Characters: Meredith, Alex; Rating: K+; Prompt: Sweat
Summary: It's always in the back of my mind. Set sometime Season 7 (spoilers)
"You ever worry you're gonna . . . ? You know." Alex shrugs, takes a swig of the beer they're sharing at the kitchen table.
She knows precisely what he's talking about (she just got off the phone with Derek, at work on his Alzheimer's trial) but she deflects,
"Huh?"
He gives a softly audible smirk, then swallows. "'Cause I do," he confesses.
"Thank you!"
"Not you. Me. It's always in the back of my mind that, one morning . . . I'm gonna wake up a basket case."
She bites her lip. "Me too," she admits, then half-smiles, shrugs, lifts the beer, "To crappy DNA."