The next night Sloan came into the room that he kept Meredith in and told her he was going out and wouldn't be back for a few hours. Meredith decided this was a great time to finally finish unpacking all of Sloan's stolen items and then decorate the room nicely so he could be impressed when he got home. Meredith finished in perfect timing as she heard the front door slam shut and Sloan yell something at someone outside. Sloan stumbled into his corridor and fumble opened the yellow door to where Meredith was.

"Hey Sloan" Meredith said "how was your date?"

"You wanna know how my date was" Sloan stumbled on his words and his feet and it was obvious to Meredith that he was drunk; "you wanna know how my date was? My date was friggen fantastic, it was, and you need to go now. Come on lets go" He is really drunk Meredith thought as she watched him walk towards her "why aren't you scared of me dammit" he yelled in her face. She could smell the bourbon off his breath and wanted to walk far away from him. "Be scared of me!" He yelled as he swung his arm up and hit Meredith in the face, just under the right eye.

"What the hell Sloan?!" Meredith yelled.

"You scared of me now?" Sloan asked.

"No, I'm just pissed off" Meredith replied angrily.

"Well maybe you should be scared!" Sloan said as he grabbed her shoulders and smacked her head against the hard brick wall.

"Ow!" cried Meredith, She could feel the back of head getting warmer with blood. Meredith had no energy to fight as he again hit her head against the brick wall; she saw stars and felt Sloan's strong hands grip her body before the darkness claimed her. She woke to the sound of humming and felt like was in a dark confined space and realised it was the boot of a car when she felt a jerk underneath her. The boot opened and there was drunk and angry Sloan staring at her. He dragged her out of the car and tossed her onto the ground. "Sloan calm down, what happened? We can sort this out" Meredith pleaded with him.

"No, Lexi just left me and I need you out of my house and out of my life and unfortunately this is the only way"

"No, please Sloan, it's not, Lexi will come back"

"You don't know! You don't know anything, what you're bulimic because you think your fat? And yet your all skin and bones, you can't take a compliment, maybe that's your mothers doing and your family haven't even noticed you have gone missing!" Meredith knew that everything he said was true, that her life was based around lies and misfortune.

"I, um, I try" Meredith said sympathetically.

"What?" This was the first time Sloan had ever heard Meredith open up.

"I try, to become bright and shiny, but I'm not okay I'm dark and twisty" Sloan grabbed Meredith's arm and pulled her closer to the edge of a cliff which was overlooking the ocean.

"Do you think I would have trouble pushing you off of this if I didn't like you? This is so hard because to me you have become family" He was still slurring his words so Meredith just agreed with whatever he said. "No this isn't right, I'm not, I'm not a killer" this was tearing him apart and he was about to lose it.

"Just stay calm okay Sloan even though our situation is not ideal we can work it out" Meredith told him slowly.

"Nope, no time, I have to, I have to make a choice, and it's me or it's you"

"What! No Sloan, please take me! Please" Meredith begged him.

"Dammit Meredith shut up" Sloan took a step closer to the edge and Meredith ran towards him begging, sobbing, praying that he wouldn't take that final step. She grabbed his waist and through her tears she tried her strongest to be stronger then he was, to stop him from falling over the edge. But her tiny frame could not hold such a built man and she found him slipping out of her reach. She tried desperately to hold on to him, to plead with him, but nothing she could say would save him now. As he began to slip away Meredith felt herself loosing balance and as she tried to steady her position the rock under her left foot moved sending them both over the edge. Meredith felt like she had been falling forever and even though she knew this could be her last memory on Earth she wasn't afraid.