A/N: Hey! So this is a little longer. Its a little angsty, sort of.. a bit of Mer and Ellis drama... But not too much. I don't know. This was quite hard as I have a relative who has Alzheimers and I know how tough it is to be around someone you care about with it.. Cause really they lose themselves, their memory, personality, memories that made them who they are.. they change totally.. they can't even have a conversation.. it's hard. Sorry.. that was a bit depressing.. thats why I like Fan Fic.. takes away depressing parts of life. So I guess that shows I'm a little dark and twisty like Mer.. aren't we all..?

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TWELVE III

Motion Of The Ocean

MONDAY

Meredith walked up to the nursing home, arm in arm with her father. They got to the front door and as always Meredith paused. They had an hour before Mer had to leave for her shift at the hospital. Luca was at Elaine's once again, and Derek at work. She breathed in a deep breath in preparation for seeing her mother.

Richard didn't say anything, knowing the little girl he had raised, was now a woman, and even though in his heart she was still that little girl who he wanted to protect, he couldn't do that anymore. She'd had a tough road in her life. She'd had to harden, and every time he looked at Meredith and saw her putting up her barriers his heart crumbled a little. Standing on the steps to his wife's nursing home, he looked at his daughter preparing herself to see her mother. That broke him a little too. Knowing she had to protect herself and keep herself from getting hurt from her own mother. And although Richard didn't know it, sometimes her defences didn't protect her as much as he thought they did.

She entered the nursing home, and a member of staff led her and her dad to her mother, sat in the sun room at the back of the home. Richard walked up to Ellis and kissed her on the cheek. Meredith watched her eyes light up at recognition.

"Richard.." she giggled. "I have surgery in half an hour. I haven't time for this. Meredith was going on about some stupid school project she had to do with her little school friend so I am already late." Richard looked at Meredith and saw the look of reluctant acceptance on her face. Her mother was back in time.

"Ellis, honey," Richard took her hand in his own, "Remember Derek, the man Meredith brought to meet you, their getting married. On Friday. And you coming with me."

Ellis skipped forward in time. "Meredith get married? Hah! She'll chase him off too. Just like Mark. If she wasn't so ordinary.. so plain. She makes nothing of herself."

"Ellis! Meredith is at Seattle Grace, remember she's an intern. She's becoming a great surgeon, just like you." Richard tried to stick up for his daughter.

"Meredith will never make it as a surgeon. She's too soft. She hasn't got the talent to make it."

Meredith stepped back and turned, running from the room. She stood in the hallway and heard Richard come out. She felt his arm slip around her shoulder as she struggled to keep the tears from falling.

"She didn't mean that Mer" he comforted. "She just doesn't remember. She does love you. So do I."

"It's OK Dad. I get it. I'm going to go to the hospital anyway. I'll see you there. Make sure you let the staff know about the wedding. See you later." She stood on tip toes and pressed a kiss to her Dads cheek. "I love you too Dad."

Meredith walked into Seattle Grace in a bit of a daze. All she could think of was her mother telling her how worthless she was. Am I? She thought. Was her mother right? She head towards the lifts and saw Derek leaning against the wall waiting for her. He pushed himself away from it, and walked towards her.

"Hey. Your Dad told me what happened." he said softly.

She said nothing in reply, she simply leaned into his arms. She rested her head against his chest and forgot the hurtful words and just listened to his heartbeat soothing her pain.

She felt Derek brush a kiss into her hair and whispering "I love you."

She pulled back, and smiled tentatively. "I love you too." she said.

Derek nodded, he'd spent many nights listening to her telling him how hard it was to watch her mother being destroyed by a disease they couldn't stop.

"Alzheimer's sucks" she said.

"Alzheimer's does suck" he agreed wrapping an arm round her shoulder and leading her back to the lifts. They stepped in, Derek pressing the button for Meredith's floor. They stood in silence riding the lift to the surgical floor.

Just as Derek let her hand go, to allow her to step out onto her floor, he said "You aren't ordinary Mer. You are amazing. Unique. And I love you. And that won't change." he grinned his McDreamy smile, looking at Bailey who was stood with Yang in the doorway.

"I think I'm going to McVomit." said Cristina. Meredith just smiled and walked to the locker room.

"Just wait for tomorrow Yang," said Derek as Bailey stepped into the lift, leaving the interns outside, "I hope you have fun" he smirked as the doors closed on Cristinas reply.

Bailey looked at her boss and shook her head.

"What?" he asked.

"You. And my intern. Cheesy lines of charm."

"You're intern happens to be my fiancé. and she's just been told by her mother that she's ordinary. Oh and that she'll never make it as a surgeon. So yeah, maybe that was cheesy, but I love her, she's the mother of my son and my unborn child, and at least she knows that someone around here believes in her okay?"

Derek stormed out of the lift, pissed at how Mer was getting a tough ride by everyone.

As Bailey watched the neurosurgeon walk away she smiled and shouted after him "Finally decided to man up? I like that!"

She smirked at him as he swung round, the anger dissipated and now a look of disbelief on his face. He shook his head as the doors closed. Crazy Nazi has a heart.