Meredith clutched on to Spike in her arms staring up at the smoke rising from the top of the build desperately hoping that it would end soon. How in the hell had things gotten so bad in the last three weeks?


Three weeks ago seemed like a life time. Meredith sat on the ground in her room in the apartment she shared with Lauren. and Jaime, staring at the blank canvas in front of her. Drawing a blank at what to draw, she lifted her pencil again on to the canvas and tried to get it to move, but it just wouldn't she was out of ideas.

Meredith unscrewed the royal blue acrylic tube of paint from next to her and put a drop on to her pallet then froze again. Wrong color. She opened all of her other tubes and stared hoping something would come to her, but there was nothing. She had art block. How was she supposed to finish her project in time now?

"Ugh," she sighed then flung back on to the ground and threw her hands on her face. Nothing was worse than art block. She lay there a few trying to think of something to do when she felt a light pressure step on her stomach. She looked up and found Spike crawling on top of her stomach.

Meredith sat up and smiled and took the feline in her arms despite his screams of annoyance. She cuddled Jaime's cat still desperately trying to think of something. Suddenly remembering that Spike needed to be feed she got up off her floor and went to fetch him some food.

It was quiet around the house with Jaime and Lauren both being at class. But not the Meredith minded, it was nice to have quiet time for her. Before fixing up Spike his bowl of car food she pressed the on button on her coffee machine, it wasn't the morning anymore, but she just had a sudden hankering for the drink.

Meredith set Spike's bowl on the floor and got her cup of caffeine then headed over and sat out by the window. Living in New York was crazy sometimes she thought as she looked over down in to the city. They didn't have the greatest view from their apartment, but at least it was close to the school Jaime, Lauren, and her went to.

Looking down she heard the sound of the familiar sirens. Living close to the fire station probably wasn't the greatest thing, which being woken up at random times during the night. But in the day time it could somewhat be enjoyable watching the scuttle as the firemen left. Come to think of it, she didn't have a bad view of their behinds as well. So that could be considered a perk.

She glanced at the clock on the wall when it was that her two best friends entered in to the room smiling. "Hey Meredith," Jaime greeted her, "Did you start that project of yours?"

"Uh, not exactly," Meredith said then shrugged "but it's coming along, I'm sure I'll start it sometime..." She grinned then drained the rest of her coffee. "Anyways, how was your guys classes?" She asked as her two best friends sat down at the table with her.

Lauren started first explaining how her dance class was fine despite someone had accidentally fallen off of the stage, and Jaime mentioned that in her acting class they did improv that day.

"Hey, Meredith by the way, what are you doing this Friday?" Jaime asked.

Meredith thought for a moment, "Nothing yet, why?"

"Well, there's this guy named Brian and-"

"Jaime," Meredith interrupted, "is this another blind date thing? I still don't think I'm ready to start dating again..." Meredith said as a sigh escaped her lips.

"Mere, it's been 4 months! You need to get over Darren! One date won't hurt a thing!" Lauren quickly tried to reason with her.

"Yeah, besides he's really nice and funny, I'm sure you guys would hit it off just fine," Jaime added.

"Ugh, fine, I'll think about it."

"That a girl!" Lauren said. Meredith just rolled her eyes.

A/N: Oops I started another story. At least I know how I want this one to end and stuff, but hooray for AUs!