Love From Beyond
Chapter 2
Meredith had just climbed bed when she realized that she once again forgot to turn the light off.
"Derek can you get the light?"
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she realized what she said tears came to her eyes. He was gone but it still felt right to rely on him for the smallest of things. They had had many talks the past on many nights. As she got out of bed to turn off light her mind brought back one of those many conversations.
Flashback
Meredith had just climbed into bed after a long shift at the hospital and Derek was still in the bathroom getting ready for bed. Then the light flicked off in the bathroom and out came Derek with a shy smile on his face, he noticed Meredith was comfortable in bed.
"What am I going to do with you?" he said as he placed a peck on her lips.
"You know the rule the last the last in bed gets to turn off the lights."
"Although it seems most nights you just tend to get to bed right before I come out of the bathroom just so you don't have to get the light Mrs. Shepherd."
Meredith looked up at him innocently with a small smile on her face.
"Who me? Derek you really think I have a plan just so I don't have to do the smallest thing?"
"Yes, I do."
Meredith just rolled her eyes at him good naturally and smiled.
"You know Mer, I can't do it all the time I might not be here one day, and then what will you do."
"Get my new husband to do it or do it before I get bed."
Derek just laughed at that comment, hopped in bed beside her, kissed her goodnight, and turned off the light.
Meredith came out or her memory and turned off the light and stumbled back to bed and let thoughts of happier times help her drift off to sleep.
The next morning Meredith awoke in a good mood, as she was getting ready for work when a picture out of the side of her eye caught her attention. It was of her, Derek, Addison Forbes-Montgomery, and Mark Sloane.
She and Addison had been friends; since they were toddlers because they grew up next door each other once she and her family moved next door since her father Jefferson Montgomery was accepting a position at Seattle Grace where Meredith's mother also worked. Whenever either one had to stay home alone because their mom or dad was working, they would sleepovers so that neither was alone.
Even though, Mark and Addison had moved to New York after college, they were still close because as it turned out Derek and Mark had grown up together as next-door neighbors as well in New York. They all joked about it was fate that had brought them all together and from then on, they were all always together.
Meredith was glad to have such close friend. Yes, she had Izzie, Alex, Christina, and George, but they only knew as much as she wanted them to. Mark and Addison knew her from the inside out.
Meredith h ad even thought for about moving to New York for a split second after Derek died but thought better of it because she was not ready to be that close to Derek family or where he grew up. Although that did not stop Derek mother Carol from trying. She had even tried to invoke that it is what Derek would have wanted her close to his family.
Granted Meredith did not have of her own left in Seattle because her father left her and her behind and her mother had died of a heart attack three years earlier because of Alzheimer's disease, but she and Derek had built a life here that she was not willing to give up quite yet.
Just as she was about to head out the door, there was a knock.
"Coming"
She opened the front a moment later, and was shocked to see on the other side Addison.
"What are you doing here?"
She laughed and then said
"What I can't stop by and see my best friend?"
"But when best friend said lives on the west coast and the other on the east coast they usually call before visiting."
Addison just rolled her eyes and smiled at Meredith's attitude.
"I knew if I called you and told you I was coming you'd say you were fine and try to talk to me out of it. Therefore, I thought it would just better if I surprised you."
"You're right I would have tried to talk you out of coming because I really am fine."
"Mer, I know you which you seem to forget. I also know that you are not fine because Derek died two months ago and I know you have not been out of the house since because I've talked to Richard and Carol."
"Look Addie I know it's just so hard to go anywhere without seeing him everywhere."
"I know, Mer and no one is asking you to move on until your ready, but, we are all just worried about you."
"I love you all for worrying about me but, I just want to be left with my memories for a little while longer."
Addison watched as tears filled her best friend's eyes and her hart broke for her.