Thanks for the reviews! I meant to update twice today because I stayed home sick but I slept most of the day, then did my homework and studied a bit. But here's the update, sorry if it's not the best.

Disclaimer: If I owned Grey's, I would be updating instead of studying. Needless to say, I don't.

Once I stopped crying, Derek slowly moved his shoulder from under my head to look at me

"So what do you want to do today?" Derek asked as we made our way back to his car.

"I really wouldn't mind if you'd rather do something else today. I'm sure you've got plenty of friends your age you'd rather hang out with."

"Friends? Hah. I'm a surgeon. And my best friend is a surgeon. I don't have much time to make friends. I haven't been in Seattle very long, I'm from New York."

"Oh, what made you move all the way out here?" He opens my door for me and I sit down as he runs to his door and gets in.

"Seattle Grace is an amazing hospital and the intern program is one of the best there is, how could I not come?" He looks to me as he turns the key in the ignition.

"True. Well, I really don't know what you'd want to do today. If you haven't been here very long, you obviously haven't had to see the sights, right?"

"Are you offering to be my tour guide?"

"Sure, let's go," I smiled as he sped out of the parking lot.

"Okay, take your next left," I instruct as he does as I told, "you can park in here," I smile as he parks and turns off the key.

We get out of the care as he looks up, "you took me to the Space Needle?"

"What? It's a tourist attraction. Plus, it is actually very beautiful. I love coming here, I have every since I was a kid."

"Okay, let's go up," he smiled and walked to the ticket booth. "Hi, can I have two tickets for the observation deck?"

The line to go up was long, as was usual for any Friday afternoon. We stood in silence as the elevator to go up came closer and closer.

"So, where else are we going today?"

"Well, I was thinking we could take a quick ferry ride over to Bainbridge Island and walk around for a little bit, then come back and go to Zeeks Pizza, which is just a couple blocks away, and bring that up to the park by my house and eat there, or go to Ivars by the pier because you can watch the ferryboats go back and forth and it's nice."

"You know, I have a thing for ferryboats," he said softly as he put his hand on the small of my back to lead me into the elevator. The elevator was a little crowded, so I was resting with my back against him, his hands barely touching my arms, yet managing to make it rather difficult for me to breathe. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding in as we left the elevator. We both walk silently out to the observation deck and look out at the city. "It's beautiful," he said softly.

"Mhm," I agreed.

"I'm going to go get a water... do you want anything?" He asked as he turned towards the door.

"Um, no thank you."

"Okay, I'll be right back."

Five minutes later, Derek returned with his bottle of water and leaned against the rail as he looked over the city. "How often do you come here?" He asked, looking over at me as the wind blew my hair into my face.

"Hm," I thought about it for a moment, "sometimes more than others but I'd say about every other week."

"It's peaceful," he said as he tucked my hair behind my ear, causing me to shift uncomfortably. "Oh, sorry."

"No, it's uh, no problem." I turned away and looked to the city. "This is my favorite part to look out at."

He smiled at me and we joined a comfortable silence until two tourists asked Derek to take their picture. I watched as the happy couple posed with the city behind them and Derek took the picture.

"Are you ready to leave?" I asked him as he came back over to me.

"Can I just stay here forever?" he laughed. "Yeah, I'm ready when you are."

We took the ferry over to Bainbridge and spent an hour there. We board the ferry and go to the outside on the top deck, looking out at Seattle. "Thanks for today," I say softly.

"You were the tour guide," he pointed out.

"Yeah but I mean… with Adam and everything, then staying with me all day. I just, thank you. I couldn't repay you for how much you've helped me."

"I was just happy you were safe today." He smiled down at me and brought his lips down, gently caressing mine. "Uh, sorry it's just…"

"I get it," I smile at him. It felt so damn right. "I think I'm going to tell someone."

"About the kiss? Because…"

"No," I cut him off, "about Adam. It needs to stop and that's the only way to be sure. Tomorrow I'm going to my counselor at school; they can contact the authorities or whatever."

"I'm sorry you have to go through this."

"None of it is your fault. I'm here, thanks to you." I smile at him. "But on a better note, where do you want to eat?"

"I'd be content with just about anything."

"Well that's helpful," I laugh. "Seafood or pizza?"

"I actually haven't had pizza in quite some time."

"An intern that hasn't had pizza in a while?" I laugh.

"Yeah well, I like healthy food."

I laugh again and smile, "pizza it is."

After we get off the ferry, he drives back by the Space needle and I give him directions to Zeeks. We go in and order the Puget Pounder, then make our way back up Queen Anne Hill towards my house. I run in and grab a blanket, and then we walk down the hill to the park with our pizza.

"You're lucky to have such an amazing view this close to your house."

"Yeah, it's my favorite part… I come here almost every night." I grab a slice of pizza and scoot a little closer to him, hoping he didn't notice.

"This is amazing pizza," he said as he took another bite.

"Yeah, it's my favorite."

"Uh so is your mom going to be coming home soon? Because I don't think she'd like me sitting at the park eating pizza with her daughter."

"She wouldn't care. I mean, she might pretend to, but I'm the least of her worries. To answer your question, she won't be home. She sleeps at the house maybe one night a week but it's usually only on her nights off. This morning she told me not to expect her home tonight."

"Oh, I'm sorry," he said sadly. "I didn't know."

"It's fine, really. Sometimes it hurts… to look at other families and see that bond, but that's how it's always been."

"You deserve more."

"Eh. And I bet you're wondering about my dad but not wanting to bring it up, yes?"

"Well… I guess."

"He left when I was five, just packed his bags and left as though it was nothing. I don't remember much, but I do remember that it changed everything."

"I'm so sorry."

"You shouldn't be. There's nothing anyone can do about the past so why dwell on it?" I shivered involuntarily and he pulled me closer, wrapping his arm around my body.

Sittin' here, on this lonely dock
Watch the rain play on the ocean top
All the things I feel I need to say
I can't explain in any other way

I need to bold
Need to jump in the cold water
Need to grow older with a girl like you
Finally see you were naturally
The one to make it so easy when you show me the truth
Yeah, yeah I'd rather be with you
Say you want the same thing too

So the lyrics don't really match, sorry about that. But I need to go study, then sleep and I doubt I'll have time to update tomorrow. R&R!