Derek walked in to Zoey's room to check up on her as her doctor and friend. He wasn't sure if she should mention Mark to her. He didn't even know if she knew he was a doctor in the hospital let alone the one that helped restructure her jaw. "Hey, how you doing Zo?" He asked her.

"My face hurts." She said groggily, but with a smile.

Derek chuckled at her. "Don't worry that will go within the next couple of days." He then looked serious at her. "Why are you still with that asshole Zoey? After what he did to you the first time?"

Zoey looked away and just shrugged. "I love him."

"How can you love someone who will put you in hospital?"

"It's not like that Derek. It only happens when he's drunk. Besides, that's only happened twice."

"You may have ended up in hospital twice Zoey, but how many times has he hurt you? Both emotionally and physically?"

She looked away. Zoey knew he was right but couldn't bring herself to admit defeat. She always wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. He always apologised afterwards and she knew he didn't mean it. He just got aggressive when he drank.

"Why won't you leave him Zoey?" Derek asked her. "You told me you would the first time he hit you."

"He loves me and I love him. He doesn't mean it Derek! I told you, it only happens when he's drunk."

"And how often is he drunk? Because I know it's not once a month, not even once a week."

"Shut up, you're wrong! It's not as often as that!"

"Zoey can't you see I'm worried about you? You may have convinced Dr. Torres you were mugged but if she knew the truth, she would also be standing here with me convincing you to leave him, as well as Mark!" As soon as he said that he wished he hadn't. That wasn't how she was going to find out about him fixing her face.

"Yeah well, they don't even know me!" Zoey yelled, not realising who Derek was referring to.

"That's where you're wrong Zoey. Okay, Dr. Torres may not but Dr. Sloan certainly does and I know he'll want you out of that environment straight away."

Zoey lay that stunned. Did he really say Dr. Sloan? Dr. Mark "Manwhore" Sloan? The gorgeous, sexy plastic surgeon she met in a bar in New York five years ago? Derek saw the look on her face when he called him Dr. Sloan and knew what she was thinking. "Yes Zo, after everything he came here looking for me and got a job in the process."

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Mark picked up his charts and walked to the room with his first patient of his shift. He walked in to the room where he saw Derek and his patient look extremely friendly, like they had known each other for years. At that moment, his patient looked up and their eyes met. Right at that moment, it clicked. The reason why Derek and his patient looked like they had been friends for years was because they had been friends for years, well for the past five years. Not only that but he had known Zoey Heart on a more intimate level. The fact that she was here freaked him out. He never thought he would see her again and he had that horrible feeling like something bad was about to happen. He mumbled his apologies and quickly ran out the room, bumping in to Lexie Grey whom he promptly ignored despite her calling his name on several counts. Knowing he was going to regret that, he didn't care; he just had to get out of there. He had operated on her face, the same face that he had stared every day for two weeks. The two eyes he saw sparkle in the moonlight, the face he thought he would never forget. Albeit he hadn't forgotten it, he had just had a memory relapse, which soon returned as soon as he looked in to the most beautiful green eyes he had ever seen. How could he forget? He had been besotted by that face for months afterwards, so how could he forget?

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"That coward!" Zoey exclaimed, furious at his immediate departure.

"It was a bit of a shock Zo." Derek said, trying to reason with her.

"Shock! I'll give him a shock! He operated on my face! He must have had enough time to get over it by now!"

"He might have just realised who you are." Derek told her but soon regretted it as she suddenly went off on a massive rant.

"Just realised?! What do you mean just realised? What are you saying? That he forgot who I was? That bastard! How could he forget about me? A day hasn't gone past when I haven't thought about him! I know it was five years ago and I'm not saying he should always be thinking about me but he should at least have the decency to remember who I am!"

Derek smiled, trying desperately to hide his laughter. Since Derek came to Seattle he and Zoey stayed in touch and remained very good friends, despite what happened between her and Mark. When she came across the country for college two years ago, Derek was the first person she contacted and he was the only person who knew about how her boyfriend treats her. He was still convinced that if it wasn't for Mark's behaviour, Zoey would never have met Justin and she wouldn't be in the hospital right now, recovering from a major surgery.

"Derek, don't you dare laugh at me, it's not funny!" Zoey looked at him stunned that he would even think about laughing, which of course made Derek laugh even more. She sighed. "I hate you, you know that?" She said with a smile.

"You only wish you hated me." Derek laughed. "Do yourself a favour, calm down and get some sleep. You're going to need to rest. I've gotta get going, got other patients to see. Sleep Zoey." He reminded her while kissing her gently on her head. He walked out her room shaking his head and laughing. Mark was going to pay for this and he knew that it wasn't going to be pretty.