AN: Thank you for all the nice reviews, I'll try to continue this story for a couple of chapters.
Maggie was helping Meredith to get ready for the date. Not because Meredith usually needed help to look her best, but because Meredith wasn't even trying today. She wasn't interested in the date, so if Maggie hadn't helped her get ready, and demanded a certain standard, then Meredith wouldn't look as good as she could, and that would probably bug her when she found out who the date was.
The time was 6:30 pm, Meredith had just done her hair, and was started on her makeup.
"How about this dress?" Maggie asked as she held up a dress that complimented Grey's figure perfectly.
"How about jeans and a t-shirt?" Meredith replied sarcastically.
"Come on Meredith! Have a little faith in my judgement of men. You'll like this guy." Maggie tried to convince her without letting too many details out.
"Fine, I'll wear that dress." It was the easiest way to stop Maggie's begging.
"You won't regret it."
"What if I do?"
"Trust me!" Convincing Meredith was way harder than Maggie expected.
The time reached 7, and Alex was putting the kids to sleep, when the doorbell rang.
"Mer, I think your date is here." Alex yelled upstairs
"Can you let him it? I'm not ready yet." Meredith asked.
"Will do."
Before Alex had had a chance to reach the door he saw that Zola had already opened the door in her pyjamas.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"I'm Nathan. You must be Zola."
"How do you know my name?"
"Because I know your mom, your aunts and uncles."
She accepted the answer and left.
"Hey man, come in, she's not ready yet." Alex said when he reached the door. "Zola go to your room; I'll be there right away." He added
"Thank you. Does she have any clue that it's me?" Riggs asked nervously.
"No, I don't think so. You can sit down if you want to, knowing Meredith this could take a while. I'm going to put Zola to sleep; it shouldn't take too long."
Before Alex had come back, Riggs heard someone coming down the stairs saying "Sorry for the wait, I'm ready now."
Riggs turned his head as he said "Don't worry about it, you're worth the wait", and saw Meredith.
She recognized that voice, and when she looked up she didn't know how to feel.
"Riggs. What are you doing here?" Meredith asked just as Riggs got up from the coach, and then she saw what he was wearing. "Maggie, what is Riggs doing here?" She turned to Maggie.
"I told her the truth Meredith. I couldn't keep it in anymore, it wasn't fair to us or her." Riggs quickly answered.
Maggie continued. "Of course I was mad when he told me, I still am, but according to him you two really like each other, and what kind of sister am if I don't let you be happy."
This is when Alex came in. He felt the tension, but he didn't know what to do.
"Alex are you in on this as well?" He heard on her voice that she was not happy.
"Yes, Maggie couldn't convince you to go on the date, so I helped her." He said, and added "Look Mer, it's for your own best."
"I can't believe you all lied to me." Meredith said and paused for a while. "Can I talk to Riggs alone?" They nodded and left the room.
"Why did you tell her the truth, when I told you that I was going to?"
"I couldn't wait until that day, and like I said it wasn't fair to us or her."
"There is no us."
"There could be."
Riggs took her by her shoulders, so that she was facing him. "Listen to me Meredith. I'm falling for you, and correct me if I'm wrong, you're falling for me as well. I'm not saying this to get you into bed with me, but because I really care about you. That is definitely a pro, but it's not the main reason." then he leaned in and whispered in her ear. "I really do think we should try that again, we were pretty damn good."
As annoying as Riggs was, he was also so charming, she couldn't resist him even though she was so mad at him, Maggie and Alex for going behind her back. She didn't know what to say, everything he said was true.
"You clean up nice" she said quietly, and he understood this as she finally agreed on going on the date with him.
"So do you, you look really hot." He said with a winkle in his eyes. "How about we get moving? I made reservations." He said, as he offered her his arm and they left.
AN: This chapter was going to be too long if I included the date. Sorry if some details are wrong, I highly doubted myself with how everything is at the house.
TBC
