AFTERMATH
AN: This chapter begins the focus on the Meredith/Derek aspect of the story. Though the other characters will be involved, the rest of the story will mainly focus on MerDer, so I'm sure that will please just about everyone, except the ADDEK fans, but they'll get over it! And, I know I said the flashbacks were over, but there will be some that are crucial to the story.
CHAPTER SEVEN
- Seattle Grace Hospital, On Call Room, 2006 -
He was asleep. Fast asleep on a bunk bed that was perfect for sex.
Meredith stood just inside the locked door, her back leaning against the door handle, just watching the love of her life sleep. Ever since the prom, he had had trouble sleeping, but always managed to sleep better when Mere was around.
"Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to join me?" came McDreamy's sexy, half-asleep voice from the pillow.
"I thought you were asleep," Meredith said, not moving from the door.
"I heard you walk in," Derek replied. Moving his head off the pillow, Derek sat up. "Well, you coming or not?"
Meredith was about to move from the door and lay next to him when her pager went off.
"Damn," she muttered. "911, Mrs Sedgwick. Sorry."
Watching Meredith Grey, an intern with a lot of potential to become a neurosurgeon like him, Derek felt the small room instantly drop in temperature as she left to attend to her patient.
"That's an internship," he muttered as the door closed behind her, before returning his head to the pillow, ready to get some serious, uninterrupted sleep.
Literally three minutes after re-dropping his head on the pillow, Derek's mobile started ringing.
"Damn phone," he muttered, raising his head from the pillow again.
Withjout even bothering to look at the area code on the screen, Derek opened the flip phone and answered.
"Whoever you are, you'd better have a good reason for disturbing my sleep," he spoke quickly before the person on the other end could answer, dropping his head back to the pillow again.
"Sorry, bro, I just thought you'd like to hear from your little sis for once this year," a slightly sad yet cheerful voice replied over the line.
"Lillian?" he asked, this time rolling onto his back.
"Hey, bro," she said, evidence of sadness in her voice. "You still in Seattle?"
"Yeah," he groaned, remembering why he left both New York and Boston in the first place. "I'm still here."
"Divorced Addie yet?" Lillian asked. She was the youngest of Derek's four sisters, the only one younger than himself.
Derek smiled. He knew Lillian and his other sisters had never really liked Addison Montgomery, and they probably had a bet going on about their marriage.
"Yeah, papers went through two months ago. Who won?"
Derek heard Lillian laugh. "Donna won. I bet two months ago, Olivia said three years and Molly said four."
"How much?"
Before Lillian could respond, Derek heard his little sister start to sob, immediately changing his tone from playful to serious.
"Lil, what's wrong?"
"Derek, its mum," she whispered, still slightly sobbing.
The neurosurgeon bolted up from his position on his back, only to hit his head on the underside of the top bunk.
"What happened?" he demanded, using his free hand to rub his aching head. "Is she ok?"
Faintly, Derek could hear Lillian sobbing over the line.
"Derek, it wasn't good to start with. Her car was hit by a semi-trailer when the driver ran a red light. Her car was totalled, the drivers side smashed in. Derek, she never had a chance. She died on impact."
Derek burst out in tears as soon as Lillian broke the news.
"Mum's dead?" Derek dropped the phone in horror at the news.
Sorry about the whole no-flashback thing, but this was kind of needed. I hope it explains the end of both the prologue and chapter five.