Character: Meredith; Rating: K+; Prompt: Drown
Summary: She knows what it's like when dying seems better than living. Sometimes it makes her brave. Refers to Season 6 finale.
She knows what it's like when dying seems better than living. She's been there, almost done it. In the water, in the fragment of time between choice and not-choice when swimming was still possible . . . well, she didn't swim.
Sometimes she holds on to that like a kind of comfort.
Sometimes it makes her brave.
Like when a man insane for vengeance points a gun directly at her and, acquainted with the edges of death, she balances expertly, negotiating for the lives of the people she loves.
She can live with death, but she can't live without them.