Chapter one
beep beep beep
Meredith rolled over and slammed her hand on the buttons until the shrill beep of the clock finally stopped. She rolled back onto her other side, snuggling deeper into the warm body next to her. She inhaled his scent, so unique that she would know it, even were she in a coma. The typical masculine musk, mixed with an earthiness as well as the smell of Seattle rain, topped off with a bit of sea air. She thought he was still asleep, but as his hand snaked up her Dartmouth shirt, she realised he had also been woken up by the wretched alarm clock. She giggled when he began to tickle her and playfully smacked his arm.
"Not this morning, we both have an early day waiting for us. Besides, you wore me out last night."
He pouted, looking at her with his ocean blue eyes that were so striking when his face was framed by his dark hair. Eyes that she would be glad to wake up to every morning, and that when her time eventually came, eyes that she hoped were the last sight she saw on this earth.
"You and I both know that doesn't work on me this early, now hurry up and take a shower so that I can have the bathroom."
"Well, we could conserve water and shower together", he replied with his McDreamy grin.
"Derek, the idea is to get clean so that we can both get to work, not to get all messy so that it takes us even longer to shower and we are both late, which may be fine for you, but I have Nazi Bailey to deal with."
He silently conceded and rolled out of bed, making his way to the bathroom that Meredith had installed in her room (see A/N) when Derek had moved in. He had kept the land and the trailer, and the idea was to spend their free weekends there. But of course, they had not had a free weekend together since they had gotten back together, two weeks after prom, two days after Addison had finally signed the papers and returned to New York. Meredith had not planned to run right back into Derek's arms, after so much pain, but she also knew that he was her one, and that prolonging the inevitable would only cause them both more pain.
That had been two months ago and she had never felt more alive, more complete, not even when they had first been dating. The rest of her life around her was falling apart, with Izzie still greiving deeply, Christina still worried about Burke, and her mother having started to degenerate rapidly. But she had Derek, and she would be alright.
As she rolled out of bed with happy thoughts in her head, she suddenly felt very not alright and she made a dash to the bathroom.
Derek heard the bathroom door open and he grinned. "I suppose you decided to take me up on my idea to shower together, huh Mer? Mer"
Derek stopped talking when he heard the unmistakeable sound of Meredith wretching into the toilet. He quickly rinsed the soap out of his hair and jumped out of the shower, still dripping wet, in order to hold her hair back and comfort her. When Meredith had finished, he helped her off the floor and over to the sink, grabbing a washcloth and wetting it to wipe the sweat from her face. Concern was etched on his face as he helped her face.
"You alright, honey?"
"I'm ok. Seriously. I am fine."
"You don't look fine. that is the third day in a row Meredith. I told you to stay home yesterday, and you said you were fine then and went to work anyway. You are most certainly not fine. As your boss' boss, I am ordering you to stay home."
"Ordering me? Seriously Derek, I don't do the whole 'obey' thing. I am fine. It is probably just food poisoning from that Chinese food you made me eat a few nights ago."
"Lee's has the best chinese in the whole city. I doubt that made you sick. Something else has you feeling so bad."
"Okay Derek, I promise that if I feel bad at work I will come home or ask somebody to take a look at me, okay?
"Alright, I guess that is the most I am going to get from you. HUrry up and shower or I am going to have to leave you here so as not to be late."
Meredith gave him her most annoyed-looking glare and shoved him out of their bathroom so she could bathe in peace.
(A/N Okay, I don't know if meredith has her own bathroom in the show. I didn't think so because I remember scenes of her sharing with George and Iz. So now that Derek has basically moved in, it would make sense for them to have their own bathroom.)
Drop me a line and let me know if you liked it and I will keep going. for any readers of my Harry Potter stories, I have not abandonned them in favor of this. My HP muse is taking an extended vacation. As soon as it returns and tells me how it wants to procede with the story, I will update.
That being said, I will plan to update this every Saturday, but I can't make any promises.