Characters: Meredith, Alex; Rating: K+; Prompt: Ice
Summary: Words are a beginning, the part that sticks comes later. Set post-7.02, refers to that episode and 6.19. Very slight spoiler for 7.02.
Words can only do so much. They're a beginning, that's all; the part that sticks comes later.
When Alex told her she'd be a good mom, something shifted, a tendril of belief no one else could unearth. But it took a miscarriage to let the faith take root.
So when a patient, female, twenty-five, gets attached to him, then winds up in Psych and he goes out, gets trashed and picks a fight he comes off worse in, she doesn't repeat her reassurances. She fetches ice for his eye, sits next to him on the floor and helps him wait.