The following day at work Meredith found George coming out of an
exam room and went to talk to him. "Hey George, what's going on?"
"Just finished doing some stitches." "You want to do something after
work?" "I would but I can't I'm here pretty much all night, I'm sorry."
"That's okay maybe tomorrow, well I got to get back I just came to see if
you were free tonight. After that George and Meredith went back to
doing what they needed to do.
After Meredith got off she didn't really know what to do. Everyone was
still at work and she had gotten used to spending her nights with George,
but tonight she was on her own. She decided to go to Joe's and have a
drink. While she was there she met a guy who was obviously flirting
with her. At first she was just kind of humoring him but then decided
what the heck, it had been forever since she had been with somebody.
Needless to say they both ended up having way too much to drink and
she ended up bringing him home with her.
The next morning she woke up with the stranger next to her. She really
didn't want George and Izzie to ask a lot of questions, so she woke him
up and tried to sneak him out before they saw him. It was too late
though; Izzie and George were already up having breakfast and saw him.
"Who was that"? Izzie asked. "Nobody you know." "I'm guessing he's
nobody you know either". Izzie said sarcastically. "Just drop it okay."
"No more jokes I promise." George hadn't made any comments because
it kind of hurt him knowing she slept with a stranger, so he just kind of
kept to himself the rest of the morning.
At work George was the first one to go to lunch and was sitting at a
table by himself until Meredith walked up and sat down. "There you are,
I've been looking for you." "Why do you need something?" "No, is
everything okay George?" "Yeah, why?" "Because you didn't say a word
to me this morning and this is the first time I've seen you at work today."
He didn't want to tell her he was upset about her one night stand so he
said "I'm just tired and have a lot to do, that's all". "Okay, if there's
anything I can do let me know." "I will thanks." After that the rest of the
group came to the table and they discussed patients and different cases.
After work Izzie, Meredith, and George went for a drink. Izzie was with
them because her and Alex were fighting. They all drink and talked about
their problems with each other. It had been about an hour and a half and
Izzie was ready to go. "I've had fun guys but I'm tired, I think I'm gonna
go." "Yeah, I think I am to". George said. "You coming with us"? Izzie
asked Meredith. "No, I think I'm going to stay here a little longer." After
George and Izzie left Meredith started talking to a guy who sat beside
her. They had a few drinks and of course she brought him home.
It had been about two weeks and it seemed like Meredith was coming
home with a different guy just about every night. It was really starting to
get to George and Izzie could tell. They were both sitting in the kitchen.
"Why don't you just say something to her?" "What would I say?
Meredith I don't like you sleeping with all these guys cause I'm in love
with you." "Something to that effect." George just rolled his eyes. As
they ate their breakfast they saw one of Meredith's many men leave. As
Meredith came to the kitchen George walked out. "What's with him, he
didn't even say good morning." "Who knows, George is a weird guy?"
At work Meredith saw George and said hi to him. He said hi back to her
in a cold voice without stopping or even looking at her. He was kind of
cold to her the rest of the day. Whenever she would walk up to him he
would walk away, or when she tried talking to him he answered in one-
word sentences. Finally she caught him by himself in the break room. As
soon as he saw her he tried to leave. "No you stay in here." "I have to
go." "No you don't, now sit down." George knew there was nothing he
could do, so he sat down and Meredith sat right next to him. "What the
hell is your problem?" "What do you mean?" "You've been very rude to
me all day and I don't know what I did to piss you off." "It's not on
purpose I'm just busy." Meredith had lost her temper and started yelling.
"Don't give me that bull George, I know you've been purposely trying to
avoid me, so what is it." George started to yell back too. "Okay I am
mad. I'm sick of seeing you bring home a different guy every night, when
you deserve better than that." That was not what Meredith had planned
on hearing. "That's the best I can do". Meredith said as she looked at the
floor and had tears rolling down her face, her tone was a lot softer too.
George's tone calmed down also. "No it's not, I know you can do better
than some random guy you spend one night with." "George, no guy
wants to actually be with me. No guy wants to bring me medicine when
I'm sick, kiss me when I need to be loved, hold me when I'm sad. Some
random guy is all I can get." George put his left hand on her cheek and
lifted up her head. "There is somebody who wants to do all those things
and more for you, you just got to open your eyes. For all you know he
could be right in front of you." Meredith lifted her hand and put it on
George's cheek. They were both moving closer and closer, until their
pagers went off and they broke apart.