A.N. Thanks for the reviews. It seems to be a universal consent that this story needs to continue. I'll do it as long as you, readers, keep giving me reviews. Don't hesitate to let me know if I do mistakes in my writing. I'm French Canadian and still learning the language.

Chapter 2 – The morning after

For the first time in about a decade Meredith Grey was waking up after a night at the bar with no headache. It was king of unusual to her. Normally bar went with tequila and a night of inappropriate sex at her place where she dismissed the poor man with her shower excuse as soon as she was waking up. None of that happened this time. She even managed to think about something else than Derek and the nurse. Meredith realize, right at that moment, that she wouldn't have thought about Derek if it wasn't for the empty space left in her bed. At least, no one else was there either.

Meredith was still thinking about the conversation she had with Mark at Joe's. The second official meeting of the Dirty Mistresses Club was a success. Even knowing that Addison wasn't around and that she was pretty much over with Derek, the spirit of it was all there all evening. The same as it was when Mark first showed up in Seattle. The little flirty and innocent conversation was like the one they used to have back then. Meredith promised herself not to think about the fact that Mark is still Derek's friend and Meredith felt a little awkward about becoming friend with Mark. She didn't want to put him in a bad situation where he could be stuck between Derek and her.

When Meredith rushed to the kitchen to get her morning coffee there were Izzie, Alex and Cristina waiting to see how she was. They were expecting a Dark and Twisty Meredith and what they've seen was quite a surprise for all of them. Meredith seemed to be smiling. Cristina stepped forward and asked Meredith if she was alright. Meredith answered, giggling, that she was fine, not a fake fine to hide her real state, but that she was seriously fine. She told them that they don't have to worry about anything because McSteamy already brought her moral up the previous night. As she was saying that, Meredith realized how bad that sound and tried to explain in her usual babbling that nothing happened, nothing that they were thinking about anyway. Meredith wasn't about to give them any explanation and asked to know who was riding with her for work this morning. It happened to be all four of them. "Crap!" Meredith thought, " I don't think they will let me go easy on that one."

Moments later at the hospital

When Meredith got in the hospital, everyone was looking at her. They were all aware that she and McDreamy weren't a couple anymore. The news always did travel fast in the hospital. They all knew that Derek and Rose on a date the previous night and were all looking for a sign that Meredith was all crushed by the break up. However, what they saw let them a little perplex. This wasn't the way things were supposed to be according to the story. Meredith shouldn't be smiling this morning, but there she was. Even when she saw Derek walking its way to the cafeteria with Rose she was still smiling, maybe a little too much for her to be really fine, but this time Meredith didn't want to fall down the same path she went the last time.

"Hey, fellow Dirty Mistress! How are you this morning?" Mark asked her as she got to the nurse station.

"As good as it can be. So what on the board today? Is there anything that will keep me as far as possible from neuro? Not that I don't like neuro, but I really don't feel like it this morning! Meredith said.

"Well I do in fact have something you might want to scrub in. A fireman, he was on-call and things went bad. The building exploded. He has severe burns, needs skin transplant. So if my Dirty Mistress is up to it, she can scrub in." Mark told her.

"She's up to it" Meredith answered as they walked away with the chart to pay the patient a little visit.

Derek was standing not far from the nurse station and overheard Mark and ,of course, assumed the worse. "How could Mark have done this to him?" he thought. "With Meredith. How could they?" Derek didn't know what to think. His best friend slept with his ex-girlfriend, so he thought, the same day they broke up. He had mixed feelings about this. He was wandering if Mark will always still the women of his life. He was wandering what their friendship could mean to Mark. It looked like hormones got the best of Mark again, so he had to do Meredith, one of the few he couldn't get before last night.

A.N. I still haven't decided if I'll go for a Meredith/Mark romance or if I'll keep it a friendship between them and find a way to bring back Meredith/Derek together is some way that it won't feel too awkward. I would like your opinions in that matter to make my decision. Also, I still don't know how many chapters there will be. I think I'll keep doing it up to the day I'll dry out of ideas or dry out of reviews. So if you want me to continue, please review.