Aiden is mine, and as we all know, the rest of these beautiful characters belong to Shonda!

Meredith's day was going by perfectly, she had gained a strong foundation with Cristina as well as Izzie, and a small one with George and Alex. Aiden had let her in on the most amazing surgery that she had ever seen; now, that may be because she was in there, because it was a rather texbook proceedure, but she enjoyed every secong of it. He even let her hold the scalpel, guiding her hand as she cut. It made her feel like she was on one of those typical miniature golf dates, where the boy would wrap his arms around the girl and "teach" her how to put, except for she was cutting open a head, rather that golfing. She thought of Derek during the surgery, but only thinking that she was going to be ok without him; afterall, Aiden was falling hard for her, and he was just as smart, and almost as gorgeous as Derek was -- or rather, is.

Her shift was over, she smiled to herself about the possibilities of her and Aiden together, they would make the perfect couple, but then her mind quickly faded to Derek, and how she thought the same thing when she met him. Everything was so well in their relationship, she just couldn't see why Derek would cheat on her, with her ibest friend/i!!! Especially since her and Addison were basically sisters, or at least thats the way they treated each other. Addison and Meredith knew each other basically since they were born; their mothers were friends, and their mother's mothers were friends. In thier first year of college was when she met Derek and brought him into both her and Addison's life, it didn't seem all that long ago. . .

It was a calm fall day, the leaves had just began to shed their colors for new ones, as they abondoned their posts high on their tree to meet with the ground, as they did every year. Addison and Meredith were ecstatic to finally be out of the drama filled highschool, and into real life -- college. Comparing their scheduals during a lunch break, they were suprised to find that they had the same science class together.

"Oh Meri! This is wonderful! I can't believe that we actually get a class together."

"Yep! Isn't it great? Oh, and it starts in a half hour, we had better get going!" And with that, the two picked up their books and rushed to their classroom. It was large, larger than they had expected. The took seats near the aisle, but not on it; Meredith sat on the outside while Addison sat on the inside.

"Oh, Meredith, I can't see the board from here, i'll be right back, let me go get my glasses."

"Ok, but you better hurry!" she told her as she stood up, "You don't wanna miss the first part of the lecture."

"Yeah, yeah," her mind now occuping something else, she tapped on Meredith's shoulder, pointing to the other side of the room at a small group of guys, "Dude, Mer, he is so checking you out." Upon looking, Addison grabbed her face and pulled it back to face the front of the class, "You can't look! Then he'll think your easy!"

"Well, is he cute? Maybe I am!" She said with a wink.

"Ok, ok, he's heading this way!" She said frantically.

"Calm down Addie," she laughed, "He's just a guy!"

"ok, ok, I'll go get my glasses, you can talk to him, and then tell me how it goes, ok?" She asked as she began to leave.

"And with my luck, your the one who he'll have been checking out!" She whispered loudly, not noticing that he was now standing right next to her.

"Well, your luck has just improved, then!" He replied to her 'whispered' comment. Turning back around, she finally got a glimpse of him -- Addie was right to run, there was no way that she would be able to talk to someone so absolutely gorgeous without slipping up somewhere along the way. "Is this seat taken?" He asked, not waiting for her response as he sat down. He was giving her the most dreamy smile, and all she could do was smile back.

"No," she replied, rather late to his question.

"Good, then you won't mind if I sit here."

"Not at all," now feeling more confident in herself, she sat up straight, giving him her full attention. They stared at each other for a long while, smiles plastered on their faces, not noticing much else in the room.

It had been a long while before Addison returned, in which he decided to break the slence, "So, this Thursday, lets say 5:30 at the cofe house across the street?" He made sure to finish this before Addison could here any of the conversation, even though he knew that she would probably tell her as soon as she left.

"Huh?" She asked, stepping out of her daze, "Oh, yeah, sure, of course, um, um. . ."

"Derek," he filled her in.

"Derek, right. Meredith," she extended her hand, he then grabbing it for a short shake before he turned to leave.

"See you then, Meredith."

She snapped back into the real world as a large hand was placed on her shoulder. She turned quickly, meeting familiar green eyes. "You ok?" he asked curiously.

"Oh," she cleared her throat, "Yes of course Dr. Schaffer, thank you."

"Yesterday it was Aiden, and now its Dr. Schaffer?"

"It was never Aiden, I think that you are mistaken Dr. Schaffer," she smiled flirtatiously, she needed to get her mind off of him quick.

His only reply was a smile back in her direction, as he started to walk with her outside, placing his large hand on the small of her back. Once he escorted her all the way out to the car, he began again, "Let me take you out tonight."

Meredith looked up at him, cocking her head -- it had now become 'their thing'. "Where?" She asked. This was a relief, he figured that she would just drop the big fat 'no' bomb, and drive off, but this, this was a start.

"Anywhere you want," he said, smiling.

Shutting her car door, Aiden figured that he had just moved too fast, but that was ok, he was seeing her boundaries. Maybe he could eventually get around to her. "I like tequila," she said after rolling down her window as her car started, "Wanna buy me a drink?"

"I'll buy you anything you want."

Ok, so I added a little Mer/Der, and a little Mer/Aiden, I think that will satisfy me. . . for now.