When I'm Alone With You

Part 17

At the Seattle Grace
"Dr. Grey you need to calm down" Bailey pleaded with her distraught intern as she tried to get of the bed.
"Bailey I have to go my mother she's here!!" Meredith roared quickly getting to her feet and running out of the trauma room.
Bailey and Burke follow her out of the room shortly after and are puzzled when they do not see her. They begin looking around for her along with a couple nurses.

Meredith's POV
Where is my mother? She's in this hospital so I just have to find her room. Just then a code blues called and I'm practically trampled by the code team. I look to the room they are swarming to and realize it's my mothers room. I watch as they attempt to resuscitate her. Richard notices me in the corner of the room and orders my immediate removal.
"No get off of me!" I watch as her heart monitor flatlines. A continuous monotone beep comes from the machine.
"Time of death 16:08" Richard says quietly. Everyone in the room offers their condolences before leaving me alone with my mother.
"I'm sorry I'm so sorry" I stuttered as a tear slips from my eye. I sit at her bedside till I can't any longer.
"Meredith?" Derek's walks into the room after hearing the news and complaints that they couldn't get her out of the room.
"Mer you didn't get checked out and you cannot be in here any longer" Derek's says walking closer to her placing his hand onto her shoulder snapping her out of her trance. She looks back at him with teary eyes and offers a small smile.
He helps her out of the room before taking her to get looked at. She had minor injuries and was able to go home.

Derek's POV
I take her to her mothers house and she invites me inside.
We make small talk before she decides to order a pizza.
It's 8 am why would anyone want a pizza this early? The pizza gets to the house and Meredith digs in.
"Want some?" She offers pushing the box in my direction.
I shake my head no and thank her for the offer.
"Oh come on you're still a health nut? I thought Rose would have got that out of you she was like Izzie baking and baking and baking" She laughs a genuine laugh. I smile knowing she's going to be fine.
She gets up and walks to the kitchen grabbing a bottle of tequila.
She chugs some from the bottle before propping back on the couch.
"I would offer you some tequila but I think I need it more than you" Meredith admits taking another swig.
"Do you want to talk about it Mer?" I ask cautiously.
She looks at me and puts the tequila bottle down on the coffee table.
"There's nothing to talk about, my mothers dead life will go on the carousel never stops turning" She shifts breaking their eye contact.
"Meredith you can talk to me.. you just got taken by a crazy man, watched that man get shot, and then watched your mother die"
"Derek what do you not get I don't want to talk about it!" She says getting up grabbing her tequila and storming up the stairs.
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Derek waits downstairs for a couple minutes before getting up and following her up the stairs. He would check on her and if she wanted him gone he would leave.

When he got to the third step from the top he could hear her muffled sobs. He shook his head before knocking on door.
"Mer can I come in?"
The quietest yes escapes her mouth if I hadn't been listening for a response I could have missed it. I walk in a instinctively go to comfort her.
She sobs for another 30 minutes before falling asleep.

I pick her up and lay her in bed covering her with a blanket. I gather my jacket from the floor and make my way to the door.
"Der can you stay with me.. if you don't want to I understand it's just that everyone's working and the house is lonely and-"
"Mer I'll stay with you"
She smiles and pats the space beside her. I take my shoes and jacket off before crawling into bed.
She still snores I chuckled to myself relishing the moment.
Before I know it sleep takes over me.

Meredith's POV
I wake up at noon. I try my best to not disturb Derek who was still sleeping. I walk down the stairs and decided to make something to eat. I was starving and didn't want any pizza from earlier. Cooking that was a bad idea. I got to the stove and put and pot with water on the front right burner. I waited for it to boil the added the noodles. Spaghetti sounded like a great idea till I had to actually make it. I drained the water and put the pot where I had previously had the pizza. As I waited for the noddles to cook I started to smell burning. You guessed it while I was moving the box I had accidentally left the burner on then put the pizza box on top. The pizza box was of fire. My kitchen had a fire in it. I started freaking out. I never had to deal with fires I stayed out of dry areas and kitchens. I tried throwing water on it which doesn't work. The heat of the fire melts the plastics container with the oil in it. Yup this went from little fire to humongous grease fire. Oil went everywhere and most of it caught fire.
I started screaming. I put water on it. Bad idea the oil didn't like the fire and it made things so much worse. I quickly leave the kitchen to find a fire extinguisher that I can't find. The house is on fire. I dart up the stairs and practically drag Derek out of bed and down the stairs.
"Meredith slow down I'm going to fall down the stairs! What's wrong with you? Are you okay?" Derek's asks before noticing the giant fire in my kitchen.
"Meredith wha- when did that happen? Did you call the fire department?" Derek asks frantically stepping out of the house that's now partially up in flames.
"No I went to get you out of the house I haven't called yet" she says looking at the house as it burns.
Luckily for them a neighbor had already called the fire department. Then it hits her all her mothers journals and tapes where in that house the only thing she had left of her mother. She bolted back into the house despite Derek trying to grab her.
"Ma'am you can't go in there" says a fire fighter.
"The hell I can't I need to grab something from there. So please get out of my way!" Meredith says punching through the man.
The house is filled with smoke and hot. She knows where the tapes and journals are so she isn't in their long. An ambulance gives her oxygen and like that she backs on her feet although she was advised to go to the hospital.
"Meredith why would you run into a burning house?!"
"I had to get my mother's journals and surgical tapes" she says sitting contently on the curb looking through the box of her mothers things while her house burned to the ground behind her.

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Mer and cooking definitely do not go together.
Also Mer's so content with the box of her mothers things. 🥺
Anyway hope you enjoyed !