Author's Note:

Here's a new one just for you!

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bobbiejelly


PREVIOUSLY, ON "COOKIES & QUICKIES":


Meredith and Teddy carry the groceries into the house.

And then they're in the kitchen, staring at each other.

Wondering who even wants who then. Who even wants who, then; the most.


END OF FLASHBACK SEQUENCE.


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 4: I Already Had Breakfast...


Meredith Grey doesn't know how to whip eggs; Teddy Altman helps.


Teddy Altman unpacks the groceries because Meredith is putting them away.

(Because it's HER house… obviously and Teddy has no idea where anything would even go, here, Meredith thinks to herself)

As Teddy does this, Meredith realizes to herself that Teddy Altman has never lived here and that she's one of the very few surgeons of GSMH/SGMW/SGH who never has...

And Meredith has no idea why this popped into her head, or why she's suddenly wondering if she should invite Teddy to stay with her here because she - what?

Wants to have some near-perfect record of housing all of the misfits and strays that happen to be her fellow co-workers and colleagues?

Meredith has no idea why she actually likes the idea of Teddy Altman being in her kitchen, now.

But she secretly does, and she secretly enjoys watching Teddy unpack all the heavy bags and boxes, and watching her taut muscles flex in every which way as she does.

Eventually, Meredith is taking out supplies for her first experience, yet, in baking.

And Teddy Altman is sitting across from her on a chair, looking intently at her.


"I uh- I already ate breakfast if that's what's happening…" Teddy stammers a bit at Meredith who seems to be getting out eggs and a bowl and a whisk from her kitchen, now.

Meredith has already taken her coat off and laid it on a chair somewhere but Teddy's coat is still fastened to her shoulders.

(Because she doesn't trust herself to be at all undressed in front of the blonde standing before her.)

"Oh, no, I have to make cookies for Zola's bake sale. And they have to be homemade because apparently that's how you show you care," Meredith says exasperatedly.

"And Zola wants chocolate, not chocolate chips- chocolate." Meredith rants about the difference between two types of cookie batter as Teddy tries not to express with her eyes how delicious chocolate cookie batter could be…

(And how delicious the idea of Meredith Grey in reference to chocolate cookie batter could be…)

But Meredith doesn't notice anything funny with Teddy's expression because she keeps on ranting to ask her "and did you know there's a difference between cocoa powder and hot chocolate mix?!" Meredith says with a very sarcastic smile

(And it makes Teddy's brain hurt as she sees how worked up Meredith is getting and it's making Teddy get all worked up for a whole other reason and…)


"Not a baker?" Teddy offers to the other woman empathetically.

"Wel, I just learned that you have to pre-heat the oven, so…" Meredith says in a huff.

(And this chink-in-the-armor- if you will, this little detail, this imperfection in Meredith Grey's totally-has-it-together-post-Derek-thing is really making Teddy even more endeared to this girl as she sees how hard she is trying for everyone else in her life…)

"Well, you know what? You look busy, so I'm just gonna… Take off…" Teddy stands up abruptly and grabs her purse because she's seeing an escape route and she's using it.

She doesn't want to leave, but she doesn't quite want to stay here, despite the obvious perks of getting to taste those damn chocolate cookies and also maybe some other things…

(Those other things, namely, being the taste of chocolate cookie batter off of Meredith Grey's tender lips…)

But she doesn't want to corrupt Meredith Grey, hell knows Teddy's already fucked up more people's lives than she can count lately and she doesn't want to play a terrible piece in adding to this woman's pain…

(Also there's the fact that Teddy still hasn't fully acknowledged to Meredith how much she is STILL hopelessly and madly in love with her best friend and person, Cristina Yang, so there's more than one secret here and it's stressing Teddy out. So she's leaving… She thinks…)


"Oh, just stay," Meredith offers, and it's the perfect thing to say.

Teddy watches Meredith assemble her bowls and her ingredients in front of her.

(She stares at Meredith's beautiful top and her cute form-fitting jeans with that thick black leather belt that she'd love to hook her fingers right onto and unlatch with her thumbs…)

"Make sure I don't burn the house down," Meredith says half-sarcastically, but mostly truthfully, as she's not quite sure if she's even capable of this whole baking thing.

"Okay," Teddy smiles brightly up at Meredith as she keeps cooking so she doesn't notice how happy she is.

Teddy blushes as she finally takes off her coat, wriggling out her arms from it all and exposing her beautiful emerald green shirt and her necklace.

"See, you'll get to do all of this soon- bake cookies, look for childcare,"

Meredith raises her eyebrows at that one as Teddy keeps looking on.

"Find a good school," Meredith continues as she looks around for something in front of her.


"Aaaand there it is," Teddy sighs as she sits back in the chair again and presses her lips together as she looks down.

"Look, Meredith, I'm gonna go back to Germany. I've got a great O.B. in Landstuhl…"

Teddy starts talking fast as she's subconsciously rolling up the sleeves of her shirt, anticipating that Meredith might need a helping hand with her baking…

(And possibly other things, Teddy tries not to get her hopes up about…)

"And I'll give birth there, and raise the baby myself," Teddy concludes as she's buttoning up the cuffs of her green shirt to fasten them.

"And not tell Owen?" Meredith says in a low raspy voice that's powerful as ever.

"Well, I was planning to tell him…" Teddy sighs a bit as she says this because she'd rather NOT talk about Owen, or about boys, for that matter, but she will because Meredith is asking her questions.

"And I was gonna ap-apologize for all the awful things that I said to him, and then I came back here and found out that- that they were all true…"

Teddy says with a wince in her voice, and even over trying to use all the eggs, Meredith's voice softens into something much more compassionate.

"Oh, it's not what you think-" Meredith starts as she starts cracking eggs over the bowl.


"Oh," Meredith frowns as she bends over the egg bowl to try to find an errant eggshell, perhaps.

"He's NOT living with his ex-wife and two kids!?" Teddy frowns at the thought, despite herself.

"Oh, okay, well THAT part is true…" Meredith says as she tries to shake the remaining egg yolks out of the shells.

"But HE's fostering a BABY, and SHE's helping the MOM get her LIFE back together…" Meredith says with a shrug as she reaches for a fork.

"I just… I- I don't see how it would work-" Teddy says, shaking her head as Meredith starts to try mixing the eggs together.

"Then why are you here," Meredith deadpans.

And Teddy stays shocked for a minute because she's not so sure how to interpret that question.

(Has she been found out? Has Meredith suddenly realizes she's been lusting after her and she's freaked out and accusing me of crashing into her house and her life and-)

(Or is she asking about why I'm not still in Germany and why I'm in the USA and why-)

"YOU stalked me-" Teddy blurts out before she can figure something intelligible out.

(Oh, wow. Calling people that when you want to get into their pants is a real winner, hey, Teddy…)

"No, no, why are you in SEATTLE-" Meredith finally clarifies with a wave of her hand, as if she's waving all of Teddy's worries away from her.

"And don't blame the clot because we both know that you could jump on a bus or a train if you really wanted to get out of town." Meredith finishes her sentence before whipping the eggs with her fork again.


And Teddy panics because she has nothing to say to that at all, so she starts waving her hands in the air and rambling like a madwoman-

"I don't know, okay? I don't- Well, I- I just- I don't know why I'm here or- or what I'm gonna do-"

Teddy rambles, accidentally meeting Meredith's eye at that last one.

(I don't know WHO I'm gonna do… Might have been a more accurate response, Teddy…)

(Shut UP- I am NOT done my rant yet…)

"I've been holed up in a VERY fancy hotel room-"

Teddy looks Meredith right in the eye as she says that part…

"Running an exorbitant room service bill, trying to figure it out and I STILL don't know- And it's driving me crazy and pissing me off and WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THOSE EGGS?!"

Teddy concludes her rant as Meredith skewers her scrambles and she has no idea how such an impressive mother figure of a woman can not even know how to scramble eggs


Meredith sort of looks down at her tablet before looking up at Teddy then.

But when she does look up at Teddy, she has a sort of bewildered look, because Teddy has her hand out towards her in a 'come hither sort of motion with her entire palm.

And she's gesturing for Meredith to give her the bowl so she can whisk it herself, and Teddy has this shy sort of smile on her face as she's looking a bit lower to the ground now.

And Teddy's saying "here, gimme," in a 'commanding officer army surgeon kind of hot voice'.

And Teddy's reaching across the whole table/counter now, reaching for the wide yellow bowl before taking it up in her arms.

And Teddy's whipping out the whisk from her kitchen utensils and reaching to start whipping the eggs properly.

And Meredith is standing there dumbly, trying to offer the fork now to Teddy, to which her only response is "I don't need the fork" with a shake of the head.

And Meredith pouts for a moment, looking downward at her tablet for what she might have missed out on.

And Teddy starts expertly whipping those eggs now, her elbows not even touching her chest as she does this.

And Meredith looks at the floor so she doesn't have to look extremely impressed up at Teddy Altman, who is clearly the first person since Derek to be her 'knight in shining… whatever'.

And this very fact is not lost at all, on Meredith Grey, in the slightest.


***** END OF CHAPTER OF FOUR


Author's Notes, Part 2:

Here's to another one of these crack ships.

There'll be more to come of this, eventually.

Planning another 'additional scene' that's more fun for the next one.

Let me know what you want in the COMMENTS-

Any kind words you have to offer…

Will go a long way in making me update this one faster.

Thanks and have a great day!

Love, bobbiejelly


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