This is my favourite chapter for one reason and one reason only. When I wrote this, Meredith confront a certain someone, was something that I want her to do on the show, and I still wish she did. Please don't hate me for this.
Over the next few months, they find their relationship deepens, they were always each other best friends, but their friendship has taken them both to new levels. They are both still in love with each other, and were often the subject of hospital gossip, until Derek started dating a nurse, which helps to put an end to all the gossip about them. Although this hasn't changed their relationship at all and at the moment this works for them. Meredith is stood by the nurse's station filling out chart, when she gets paged to Derek's office, she wanders what is going on, and it is unusual for Derek to page her, in the middle of the afternoon, especially to his office. She has a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach, she rushes to his office. Has she enters his office, she sees Mark there, both of them looking devastated. She indistinctively rushes to Derek side,
"Derek, what's happened" she asked, her voice full of panic, seeing Derek with tears down his face.
"Its mom" he says, fresh tears running down his face.
"oh god" she says, pulling Derek close to her, holding him while he breaks down in her arms. She lets him cry in her arms, until he is ready to tell her what happened. She can tell that he is no fit state to tell her what happened, she looks across at Mark, who is looking daze, but more coherent than Derek.
"Mark, what happened?" she asked.
"There was a car accident, Meredith, head on collision" Mark says numbly.
"Mom?" Mer asks.
"She at Mount Sinai, it doesn't look good Mer. Kath says that she is in surgery, but they don't think she will pull out of it" Mark says.
There is a knock at the door, none of them wants to see anyone else, at the moment, and they just want to be alone. The office door opens and in come a nurse, who sees Derek clinging to Meredith, Rose is not happy, but she can tell something happened, by the look on their faces, she walks over and sits down next to Derek, and tries to get his attention, but he takes no notice, he doesn't even feel her take his free hand. The only other person that he is aware of is Meredith. Meredith shifts on the sofa, not liking the look of accusation in Rose eyes, Meredith goes to pull away, has she does, Derek removes his hand from Rose's grip, and wraps his arms around her waist and says quietly, but not quiet enough.
"Mer, don't leave me" he pleads.
"I'm not going anywhere Der, I need to make a phone call, I need someone to pick Adam up" she says, he releases his grip on her.
"Der…Der" Rose says
"It's Derek, Rose," he snapped at her, no-one other than Meredith is allowed to call him Der.
"Okay, what happened?" Rose asked.
"It's got nothing to do with you, Rose, it's a family matter," he says harshly, wishing that she would go away.
"Meredith's here" she pointed out.
"Mer is family" he said, has Meredith walked back into his office. "Did you manage to find someone?"
"My neighbour, I need to book flights, and talk to the chief about getting us sometime off" Meredith says, has Derek walks over to her, sits down at his desk and pull Mer onto his lap.
"You don't have to come, Mer," he tells her.
"Yes I do Derek, you need me, and beside she was like a second mother to me" she said, resting her forehead against his.
"I know, thank you, Mer. I love you," he says.
"I love you too" she replies, just has Rose storms out of his office, none of them noticing.
Meredith manages to convince Derek and Mark to go home and pack while she goes to see the chief. Richard tells her to tell Derek and Mark and herself to take off as much time has they need, she thanks the chief, go back to Derek's office, and call the airline and books four seats to New York. She locks up Derek's office, head to the locker room to change out of her scrubs. She walks pass the nurses station and towards the elevator, when she hear Rose calling her name. She really doesn't want to deal with her; she really does not know what Derek sees in her, she looks like a horse, not that she is any threat to her.
"What is it?" Mer says, sounding annoyed, she just wants to pick up her son and get back to Derek.
"I want you to say away from him," Rose says.
"Excuse me" Mer says, not believing what she just heard.
"You heard me, I want you to stay away from him" Rose says.
"That's not your choice, and no offence Rose, you mean nothing to him" Meredith says, actually feeling sorry for her.
"How dare you. If it wasn't for you" Rose started to raise her voice.
"If it wasn't for me, what? Rose, the only reason Derek is with you is because I'm not ready for a relationship yet. I only have to click my fingers and you are history. He loves me, not you. It pathetic really thinking that a man, who is so clearly in love with someone else, actually has one ounce of feelings for you. Rose do us all a favour and go away" with that Mer turns on her heels and gets in the elevator, leaving Rose stood there with her jaw on the floor, fuming.
Derek gets back to his trailer, when he gets a text from Meredith saying that the flights are booked and that she will meet them at the airport. He is so glad that she is coming with them; he wouldn't be able to get through any of this without her. She is his lifeline, he feels a little guilty for what he said to Rose, she was just trying to be supportive but he couldn't talk to her, he doesn't want her. He knows that he is only using her until Meredith is ready. It hurts him when he sees the hurt in Meredith eyes, when she sees him with her, he is aware of what Meredith and her friends call her, Mchorseface. He knows that he has to end it with her, and start trying to get Meredith back. Derek quickly packs a bag, remembering to pick up a photo of him and Meredith taken a couple of years ago, it was the last photo taken of them. He packs it and leaves the trailer just has a cab pulls up, he had to pick up Mark on the way to the airport, neither of them was in the right frame of mind to drive, they both left their cars at the hospital. Both Mark and Derek stay silent on the way to the airport, Derek phone rings, the caller Id flashes Rose, he presses reject and turns his phone off, it Mer needs to get hold of him, she knows to ring Mark's phone.
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