A/N: I'm so glad you're all still reading!!! I had a bad day and all of your reviews really cheered me up.

Chapter 65: We're All Here

After hanging up the phone, Meredith rushed out of the house leaving Derek sitting at the table, completely confused as to what was going on. Meredith frantically got into her car and drove as fast as she could, without getting a speeding ticket, to the hospital to talk to Izzie. She signed in at the front desk and headed up to where she knew Izzie would be.

"Iz?" Meredith said, running up to her completely out of breath.

"Meredith? What's going on?" Izzie asked."

"I, um…" she said catching her breath, "I really need to talk to you."

"Okay. I'm off, so lets go to the cafeteria and we can talk."

Meredith waited outside of the intern locker room while Izzie changed back into her street clothes and then headed down to the cafeteria. They each got a cup of coffee and then sat down at one of the empty tables.

"So, what's so urgent that you needed to come to the hospital to talk to me about?" Izzied asked, adding sugar into her coffee.

"I got a job offer," Meredith replied.

"A job offer? That's great."

"Yeah. It would be. If it wasn't for Derek."

"Okay. You're not making any sense here Mer. What does Derek have to do with it?"

"The job is in Baltimore."

"Ohhh…" Izzie answered, finally understanding what the issue was.

"Yeah." Meredith said, putting her head down on the table.

"Well your going to turn it down right? I mean, Derek's here. Derek's job is here. George, Cristina and me, we're all here."

"It's not that easy Iz. I love you guys and I love Derek. I'm marrying Derek. But this job…this job is amazing. It's at this private school…I've wanted a job like this since I started teaching and now I have it and I don't know what to do."

"Have you talked to Derek about it?"

"No. I just got the offer this morning while we were eating breakfast. I ran out of the house and didn't even tell him what was going on."

"Mer. You have to tell him," Izzie said seriously.

"I know. But if I tell him, he'll tell me to take the job."

"Why would that be so bad?"

"Because I would either have it and not have him. Or have him there with me. But I know how much he loves his job here. And he'd resent me for making him move," Meredith responded.

"I know one thing for sure Meredith, and that is that Derek could never resent you for anything. So talk to him about it."

"I knew you were going to tell me that," Meredith said getting up and heading out of the cafeteria with Izzie, "I should have talked to Cristina."

"Ha. Very funny. If you had done that all you would have gotten was sarcastic remarks about McDreamy."

"I know. But then I wouldn't have had to deal with what's going on."

They got into their separate cars and headed back to the house so just as Meredith had promised Izzie, she would tell Derek about what was going on. When they got back, Derek was lying on the sofa doing a crossword puzzle. He looked up over his magazine when he saw the door open, and when he saw it was Meredith, he put it down and got up.

"Meredith," he said, enveloping her in a hug.

"It's nice to see you too Derek. But it's only been what? An hour?" she answered, as he squeezed her.

"You ran out of here all worried and so I've been worried about you."

"Talk to him," Izzie whispered in Meredith's ear, before heading into the kitchen for something to eat.

Meredith sighed, "Okay. I have something that I need to tell you," she said leading him back over to the couch.

"Whatever it is Mer, we'll deal with it."

She took a deep breath and finally confessed what was going on.

A/N: Okay, so, I know it's short, but now you all know what happened. I probably won't have more tomorrow because I have to work and Wednesday I think I'm going out after school and won't be home till late, so Thursday is the most likely date for more. But maybe if you're lucky, sooner. Review!!

Oh!!! For those of you who read my "new" story, I think I'm going to delete it because I don't like it. But I REALLY want to write a story more true to the show. If you have any ideas on a meeting between Der and Mer, let me know. You'll definitely get credit!!