I'm sorry that you had to wait so long, but school started and I was really busy. But now I found time to write and here it is!

But I have good and sad news for you.

First the good news: None of my stories are abandoned (my co-writer is just not in the country at the moment, which is why I cannot post another chapter at my other story).

Second the bad news. This is the second last chapter of this story. But I have great plans for the last chapter!

But now, first of all, you should read this one! So have fun! :D

Renee's POV

Derek has been gone for hours. Thinking about it, I started to notice that I haven't seen him since last night when he left. Now it was already evening and he was still not here. I started to worry about him. I mean, what is if something had happened to him? What is if he is badly injured or dead lying in a roadside ditch? Or much worse, what if he remembered everything and scooted? Or what if these crazy people from the hospital have kidnaped him or what if they have convinced him of their story and he was now on their side? What would happen with me? I still loved him so much! I need him! But I wasn't able to live without him! What should I do? I couldn't call the police, because he wasn't long enough gone and furthermore they definitely wouldn't even help me! And additionally who knows which contacts these crazy doctors have! I'm pretty sure that they have already treated more than one police officer!

I just didn't know anymore what I should do. I was totally confused and worried.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Hopefully, I jumped off the couch, ran to the door and opened it. When I saw who was standing in front of the door, my heart was in my mouth. I immediately had a bad feeling, actually I had it already in the morning, when I think about it. I had just suppressed and brushed it off the whole time. But now it came back and the reason for it was that two police officers were standing in front of me. They were standing in front of me and I wasn't able to do anything.

"Are you Dr. Renee Collier-Shepherd?" asked the female police officer.

"Yes, that is me. Are you here because of my husband?" I asked nervously and hopefully.

"May we come inside? We want to talk to you about this." the officer continued.

"Yes, of course. Please come inside." I answered and let them come inside. We set down around the small table that this hotel room had. Luckily this was a suite with two rooms.

"Is he dead?" I asked timid. My voice was more or less absent.

"Who? If you mean Dr. Shepherd? He is not dead." the police officer answered me.

"Then he is injured?" I continued asking.

"No, he is also not injured." she answered me again.

"Why are you here then?" I asked. I really had to tear everything out of them.

"We are here because of you." the female officer said.

"Why? What did I do?" I asked.

"You are under arrested for kidnapping Dr. Derek Shepherd and for repeated falsification of documents," the male police officer said.

Horrified, I stood up. I wanted to run away, to flee, but I couldn't. I mean how could they even say something like this? I was totally shocked. Before I knew what was happening I had handcuffs on my wrists and I got marched off. Derek was standing in the door. He had a satisfied grin on his face.

"How could you do this?" he asked me horrified and angry and just totally different then he has ever been.

"What did I do to you? When you were in D.C., we loved each other and then you just ran away! You chickened out and you used your wife as an excuse! I couldn't stand for that!" I yelled at him.

"Calm down, Dr. Collier!" the male officer warned me.

"A s*** I will do!" I yelled and started to deal out blows right and left. But this didn't help me. Instead of letting me go, the officers tighten their hold around my arms and brought me faster outside and into their police car. They brought me directly to the police station and into an interrogation room.

~2 hours later~

"So Dr. Collier! Tell us now why you had kidnapped Dr. Derek Shepherd!" the inspector asked me.

"I won't tell you anything without my lawyer!" I yelled at him.

"You have the choice. Either you answer all of our questions or you will come into solitary confinement, immediately!" he continued.

"You cannot do this to me. I know my rights and it is my damn right to call my lawyer!" I said once again. I won't put up with this. This was humiliating and against the law.

"Your lawyer won't be able to help you. What you said to Dr. Shepherd that you have kidnapped him that counts as a confession and considering what you have done in the past, this is enough to put you behind bars lifelong!" the inspector said.

"A s*** you can do and I don't have to do anything!" I said once more. I crossed my arms in front of my chest and started to look defiantly. If they think that I would tell them anything then they are kidding themselves. I would do nothing. Absolutely nothing. They could go sit on a tuck!

This continued for a while before they brought me into my prison cell.

~The next day~

On the next day, they came pretty early in the morning and took me with them. They brought me back into the interrogation room. This time my parents and Paul were there.

"What did you do this time?" my mother asked me immediately. My mother and my father, both had this really disappointed and contemptuous and deeply saddened look in their eyes. I couldn't look at them. I was so embarrassed. They have really liked Derek. With him, they have seen me for the first time. They were so proud of me when I brought him home. And now? I couldn't look them in their eyes! This was just impossible.

Slowly, I went to the chair at the other side of the table and sat down. I am looking straight ahead, facing the table in front of me.

"At least, tell us what you have done this time! Speak, baby!" my father yelled at me. I said nothing and faced the table. I was so disappointed. This was exactly the opposite of what I have wanted. Of course, I wanted that my parents see me, but they should love me and not hate me. On the other hand they now finally saw who I really was. They saw me and I was proud because of that. I had managed this, they saw me.

"Mr. and Mrs. Collier, I need to ask you to leave now, please. Visiting hour is up. Dr. Walker, you can stay here and talk with your client in private." the police officer, who was standing the whole time in the corner, was now saying.

"You will straighten this out again, Renee!" my mother said now, before my parents stood up and left the room. The officer followed them.

~2 weeks later~

Today the trial started. Paul had of course taken my mandate. He had puzzled out a strategy with which he could hopefully bring me out. He would spin the story in a way that it would like if Derek would have asked me to do all of this. Paul had tampered letters that should prove this. They could only discharge me.

With a smug smile I was leaded into the courtroom. Everybody else was already here. No, the judge was not here. She came inside, right after I have taken a seat.

"All rise for her honor Dr. Smith!" someone said. We stood up and the typically open ceremony with the swearing-in of the petit jury and all that stuff started. Most of the time my thoughts were by my statement. I had thought about the questions that they could ask me and I have contrived answers for them. I had done this days ago and tonight I woke up pretty early and since this I always repeated this answers again and again in my head. I could not make a mistake. Not even a little one. Because otherwise I and also maybe Paul would be in a hard luck.

Then I got questioned. I said everything as planned. After me they also questioend my parents, Derek's mother, our friends, Derek's sister Amelia, and his other sisters were also here, his friends from the hospital and sometime also him. They wanted to examine everyone else first and Derek and Meredith at the end. So Derek got called into the witness stand,

"I call Dr. Derek Christopher Shepherd into the witness stand!" Derek stood up, went to the witness stand and got questioned.

"These letters, are these your writing?" the prosecutor asked him.

"It looks like my handwriting, but I have never written them!" Derek answered.

"You just want to slander my client! Because the truth is that you are the criminal one here!" Paul said.

"That is not true! She was angry and then she kidnapped me!" Derek defended himself.

"I saved you and this is your way to say thank you?" I asked him now.

"You are not the one being questioned, Dr. Collier!" the judge reminded me.

"I'm sorry, me your honor!" I said and kept quiet. They continued questioning Derek. After sometime, Meredith was on the stand.

"Dr. Grey, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?"

Meredith raised her hand, "I swear." They brought her in the wheelchair onto the witness chair because she had a cast and because she generally was too weak to walk.

"So how was it back then between Dr. Shepherd and you? He went to D.C. or how was this exactly?" the prosecutor asked Meredith.

"Yes. Derek got the offer to lead the President's Brain Mapping Initiative and he wanted my kids and me to move with him to D.C, but I didn't want to come with him. Seattle was my home and I didn't want to go away from there. I had seen it with my parents, how a marriage could be destroyed because one of the spouses would move with the other one into another city also as I didn't want it. I don't want for our marriage to end like that." she started.

"So Dr. Shepherd moved alone to D.C.?" the prosecutor asked.

"No, first he decided to stay with us in Seattle. But he blamed me for that, he said that he gave away D.C. for me and we argued a lot. One night, we argued really badly and he decided to move to D.C. and the kids and I stayed in Seattle." she continued.

"And how did it continue then? Did you see each other regularly or how was it back then? When did Dr. Shepherd come back?" the attorney asked again.

"We wanted to see each other regularly, but you need to know that we both work full time and then I also had the kids with me in Seattle and it didn't really work to see each other regularly. And well, it got worse that one evening Derek was suddenly standing in front of our door. When he arrived we first fought but then we made up. He realized what he really wanted and that were the kids and me. He wanted to come back home." she talked and talked.

Then the prosecutor asked her about the letter. "Do you think that Dr. Derek Shepherd has written this letter?" she asked her.

"No, I'm totally sure that he didn't. Derek loves me and he wanted to be together with me. We even wanted another baby. He would have never ever write this letter. He would have never started something with another woman." Meredith answered.

It continued going on and on and on like this and that made me angry. Then, I couldn't stand it anymore, and I started to yell at her, "You say that you have loved Derek, but why did you then just pull the plug on him? You didn't even give him the chance to wake up. You just gave up on him!" The judge told me to shut up.

"You are plain sick in your head. You kidnapped my husband, because you believed in your sick head that he would love you!" Meredith retorted.

"Oh, really? Derek loves me. He really loves me. He married me." I yelled again at her. The judge stopped me once again, but I didn't bother to listen to what she said.

"Derek only got involved with you because he had amnesia. Which is also the reason why this trial had to happen sooner rather than later. It is the same with the neuro scientist that you had kidnapped back then." Meredith now yelled at me.

"Stop talking about things that doesn't involve you!" I yelled again. Paul tried to calm me down but he wasn't able to. I needed to let my anger out.

"Tell me, do you get some sort of elation when you kidnap men? Does this give you something like a thrill? Why are you doing this, Renee?" Meredith asked me again. This was the final straw.

"You don't even know what you are talking about! You don't know how it is when you are overshadowed by your own sister your whole life, when no one sees you or recognizes you and when you always get teased by your classmates. You have no idea how this is. Derek was the first man, after my fiancé, who had accepted me the way I was, who gave me the feeling to be seen and to be loved. But then he left. I couldn't let that happen. I knew that he loved me and I wasn't going to just let him die! Paul and I had planned this perfectly! I had someone investigate on you and told me about Derek's accident. When you pulled the plug on him, I arranged for the machines got turned back on and that get Derek to be moved to D.C. Paul and I had tampered your divorce papers and he also got a new passport for Derek. When Derek woke up and started with the PT, we got married. Everything was perfect but then you came. You destroyed everything and this is the reason why I will make your life a living hell and why I will kill you!" I yelled at her.

"We will consider this as a confession of yours!" the judge said. Only then I realized what I had just done. I had just signed my own prison term and Paul's, too. Shocked, I turned to Paul's direction. He was staring at me with a horrified, angry and disappointed look. This was it. This was my end.