Starting Fresh
Summary: Set in 4.11 where Derek asks Rose out to dinner. What Derek didn't know, was that Meredith was standing right behind him.
This story is about Meredith and Mark.
I know that the summary is bad, but I am not good at writing summaries, so please give my story a chance.
A/N: This is my first fanfiction, so I hope you like. Enjoy and please review.
"Do you want to go to dinner with me tonight?" Derek asked Rose as he stood in the doorframe. "I thought you weren't free" she answered surprised. "Turns out I am, and I'd like to go out with you tonight. Do you want to go with me?" He asked. "That'd be nice" Rose answered happy.
They stood there smiling at each other for a while, but when Derek turned around that smile disappeared, because there Meredith stood. Derek had always been able to read her face expression, but this time he couldn't read her. He tried, but couldn't.
Meredith didn't know what to say. All she could think about was "One hour, one hour after there breakup, and he asks Rose out." She just stood there she didn't know what to do, or what to say, so she just stood there.
After a while Derek thought that it might be time to do something, so he began taking small steps towards her, but once he took a step closer, Meredith began backing backwards. At first slowly, but then suddenly she turn around, and began running. While she was running, she could fell the tears running down her cheeks.
She didn't know where to go, so she just ran. She didn't want to go to the resident lounge, because there were always people.
She decided to go to the roof. That's where she sometimes went when she got upset, or if she just needed some peace and quiet. She ran towards the stairwell, but before she could reach the door her arm was caught by hand who belonged to the one person she didn't want to speak or listen to.
"Derek let me go," Meredith cried, while trying to push his hand of, but he had a strong grip. When he didn't let go she got irritated, and yelled "Let me go!!" Derek looked around, and saw that some nurses and doctors were all looking at them. He looked at Meredith, but it didn't seem like she cared. All she cared about was to get loose from his grip.
He pushed Meredith into the stairwell when the nurses and doctors didn't go away. But he shouldn't have done that, because once he did he lost his grip around her arm, and then she began running up the stairs. He ran after her, but this time he wasn't fast enough.
She got to the roof, and locked the door before Derek could walk through.
Once the door was locked she turned around and leaned against it. She could feel the tears coming again. One by one they ran down her cheeks. She was so glad that nobody else was on the roof, well at least that's what she thought.
"Hey, are you alright?" A dark, but still soothing voice came. Meredith turned her head towards the person. She looked into deep grey eyes. "No I am fine, thanks Mark" She answered in a sad, low voice.
You know that would be more convincing if you didn't have tears running down you cheeks, or if your voice didn't sound like somebody who had just lost there dog" he said half joking, and half serious.
Meredith quickly wiped the tears away, and tried to hide it.
Mark walked over to her, and put one hand on her shoulder, and the other on he used to lift up her head, so she would look at him.
"Meredith. It's okay. You can tell me."
"Okay." she said with a sigh. "I'm sure you have heard about me and Derek breaking up" she started. "Yeah" was the only respond she got back. She took a deep breath and began to tell the story.
When she was done telling what happened she noticed that she'd started to cry again, and this time it wasn't just a couple of tears rolling down her cheek. This time she had started to cry a lot. Her eyes were all red, and she started sniffing all the time.
She also noticed that Mark was holding her, but what she really noticed, was how comfortable she was, just by being in his arms.
"I am really sorry. Derek's always been an asshole." Mark said.
"Thank you." Meredith said while whipping the last tears away.
"Anytime" Mark smiled "Hey, when are you off?" He asked. Meredith looked at her watch "Actually, I'm off now. Why?"
"So I'm I. I just thought if you needed to be cheered up there's drinks on me tonight" He smiled
"Sure. Meet me in the lobby in about 10 minutes, okay?"
"Sure" He smiled again, and got up from the ground.
He stuck out his hand to help her, and she gladly took it.
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Meredith went the resident lounge to change. She was really glad that Mark had been on the roof top, because she really needed to talk to someone, and now they were going out for drinks, which was exactly what she needed. Just to forget all about Derek Shepherd.
When she walked in she saw something that she really unexpected.
Please review, and let me know if I should continue.
