Hello :)

After reading your reviews, I decided to write the Epilogue to "Remember me". I hope you like. There was a question if I will be writing a sequel. I don't know. Right now I am trying to write "Steamboat Springs" and deciding how Meredith would meet Derek. I have written a part two, and I am thinking to upload it today. There is a sneak peak for the par two:

"George still has a crush on you." Cristina smiled wickedly and hit Meredith with her hip.

"Please, don't remind me about him." Meredith looked around. "I don't want to remember his obsession with me."

If you would like me to write a "Remember me" sequel, don't be shy and write it down in the reviews.

Have a nice day, stay safe and don't get COVID-19 :D

Now let's finish with this long author's message and get down to the reading :)

Epilogue

three years later…

"And the Harper Avery award goes to…" Catherine Fox started. Everyone was holding they breaths, but Meredith was holding Derek's hand. She was nervous, but Derek's touch managed to calm her down. She looked at him and met his blue eyes.

"You will win this." He said and squeezed her hand. He smiled, and Meredith saw wrinkles around his beautiful eyes. Last week they had celebrated Derek's forty-ninth birthday. It was a small family gathering at they house - Meredith, Derek and they kids. Although, they missed the rest of the Shepherd family members, they had enough. They children were loud, ran around the house and made mess everywhere.

Matt and Chris were now eight. They were in the second grade, loved making lego houses and making Meredith mad. They used every moment to make Meredith shout, while they ran away laughing. On the other hand, Derek always laughed and said that they were only children. Maybe that's the reason why boys liked to spend more time with Derek. He allowed them to get another pet. This time it was a turtle named Mike. He was green and lived in living room. Meredith was against having him, but coming home from work and seeing him walking around didn't give her other choice but to agree.

Bailey had changed. He was five years old, and hated going to kindergarten. Every morning ended with him crying hysterically and laying on the floor in living room. Meredith wasn't able to fight with him. She was too busy with twins, so Derek took the responsibility for getting Bailey ready. It was hard, but he always managed to get him ready and out of the house in time. Meredith was glad that she had Derek, or she wouldn't be able to take care of kids, as Amelia moved out.

Little Ellis, the old daughter of Derek and Meredith, was a little angel. She was calm and didn't make any mess, but she was very talkative and liked to dance hip-hop. Meredith had signed her to the dance classes that Ellis loved. She had made friends and was proudly saying that her parents were doctors and saved lives. Meredith smiled when other kids came to her and asked how was she doing it. She was a wonder woman in their eyes.

Amelia moved out of the house three years ago. Now she was working as an attending surgeon in Atlanta General and getting married to Luke. To Meredith's surprise, they had managed to start a relationship after everything in Seattle. Soon after Luke's departure Amelia left too and since then she hadn't regretted her decision.

After his accident, Derek tried so hard to get back his old life. He spent a lot of time in physical therapy and now is able to operate again. There are times when he gets tired or his leg starts hurting and then someone comes and changes him. Also Derek got back his job as the head of neuro last year when Koracick left the hospital. He started his own private practice in Portland and moved there.

When Meredith looked at Derek, she saw grey strands in his hair. He was slowly getting old, but still managed to look young and very handsome. His hair was cut shorter, barely reaching his jaw. Derek once told Meredith that he doesn't want to look like a cave's man, and apparently the long hair made him look like one. Derek had started to grow a beard. It was longer than his usual stubble but short enough to fit under the surgical mask. It all started when Meredith three years ago after him waking up said that he looked handsome with beard. Derek started growing his beard, so he could always look beautiful in his wife's eyes.

And Meredith… she thought she hadn't changed if you don't count some grey hair on her head, wrinkles around her eyes and a little fat on her belly. She was still skinny and that little fat didn't change a lot. She was a woman, a mother, who had four children that she had carried and give birth to. Meredith was proud of that and wasn't scared to show her scars to other's.

"How can you be so sure?" Meredith whispered and looked around. People were waiting for the winner. She saw doctors from different hospitals around the USA that she knew. Jackson was standing next to his mother and watching Meredith. He gave her a smile and then Catherine announced the winner.

"Meredith Shepherd!" The silence in the room stopped and people stood up and started clapping. Meredith couldn't believe her ears. She had won! She had won the Harper Avery award! Standing up with tears in her eyes, she turned to Derek and saw him proudly looking at her.

"Congratulations, Mer!" He said and Meredith hugged him. She felt him kiss her cheek, and she smiled. After releasing him, she wiped away the tear that had left her eye and went after her award. It was hard to move in the dress, but she was happy that she had chosen to wear it. It was a long, dark blue dress. It had a v-neck, long sleeves, and slit on the right side. It reached until her mid thigh showing her long and slim legs.

"Congratulations, Meredith!" Catherine said and gave Meredith her award. Jackson, who was standing next to her, smiled and hugged her before stepping away for Meredith to say the speech. She was nervous and tried so hard to keep her emotions together. She found her proud husband's eyes, although, she knew that he was a little jealous of her, and smiled.

"People say that surgeons job is to save lives, but they don't know what it truly is." Meredith started. "It's not only about saving lives. It's about happiness to see a family reunite with they loved ones. It's the pain of losing a patient to deadly disease. It's a smile on patients face, who you have helped. It's not only a job. It's a life, a choice to help others and not to ask anything in return.

I was so close for not flying here today. A big trauma came in and I knew I had to stay and help them. I am a surgeon, and my job is to save lives." She looked at the award in her hands. The white glass shined in the light. "The past years have been hard. I've lost so many people in my life. My little sister Lexie, who would have been proud to be here. My mother Ellis Grey, who had won this award twice, once as a resident, and probably would have won a few more if she hadn't been taken from all of us so young. I almost lost my husband," Meredith looked at him and smiled. "He is my biggest support. Without him I wouldn't be standing here with this award in my arms.

It's my honor to accept this award, but that's not the most important in my life. Saving lives and helping other's is my destiny. I want to help and make patient lives better, because they happiness is my happiness. Nothing is more important to see patient smile in happiness, because he is happy and alive. Thank you!"

The room erupted again in clapping and Meredith went to her husband, who was waiting for her. She smiled through happy tears that had slipped off from her eye, and stood in front of him. Meredith put the award on the table and hugged her husband. His soft hands were making circles on her back, and she let the tears fall on his shoulders.

"How did you know?" She whispered in his ear.

"I just new." He answered and kissed her blonde hair.

They stood there holding each other and ignoring the rest of doctors. People were talking and smiling they way, some couples went to dance, but Meredith and Derek stood in place. The world could wait.