Character: Meredith; Pairing: Meredith/Derek; Rating: K+; Prompt: Condensation
Summary: (Condensation reaction: a chemical reaction in which two molecules combine to form one single molecule.) Meredith muses on her marriage. Set Season 6.
Sometimes Meredith doesn't really know how she got here.
She's smiling over the newspaper at Derek drinking coffee, days, weeks, months into their marriage, feeling whole and calm and weirdly okay.
She's accustomed to understanding herself as separate. The girl who longs, hurts, screws her boundaries into a transient blur, then runs, a little scared, a little relieved, back to her (not all that comfortable) comfort zone where her breath comes more easily.
And yet she's here, and he's across the table, and she's breathing just fine. Breathing, smiling and learning how to understand herself as one half of together.