Disclaimer: I do not own any recognizable characters. Duh
Background: This is mine so mine. FYI, Izzie & George never had sex but the drunken sleeping (literally) together did, confusing everyone – including themselves, resulting to the Callie and George's on going divorce (I have a slight change of timeline here), Callie is not a lesbian, Mark never looked at Lexie differently and is still, and probably always be, a manwhore. Yes, Mark and Callie happened during Callie-George Fallout, but it only made them BFFs. Derek's mother didn't visit yet. Izzie has no brain tumor, whatsoever. The rest happened until 5x15...
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Meredith is sitting on a gurney in the empty hallway that they frequent to. She's looking straight ahead, though there's really nothing to look at, well except, if you plan to make a record in counting the cracks in one of Seattle Grace's walls.
"Hey, what did McDreamy do this time?" Cristina asks as she hopped beside her.
"What?" Meredith spun to look at Cristina
"You're looking catatonic. Oh well, the way you look when he does something unDreamy like." Cristina said nonchalantly as she opens her bag of chips.
Meredith refused to retort to that. "I think I may have made the biggest mistake in my life." she said looking at the wall again.
"Oh Mer, you have made a lot of mistakes. I'm not sure I'm following the worst yet."
"Oh no, really, this is the worst." Meredith said grabbing Cristina's chips.
"Out with it." Cristina said grabbing back the plastic and lying herself on the gurney so that only her head is up against the wall.
Meredith looked at Cristina straight in her eyes. "I agreed to have dinner with Thatcher's daughters later."
"So what? Ask them to pay for it. Free food. Yay." Cristina scrunched her face. "Did I just say 'yay' out loud?" she asked herself.
Meredith hopped off from the gurney to face Cristina. "Yep and what do you mean 'so what'? I'm talking about Thatcher's daughters here. Dead Susan's daughters." And added in a small voice: "The girls he replaced me with,"
"So is that the problem? That you might explode in the restaurant, in public, with those issues and kill them with silverware?"
"Exactly. I might need you to drag they're bodies later." Meredith answered sarcastically.
"So, call me," and with that Cristina's pager started to beep. "Damn, just when we're really planning murder." She hopped off the gurney but before she ran, she turned to Meredith and said, "Just go, it will be fine. You have to do it later anyway."
"Did you just say 'it will be fine'?" Meredith called out with laughter in her voice.
"Breathe it to anyone and I'll turn you in." and with that, Cristina took off.
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Meredith saw them before she entered the restaurant. She was informed by Lexie earlier when and where they'll meet. And the girl was so freakin' excited that she wanted to cancel right there and then while talking to her.
She took her jacket off while easing to a seat in front of Molly. The girl has a deer-in-the-headlights look while Lexie just looked like she's about to burst with happiness. "I wonder if her cheeks are hurting her" she thought to herself.
"Hi. So, do you frequent here?" Meredith asked to nobody in particular but glanced at Lexie first then at Molly.
"No, actually my first time too," Molly answered looking at the table napkin. She doesn't really know how to talk to her oldest sister. She doesn't even know if she wanted to be her sister. "Maybe she does, that's why she's here" she thought to herself.
"My last boyfriend took me here before I started at Seattle Grace. Their steak is really delicious and they serve a variety of desserts!" Lexie answered with mirth.
As if on cue, the waiter approached their table and quickly took their orders. When the waiter left, none of them used their vocal chords. Meredith just looked around, Molly found an obsession with her napkin and Lexie tried to look somewhere else but kept on glancing at Meredith's face.
Meredith thought that her throat is drying up, "So, how is the baby?" she asked knowing it's a safe topic where they can all participate.
"She's growing really fast. She moves a lot now. She started taking hesitant steps on her own." Molly answered with a smile looking at a speck on Meredith's right shoulder.
"Uhm, that's nice. Did you baby-proofed your house, already?" She cringed at the lameness of her question.
The waiter arrived with their food breaking their conversation.
"Yes, we did," Lexie bobbed her head up and down as she made a fork to her mouth. "Eric got into it the moment we saw Laura standing by herself."
"So he's back from Iraq? Is he the one watching her now?" asked Meredith.
"Yes." answered Molly timidly.
Silence fell again as they continue to chow down their food.
After maybe a good five minutes, Lexie elbowed Molly so she can initiate the conversation again.
"So, Meredith...I can call you Meredith, right?" Molly asked with wide eyes.
"Sure." Meredith answered without looking up from her food.
"Uhm, how are you? I mean, how is your... house? Your friends? Your boyfriend... Dr. Shepherd, right?" Molly stammered, "Is it ok to ask that?" she looked at Meredith with those eyes again.
"Yes, it's ok. Uhm, the house is still standing," Meredith answered looking at her after swallowing. "My friends...are still my friends and Derek is still himself. They are good. Thanks for asking, I guess."
"Ok." Molly went back to her food.
Silence.
"How old is Laura now?" Meredith asked.
"She turned one three months ago." Molly answered while relaxing a bit.
"Yeah, she's really cute. Dad said before she really looked like you a lot when you were a baby." Lexie smiled but quickly regretted her words moments after.
Meredith sat straight on her chair and closed her eyes for the briefest moment while willing the universe to call her somewhere far away. True enough, her cell phone started ringing in her purse.
Cristina
Never in her life was she this grateful to her person. "Excuse me for a moment I have to take this" She quickly flipped the device open while she stood to go near the counter.
"Thank you so much!" Meredith exclaimed to her phone.
"Are they still alive? Do you need me to drag their corpses now?"
"I got it. I'll tell you tomorrow." Meredith closed her phone shut. Waited a few moments and went back to the table.
"I'm sorry. That was the hospital. Apparently my patient coded just now and is still not stable. So uh..." Meredith grabbed her coat and started to open her purse.
"It's ok we understand," Molly said looking up at her.
"We got it Meredith. It's ok, you can go." Lexie smiled at her though it didn't reach her eyes.
Meredith quickly fled to her awaiting jeep.
"So, that didn't go well." Molly said raising her brows to Lexie.
"I'm an idiot!" Lexie put her head on her hands.
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Meredith opened her front door with a heavy sigh and dragged her body up to her bedroom.
She found Derek lying, half of his body is propped to the headboard with the blanket up to his waist, reading a Medical journal.
"I take it the dinner didn't go well?" Derek asked her as she crossed the room to the dresser. She slipped her shoes off and discarded her clothing to the floor. She took a shirt from her dresser and went inside the bathroom.
"Mer?" Derek tried again.
Meredith popped her head from to the door with a toothbrush sticking out of her mouth and shook her head to answer him.
Derek sighed and put the journal at the table beside him. He went to his side of the bed while Meredith climbed between the sheets. Meredith turned her back from him to be spooned. He reached out to her and she quickly held on to his hand draped across her waist.
"They have to bring him up." Meredith said.
"You'll have to talk about him eventually." Derek said softly.
"Eventually is so much better than actually." Meredith said closing her eyes.
"Would you like to talk about it?" Derek asked.
Meredith opened her eyes, "There's really not much to tell. It was awkward, lots of dead air. Until Lexie said that Thatcher mentioned that Laura looked like me."
"How'd you manage that?" He tightened his grip on her.
"Cristina saved me," Meredith answered with a smile.
"How?" Derek asked with a frown.
"With her super radar. I swear she has powers. Which I'll be eternally grateful for, by the way. My phone started ringing right after Lexie pulled that crap up."
"It's ok. There'll be next time."
"I don't think so." Meredith answered closing back her eyes.
"Give it time." Derek said closing his eyes too.
"Whatever. Goodnight Der."
"Night, Meredith."
Derek pulled Meredith closer as they slept.
Thanks for reading! So, wachatink? wachatink? =)
