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Title: Could be Anything
Summary: SEQUEL TO INTO THE DARK: Take place immediately after the last chapter, Meredith must now deal with the fact that Derek is no longer married and he wants her back but is she willing to get hurt all over again? Takes place after the Code Black incident.
Note: You don't have to read Into the Dark to understand this story but the first chapter may be a bit confusing and to all of my faithful readers - WELCOME BACK AND ENJOY!!!
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There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment, and we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp. Commitments are complicated. We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make. True commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice. Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully.
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Chapter 3 I Knew that I Loved You
Maybe its intuition
but some things you just don't question
Like in your eyes
I see my future in an instant
And there it goes
I think I've found my best friend
Addison was walking peacefully down one of the hallways of Seattle Grace when she heard someone call out her name.
"Addison!" Mark yelled out.
"What!" Addison yelled.
"Oh come on, you're not even a little bit happy to see me?" He asked.
"Just go away Mark."
"We all made mistakes Addison, all three of us. But somehow I lost my best friend and the woman I love."
"Please don't say that."
"I miss you Addi."
"You cheated on me Mark. I was willing to throw my marriage away for you."
"Then why did you call me to come out here?" Mark asked.
"I don't know, I thought that I needed you but I don't." Addison threw up her hands and walked away.
Meredith was heading down to OR 2 to scrub in on tumor removal surgery with Burke went she past Derek in the hallway.
"Hey." She said.
"Thank you … for earlier." He said.
"It was nothing, are you ok?"
"You ever had a crappy day, I mean really, really crappy."
"I think we all have."
Derek looked at her with his famous grin.
"I have a surgery I've got to scrub in on." She said.
"Ok." He nodded.
"Ok."
Early the next morning, Meredith was on her way to the bathroom when she caught sight of a male butt coming from the bathroom and going into Izzie's bedroom. Moments later she saw Izzie coming out of the bathroom in a towel.
"Who was that?" Meredith asked.
"Alex." Izzie grinned.
"Seriously?"
"Well, he does know how to feed the beast."
Meredith just shook her head and proceed to go into the bathroom.
"I better not find anything in here that would give me horrible mental pictures." Meredith yelled out.
"Just think of it as payback for all the things George and I had to hear with you and Derek." Izzie yelled back.
Derek. His name seemed to come up at least once or twice in this household. She missed him, she really did but at the moment she needed her space from Derek and all men to be perfectly honest.
Knitting.
Yep, she had decided at that moment she was going to be celibate and forget all men.
Later that day Meredith, Cristina, Izzie, George and Alex were getting ready for rounds.
"Ok, Yang you're with Montgomery-Shepherd, George - Dr. Torres from ortho needs an intern, Alex you're with both myself and Dr. Burke, Izzie you're with the new attending -Dr. Sloan and Meredith you're with Shepherd."
"As in Mark Sloan?" Izzie asked.
"Yes, is there a problem with that?" Miranda asked.
"No, no problem at all."
"Alright then, what the hell are all you doing here, GO." Bailey hollered.
Meredith entered her patients room and saw Derek already waiting.
"Henry Johnston, admitted last night after collapsing on the floor. CT shows that his arteries have blown up like balloons and he appears to have a aneurysm the size of an golf ball." Meredith reported.
"What's our option?" Derek asked.
"Considering the size of the aneurysm, our best shot is a standstill."
"Excellent." Derek smiled.
"What exactly is an standstill?" Mr. Johnston asked.
"A standstill is when we lower your body temperature to 60 degrees, drain the blood from your body and have your heart stop. I will then move into snip the aneurysm and then bring you back in all under 45 minutes."
"So you're basically killing me and bring me back."
"Yes."
"Have you ever done this before?" The patient asked.
"Actually we had one several months ago that went very smoothly."
"Ok then."
"Dr. Grey will you get him prepped for the OR." Derek smiled at Meredith.
"Will do."
After Derek left, the patient turned to Meredith, "So what's going on between you and Dr. Shepherd?"
Meredith smiled, "Nothing, we're friend I think."
"For how long will that last." Mr. Johnston laughed.
"Excuse me?" Meredith was a little taken back.
"Honey, I've been around for a long time and I know when a man in love with a woman."
"I'll be back in half an hour Mr. Johnston." Meredith smiled and left the room.
Two hours later, Derek had successfully completed the standstill.
"We could be friends." Meredith said while her and Derek were cleaning themselves up after the surgery.
"Yes we could."
"Ok then, we're friends."
"We're friends."
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