Chapter 7- Lets Do It Together
The elevator arrived on the floor, the boys walked out, everyone around the nurse's station, and those in the hallway went silent as Meredith Grey walked around the corner and right into the one person who she was scared as hell to see.
With his eyes glowing and a smile across his face that was making Mark want to throw up, Derek grabbed her arm and steadied her.
"Hey.. You okay?"
"Umm.. yea…. With that, her pager went off and Derek let out a big sigh.
"Do you have to take it?"
Without realizing it, she blurted out, "Just Christina"
"Crap"
Crap?"
"I wasn't suppose to tell you that"
With his head tilted to side, "Ohh I see, being your person, she paged you so you didn't have to talk to me."
"So she is the reason you have been able to avoid me.."
Derek then turned around and looked up to see Christina overlooking the nurse's station. When she saw him turn up to look at her, she turned around to speed walked over to the surgery board.
This made Meredith lightly giggle, which made Derek turn right around.. Missing her infectious laugh..
Scared that she was standing in front of him, waiting for the other shoe to drop, screaming at herself for blurting out her escape route that always worked in the past, Meredith did not even realize she moved until the door closed to the on-call room.
Meredith was now sitting down on an on-call room bed. Now nervously toying with her wrists, she watched as Derek grabbed a chair from the nearby desk.
He pulled the chair right in front of where she was sitting on the on-call room bed. He then put her legs in between his, and brought his hands to her knees.
What the hell am I doing? Meredith kept repeating that line over and over in her head. This is the guy that lied to me about his wife, this guy choose her over me, he walked away, he pushes, he doesn't follow through, he dates his nurse….
"Therapy works for you," broke Meredith completely out of her trance.
With her head down a little and lightly biting on her bottom lip she whispered out, "Yea… Yea it does."
She looked back questioningly at Derek.
"Meredith…. I know I have made a lot of mistakes.. We both have made so many mistakes"
Sick of playing this cat and mouse game, Meredith pushed back, "I am glad you finally admit to that."
"What is that suppose to mean?"
"I don't know Derek, maybe because for the past 4 months everything that happened to us was my fault."
Derek let out a much needed sigh…"Meredith"
"No.. Do Not Meredith Me… Derek yesterday was a lot for me.. You complain I never open up.. well neither do you."
When Derek first saw her this morning his eyes were glowing, now he looked tired with defeat.
Meredith was waiting.. waiting for him to get up and leave. That is what Derek did, it would get to a point where he no longer wanted to discuss what was going on.. She was waiting… and then he said,
"Let me go to therapy with you"
She didn't say anything.. She just looked up and gave him a nod to continue.
"Therapy works for you.. you have trust issues with me.. if that is a way for you to continue to be open with me.. then lets do therapy.. together"
With his head tilted to the side, "Meredith?"
"No."
Another update later tonight! Thanks for the comments everyone!!
Again, let me know what you think…. Kate
