Disclaimer: Nope, not mine.

The two stood in fro nt of the supermarket, holding each other. Derek was smoothing back her hair, whispering words of comfort in her ear, Meredith was crying her eyes out, making large water spots on his chest. They stood there, oblivious to everyone around them, to everyone staring.

Why didn't I tell him sooner?

Meredith tightened her grip on Derek as she saw him stumble out of the market. Derek felt her stiffen in his arms and looked to the automatic doors to see Finn wobbling towards the two.

Meredith stood on her tip-toes and whispered into Derek's ear, "I'm so sorry."

Finn was finally within arm's length of Meredith and Derek. He looked at the two embracing, as if their live's depended on it. "Meredith! What the fuck is this shit?!" Finn spat, "You have the nerve to have your 'boyfriend' punch me, then start fucking hugging him?!" Finn stopped, obviously looking for answer.

Meredith just stood there, hold onto Derek, not saying anything.

"Get in the goddamn car, let's get the fuck out of here."

Meredith could feel Derek start to let go of her, to yell at Finn, maybe hit him again. She quickly put her hand on his chest and looked up into his eyes. They had a conversation, Derek understood what she needed to do, and Meredith knew he was there to defend her. She stepped out of Derek's embrace and said point-blank, "No."

"What?!" Finn yelled. "What the hell do you mean, no?!" He stepped closer to her, and wrapped his hand around her upper arm. She wriggled free of his grasp, and then it happened again. Finn was on the ground again, this time, with a bloody nose.

However, this time, it wasn't Derek on the other end, it was Meredith.

"Don't you ever touch me again." Meredith spat. "And when someone says 'no', it means NO." Meredith grumbled.

She looked back to Derek with sad, pooled over eyes. Then she started to cry again, this time uncontrollably. He walked over to her, picked her up, and carried her to his car.

He felt her hand tighten around hers as they pulled up to her house she shared with Finn. Derek looked over to Meredith and saw the fear and pure terror in her eyes. He squeezed her hand a little tighter and tried to reassure her.

"Mer, we have to go in."

She whimpered and a tear fell down her cheek. "No, please, no, don't make me go in there."

"Mer..."

"No!" Meredith raised her voice, tears rapidly trailing down her face. "No, Derek, no, please, no, no, no..."

Derek, frustrated with the center console, got out of the car, ran over to the passenger side door, swung it open, and took Meredith into his arms, agian. Her face found his neck, her tears found his shirt. He whispered words of warmth in her ear.

After about ten mintues of just standing there, Meredith stopped sobbing, and was staring at the house.

"Meredith, we have to go in and get some clothes, and of some of your other things."

Meredith nodded, "Okay."

"But then, we'll go back to the trailor and talk."

"Trailor?"

"Come on, before that asshole comes back." Derek said, ignoring her question.

"Trailor?" Meredith asked, again, to no one, as Derek was already making his way towards to front door.

Derek took another look around as Meredith gathered her things from her bedroom and bathroom. After reassuring her that Finn wouldn't come barging in while she was in there, Derek took to the living room to wait. He became restless after General Hospital was over and started to look at the pictures on the mantle. He never noticed all the pictures of Finn and Meredith together. There were pictures of them at the beach, at the park, at the carnival. However, the one thing Derek noticed in all of them was the fact that Finn was standing in front of Meredith, instead of beside her, and Meredith wasn't smiling in any of them.

Then there was a picture of a couple at a wedding. It wasn't Finn and Meredith, it was of a tall blonde with a huge smile and a wedding dress on, and a man in a tuxedo with very short hair, looking at the woman, not a smile on his face, but Derek could tell he was happy. But it wasn't the couple on their wedding day that caught his attention, it was the couple in the background sitting at a table. The man had his mean face on, the woman was looking down, she looked ashamed, like a child who just got caught in the cookie jar. Finn's hand was on Meredith's arm, but if Derek looked close enough, he could see Finn's knuckles were white.

"Those are my friends, Alex and Izzie on their wedding day." Meredith said, reaching out to the picture, touching the frame. Derek looked at Meredith and saw how much she loved her friends. It killed him to rip her apart from the place where she no doubt had some good memories with her friends, but it was for the better, because he knew there were much more bad ones.

"Don't forget it."

"What?"

"Don't forget the picture." He looked at the rest of them, and found another one, another couple on their wedding day. "And this one too, take it with you."

Meredith smiled, "I love that picture, thats..."

Derek cut her off, "Cristina and Mark Sloan."

"You know..." Meredith looked puzzled, then realization dawned on her, "You know them from the hospital."

Derek nodded, he has seen them both around, done a couple of surgeries with both of them. They were nice people, he could see how they were friends with Meredith. He took the pictures off the mantle. "Do you have everything you need?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine for a couple of days."

"Okay, let's get going." He said as he ushered her to the fron door.

"And about this trailor..." Meredith wondered out loud, just to be answered by a laugh from Derek.

"You'll see, Meredith."

Okay, finally an update, sorry it took so long.

Anyway, please review! Thanks!

-Mary