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Meredith arrived home form New York late that night. She ended up taking a later flight. Even with the time change, she didn't walk into her house until eleven. The house was quiet. Both George and Izzie's cars were in the driveway. She stumbled up the stairs almost falling several times. She was happy to see her bed. She didn't even change her clothes. She collapsed on the bed. Her head hit an envelope and it crumpled under her hair. She switched the light on. She opened the envelope and read the enclosed letter.

Meredith-

Your hair is like gold,

Your skin is like silk,

I get lost in your eyes,

And I don't want to be found.

Meet me at Joe's Monday after work.

-Derek

She couldn't believe he wrote her a letter and placed it on her pillow. He was the perfect guy. She knew it. But she thought Nate was the perfect guy too. That didn't end so well. She ran her fingers over the handwritten letter and laid it on her night stand. She flipped the light off and closed her eyes. She had a huge smile on her face that would stay there until morning.

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"So how was your weekend?" Izzie asked as Meredith sat down at the kitchen table.

"It was fine." Meredith returned with a smile.

"So what did you do?" George asked.

"What do you think we did, George?" Meredith answered with a chuckle.

"Oh, God." George answered.

"So, McDreamy was asking where you went..." Izzie stated.

"Oh?" Meredith said plainly.

"Yeah. Alex told him." George said nonchalantly.

"What!" Meredith said in shock.

"What's the big deal? I thought you were done with men..." Izzie stated.

"I am. I don't care." Meredith said, changing her tone.

"So did you stay at his place?" Izzie asked. "What was it like?"

"Nope. A hotel. I told you I don't want to get personal." Meredith answered. She started thinking about the note Derek left her. What kind of man leaves notes on a woman's pillow? The perfect man, that's who.

"Mer? Earth to Meredith!" Izzie shouted.

"What?" Meredith asked.

"Where the hell were you?" Izzie chuckled.

"Lost in a dream." Meredith answered.

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Meredith got assigned to Derek. She was actually giddy. She found herself looking forward to seeing him today. They didn't have a chance to talk. He had her running labs and getting the patient ready. Finally, right before the surgery, they were alone in the scrub room.

"Did you have a good time in New York?" He asked her with a straight face.

"Oh. Yeah. I guess." She said slowly. She knew that he knew why she had went.

"So what did you do?" He said with a smile.

"Seriously?" She laughed. "Cut the crap. I went there to get laid." She snapped.

"You can't do that in Seattle?" He said bluntly.

"I can. But we have an understanding. It's just sex. No strings, no feelings. It works for us." Meredith said simply. "I'm sorry, Derek. This is me. This is the real Meredith Grey."

"No it's not." He stated boldly as he scrubbed his fingernails.

"You don't know. You don't know me. You don't know how I think. What I feel." She scorned. He walked over, grabbed the back of her head, and pulled her into a deep kiss. She kissed him back. She had to. Her mind and body made her.

"You're right. I'm not in your head. But, I do know that when I kiss you, there is something there. There is passion, and emotion beyond anything I have ever felt. I know you feel it to. So be fair to yourself. Give love a chance." He stated as he began scrubbing his hands again.

"I hate you!" She stated grumpily.

"Sure you do..." He laughed. He walked into the OR with his arms up. The scrub nurse handed him a towel.

"It's a beautiful day to save lives. Let's have some fun." Derek stated. "So Grey, what are we doing here?"

"We are doing deep brain stimulation surgery to alleviate Mr. Cousino's Parkinson's disease symptoms."

"Good." Derek answered. "Why don't you come look through the scope?" Derek asked Meredith. She walked up and looked. "So. Are you coming to Joe's tonight?"

"Um. Well, after the invitation I received. How could I possibly decline?" She said with a smile.

"Good." He answered.

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Meredith changed into her jeans and a nice top from her locker. She didn't know what she was going to do with Derek. She knew what she wanted to do to him. She was finding it harder and harder to resist him. She slid on her black boots and made her way downstairs. Derek was sitting in the lobby. He looked so good sitting there, typing on his Blackberry. He glanced up and she caught his eye. A smile spread across his face and he crossed the lobby and walked right up to her.

"So. I was beginning to wonder if you were setting me up." He stated as they walked out of the hospital together.

"I was ten minutes late." She laughed.

"Yes, but I know you." Derek said with a smile. "You were reluctant about coming."

"I don't stand men up. I take them home and fuck their brains out. But I do not stand them up." Meredith stated boldly.

"Oh. Well are you going to take me home?" He asked, raising his eyebrows.

"No." She said quickly.

"Why not?" Derek asked with a pouty tone.

"Because you and I, we can't do that." She said quickly. They walked into Joe's. Meredith made her way to a small table. Derek went up to the bar. He came back carrying two beers.

"No scotch?" Meredith asked.

"No. This is a beer night. That's what friends do. They drink beer." He chuckled.

"Yep. You are right about that." Meredith smiled.

"So, what did you mean? We can't do that? The sex with no strings." Derek said with a smirk.

"We tried. It didn't work. It's too...I don't know." She answered.

"You felt something. And now you are scared." Derek stated.

"Yeah. I did. But it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't change that we are just friends." She said quickly.

"You say that now." Derek said with a smile.

"You are a pain in the ass, Derek Shepherd!" She shouted.

"I know." Derek chuckled. Meredith's phone rang. She flipped it open.

"Hey!" She said quietly.

"Are you getting laid?" Drew asked with a chuckle.

"No. I am not getting laid!" Meredith laughed. Derek gave her a strange look.

"So what are you doing?" Drew asked.

"I'm uh..." She stammered.

"You're with the guy, aren't you?" He laughed.

"Hmmm. Maybe." She smiled.

"So, how is it going?" Drew persisted. "Did you tell him you love him yet?"

"No. I'm not going to." Meredith snapped. Derek sat there and listened to her talk.

"Let me talk to him!" Drew said.

"No. Absolutely not." Meredith said loudly.

"Why?" Drew questioned her.

"Because you are a trouble maker!" She laughed.

"Fine. But promise me you'll have a good time." Drew said smoothly.

"I will. Goodnight." She answered.

"Don't cheat on me!" He busted out laughing. "Goodnight Meredith!" He said happily as he hung up the phone.

"So who was that?" Derek asked nosily.

"Oh, no one important." Meredith answered.

"You shouldn't do this to yourself. You shouldn't demean yourself by having a rendezvous with some guy across the country." Derek spat.

"I don't think it's any of your business." She retorted, taking the last drink of her beer.

"Come on." He said as he sat up from the table.

"Where are we going?" Meredith asked.

"It's a surprise." He said simply as he grabbed her hand and led her out into the night.

Meredith looked out the car window as they drove. She knew they weren't going to see the ferries, they were the other direction. Derek didn't talk the whole way. She would glance to the side and see him looking at her. She was doing the same, but it was going unnoticed. She got wide eyed when he turned down a dirt road in the middle of a wooded area. She didn't say anything. She was trying to remember if she had ever seen his face on America's Most Wanted. They pulled up in front of an Airstream trailer. She looked over at him and he smiled.

"Where are we?" She asked, looking around.

"Home." He said with a smile. "I live in this trailer."

"You live in a trailer?" She asked, getting out of the Land Rover.

"I do." He said simply, following her lead.

"You are full of surprises." She smiled as she walked up on the little porch.

"That I am." Derek answered, opening the door. Meredith walked in and looked around.

"Not bad. I could live here." She said, shaking her head. She walked around and looked at the tiny bathroom and the bedroom. "It's kind of cool." She said.

"When I brought Holly here, she had a fit." Derek stated

"I am not Holly." Meredith said with a smile.

"No, you're not." He answered, grabbing a beer out of the refrigerator. He handed it to her. She opened the door and walked out on the porch and sat down. He followed her.

"The stars are amazing." She said happily, looking up.

"They are. Look at the way they reflect off of the water." Derek pointed out.

"I love it out here. It's so peaceful." She stated, laying her head of the back of the bench. They sat there quietly for a while.

"I'm building a house." He said quickly.

"Oh, you're not staying in your trailer?" She asked.

"No. That was temporary. Seattle was temporary." He explained. "After I divorced Addison I bought this land. I got a great deal on it. After a while I had decided that I was going to move away. I had no reason to stay. Then you came. I got a job offer in Atlanta last week. I had to decline. I declined because I didn't want to leave if there is a chance for us." He said quietly. He was nervous about putting himself out there.

"What? Are you crazy?" She said in shock.

"I am building a house over there." He pointed at the land that had been recently excavated. "Seattle is my home now."

"Why would you do that?" Meredith said quickly. "I told you there is no chance for us!"

"And I am persistent. I think there is. And Meredith Grey, I promise I will wear you down. I think I've gotten a quarter of an inch off of you already." He chuckled.

"Maybe..." She said quietly. She turned her body and laid her head on his lap.

"Stay the night..." He said softly.

"No sex." She stated.

"No sex." He agreed.

"Okay then." She looked up into his blue eyes, and said with a smile

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Meredith found herself falling more and more for Derek. Everything he did amazed her. He was the dream man. She was hoping it wasn't a game. Knowing her luck it was. She would fall for him and he would dump her off. She wasn't going to get too close, she told herself. They had been spending a lot of time together. But only as friends, she insisted to Derek. He would just laugh at her. It had been a busy day at the hospital. She had picked up a case in the pit, but it ended up being non-surgical. She went to look for Dr. Bailey. She found her walking down the hallway with Izzie.

"Dr. Bailey?" She shouted at she walked up to her.

"What do you want, Grey?" Miranda asked.

"The case was non surgical. I need an assignment." Meredith explained as she looked at Izzie.

"Well, there is a plastic surgeon here for a sexual reassignment surgery. I was going to send Stevens, but she can scrub in with me." Bailey told her. Izzie actually looked happy that she was staying with Bailey.

"Okay..." Meredith started.

"His name is Dr. Monahan. He's around her somewhere. Go find him!" Bailey said loudly as she walked away. Meredith walked down the hallways and didn't see any strange faces. She did find Alex leaning up against the nurses station. She remembered that he had worked with the plastic surgeon before.

"Hey." Meredith said as she walked up to Alex. "You've worked with Monahan before, right?"

"Yeah. Why?" He asked.

"I've been assigned to him." Meredith stated.

"Good luck. He's a real asshole. And he hated interns. He says they are a waste of time. I want to go in plastics, but there is no way I want to deal with him." Alex said quickly.

"Great. Have you seen him?" Meredith asked. Now she didn't want to find him.

"Yeah, he's down at the end of the hall with Shepherd." Alex said as he stared to walk away.

"Thanks..." She said. He walked away too fast. He didn't hear her.

Meredith saw the two men standing at the end of the hallway. She started to walk quickly. If he was as big of an ass as Alex said, she didn't need him yelling at her because she was late. The closer she got, the more familiar the shape of his body looked. She got even closer. Her face dropped. Her heart jumped into her throat. He looked up from the chart and his eyes got huge.

"Meredith?" He said as she walked up to him. She just stared. She didn't know what to do. He walked right up and gave her a soft kiss.

"Drew..." She said softly. She saw the shocked look on Derek's face.

"Um, Derek with is-" She started to say.

"How do you know him?" Derek said loudly.

"Um--" She started. "He's a friend."

"Do you have a problem with that?" Drew returned loudly.

"Yeah. I do." Derek shouted.

"Are you going to do something about it?" Drew asked seriously. Meredith stood there in shock.

"Maybe I am." Derek said as he lunged at him. Meredith gasped. Both men began laughing hysterically.

"Meredith. This is my cousin, Derek" Drew said with a smile.

"Cousin?" Meredith said in shock. She thought she was going to be sick.

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You have to remember, Derek wants to fix Meredith. He knows she has issues, so he really isn't going to be too upset about Drew. Drew is an awesome guy...You will See.