The moment Meredith opened her eyes, she regretted it. It was a Monday morning, and of course it raining. What's was new in Seattle? Meredith groaned as she turned over to look at the alarm clock. 5:45…15 minutes early. She tried to turn back over to get her extra 15 minutes in, but she failed. Instead, she turned and looked at Derek. He was facing her, eyes closed, and snoring very loudly. Meredith laughed. She leaned over and kissed him on the forehead before jumping out of bed and going into the bathroom for her morning shower. She turned the handles to hot and jumped in. The moment the water touched her body, she let out a long and easy breath. The hot water on her back always felt good even if she had to go back to work. Suddenly she felt a pair of hands on her waist. She spun around to see Derek standing behind her smiling.
"Don't do that," she teased
Derek laughed as she kissed her. When the pulled apart Meredith smiled.
"That woke me up," she commented
"Really? How about this?" Derek started to roam her body with his hands, but Meredith quickly stopped him
"Derek, not matter how much I want to I can't. I don't want to be late this morning and have Bailey yell at me. She still scares me you know,"
Derek laughed "She scares everyone Mer, but c'mon what can it hurt?"
He started to kiss her neck
"Derek Seriously!"
Derek stopped and looked into her eyes
"Fine," he said with a smile. Meredith couldn't help but smile back. She picked up her lavender-shampoo and started to massage it into her scalp.
"You don't have a surgery do you?" questioned Derek
"You never know. If I don't wash my hair with this, there will be a 10 car pile up and all 10 will die, just watch,"
Derek shrugged as Meredith rinsed and conditioned, then got out. She entered her room and did another check on time. 6 o'clock. Okay maybe I could of done the shower sex thing, but he has to understand everytime I'm naked that doesn't invite him to have sex with me! Meredith laughed at her thoughts.
"What's so funny?" asked Derek as he came out of the master bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist
"Nothing," Meredith answered blushing. She turned away from his and pulled on her skinny jeans. She then decided to wear her favorite green long-sleeve shirt. She didn't know why, but she always loved that shirt. She had it ever since she was an intern, and still wore it every chance she got. That and her Dartmouth T. Instead of messing with heels, she slipped on a pair of flip-flops.
"Since when do you wear flip-flops? And in the rain?" asked Derek, this time fully clothed in jeans and a T-shirt.
"Since I bought them a couple months ago," shot back Meredith laughing. Derek came over and kissed her.
"Works for me,"
Meredith smirked as she left the room at 6:15. Perfect, 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Maybe waking up early wasn't such a bad idea. Before she knew it, Meredith had kissed the twins and was out the door and on the highway listening to The Clash at 6:30. She sang along as she cruised along the highway with the windows down, not caring if she got wet. Her hair whipping in her face as she exited the highway and headed towards SGH just as the song ended. She pulled into her usual parking spot 5 minutes later. She stepped out and looked around. She saw Izzie's car about 10 spaces away and George's about 5 away from hers. Alex's was parked right next to Izzie's. Meredith looked around wondering where Christina was when she heard the roaring of her motorcycle. She smiled as she saw her best friend park right next to where Meredith was standing.
"You know if you would of hit me, you would be answering to Derek," laughed Meredith as Christina pulled off her helmet.
"Ya I'm really scared now!" Christina answered sarcastically. Both attending smiled as they walked through the front doors of SG. Meredith took a deep breath of the hospital air.
"Why do you always do that?" questioned Christina. Meredith shrugged
"I guess because it reminds me of what I'm here for and what I love to do."
Christina looked at Meredith and shook her head
"What?"
"I think the kids have turned you soft,"
"Oh and yours haven't?"
Christina had no answer to that as they stepped into an open elevator. Suddenly Meredith's phone and pager went off.
"Great," she muttered.
First she looked at her pager. 9-1-1…Trauma.
"Great, looks like some idiot got his head all smashed up because he was driving too fast again,"
"Hey, guarantee surgery," shrugged Christina. Meredith gave her a look and got out her phone. The caller ID flashed: DEREK. Meredith rolled her eyes and answered the phone
"Derek I just got paged for a 9-1-1 and I'm not even changed. What in the world could you possibly want?"
"Jacc wanted to tell you something,"
"Fine put him on,"
The elevator doors opened as Meredith rushed into the attending locker room with Christina closely behind her
"Jacc this isn't the right time I got to go. Can you tell me later?"
"I just wanted to remind you that today is the try-outs for soccer,"
Meredith slammed her head against the locker
"That's today isn't it?" she groaned
"Ya,"
"Okay I'll tell you what. If I don't have a surgery and if I don't get paged I'll come and watch. If not, I'm sure Daddy can call a taxi or Uncle George can take you,"
"Okay,"
"Okay I got to go…Trauma 9-1-1. I'll see you tonight,"
"Love you mom,"
"Love you too sweetie,"
Meredith hung up when her pager reminded her of her patient.
"SHEPHERD TRAUMA NEEDS YOU!" yelled Bailey
"I'M GOING!"
Meredith quickly threw off her clothes and threw on her navy scrubs. She ran out the door, trying to put on her shoes
"See ya later Chris!" she called
Christina laughed at the sight of her friend leaving the locker room.
Meredith ran down the hallway and into the ER's trauma section.
"DR. SHEPHERD WHERE WERE YOU?"
"Well if you don't mind Dr. Tanzley I would like to get dressed in the morning. Unless you want me to do surgery in jeans and in flip-flops. I'm sure the Chief would love that. My shift didn't even start when I got paged. But I'm here now. So what do we got?"
Meredith looked down at the patient.
"35 year old male, car accident, severe head trauma" recited one of the interns on duty.
"Okay, get him a CT and MRI and page me when you get the results,"
"Yes Dr. Shepherd,"
Meredith looked at the chart the scribbled her signature and handed it over to the intern. Suddenly another ambulance came in.
"DR. SHEPHERD!" yelled a nurse
God Dammit, looks like this will be a long dayMeredith sighed as she ran over to the next patient, not knowing that the person laying on the gurney, was someone who was part of her past.
A/N: Okay, so you guys probably know who it is….but you may be wrong. DUN DUN DAAAA! Lol jk. So I've been writing less and less lately. Mostly b/c I want to update…but writer's block. So next chapter will show Derek at home with the kids...can u say Mr. Mom? lol...okay you'll also find out.who the mysterious patient is, and maybe a little Addison. So REVIEW SO I CAN GET MORE UP!