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Chapter 3

Meredith released Derek from the tight hold in her arms before pulling back a little to examine him. The first thing she noticed, aside from the dirt that was stuck on her husband's face was a head lac on his forehead opposite a scar from a motorcycle accident years ago. From the look at the rest of Derek's body, Meredith could guess he had some bruising.

She grabbed his hand and began walking him to an exam room while talking to him. "What the hell happened today? You didn't call or text...I see your car destroyed on the news. The driver was brought in a while ago and I thought it was you when they announced a MVC having just seen your car on the news! Where the hell were you anyway, never have I been on that road going to or from the airport."

Derek sighed as Meredith forced him to sit on the exam table, allowing her to begin cleaning up whatever wounds he hadn't even realized were on his face before answering. "Mer, there was so much traffic. I couldn't miss that plane, so I took a short cut. This car came out of no where and before I knew it he was the cause of the first accident. There was this little girl in the car with her mom, I helped them first before helping the other two. I have no idea what happened to any of them. Thankfully Winnie, the little girl, made it out without any damage."

Meredith smiled slightly at Derek's retelling of the first accident, only because she knew how much he liked helping people. But she needed to know about what happened to him. "Derek, I know all about that. They were brought here. Tell me what happened to you."

"My car was just sitting there. I bent down to pick up my phone to call you and the next thing I know is this semi-truck is coming at me. I would've died if I stayed in the driver's seat. Somehow I managed to duck over to the passenger's side and managed to get out that way because, luckily for me it was untouched. But there was no cell reception so I couldn't call you."Derek recounted wincing a little as Meredith examined the head lac on his forehead. "I walked to the nearest gas station and made a call to 911 before calling you, but it went to voicemail. And then my battery died. I had absolutely no idea where I was and somehow managed to walk from there to here. And here we are," Derek finished almost sounding proud of himself.

Meredith stepped back from her husband after finishing with the head lac and stared at him like he was crazy. "I was in surgery. Oh God I forgot to turn my phone back on. I kept calling from the nurses station. Why the hell do you sound so proud of yourself? Yes, you can be proud because you helped those four people, but Derek no more short cuts! I shouldn't even let you drive anymore. But driving down a road you've never been down before not knowing where the hell it would take you? That was stupid, Derek. You're lucky you were able to move out of that damn seat. Now since you decided to take that shortcut, you're stuck getting a head CT and full body scan because I'll be damned if something is wrong with you and I didn't catch it."

Derek was actually surprised that Meredith hadn't blown up at him. Rather than arguing with her, because Derek knew he was pushing his luck that day, Derek agreed to the scans, even though he knew that would come up clean, leaving a few ribs aside. He knew what she was worried about most, brain damage. But he hadn't hit his had all that hard. Derek thought back to what he had told Meredith about the day's events and realized he hadn't told her about hitting his head...then again he also didn't realize he hadn't known about it himself.

After calling down to CT, Meredith had a ten minute wait, so she found a pen light and began a neuro check. She probably should have called for a consult, but she knew what she was doing, she was afterall examining a neurosurgeon who could walk her through it if she hadn't known. "If the scans come up clean we're going home. My shift is just ending. The kids will be happy to see you. Zola thought it would be a few days before she saw you again."

Derek agreed, just happy at the idea of seeing his children again, especially after thinking for a brief while he wouldn't be able to see them ever again.

Being his wife meant that technically Meredith couldn't help Derek medically, so she called Bailey for the CT, leaving neuro out of her calls after Derek's begging her not to because then he would have to face Amelia, and that was a confrontation he didn't want to have in the hosptial.

In the viewing space, Bailey, with Meredith at her side, was waiting for Derek's scans to come up.

"Stupid brain man having to help every damn person he sees..."

Meredith smiled at Bailey's small complaint but knew she wasn't exactly serious. "His heart was in the right place...he just...I don't even know how I can explain it to people."

"Wrong place at the wrong time, that is the phrase you're looking for, Grey. Scans are up."

Meredith studied the scan of Derek's brain and breathed a sigh of relief when there was nothing there. She then moved onto the full body scan that Bailey was currently looking at.

"Well, nothing serious," Bailey commented, "just some bruised ribs. Should heal on their own. He is not to work for a couple of weeks."

Meredith smiled at Bailey before she commented, "You'll have to be the one to tell him that, he won't listen to me. Besides, if you talk to him in a certain tone, he's scared of you."

When Meredith and Derek entered their dream house, the first thing they saw was Zola and Bailey sitting with Maggie who was reading a story to them. Derek cleared his throat and Zola looked up before running over to him.

"DADDY!" She screamed as she ran into his arms.

"Be careful with Daddy for a while, Zozo. He's hurting a bit," Meredith told her daughter. She looked around the house, then at Zola who was gently clinging to Derek's neck, then to Bailey. As her eyes wandered, she had no idea what she would do had Derek died in the accident. She smiled as she watched Derek sit on the couch with both of their children cuddling up to him as he took over reading the story, Maggie getting up to come and talk to Meredith.

"I thought he was supposed to be in D.C," Maggie whispered so the kids didn't hear.

Meredith sighed at having to finally having to talk about the day's events with someone other than Miranda Bailey. As she was retelling everything to Maggie, Meredith realized that both she and Derek would have to explain everything to Amelia when she got home. And that, that was something Meredith was not looking forward to. By the time she was finished explaining everything to Maggie, Meredith found herself in her sister's hold.

She had to admit, as much as she wanted to hate Maggie in the beggining, she couldn't. Lexie will always hold a place in her heart, and she will never forget all the effort her younger sister had put in so she could actually have Meredith as a sister...but Maggie will also always hold a place in her heart because she is the only connection she has left of her mother, and she actually likes the woman Cristina had chose for her replacement. As much as Meredith had first dreaded having sisters, she actually liked it...especially the sisters she had been given.

When the kids were finally in bed, Meredith and Derek sat on the couch in the living room waiting for Amelia's return home. While they were waiting, Meredith grabbed Derek's hand that was next to her.

"I have to..."

Meredith sighed as she was cut off by Amelia's entrance into the house

A/N: I hate how short the sections were. I'm trying to make them longer, I promise. I'm not too sure how I feel about this chapter, I feel like it could have been better, except I wasn't sure how to make it better.