Character: Meredith; Rating: PG; Prompt: Shower
Summary: Meredith contemplates her life. Set Season 6.
Secretly, inside, it sometimes gets too much.
It's all husbands and friends and sisters, and sisters sleeping with friends, and friends loving men she doesn't trust.
And she loses herself.
Life used to be all about her. Drinking, screwing, working, heartbreak. Hard, but all about her.
Sometimes she stands in the shower, hot water pouring over her head, and just doesn't want to get out. One minute longer, then another, an extra shampoo, a delay for conditioner. Anything for space that's all hers.
But she comes out the other side. Always.
Because, you know, caring is better than not caring.