Chapter 26:
"Meredith, we should stop doing this," Derek said as he pulled his scrub shirt on.
"Stop having sex?" Meredith asked both surprised and shocked.
"No, stop having sex when we're supposed to talk."
"Who said we're supposed to talk?" Meredith asked as she put her hair up to hide the craziness of it.
"We need to," Derek said.
"No we don't," Meredith said.
"You need to," Derek said. Meredith was about to say something, but she couldn't lie to him. She knew he'd see through it. "And not after a bottle of tequila."
"You're taking all the fun out of it," Meredith said in a whiny voice as she sat on his lap.
"We have to go to work," Derek said.
"We are at work," Meredith pointed out.
"You're going to get me fired."
Meredith reluctantly got up, "I'd be the one getting fired, but fine. Be that way. You'll regret it tonight," she said smiling as she walked out. Derek began to notice that she successfully dropped the topic of talking things out and he thought she'd probably do it again.
As Meredith walked out of the room she bumped into someone, throwing papers everywhere. Meredith immediately began to help picking up the papers when she looked up and met the eyes of Izzie. Meredith smiled slightly as she stood up and handed the loose papers to Izzie, receiving a cold look back. Izzie took her papers and walked around Meredith bitterly.
"Izzie!" Meredith said both upset and mad.
"What?" Izzie asked harshly turning around and stopping.
"You've got to talk to me eventually," Meredith said.
"Actually, I don't think I do. I'm forced to talk about you with everyone and at this point, I think that that is all the Meredith Grey I can handle," Izzie said turning around and walking away. Meredith sighed and watched Izzie walk away as her pager went off. She looked down at it and then headed to the room she'd been paged to.
Meredith walked into the room and saw Bailey. Bailey had a not-so-approving look on her face referring to the patient. Meredith looked down at the bed and saw a familiar face. A look of panic and guilt took over her face as she stared at the sick body.
"Dr. Grey?" Bailey said.
Meredith looked at Bailey and then back at the bed. She shook her head and turned around, leaving the room and the patient behind.
Derek finished his last assignment for the day and headed towards the intern's locker room. He looked in through the little window and saw George sitting down on the bench talking to someone who was hidden behind the lockers. Derek figured it was Meredith and he walked in. George turned around a saw him. "What do you need?"
"I'm looking for Meredith," he said as he walked farther in, revealing Izzie as the other person in the conversation. Izzie looked annoyed and pissed off at the mention of Meredith.
"She left a little while ago. Something about being here was too much," George said.
"That's all she does. Runs," Izzie mumbled.
Derek looked up at her, about to defend Meredith, but decided to drop it. "Do you know where she went?"
"Sorry," George said sincerely as Derek turned around to walk out.