Chapter 11

Chapter 10.

No, I have been waiting, but I still don't own Grey's Anatomy,

A/N I feel annoyed right now, David Cook just won! Yuck, I was for David Archuleta. Aww man. Anyways thanks for the reviews! Review more please!

For the past nights, Meredith got nightmares, it all started when Derek chose Addison over her, her dreams weren't always the same things but it usually was about the woods and, or Christina, but tonight was different, Alex, George and Izzy knew about her situation, Meredith would be in her room and then she would start to cry, then she would move to one of their rooms, they didn't mind at all because Meredith would do the same for them if anything happened.

That night Meredith started whimpering, she woke up and pictured the things such as trees coming to get her, she cried loud, so all of them woke up, except Izzy and Denny who were doing the nasty in Izzy's room. Meredith crawled to the corner of the room and started to bawl her eyes out, George was kind of hung-over because he drank a lot of scotch the day before, Alex awoke from deep slumber and saw Meredith in the corer, he started to crawl to her to comfort her.

"Not again" George said pulling the pillow over his eyes, the rest of the people were very confused, they didn't understand what Meredith was going through.

Alex gave George a stern glare, "don't you dare start George" Alex would do anything to protect Meredith, she was like a sister to him, so of course as a big brother, he comforted her.

"Tell me what you saw, Mer" Alex said calmly, the guests were all staring at him, because they didn't know what was happening. "Tell me what you saw, was it Cris again?" He repeated, Mark had a worried look on his face, full of concern and pity for Meredith, Derek looked the same and Callie just looked bothered.

Mark knew by the sight of Alex's actions that this happened regularly, because if this was the first time, Alex would be in panic, just like the rest of them, all they could hear were Meredith's cries for a while, and then she answered.

"It was that day, Lex." She said using his nickname she had given him, "The tub, I didn't remember anything about that day, then I keep seeing myself." Meredith said crying.

Alex silently cursed himself, if she didn't know, none of this would have been happening. "Should I have not told you?" Alex asked concerned.

"Yeah Alex, I should have known. It's not your fault" Meredith said crying a little louder this time, she laid her head on his chest, he could fell that her shirt was wet, she had cried into it.

"Calm down Mer, think of all the fun we had, remember our fake-date?" He said chuckling; they remembered the day that they pretended to go on a date so that some girl would stop stalking Alex.

Meredith forced a smile, but she was still crying as loud as ever, "It won't go away Alex, make it go away" she said.

"Mer, think of the good times and force it out, Mer, it will be okay." He said reassuringly, she stopped crying for a while but he could feel her body shaking. "Remember the ice cream shop, the food fight we had in there" he said. They had a food fight in the ice cream shop and they got into lots of trouble. "Remember, the beach when I taught you how to surf."

"It won't work" Meredith said crying harder.

"Just push it all out, think of all we can do, it was one time and I bet you won't do it again." Alex said, Mark was clueless he had know idea on what they were talking about, the tub I mean, Derek on the other hand, knew what he was saying, Alex told him about it during their fight.

"Wow Alex, you should try psych sometime," Callie joked, Alex practically growled at her but he couldn't do anything right now because a crying Meredith was in his arms.

"Don't you dare talk to him like that, he is the one helping her" George said coming into his defense, because like a family, they had fights, but they will always stick up to each other no matter what.

Callie looked shocked; she had never seen this side of her husband before. So she fell silent. "Okay, okay get the stick out of your ass." She said, George just glared at her. Callie just went back to her spot and closed her eyes, she didn't understand why the guys in the hospital always wanted to comfort and help Meredith Grey, but she just shrugged it off, but she couldn't help but feel even a little bit jealous because she never had friends that would help her through her situations.

"Mer, it's going to be okay" Mark said, Alex smiled at him, 'He could be a good guy' he thought to himself, but his grip on her grew tighter.

Meredith sunk deeper into his hug. She stopped crying for a while, but now she was shivering because of the cold, Mark approached her and hugged her, taking her arms away from Alex and into his, he pressed his chest against hers and he felt the steady beating of her heart, he didn't know about the tub, but he had a feeling that it had something to do with Derek. He could feel her wet body, at any other time than this, he would take advantage of the situation or make a joke, but Meredith needed him now, he could feel Derek's envy filling up the room. 'Here's my chance to be there for her' Mark thought.

Mark took of his shirt and Alex and Derek gave him some questioning looks, but he didn't do it for the reason they were all thinking, he put his shirt on Meredith's tiny body and brought her closer to him, until she fell asleep, they all did after that, Derek was beside Mark and beside Meredith was an exhausted Alex, but even the amount of tiredness that Mark had, he still enjoyed the moment.

"You know, you are no good for her." Derek whispered to Mark with the fear of waking everyone up,

"What makes you any better?" Mark countered, tightening his grip on Meredith's waist.

Derek couldn't think of an answer, so the both went to sleep.

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Meredith woke up in an awkward position between Mark and Alex, her feet were tangled up in Mark's legs and her head on his bare chest. Once again, his breath was calm and stable, like there was nothing in the world to worry about, Meredith wished that she could do the same, but unfortunately, there were so many problems in her life right now.

She remembered everything that happened that night, she worried what her friends would say to her after they found out what she did, she wasn't sure that only Alex knew about her little adventure, but that didn't stop her from worrying a great deal. She remembered their night at the bar. The pool party, and the dream, she could already feel the tears rushing down her cheeks just thinking about it. She could remember the water rushing up to her face as she was sinking down slowly into unconsciousness.

'But all this wasn't a dream' Meredith thought to herself, 'This is your own self-inflicted wounds, these are the things you can't change, don't drag anyone into this Meredith Grey.' She scolded herself inside, she knew that Alex would be there for her no matter what, and the same goes for George and Izzy, but she needed to handle things on her own and not increase the size of their troubles, just because she was a little depressed.

She looked around at the people in her life, well not all of them were present. George was beside Alex sleeping heavily, she smiled to herself, George was always the hardest one to wake up, she looked at Alex, he seemed calm like Mark, but it was visible that he wasn't that relaxed, because of the spot he was in, Derek, the man that she cuddled up with more times to count, and Mark, the man who has a cocky exterior, but a really sweet inside, she saw this when he helped her and didn't judge her, sure, Derek didn't judge her, but the way he looked at her seemed as if she had done something incredibly wrong.

She remembered Izzy saying that Denny would take her off on a date that day, so it was just them and Callie for now. 'Where is Callie?' she thought forgetting the only other female in the house.

Meredith quietly stood afraid of waking anyone up, because then, she would have to explain the events of the night before. Derek stirred in his sleep, but fortunately for her, he was not yet awake.

She roamed around the kitchen looking for Callie, but she found a note saying:

Hey George, I've gone to the hotel, meet me there for lunch. Callie xxx.

Meredith wasn't that close to Callie, well Callie wasn't close to anyone except Addison and of course, George. She got a drink from the refrigerator, sadly it would only fill half a glass, they were so busy doing other things that they forgot to buy new groceries, that was how tragic a life of a surgeon could be.

She drank her juice and decided to go for a swim. 'I could get used to this, swimming every free day' Meredith smiled to herself. She didn't bother changing into her swimsuit; she just jumped in the pool and swam a couple of laps before cooling down. She got up and sat on the ledge of the pool, she felt relaxed just listening to the sound of the jets and the current. She saw someone get up in the living room, 'Just my luck' she thought to herself, it was Mark, the guy whom she spent all day avoiding.

"Hey, Grey" he said, he was shirtless, but still in his jeans. He sat down beside Meredith and copied her, and put his feet in the pool.

Meredith could feel herself drooling, he was really a McSteamy, and she was the one who named him, Mark could tell she found him hot, he smirked to himself, at anytime other than this, he would crack a cocky joke, but he didn't "Hey" Meredith quietly replied, she was blushing, she wasn't supposed to think of him that way. 'He has a nice Six Pack.' She thought to herself then quickly, pushed away the thoughts of seeing him naked.

"What is with girls borrowing my clothes?" Mark said to break the ice.

"Maybe you have a feminine taste," Meredith teased.

"Hey!" Mark feigned hurt. "Girls, like my taste because it looks really god on me, and they like how I taste" He said smirking.

"You wish." Says Meredith, they both have a good laugh and then Mark gets serious.

"What was that last night?" Mark asked with concern in his voice.

"I'd rather not talk about it." Meredith said looking away.

'Aww man, I blew it.' Mark says to himself. "Okay." He quickly agrees.

They both are silent for a while, Mark instantly regrets what he said, but he still didn't understand what he did wrong.

After a while, drowning in each others silence, Meredith gives him a mischievous smile, Mark looks at her questioningly, but he is still happy that it's okay between the two.

"Do you trust me?" Meredith said.

"Yeah, I guess" Mark replied, he still had no idea on what was coming.

Meredith pushed him in the pool and erupted into fits of laughter, very far from lady-like.

Mark emerged the pool, soaking wet, he was kind of cute wet, Meredith thought. "Help me up!" Mark shouted, breaking Meredith away from her daydream. She politely offers her hand, but Mark pulls her down in the pool with him. Now he was the one laughing hard. Meredith feigned hurt and she started swimming towards him, hoping to get some revenge, he got the clue too late and she dunked his head in the water.

Mark gasped, he didn't know she could be so feisty, but that was one of the things that attracted him to her. She was still giggling, so he put up a surprise attack, he drove up behind her and wrapped his arms around her, and she could feel static from the touch. His chest was pushed against her chest. They both fell silent, and Meredith turned her head around to look at him.

She slowly moved her face closer to his, to make a kiss, he moved closer too, but they were interrupted.

"Hey, Mer" George called out.

They pulled back and Mark let go of her waist, he let her go. "Yeah?" Meredith said.

"Umm. Could you wake up Derek and Alex please, we need to fix up the living room, it's a mess." George asked, obviously not thinking about the room, but a girl making out with her ex-boyfriend's ex-best friend, wow, there were a lot of exes.

"Oh, sure" Meredith said sounding disappointed. But it wasn't clear to anyone but her, she stood up and got out to the pool and went into the house.

Mark was clearly disappointed, 'Damn, O'Malley, she was mine for a second there' he said before swimming a couple of laps then following Meredith into the house that would be his own in a few days.

Back inside the house, Derek and Alex were still asleep, and Meredith had to wake them up.

"Guy's wake up! Georgie here needs to pack up!" Meredith shouted amused, because Alex had his pillow over his head, and Derek groans.

"Don't make me get the water bucket!" She threatens, but that doesn't work, she just hears a faint "Hmmph." From the two sleepy-heads, Meredith true to her word got a glass of ice cold water and pours it on Derek, all of it.

Derek shouts, and Meredith laughs, she moves on to Alex she leans lies down on the floor beside him and faces his face, she blows into his eyes and she giggles. Then to her surprise, Alex puts his arms around her and pins her to the ground, and tickles her mercilessly.

"Derek, Derek help!!" She shouts, she doesn't see Mark by the doorway, he looks amused but he changes emotion because of what Derek will do next.

"Oh no Mer, you poured ice cold water on me, you will get your revenge!" Derek says laughing, he lifts her up on his shoulder and runs out and dumps her in the pool, they all laugh except Mark, because he was jealous, Derek had so many chances with her but he was always interrupted. They all go for a swim.

"Hey, Alex you need to cook breakfast, Izzy's gone and it's your turn" Meredith says to embarrass him, Alex turns into a shade of pink, because he was supposed to be manly, and he cooked pancakes.

Alex jumps into the pool doing a cannonball and chases Meredith around as revenge. They all play a game of tag until Meredith whines and Alex has to go cook.

They all had fun that day, and Mark thought, 'Life here will be surely eventful!'

A/N Hey y'all I liked this chapter, sorry it's short, I had no time. Thanks for reading, I'm going to need a lot more reviews! Thanks! Tell me what you think!