Crash
Author: x3Lizinthecity
Disclaimer: I don't own it, and if I make any money off of this story, I promise I'll give it to Shonda.
Summary: A secret marriage, a tragedy, and a whole new set of interns. Can McCouple survive? MerDer, and Maddison, just because I can.
Setting: Slight future. Post-Addek divorce, Meredith and Derek rekindled their romance and six months later, got married. This is, they did this without anyone knowing except, of course, for those people that they told. duh. Soon after, Mark and Addison were married. Now, the interns are almost done with their residency and one of them has agreed to take on her own interns
AN: So, it's been a week. Sorry about that. Let's keep up the reviews, though! This chapter is a little bit longer, and frankly, I like this chapter. It took me a while, but I got it to a place where it fits to my liking. I hope you guys agree!
It was nice, wherever she was, very calm, and very peaceful. No nagging pain at the back of her skull. No whiny interns. No secrets. It was just nice, except, of course, for the fact that she was alone.
"Derek?" she called. "Cristina? George?"
But no one came. Suddenly, the silence wasn't so nice anymore. It was frightening, actually.
"Izzie? Addison? Alex? Mark? Bailey?"
No one was coming. And Meredith wanted nothing more than to wake up now. Because this had to be a dream, right? She wasn't dead, but she wasn't awake. She cried out Derek's name once more and desperately began to fight her way back to life.
Outside her door, Derek had run up just in time to hear her frantic call. He went to open the door, but was blocked by a young doctor.
"I'm sorry, sir, but you can't go in there."
Derek glared at him and spoke menacingly. "Get out of my way."
"I'm sorry, Doctor…Shepherd, but I just can't do that," the young man replied, straining to read Derek's ID tag. Derek brushed him off.
"Whoever you are, get out of my way, now."
At her station, Nurse Debbie was listening intently, while simultaneously recording the episode on her blog. Dr. Shepherd seems to be yelling at that cute intern. Poor boy, he looks like he's about to faint.
"The name's Travis Jones. I'm Dr. Grey's intern, and Dr. Burke said specifically not to let anyone into her room. Now, I've already paged him to let him know that she's awake, but he specifically said that no one is to enter Dr. Grey's room unless a legitimate family member shows up."
"I am her family!" Derek shouted at the boy.
"What?"
"She's my wife! Did you not notice the wedding ring on the chain around her neck, or that her driver's license says Meredith Shepherd?"
Debbie shrieked excitedly and began to type even faster.
"I didn't check the ID; I knew her name, and Dr. Burke knew the rest."
"Let me in now, or I will break every bone in your body."
"Yes, sir, Dr. Shepherd." Travis quickly stepped aside and let Derek in, shutting the door quietly.
"Well," George muttered to Cristina from their spot across the room. "I think people are going to know." Cristina turned around. Every person there was staring at the door to Meredith's room, including Elise, Alexis, Mitchell, and Rebecca.
Meanwhile, Derek had stridden across the room and snatched his wife up before he had even heard the door shut behind him.
"Derek," Meredith whispered, blinking twice before closing her eyes against the light streaming in through her window. He hushed her as he wrapped his arms around her and settled into the small bed. A single tear rolled down his cheek, leaving a wet spot in her hair. "It's okay. I'm here."
"What happened?" she asked, opening her eyes and tucking her head onto Derek's shoulder.
"You…you had a tumor. You collapsed in front of Burke, but he took care of you, and Dr. Ward removed the tumor. You're alright now," he said, his voice cracking. "God, Mer, why didn't you tell me?"
"What was I supposed to say? 'By the way, I'm tired and my neck hurts?' I'm a surgical resident. I'm supposed to be tired, and my neck is supposed to hurt."
"Next time, tell me. Even if it's nothing, I want to know."
Meredith smiled. "Okay, I'll tell you."
"Good," he smiled back as more tears made their way down his face. "I thought I'd lost you" he whispered.
"You weren't there," she said quietly. "I woke up, and you weren't there. I was so scared."
"I'm here now, and I'm always going to be, I promise. You won't ever be alone again."
They cried together then, holding each other until they could no longer tell whose tears were whose on their cheeks, and eventually, each of them slowly fell asleep.
Derek awoke some time later to find Burke at the door.
"I got my page, but when I arrived, Dr. Jones informed me that you were in here, so I figured I'd give the two of you some time. I'm glad to see you made it back."
Derek exhaled heavily. "I never should have left."
"Well, you're here now, and that's what counts. Beside, you had a good reason to leave. Anyway, I'll come back to check up on her later. I trust she's okay?"
"Yeah, her stats are normal, no sign of infection, and she's obviously coherent. Everything seems fine."
"I'll tell the others they can see her this afternoon, after I've examined her." He smiled broadly at the pair before leaving as quickly as he had arrived.
Upon hearing that their friend is awake, the multitude of doctors descend upon Meredith's door, only to be informed that she awoke, was examined, and promptly fell back asleep. Then came the argument over who got to sit and wait with her, and who had to return to their regularly scheduled life. Accusations were made, fingers were pointed, and opinions were loudly announced. It was decided that there would be a rotating flow of doctors in and out of the room for set periods of time.
In the end, thought, it was George that was sitting next to Meredith's bed, watching the news with the sound off. Seeing that she was awake, he immediately jumped up and hugged her.
"I love you," he said, straightening up. "Maybe not the way I used to, but I still love you, and I don't want you to die. I mean, obviously you're going to die eventually," he rambled, "because eventually we'll all die. Hopefully not all at the same time, because that would mean that there was some horrible accident, probably at the hospital. But, I mean, don't die now."
"I think I can do that" Meredith smiled.
"Okay. I'm going to go get Cristina now." He hugged her again and gave her one last look before hurrying out to look for the dark-haired woman.
Yay! She's okay. In the next chapter, Meredith talks to Cristina, Izzie, Alex, Mark, and possibly Addison. I know, a lot of people, but, hey, she's confined to a hospital bed. Pretty much all she can do is sleep and have visitors. Especially people that she likes, ones who could possibly fill in some blank spots in her mind. So, please, review! It motivates me.