Married Before Seattle

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Derek sees the look Christina shoots him and he quickly gets up to go after his wife. "Excuse me, I have somethings I need to take care of." He says to his colleagues before leaving to find his wife. He sees her as she turns the corner. She's pretty quick but he can catch her. He quickly catches up to her and spins her around to face him. She looks mad. "What's wrong?"

"Interns are idiots that don't respect marriage." She answers grabbing his hand. "See it's right there!" she says pointing at her ring.

"Of course, it's there. I never take it off. What's this all about?" He asks her.

"A stupid intern wants you and I told her that you were married, and she didn't care! She didn't care that you were married Derek!" She says angrily.

"Hey, calm down. She doesn't matter. I care that we're married, that's all that matters. There's only one intern for me." He reassures her. "I love you Mer."

"I love you too Der" She says finally relaxing. "I'm going to go check on Katie. Her parents just got here." She turns and heads off to Katies room. Meredith heads up the stairs and finds Katies parents sitting in Katies room. "they gave her a sedative for the CT so she might be a little bit groggy." Meredith explains to Katie's parents.

"Will she be alright? Our doctor at home said she might need an operation, is that true?" Her parents ask. "What kind of operation?" her mom asks.

"I'm not Katie's doctor. I am a doctor, just not Katie's doctor. I'll go get them." Meredith says as she walks out of the room to go find Dr. Bailey. She quickly finds her leaving a patient's room. "Dr. Bailey, Katie's parents have questions. Do you answer them, or do I go find Dr. Burke?"

"Katie is no longer Dr. Burke's patient. Katie belongs to the new attending the other Dr. Shepherd." Bailey says. Meredith tries to resist smiling hearing that her husband is the doctor on her case now. "He's over there." Bailey says pointing towards a group of doctors standing by the stairs.

"Thanks Dr. Bailey." Meredith says as she walks over to them. She makes eye contact with her husband and turns and walks back towards Katies room. She knows that he's following her.

"Meredith! Wait up!" Derek yells. Meredith stops and lets him catch up. He tries to plant a kiss on her head, but she whips back around before he has a chance.

"Dr. Shepherd, remember what I said this morning." She said in a warning tone.

"Doctor Shepherd? This morning and the past 8 years it was Derek and now it's doctor Shepherd?" He said with a smirk.

"Dr. Shepherd, I'm your intern and Katie's parents have questions. Right now, we aren't Mer and Der, we're Dr. Shepherd and Dr. Shepherd. Seriously, how has no one figured out that we're married yet?" She says starting to ramble.

"I get it, right now you need me to be your attending. I love you Mer." He says.

"I love you too Derek. Now go answer Katie's parents' questions." She says pointing down the hallway.

"Lead the way Dr. Shepherd." They head into Katies room and answer their question with the little information they have. Once they're done Derek takes her back to his office. "There is no reason that I can find to explain why Katie keeps seizing." Derek says frustrated.

"Maybe you just need more sets of eyes." Meredith says trying to reassure him.

"Meredith, you are a genius!" He says getting up. The goes to his pager and types something and a few moments later Meredith's pager beeps. It says.

Meeting in the conference room

"What are you up to Derek?" She asks him.

"You'll find out." He replies smirking.

"Mean man." She says walking out of the office.

"Where are you going?"

"To my meeting." He quickly follows her down the hallway and into the conference room. Thankfully only Christina is in there already. Mer goes and sits down beside her and Derek heads to the front of the room. Slowly the room fills with interns.

"You're probably wondering why I paged all of you here?" He says addressing the room.

Christina starts whispering the Meredith while Derek waits for the room to settle. "After you left the cafeteria Dr. Burke came over and said George got the solo appy. Well we were all watching, and he ripped the pulse strings and then he froze! The patient almost bled out. Burke had to push him out of the way and finish himself. Everyone's calling him 007"

"That's awful." Meredith whispers back.

"Whatever, it's true."

Everyone finally settles down and Derek starts talking. "I'm going to do something pretty rare for a surgeon. I'm going to ask interns for help. I have this patient, Katie Bryce. Right now, she's a mystery. She doesn't respond to meds, labs are clean, and he scans are pure, but she's seizing. Grand mal seizures with no visible cause. She's a ticking clock. She's going to die if I don't make a diagnosis. Which is where you come in. I can't do it alone. I need your extra minds, extra eyes," he says looking eyes with Meredith as he says it. "I need you to play detective. I need you to find of why Katie's having seizures. I know you're busy, you're tired, you have more work than you can possibly handle. Which is why I'm going to give you incentive. Whoever finds the answer rides with me. Katie needs surgery. You get to do what no interns get to do, scrub in on an advanced procedure. Dr. Bailey is going to hand out Katie's chart. The clock is ticking, if we're going to save her life, it has to be soon."