(A/N) first off this is a warning for a sensitive topic being mentioned in this chapter, that being abortion. I know some people don't like this topic. It's only a couple sentences. And also mistakes were made!!! I put something about George trying to sleep with her in a previous chapter but I am rectifying it in this one just ignore it from the previous chapter because yeah it's being fixed in this one. Eventually I'll take it out of the other chapter but for now it stays. Now on to the good stuff! Thank you so much for all of the positive feedback. I really appreciate it and it helps me to keep writing. You can skip the rest of this note if you want it's just me responding to reviews!
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Waking up was disorienting at first. Feeling an arm around my waist made me groan. So much for no more men. "Please tell me we didn't have sex last night." There was a deep chuckle and then a husky voice said, "No there wasn't any sex last night Meredith, I wish but someone said they don't do one night stands anymore. And just so you know if we'd had sex you would most definitely be sore and you would remember it too."
"Such a big ego you have sir." He laughs.
Smiling too I remember what we had talked about last night. We'd gone to his room and laid next to each other and just talked. He told me about how the Shepherds had practically taken him into the family while his parents were out every night at parties or work, never home with him. How worried he was that they would never see them again because he'd slept with Addison. He may have lost the only family he had with that one night. I told him how shocked and humiliated I was when she showed up and announced to me that I had been sleeping with a married man. How I wished I could change it and how screwed up my reputation now is at the hospital.
After a few drinks he had told me that he'd only dated Addison for those months to feel as though he hadn't ruined his relationship with his brother for nothing. Then he admitted that she had been pregnant and told him. Then she had terminated it. His child, even though he said he'd take care of it on his own, that he'd leave and never tell Derek or anyone who the mother was. In the end it wasn't enough for her and she had gone through with the termination. I told him how sorry I was that she'd done that to him and that she was a heartless bitch. I know that it was her body and her choice but there had been another choice for her. The conversation changed to my absent family and how I was never good enough in my mothers eyes.
The memories of last night are interrupted by my alarm going off on my phone. Noooo. I sigh loudly and grab the pillow under my head and cover my head with it groaning. He chuckled and said, "Go on Mer you'll be late for rounds if you don't go soon." He pulls the pillow from over my head. I knew I needed to but I found it very difficult to take myself out of my comforting space that I had found with him. The thought of leaving had me turning begging eyes in his direction. "Don't make me leave, they said. His own eyes softened noticeably. Sighing he says, "Mer, what kind of friend would I be if I didn't tell you to go to work?"A great one I think to myself.
"If you had the day off we could have spent the day talking like last night." I could just call in sick.
Seeing the thoughtful look on my face gave me away because he narrowed his eyes. Woah now that was a look that made my insides just melt. He stands up and my thoughts immediately turn to the gutter, oh how I wouldn't mind touching those abs of his. Yum. No bad Meredith, stop that. My attention is brought back to him when he says, "Don't even think about calling in to work, come on I'll take you home."
Oh, I had completely forgotten that Izzie had driven me yesterday. Standing up in my wrinkled clothes from yesterday I turn away when he goes to find a shirt to try not and shoe how much his naked torso and chest affects me.
Soon we were leaving and I was giving him directions to my house. He pulled up in front of my house and put the car in park. "If you want I can give you a ride to work." I nod, "Okay I'll run inside get dressed and come back." Leaving the car I run inside. Going up to my room and to my closet I pull on clothes and put my scrubs in my bag. I go to leave my room only to run into George. He opens his mouth to say something but I am in a hurry to get back to mark so I start to say, "George I have to get going now and don't have time for conversation-"
I'm cut of by his lips being pressed to mine. Before I can get over my shock and pull away he is. "I'm in love with you." He says. Going to stop that right now because, no he doesn't. He doesn't know a thing about me. "George I don't feel anything for you other than friendship, now I have to go." Why did you need to do this. I knew you liked me but I thought it was just a little crush that would go away. I quickly walk down the stairs and out the door. Reaching the car I get in and huff In angered irritation while slamming the door closed.
Mark, seeing the look on my face says, "You've been gone barely fifteen minutes, what could have possibly pissed you off?"
"Why won't life just give me a break? I just want a break from stupid guys. Is that too much to ask?!" I shout in frustration. "Did I do something to bring this on?" He sounds worried and concerned so I look over at him. I see resignation in his face so I'm quick to reassure him by saying, "No, my friend and roommate George just kissed me and professed his love for me. I feel nothing for him other then friendship. I can't deal with this getting around not while all the gossip about me and Derek are still going around the hospital. All I need is for rumors to go around that I broke sweet George's heart." Slumping against the seat sadly I sigh loudly.
Closing my eyes I hear him ask with a serious expression on his face, "You want me to kick his ass for you?"
Eyes snapping open I let a bit of a laugh escape from me. "Who, George or Derek?" He thinks for a second before saying, "Both."
"No that wouldn't help but now you owe me for making leave bed this morning to deal with this. I think to repay me you should let me stay at the hotel again tonight." He laughs. "Fair enough but you know if you'd just asked I would have let you anyway right?"
"Yeah, But now you have to pick me up from work too." I smirk at him. He just laughs again and starts driving to the hospital. Thankfully we make it before the major traffic and I even get there early. Getting out I say, "See you in a few hours Mark."
"Yeah, see you then."
Getting to the locker room I start changing into scrubs. There's hardly anyone in here yet so when I finish I sit on the bench. Not long after I do the others walk in. I fold my clothes quickly and stuff them in my cubby without looking at George. He must have been doing the same because everyone was looking closely at us.
"What's going on guys?" Izzie asks. None of your business is what I want to say but instead I say, "Nothing." Honestly to me it wasn't really anything but I'm sure they'd think differently. Cristina smiles and says, "Oh, come on you know we are gonna find out eventually."
"If you tell us maybe we can help." Izzie offers. Yeah no I don't want that. She'd be all like just give George a chance but he's just not my type. George says, "There's nothing to tell." Izzie looks skeptical and Cristina says, "That means there's something to tell."
"There's nothing to tell." He repeats pouting. Going to our first patient Burke asks, "Okay who would like to present?" Of course Cristina is the one to do it. "Keith Paulus, admitted last night with chest pains. Status post acute M.I. No family or personal history of heart disease, no cardiac risk factors. "He's healthy as a horse," The woman in the room says. The patient responds with, "A horse who's in bed after just having a heart attack."
Burke clears his throat, "Mr.Paulus unfortunately, the scan shows what looks like a mass around your heart, a very, very large mass. He questioned if that meant a tumor, leading the woman to say that can't possibly be. Burke tells them he'd like to do an Angiogram today to see what we're dealing with. The next patient we see is an eleven year old admitted for a minor head injury. Derek tells the parents, "We are going to keep an eye on him. Any recommendations?" He asks us. And since I like neuro I say, "Traumatic brain injuries could indicate anything from a concussion to intercranial hemorrhaging. I'd start with an HP, so a thorough neuro exam and get a C.T."
"And that's what we'll do, Grey, Karev get on that."
And so everyone except us leave. We Shaun into the wheelchair and start walking down the hall. "So what happened with you and O'Malley?" Figures I couldn't just get a peaceful day. "Nothing."
"Well whatever it is I've done worse."
"I didn't do anything, and why do you think I did something? Maybe it was George."
"Because Bambi looks pissed and hurt. You look guilty."
"The guilt is not because of what I did but my response to what he did." He looked confused but dropped it, "Here we are buddy." Alex says to Shaun and helps him up onto the table for C.T. We finished up the scans while I went to fill some charts out. My phone vibrates so I pull it from my pocket to see a message from Mark.
So, how has your day been Mer? Any better than this morning? - Mark
My morning was great until someone made me leave bed this morning. Everyone keeps asking what happened with George, assuming it was something I did. It was something he did and my response was acceptable.- Mer
I could still kick their asses for you. Yes your response was acceptable. It's not your fault you feel nothing for him. Personally I can't blame you when you have someone like me instead. ;)
-Mark
True, maybe I'll say sorry George I have no more room for men in my life when I have one with an ego the size of Texas. ;) -Mer
Ouch, That hurts Mer, it really hurts. Guess I'll just cancel that non one night stand date we have tonight, you know since my ego is big enough to keep me company. -Mark
I can practically feel his smirk through that text.
No there's plenty of room for you, me, and your ego in the room. -Mer
I'll see you soon. -Mark
Yes you will. -Mer
Shoving my phone back in my pocket I go to Shaun's room to check on him but noticed something was wrong. "Page Shepherd And Karev now." Karev gets here first so I tell him to prepare the kit and I start prepping Shaun's head. Shepherd comes in, "Okay, fill me in."
"I was doing his routine neuro check. I noticed he was altered. Most likely a clot. Acute Hydrocephalus."
"Damn. We need to remove the pressure now."
"Cranial access kit's ready." The fathers refuse to leave the room even when Derek told them that he was going to drill a hole in their sons skull. He drills the whole to relieve the pressure and says, "I want neuro checks every hour."
One of the fathers ask if he's okay. "He's in the clear for now."
Alex is paged and walks out quickly muttering that it's a 911. Taking the charts out I leave to go update them and stop when I see George. He stops too and looks as though he wants to say something but I just turn around and walk back the way I came and end up at a dead end hallway. There's a bunch of chairs in the dead end so I sit in one. I hear whistling and then Alex is in here and sitting across from me. "What are you doing?"
"Hiding," I say. "Alright so you slept with O'Malley, get over it already." Wait what?
"Is that what he told you?" I ask. "Uh no i was just kidding. I mean it's not like I'd be surprised though."
Excuse me I thought.
"Not that's it's any of your business but actually, he kissed me, told me he loved me, and I rejected him."
"Oh that must have been rough, getting rejected by the girl who sleeps with inappropriate men when she's drunk, not that I have a problem with it. I find it charming.
"You sleep with inappropriate woman when your sober."
"One inappropriate woman and Izzie forgave me for that. O'Malley he's not gonna get over this."
"Izzie hasn't forgiven you."
"Yes, she has."
"No she hasn't, she may be sleeping with you but she'll never see you the way she saw you before you slept with Olivia."
"Why are you trying to piss me off?" He asked irritated. "Because your trying to suggest that it's forgivable for you to sleep with Olivia but not for me to reject Georges kiss" he shrugs in response.
"You told him?" George asks, hurt and anger in his tone. He stutters our how he can't believe how wrong he was about me and starts stalking down the hallway. Alex and I follow after him telling him to calm down and that it's not what he thinks. "What's going on?" Izzie asks concerned.
Alexs clever response is, "Fetus is freaking out."
"I can see that, George why are you freaking out?"
"You think that someone is... your friend you know and think at the very least, that she'd respect your privacy." It's my privacy too. He continued to stalk out the doors to the stairway. Cristina asks, "What's going on?" I don't hear the response because I follow George to the stairway. "George, can we at least talk about this?" I ask, obviously there is some shit that needs to be cleared up.
"I don't want to talk! Not to you! I wanted to keep my mouth shut, and if you hadn't kept running every time you saw me, you would know that!"
"You only want to talk now because you told everyone that you rejected me after the kids!" He says scathingly. At this point the others had followed and said, "You kissed George?!"
Now he looks confused and says, "You didn't tell them?"
"No." I said just wishing to be at the hotel right now.
"Damn it!" He yells and turns only to fall down the stairs. "George!" We all say. Izzie rushes down to help him and takes him to a consult room. I wait for the others outside it and ask if he was going to be okay. Alex says it was just his shoulder and he'd be fine.
"Not exactly what I meant." Izzie goes to leave but then turns and says, "Meredith..." I turn and look at her. "Just so you know if you can't fix this thing with George that I'm on his side." She doesn't even know the whole story. And already she judges me before him. Of course, because I'm just the whore who sleeps with everyone and hurts everyone. But it hurt me this time so I say, "Izzie, shut up. And just so you know. If you cause problems at the house with me, then you will have to move out." Take that you judgmental ass. She has a disbelieving look on her face. As though she never thought that I would consider kicking her out. They don't know me none of them do. The only ones who know me even a little bit are Mark, Cristina, and Derek. Maybe they weren't my friends after all then.
Cristina does say something though, "He's the weaker kid, even I don't beat on weaker kids. It's cheap."
"If he hadn't have kissed me than none of this would have happened because I wouldn't have made a move on him ever."
She nods in acceptance and before she leaves she says, "I'm on your side by the way." I nod in thanks. I walk out of the corridor and to then elevator not even going to change my clothes because I just want to leave.
Then of course Derek gets on the elevator too. He looks at my face then starts to say something.
"Don't."
"Don't?" He asked.
"Don't talk to me not right now, I may have just lost most of my friends over something stupid, so just don't say anything unless it's about medicine."
"You won't lose me." He says.
"Your not my friend." "Yes, I am. Well I could be." That's when I realize something and I voice it.
"I don't want to be your anything." The elevator dings and I walk out. I get a text.
I'm here, ready to go back to the hotel when you are. -Mark
I had a really bad day... - Mer
Come on then and we'll go to our place and talk about it." -Mark
That makes me smile and so I walk out the hospital doors and see him leaning against his car. Walking right up to him, I hug him. His strong arms wrap around me and I feel content. "Let's go Mer." And we get into his car and drive off.
(A/N) woo I hit 3k words! I hope you all enjoyed. Don't forget to leave a review. Up next
Mark has to leave for a while. :( And Mer has to deal with the aftermaths of George and Izzie. That's another thing. What did you think of Merediths response to Izzie? Should she kick her out or hold out.
Fun fact: I really don't like Izzie. She leads Alex on all the time and I really like Alex. And her and George's relationship in the show was just weird.
