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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?

A/N As a little clarification for the story – Into the Dark was basically Meredith's dream. She wakes up at the end and this story continues. What she doesn't know is that the dream was her glimpse into the future.

Hope that clears things up, Now onto the show……

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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 7 – Gamble Everything for Love

Tell me the truth and I'll tell you the truth

After witnessing that, Meredith didn't want to go back to Finn's place and she didn't want to go home. She was left with only one option – the hospital. Even she didn't start for another hour, it didn't matter.

When she got into the locker room, Cristina was already in there.

"What are you doing here?" Meredith asked.

"I could ask the same for you?"

"Doc died this morning and I saw Derek half naked," Cristina raised her eyebrow, "With a woman on his bed."

"Oh." Cristina paused, "She was probably really ugly."

"Very ugly and tall and gorgeous." Meredith sat down on the bench next to Cristina

"Meredith you know that you shouldn't be mad."

"I know but I didn't think that he would move on so soon."

"Didn't you?"

"Shut up Cristina. You're not helping."

"Ok, Fine. McDreamy's a McAsshole."

"Thank you."

Several hours later, Meredith was walking by the nurse's station when she saw Derek and his latest flame talking and Derek looking pissed off. She tried to avoid them but she wasn't that lucky.

"Meredith! Wait!" Derek called out to her.

"Yes, Dr. Shepherd."

"Good, it's the lusty intern again." That woman said to her.

Meredith looked sick to her stomach. How could Derek tell another woman about the things that she had done?

"Meredith, I would like you to meet my sister Nancy."

"Oh, sister!" Meredith felt slightly relieved.

"I've heard so much about you." Nancy smiled.

"Well I have to get going. Nice meeting you."

And Meredith ran off with Derek right after her.

He was finally able to corner her in an on-call room.

"I'm sorry about this morning. I can understand that it looked a little compromising." Derek said to her.

"There's actually something that I had wanted to tell you this morning."

Derek tried to contain the excitement building up inside of him, Meredith must've broken up with Finn.

"Doc passed away this morning."

His face fell and he took Meredith into his arms.

She couldn't take it anymore and finally she began crying.

"I can't believe he's gone Derek."

"I know Mere, I know."

She broke their embrace and looked into his eyes. Without thinking Derek brought his lips to hers. They meet for a few seconds before Meredith realized what was happening and broke the kiss.

"Derek you can't do this to me."

"What am I doing?"

"You can't kiss me like that when you call me whore. You do things to me when you know I'm vulnerable. You can't do this to me anymore Derek."

Derek didn't say anything and watched Meredith walk out the door.

Meredith had been at the nurses station looking for a chart when Derek's sister came up to her.

"Hello." Nancy smiled.

"Uh…Hi"

"I know that you are done in 10 minutes and I was hoping that we could talk."

"Um…sure." Meredith was a little surprised.

"I'll meet you at the bar across the street in 20 minutes."

Meredith forced a smile, "Ok."

A few minutes later, Meredith walked into the locker room.

"Satan II wants to talk to me." She announced to her friends.

"Why?" Izzie asked.

"I don't know."

"I heard that she's really good friends with Addison. Apparently they have been since college; she was the one that introduced Derek to her." Cristina said.

"Oh great, just what I needed."

"Well good luck with that, I have to go check on Denny. See you guys later." Izzie said while walking out of the locker room.

"Do you think Izzie is making a mistake with Denny?" Meredith asked Cristina and George.

"I think it's going to blow up in her face, she should know that doctors aren't supposed to get too involved with their patients."

George and Meredith both nodded.

When Meredith got to Joe's, she immediately saw Nancy sitting at a table towards the back. Before she went over there, she went to the bar.

"Joe, give me a shot, now."

Before Joe had finished pouring the drink, Meredith had grabbed it and threw it down her throat.

"Thanks."

When Meredith got to the table, Nancy smiled.

"Couldn't talk to me without a little alcohol in your body?"

"It certainly helps." Meredith replied.

"You're very pretty but you're not my brother's usual type."

"Really, I always thought that we were perfect together." The words flew out of her mouth before Meredith realized what she had said.

Nancy smiled, "Then why aren't you guys together?"

"I am dating a vet."

"You go from a vet to neurosurgeon?"

"Well Derek did go from a woman who loved him to a woman who cheated on him. Funny things happen." Meredith shrugged.

Nancy laughed, "Very true. You know I have been friends with Addison for a very long time but my family never liked her, especially my dad. He couldn't stand her, always thought that she couldn't be trusted. My whole family was so upset when Derek and Addison started dating, even more so when he proposed. Addison, being well-off, had even demanded a bigger ring when she knew that Derek couldn't afford it. He saved up for months to buy her a ring, he was always trying to please her. They seemed like this perfect couple. He was an up in coming neurosurgeon, everyone could see the potential in him and she was this neo-natal specialist that excelled in what she did. The problem was that they were never happy. They pretended to be but everyone could tell that they weren't."

"Then why did they stay married?" Meredith asked.

"I think so many people knew from the beginning that the marriage wouldn't last, they didn't want to give into that. I think they wanted to show everyone else that they were wrong. Derek threw himself into the hospital and Addison found Mark."

Nancy took a swig of her beer, "Today, I saw the way my brother looked at you and I've never seen him look at anyone like that before. He is so in love with you."

"He has a funny way of showing it sometimes."

"I heard about what happened the other day. You know he didn't mean it, he was having a bad day."

"What could've been so bad that caused him to call me a whore?"

"He had just found out that what happened between Mark and Addison wasn't a one-night stand but rather a relationship. Apparently they lived together for 2 months after Derek left and they fell in love but Mark being who he is, cheated on her and that's when she came to Seattle."

Meredith didn't know what to say. She sat there speechless. Part of her wanted to forgive Derek and finished what he had started in the on-call room today but the other half of her knew that she needed to move on.

"Why won't you take my brother back?"

"I'm dating someone else."

"But my brother is the one."

Meredith shrugged, "Maybe, but Finn's the better guy."

A/N - Wow that was a long chapter. I had not planned on writing the kiss between Derek and Meredith but it just kinda happened. Shonda is right when she says that these characters tend to write themselves.

So this story is going in a different direction than I had planned. This was suppose to be perfectly inline with Into the Dark but I was writing Chapter 8 (which I will post in a few days) and thought of another idea and kinda just went with it. I am much more happy with it and I hope you guys will be too. The new summary kinda goes along with my new idea. The next chapter is personally my favorite from any story I have written. I will update soon!!

Please review because I only got like 4 for the last chapter and that makes me depressed and not so eager to update soon. So please review, it only takes a few seconds.