A.N.- So many chapters because I really don't want to do my homework…
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Chapter 3: In Which It's All a Dream
My wife finally wakes up in a cold sweat, after hours of twisting and turning. I've been watching for these hours, ever since she woke me up when she twisted and the covers slipped off of me. I'm a light sleeper. I can see the panic in her eyes right after she opens them. Being tangled in sheets doesn't help her situation either. The look of panic remains in her eyes, and she starts twisting and turning, all the while sobbing, trying to get out of the tangled mess of the sheets. I figure the best thing for me to do right now is help her with the task of untangling the sheets.
It must have been a truly awful dream, because the look of panic and sobbing remain long after she wakes up. I take her into my arms, and hold her tight until she stills a little. I look at her with concern, but I can only see sorrow and traces of panic left in her eyes.
She grabs my hand and looks it over. When she can't find anything, she checks again. "Derek," she whispers in a panicked state, "Your hand."
I'm extremely confused right now, and so I reply, "What about my hand."
"It's normal," she says incredulously.
"Mer," I look at her again with concern, "Why would my hand not be okay…?"
She gets up, and dials a number on her phone. "Christina," she asks, "Do you have both shoes?" She pauses, "Good, Goodnight…" Then she hands up.
"Mer, what's this all about?"
"The plane crash, your hand went through the plane and Lexie… Lexie!"
She gets up and runs to the attic. It's the best thing for her right now to know that everything is fine. I know it helped me after I had nightmares about my whole family dying, after my father's death. But if I was so confused about what she was saying, Lexie, who would have just been woken up, probably has no clue.
I walk upstairs as quickly as possible. Lexie is sitting in bed looking clueless as Meredith looks around like she's seeing an illusion. "She had a nightmare about being in a plane crash. From what I can gather, you probably got hurt as well. My hand went through the plane, so I can only imagine what happened to you."
"She died," Mer stated, "But you're, you're really… alive?"
"Yes Meredith, I am alive," I state. Lexie probably knows the type of dreams too; I think we all had them after the shooting.
"Good," Meredith says. She has visibly calmed down, and now she looks exhausted.
"Come on," I say, and lead her downstairs, back to our bedroom. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"You, Cristina, Arizona, Lexie, Mark, and I were in a plane crash. Cristina lost her shoe, your hand went through the plane, Mark almost died multiple times, Arizona hurt her leg and was coughing up blood, I don't know if I was hurt, and Lexie… Lexie… She died." Meredith finally choked out.
"Mer, it was only a dream," I say rubbing her back. "Now, how about we go to bed?"
She seems reluctant to go back and possibly fact the same dream, so I put my arm around her shoulder and guide her back. She was so exhausted she fell asleep almost instantly, and stayed peaceful in my arms the whole night.
A.N.- I'm not so sure about this one. I think I would like it with season 9 starting out with Meredith waking up, and realizing it was just a dream, and they hadn't even taken their boards yet. Although I do like the April/ Jackson pairing. I've been rooting for them for forever, along with Mark/ Lexie…