Hi:)

The last part is here. I want to say a big THANK you to YOU ALL! That means a lot to me. I never imaginated that this story would be this long and someone would love it. At first I was scared that it would be bad, no one would want to read it and that I had tried writting for nothing. You reviews always made my day, made me smile and continue to write. THANK YOU FOR THAT!

Also I want to announce that my next story "Steamboat Springs" will be soon published. I will try to give you the first part today, so you could read it and say if I should continue it.

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"How much longer?" Nancy asked Meredith. She had gone home after making sure that Meredith was alright and that Maggie was locked up. Deluca, her partner, had been caught trying to pass the border of Canada. He was going to spend less time in jail than Maggie, because his crimes were smaller. Raimond was already under arrest and waited for the court.

Meredith was standing outside his room and watching as he breathed without ventilator. Koracick said that the operation had gone fine and there haven't been any complications. They were able to take him off the ventilator, because he was breathing on his own better than before.

Koracick hadn't heard about shooter in the hospital when he started operation on Derek. When he was in the middle of opening his skull Bailey came inside and announced it. They decided to continue the surgery with seven guards around.

"Koracick said it takes time." Meredith answered and looked at the sleeping form of her husband through the window. Carolyn was sitting next to him and reading a book. She had insisted in staying after everything. She didn't want to leave Meredith alone.

"It's been eight hours." Nancy complained.

"He will wake up, Nancy." Meredith walked towards the nurse station and stopped there. The floor was silent as it was eleven at night. "He is breathing on his own."

"It's hard to sit and wait." Meredith heard the voice of Kath in the background. "Kath asked where you keep clean bed sheets."

"What happened?"

"One of the twins spilled water in his bed."

Meredith laughed. "It's Matt. He drinks water before sleep." Meredith turned around and saw April taking care of her patient in ICU. "In the storage under stairs, top shelf."

"Under the stairs! Top shelf!" Nancy shouted to Kath. Then she said something to Amelia and returned to Meredith. "Amelia asked if she can sleep in your bed."

"Tell her she can, but don't let her eat in it."

"She said that she will eat, but you won't know about it." Nancy laughed. "Your princess is crying, and it's my time to feed her. Call me when he wakes up, alright?"

"I promise. And kiss boys from me, please."

"Of course. Talk to you later." Nancy ended the call and Meredith sighed. The night will be long — she told herself. She stood at the nurse station and watched April talking to the patients' family. She hadn't been a doctor for a year. Meredith had stayed home since Derek's death, trying to forget the loss of loved one and adjust her life as a single mother. It was a hard period, but she somehow managed to live through it. Derek's return in her life was unexpected, but she was glad it happened. He turned her life again, and this time she won't let him leave her alone again. The next time he decided to leave her alone, she will go him.

"Hi, Mer!" April smiled and stood next to her. "How are you holding after everything?"

"Honestly? I don't know." Meredith was looking at the April's patient and wondering. She had experienced a lot in her life ans she always managed to survive. She managed to survive when Addison came, when she put her hand in the body with bomb, almost drowning in cold water after she was thrown in it, the shooting where Derek almost died, the plane crash where she lost her little sister Lexie, the birth of Bailey in the storm, Derek's 'death' and the birth of Ellis. Meredith had survived it all. Today she survived another shooting she was sure she wouldn't.

"I am glad to be alive and to have another chance with a man I love." She looked at April, who was watching her. "I never thought that I would get another chance."

"It was meant to happen." April smiled and touched her shoulder. "I know you don't believe in god, but I do… He saw your pain and gave another chance to be together with a loved one."

"Thank you, April." Meredith smiled in return and squeezed her hand. "Sometimes it all feels like a dream, like I am dreaming."

"I know what you are feeling." She sadly smiled. "When I lost Samuel…"

Both women enjoyed the silent moment together, before April's pager went of. She said her goodbye to Meredith and ran towards ER.

Meredith was left alone again. She had a time to think. She needed to know answers. Meredith knew that Thatcher had helped to save Derek. He was the one who saved his life and hid him from Maggie and the others. She was thankful to him for everything he had done, and she needed to talk to him.

Opening her e-mail, she decided to sent him a letter. She didn't have his phone number, so this was the only way how to contact him.

TO: Thatcher Grey

FROM: Meredith Shepherd

SUBJECT: We have to talk

Thatcher,

I want to say thank you for what you did. I can't say in words how much that means to me and my family. You gave us another chance with Derek and I will be always grateful you for that.

I have questions and you have answers. I think I deserve to know everything and you deserve to have another chance with me. Past can't be changed, but I want to make sure that future is filled with love and happiness. I want to meet you and if you want… we could spend some time together to get to know each other better.

Meredith Shepherd,

aka your grown up daughter Merrie.

TO: Meredith Shepherd

FROM: Thatcher Grey

SUBJECT: A better father

Dear Meredith,

No need to thank me, I was doing my job — protecting my family. After all, Derek is my son-in-law and you are my daughter.

I would love to meet you, as soon as possible. I know you want answers, and I will try to give you them all. I will try to be a better father to you and a grandfather to your children if you will allow me.

Thatcher Grey,

aka your father.

P.S. How does next Sunday sounds?

TO: Thatcher Grey

FROM: Meredith Shepherd

SUBJECT: Sunday

Dad,

see you on Sunday.

With love

Merrie.

Meredith smiled at herself. Her life was slowly getting better and better. She had lived through it all, Derek had survived, and she would try to be a good daughter. Although, Thatcher hadn't been the best father in the world, she loved him as much as a child could. She would use the chance to be with him, because no one knows how much time he or she got. You could have only a small moment or a long life together.

Walking to Derek's room she saw doctors walking out of it. In fear, she started running towards it. When Meredith reached his room, she was met by Carolyn's tear filled eyes. She was standing in front of her. This couldn't be the end of it all. She had tried so hard to get him back, and he couldn't just simply die. Derek couldn't die without having another chance with Meredith and their children. It was unfair.

"Carolyn," Meredith started. She run around her inside the room with tears in the eyes. She was waiting to see his closed eyes, his dead body laying there and monitors showing no heart rhythm, but… he was there laying and watching her with his blue eyes, the eyes she though she would never see again.

They eye met again. Blue met green again and she lost her breath. It was a miracle. Derek had woken up and was watching her. He was alive…

"Derek," She whispered and walked towards his bed not leaving his eyes for a moment. She was crying tears of joy and smiling. Her husband was alive, breathing and watching her. His blue eyes were watching her with never ending love and passion. This was her Derek, her love of the life, her husband and father of they children.

They had another chance together. They had a chance to be together and make up the lost time, cry tears of happiness and love each other endlessly. They had another change, and Meredith will never be able to thank the god.

"Meredith…" He whispered back to her and smiled.

At that moment Meredith knew everything will be alright. She will always remember this moment, remember her husband and they little family that wasn't so little anymore. She will remember and always will be thankful for second chance together…