You can sleep when you're dead
Chapter 10
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Author's note: Once again, I'm sorry for the giant delay in updates. Hope you enjoy the next installment.
A good thirty minutes later Mark and Meredith were fully dressed again and walked out of Mark's office like nothing had happened.
Several heads turned in their direction, a couple of people were obviously whispering about them and a few nurses just stared at them boldly, but it only lasted a few minutes before everyone went back to work.
Having arrived at the nurses station Mark picked up some files, while Meredith waited patiently for Mark to check and sign some charts. When they were about to leave the nurses station, they almost collided with Derek. He was standing in front of them, with a smile on his face that looked too fake to be real. His eyes sparked with anger and his arm was around a small woman with shoulder long brown, slightly curled hair and the tiniest of smiles. The woman seemed incredibly shy and incredibly proud to be standing next to Derek Shepperd.
"Dr Sloan, Dr Grey", Derek said, trying hard to keep the anger out of his voice, but failing miserably.
"Dr Shepperd", they both greeted.
"It's a wonderful day to save lives, isn't it?", Derek asked them, more out of politeness then anything else. It was more than obvious that he was having a huge problem with the fact that Mark and Meredith were together. However, for the sake of his companion he tried real hard to not let it show.
"It's still raining", Mark stated dryly, while Meredith just nodded.
The woman Derek was with giggled softly and batted her eyelashes at Mark, obviously impressed by his appearance. Meredith all of a sudden felt a jolt of jealousy course through her body and took a step forward so she was closer to Mark, clearly indicating she didn't want another woman flirting with her man. Even though the woman in front of her could hardly be seen as competition.
Both Mark and Derek had noticed the change in Meredith and while Mark chuckled at the possesiveness of Meredith, Derek just seemed genuinely pissed off.
After a few more moments of silence, Derek decided to speak up.
"Dr Sloan, Dr Grey, I'd like you to meet Amanda Green. She's a law student at Seattly University".
But doctors extended their hands as they greeted Amanda. Meredith even smiled. She was surprised how easy it was and how great it felt to meet her ex-boyfriends new love interest.
Derek himself was obviously very surprised as well when he realised that the presence of Amanda didn't seem to hurt Meredith as he thought it would. So he decided to up his game a little bit more.
"Meeting Amanda sure was the highlight of my week", Derek stated, putting his arm around Amanda and pulling her close lovingly.
Mark scoffed, clearly realising what Derek was up to and was about to speak up, when Meredith suddenly stopped him by putting her hand on his upperarm. She looked up at him, winking before speaking up.
"That's great, Dr Shepperd!", Meredith stated, surprised with herself about how genuinely honest she had sounded.
"But you know what's even better?", Meredith continued, "…keeping your highlight of the week and relive it about … three times a day".
Mark was pleasantly surprised with her statement and knew exactly what she was hinting on, in the meanwhile feeding the gossipsick nurses with some hot and steamy information. She hated the gossip network, but right now she didn't care that she once again was the subject of many conversations.
Derek had turned the deepest shade of red and it was clear that he too had heard the gossiping nurses talking about Mark and Meredith's super steamy sexlife. He now was wondering wether or not Meredith had told the truth.
Amanda had also turned a deep shade of red and even though it was impossible for her to have heard the gossip, she obviously understood the deeper meaning of Meredith's statement.
Meredith herself was standing next to Mark, a small smile playing on her lips and quite proud with herself for making such a statement. Anyway, she was quite pleased with herself and was surprised when she didn't feel any quilt or resentment towards Derek. Maybe she was finally truly happy.
When the silence got so thick you could cut it with a knife and became pretty much unbearable, Mark cleared his troat and told the other that he and Meredith were already late for a surgery. Meredith, glad that Mark wanted to leave, said her goodbyes to Amanda and while Mark already walked away she turned to Derek.
"Amanda looks like a really nice woman. So you might want to reconsider calling her your highlight of the week. It sounds a little …… cheap".
After having said that Meredith walked in the same direction as Mark had, thinking that maybe today would be the start of a new part of her life.
The End!
AN2:
I've done a lot of brainstorming, mostly about where I wanted to go with this story. Part of me wanted to write a couple of chapters so this chapter didn't have to be the end, but most part me realised that this was a perfect ending to this story, definitely because I've truly neglected all my stories and I seriously need to update all of them. So because of that and because of the fact that my Mark/Meredith muse is not always around when I need her, I decided to end it here.
But do not worry. The way I see it: Mark and Meredith are happy, Derek is trying to move on and by not continuing this story, I'm giving them all some time to be happy. Because I'm seriously thinking of writing a sequel. One where Mark and Meredith will still be together and have a lot of steamyness while Derek is nowhere to be seen… ;) Nah, just kidding. But not about the sequel I'm not!
So, I will write a sequel, but not just yet because I'm focusing on continuing my other stories. So once I finished those, I'll start writing the sequel. That way, I can focus on one incomplete story instead of 3… I might write a few one shots, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to tell me ;)
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