When they got to the chiefs office the chief wasn't there so Alex carefully placed Meredith down in a chair and paged Richard.

"Alex?" She asked sniffling.

"Yeah?"

"Thank you so much."

"No problem Mer. I would like to think you would do the same thing."

Meredith laughed "So if you were getting attacked by a woman, I will come and save you."

"Exactly! Or by a man"

Meredith's expression went from a playful one to a painfully serious one "Please don't tell anyone. I don't need any pity."

"I won't."

"Promise?"

"Promise." He went over and hugged her. "You're going to be ok Mer."

"I know."

Richard walked into the office. "What's going on?"

"Chief can I talk to you outside for a second?"

"Ok"

Meredith watched as Alex explained what he had seen and did. A few minutes later Alex walked off and Richard came into his office. He pulled up a chair so he was sitting in front of her.

"I haven't seen anything like this in all my years at this hospital and it will be treated harshly. Meredith I've called the police and there going to come and get a statement from you. I know it's probably going to be hard, but it has to be done."

"Ok." Meredith nodded.

"Ok you can stay in here for a while. I have to go do something."

Meredith nodded.

Derek had just got to work and was wondering what all the commotion was about. He approached an intern.

"Excuse me?"

"Yes Dr.Sheppard."

"What's going on?"

"Rumor has it that Dr.Matthew sexually assaulted Dr.Grey."

"What? Where is he?"

"A couple of people are holding him in the on call room down the hall."

"Thank you." He began walking down the hall to the on call room. There were people crowding around the door. He pushed past the people until he was in the room. Justin looked up from where he was sitting on the bed. He smiled at Derek then stood up.

"You son of a bitch." He walked over to him. "You son of a bloody bitch!"

"What are you going to do? You can't do shit!" Justin snapped.

Derek lifted his arm and punched him in the eye.

"FUCK!" Justin yelled.

"If there weren't so many people here to witness it, I would do a lot worse."

Derek turned around and pushed out of the room. People staring at him.

He saw Alex. "Where is she?"

"Chief's office."

"Thanks."

The chief came into the room. "He's coming up in a minute, so you can go and wait for the police to take you down to the station at the nurse's station."

"Ok."

Richard hugged her. "Be strong Mer."

She walked out of the room and towards the elevator as she approached them the doors opened. There he was smiling at her.

She turned left and took the stairs. She looked behind her. He was still looking at her with no remorse, no regret and no heart. She looked away and pushed open the door for the stairs. About half way down she leaned against the wall and slowly made her way down to the ground. She pulled her knees up to her chest and hugged them. One tear fell and she couldn't stop the rest…

Derek ran up the stairs, he rounded a corner and saw her. His heart broke to see her there in the middle of the stair well crying.

Meredith looked up when she saw someone approaching. The look in his eyes told her that he knew. As always the hospital pulled through with the gossip traveling quickly.

He sat down next to her and put his arm around her. She fell into his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist. He gently rocked her.

"I guess you know then?"

"Yeah." He kissed her temple. "He know has a black eye because of me."

Meredith laughed and started to pull herself up. "I have to go the police are taking me down to the station to get a statement."

"Ok. Do you want me to come over tonight?"

"Maybe. I might not be home."

"Ok." He pulled her in for a hug then kissed her tenderly.

He watched as she began walking down the stair well again before turning around to go to Richards's office.

When Derek got off that night he went to Meredith's. Izzie answered the door.

"She hasn't been home yet but I called her about 5 minutes ago and she said she was fine. She also said that she's not at a bar and she safe and apparently only you would know where she is."

"Hello to you to Izzie."

"I'm just telling you."

"Ok tell George I said hello."

"Wait you know where she is?"

"I think so. C'ya Izzie."

"Bye." She called after him.

Derek pulled up and parked his car next to her's. He could see her walking around his trailer looking in his cupboards. She pulled out a pan. She turned around and saw him walking towards the trailer. He opened the door.

"Please tell me you're not cooking."

"Hey! I'm not that bad. I'm just not as good as Izzie."

"Last time you cooked it was popcorn in a bag and you managed to turn it to dust."

"Oi! I only burnt half of it. The other half was edible."

"How are you?"

"How do you think?" Her eyes were on the verge of tears.

"Hey. Don't cry. You're safe here." He put his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him. "Now you are going to sit down and watch some TV while I cook you dinner. I don't want you burning the place down."

"Ok."

Half an hour later they were sitting together eating spaghetti bolognaise while watching a medical drama on TV. Meredith was intently watching it telling them what they were doing wrong even though they couldn't hear her. Derek was enjoying watching her.

"No don't do that. Jeeze you wonder where these people went to med school."

"It's just a TV show."

Meredith smiled at him "Shut up."

He stood up and took there plates. Meredith checked her watch and turned off the TV.

"Early start tomorrow." She stated.

Derek turned around and raised an eyebrow.

"Derek I'm not taking any time off."

"Come on." He lifted her up and carried her over to the bed. "I think you should."

"I'm not going to."

"We'll talk about this in the morning."

"Derek-"

She was cut off by a passionate kiss. He smiled coyly at her and pulled the covers over her.

"I don't feel like sleeping."

"You have to."

He saw the fear in her eyes.

"I'm here." He wrapped his arms around her. "It's ok"

Meredith believed him. She slowly fell asleep, but it wasn't a peaceful sleep…

Hope you liked it! Nxt chapter. Why isn't it a peaceful sleep?

Lolz anyway thanx 4 all ur reviews! I loved them! There were so many!

Thank you SO much!

Greyaddict xxx