A/N: There's not enough Merthan fanfic on here so I wanted to contribute. I hope you enjoy, I hope there aren't too many mistakes, the website uploaded my doc wrong and messed up the format, I tried to fix it as much as possible.
Meredith was in front of the OR board, staring at today's surgery schedule when she started to recall last night's events. The weight was finally lifted off of her shoulders. It wasn't easy, but Meredith Grey finally got to talk to her sister about Nathan. Maggie may still be angry with her, but to her relief, at least she started to talk to her again.
She was in deep thought when suddenly, she felt an arm touch the small of her back. "Good morning, Dr. Grey." To no surprise, it was him who whispered into her ears. Nathan. She smiled as she turned to him. He felt his heart beat faster, her smile always made him feel that way. "Well doesn't someone look happy."
"Of course I'm happy, I talked to Maggie about us and she's actually talking to me." As soon as she said it, she noticed his infamous smirk. Great, I just boosted his ego even more.
Nathan just looked at her, trying to read her facial expressions to see what he was thinking was true. "So... We're together, huh? There's an us?" He noticed her small nod. He didn't know he could smile any bigger. He was actually happy, really happy. He hasn't been this into someone since Megan, he thought he would never move on until Meredith. Meredith came to his life unexpectedly. From day one, he found her amazing and beautiful. Seeing and working with her every day definitely didn't help him. His crush on Meredith kept growing and growing and even though she continuously denied him. He hated to admit it, but he felt himself falling in love with her.
Meredith looked at Nathan for a moment, contemplating whether or not to bring him out of his deep thought. "Uh, is everything alright?" Riggs was brought back to reality. "Yeah, of course, it's just that I haven't been this happy in a while." He smiled at her again.
"You're telling me," Meredith laughed a little and looked at him, "I'm happy, too." They kept eye contact for a while before Meredith's pager went off. She groaned. "I'm sorry, I have to go." She started to speed towards the ER.
"I get it, it's a part of our job, I'll see you later?" He wanted to ask her out to lunch or dinner, but he didn't want to seem pushy and get in the way of her busy schedule.
She looked back at him, smiled and waved, "Yup, definitely!" According to the OR board, he only has one surgery today, hopefully we can have dinner later…
It was around six o'clock when Nathan entered the attendings' lounge after a four hour surgery and quickly sat down on one of the couches. It was tough being a surgeon sometimes. He almost lost his patient, but was able to save her after a few shocks to the heart. He was exhausted and just wanted to change.
He felt a pair of lips kiss his cheek. "You must be really tired to not have noticed me in here." He looked behind him and saw Meredith wearing a stunning outfit. She was wearing a tight black dress, red high heels, with hair up, light makeup, and gold jewelry. She looks amazing. She looks so freaking hot... Oh no, did I forget we had a date or something?
She noticed at him staring at her and smiled. Amelia helped her pick out her outfit and it definitely did the trick. "I forgot to ask you, but I was wondering if you wanted to go out to dinner with me. I saw that you were free after your surgery, so I got ready." She looked down a little bit, Nathan could tell she was a bit nervous and it was cute. He swore all he could do was smile around her.
"Of course I will." He got up and walked towards his locker and noticed something. "I don't really have anything nice to wear though…"
She walked up next to him. "That's okay, we can stop by your place before we go." She figured this would happen and had already planned to make some time to make a quick stop at his apartment.
This is nice… Nathan realized Meredith must have contemplated about going on their first public date. It was nice to know that she was taking their relationship seriously. He felt himself falling for her even more and it was one of the best feelings.
"Alright, how about I change quickly so we can head out?" She nodded and waited on the couch as she waited for him to get ready.
A couple of minutes later, Nathan came back inside the lounge in his casual clothing and walked up to Meredith and reached out his hand for her to grab. She was hesitant especially because she didn't even let him hold her hand at Sioux Falls. He noticed the hesitation and suddenly realized, "I'm sorry, you don't have to hold my hand, I just wanted to help you up."
She felt stupid, of course he was trying to help her up. That's who he is, always such a gentleman. She laughed and shook her head and accepted his help. It was a nice gesture from him so she kissed him on the cheek. At this point, he couldn't help but blush and it definitely wasn't left unnoticed, but she continued anyways. As he lead the way out of the attendings' lounge, he made sure to reach for the door before she could so he could open the door for her. It wasn't the first time he did this, he did it right before the press conference, too.
Meredith thought Oh why the hell not. As soon as they walked side by side, Meredith intertwined her fingers with his. She caught him by surprise, but he didn't complain at all. As they headed out, they grabbed a lot of people's attention, but they didn't care, all they cared about, at that moment, was each other.
They looked at each other and both thought, I can get used to this.
I don't know where this is going. I was just procrastinating on homework and decided to write some fic. I'm not the best writer so I don't know whether or not I'll really continue this. I have a plot in mind, but no guarantees. Reviews appreciated?
