Chapter One.
Seattle Grace hospital, hectic, crazy, intense and hellish, especially if it's your first day as an intern.
Meredith Gray walked through the halls of the hospital, surrounded by the bustle of the day to day exams and the not so daily trauma's. Her first day and she was terrified, not that she would show it. She was Ellis Gray's daughter and no daughter of hers would show fear.
Lost in her thought's she bumped into a stranger and knocked the charts he was holding to the floor,
"Oh my god I'm so sorry, I just.. and I'm .. oh sorry" she rambled helping to pick the papers up from the floor.
"That's quite alright, no harm done" replied the stranger.
Meredith looked up at the mans face as she was handing back the papers that fell from the chart, suddenly it hit her..
"Derek!"
"Hi Meredith, you work here?"
She blushed and continued to stare at him.
"I um yes I work here, first day, intern. You work here?!" she struggled to get the words out. Her mind continued to flash back to the night before.
Sitting at the bar, alone she had never felt so content, although she was alone and had just moved to Seattle from Boston, she was calm or maybe it was just the alcohol running through her system. Tequila was her poison. Lost in her own thoughts she never noticed the gorgeous man sit down next to her,
"Hi is this seat taken?"
Startled from her thoughts, she looked up at the handsome stranger,
"oh um no its not"
"Im Derek" He held out his hand to shake hers with a big smile on his face,
She shook his hand but was unable to form any words, he was gorgeous with his startling blue eyes and his dreamy smile, she felt lost in his gaze,
"This is where you would tell me your name?"
"Oh um sorry Im Meredith"
She smiled, she felt so goofy, her cheeks burned and she downed another shot of tequila to ease her embarrassment.
"So are you from Seattle? Iv just moved here and maybe you could show me around some time?"
She was still struggling to form a normal sentence in her head,
"Oh um no I've just moved here from Boston, the furthest I have ventured is to the harbour, they have ferryboats."
They have ferryboats! great Mer you couldn't have found anything stupider to say.
He smiled and she felt herself melt,
"Ferryboats… really? I have a thing for ferryboats."
"Meredith?"
She snapped back to reality
"Yeah?"
"Are you ok?"
She wasn't at all sure if she was but she just smiled,
"Yeah um I'm fine just a shock bumping into you, literally, you work here?"
She wasn't sure if she managed to ask that before, she felt like her brain had just fallen out of the back of her head, his gaze was piercing as if he was looking for her soul.
"Yes I work here, just started today actually, although im and attending not an intern."
Great she thought, here I am making googly eyes at the new attending, im well on my way to earn the slut badge for this group of interns.
"ok well it was nice to see you again I guess, I have to go I have charts to finish."
She started walking away as fast as she could.
"Bye then"
He smiled after her … maybe Seattle wouldn't be as bad as he thought.