Meredith went to check on Lily after rounds. She found her curled up in a bed in the emergency room obviously trying to ignore the nose around her. "They haven't moved you yet?" Meredith asked sitting on the free space on the bed.

"No but they're pretty backed up, it's not their fault," Lily said. Meredith notice how tired Lily looked, as if she hadn't gotten any sleep at all. "Mike get you to check up on me?"

"He's worried about you."

"Nah." Lily sat up and looked around. "He knows I'm tough."

"And you have a mean left hook." Meredith was pleased when Lily cracked a smile. "I'm going to try and get you a room okay?"

"No Meredith I'm fine. I'm just going to curl up and watch the world go by."

"Well in case you get bored I brought you a newspaper." Meredith placed the newspaper on Lily's bed and patted her on the head. "If you need anything you can get one of the nurses to come find me."

"I'll be fine, but thanks Meredith."

"Your welcome."

Meredith headed out into the hallway where she ran straight into Derek. She tried to move past him but she was never one to be that lucky. "Sorry," he said without moving out of her way. "What were you doing in emergence? Patient?"

"My friend was admitted last night, I was just checking on her." As soon as the words left her mouth Meredith kicked herself for saying them. She was so stupid to say anything she should have told him to get out of her way and continued walking but she was never that lucky.

"Are they alright?" Derek said with general concern in his voice.

"YOU DON'T GET TO DO THIS ANYMORE!" Meredith yelled not thinking of the many hospital staff surrounding her.

"Do what?"

"Drop into my life and ask me how I'm doing. You're not my boyfriend. And my friend is sick and we're all worried and she doesn't care and is so relaxed and YOU! You come in and act all worried and you're not allowed to do that because it makes it very hard to hate you and I do hate you. So just STOP!" Meredith walked into the women's washroom where she knew Derek would not follow. And he didn't, instead he turned around and walked into the emergency room.

"Lillian Craig?" Derek asked a small teenager that he found out Meredith had just been talking to from one of the nurses. Lily picked up her head and nodded. "Hello I'm Dr. Shepherd." Derek picked up her chart and began to look it over. "That's a pretty nasty black eye. How did it happen?" he asked in a friendly tone. He got no response; Lily closed her eyes and curled back up into her previous position. Derek thought she was tired he should have known better, she was ignoring him. "So this is the first time you've passed out?" He continued to receive silence. "Can you tell me how you're feeling?"

Lily's eyes shot open and she sat up. "What are you doing?" she asked angrily.

"Excuse me?" Derek was taken aback by the girl's forceful tone.

"You're a surgeon and a jerk and whatever you are trying to do you better stop and go run back to your wife." Lily didn't like it when people went over her head and this McDreamy had been a grade 'A' jerk to her friend, all she wanted to do was get away from him. "I'm not planning to have surgery." Lily gritted her teeth refraining from raising her voice. "And if you really do care I got this shiner boxing and I really don't like laying people flat out in their places of business but for jerks such as yourself I may make an exception." Lily smiled looking at Dr. Shepherd's face, which was full of fear. "I'm feeling fine, thanks so much for asking. Now I'm sure you have something more important to be doing."

Derek had no clue how to react to being threatened but an eighteen-year-old girl. He turned around and accepted defeat. It was strange; hearing rage coming from someone other than Meredith made him feel even worse for what he had done. Meredith was a beautiful woman with a big heart and she had so many people willing to knock him unconscious for what he had done.