Mama Shep, speaks to both Meredith and Mark, and finally discovers what happened between Meredith and Derek all those years ago. Enjoy!

Meredith walks into Diane's room, with Adam walking beside her.

"Hey Meredith, look at you Adam, all grown up. Thanks for being there for Derek through this entire time Meredith, he doesn't realise how much he relies on you."

"Diane, Derek would be fine without me"

"Meredith, it mom, it always have been. No it wouldn't, these past few months, since you came back into his life, he has been the Derek he was all those years ago when you guys first met. I never asked you what happened Meredith, and I don't want to know. All I know is this, my son loves you so much Meredith, I see the way he looks at you, it reminds me of his father. Meredith, a love like that only comes once in a lifetime, so grab it while you can. I want to see my son happy with the woman he loves and his son" Diane says, leaving Meredith dumbfounded. "I know Adam is my son's Meredith, I've known it since the first day I saw Adam when he baby, he was the image of Derek. You need to tell him, Meredith" she adds gently. Meredith just sits there for a moment, processing the information, she says quietly.

"I know but what if he hates me"

"He might be upset at first, Meredith, but he won't hate you. Anyway he will have me to answer too if he does" Diane says to her, taking Meredith's hand. She can see that Meredith is terrified of telling him.

"Well, can I have a cuddle from my grandson" Diane asks. Meredith passes Adam over to her, so she can have a quick hug. None of them see Derek stood in the doorway, watching them. The words that Mark said to him, hit him hard, she was always the one he turned too, she had put up with a lot of shit from him over the past 13 years, and she still loves him. He was upset and a little angry that she had never told him about Adam, but it was up to her, he knew that she would tell him when she was ready to tell him.

Derek walked into the room, Meredith felt him enters, she didn't look at him, he looked at he, noticing that Meredith was refusing to look him. He walked over to his mother.

"Hey mom, how are you feeling?"

"A little tired, just having a chat with Meredith"

"Mom, I'm going to take Adam out for some breakfast, he needs to eats" Meredith says leaning over and giving Diane a quick kiss.

"Derek, why don't you accompany them" Diane says to him.

"I need to talk to Adam alone, mom. I'm going to take him to the diner across from the hospital." Meredith says, just before she leaves the hospital room, Derek follows her out, and grabs her arms, pulling her towards him.

"Let me go, Derek" Meredith spits at him, Derek lets her arm go.

"Mer…" Derek starts before Meredith walks away from him; Derek runs his hand through his hair, not noticing Mark walking up beside him.

"She not happy with you, Derek" Mark says stating the obvious.

Derek walks away in the opposite direction, while Mark goes into see Diane, he hadn't had the chance to see her since she woke up. When he walked in the room, she was sat up on the bed, with her eyes closed. Mark sat in the chair which Meredith vacated not five minutes before, and took her hand in his. Diane opened her eyes, and looked at him.

"Typical isn't it" she says to him.

"What's that mom?"

"I haven't seen or heard from you in five years Mark, or my son in a year after a 9 year absence, and has soon has I have an accident, you all show up. If I knew that what it took I would have had an accident years ago" she tells him, Mark laughs. "It not funny Mark Eric Sloan"

"I'm sorry mom"

"Thanks for being for there for Meredith after that idiot son of mine"

"How did you know?"

"Meredith told me, when she first moved to the Hampton's, when I told her Derek was married to Addison. What happened between them Mark?"

"It not really my place to tell you, it up to them"

"Mark, we both know either of them will talk about it, and I told Meredith I didn't want to know, which wasn't exactly true, so please Mark, what happened" she asks him.

"Okay, but you didn't hear it from me" Mark says, Diane nods. "It was at the party that we had celebrating our graduation. I don't know exactly what happened; just that apparently Meredith saw Derek and Addison kissing. I found her outside my apartment later that night; I said that I was going to call Derek, knowing that he had been worried about her, that when she told me, what she saw. The next day I thought that I had convinced her to go and see Derek, knowing that he would have never cheated on her, he loved her too much. Derek told me last year that apparently Addison had told Meredith, that they had been having an affair, for about 6 months. You know Meredith, she has never been much of a talker, and I guess she ran" Mark tells her.

"I never did understand why he married her" she says.

"I think he wanted to get married, and she was practically throwing herself at him. She knew that he didn't love her, but I don't think she cared."

"So, what is this girl like that he seeing now, what her name?"

"Rose"

"Yes, Rose"

"She is okay, I guess. I don't really have much to do with her unless its in the OR"

"Is she a doctor?"

"She a scrub nurse"

"A nurse, so he has gone from a doctor to a nurse. What does Meredith think of her?"

"Honestly, she can't stand her; I know that all of Meredith friend's calls her mchorseface. I know that Rose hates their friendship especially has that the first person Derek turns to is Meredith. You should have seen her reaction the day with we were told about your accident, the only person that Derek could see that day was Meredith; they've always told each other I love you, and she stormed out. If I wasn't so worried about you, it would have been quite funny." Mark tells her, looking closely at her reaction.

"So, he doesn't love her than" she asks, Mark takes particular notice to her tone, the one that say please tell me he doesn't.

"No…he is still in love with Mer"

"So, what is actually going on between Derek and Meredith than, Mark. I can see how much Derek relies on her and the love they have for each other, so why is he seeing someone else, especially after Addison and everything"

"Something about them being friends which is a load of bull" Mark says before noticing Diane glaring at him, which he looks away from her.

"Has Derek said anything to you about Adam?"

"No he hasn't. Why?"

"Mark, can you do me a favour" she asks

"Of course, mom. What is it?"

"Meredith and Derek need to talk, I can tell they both putting it off. If I get Kathleen to have Adam for the night, can you book them a restaurant, somewhere that they can talk?"

"You playing matchmaker mom"

"No, like I said they need to talk about something"

"Okay, I know just the place. I don't know how to convince them though"

"I'll get Kathleen to work on Meredith, you just work on Derek"

Mark gives Diane a hug and a kiss before leaving her room, and going to find Derek. Nancy tells him that Derek has gone to the canteen with Amy. He books them a table to two at a restaurant which he knows that Derek would like. It is just convincing him, in the end it is Diane who convinces Derek to go, telling him that whatever is bothering the both of them, it needs to be sorted. Meredith isn't has difficult to convince, she know that this is the right time, she is scared but it not about her or Derek, it is about their son.