A/N: I just have to throw this out there since Jumper-Lover191 brought it up. When Meredith fell in the water (on the show) and they played the Snow Patrol song about "...save me from this darkness.." I jumped up and screamed they better not make her have amnesia!! And then, something you guys didn't know, but when I first wrote the chapter of Meredith deciding if she was going to stay in the darkness or live and be with Derek, I first wrote it that Dylan (the bomb guy) was there and talked her into living. But it was just weird so I deleted it and wrote it different. How ironic is that? I laughed so hard when I saw Dylan and Denny at the end of last weeks episode, (Well after the sobs stopped, then I laughed.) Okay I feel better now that I got that out. READ AND ENJOY!
Meredith glanced down at the small silver watch that hugged her tiny wrist. Crap, she thought. If she didn't hurry and change, she risked being late. She'd been back as an intern at Seattle Grace for only a little over a month and had made the terrible mistake of being late only once before. The resident she had been assigned to for the four remaining months of her internship, was worse than the Nazi, Meredith's first resident, almost five years ago.
Meredith hadn't been given any special treatment with her unusual circumstances, and she had been grateful for that. Everything about her past and her relationship with the other doctors at the hospital had been kept a secret, and the fresh new group of interns that Meredith joined, didn't have a clue. There were lots of whispers and speculation as to why she was so much older than the other's, but Meredith kept to herself and did her job, feeling as though she had so much to prove.
She quickly slammed her locker shut, ignoring the continuous curious stares from the young doctors around her. She gave her best attempt at a smile before turning and hurrying out the door, eager to find her resident first.
Meredith debated in her head if a tall mochiata cappacino would be seen as bribery or not, as she walked quickly down the empty hallway. As she rounded the corner, a strong hand grabbed hers from behind and pulled her abruptly into an isolated supply closet.
Meredith didn't have time to react before the door was closed behind her, wrapping her and the assaulter in blinding darkness. Meredith opened her mouth to protest but was instantly met with a pair of demanding, needy lips on hers. The familiar sent of after shave and deodorant met her nostrils and she softened her body against the comfortable hard one.
She let herself get lost in Derek's passionate kiss before pulling away and whispering, "Alex, I told you we need to quit meeting like this."
Even in the dark she could see Derek's jaw drop and she laughed out loud as she flipped on the light.
"Very funny Dr. Grey." Derek tried to give her a reprimanding look but it quickly softened as he laughed along with his girlfriend, pulling her in for another kiss.
"You didn't wake me up." Derek spoke into Meredith's mouth, not wanting to break contact from her soft lips.
"I'm sorry." Was all Meredith spoke back, not wanting to pull away from the kiss either.
"When I woke this morning… you were gone." The kiss was becoming more heated and Derek gasped for breath between his words.
"Sorry again… I was running late… and thought Hanna would enjoy…. you getting her ready… and dropping her off at daycare… for once." Months of sexual tension had built up inside Meredith and it was all starting to leak out in the small closet. "You didn't have any problems did you?"
Derek had Meredith backed against a shelf and had started lifting her shirt when he stopped and pulled back, amusement in his eyes. "No I didn't have any problems. I don't see where there was any room for me to have a problem, seeing as you left a detailed essay of step by step instructions."
Meredith's jaw fell open in offense. "It was not an essay. I merely left a few suggestions that I thought might make the morning go smoothly."
Derek laughed and shook his head. "Suggestions?" He unwrapped one of his arms from around Meredith and reached in his pocket to retrieve a folded up piece of paper. He cleared his throat as he unfolded the paper and began reading it, his voice full of humor. "Do not feed Hanna anything with sugar for breakfast. Do not let her watch cartoons before she is dressed…"
Meredith's face turned red and she grabbed for the paper. Derek was too fast and turned his back to her, holding the paper out of her reach as he continued.
"Do not let her wear her jammies to preschool. Do not…"
"Derek! I can't believe you kept that!" Meredith shrieked as she desperately reached for the paper.
Derek hooted with laughter as he held the paper just out of Meredith's reach. "I told you you were bossy. This only proves it." Derek grinned and tilted his head to the side, admiring how adorable she was when she became embarrassed.
"Derek! This isn't funny! Give me the paper!" Meredith put her hands on both of her hips and tried to glare, doing her best to pretend she was mad.
"If you want it you'll have to come and get it Dr. Grey." Derek lowered his voice and looked her up and down suggestively.
Meredith lost her inner battle and a large grin spread across her face. "You are just plain naughty Derek." She shook her head. "As much as I'd love to sneak around with you in this closet all morning, I can't." Meredith glanced at her watch again. "Shit! Now I'm definitely late. I'm going to get in so much trouble."
Derek laughed again, still plainly amused. "Oh please Mer. What is she going to do?" Derek stuffed the forgotten note back into his pocket, and grabbed Meredith and pulled her close again. His lips found the soft skin on Meredith's neck and he started trailing quick kisses up to her jaw line, obviously not taking the threat of Meredith's new boss seriously.
"She's worse than Bailey Derek. She gets some kind of kick out of bossing me around, seriously." Meredith tried to push Derek off of her but quickly gave in. She opened her mouth and met Derek's tongue with her own, letting all talk of being late, pushed out of her mind.
"Worse than Bailey hu?" Derek laughed as he felt Meredith's small hands find the ties on his scrub pants, struggling to undo the knot.
He was relieved to know Meredith wanted him just as bad as he wanted her, and backed her up against the wall once more. Their lips remained locked in a fiery kiss as his hands went to the knot of her own pants. He had just about untied it when the closet door flew open, causing the sneaky lovers to jump apart.
"Seriously? The supply closet? Seriously, what are you guys… like 12?"
Meredith blushed and Derek tried to remind himself that he was her superior, and stood up straight.
"Do you have a problem with me kissing my girlfriend Yang?" Derek crossed his arms in front of his chest in an intimidating fashion.
"I do when your girlfriend just happens to be my intern." Cristina crossed her arms, mimicking Derek and raised her eyebrows to challenge him.
Meredith quickly stepped in, knowing Derek didn't stand a chance against her feisty best friend. "I'm sorry Cristina, I didn't mean to be late, it's just that we were um… talking about Hanna… and then…"
"And then decided to do the mcnasty in a supply closet?" Cristina filled in helpfully.
"No!" Meredith turned and shot Derek an evil look as he started to laugh, causing him to quickly turn it into a fake cough.
Cristina shook her head. "Mer, you know I hate to do this…Well that's not entirely true, I kind of enjoy it…but everyone knows you were late so you get suture and rectal duty."
"Oh, no! Come on Cristina. Anything but that!" Meredith pleaded, it was a fate worse than death to any surgical intern to have to spend the day out of the OR, performing rectals and repeating tedious sutures.
"Unless you'd like me to explain to your fellow interns that the reason you were late is because you were making out with McDreamy in a closet." Cristina grinned, getting a small amount of pleasure from making her person squirm.
"Fine Cristina." Meredith muttered defeated, slowly walking out of the closet and passing her friend. She turned around and gave them both dirty looks. "If anyone needs me I'll be downstairs with my finger up an ass." Meredith smirked and hurried off, leaving Derek and Cristina chuckling.
Meredith let out a tired sigh as she waited in the long line at the hospital's cafeteria. She wasn't at all hungry, fifteen rectal exams had a way of taking away a person's appetite, but she was thirsty and the pop machine on the first floor was empty. She tapped her foot impatiently, willing the line to move faster. Her break wasn't very long, but if she hurried, she knew she'd get at least ten minutes with Hanna, which was better than nothing.
Meredith wasn't paying much attention as a familiar from in dark blue scrubs stood next to her in line.
"Good afternoon Dr. Grey."
Meredith didn't have to turn to know who it was. She kept her eyes straight ahead, deciding it was Derek's fault she had been late that morning, and therefore his fault that she had been stuck doing rectals and sutures.
"Aw, you're ignoring me." Derek grinned, casually looking around to see if anyone was listening. When Derek saw Meredith still wasn't going to answer, he went on. "You shouldn't ignore me. I'm someone you need to get to know to love."
Meredith finally turned to acknowledge Derek. "Nice try. It was a terrible line the first time, what makes you think it's going to work now?"
"Terrible line?! It convinced you to bring me home with you, remember?" Derek winked quickly, keeping his body language professional, so that anyone watching the two would think they were merely co-workers discussing a case.
"Uh, no. That was the tequila. You were just lucky I was already drunk enough to let you believe your corny pick up line actually worked." Meredith offered a quick, victorious grin, before returning her stare straight ahead.
"Corny?!" Derek scoffed. "Definitely not. I was charming. I do remember that much. Debonair, if I do say so myself."
Meredith turned to offer her rebuke, but rolled her eyes instead. The line moved forward and when it was her turn, Derek quickly stepped in front of her. "Let me get this for you. What'll it be?"
Meredith crossed her arms, unwilling to be charmed by the handsome doctor, and asked the waiting cashier for a Diet Coke. Derek ordered his usual, salad and bottled water, and paid the total. Meredith quickly unscrewed the plastic cap before taking a long drink.
"Diet Coke? That's not a very good lunch." Derek furrowed his brows as he often did towards her eating habits.
Meredith turned towards him and glared. "Well maybe if I hadn't been doing…what I've been doing… all morning… because of you, I'd have an appetite. But at the present time I do not have an appetite. So if I happen to pass out because of malnutrition, you can be happy to know it was your fault. Have a good day Dr. Shepherd!" With that Meredith turned on her heel and hurried angrily away.
Derek tried his hardest not to laugh. But it was pointless. He found her completely irresistible when she was worked up about something. He knew though, that if he wanted to finish what they'd started in the supply closet that morning, he had a lot of groveling to do. A whole lot.
Meredith turned her wrists and stretched her fingers. They were starting to numb and her feet were starting to ache from being on them all day. Meredith trudged back over to the nurses station to retrieve the next chart from her immense pile. She paused in confusion when her eyes fell upon the empty tray. She looked around puzzled, trying to figure out where her charts had disappeared to.
"Excuse me, Nurse? Do you know where the charts that I was assigned to went?" Meredith furrowed her brows perplexed.
"Ya, that doctor over there's been working on 'em." The nurse motioned with her pen to a curtained off exam room.
"Which doctor?" Meredith asked slowly.
The nurse didn't look up. "You know, dark hair, handsome, leans on things. I've heard some of the nurses call him McDreamy."
A slow smile spread across Meredith's face as she walked carefully to the exam room the nurse had pointed out. She peaked in quietly and watched on as Derek skillfully finished stitching up a small gash in a young boy's knee. Her heart softened, and any anger she had held from earlier quickly disappeared, as she watched him tenderly interact with the patient. He finished wrapping some gauze around the boy's wound and spoke something unintelligible by Meredith to the boy's parents and they smiled and stood, shaking Derek's hand.
Meredith quickly ducked out of the curtain and hid on the other side as they thanked Derek again and turned and left. Meredith watched Derek unnoticed, as he opened the last stolen chart, and headed to the next curtained off room.
Meredith followed, keeping out of Derek's sight, and stood outside the curtain as she listened to Derek introduce himself.
"Good evening Mr. Adam's. I'm Dr. Shepherd. I'll be doing your rectal exam today."
Meredith bit her bottom lip to keep from laughing. This was priceless. The chief of Neurology was doing rectal exams. The published, award winning, world renowned, chief of neurology, she repeated in her head. She shook her head, why did he have to be so amazing?
Meredith waited for Derek to finish, and when he emerged from the curtained off area, it was her turn to sneak up behind him and pull him into an empty room.
Derek grinned when he saw it was Meredith. "Well isn't this a change for once? You're trying to take advantage of me."
Meredith laughed. "I am not trying to take advantage. It's just…I, um wanted to say…I'm sorry for snapping at you at lunch. I was just as much to blame for being late this morning, I shouldn't have blamed it all on you."
Derek grinned and pulled her close for a hug. "I'm the one who should be apologizing. I forgot how hard it is being an intern. If I never do a rectal again, it would be too soon."
Meredith giggled and reached up on her tip toes to kiss Derek softly on his lips. He kissed her back gently then pulled away to speak, "So what do you say we go pick up Hanna and put her to bed early, so we can finally have a little alone time?"
Meredith nodded in complete agreement. "That sounds perfect doctor Shepherd."
Derek leaned in and kissed her once more passionately. Before he pulled away, the curtain was thrown open, and Cristina met their surprised looks with an incredulous one.
"You know, if you really want to keep your relationship secret for the next 4 months until Meredith's a resident, you're going to have to try a little harder to keep your hands off of each other." Cristina rolled her eyes as Meredith took a few steps away from Derek.
"Anyways, I came down to tell you you didn't have to finish up all the charts, but the nurse just said you already did?" Cristina asked unbelieving.
"Oh, ya, uh…" Meredith stuttered. "Well, I had a little help."
Cristina looked at them wide eyed as she quickly figured who had helped her. "You got a brain surgeon to do your rectals?!" Cristina nodded proudly. "Nice."
Derek opened his mouth in defense and Meredith and Cristina erupted in laughter. When they regained their composure Cristina spoke excitedly to Meredith. "Burke said you can scrub in with us on a double valve replacement! For some reason he thinks I was too harsh on you this morning, or whatever, and told me to come find you. Hurry, he's scrubbing in in twenty minutes."
Meredith's eyes filled with excitement, and then she looked at Derek and remembered she already had plans. She opened her mouth to turn down the surgery, but Derek spoke before she could.
"Go on Mer. This is an amazing opportunity. I'll pick up Hanna and put her to bed. You go save a life and when you get home, I'll be waiting." Derek winked and looked quickly around before placing a brief kiss on her cheek.
Meredith smiled then looked at Cristina who rolled her eyes and mumbled, "You guys make me sick."
Meredith turned back to Derek and breathed out a happy sigh. "Thank you."
He nodded and watched her hurry excitedly away with Cristina, already counting down the minutes until she would get home.
A/N: I promise that's the last time they get interupted. I just needed to set everything up so you know that Meredith is back at the hospital as an intern (for the next 4 months at least) and that they're keeping their relationship secret from those who don't already know. The next chapter will pick up that night, when Meredith gets home from surgery. Watch for it sometime this weekend. I plan to update "Far from Ordinary" either tomorrow or Friday since that one is almost complete. Remember to review so I know what you're all thinking!!