I Love You In a Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me Kind of Way

I'm Never Once Gonna Leave Your Side

Derek carried Meredith to a chair where no one was around and held her tight, he had no words to say that could ever ease the pain she was feeling. Meredith cried until she couldn't no more, she looked up at Derek and he kissed her forehead. "Thank you," she whispered. "I will never let you go," he said pressing a kiss to her forehead again. Meredith curled up in his arms and laid her head on his chest and drifted to sleep. A little while later a nurse came by and guided Derek to a room where they could rest. When Derek laid her down on the bed Meredith's eyes began to flutter, "Hey beautiful," he said brushing a strand of hair out of her eyes. "Hey," she responded rolling onto her side. "Meredith," Derek said knowing this would be hard for her. "Why don't I go get you a snack and water," he continued. "I can go with you," she said sitting up. Derek took her hand knowing she could be stubborn. Meredith stood up and began to get light headed, "You okay?" Derek asked concerned. "Yeah I'm-" was all Meredith could get out before she collapsed. "Nurse! I need a nurse!" Derek yelled down the hall. Doctors came running and were able to get Meredith to wake back up. Derek stood in the corner of the room with his hands on his face and his eyes welling up. "Derek, where's Derek," she asked frantically. "Mer, I'm right here," Derek said with a sigh of relief and coming to her side. "She's just dehydrated and needs to rest, we are gonna get her to a room and get her an IV," the doctor said.

After the scare, Meredith was awake talking to Derek after a few hours of rest and having some fluids pumped into her. "My mother, she wouldn't want a funeral, I don't know what to do," Meredith said changing the topic. "Well, you could have her cremated and we could put her ashes in a vase," Derek said unsurely. "Or I could throw them in the ocean when we get home." Meredith said. "We can do that," Derek said brushing her hair back. "I'm sorry for scaring you like I did. One minute I was looking into your eyes and the next it was black," Meredith said. "Don't apologize, I should've caught you," Derek said taking her hand in his. "It happened too fast," Meredith replied. "I'm just glad you're okay," he said kissing her lips passionately. "I love you," she said breaking the kiss with a smile. "I love you too," he said caressing her face with the back of his hand. "Come here and lay with me," she said patting the bed next to her and scooting over. Derek crawled in the bed next to Meredith and wrapped his arm around her waist intertwining their fingers. They fell asleep just like that, catching some must needed rest after a long 24 hours.

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The next morning Meredith was awoken by a nurse who came in to check on her. She rolled over to see that Derek wasn't there. "Miss Grey, I'm going to go ahead and remove your IV, everything looks good and you are no longer dehydrated," the nurse said writing a few things down. Meredith held out her arm for the nurse to remove it and was wondering where in the hell Derek went. Once it was removed she grabbed her phone and texted him. "Who are you texting?" she heard a familiar voice ask. "There you are! Where did you go?" Meredith asked a bit relieved. "I just went out and got you coffee and a croissant, I figured you would be hungry when you woke up," he said walking over to her side. "Thank you, this is why I keep you around," she said giggling a bit. Derek smiled and planted a kiss on her pink lips. They laughed and talked and shared a few stolen kisses while they ate breakfast and waited for Mer's discharge papers. "We should probably get my mom cremated tomorrow," Meredith said dulling the mood. "Okay, we can stay till Friday. Take some space from everything and relax a bit before we head back to the chaos. You deserve some R&R anyways," Derek responded putting his hand on Meredith's. "Sounds good, when we get back then I'll only have a few more days of school before Christmas break," Mer said smiling a bit. "Speaking of Christmas, what did you want to do?" Derek asked. "Well, we could have it at my house and we could invite your family, and Izzie and Alex," Meredith said. "It would be our first Christmas together," he said smiling. Meredith gripped his hand tighter and leaned over to give him a kiss. "Indeed it would," she said.