Hiding in the Shadows

63. Dr. Wyatt VS Mer

Kathryn Wyatt looked up in surprise at the person who had entered her office.

"Dr. Shepherd? To what do I owe this pleasure?" She asked. She really didn't expect to see him ever again.

"Why haven't you been down to see Meredith?" He demanded.

"Excuse me? She has an appointment this afternoon." She informed him confused.

"Wait...you haven't heard?"

"Heard what? I just got back in town. I was at a conference in Miami...even us shrinks get to go to those not just fancy Neurosurgeons. By the way you look like shit."

Derek washed his hand over his face. He dropped heavily onto the couch.

"Yeah, well I feel like it. It has been a long few days."

"I feel like you are talking in code. What has happened?"

Derek opened his mouth to speak but no words came out.

"I will just find out from Meredith then."

"Not unless you go to her hospital room." He said.

"Why is she in the hospital? What did you do?" Kathryn asked suddenly incensed.

"Me? I didn't do anything to her. Matt did."

Kathryn bolted out of her chair.

"Matt? Is she okay? What did he do, how did he find her?"

"Calm down. He looked her up I guess and came here under the pretense of joining the staff using his given name which is Aaron. He showed up at her house four nights ago when she was on the phone with my mom. My mom heard and called me and I got there...almost too late but she escaped with some broken bones and a missing ovary and spleen and repaired intestines. He however, has what I imagine are several broken bones in his face and some head trauma where I beat him to a pulp and banged his head repeatedly against Mer's hardwood floors."

She nodded towards his hand brace.

"Breaking your hand in the process." She stated. "How do you feel about that?"

"Oh no, no physco babble bullshit with me today. Save it for Mer. She doesn't want to talk about it and she needs to talk about it. If we are going to move forward she has..."

"Wait a minute, hold up, rewind and pause...move forward? You and Meredith Grey? Moving forward?"

"Yes, I admit it. I am in love with Meredith Grey. I told her and she needs time to think or something like that. She seemed open to the possibility of starting over."

"When did you tell her?"

"What?"

"When did you tell her you loved her?"

"After she woke up. I had to tell her a few times before it processed. She is quite interesting when under the influence of drugs. Why?"

Kathryn looked at him, her eyebrow raised.

"So basically it took her almost dying for you to admit your feelings for her. What if that hadn't happened? Then what? Would you have admitted it to her then?"

"That is not the point."

"It is the point. How does she know you didn't tell her out of fear? That when she is recovered you are not going to run scared for the hills on your forty acres?" She asked.

"Are you saying she doesn't trust me?" Derek asked.

"Think back to all your conversations with her from the very beginning. When you didn't acknowledge her existence, when you told her she was unattractive, when you worked her into hunger induced concussion, when you used her while yelling at her and pushing her away, when you slept with her and ran like a scared little boy telling her no one could ever love her...would you trust you? I have heard everything about you since the first day she met you seven months ago...about how much she admired your talent while wondering what dragons you were slaying, wondering what you would look like if you smiled, her happiness when you did...all of it...every moment you ever shared with her, I have heard about. She has loved you from afar for so long...and you just noticed her one month ago when she 'prettied' up."