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Title: Could be Anything
Summary: SEQUEL TO INTO THE DARK: Take place immediately after the last chapter, Meredith must now deal with the fact that Derek is no longer married and he wants her back but is she willing to get hurt all over again? Takes place after the Code Black incident.
Note: You don't have to read Into the Dark to understand this story but the first chapter may be a bit confusing and to all of my faithful readers - WELCOME BACK AND ENJOY!!!
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There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment, and we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp. Commitments are complicated. We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make. True commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice. Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully.
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Chapter 2 Open Your Eyes
All this feels strange
and untrue
and I won't waste a moment
without you
Meredith had been given off a week due to the trauma that she experienced due to the Code Black. She had never been more grateful to have time off especially with the recent turn of events.
She hadn't talked to Derek since the incident at the harbor and Izzie thought she was crazy for not taking him back but the fact was that she wanted to so bad but in simple sentence, she was afraid of love. Derek was the one and she was sure of that but he had hurt her more than words could ever describe.
Before going back to work, Meredith had decided to go and visit her mother.
"I'm exhausted." Her mother said.
"Me too."
"I was going at it all night in the on-call room. What's your excuse?"
"Mom!" Meredith was mortified.
"I'll tell you, that man makes me purr like kitten."
"Mom!" Meredith couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"When he isn't making me growl like a tiger."
"Stop!" This was not a conversation Meredith wanted to start her day with.
Ellis laughed to herself, "And my husband wonders why I'm not interested in him anymore."
Meredith didn't know how to respond to that.
"If he had any balls at all he would leave on his own. No. He plays stupid. He's waiting for me to kick him out. I come home with a hickey on my shoulder. A hickey! For god's sake like I'm a sex-crazed teenager. Which let's face it these days I am. And what does Thatcher do? Pretend he doesn't see it." Ellis said.
When Meredith got to the hospital, she was not in the best mood.
"What's wrong with you?" Cristina asked her.
"My mommy's a filthy whore."
"Well so are you, so get over it."
"I really hate you Cristina."
"I hate you too Mere, now come on we have rounds."
She was looking over one of Burke's cases that she had been assigned to, when someone came up behind her.
"That guy's pretty much a goner, huh?" A stranger said to her.
"Sensitivity. I like that in a stranger. Are you new here?" She asked.
"Visiting. Confounded by all the rain and it's only my first day in town."
"You get used to it."
"It makes me wanna stay in bed all day." She couldn't believe this guy.
"We just met and already you're talking about bed. Not very subtle."
"Subtle never been my strong suit. So, do you ever go out with co-workers?"
"I um…make it a rule not to."
"Then I am so glad that I don't work here."
"Are you hitting on me? In a hospital?"
"Would that be wrong?" he asked.
"Meredith."
Meredith extended her hand and they shook hands, before she could catch his name Derek punched him and he was on the floor bleeding.
"What the hell was that!" she exclaimed.
"That was Mark."
"Mark from New York Mark?"
"Yes, that Mark."
"Oh."
"Punching people out in my surgical floor. My head of neuro-surgery punching people out on my surgical floor." Dr. Webber yelled to Derek, Addison and Meredith, who were all in his office.
"Put the ice back on your hand." Meredith scolded Derek.
"My hand is fine."
"Put the damn ice back on your 2 million dollar a year hand. Now would someone tell me what the hell happened?" Richard asked.
Derek looked at Addison, making sure that she was going to be the one tell the story, "That was Mark."
"Who's Mark?" Richard asked yet another question.
"He and Derek used to work together back in New York. And … umm … They … We were all close friends. Until Derek found us in bed together."
"You forgot to mention that he had been my best friend for almost my entire life." Derek said.
Richard turned to Derek, "You put your weight behind this?"
"Yes sir, she's no longer my wife."
"What?" Richard didn't know the news, "Since when?"
Meredith shifted uncomfortably in her seat, she still didn't understand why she was in there.
"Last week, after the bomb incident. He said he couldn't stay married to me knowing that he was in love with someone else." Addison spoke up.
"Can you two handle this?" The chief asked.
"We have to Richard, but I don't know how much longer I can stand it if that crack - whore is still here." Derek said.
"And you Addison?"
"Same, as long as the slutty intern doesn't get assigned to me, then everything will work out perfectly." Addison said.
"Addison you have no right to say that about her." Derek defended Meredith.
"Derek, I don't know why you're defending her, she won't take you back . The whole hospital knows that she doesn't want you back."
Meredith sunk lower in her seat. "Addison would you please shut up." Meredith said, without realizing she allowed her thoughts to flow out of her mouth.
Addison's eyes shot open, along with Derek's and the chief's.
"I'm sorry but the problems going on between your ex-husband and I do not concern you. That is our business and not yours. Second you have no right to call me slutty when you're the one that committed adultery with you're ex-husband's best friend. You are far more slutty than I am and I am guessing that you called Mark out here just to sleep with him."
Addison was about to respond when Mark peeked his head into the office.
"I'm sorry to interrupt this pleasant conversation but I think I'm gonna need to get this gash on my head fixed and I believe it was Dr. Bailey who said that Dr. Grey was the only intern free at the moment to help me." Mark grinned.
"Can't you do it yourself you pompous jackass." Derek said.
"I heard that Dr. Grey is excellent in her abilities and I would love it if she could assist me." Mark grinned once again, knowing that he was pissing Derek off.
Derek was about to have another go at Mark, when Meredith stepped in front of him.
"Derek, he's not worth it."
Derek seemed to calm down and sat back down.
"I'll take care of you're stitches, Dr …?" Meredith said.
"Sloan, you may have heard of me, I'm best plastic surgeon on the east coast."
"Sorry, I haven't heard of you. I'm not the interested in cosmetic surgery." Meredith responded.
"Derek and I always did have the same taste in women." Mark said while Meredith was cleaning up his cut.
"Excuse me?" she asked
"You're Derek's lusty intern, right? Heard about you all the way back in New York you're famous."
"Hmm, well I heard about you all the way here in Seattle so I guess we have a lot in common."
"We're the dirty mistresses."
"I suppose we are."
"My 400 dollar an hour shrink says that because behind this rugged and confident exterior, I'm self destruction and self loathing to an almost pathological degree."
"Hey, we do have a lot in common."
"You know it's funny, Derek--Derek walks in on me naked with his wife actually in the throes. And he just turns around and walks away, but he sees me so much as talking to you and I'm on the ground bleeding. Interesting, don't you think?" He said with a smirk on his face.
"I know Derek loves me."
"Then why aren't the two of you back together already, why do you think I'm out here."
"It's complicated."
"Uncomplicated it."
"I wish it were that easy."
She was about to start suturing his face, when he stopped her.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"You need stitches."
"I know, hold the mirror."
Outside of the room, Cristina, Izzie, Alex and George were all watching him.
"Why is he suturing his own face?" George asked.
"To turn me on." Cristina smirked.
"Because he's Mark Sloan. He's like the go to plastic surgeon on the East Coast." Alex said to them.
"That's the guy Addison was sleeping with?" George whispered.
"Well, you can't blame her, can you?" Izzie said.
"No, not really."
Meredith came out shortly.
"McSexy wants a x-ray and I don't think it would be a good idea if I took him."
"I'm on it." Alex and scurried away.
"McSexy?" Cristina suggested.
"No" Meredith said.
"McYummy?" Izzie tried.
"No." Both Cristina and Izzie said at the same time.
"McSteamy." Meredith said.
"Ah, there it is." Cristina said.
"So Derek punched a boy for talking to you." Izzie joked.
"Shut up."
"It's like we're back in high school."
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