AFTERMATH

AN: Ok, so this is the moment everyone's been waiting for, the confrontation in OR1 between Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd. I loved writing this. Please enjoy.

CHAPTER FIVE

- Seattle Grace Hospital, Operating Room One, 2016 -

Doctor Meredith Grey, the head neurosurgeon at Seattle Grace, stared straight into the eyes of her ex-boyfriend, and fellow neurosurgeon, Doctor Derek Shepherd.

"Derek," she said matter-of-factly.

"Meredith," he replied.

"What are you doing here?"

Derek looked Meredith deep in her lovely chocolate-brown eyes, and said, "I've come to take you back, Meredith."

Doctor Grey stared in ultimate disbelief.

"Take… me… back?" she asked, her face showing the signs of an enraged outburst.

"To pick up where we left off," he replied simply, returning her gaze, talking in the soft voice she had missed for ten years.

"How are you, Mere?"

That was it. The last question that left his mouth made her patience snap.

"How do you think I've been, Derek?" she just about screamed.

Derek opened his mouth to say something, but was stopped before he could get a word in.

"Ten years ago, just after prom, I found out I was pregnant. Pregnant, Derek, with your child! And you have the audacity to ask me how I've been? You left, Derek, remember? You walked out of the locker room the day we all realised we were pregnant. You walked out and went to Boston."

Derek physically stepped back, amazed at Meredith's outburst. She had obviously been keeping this in for years.

"Well, Derek, I'll tell you exactly how I, and everyone else, have been for ten years. Two weeks after you walked out, Callie had an abortion. That decision rocked George. She broke him. George drove Callie out of Seattle to Chicago."

Meredith took a breath, and launched into the next part of her recount.

"Then four and a half months into her pregnancy, Izzie miscarried. Her daughter had a heart problem and there was nothing Addison could do."

Derek looked shocked at the mention of his ex-wife. "Addison was here?" he asked quietly.

"Yes, you moron, Addison was here, and by the time baby Elizabeth Rose Karev was remembered by memorial in our back yard, Christina decided to keep her baby. Then, she married Preston Burke and left on their honeymoon for a month."

Derek was still trying to process the information he was being fed angrily by the brilliant neurosurgeon screaming at him.

"When I was six months pregnant, I miscarried too. My son had become so entangled in his umbilical cord, he died, Derek, died. And you weren't there!"

Meredith was just about crying by that point, but wouldn't let Shepherd anywhere near her.

"Addison couldn't do anything for me either, except induce labour for me to birth my stillborn son! Kyle Richard Grey SHEPHERD is buried right next to Lizzie in our backyard! Ever since the day you walked, Derek, Addison has become a very close friend to me, as well as Izzie, George, Alex and Christina. She was there for us, Derek, and you weren't!"

Meredith took another breath, before wiping the tears from her face and continuing her recount of the last ten years.

"Addison was the fourth bridesmaid at Christina's wedding. She was Carol's maid of honour at her wedding to George. She christened me godmother of her and Mark's twin daughters, because I saved Mark's life after his accident. She christened Christina, George and Preston godparents too! Arizona and Atlanta were born two months after I miscarried Kyle. Addison became my best friend, my mentor and almost my sister. She was there for us when we needed someone to talk to, because we couldn't talk to anyone else! That's why she still works here, as head of Ob/Gyn and Paediatrics, that's why she married Mark, and why she is one of my closest friends. Go figure that one out!"

With her last statement, Meredith stormed from the empty OR, slamming the doors behind her.

Derek Shepherd was left standing in OR1, on his own, with tears in his eyes, looking after the girl he would have married ten years ago if his mother hadn't died right before he found out she was pregnant.

Ok guys, I hope you like Meredith's outburst, because Derek deserved everything he just got, and whatever else is coming to him.

And I hope you like the thing I revealed about Derek.