A/N: Just a short one-shot, because I find Mer and DeLuca so sweet that I couldn't resist.

Amelia Shepherd was currently confused. There was no other way to put it. She was quite simply, downright, mindbogglingly confused.

In fact, if she's being totally honest, since she was actually confused regarding the inner workings of her own brain, she was also currently crazy.

Confused and crazy. Yeah, that's how she felt. Because if what she thought she saw was indeed true, then DeLuca had some explaining to do. And so did Meredith, because… well…

How on earth had she missed this?

"Sorry, Mer, you were saying?"

Mer looked at her strangely, and she wondered if her craziness was visible to the naked eye. She sure hoped not. "I was saying… that although I haven't the faintest idea why, I think the universe is actually on my side for once."

"Because of a snickers bar?"

"Because of a snickers bar." Meredith grinned. "You saw it! How else would a piece of the world's most delicious candy bar magically appear in my lab coat's pocket thirty seconds after I told the minions I was hungry?"

Amelia smirked. "True. When you explain it that way, the most logical, realistic explanation is that it just has to be the universe's doing."

"Don't make fun of me. Just go with it. Delicious miracles like these don't usually happen to me. Hmm, I practically inhaled the entire bar. Oh, Glasses' face... And Deluca's…" She laughed.

Amelia snorted. "Yeah, I saw." She mumbled under her breath, and watched as Meredith walked away wearing an all-is-good-with-the-world-because-there-is-chocolate-in-my-pockets smile on her lips.

******GAGAGA*******

"DeLuca…" Amelia purposely drawled, eyeing the younger doctor amusedly as he jumped. It was barely after 11 p.m., and DeLuca had been standing outside the hospital door without moving for at least ten minutes.

"Dr. Shepherd! Hi."

"What are you doing here?"

"Here?"

"Yep." She leant against the wall, raising an eyebrow. "What are you doing, just standing here…? You do know that the dark isn't going to be any darker the longer you stare at it."

"I'm not staring at the dark."

She smirked. "I know that."

He blushed, and glanced away. Amelia followed his gaze, and predictably it landed on Meredith. As per usual the last few months, whenever she worked nights she liked to use her breaks to lay on her back in the street benches and stare at the sky. There were no stars, it was December-cold, but it didn't matter to her. At least once a shift, she would tell everyone not to bother her for half an hour, and she would go outside.

"I just… it's cold. And it's dark. And she comes out here alone. I just… worry."

"And so you what? Watch over her?" Amelia asked, perhaps harsher than she intended.

"Yes." He nodded, a gentle smile playing on his lips.

She stood in silence for a while, then cleared her throat and patted him on the back. "Good man, DeLuca." She started walking towards the door, and looked back at DeLuca, who was once again eyeing Meredith's resting sillhouette. "And, DeLuca?"

"Yes, Dr. Shepherd?"

"A snickers…? How on earth did you manage to sneak one into Mer's pocket mere seconds after she told us she was hungry?"

Without turning to face her, DeLuca chuckled. "I'm not entirely talentless, give me some credit."

******GAGAGA*******

And so Amelia did. She decided to give him some credit indeed, and watched Meredith's moves like a hawk for the rest of the shift.

Only no more snickers-related situations arose.

No, Meredith didn't receive any more unforeseen gifts, nor was she in any cases with DeLuca. In fact, shortly after 2 a.m. Meredith actually fell asleep in one of her most critical patient's room after she sat in its armchair to do charts.

And just when Amelia was about to give up and go to sleep herself – after all, hiding behind almost closed blinds only allowed her to resist sleep for so long –, DeLuca strolled past Meredith's room and stopped right in front of it. Silently, he went in, and as if it were routine, he grabbed a blanket from the dresser and carefully spread it on Meredith's sleeping form.

Amelia's eyes widened as she saw he actually tucked her in, making sure the blanket wouldn't just fall if she moved around in her sleep.

And then he dropped a snickers bar into the pocket of the lab coat that was folded beside her.

And just like that, Amelia wondered how many times this routine of theirs had happened already.

"Good man, DeLuca."