Chapter 7: Welcome Back
"SHIT! I knew I shouldn't of drank last night!" Meredith laid down on the bench, her head throbbing.
"Mer, get up, the Nazis coming!" Meredith heard George whisper into her ear, but it didn't register.
"GREY GET UP!" Meredith heard the piercing voice of Bailey when she walked in the room. Meredith bolted up from the bench and tried to look her best,
"Sorry Dr. Bailey,"
"Humph, just because you were out for a month doesn't mean you get special treatment. Grey your with Dr. Shepherd-"
"Male or female?"
"There is no male or female anymore. They divorced. So MALE! O'Malley, your in the pit, Yang, front desk, Karev, Burke! MOVE IT PEOPLE!"
"SERIOULSY? You come back and you get stuck with Shepherd. You're guaranteed a surgery. Me, I've been at the desk for 3 FREAKIN WEEKS! But no, the jackass gets Burke!"
"Ya, I'm in the pit again!"
"SHUT UP BAMBI!"
"Trust me Christina, I would rather be up at the desk then with Shepherd. What I pulled last night, I doubt he'll even look at me. Well I'll see you at lunch!"
Meredith turned to corner and walked down the hall to meet Derek. She saw him in room 318 and walked in
"Dr. Shepherd?"
"There you are Dr. Grey! Where were you? Your late! Get this patient into pre-op. Page Dr. Yang, she's scrubbing in,"
"But, Dr.-"
"Now Dr. Grey!"
Meredith turned towards
the patient. He looked like a man in the young 20's. She picked up
his chart.
"Oh," she whispered
"Yep, a tumor. Dr. Shepherd promised I would get the surgery today. Why aren't you in it though?"
"Long story
Mr.-"
"Young. Mr. Young."
"Well Mr. Young, Dr. Shepherd is very good about keeping promises. Let's get you ready shall we?"
When Meredith finished prepping Mr. Young she went to go find Derek. Without looking too far, she found him in front of the Board.
"Derek! -"
"Did you do what I asked Dr. Grey?"
"Derek you can't do this to me! Christina is at the front desk. There is no way she can scrub in. She's not your intern. I AM! Look, can we talk about last night later? Deal with it. I'm your intern. And I'm scrubbing in!" Meredith turned shortly and left
"Why did you do that to me?" Meredith turned around to see Derek staring at her
"Do what?"
"Leave me? I had the perfect night planned!"
"I didn't want to hear about your problems later Derek! If you loved me then you would have told me everything. I just wanted you to explain everything to me. I would have believed you if you had given me a chance. I'm happy that you and Addison are divorced. Now I don't have to feel bad! But what you pulled on my last night! This is no way to treat me! Derek you know that! Look, let me scrub in, then I'll take you at tonight. My treat. Just explain everything to me. Meet me at Joe's at 8 okay?"
"Thanks Mer,"
Meredith turned and went to get Mr. Young for his surgery with a smile on her face. Derek started to follow her when he was cut short by Addison,
"Not even a day Derek! Not even a day after we divorce and you go after Grey!"
"Addison, we're over. I told you when I left you. I feel no guilt. I love her. That kiss meant nothing. Leave Meredith and me alone! I love her and I think she loves me!"
"You think Derek?"
"I know Addison! Now if you excuse me, I got a surgery to perform!"
Derek walked past Addison, following Meredith's footsteps to the OR. He knew that this was going to be a good day.
-----
"Your first day back and you got a surgery AND A DATE!"
"Ya. We both forgave each other."
"NO I MEAN YOU GOT A SURGERY!"
"Christina calm down! Yes I did get into a surgery. I think Bailey was trying to punish me by putting me with Derek,"
Both interns sat down at their usual lunch table. George and Alex came a few seconds later
"You got in on a surgery on your first day?"
"Yes George I did. Now can we stop talking about it?"
"C'mon Grey, you know you want to gloat!"
"You know what Alex, why don't you just shut the hell up?"
"Mer calm down!"
"NO I won't calm down! My first day back and everyone is staring at me. 'Look there's that girl who tried to kill herself! Look there's the dirty mistress!' SERIOUSLY! I'M SICK AND TIRED OF IT!"
Meredith got up and ran out of the courtyard
"She's pack to her same old self isn't she?" said George as the other 3 interns dug into their food
Meredith ran into the nearest on-call room and started to bawl her eyes out. She was interrupted when Derek walked into the room.
"Mer?"
"Go away!"
"Mer what's wrong!"
"Everything! Everyone is ragging on my because it's my first day back and I got in on a surgery. Everyone is talking about me! I'm so sick and tired of it Derek!"
Meredith collapsed into his arms
"Oh, all right. Shhhhh, let's just calm down."
They both looked into each other's eyes and dug into a furious kiss.
"Is-the-door-locked?" asked Meredith in between kisses
"I-think-so" replied Derek.
Meredith wrapped her legs around Derek's waist. He pulled at her scrub string on her pants. She began to untie is lab jacket and take off his shirt. He felt him inside of her. She loved him. She didn't care who knew. She loved him. She wanted to be with him the rest of her life. Meredith's pager interrupted them.
"SHIT!" she yelled. "God, it's the Nazi," soon after Derek's pager went off.
"We better go," both Dr.'s scrambled to get back into their clothes. Meredith pulled her hair back into a messy ponytail as they rushed down to Bailey to see what the big emergency was.
