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Derek was checking on patients, with his resident Dr Wilson, and his interns, but all Derek could think about was Meredith. He didn't even hear Mark calling him; he was stood at the nurse's station, when Mark caught up with him.
"Finally Shep, I've been calling you for about two minutes" Mark says, flashing a smile at the nurses.
"Sorry, I've been distracted"
"I noticed, does it have something to do with a skinny, dirty blonde who goes by the name of Meredith Grey"
"You heard"
"well the hospital gossip is that Ellis Grey daughter is the new neuro attending that Richard's been raving about, and the only daughter I remember Ellis Grey having a certain blonde, who you have always been in love with" Mark doesn't realise that Meredith is standing behind him at that point. Meredith puts her finger to her lips, telling Derek not to say anything. Mark turns his attention to the nurses, seeing a nurse that he hasn't seen before.
"You're new, I'm Mark Sloan" he says to the nurse.
"I know I've heard" she says to him matter of factly.
"Well, I'm the welcoming committee; do you want to go out for a drink tonight?" Mark says flirting with the nurse.
"Sorry, I'm married" she says flashing her wedding ring at him before walking off.
Meredith giggles, at seeing Mark being turned down, Mark turns around, and sees Meredith before pulling her into his arms, and it had been 5 years since he had last seen her.
"Grey, I missed you, where did you disappear too?" he asked, as Meredith pulled away.
"So, you still man whoring around, Mark. Something's never changes" Meredith says. "I'd been living in the Hampton's and spent the last year in Los Angeles finishing my residency and now I'm here"
"The gang's all back together" Mark says
"Not exactly" Meredith says.
"Grey, you and Shep will not be able to stay away from each other for more than a month, than the whole hospital will hear you're screaming orgasms" Mark says, causing Meredith to look down at her hands.
"Mark, that enough. We've got cases to work on, come on Dr Grey" Derek says, seeing that Mark had just embarrassed her.
"I'll see you later Mark" Derek says, leading Meredith in the direction of the elevators.
"You know what he's like Mer, he hasn't changed" Derek says to her
"I can see that" Mer giggles.
Meredith scrubs in with Derek later on that day, he wants to see what she had, how good she was, so he let her perform the procedure. The surgery went flawlessly, and Derek was impressed by what he saw. He also let her talk to the family after the surgery; he could see how good she was with people. He was always amazed at how she turned out to be the person she was, consider how cold hearted her mother was towards her. He always told her that she was different from Ellis that she would be a better surgeon than her mother, because she was kind, caring and compassionate which meant that she would be an extraordinary surgeon. That was the one thing that made in fall in love with her in the first place and even more so after he met her mother. While in med school, he heard so much about the great Ellis Grey, about what a wonderful person she was, and he always looked up to her, respected her, that was until he met her and saw how she treated her daughter.
It was the end of Meredith's first day, she was coming out of the elevator on the phone to Kathleen, when she saw Derek sitting down on one of the chairs on his laptop, she told Kathleen that she would be home in 30 minutes, and she knew that Kathleen wanted to see Derek on her trip to Seattle. She didn't tell Derek that Kathleen was in Seattle, since Kath wanted to surprise him. Has she walked over to him, Derek lifted his head up from his laptop, and flashed her, his mcdreamy smile. She felt herself go weak at the knees and her breath catch, he still had that effect on her, and she knew that he always would.
"Hey" she said, has she sat down in the chair next to him.
"So, how was your first day? How was it working with one of the best neurosurgeon on the west coast?" he asked, cockily.
"You're still have cocky has ever, I can see why you and Mark are best friends." She answered smiling.
"You wouldn't have me any other way" he said, confidently.
"And the ego is still there. We always said that that we would work together, I guess finally we are" Mer said.
"Yeah we did" Derek said quietly
"That was a long time ago, Derek. We were young"
"And in love. You know we can still have our dreams Meredith, after everything life has put us through don't we deserve them" he said.
"I meant what I said Derek, it's too late" Meredith reminds him of the conservation they had the previous year.
"It doesn't have to be, Meredith" Derek says reaching out to stroke her cheek.
Meredith stands up "Derek…don't" she says has she goes to walk away. Derek grabs her arm, spinning her around to look at him. Meredith is biting her lower lip, like she always did when she was feeling nervous.
"Don't what, Meredith…do this" he says has he pulls her close to him, lifts her head up, and before she knows it his lips are on hers. She forgets everything, expect for the fact that Derek is kissing her. Her head is screaming at her to pull away, but she can't. In that moment they are Meredith and Derek, before Addison, before their affair, before Adam. She feels her arms snake up around his neck, has his tongue beg entry which she grants, oblivious to anyone around them. They stay like that until Derek pulls away, breathlessly.
"I love you, Meredith" he says gently.
"I gotta go" she says, walking quickly out of the hospital, and gets in her car.
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