A Healing Heart

Chapter 35

Her phone screen read, "Did you tell Derek yet?", and a million scenarios were chasing his thoughts as he thought what the text could mean. Surely if Meredith had something urgent or concerning to tell him, she would, but now he wasn't so sure. The text was from her mother and the fact that he was the subject of the text meant that whatever she had to tell him would concern him also so he would ask her after her shower.

They got home just 4 nights ago and Meredith was doing well, the three of them were overjoyed to be back in their apartment and not in a hospital room which they had spent far too much time in over the last year and he sincerely hoped that that time was all they would ever spend there. The chief had given them both 4 weeks away from the hospital and with his intern exam coming up shortly, Derek was studying as much as he could away from the hospital with Mark sending him cases that he was working on throughout the day to help him, the chief had told him that whichever cases Dr. Sloan was forwarding to him would also add up on his case load so that he would have enough hours on all the specialties banked up. And as for Meredith, she was being given the opportunity to do phone consultations so that she didn't have to be in hospital but so should could be kept up to speed, she was also enjoying helping Derek study and she gave him a lot of her study cards that she had used to previous test year for her own intern exam.

"I'm thirsty da-dewek." Ellyse giggled as she ran into her parents bedroom, still calling him by his name since she found it out.

"Ellyse, you aren't supposed to call me my name, how many times do I have to tell you." he smiled.

"But you and mommy call me my name." she argued slyly, her cheeky personality was one hundred percent shining through this week and they had had quite a few meltdowns due to her behaviour.

He looked at her and smirked, her response was witty and true.

"It's not the same." he shook his head.

"Ok Dewek" she teased him.

Knowing he wasn't going to win, he chased her into the kitchen and got her some juice, apple, her favourite, just like her mom. His mind was taken away from his previous worrying as he chatted with his silly 5-year-old as they both waited for Meredith. They were going for dinner at the new Indian restaurant that wasn't too far from their apartment. Just as he heard the shower turn off he turned back to Ellyse.

"Ok baby so why don't you go and get changed so we can go for dinner and then daddy will braid your hair." he touched her shoulder as he crouched down to her level.

"Okay." she skipped down to her bedroom and Derek walked down to theirs.

He sat on the bed and waited for Meredith to come out of the bathroom and he noticed that her phone was gone from the bedside table, where it was, so she has came out and gone back in, with her phone. He felt even more curious and after a couple minutes the curiosity got the better of him so he knocked on the bathroom door.

"Meredith?" he asked, his voice straight.

"Yeah? I'll be out in a minute." she replied.

True to her word, she was.

"What's up?" she asked timidly as he just looked into her eyes, she could tell he had something to say?

"Do you have anything to tell me?" he tilted his head, a tactic he knew she couldn't avoid.

"Uhh- I don't think so?" she replied back, her eyes flickering from his eyes to his hair. Her response sounded more like a question than a statement. He studied her for a couple of moments and could tell she was getting uncomfortable and that wasn't his intention.

"Are you sure? I saw a text from your mom come through whilst you were in the shower, I wasn't trying to impose but I saw my name and now your phone has gone from the table." he questioned her gently, avoiding a confrontation.