You and Me and All Other People
Prologue
Residency seemed endless. They were still on their 5th year and it seemed like forever. She has decided to go to Peds surprising everyone that has thought she would follow Derek's steps. It wasn't because of him. The day she said yes to Alex she had made up her mind that she would be with him for the rest of her days. She didn't have any second guess and she was sure he felt the same way.
Alex has decided for OB & GYN as he couldn't get himself out of what he has learnt from Addison the few months she stayed there.
Life was going well except that they wanted to feel free of the residency already. Though they have been together for almost four years they still weren't aces on communication. They had a hard time making decisions about their personal life and the life they shared together but still they were together. They trusted each other and they knew that nothing would push them apart but they still couldn't make things easier. After all they had been so stubborn and closed for almost thirty years and to change such habits will take a few more years.
Two more years. Meredith thought to herself. One year and a half, it is not too long is it? We already made most of the journey and we are still here.
Feeling Alex stirs behind her, she knew he was waking up. Maybe she could bring up the subject during breakfast or during their ride to Seattle Grace. Who was she fooling? This is what she told herself every single morning in the last three months and still she didn't know how to bring up the subject.
"Good morning" he told her turning to look into her emerald orbits
"Morning. I didn't see you arrive this morning" she said about his arrival from his night shift
"So it really paid off all my effort to carefully lay down and do now wake you up"
"And how thoughtful is that?" she said softly brushing her lips on his
"Let's say you don't wake up on a good mood when I wake you up" he smirked as she slapped his arm
"Ouch, that's not how I expect to be welcomed on my own bed, you know?"
"And how is it?" Meredith asked sliding the tip of her fingers through his neck
"You know exactly what I expect" he said flipping himself over her making her giggles spread through the empty house.
The empty house. This was killing Meredith. Every since Lexie moved out with Mark and Izzie died, she felt the house was empty. She remembered how happy they were when the four of them were living there. Alex never minded of the girls living there, though he dated one and had a fling with the other. He knew Meredith never liked to be alone, to feel alone and he would take the awkward comments that sometimes rose in their conversations and how he handled to have slept with the three of them, as long as she was happy.
He missed Lexie when she first moved out. Her rambling and her endless care towards Meredith always pleased Alex. He could trust on Little Grey to keep a smile on Old Grey when he couldn't do it by himself. Children didn't have the best timing and he was called in the hospital many times because since Addison left Seattle, Richard was never able to have someone as half good as her and what Alex leanrt from her in the briefing time they worked together was acknowledged by Richard at first and now by Mark. Mark Sloan, married to Alexandra Caroline Grey, chief of surgery. How bizarre was that description? Bizarre was also the sight in the church in that infamous day. Not only he had Meredith and Alex in the altar but he also had Addison and Derek. It was a bit more than a year ago but if felt like the day before. Time rushed and at same time it gave Meredith hope that their residency will finish in no time it also scared her. She really wanted it but she has still to find the guts to talk to Alex about it. Time wasn't able to brush Izzie off of their minds and hearts. It has been over two years and a half that their cheery friend died, fighting in a horrible battle against cancer and death and though Izzie has always believed and encouraged all of them that everything would be alright, it just didn't. The three surgeries and the aggressive treatment she took for five months with radiation and chemotherapy weren't enough and on June, 23rd of 2009 they said their goodbyes to Isobel Stevens. Not too longer after Izzie's death, Derek Shepherd also said his goodbyes. He has been into a crisis when he lost a pregnant patient. He has made an honest mistake but he couldn't forgive himself for the loss of the man that called him a murderer. He decided to abandon Medicine and come back to New York. Everyone tried to help him, including Meredith and Alex but no one could reach Derek. Mark ensured everyone else that Carolyn could take care of her son as nobody else. It took him some months and a lot of days alone in the river, fishing, but he finally let it go. The last they heard from Mark and Liz, he was doing fine with his practice on New York. Liz – Derek's sister never left Seattle with her elder brother, John her husband was a nice guy and their daughter Serena was adorable and the whole family grew closer to Meredith. Callie and Bailey were still around. Meredith still had Cristina. But she missed the people that changed her life for good. She missed Richard but he was finally dedicating himself to his marriage and traveling around the world with Adele. George was also missed but he had finally got his life on track going to the Army. He left not so long ago but he was deeply missed – including by Alex but he would never admit it. And this was how Meredith's house felt empty and how, somehow, she felt like she was missing something on her life.
After making their routine in the morning, which most of times included sex and a crappy breakfast, Alex and Meredith finally made their way to the hospital.
"So I was thinking we should go buy something to Johnny. His birthday is next week and you know how much he adores you. He says you are tough like his father" said Meredith trying to make some conversation and maybe, just maybe, say what she really wanted
"Sure. Maybe we can go during lunch break? Is your schedule still the same?" he asked
"Yes, and the problem is never my schedule, it is yours and your demanding women with their obstinate children." Definitely her choice of words wouldn't make it easier for her to talk to him
"As if your children don't always get into the PIT having broken ribs and perforated lungs" he said smirking
"Whatever, just don't forget. I think he would like some Army toys to remind him of George. You know how they grew together as Owen mentored George"
"Much to Cristina's dismay. I totally get her. All her men fall in love with O'Malley and get them into her apartment" said Alex chucking as he parked his car on SGH's parking lot
They entered the hospital laughing and remembering how George spent some days with Cristina and Owen, driving her best friend crazy. When Lexie moved in with Mer, George had nowhere to go and he didn't want to live in his crapartment anymore. After his second attempt he finally was a resident and he could find something better for himself. Owen was also looking to somewhere to live after his breakup with Cristina. Not that they lived together but he couldn't sleep on his old bed anymore and Dr Wyatt told him that maybe moving to a new apartment, with pleanty of ilumination and clear walls might help him with PTS disorder. George got more and more interested in the Army and on Trauma and as they got closer, they finally decided to get a place together. It was clear from both sides it was temporary but they ended up good friends and only seven months later, after Johnny was born they finally took their separate ways.
And this was what motivated Meredith the most. If Cristina had handled to make it with Owen, how could she not do it with Alex. She did it two years ago, in the middle of their residency, so what would make it harder for Meredith and Alex to do it just one year away from its end? What are 19 months in a lifetime?
Getting changed into their scrubs and lab coats, they headed to the board, to check on their schedules.
"Dr Karev" said a nurse on a hurry "They need you on PIT"
"Which one?" said both Alex and Meredith on unison
"A pregnant woman, 34 weeks, got into a car accident, they need you" the nurse said
"See? The problem is you and your demanding women and annoying kids" she said smirking
"My kids are not annoying, yours are" he said speeding up his pace to the PIT not before kissing her forehead
"Maybe ours wouldn't" she said more to herself than to him, not aware that he clearly has heard her
AN: So I'm back and so is my Meralex fic. I got some people marking Reflections of Love as favorite story and my heart couldn't resist so I started the Sequel.
Well this was only the Prologue and I wanted to it summarize what happened three years after we last saw the characters. So to keep you in the time track. They started dating in their 2nd residency year, when they turned into residents and in this story it was on 2007. He proposed on 2008. Izzie died on 2009. Derek left in the end of 2009. In 2010 Lexie and Mark got married. Mer & Alex got married on February of 2011. They are now on October of 2011. Two years and a half ahead of our time. They are supposed to finish their residence in the summer of 2013.
Cristina and Owen never got married but the one time they had sex (the one we watched in the show) she got pregnant and gave birth to John Owen Hunt at the beginning of 2010. They live together since then. I'm sorry that I killed Izzie, got George departed, got rid of Derek and Richard but what is the point to have all these people if I can't write many storylines? I kept the ones I cared for this story and to give them some plots. I surely do not want Izzie to die or any of these characters to depart of the show but I'm not Shonda Rimes and I can't handle so many characters. I mentioned Liz because I did on Reflections and someone had to replace Mark, no? I don't classify this story as an AU, just a development of what happened in my first story. I will try to incorporate some of things that happened on season 5 here and for those who might be curious enough about it, I will do a flashback of some of the facts that happened in the last 3 years
I hope you guys are still interested in this story and it is hard to write something so different like Mer and Alex when the show is doing so great with MD and Lexzie.
Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy or its characters. It belongs to Shonda Rimes. I do own Alice, Joan, Sarah, Johnny, Liz, John and Serena.