Hey, so this is my first story and I'm very new at this so bear with me! This story is basically how i think things would have gone after Derek said, "You sound just like your mother" in 11x04 because OUCH! Shot to the heart for Meredith. This will not follow the episode exactly, but I can tell you Maggie does exist. We will see how it goes!

Meredith's POV:

"I am done measuring my accomplishments against yours. I won't do it anymore. Just stay out of my way." I said, frustrated with how Derek and I have been talking to each other lately.

We had been fighting about Derek's plans for DC and how he decided to stay in Seattle all of a sudden. Meredith was afraid he would resent her if he stayed and missed out on the offer to work for the one and only President of The United States. It was a huge opportunity. After this fight, her biggest fear seemed to be coming true.

"Wow. You sound just like your mother."

The words took me by surprise and if felt as if the whole world shifted. It was like a ton of bricks had just been hurled at me at 90 miles per hour. I was suddenly at a loss for words as I just stared at Derek's eyes that had turned to an eerie dark blue color rather than the bright, sparkly blue eyes I had fallen in love with. If he had meant to hurt me, he had definitely done the trick.

I quickly grabbed my lab coat and speed walked out of the room. It was like i was suffocating. The one person I believed would not try and purposely hurt me had done just that.

I wasn't sure where I was going or what I planned to do, but I eventually found myself locked in an on-call room. As soon as I sat down, thoughts flooded my brain like a tsunami. One question rang clear in the blur of it all.

Could my marriage survive this?

Derek's POV:

As soon as the words left my mouth I knew I shouldn't have said it. Unfortunately for me, I was to wound up to apologize or erase the look on my face that I knew had anger and emotion written all over it.

I watched as the look on Meredith's face turned from fierce anger to hurt and disbelief. The look she gave him said it all. He wanted to win the fight, sure, but knowing that he had just hurt the woman he loved was not worth it.

He watched as Meredith fled the room without saying a word. Angrily, I turned and kicked the nearest chair over and ran his hand through his brown locks, frustrated with my own stupidity.

Everything I had fought for throughout the years was slowly disappearing. I began to think back to the time when I first met Meredith at Joes. I had never been one to pick up women at the bar but for some reason she seemed different. For the first time in my life, I believed in love at first sight.

Next I thought of Prom night. When I first started trying to get Meredith to date me, I remembered telling her that I didn't get jealous. What a lie that was! Seeing her with Finn was the breaking point. The thought of another man getting to touch and hold her body, the body I had studied every inch of, it just wasn't right. That was when I knew I needed her and I would never let anything happen to her.

Of course I broke my promise to Meredith when I wasn't patient enough a few years back. I went to Rose when Meredith wasn't ready for what I wanted. I pressured her too much, which was similar to what I was doing now. I was pressuring her to do something I wanted but she didn't want to do.

Along with that memory was the time when she messed up the trial and I left her with Zola for a while. I wouldn't let myself see it from her point of view. She had done the wrong thing but she had done it for all of the right reasons.

As I remembered all of the things I had done to her I wanted to kick myself. I certainly have given her many reasons to not trust me. DC was suddenly nothing to me. I would rather be clipping aneurysms and die at 110 years old in Meredith's arms than be the most successful neuro surgeon in the world and die alone.

I didn't know what I was going to do but there was no way I would let her go. At that moment I decided I would make up for everything I've done to her from the moment I met her.

I was going to fight like hell for Meredith.

Okay so there is the first chapter! It's kind of short in my opinion but I'm just getting started. There was a lot of sappy love stuff in this chapter too because I really hate when MerDer fights. And I"m having Derek withdrawals.

Please review and let me know what you think! Anything you say will be helpful.

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