This story has been published on I think two other boards and this isn't going to be any different than the original. I just decided to put it on here for the people that only use this site. The original title was 'A New Life' if you've read it, please keep the ending to yourself. I don't want the story to be ruined for everyone else!

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Chapter 2:

January 10, 2007- New York City, New York, Meredith's Apartment

Meredith's eyes fluttered open and she rolled her in the empty bed. The sunlight was coming in from the window behind her bed and it was blinding her eyes. She wiped them, as to wipe away the sunlight, but knowing it wouldn't work, she got up and headed towards the bathroom. She turned on the shower and let the hot water roll down upon her. Her muscles relaxed and she couldn't remember the last time she had actually been this relaxed. Once she got out of the shower she headed towards the kitchen and saw Jacob waiting for her with breakfast.

"How'd you sleep?" he asked as he stood up to walk towards her. He wrapped his arms around her and she fell for his kiss. Meredith hadn't noticed the radio playing in the background until a song began to play that Meredith could easily recognize. Jacob held Meredith close to his body as they began to dance in their own world, in their kitchen.

When you love someone you'll do anything
You'll do all the crazy things that you can't explain
You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun
When you love someone

Meredith could hear Jacob quietly sing the lyrics into her ear as he held her hand and her body tightly. She could feel his hot breath on her body and she began to remember why she stayed here and never went back to Seattle. She began to remember why she never opened any of those letters and why she had really began to feel happy.

You'll deny the truth - believe a lie
There'll be times that you'll believe
You can really fly
But your lonely nights have just begun
When you love someone

Jacob held Meredith tightly, knowing that her mind was drifting elsewhere. He knew that her mind was going to float towards him, whoever him was. Jacob never actually figured it all out, but he knew enough to know that she had been hurt bad and was still trying to recover from that. He also knew from experience that he had to give her the time and not press her for answers.

When you love someone you'll feel it deep inside
And nothin' else can ever change your mind
When you want someone - when you need someone
When you love someone

Meredith placed her head on his chest and could hear his heart beat. Right in that moment, she could feel Jacob's feelings for her and she began to lose the ability to deny hers for him. She never was completely sure why she had tried to deny them in the first place, but now she knew that she couldn't. She knew she needed him, especially right now.

When you love someone - you'll sacrifice
You'd give it everything you got and
you won't think twice
You'd risk it all - no matter what may come
When you love someone
You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun
When you love someone

As the song ended they knew that they needed to let go of each other and get on with their day, but they didn't want to. Meredith pulled her head a way from Jacob's chest and he looked down into her eyes. She smiled and he leaned down a little to kiss her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him harder as he lifted her up and walked back to their bedroom.

He laid her down, but then she stopped him. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," she responded receiving a funny look from Jacob, "I just want to tell you something."

"What?"

"I love you, Jacob."

He got rid of his funny look and smiled at her. "I love you too, Meredith Grey," and then kissed her again. He slowly took off her shirt and showed her that he loved her.

"Meredith? Why are you so late?" a women asked as Meredith rushed into the locker room and got into her scrubs. "Meredith?" the woman asked again.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to."

The woman laughed a little, "You and Jacob seriously need to learn some self-control."

"We have self-control, thank you very much, Meg," Meredith said to her friend as they walked out of the locker room.

"What happened to you yesterday? You were supposed to be scrubbing in on that transplant and then I was told to scrub in. Not that I minded, but where were you?" Meg asked as they walked into an elevator.

"I was in a meeting," Meredith said sounding a little distracted.

"With who?"

"Dr. Webber."

"Who?"

"He's the Chief at Seattle Grace, the hospital I used to work at," Meredith said. A nurse behind them in the elevator was listening and soaking up every word, so Meredith was praying that Meg would shut up so she wouldn't have to say anything else. She had gone through being the most talked about person in the hospital before and she didn't want to go through that again.

"Why was he here?"

"Just a job offer."

"Don't they usually just call about things like that?" Meg asked.

"He did call, I guess I just didn't respond fast enough," Meredith said as the elevator dinged and the doors opened. She hurried down the hall towards her resident with Meg following her.

"Hello Dr. Grey, Dr. Lord. You two are late."

"Sorry, Dr. Jackson," Meredith said to her resident.

"The other interns who showed up on time have already been assigned. Lord you are with Dr. Henry. Grey you are with the new resident. I believe you've already been spoken to about that," he said as an unpleasantly familiar face turned the corner.

Meredith looked at the face for a moment, but then turned around and hurried down the hall. Meg looked between the two people and got a very confused look upon her face. Knowing that there was a good story here, she hurried after Meredith who stopped once she had turned the corner.

"Who was he?" Meg whispered, scaring Meredith.

"What?" Meredith asked pretending to have no idea what she was talking about.

"That guy? You know, tall, dark, and handsome? The guy who gave you a very odd look that made you run away?" Meg said.

"I didn't run away."

"Yeah, okay," Meg said not believing Meredith, "But who is he? And how do you know him?"

"He's Dr. Shepherd. I used to work with him. That's it," Meredith said as she began to walk down the hall again.

"Oh come on. I can smell a good story. Romance?" Meg asked pretending to sniff the air, "Yup, romance, definitely. So how did you two meet? Was it at work? Or off duty? And what made you two break up?"

"Meg, enough with the reporter act. Stop acting crazy and act like the normal Meg. The Meg I can be around for more than five minutes before wanting to hit her," Meredith said.

"Okay," Meg said sighing, "But one more question: Don't you have to work with him today?"

"Don't remind me."

Meredith walked into a patient's room and picked up the patient's chart. It said that patient's name was Kelly Burton. She had a brain tumor in her parental lobe and was scheduled for surgery that afternoon. Meredith walked over to all of the machines that Kelly was hooked up to and examined them, not noticing that Kelly was awake.

"Are you my doctor?" the tan skinned woman asked.

"Yes, one of them anyways. I'm Dr. Grey," Meredith said smiling, "But you can call me Meredith."

"I'm Kelly," she said with a smile. Meredith could tell that Kelly was very young. Maybe not even twenty years old and that made Meredith upset knowing everything she was going through at such a young age.

"Hello, Ms. Burton," a male voice said making Meredith and Kelly both look towards the door. Derek and Meredith locked eyes and Derek looked dumbstruck. Kelly looked between them, sensing the obvious tension.

"Meredith," Derek mumbled under his breath in disbelief. He had thought he'd seen her a few minutes before, but he figured it was just his mind playing tricks on him. He'd seen her everywhere he'd been in the last six months, just picture her in his mind, but now she was there, really there, and it didn't seem like she would be going anywhere anytime soon. He blinked a few times to reassure himself, gaining a confused look from his patient. His patient became the only thing stopping him from going over to Meredith right now and wrapping his arms around her despite all of the things said and all of the time that had gone by.

"Dr. Shepherd?" Meredith said pretending as if she had no idea why the awkward silence had started.

"Uh? Yes, Dr. Grey?"

"This is Kelly Burton. She has a brain tumor in her parental lobe and the surgery has been scheduled for later today. All of her labs have turned out as suspected and there doesn't seem to be anything further wrong with her," Meredith said looking at Kelly the entire time, instead of looking at Derek.

"Dr. Grey? Can I speak to you for a moment?"

"Actually, no. I have some things I need to do," Meredith said walking out of the room.

"Dr. Grey?" he called after her.

"You aren't my boss here, Derek," she said without looking back.