Chapter 7: Reunion and Confrontation
"I'm proud of you Mer, he is an ass." Cristina bounced her 3 year old son Tyson on her knee as she talked to Meredith. Cristina knew that dinner with Derek was going to be a bad idea for her person but she knew it was something she had to do for herself, as a way of having some final closure. Cristina also knew the McDreamy was still very much in love with Meredith so the news of her marriage wasn't going to be easy for him to hear.
"Yeah well he called Mark selfish, as if it was his fault that I had spent all this time in New York. If I wanted to come back I would have."
"Which brings me back to my previous enquiry, why now and don't give me the whole Mom needed me story I know you better than this Mer, you haven't been yourself since you got here. Did something happen between you and Mark?" Cristina knew that Mark practically worshipped the ground Meredith walked on so found it unlikely that he would screw this up but something was definitely going on with her.
"No of course not, why does everyone always presume that he has done something he loves me okay I'm sick of everyone doubting that." Meredith turned and walked out of the cafeteria where she had been having breakfast with Cristina and Tyson before she had to head to surgery.
Mark parked his car in the hospital parking lot. He hadn't seen his wife in two weeks and was anticipating his reunion with her. She had told him on the phone a few days before that she had some exciting news but had to wait and tell him in person. This of course had left him rather curious so instead of waiting out Meredith's return he had decided to join her in Seattle – as much as he hated the city. He stepped out of the car, as usual it was raining. Mark had checked the Webber house in hope of Meredith being at the house, once discovering her absence from the house he knew there was only one other place she could be- Seattle Grace Hospital. Mark stepped inside the hospital for the first time in 5 years; this was a rather large step as when he left he had vowed he would never set foot in that hospital again. He immediately started scanning the surroundings in hope of being able to find Meredith easily but it seemed it was not his lucky day. He knew she would be on the surgical floor, either visiting her parents or her friends.
Meredith was just getting out of the elevator when she saw him walking toward the nurse's station. She was hoping to see her father or mother but what she saw in front of her was so much better. Without even realising it her body start running toward him, his eyes lit up when he saw this standing there with his arms open ready to catch her as she leapt into his arms.
He wrapped his strong arms around and pulled her petite body close to his, he took in her scent, the scent that he had been missing for last two weeks.
"Hello there wifey, anyone would think you missed me?" Before they could continue their reunion a voice interrupted them.
"Mark Sloan is married; I thought I would never see this day…"
Meredith whipped her head around to see Derek standing there, watching her reunion with her husband. This was not the way she had planned on this happened, actually she hadn't planned on this ever happening.
"Shep, good to see you man. How are things?" Mark tried to act as normal as possible but he knew this wasn't going to go well at all; this was evident by the way Derek was now glaring at him.
"No, you don't get to Shep me, you…you married her…the love of my life…and you married her." Derek was more than angry, his own supposed best friend had committed the biggest betrayal there is.
"Oh come on, you really know how to treat the love of your life don't you, you kiss random nurses, hell how do we know that's all you did with her. You broke Meredith, it took her ages to get over you, she moved to another state for god's sake."
Mark was absolutely fuming, there was no way he was going to let Derek stand there and make him out to be the bad guy. He had been there for Meredith when no-one else was, she left her friends, her life behind so she could get away from him, so she could get over him.
Derek stood there taking deep breaths, he still couldn't believe it. Mark and his Meredith, he had always planned on winning Meredith back when he could eventually find out where she was. But now she was here in Seattle, but he couldn't have her, and that killed him more than anything.
He was soon broken from his thoughts by the sound of Meredith's soft voice. "I'm so sorry Derek, we should have told you, but…I didn't know how…I was in love with you and I was ready for more but you….you cheated on me Derek, and that is unforgivable." Tears now trickled down Meredith's soft pink cheeks.
"I DID NOT CHEAT ON YOU, we weren't together, we were dating other people, and you weren't ready for more, you were just telling yourself that because you COULDN'T STAND THE THOUGHT OF ME BEING HAPPY WITH SOMEONE ELSE." Derek regretted the words as soon as they left his mouth. He hadn't even realised he was yelling.
Mark was now getting angrier by the second; he clenched his fists by his side. "Do not talk to my wife like that, you do not have the right to stand here and yell at her…"
Before Mark could even finish his sentence Derek had connected his fist with his face, causing him to fall to the ground. Derek stood there shocked, it hadn't been the first time he had hit Mark over Meredith but this time it was far more personal….he had gotten the girl.