Whatever It Takes

It's hard to argue when you won't stop making sense..
But my tongue still misbehaves and it keeps digging my own grave with my..
Hands open, and my eyes open I just keep hoping, That your heart opens...
--Snow Patrol



Meredith huffed as she got off the elevator this time on the right floor. Her good mood and good day had just been shadowed in an instant. By one man.

She had to make sure that it wouldn't happen again, she wasn't about to let Derek Shepherd ruin any more of her life than he already had...

She spotted a figure standing at the nurses station going over charts and felt her feet scuffling heavily against the smooth floor as she tied her hair up into a messy ponytail...

She tried to focus on her goal, and not on the fact that she was feeling rather breathless with each step closer she got.

"You cant be here." She gusted out.

He raised his brow trying his best to keep a wide smirk from appearing on his face as he turned towards her...

"Correction, I can.. I now work here."

"Well you cant work here." She retorted

"I was given an offer I just couldn't refuse. I had to take it, I'm not a stupid man."

"Could've fooled me." She groaned under her breath. "Look, you cannot be here.. Seattle is mine... you can have the entire east coast but Seattle.. Seattle is mine."

"What if I want Seattle." He smiled mischievously as his eyes sparkled in delight causing her cheeks to burn slightly...

"Are you deaf AND stupid?" she hissed out shaking the feelings rising in her gut and trying again to focus, "Entire east coast remember!"

"Hmm... I haven't looked at our divorce declaration in a while, but last I recall it didn't say where I could and couldn't reside." He said finally smirking "And besides.. I like Seattle... its very woodsy, yet has the large city thing going on and of course.. there are the ferry boats."

"New York has ferry boats." She groaned narrowing her eyes wondering still what his thing with ferry boats was...

"Yes." He said focusing his eyes on her as if he were trying to look past them and inside of her softening his tone of voice to that of just above a whisper, "But I like Seattle's ferry boats better."

She closed her eyes momentarily and gulped as she tried to focus on her goal at hand and not on the sweet smell of his breath that was beating against her cheeks causing a warm flushing feeling...

"You cant do this, you cant be here. You just... you cant."

"What is this about?" he asked furrowing his brow with a hint of a smirk at the corners of his mouth, "I mean.. is me being here that much of a threat to your boyfriend."

Her eyes widened... there he said it again. The "b" word. Finn was hardly her boyfriend, I mean he could be her boyfriend but not right now, not yet. But with Derek here it could complicate things, and it wasn't any of his business anyways..

"This has nothing to do with... that's none of your business.... That... that is none of your business."

"It sounds like it is." He said with an arrogant chuckle, "It sounds like with me being here, that you're afraid that you're going to realize that you're still very much in love with me and end up ditching the vet and come running into my arms to ride off into the sunset."

"I really don't like you." She said through gritted teeth narrowing her eyes...

He smiled and leaned into her to where their faces were only inches apart. He tilted his head and closed his eyes taking in the sweet scent of her hair and momentarily felt as if he were floating on a heavenly cloud..

She felt her eyelids flutter a moment as his sweet musky scent that she was once so used to filled the air she breathed clouding her mind and for a split second she felt as if her knees would buckle from underneath her...

He smiled and whispered lightly..

"You love me."

He straightened up seeing a blank, flushed look on her face yet eyes so full of irritation..

"Good day Dr. Shepherd."

He nodded and turned walking off with his head held high and a skip in his step.. she felt as if her tongue had been tied into knots, she wanted to scream and yell and drag his ass out by the scruff of his neck..

But something stopped her, something was holding her back... she sighed through her clenched teeth and tightened her fists at her sides as she watched him skip down the hallway and growled out under her breath..

"It's Grey."