Derek: One night, I park my car, I unlock my front door, I go inside my house, and something’s different. Nothing’s different, everything’s the same, but yet, something’s different. And I stand there for a while, and then I know. See, there are moments for me; they’re usually when I’m in the O.R., when I just know what’s gonna happen next. So I go upstairs, and as I’m walking down the hall, I’m trying to prepare myself for what I’m going to see when I walk into my bedroom. I step on a man’s jacket that doesn’t belong to me. And everything I think I know… just shifts. Because the jacket that doesn’t belong to me is a jacket that I recognize. What I know now is that when I go into my bedroom, I’m not just gonna see that my wife is cheating on me. I’m gonna see that my wife is cheating on me with Mark, who happened to be my best friend. It’s just so pedestrian, common, and dirty… cruel. Mostly just cruel. Then I left, came out here.
Meredith: Then you met me.
Derek: Then I met you.
Meredith: What was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?
Derek: You were like coming up for fresh air. It’s like I was drowning and you saved me. It’s all I know.
Meredith: It’s not enough.
Grey’s Anatomy 2.01 - “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”
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