Point and Stare

Derek pulled into Seattle Grace and took his usual reserved spot. After putting the car in park and turning off the ignition, he looked over at a nervous Meredith. He felt for her, knowing she was embarrassed about returning to work, after everyone had seen her in the hospital for Alcohol poisoning. Miranda, who had talked to Derek right after the accident, had decided to put off her returning to work a little bit longer until she attended some counseling because she felt that she really needed to get some help.

"You ok baby?" Derek asked Meredith. He showed her a slight smile as he put his hand up to the back of her neck and started to rub it a little bit to maybe relax her.

"Yeah, I'm just wanting to avoid the gossip mill. You know? It gets old after a while." She replied grabbing Delia's diaper bag out of the floorboard and reaching for the door to retrieve the stroller.

"I understand. Trust me." He said feeling very uncomfortable, thinking back on what Meredith and him had been through with the divorce and everything. The whole hospital knew their personal life.

Derek helped her unload Delia out of the car into the stroller and got her covered with a blanket and ready to go. The walked hand in hand, ready to face whatever or whomever was behind the big glass doors of the hospital.

Meredith and Derek got many welcome smiles and hellos. But to every good reaction, there was a pained bad one. There were so many stares and points, Meredith didn't know what to do. She chose to just ignore it all, but it was still putting a heavy feeling on her heart.

They quickly entered the elevator, and rode quietly up to the floor where Miranda's office was. They could see her through the glass, talking on her cell phone. They silently waited outside the door until she was done and came to usher them in.

"Hello Meredith! I'm so glad to see you. I take it your doing better?" Dr. Bailey said with a smile on her face as she gave Meredith a quick hug.

"Yes. I'm doing very well actually. I have a note from my therapist for you, and Derek has been staying at the house with me helping out also. I feel so much better than I did a couple of weeks ago. I hope that what happened does not change your opinion on me. I was going through such a hard time. I want to change myself though. Delia needs me." She replied as she took a seat next to Derek on the couch facing her desk.

Dr. Bailey nodded in agreement as she took a look at the letter from the therapist. "Okay so, I have an opening in the daycare starting tomorrow if you would like to come back. I am looking forward to it."

"Yes, that sounds great. I will see you tomorrow for work then." Meredith said as she stood up.

Miranda nodded to Meredith as she and Derek made their way out of the office with Delia fast asleep. They were walking towards the elevator, when her mouth parted to speak, but she decided against it.

"What?" Derek said. "I know you were going to say something. Spill it." He laughed, catching her off guard.

"No. You will think its stupid…" She said as she quickly started to walk towards the elevator.

"Mer, just tell me. Nothing you say is ever stupid." He replied.

"I was wondering if you had checked on Rose, or if you needed to before we left. I mean as much as I'm mad about what happened, you still are her doctor. Has she woken up yet?" Mer asked, concerned.

"I need to go order some tests, she still hasn't woken up from the coma yet. I don't know if she's going to Mer." Derek said as he escorted her into the elevator and pushed the button for the ICU floor.

"Okay. Let's stop by really quickly. Derek please hurry." She said.

Derek led Meredith towards Rose's room, and as he turned to enter, he motioned for Meredith to stay outside the door. She looked in to see a nearly unrecognizable girl, covered in scars and bandages and wrapped in tubes. She was speechless. If She would have never yelled at Rose that night, Rose wouldn't have run off and maybe she would have been ok. She looked over and studied the man that was sitting next to her bed and holding her hand. Poor guy. He had no idea that Rose's doctor was also her ex that she had been having an affair with. He though he was the only one. Would he have stayed by her side if he knew the truth?

The man looked up and Meredith watched him exchange some words with Derek, probably about her coma and her condition. The man suddenly choked up with tears, dropping his hands to his head. Derek had a blank stare as he made his was back into the hallway.

"Mer, lets run by the grocery store and go home. I want to cook dinner for us tonight." He said with a smile. He really wanted to make everything up to Meredith.

"Ok." She said and then stayed quiet during the walk to the elevator. "So…How's Rose?" She said with hesitation. She just wanted to know.

"She's still unresponsive, but I'm gonna get some test run today and they said they would call when the results come in, but it doesn't look good."

Meredith nodded in response as she pressed the button to go to the ground floor. The walk to the car was a quiet one, with thoughts of Rose, and all that had happened running through her mind. But she would never let Derek know. Besides, she started work again tomorrow, so she would have her mind on other things anyway.