Conversation's in the Dark (Merhayes)

Keychain

It has been a week since I gave Meredith her gift and I still haven't heard from her. We both go back to work today and for some reason I'm very nervous. "Boys 2 minutes and we have to be driving." I yell up the stairs. I walk out to the car and sit in the drivers seat. I just sit there for a minute. I miss Meredith. I miss her a lot. The boys walk out of the house, I smile. I wasn't happy but I didn't want the boys to know I was upset. Austin and Liam get in the back and I start driving. "Dad?" Austin says. "Yeah?" I say keeping my eyes on the road. "Umm are you and Meredith... uh well is Meredith going to come say hi anytime soon? I liked her." He asks. I didn't know what to say. I hadn't spoken to Meredith since the night we found out she miscarried and I didn't want to tell the boys that. "Meredith went on vacation with her kids." I say. I was lying I was going to see Meredith today. I wasn't going to talk to her but I would see her. We get to the boys school I drop them off and then start driving to work. I don't turn the radio on because every song seems to remind me of mer. I get to work and go straight to the coffee cart. I get my coffee then walk in and start my pre- op rounds. I do some charts and get ready for a surgery I have tomorrow.

It becomes the end of the day and I realize I haven't seen Meredith all day. I get worried but brush it off. It's time for me to go home to my boys. I walk into the attendings lounge to see Meredith standing by a mirror she took my breath away. Literally I gasp. She's in a red lace skin tight dress, black heels, her hair is down and loosely curled. She has on just a little lip gloss and some mascara. I look at her for a minute, just frozen. I notice a bracelet on her right arm. Its the silver Louis Vuitton one I bought her. A smile forms on my face. She is trying to put on a necklace so I walk up behind her take the two ends and put it on her neck. The necklace is silver with a little diamond on it and a C charm which confuses me a little. She has no reason to have a C on anything...  I'm still standing behind her we're both looking in the mirror. "Sei bellissima. Mi manchi Meredith." I say. It means 'you're beautiful. I miss you Meredith.' She smiles. I place my hand on her shoulder. "Thank you. I miss you too." She says. I didn't know what to do. "Why the dress?" I ask. She turns around and faces me. "You game me a surprise, it's my turn now." She says looking in my eyes. I'm screwed if we're going somewhere right now. I look like shit and she's, well she's jaw dropping gorgeous. "What?" I say making a surprised face. "You heard me cormac. Get ready we have to leave in 5." She say. "But the boys- and your kids." I say not protesting her surprise but I'm confused. "I already got a baby sitter. You and I are going away for the night." The night? Shit! I think to myself. "Okay but your in a really sexy dress and I'm in.. jeans." Yeah were stopping by your house. Can you stop asking questions and just trust me?" She says reapplying some lip gloss. "Uhh okay." I say I'm very confused about what is going on but I'm excited. "Let's go we're gonna be late." She says as I quickly take off my lab coat, and grab my stuff. She starts to walk out of the attendings lounge.

I hop out of my SUV "hey fancy!" Meredith says as I run inside. I run up the stairs throw on black dress pants, a white button up shirt. I tuck the shirt into my pants but I leave some buttons undone at the top so you can see my chest a little. I grab my cologne put some on, Althea I put on my dress shoes. I grab my coat and I'm holding it over my should. I run back out side to see Meredith stand outside of the car. "Well hello." I say she smiles. "You look very handsome." She says. "Thank you, you look gorgeous." I say and then I open her door letting her get in the car before I close it. "Okay so where are we going?" I say as I get in the car. "Just driving I'll give directions as we go." Meredith says.

We drive for like an hour before we get to this very fancy restaurant. Meredith and I get food and wine then she say we have one more place to go. I smile. We get in the car she tells me where to go as I drive again. I pull into an empty parking lot. Meredith makes her phone connect to the car radio and tells me to get out. I was kind of scared but got out of the car. The song playing is "thinking out loud" by Ed Sheeran. I start to dance with Meredith. I put my hands on her waist. she takes her arms and puts them on my shoulders locking her fingers together behind my neck. She looks beautiful. We keep dancing. Meredith lays her head on my chest. The song switch's to "say you won't let go." By James Arthur. Meredith is kind of hugging me as we dance. You know the type of dance a lot of teenagers do at school dances? It felt like we were teenagers. She picks up her head and looks at me. I smile looking at her eyes. Then she kisses me. I kiss her back. It was slow but passionate. "Cormac Oliver Hayes?" Meredith says catching me off guard. "Hmm?" I say she laughs a little "you know Meredith you're a pretty special girl there's only like 6 people who know my middle name." I say "yeah I know. No one knows my middle name. I don't even think you do." She says I stop dancing and I look at her "of course I know you middle name." I say she looks at me making an "oh really face."  I smile "it's beautiful your name is Meredith Evangeline Grey. I love it." Meredith smiles at me "who told you that?" She asks. "Who told you mine?" I ask "fair argument." Shes say and then we start dancing again but now the song is "conversations in the dark" by John legend. It's our song. "Cormac Oliver Hayes?" Meredith says as she backs up a little. "Meredith Evangeline Grey" I say back. "Can i be your girlfriend?" I freeze. "What?" I say and smile. " can I be your girlfriend? And will you my boyfriend?" She ask. "I would really like that" I say. "The boys asked for you today." I say hugging her. "Zola has been asking for you too." Meredith says. "Cory? Can we slow down this time? I don't want to take it slow but I don't want to be pregnant with triplets after 2 weeks of dating you again." Meredith say. "Of course." I say. I loved how she called me Cory, I thought it was very cute. I liked when she said my middle name too. The only reason I know her middle name is because I asked Richard. I had a big plan when we were dating and in order for my plan to work I needed to know her middle name. We go lay down in a grassy field by the parking lot. We were looking at the starts and I was playing with the box in my jacket pocket. "I should have left this at home" I think to myself. "So did you like your gift?" I ask mer. She giggles "of course it was beautiful. Thank you. I have the bracelet on and the roses are at my house drying. Cormac that keychain you got me is beautiful!" She says. I got her this Louis Vuitton keychain. It was silver. It has 9 charms.
M, for Meredith
C, for Cormac
A, for Austin
L, for Liam
Z, for Zola
E, for Ellis
B, for Bailey
D, for one of the twins who we were going to name Dean.
I, for the other twin we were going to name Ivy.
"I'm glad you like it. You know this because it had a note with it but it has a letter for everyone's names including the twins." I say. She smiles "I know it's on my bag." Meredith says. "Cormac I want your babies, I just don't want them now." Meredith says. "I know. But I want more kids mer. I really do. I want my kids to be with you." I say turning my head to look at her. She was looking at me too. "I would really like that too." She says as she kisses me.

AUTHORS NOTE:/;/:

This chapter is only Cormac's POV. I hinted in here a few things we will see in the feature. I have school tomorrow so I'm not sure when I will post. How did we feel about this chapter and what do we think about the keychain? Next chapter starts with a big time jump. Thank you for 1k reads. 🥰