Tom and Meredith entered Ellis Grey's room to find no changes in her. She was still in a deep sleep, but Meredith decided that Derek was right and there was no need for worry at this point. As Meredith stood next to her mother's bed, Tom walked up to her and said, "She'll be fine, I'm sure that you only allowed the best to take care of her."

"I tried, but there are no guarantees in life now are there?"

"No there are not, but I know you, and I know that you always try to do the best, and make the best decisions for everyone concerned, especially your mother. I know you think it's easy for me to say, but try not to worry. I'm actually worried about you right now too. So what would you like to do first; eat or sleep?"

Meredith looked at him and smiled slightly even in her exhausted state. Wow, he was a sight for sore eyes, and just as cute, handsome, and sweet as ever. Why had they parted ways? Ah, yes, life taking them two different directions, mainly with their careers, and Meredith's lack of being willing to settle down just yet. She had her internship and residency, and he had the chance at an awesome career with a great corporation. 'The choices we make,' she thought. "Well I'm too tired to chew or swallow, so I guess it will have to be sleep. But I don't really want to do that either because I want to be here when my mom wakes up."

"How about if you sleep and be here when your mom wakes up?"

"What do you mean, there is not another bed in here and I've already tried to cuddle up in that chair" she said pointing to an oversized, fake leather-type chair near the window. "It's totally uncomfortable, even for an exhausted individual."

"It must be pretty bad, because I thought that you could sleep just about anywhere," he said with a small grin. "How about I sit in the chair, and you cuddle up on me? Maybe that will help with your comfort level. It's worked before. That way, you can sleep, while still being here when your mom wakes up. But you have to promise me one thing."

"What?"

"That you will eat something when you wake up."

"Okay, I'll give it a try. You have yourself a deal."

Tom sat down in the chair, slipped off his shoes, and opened his arms to Meredith. She sat on his right leg, slipped off her shoes, brought her legs up and started to try to find a comfortable position for sleep. Tom was right, it had worked before, and it worked quickly this time. A quick thought crossed her mind that this might be a little awkward for the two of them, but it wasn't, it was actually very comfortable between them, always had been, and comforting for her. She felt so secure here in his arms, and things didn't feel as wildly out of control as they had these past couple of weeks. Feeling more content than she could have imagined an hour ago, Meredith quickly found sleep in Tom's arms.

Meanwhile, Derek decided he needed to crash for at bit too, but didn't want to leave the hospital until he was sure everything with Ellis Grey was stable, so he crashed in the doctor's lounge. A couple hours later as he was having a dream about him and Meredith, a familiar female voice called him in the distance. In his dream he and Meredith were in her bed passionately kissing, on their way slowly to something bigger. Suddenly something was very different about their kissing, actually disturbing to him, but as he called out her name he was startled awake by someone smacking him across the face. Stunned, he yelled, "what the hell?" Then he opened his eyes to find Addison standing there next to him. "Addison, what are you doing in here and why are you slapping me across the face like that?"

"First of all, I'm a doctor too, so I belong in here. Secondly, we were kissing for the first time in ages, and you had the nerve to call out another woman's name! Meredith's!"

"She is not another woman, she is my girlfriend Addison, and I wasn't kissing you, I was kissing her! So it would only make since that I call out her name. I was finally getting some sleep, having an enjoyable dream about how things use to be before you came to town. Whatever this fantasy is that you are having about the two of us getting back together again, you can just forget it Addison! I have absolutely no intention of being with you or around you! So do us both a favor and sign the divorce papers and take your ass back to New York where you belong!" Derek stormed out the door of the lounge before Addison could say anything else. 'Damn her!' he thought, they had an agreement on their divorce and now she was trying to renege on it. He knew she couldn't be trusted.

After walking around for a few minutes to calm down, and getting a cup of coffee, Derek decided to go by Ellis Grey's room to check in on her and see how she was currently doing. When he got to the doorway of her room, he found himself amazed, scared, and he thought the other feeling might be jealousy he was experiencing. On the other side of the room was Meredith sleeping on this guy Tom's lap, wrapped in his arms, in the hospital chair. Derek didn't like this at all, he had to admit to himself that he was insanely jealous, not an emotion he was use to feeling. Though he found this unsettling, she looked totally comfortable and he didn't want to disturb her because he knew, like Tom, that Meredith definitely needed sleep. Tom saw him in the doorway and waved him on in. "Everything okay here with Dr. Grey and her surgery?"

"Yes, just fine, I was just checking in on her, but don't want to disturb Meredith just yet. I'll go and make the rest of my rounds and then come back to examine her mom."

Tom thanked Derek for stopping by to check on Ellis and for allowing Meredith to sleep a little bit longer. Derek left the room feeling like he had just been punched in the gut, leaving him having difficulty breathing for a moment. How had he allowed this situation to get so out of control he thought, and how was he ever going to make it right again. Meredith was sleeping at her mother's bedside in another man's arms, and his wife was currently working in the same hospital as him on the other side of the country. He need to straighten this mess out, but also needed to tread lightly because of Meredith's fragile state at the moment. He promised himself right then and there that he was going to fix this seemingly impossible situation one way or another and make it right for him and Meredith again.