Paging Dr Shepherd *Derek shepherd*

𝟴𝟴. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 {𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸}

Derek sat on the couch. Grace sat watching him as he sat eating cereal

" Dude, he is fried. " Alex said as Grace looked to him

"He's not fried. He lost a patient and got hit with a lawsuit all in one week. He just needs time" Grace said

"He's been sitting there for three days. The sofa cushions are gonna start bonding to his ass, and he's eating all my cereal." Alex said

"Leave him alone Alex" Grace asked

"I'm just saying he's fried" Alex said

"Well sitting on the couch won't help him" Meredith said as grace looked to her sister and sighed

"He's fine" Grace said

"He's taking stock. Something huge and life- Altering happened to him, and he's taking stock, figuring out his next move. We shouldn't judge him. We shouldn't rush him" Bella said

"Whatever. Sylvia Plath's picking out all the marshmallows. They're the best part. " alex said

" And I'm pretty sure that he's sitting on my keys. I'd ask him to move, but he looks so ... comfy. " Lexie said

" Oh, you guys are cowards. " Grace said as she goes over to Derek.

"You're eating. That's good. Appetite is good. You know what else is good? Showering, cleansing, water. Are you thinking you'll shower, maybe go into the hospital? " Grace asked

"I have to, for the deposition. I have to go and explain in detail how I killed a man's pregnant wife." Derek said

"That's good. I mean, not the killing part, but the- - I- I think you'll feel better once you ... Go to ... Work" grace said

Derek gets up, gives Alex his cereal back, and goes upstairs.

"He'll be fine." Grace said. Grace more how she needed derek to be okay after all that had happened lately. She knew that she needed him. She was scared with all that she was going through

•••

Callie is checking on mark hand

"It's still swollen. I'd give it another day of rest." Callie said

"I haven't operated in three days." Mark said

"Don't hit people with your scalpel hand. Have you talked to him yet? " callie asked

"He threw the first punch. "

"Well, you did catch him at a bad time. "

" So he lost a patient. Boo- Hoo. We're surgeons. We're men. We lose patients. It doesn't give him the right to go around behaving like a drunk frat boy. And now I'm supposed to go crawling back begging for his forgiveness?" Mark said as Callie hides behind Mark as Arizona walks by.

"What, uh- what are you doing?" Mark asked

"I went all "say anything" on the peds surgeon in front of the peds surgeon's date, So now I am hiding from the peds surgeon." Callie said