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Title: Could be Anything
Summary: SEQUEL TO INTO THE DARK: Takes places immediately after the last chapter, Meredith must now deal with the fact that Derek is no longer married and he wants her back but it she willing to get hurt all over again?
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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 6 She Is
This is going to bring me to knees
I just want to hold you close.
The following day both Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd were extremely pissed off, it didn't help that she had been assigned to his case.
They didn't speak to one another unless it was medical and even then they were only professional with one another.
Derek was heading to his patients room when he saw Addison.
"Derek."
"Hey, you know what I like? I like that we're civilized. We're these adult grown people who can be divorced and friendly. We deserve a medal." He said.
"It wasn't a one night stand. Mark and I. It wasn't a one night stand; I was in love with him. Or at least I thought that I was. After you left we lived together for two months. I wanted to believe that we could make it work, that I hadn't thrown my marriage away, that I hadn't thrown my life away on a fling. But he's Mark and well I caught him with someone else, and then Richard called, so … We both had relationships with other people. We're both equally liable … for everything. So please, take the Brownstone."
Derek was fuming, "All I want it Seattle. I want Seattle, and I want never to see you again."
He walked away and into his patient's room.
"Dr. Shepherd," Meredith acknowledged him. "He's prepped and ready for surgery."
"Okay then, thanks for your help Dr. Grey." He started to walk away.
"Aren't I scrubbing in?"
"I don't need your assistance but I'm sure someone else finds it quite useful and enjoyable." He smirked.
He walked into the staircase and Meredith followed him.
"This is about Finn, isn't it?"
"I'm glad I know about the vet. You really get around."
He was about to walk away when Meredith grabbed his arm.
"What did you just say to me?"
"It's unforgivable."
"I don't ever remembering you to forgive me."
"So was the knitting a phase. Whose next? Alex? Because I heard he likes to sleep around. You have that in common."
"You don't get to call me a whore when I met you I thought I had found the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done. So all the boys and all the bars and all the obvious daddy issues, who cared because I was done. You left me. You choose Addison. I'm all glued back together now and I make no apologizes for I choose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore." Her eyes started to water.
"But I made a mistake." He yelled.
"You've made one too many Derek."
"Everything would be ok if you tried to make things work. Just give me a second chance." He pleaded.
"I did Derek. After I found out that you were married I still wanted you back. I begged you to choose me, to love me. I poured my heart out to you and you choose Addison over me."
Meredith walked away, leaving Derek in the stairwell.
After the fight, Meredith had decided to go and think down in the basement.
"I don't see why Burke is pissed that I fell asleep. It happens, I'm an intern, I get tired even during sex." Cristina said while sitting herself down next to Meredith.
Meredith didn't say anything.
"What's wrong with you?" Cristina asked.
"Derek called me a whore."
"That McBastard."
Meredith looked at Cristina and they both started laughing.
Later that night, Meredith was over at Finn's place.
"This could be a mistake. This. Us. You, you, you're really nice and we you don't want to get involved with me. If you knew me."
"Scary."
"Finn."
"And damaged. See, I told you."
"Finn, I'm serious."
"I don't care because I'm just as scary and damaged as you are."
She smiled and leaned in and kissed him.
She knew that she needed to get away from Derek. He wasn't good for her and Finn was. Maybe, just maybe, Finn was what she really needed.
The next morning, Meredith had woken up from another sleepover at Finn's place to find she was alone. She started to get up when Finn came inside with a sad expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I'm so sorry Meredith," he paused, "Doc passed away this morning."
Finn took Meredith into his arms as she began to cry.
"I know that you loved him very much." He said to her.
Although it made her sad to know that her dog passed away. It made her even sadder to know that her last excuse, beside the hospital, to talk to Derek was gone. She knew that she shouldn't feel this way because she was the one that choose this path. Meredith knew that she had to make things right between Derek and herself even if it meant just being friends.
"I do, I love him so much."
"Shh. It's going to be ok."
"I better go and tell Derek. I don't want to tell him over the phone."
Finn nodded and left Meredith to get dressed.
Meredith had knocked several times and there had been no answer. She knew that he was home because his car was there.
She had decided to get his spare key, he was being stubborn and she really needed to talk to him.
She walked inside just as Derek was getting out of the shower. What surprised her wasn't the fact that he was half naked but that he was half naked and there was a woman on his bed.
"I … uh…" Then she walked out the door.
"Meredith." Derek called after her, "Meredith wait, let me explain."
But it was too late.
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