. Carolyn is just about to walk out the door, she is terrified."
"Okay we have to pack all our gear so we can leave straight away to another hotel."
Mark throws all his gear into his bag and grabs his suit.
"I'm off everyone. I will see you back at town. Call me when you do get back."
"Will do Mark."
Mark leaves the room.
"Okay we have to be dressed, packed and ready to leave as soon as we get a phone call." Derek tells them. "Meredith you are better at packing then me."
"You can entertain your daughter while I have a shower and get the kids gear organised." She says annoyed.
Derek goes to ask her what is wrong but decides against it.
"Okay I guess I better get dressed. You two go and watch some TV."
Charlie and Jackson turn on the TV and Derek walks into the bedroom where Meredith is taking her clothes out of the bag.
"You okay Mer?"
"Yes I am. I just need to have a shower and freshen up. I also need something to eat."
"Well I can't cook you up a gourmet breakfast. Can I interest you in some biscuits?" He asks.
Meredith lets out a giggle and Derek knows that he made her feel better.
"No that's okay. We have some wedding cake there that I will eat."
"Okay I will have that ready for you when you come out."
"Thank you." She walks into the bathroom.
Derek starts packing.
...
Derek has everything packed except for Meredith's bag. He is waiting for her to finish her cake off. He is sitting directly in front of her as she finishes the last piece.
"How was breakfast?"
"The best breakfast ever." She says kissing him quick on the lips. "Okay I just need to put my toiletries and other gear into my bag and I'm already and I also have to change Kaylee."
"Already done." Derek tells her.
"Thank you."
She walks into the bedroom and Derek tidies up. He goes and sits down at the lounge were a news headline has popped up.
"We cross now to Alison who is at the Crown Plaza hotel where a murder has taken place. Alison is there witnesses in this case?" The newsreader asks.
Meredith hears the news and walks out.
"Yes early this morning when we arrived they said that they might have some witnesses in this case but they had to wait until they talked to the pair. Then about 40 minutes ago police came back down and said that they had just received information from two 18 years olds about the murder."
"Did the police say that this will help crack the case."
"They said that the information was what they wanted and they were very helpful."
"Okay thank you Alison. We will cross back to you shortly."
"Okay."
"Now if you are just tuning in at 1 o'clock this morning at the Crown Plaza hotel a19 year old was murdered by being thrown to her death by an unknown person. The victim Sally Jones was an exchange student from England here for 3 months. Police have talked to witnesses and we have the statement after they have just spoken to the two people. Here it is now."
"We have just received some very substantial information from witnesses who have witnessed the death of Sally Jones. The reports came as they heard the victim screaming but didn't know where from, they heard her screams again and spotted her. They both hid themselves and watched as Sally was thrown over the balcony. The suspect then fled and so did the murderer. We are asking for any other witnessed to come forward."
"That was from Constable Wilson. We also have a statement of what the suspect was wearing. He is about 7 foot 2, lean build, he is bald and was wearing a black hoodie and black tracksuit pants. If you have any information then call the police." One of the newsreaders says.
"I'm sure there were other witnesses then just 2 people. The hotel was booked out and it happened in front of hotel rooms as well so surely someone heard the cries of help."
"I'm surprised that the 18 years olds were out at that time of night."
"The police said that they were attending a wedding and they had just gone for a walk when the saw what happened."
"Well could we put drinking into the factor; they could have been drunk and not seeing..."
Meredith switches the TV off.
"I'm sorry but hearing them say that about us is frustrating me."
"Yeah me too. Where do they go off making accusations that we were drunk? We had only one drink but that was at 10 o'clock that night and it started to wear off when we left." Derek says.
"Oh well they can make them if they want the police know the truth."
They sit around waiting.
"I'm going to take some of this gear down to the car Jackson can you help me please?" Derek asks.
"Okay."
"I'll help too." Charlie says.
The three of them grab the 2 clothes bags. Kaylee's clothes bag and the pram. Derek takes the suits and dresses and lays them over the pram that Derek is pushing.
Meredith is sitting in the room. Kaylee is asleep in the capsule. She gets up and looks out the window and sees all the news reporters.
"I wonder how many people are putting us down." Meredith says as she turns the TV back on and flicking through the stations.
Derek, Charlie and Jackson are taking all the gear downstairs. They pack everything into the car and head back. On the elevator up it stops at the lobby where they see the crime scene, police and news crews. A news reporter then steps inside the elevator and smiles at them. She also has a camera man with her.
"So we have just found out what room the witnesses are and we're just about to go and knock on their door."
Charlie and Jackson look up at Derek with panic in their eyes.
Derek takes his phone out and messages Meredith.
Meredith is watching the news. The news reporter has just gotten into the elevator and she sees Derek, Charlie and Jackson in there with her.
"So we have just found out what room the witnesses are and we're just about to go and knock on their door."
Meredith panics just as her phone goes off.
"Do not open the door, turn the TV off and try to keep quiet. News reporter has found out what room we are staying in. I will be in as soon as she goes I will go down to Kelly's room."
She turns the TV off. Kaylee then starts crying. She quickly grabs her and starts feeding her.
The elevator opens to their floor. The news reporter goes left and Derek and the kids go right. They had messaged Kelly when they were in the elevator to them her know.
They knock on Kelly's door and she opens it quickly and lets them in.
"Where are they?" He asks.
"They are almost there." She says.
Meredith has the TV on in the bedroom but has the sound muted and is watching as they take the steps to her room.
"Okay we are here now. We are just going to knock on the door and see if anyone is there."
Derek is holding his breath as she knocks on the door. Meredith is also holding her breath.
Meredith is staying as quiet as possible as the door is being knocked on.
Derek is holding onto Charlie scared as well.
"We can't hear any movement or noises in there so maybe no one is in there."
Kaylee then spits up and starts crying.
"Dam Kaylee." Meredith says getting up and going to shut the door and she goes and sits back down on the bed soothing her.
"I think I can hear a baby crying in there. Someone is in there."
Derek after hearing this is annoyed he gets up to leave.
"Derek what are you doing?"
"I'm going to go and tell them to go away."
"You can't do that then they will know that you're a witness. I will go down." Kelly says.
She gets up and heads down to the reporter.
"Excuse me miss." Kelly says.
Meredith seeing Kelly adds sound to the TV.
"How can I help you?"
"What you are doing now is wrong and I'm sitting in my room thinking how rude you are. You are about to burst in on these two people who surely don't want their faces or names known to the whole world. They just want their privacy so they can live their lives without fear that this man is going to come and get them. So please for everyone's sake just leave the poor kids alone."
"We just want a word from them."
"I'm sorry but they don't want that so if you wouldn't mind just leaving before I call the cops."
"Okay fine we're leaving."
"Thank you."
The two walk away and get into the elevator.
Meredith opens the door to her.
"Thank you Kelly."
"No problem."
Derek, Charlie and Jackson walk back to the room.
"You all should stay in my room. Just so they don't come back."
"Sure." Meredith says.
They grab the last of their gear. The capsule, baby bag, the food bag, pillows and the rocker and they go and camp out in Kelly's room.
An hour later Derek gets a call.
"Hello?"
"Derek this is Constable Wilson. We have a room booked for you at the Hilton. And we are sorry for the stunt that was just pulled earlier."
"That's okay. We prepared Mer and she knew what was happening . We are going to go and check out now."
"Okay I will meet you at the Hilton in 20 minutes and we will get you checked in."
"Okay thank you."
Derek hangs up the phone.
"Let's get going." Derek tells them. "Thank you Kelly for that."
"Anytime. Have a good stay."
"We will."
They pick up the rest of the gear and they go downstairs to check out. Meredith has a blanket draped over the capsule so no one can see Kaylee and for the privacy. Charlie and Jackson are walking in between Derek and Meredith hiding from the reports and photographers.
"What room are you checking out from?" The receptionist asks.
"1468." Derek says in a whisper.
The receptionist keeps her mouth closed.
"We have only charged up for 1 night. Sorry about this."
"That's fine. We had fun and the stay was pretty good."
"That's good. Please come back."
They turn and leave when the same reporter that found the room approaches them.
"Where you two the witnesses of the death?" She asks. "Because you both look 18 and when I knocked on the door I heard a baby and by the looks of it you have a baby."
"We have no comment so please leave us alone."
"I'm sure it was you when I got in the lift and you started to panic." She says. "Where you two drunk when you witnessed the murder of Sally Jones?"
"No, we didn't witness anything and I'm breast feeding so I don't drink." Meredith says irritated.
"Well for the record you are too young to be a mum. You must have been drunk to let that happen."
"Why do you think you can make accusations about how old I am and about if I was drunk or not. For your information I wasn't drunk so go and do something with that and leave us alone."
Meredith, Derek, Charlie and Jackson leave the lobby and get into the car and they drive away.
...
At the Hilton Constable Wilson is just arriving. Derek, Meredith, Charlie and Jackson walk into the lobby from the elevator and greet him.
"Sorry were late a reporter wouldn't let us go." Meredith says.
"I just arrived then so good timing. Let's get you checked in."
They walk over to the front desk. Charlie and Jackson sit down at the chairs and watch Kaylee.
"Hi I have made a booking."
"What was the name?"
"It under Constable Wilson for 5 days."
She searches the computer.
"Okay can I get a credit card?"
Derek goes to pull his out and Constable Wilson takes his out.
"No need to the police department are paying for it."
"Thanks I suppose."
"Here are your keys and you are in room 456."
She hands the keys to him and he passes them to Derek.
"Here you go. Now I will be in contact with you and I have booked you in for 5 days just in case and school is all that is sorted so don't worry."
"Thanks for this." Derek says shaking his hand.
"No thank you. Now I'm going to go and talk to that reporter about the stunt she pulled and you enjoy your stay."
He walks off and Derek and Meredith go over to the kids.
"So this is home for the next few days. Who wants some lunch?" He asks.
They all raise their hands.
"Same lets go."
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I'll have the next chapter up a couple of days. That will just be each day spent at the hotel away from home. Also a moment when they do arrive home.
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