A/N: You all are asking for Mer/Der happiness but that can't come right way but in order to get to it a bit quicker, this chapter is going to jump ahead a bit. Oh, and I'm taking something from the show…

Chapter 40: You're Okay

About a month later, Meredith and Finn were in a pretty serious relationship and Derek was dating a woman named Tiffany. From what Meredith had heard from Cristina, Tiffany was somewhat of a tramp and definitely a gold digger. Cristina didn't tell Meredith this but she was pretty sure that all Derek was trying to do with Tiffany was make Meredith jealous, and it was currently not working.

One night, Meredith and Finn were just relaxing at his apartment, watching a movie and eating take-out when Meredith's phone started to ring. When she heard the obnoxious noise, both she and Finn groaned. They were trying to have a quiet night alone without any interruption.

"Let it ring," Finn said, nuzzling Meredith's neck.

"I can't," Meredith said reaching for her phone, "Hello?"

"Meredith! It's Jason!"

Her brother was not only out of breath but he sounded extremely worried.

"Are you okay Jase? What's wrong?"

"Mom and Dad were in a car accident. You have to come to the hospital right away."

"What? What happened?"

"I'll explain when you get here. Just come to the hospital."

Meredith hung up the phone and jumped off of the bed.

"Meredith? What's going?" Finn asked confused as to what was happening.

"My parents were in an accident. I have to go to the hospital. Like right now."

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"No. No, you just stay here. I'll call you when I have any news."

Meredith didn't even say goodbye. She grabbed her stuff and left Finn's apartment. She drove to the hospital faster than she had ever driven in her entire life. She walked into the hospital, not even thinking about the fact that Derek might be working. She asked the receptionist where her parents were and went to the right place.

When she got to the room, both her mother and father were conscious. They had some bruises and cuts but didn't look too seriously injured. Her brother was standing outside of the room on his cell phone.

"I'm here."

"Oh thank goodness."

"Jason, what's going on? Mom and Dad are both awake. They're just scraped. You made it sound like they were on the verge of death."

"I know and I'm sorry. I was just really worried and they wanted to make sure that you knew what happened. But there is something…"

"What? What's wrong?" Meredith asked, beginning to get worried because of the but and the sound of her brother's voice.

"Mom hit her head pretty hard. Every once in a while she can't remember some things. The doctors said it's probably just the concussion but they did an MRI and a CT just to be sure."

Meredith tensed up at the word doctor and the fact that her mother had a head injury. She knew that Derek was the best in the field but hoped that he wasn't her mother's doctor.

"Please tell me Derek isn't the doctor."

"No. He's not. But, Meredith, maybe you could talk to him and see…"

"No! I'm not doing that. Whatever doctor she has, I'm sure they're great. I'm going in to see Mom."

Later in the evening, Jason told Meredith that he had to go home because Melissa was having trouble getting both kids to bed and he would be back in the morning and call him if she needed anything or if things got worse. She was standing outside of her parent's room, about to call Finn and let him know what was going on when she heard Derek's voice.

"Meredith? What are you doing here?"

Meredith turned to see Derek coming down the hallway, in his scrubs, holding a few charts and obviously busy with other patients.

"It's uh…my parents. They got into a car accident."

"Are they alright?"

"Yeah, I think so. They're sleeping right now. My dad's okay and he should be released tomorrow. But my mom, she sometimes has memory lapses and they did a CT and an MRI but her doctors haven't given me the results yet."

"I can see if I can get that for you."

"No, that's okay. You're probably busy."

"Meredith, it's no problem."

"Don't worry about it. Just, ya know, go check on your other patients."

"Alright, but I'm going to come back and check on you."

Meredith just smiled at Derek and he walked away to go see his other patients. He couldn't bare to see her in pain like that, worrying about her parents. He checked on his other pre and post-op patients as quickly as possible and when he went back to check on Meredith, it was not the same scene as before.

The doctors were all hovering over Meredith's mother as all the machines she was hooked up to went crazy. Meredith was hysterical and the nurses were trying to get her to leave the room so the doctors could do what they needed to do. Right before Derek walked up, she left the room and ran down the hallway into a closet and Derek followed.

When he walked into the closet he saw her sitting on the floor, sobbing. He sat down on the floor next to her and rubbed her back, trying to get her to calm down.

"Shhh…It's alright. Just take deep breath's okay? Slowly. Just slow down. Deep breaths."

When her crying finally slowed down and she caught her breath, Meredith leaned over and rested her head on Derek's shoulder. She had missed the safe feeling of being in his arms. Finn made her comfortable, but she didn't feel the same way with him as she had with Derek and didn't know if she ever would.

Derek ran one hand through her hair and over her head and was holding her hand with the other. When they finally realized what was going on, Meredith sat up. She wiped her tear streaked face and just look at Derek and he stroked her cheek with his thumb and brushed her hair out of her eyes.

"I'm okay."

"You're okay," he responded.

Meredith stood up and was about to leave the closet when she turned around to look at Derek who was still sitting on the floor.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Meredith left the closet and left Derek sitting on the floor by himself.

A/N: So, I know this is the closet scene from the show, but I thought it was such a cute and emotional scene and it was a good way to start to bring them back together. REVIEW!!!!!