So guess who had a case of insomnia last night. Me. So I decided to do a chapter two for the heck of it, regardless of whether or not anyone really cares.
As Meredith lay on the bed, tears welled in her eyes, she kept replaying the day over and over in her head. This was not how she thought it would go. It was as if the earthquake had shifted the ground out from under her, and now she stood on a pile of crumpled remains of what use to look like a great life, with a perfect family and a dreamy husband but now she couldn't help but wonder were the foundations really as stable as she had thought. Perhaps not, Derek had cheated on her and she didn't know what to make of it, or how to make the pain that had engulfed he go away, so she just buried her head in the pillow and cried and she kept crying into the pillow until she heard a knock at the door.
"Can we come back yet." Maggie voice came from behind the door.
"Yes." Meredith sniffed, sitting up and wiping her eyes.
"The dudes an arse." Alex said sitting next to her.
"Yeah a total jerk." Maggie said dragging the chair over close to the bed.
"A McBastard." Meredith said
"That's what Cristina would say."
"Okay he a mcbastard." Alex agreed trying to be cristina.
"McBastard, Oh I get Mcdreamy, McBastard, that's clever, and yeah total McBastard." Maggie agreed.
"Her name Natalie Hughes." Meredith said.
"What sort of name is Natalie." Alex said.
"It's the name skanks and Hoes have." He said.
"She's not, she's a scientist apparently." Meredith said.
"It's like all of a sudden I don't recognise my life. My husband lives in another city, my best friend lives in another country, I mean dammit, I just he cheated on me, and I said I thought he was cheating on me, but I hoped he wasn't, I could still convince myself he wasn't and now, I don't know what I'm going to do."Meredith admitted.
"How did it happen Meredith." Maggie asked.
"He said he met her at a bar."
"a bar that's so tacky."Maggie chuckled.
"I met Derek at a bar." Meredith said frowning. "joes bar."
"Oh, Well Joe's is a classy establishment and I'm putting my foot in it so I'm going to shut up." Maggie rambled, which had meredith's mind not been so congested with rage, anger and pain she might have found endearing that her sister also rambled awkwardly.
"He was drunk, apparently drinking because I didn't show up." Meredith continued.
"So he's blaming you?" Alex asks.
"No I don't know, apparently this Natalie showed up and was drinking and they ended up in bed together."Meredith said
"and he apologised and all but had a break down on the phone and I just couldn't do it. I didn't know what to do, I don't know what to do, or what will happen. I mean he can't just leave, but he already has, hasn't he and I pushed him away, I told him to go to DC, I'm like my mother."
"You're not you mother." Alec reassured her.
"Yeah you didn't give one of your kids away." Maggie chimed in and they all laughed for a moment.
"It's just, I was having such a great day and everything was working, or at least I thought it was but my husband cheated on me weeks ago and the only reason I found out was because I called and his, his, one night stand answered." Meredith said
"Wait, if he cheated on you weeks ago, why was she answering the phone." Alex asked.
"I don't know, I didn't asked, he said it was only one time." Meredith replied as the tears began to well again.
"Jerk." Alex said.
"Mcbastard."Maggie added.
"So what are you going to do." Alex asked trying to be her person, despite how much he wished for Cristina to back.
"I don't know." Meredith said. "I can't just leave him, or, I mean he doesn't live in the same house anymore, but the kids, I can't. It's not simple."
"Part of me wants to castrate him, then murder him, I just so angry, furious, with him. He's in DC, basking in the praise from the president, doing ground breaking work, being able to focus just on his research and I'm looking after his kids, working at hospital, doing my own research, saving 89 people and then cheats because he can;t cope or something."
"Plus I think he's going to catch the next plane out her and try some stupid romantic gesture crap."
"Do you want me to go kick his arse?" Alex asked, causing a brief smile to flitter across Meredith face.
"No, I think I want to go home and down a bottle of tequila." Meredith said but then she remembered she couldn't because she had to be the responsible parent and not get plastered, forget about her family and go screw some doe eyed girl.
"Zola and Bailey." She simply said.
"I'll come over and look after them."Maggie offered.
"No, you're coming over to get drunk with me." Meredith said. "You too Alex."
"I wish I could Meredith, I do but I promised Jo, I'd take her home tonight because her cars at the shop." Alex said.
"Some person you are, can you take Zola and Bailey then?"
"Why don't you get Amelia to, she's not on call to night."Maggie suggested
"His sister." Meredith said, like Amelia was liable to beblamed as well.
"That's Actually nor a bad idea, she doesn't drink, she lives as your place every other night and in a lot of ways Meredith I think she prefers you to him most of the time." Alex said.
"Fine" Meredith said, scrolling through her phone.
"Hey, Meredith."
"Can you come over and watch the kids tonight." Meredith asked
"I don't think so." Amelia said.
"I just had sex, I mean it's the first time since, well since before I came here, and it wasn't just run of the mill in a dirty bar stall sex, it was amazing spine tingling, ecstasy moaning sex, so yeah no, I can't watch your kids tonight." Amelia said
"Did you have a surgery or something." She asked, as Meredith started to tear up again.
"no, umm derek, derek, he cheated on me." Meredith said
"and i'll come watch your kids." Amelia said.
Okay so it's not that long and i kind of hate it, I'm so not a fan of portraying Meredith as a weak individual but I'm like half asleep and I doubt I'll until later so I'm going for it. I think might continue this story because I kind like where it could go and all things I could do.
