Author's Note:
Here's a new one just for you!
Let me know what you think in the comments,
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bobbiejelly
Cookies & Quickies
Meredith Grey tries to bake chocolate cookies; Teddy Altman helps. OR: Two hot single ladies talk about losing the loves of their lives in tragic and heroic ways, about loving their children and about finding new love again. And after eating cookie batter off of each other's fingers, they decide to treat themselves with 'grown-up-time' before the kids get home. Subsequently, the two doctors discuss the new loves of their lives as they both try their hand at wing-womaning for the other.
Set in GA-S15-E05, "Everyday Angel". F/F. Meredith Grey/Teddy Altman. Eventual Meredith Grey/Addison Montgomery & Teddy Altman/Cristina Yang. MerAdd. Teddina. Rated M.
Chapter 2: With Hands Held High Into The Sky So Blue (as The Ocean Opens Up To Swallow You)
"How did you find me?" Teddy asks Meredith, as Meredith stalks over to her in what can be only described as a 'determined walk'.
(A sexy walk! Teddy thinks to herself. The heels on her stylish brown boots are like six-inches tall and yet, she's walking over here all smug and smirking and it's making me imagine…)
"You used to make Cristina get you coffee here every morning" Meredith replies without an ounce of hesitation.
Meredith is not bitter though, not about the past Cristina-and-coffee-part, at least.
And now Meredith is stalking past Teddy Altman as she's seated on the bench and it's all Teddy can do to turn her body and her eyes as this gorgeous girl in front of her never drop her gaze even for a single second to blink.
Meredith is sitting down now, sitting really close to Teddy to the point that Teddy crosses her left leg over her right to make room for the other blonde.
(And also because she thinks it's safer if she keeps her knees pressed together at this point…)
"And I figured you wouldn't be stupid enough to fly, all things considered," Meredith says to her, casually, as she places her stylish bag on the other side of the park bench from where Teddy is sitting.
"Pierce told you," Teddy says a bit breathlessly as her brow furrows into a worry.
"Well there goes her license, Teddy says to her bitterly before looking ahead and away from Meredith Grey now, because she just realizes she's been threatening Meredith Grey's very own sister.
(Smooth, Altman. Smooth. Not even hate-sex is brought on by that kind of comment...)
Teddy Altman has not failed to notice Meredith Grey's legs are also crossed over now, hers are crossed right over left.
"We all know you're not going to sue Pierce; you have bigger problems," Meredith says back to Teddy in a low raspy voice.
(God her voice is sexy. Like not sexier than Cristina's but still sexy nonetheless…)
Meredith is looking at her empathetically now, and Teddy is worried she'll see pity in Meredith's eyes as she turns her head to meet them again, but she doesn't.
Because, instead of hurt or pity, Teddy is greeted now with a welcome.
Grey is giving her a smile, in her sweet and silent way.
And it shocks Teddy Altman straight through to her core when she sees it.
Because she's hardly seen Meredith Grey really, smile so bright before.
And she's never seen her smile that way just for HER. That smile. Her smile. (Meredith's smile).
A smile that's saying to her "come on, please Teddy, I promise we can be on the same side of this here."
A smile that's saying to her "trust me, I know we weren't always friends but I respect you and I always have respected you. And you know that I'm telling the truth now so out with it."
A smile that's saying "I know what it's like to hide a secret baby, I did it for nine freaking months out in Boston Post-Derek and I really don't want you to end up like I did, all dark and twisty and barely even talking to Cristina, until Ellis Shepherd was born and I moved back to Seattle…)
A smile that's saying "I don't think you're so bad you know, Teddy. I never thought you were so bad after all. The only things we ever disagreed over were when you thought I could hurt Meghan Hunt because of my history with Riggs, and because I was performing a surgery that had never, ever been done before and you were always Meghan Hunt's best advocate."
A smile that's saying to her "It's okay Teddy. I'm hurting too, I understand. We can both be hurting together and I swear I won't tell a soul how in helping you heal, that I've healed myself more than I will ever, ever, let you know."
And then finally, Teddy decides to give into it.
She's been so tired.
She's been so lonely.
She's been so scared.
She's been so isolated.
She's been so frustrated.
She's been so damn upset, upset that Owen Hunt would move on from her in two seconds, leaving her in Germany when she first told him he should go.
Teddy's been upset with Amelia because she's jealous she has Owen. She's even been mad at him even because she's jealous that Hunt has… Amelia's children with Owen...?
(Teddy wants to get mad at the thought…)
And Teddy's been just so tired and lonely and scared and isolated and frustrated and so damn upset and so… hollow without Owen. Without her 'best friend'. Without Cristina (not that to date, Cristina was ever hers, to begin with, but hey.)
And without someone to talk to, someone who could really understand.
Someone to round out her edges.
Someone to help her feel whole again.
And apparently that person was going to be Doctor Meredith Grey.
Because by the way that she's smiling to her now, hands planted firmly on her lap the way Teddy's are, too.
Because by the way that she's slowly sliding over to Teddy now, hands unplanted firmly from her lap the way Teddy's are, too.
Because by the way that she's slowly sliding right touching Teddy now, hands newly planted firmly onto Teddy's the way Teddy's are taking her hands into Meredith's too.
Teddy knew, at that moment when Meredith started holding her hand.
She knew something so special was about to begin.
With hands held high into the sky so blue, (as the ocean opens up to swallow you...)
Meredith and Teddy had both recently felt like they were being swallowed up into the sky.
So they knew how much having a hand-up will help them.
And Teddy knew that somehow, Meredith will be there for her, at least for today.
And that Teddy would walk to the ends of the earth, to support Meredith Grey in the same.
***** END OF CHAPTER OF TWO
Author's Notes, Part 2:
Well, apparently there are at least 3 people so far who have specifically asked me for more of this in the COMMENTS. So here it is, short chapters for this one for sure.
Shoutout to those 3 reviewers you know who you are. Thanks for the emojis. Thanks for saying they have implicit chemistry because I also think it's undeniable. And thanks for saying there is an inherent curiosity to Mer/Teddy because it's never really been explored before, even if we probably all agree they are not a 'romantic' pairing.
It's more of a friendship,hurt-comfort, FWB, spontaneous dynamic with some antics nestled in.
Let me know in the COMMENTS what you think of Chapter 2.
And I do hope to diverge from just having rewrites of scenes from Canon more as we go on.
Ps. Title Reference is from "Hands Held High" by Linkin Park. Very good song, do recommend it!
Love, bobbiejelly
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