A/N: This is the newest femslash pairing that has caught my fancy. Hope you all like it. P.S.- I have not watched this show as often as I would have liked this season and I can't remember what the office situation was like at their hospital so a used the layout that I was familiar with at my hospital.
Rain
Rain drizzled down on top of Seattle Grace hospital. It was a normal day in Washington and Meredith Grey wondered if the dreary atmosphere was a sign from god indicating the perpetually shifting state of her love life. She was a recently promoted resident at the hospital yet she didn't feel much like celebrating. The days she spent as an intern at her fathers' hospital seemed like a fairytale. She had been happily in love with fellow doctor Derek. Why had her life spiralled out of control?
The life-altering course she had begun to travel down started one fateful night shortly after she had been promoted. She had been on call when tragedy struck the maternity ward. She rushed up stairs to scrub in next to Doctor Addison Montgomery. The tall brunet doctor explained to Meredith on their way in that a newborn baby had gone into cardiac arrest. For an hour Meredith and Addison worked to get the patient stable. After the parents of the child had settled down Meredith found herself sitting next to the small babies crib watching as her tiny chest rose and fell.
'What are you still doing here Dr. Grey' Addison asked from the door.
Meredith hadn't heard her come in and whipped her head around to look at the obstetrician. 'I can't get her out of my head.' She replied turning back to the child. She remained quite even after Addison walked up to her and placed a concerned hand on the shorter woman's shoulder. 'How can you do it Dr. Montgomery? How do you deal with this very day?' The young surgeon asked as tears fell down her face.
Addison lent down and gave Meredith the most genuine smile she could muster. 'I'll show you.' She said holding out her had for the young doctor.
Slowly Meredith stood up and walked out of the room as Addison led her by the hand. They stopped in front of a huge glass window that looked into the room where all the healthy newborn babies were kept. Meredith looked in on the fuzzy heads of the tiny children and a warmth began to spread through her body. Looking to her right she saw the same look mirrored on the face of her colleague.
'What is it like to deliver a child?' Meredith asked suddenly in awe of this woman. She had completely forgotten that Addison was still holding her hand until she felt her squeeze it. A slight jolt ran through Meredith's body and she squeezed back hoping that the feeling would stay.
'It's an amazing sight to see a child come into the world.' She bowed her head and a slight smirk crept onto her face. 'I want to have children of my own more than anything but I can't help but think that it would be so much better to see her born form the doctors chair than lying on the table.'
'I don't know about that.' Meredith responded. 'I think I'd much rather be lying on the table to be able to say that she was mine in every sense of the word.'
Addison smiled and regarded the woman she had once hated so badly yet now couldn't help but admire. 'Have you ever thought about going into gynaecology?'
Meredith simply raised an eyebrow in Addison's direction. 'I think I'll leave that to you Dr. Montgomery.' She said with a chuckle looking back in the direction of the newborns. 'Though I have been thinking about going to paediatrics.'
'You should talk to Bailey about that.' She said before realizing what that implicated. 'I'm sorry.' She apologized once she saw the look on her face.
'That's ok' Meredith said with a shrug.
'My shifts about over do you want to meet me out front in say five minutes and we can go to the French restaurant down the street.' Addison asked not ready for their conversation to end. She couldn't explain why but she really enjoyed talking to her once bitter enemy.
Meredith smiled and nodded in agreement. It wasn't until they went to go their separate ways that they both realized that they were still holding hands. Sheepishly they both blushed and released one another's hands and quickly left for their offices.
Unknown to the pair of brunettes the exchange had not gone unnoticed. Stepping out of an empty room where she had been sleeping Cristina Yang looked in either direction that the other surgeons fled and scrunched her brow together in confusion.
'What the fuck?' She quietly exclaimed. Christina's confused look morphed into a smile of sheer evil as she planned on getting into both doctors business.
Meredith dashed into the cubicle she shared with Isobel Stevens and began gathering her things. She looked up at her clock and saw that her shift ended in fifteen minutes. With Izzie and Christina on call it wouldn't matter if she left a little early. Putting her raincoat on over her scrubs she walked out of her shared office in time to narrowly miss running into Izzie.
Isobel just managed to realize what was going on to see Meredith's retreating back half-way down the hall. Turning around to enter the cubicle her path was blocked by Christina who in turn was looking at Meredith as she fled. 'Do you have any idea what that was about?' Izzie asked as she sat down to her computer.
'I think she's in love.' Christina said leaning against the desk.
Isobel abandoned her work at the news and looked over at Christina devilishly. 'Which one do you think it is McSteamy or McDreamy?' She asked with a giggle.
'Neither.' She said waiting for Isobel to start drinking her coffee. 'It's McHotty.' She proclaimed calmly laughing as the blonde spewed coffee all over her desk
Isobel looked up at her friend in a manner that would indicated that her comment wasn't funny but found the glare lost it's oomph when the look she received from the Asian doctor implied that she was being serious.