Character: Meredith; Pairing: Meredith/Derek; Rating: K; Prompt: Float
Summary: Randomly inspired by and set post episode 6.21.
You consider (over barely touched tequila and one of your mother's surgery videos) whether this is the dark and twisty talking. But there's this contented, floaty thing going on; your own quirky warm and fuzzy; and right now you don't really care about the deep, messy reasons for you being you, feeling what you feel.
You told Derek "I love you," in the middle of a sort of fight about work. He, distracted, only just said it back.
It makes you feel normal-ish, secure, a little more married, that you're not the only one who sometimes chooses surgery over love.