Title: The Best Laid Plans

Authors: Sara and Lizzie

Rating: T for violence, language, maybe sex

Disclaimer: Obviously the show does not belong to two college girls.

Summary: An OR gets taken hostage by a love struck woman whose fiancé is dying. Meredith gets caught in the cross fire and no one is safe. But, it's all in the name of love, right?

Author's Note: Yea, it's a cliché, but we're obsessed and back to writing game, so feed our egos and review. Updates have been lax since we both began college, but we couldn't stay away for long. Please review. It's our heroin.

One more chapter left. This is pretty much just humor and fluff, and the next chapter will be te MerDer date and sex culmination to end the thing. So, enjoy. Review.

"That's the way it goes, it'll all work out." -Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Meredith walked to the nurse's station. No, walked wasn't the right word. She wasn't just walking, she was definitely striding with a purpose. She marched right up and looked at Olivia.

"Olivia, would mind paging Dr. Montgomery Shepherd for me?" she asked. The redhead raised her eyebrows, but she nodded.

"Um, sure thing, Dr. Grey."

Meredith sucked in a breath and waited. There was no room for hesitation now. Sometimes she wondered why she insisted on being so damn impulsive. She shook her head, clearing it, and waited.

She heard the clicking of heels before she actually saw Addison round the corner. "Someone paged?" she called.

Meredith nodded. "Dr. Montgomery Shepherd, can I talk to you?" she asked. Addison looked her up and down, and finally nodded her head. Meredith led her to the lounge behind the nurses station and motioned for her to sit down.

Addison obliged, and sat, perched on the edge of a chair, her long legs crossed perfectly, one creamy white limb over the other. One of her Christian Louboutin peep toe pumps dangled off her foot just so.

Talk about intimidating. "I'm sorry." Meredith blurted out. Addison looked at her strangely.

"Did you sleep with him or something?"

Meredith shook her head. "No, of course not."

"Meredith, you shouldn't be sorry. Marriages end, people change. People fall in love. You shouldn't be sorry for falling in love."

"Addison…" she didn't know what to say.

"And neither should he." The older doctor told the intern. "He didn't have a choice, Meredith. Derek's a good person. His wife begged him for one more chance. He had no choice but to give it to her."

Meredith regarded this. "I feel so guilty." She whispered, sinking down into a chair near Addison's. "I feel like I destroyed this marriage."

Addison smiled. "No, Grey, I destroyed this marriage. You just got caught up in wreckage."

Meredith stared down at her hands. "You're being so nice to me."

"Meredith, my husband loves you. In all honesty, I'll always love Derek, but it hasn't been something good for a long time. It would be easy to hate you, be angry at you. But I don't. And I'm not."

Silence hung between the two women. "I'm glad." Meredith said. "That you don't. And you're not. Cause in the OR the other day, it kind of seemed like you did, and you were."

Addison nodded. "I needed to know that it was something…" she didn't finish. Meredith nodded.

"It's love." Addison looked her in the eye, and smiled.

"Don't apologize for falling in love Dr. Grey." She said, rising and leaving the room. Meredith sat there for a long time after she left, thinking about what she said. Addison didn't hate her. If Derek could love her, and even Addison could forgive her, maybe it was time Meredith could do the same for herself.

She walked slowly back to Derek's room with these thoughts in her mind. She was surprised that Bailey hadn't tracked her down and given her something to do. In fact, the whole hospital seemed to be moving rather slowly today.

She walked into Derek's room. "I was stupid." She told him, standing in front of his hospital bed. "When you decided to stay with Addison. I tried to close myself off to the hurt and pretend that it didn't hurt like it did, but it hurt."

She sucked some air into her lungs and continued. "I am scared. I believe you when you say you love me, but I'm scared. But I'm ready to not be scared, or ashamed anymore. So hurry up, and get released."

She turned on her heel and started for the door. "Meredith?" Derek asked. "Is that everything?"

She nodded. "That's all."

"Okay."

She smiled. "Okay."


Two Weeks Later

"Yang, you're in the pit. There was a car crash, so you might get lucky. Stevens, you're with Burke, and he's got labs. O'Malley, the chief is on the board in ten, if you hover near him, but don't bother him, you might get in. Karev, you're with me. Grey, Shepherd requested you." Bailey said, rolling her eyes.

Meredith grinned and nodded. Bailey put her hands on her hips. Apparently, he thinks you're going to be a fantastic neurologist. You tell him that the first time I catch him whispering sweet nothings in your ear when he's requested you, I'm going to pay Karev to shave his head while he's sleeping." She said this extra loudly, for Derek's benefit, because he had just strolled to the nearby coffee machine with Burke and his soon to be ex wife.

"Threatening me, Dr. Bailey?"

"I sure as hell am." She said. "Take Grey, and get out of here. Dr. Montgomery, you need an intern?"

Addison shook her head. "I've got Grey. Derek's working on one of my cases." Cristina and Izzie raised their eyebrows at each other and tried to conceal laughter. Bailey looked at her interns.

"I'm confused as to why you're all still standing around here." She said bluntly. They scattered in different directions, Meredith following Derek towards Addison.

"You know," she said. "You might look good with no hair."

Addison caught Meredith's eye and snorted with suppressed laughter. Meredith smiled winningly at Derek, who blinked between the two of them. Finally he gave up, and let them laugh. As the two women collapsed into peals of laughter at his confusion, he couldn't help but smile.


Addison left the room to talk to the girls parents about the procedure. She thought it might be torturous, her, Meredith and Derek all on the same case. But it wasn't. She might have been enjoying herself, really. Not that she'd ever admit that to anyone.

Derek waited until Addison left the room. He looked at Meredith. "So we were establishing rules." He said.

She looked up. "What?"

"When we left off, there were rules being established."

She smiled, catching on. "Your point, Dr. Shepherd?"

"Let me take you out. Dinner. Multiple sets of cutlery, cloth napkins, a bottle or two of twenty year old wine."

She smirked. "I like the sound of that. Except the cutlery."

He shook his head. "Oh, don't worry, I'll tell you which one to use first." She wrinkled her nose at him. "Tonight?" he asked.

She nodded. "Tonight. Derek? You know what we haven't done in a while?" she asked him, one eyelid sliding down into the sexiest wink he'd ever seen.

"Will I find out tonight?" he asked.

She shrugged. "It better be a really good dinner."

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