Chapter Two: Taking Advantage
Meredith rolled over, her head pounding with the after effects of a long night with her good friend Jose. She rolled over again, her body colliding with another body. She bolted upright realising she had been sleeping on the floor….with a strange naked man. She jumped up and grabbed her dressing gown and quickly wrapped it around her body.
She tried to creep away quietly but the body on her floor quickly stirred. "Ugh" she heard him moan. She just stood there…frozen to the floor not knowing what to say or do. It had been a while since she had slept with a strange man she had met in the bar.
"This is…uh" she heard him begin as he picked up her bra from beside him on the ground.
"Humiliating on so many levels" Meredith snapped snatching her black lacy bra from his grasp. "You have to go" she said firmly.
"Why don't you just come back down here and we'll pick up where we left off?" he said suggestively raising his eyebrows at her.
"No, seriously. You have to go. I'm late. Which isn't what you wanna be on your first day of work so..." she started before he cut her off.
"So, you actually live here?" he asked now standing buttoning his shirt, looking around the empty, dusty room.
"No" she snapped quickly. "Well yes kind of" she continued changing her answer.
"Oh. It's nice. A little dusty. Odd. That's nice. Huh" he said. "How do you kind of live here?" he asked it dawning on him that her response had been quite odd.
"I moved two weeks ago from New York. It was my mother's house. I'm selling it" she answered trying not to look at him. She had already shared way too much of her personal life that she would have liked to.
"Oh sorry" he said sincerely.
"Oh god no, my mother isn't dead" she said quickly realising what he was apologising for. "You know what we don't have to do the thing" she said abruptly finally having enough of all the personal questions.
"We can do anything you want" he said flirtatiously his eyes roaming her perfect body and gorgeous features.
"No, the Thing. Exchange the details, pretend we care. Look, I'm gonna go upstairs and take a shower. Okay? And when I get back here, you won't be here so, um... good-bye, um..." she rambled before suddenly becoming aware of the fact that she couldn't even remember the poor guy's name.
"Derek" he answered some what offended that she didn't recall his name which made him realise she had no recollection of the night before.
"Derek. Right, Meredith" she said with a small smile.
"Well it was nice to meet you" he said with conceited smirk as he watched her walk up the stairs and out of sight. He secretly hoped that it wouldn't be the last he saw of the beautiful woman.
"Only six woman out of twenty" Meredith muttered half to herself and half to the dark curly haired Asian woman who was hastily pulling on her light blue scrubs beside her.
"Yeah. I hear one of them is a model. Seriously, that's gonna help with the respect thing" the woman replied looking over that the petite blonde beside her. "Cristina Yang, Beverly Hills" she introduced herself.
"Meredith Grey, New York" she replied finding it weird using the name Grey after the last 4 years.
"Grey as in Ellis Grey as in the Grey method?" Cristina asked eagerly amazed that she was meeting her surgical idol's daughter.
"That would be the one" Meredith said less that enthused.
"Hi Meredith, Izzie remember we met last night" came the voice of the bubbly blonde Meredith had met the night before.
"Oh hi" Meredith replied not impressed by her happiness for that time of the morning.
"You must be the model" Cristina said snidely.
"I'm George O'Malley" said a brown haired nervous looking guy. "I saw you at the mixer" he said referring to Meredith. "You were wearing the black dress with the split up the side and the black strappy heels and great now you think I'm gay" he rambled.
"Uh yeah" Cristina stated before following Meredith and Izzie to the resident that they had all been assigned to.
"I'm not gay…you're just very unforgettable" George called after them running to catch up with the group.
Meredith had been running labs and helping with a patient presenting with seizures for no apparent reason all morning. She had barely had time to think about anything else, immersing herself into her new routine that was to be a gruelling challenge. She wasn't watching where she was when she crashed into another body…sending the files she had been carrying flying across the ground.
She quickly bent down to pick them all up as did the person she had collided with. Her eyes widened and a look of shock spread across her face as she became aware of exactly who the person was.
"Meredith" he exclaimed surprised to see her here.
"Dr Shepherd" she said reading his ID tag. Dr Derek Shepherd head of neurosurgery the tag read. A million thoughts whirled through her head she became aware of the situation. He was her boss…she had slept with her boss. Before she had a chance to process anything she was dragged into the nearby stairwell.
"Dr. Shepherd? This morning it was Derek. Now it's Dr. Shepherd" he said shocked by what she had said.
"Dr. Shepherd, we should pretend it never happened" she said suddenly looking into his bright blue eyes. She had forgotten how intriguing they were.
"What never happened? You sleeping with me last night? Or you throwing me out this morning? Because both are fond memories I'd like to hold on to" he replied smugly a smirk tugging on the corner of his mouth.
"No, there will be no memories. I'm not the girl in the bar anymore, and you're not the guy. This can't exist. You get that, right?" she said firmly. She didn't want to be the intern known as getting to the top by sleeping with the attending. She wanted to earn it and she knew she could despite her past and her mother's words.
"You took advantage of me, and you wanna forget about it?" he asked still with the same arrogance.
"I did not…" Meredith began before being cut off.
"I was drunk, vulnerable, and good-looking, and you took advantage" he retorted smiling at the look of pure anger on her face. She was certainly cute when she was mad.
"I was the one who was drunk" she exclaimed. "And you are not that good looking" she added with a smirk of her own.
"Maybe not today. Last night? Last night I was very good looking. I had my red shirt on. My good looking shirt. You took advantage" he tried convincing the feisty blonde standing in front of him.
"I did not take advantage" she argued.
"Wanna take advantage again? Say Friday night?" he asked flashing her his best smile.
Meredith's face turned to complete shock. She couldn't believe he was still pursuing her despite the fact that he was very aware that a relation between attendings and interns was very much frowned upon.
"No. You're an attending. And I'm an intern" she said firmly, watching him as he leant toward her. "Stop looking at me like that" she said taking a few steps back from him.
"Like what?" he asked pretending not to know what she was talking about.
"You've seen me naked!" she exclaimed before storming away from him and back into the hustle of the hospital. He couldn't help but smile at her feistiness.