The Man Next Door

Chapter 18

"What did I tell ya? They've still got it!" exclaimed Izzie as the cast chose seats in the hospital cafeteria. "Cristina, give me my 20 bucks."

"Damn, I was hoping you would forget."

"Cough it up! I knew they would still have their chemistry. Something like that, it just doesn't go away." Izzie commented. Though she knew it was wrong, Izzie was routing for Meredith and Derek to be together. She was like their mini fangirl, she was captain on their ship, and she was shipping them hard.

"Even without all his memories, he still looks at her like she's the only girl in the world. I could have sworn it would have taken them longer to get back to that." Replied Cristina as she searched her wallet for a twenty dollar bill for Izzie.

"Dude, did you see the look on his face when he found out about Finn though? He is whipped and he doesn't even know it," Alex commented with a chuckle. "Shepherd's got it bad for Grey" he added loudly and the rest of the cast all nodded and laughed in agreement.

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Rose was relived. She had finally been able to convince her nurse to take her to the cafeteria. She had been stuck in the psych floor for weeks since her unfortunate episode and she needed to get out and have some human interaction, even if it couldn't be with her husband. They were not allowing her to see him until her psychiatrist cleared her and apparently the woman didn't feel she was ready. So instead she spent her days in her room on the psych floor watching daytime television and thinking about how she would get back at Meredith for stealing her husband, even if he didn't remember Meredith. Rose smiled deviously just thinking about it. She would get what was coming for her, she thought to herself. These thoughts of revenge were interrupted by a familiar voice from behind her at a table in the corner of the room…

"Shepherd's got it bad for Grey!"

At the sound of those names in the same sentence she looked up from the salad she had been picking at to see who was speaking. Anger instantly began to boil inside her when she saw Derek's cast mates eating lunch together. They could visit him and she couldn't? and who knows what lies they are filling his head with? Rose wasn't stupid. She knew they didn't like her but she had never cared until now. She had to get to Derek, she didn't care if it was against the rules, she had to stop him from being brainwashed by these people. As she studied each and every one of them she noticed that the most important person wasn't with them…Meredith. This made her blood boil because she knew. She knew she was with him right now, probably brainwashing him, filling him with stories of how she was a wicked witch. Well, he didn't know Meredith was an slutty mistress and adulteress whore, she would set him straight.

Looking around the cafeteria for the nurse who brought her there she saw that she was still in line for food talking to some other people. Quickly getting out of her chair she snuck away, towards the elevator, ready to finally see her husband.

"Derek, do you really think that with all the time I've been spending with you, I had any intentions of marrying my fiancé?" Meredith began to explain to Derek after everyone had left the room.

"Is he hurting you?! Do I need to kick his ass? My head may still be healing but my arms have pretty much their full strength back!" Derek exclaimed angrily. He hated the though of anyone disrespecting or hurting his Meredith. 'There I go again, calling her mine. Stop it now!' he thought to himself.

"No, no, no," Meredith reassured him. "He, well…he's just…not…the one for me. I, I think it's someone else." She whispered quietly.

"Oh…well as long as you're happy…" Derek drifted off. He couldn't continue the thought of her having not one but two other guys in her life that she was romantically involved with. It honestly made a pit form in his stomach.