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Addison walked into the trailer and set her purse down on the counter. Looking over from the kitchen into the next room she saw Derek laying on the bed still dressed as if he had come in and flopped onto the bed without a second though.
"Hey," She almost whispered walking over to him.
"Look… I know this is hard but I'm going to get him out of her as soon as I can." She kept talking not getting any kind of response from Derek.
"I- uh I wanted to talk to you though about last night, you know what happened? Where did you go because I noticed today that you didn't have any pre or post op patients last night?" Addison stammered. She didn't know why she was being so slow with words tonight, she was never this awkward with words, she was just afraid of what he had to tell her.
"What?" Derek sat up almost annoyed rubbing his hands over his unshaven face.
"Last night Derek, where did you go?" Addison's voice became stronger.
Derek took a deep breath and exhaled knowing that it would come down to this.
"I just needed air. You know how I hate to dance in public." He winced at his lie.
Addison nodded recognizing his lie. It wasn't a good time to bring anything up especially with Mark here.
"Well then," she started moving over to the kitchen "for the first time in several weeks we have a night off together and I don't think I have cooked you dinner in quite a while. What would you like?" She asked him trying ton conceal the pain of knowing that their song and dance number was quickly coming to a close.
Meredith woke to the sound of her alarm going off in her room down the hall. She slowly got out of bed and padded down the hall. Once in her room she hit her clock turning the alarm off and grabbing her robe walked across the hall and into the bathroom to begin her day. After showering and getting dressed she made her way down stairs to the kitchen where she found George pouring his coffee into his thermos.
"5:30 rounds are a bitch," Was all he said as she passed him copying his actions and pouring herself some coffee as well as Izzie.
"What's that for?" George asked pointing to the extra cup Meredith held.
"It's for Izzie." She replied.
"What? Izzie is coming?" George asked as the tall blonde walked into the room and took the coffee Meredith held out for her.
"Yup, in order to move on I need to get back to normalcy." Izzie told George as she took a drink and grabbed her coat.
"Ok we need to go if we don't want to be late." Meredith said as she grabbed her keys and led the other two out to the car.
Surprisingly the only other person in the locker room was Christina when the three arrived.
"Izzie!" Christina exclaimed upon seeing her friend.
"Hey Christina," Izzie smiled. Maybe it wouldn't be as bad as she thought. Next to come in was Alex. Strolling in he saw Meredith first.
"Hey Grey, how was Iz… Izzie!" Alex was surprised to see her.
"Hi Alex." She replied walking over to him and giving him a hug thanking him for being such a good friend to her. Alex hugged her back knowing that her struggle was going to be a long one but she was making progress.
Soon after the locker room began to fill up as everyone prepared for the long day ahead of them. Bailey walked in at 5:20 am to prepare her interns for rounds. She immediately sought out her group and upon seeing Izzie a small and almost unnoticeable smile crossed her lips. So small Meredith almost didn't even see it. Meredith smiled as well knowing that deep down Miranda Bailey wasn't a nazi at all.
"Stevens nice of you to show up today," Bailey barked slipping into her normal mood. Izzie nodded and went to say something but was cut off.
"All right people lets move these patients aren't going to get better all by themselves," Bailey ordered as she marched out of the room leading her interns into their daily rounds routine.
A half an hour later they were on their last patient.
"Who is presenting?" Bailey questioned.
Meredith looked up knowing that was her cue.
"Thirty-five year old male admitted last night after collapsing and hitting his head, and is now complaining of severe headaches."
Bailey nodded "Course of action?"
Meredith answered "Order a CT scan for any bleeding and check patient history indicating what may have caused him to collapse."
"Alright get on it Grey." Bailey said moving the other interns into the hall and assigning them all jobs. Meredith looked down at the man in the bed.
"Good morning Mr. Lewis, my name is Dr. Grey. Let's get you up to CT ok?"
The man nodded and Meredith began to prep him for the scan.
Wheeling up to CT she pushed him into the room and helped to place him onto the machine prepping him for the scan.
Walking behind the glass the doctor sitting at the computer looked up at her.
"This is the neuro guy right?" he asked
Meredith nodded and then realized exactly what the doctor has just asked.
Neuro. How did she not realize it? Just what she needed, to work with Derek today.
"Well, I guess we need to schedule a surgery. What do you see Dr. Grey?" Derek asked looking at the scan of Mr. Lewis brain.
"Rather large tumor right above the spinal chord, and a small aneurism from his fall yesterday. The tumor explains his headaches and fall- the aneurism is a result of the fall." Meredith answered pointing towards the different damaged areas on the monitor.
"Very good, go book an OR and I will see you in surgery." Derek said giving her a short smile.
Meredith turned on her heel and walked down the hall towards the nurse's station when she was suddenly grabbed by the elbow and pulled into an empty on call room. Turning around she was face to face with Derek.
"Come on Derek, now is not the time." She said trying to push past him.
"Meredith! We need to talk. You can't keep running from me. What we did on prom night…what-what was that? I mean I know what it was but for us what did it mean?" Derek looked desperately at Meredith trying to find some sort of answer.
"It meant that once again I am the dirty damaged mistress who screwed my boss… my married boss." Meredith shook her head at Derek as she pushed past him and out of the room just in time to bump into Addison.
A/N Sorry for the delay guys I've been really busy lately. I will be on a trip for a few days so my next update probably won't be until next week sometime. I'm going to try and put up chapter six by Friday, it still needs some work. Hope everyone is having a good week!
-Loti
