Merhayes Valentine's

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Meredith's POV:
Walking down the hall still in my scrub cap I'm talking to an intern. I can tell Cormac is close to me and desperately want to turn around falling into his protective arms. I begin to think about how strong he is, how his veins perfectly show when he's aggravated, how his embrace steadies me the warmness of him, his sent and the thumb of his heart beating against my face. I quickly get pulled back to reality as the intern keeps talking. Clearly she's new. "No. Go into her chart- you know what let me see." I grab the tablet out of the young woman's hands beginning to fix the mistakes she's already made. I feel hands grip around my biceps gently squeezing them beofre the hand run slowly up and down. I close my eyes letting my head fall back. "Ciao bambino" (hi baby) a rich Irish accent says. I sigh lightly as his breath hits my neck. "Ciao" I reply as he steps to the side of me. I go back to the chart of the tablet hearing Cormac's words spill from my mouth however the aren't clicking. "I just need to get this one last patient done. The last one I promise." I keep telling myself knowing it's not true. "Yeah so then I told the kids I was leaving and never coming back...." I hear him I do I'm just. Just three more words. "Meredith?" I nod once showing him I hear him. Right as I begin to finish I see Cormac's hand cover the screen.

"M..." I look up instantly. Cormac started calling me 'M' the other week when things aren't going the way he'd like. "Hm?" He's quick to coal an eyebrow. "Babe... it's-" I cut him off "Doctor." I say handing a nurse the tablet. "At work, it's Doctor. Doctor Hayes." I reply. He nods licking his lips before running his hand over his chin. "I'm not at work. I'm visiting my favorite person. You seen her?" He walks stride and stride with me. "About this tall, really cute, has a huge rock on her hand, kids..." I look up shaking my head at him. "Carrying my baby." He whispers. My hands absentmindedly going to my stomach that is now barley a bump. "Mmmmhm. Pretty sure I've seen her." I inform him with a genuine smile. Cormac is fast to return it. "There's that beautiful smile I love looking at." His hand intertwining with mine as he speaks. I bring his hand to my mouth placing a soft kiss on his knuckles.

Cormac's POV:
Meredith looks pale, tired and overwhelmed. I smile feeling her lips press against my hand. "M, when was the last time you ate or drank water?" I question. She shrugs. "Havent... been in surgeries all day." I shake my head slightly pissed at her for not taking care of herself or the baby she's carrying. "Let's get you some food." I say sounding more like a question than a statement. She shakes her head in protest. "Would love to but can't. Gotta scrub in." I sigh trying to keep my attitude in check. "Like hell you are." She look's at me clearly not in the shape mentally or physically to continue to cut today. "Grey we need you to-" I shake my head zipping around in my heels to see Bailey standing with her scrub cap on and a blue surgical gown on.

"No. No she is not cutting anymore. I am taking her home wether she likes it or not and we are going to eat because she has not eaten at all today. So no Bailey find someone else." Miranda looks at me raising an eyebrow "well okay then." She replies Meredith wraps her hand around my bicep and rests her head on my shoulder. "Grey..." Meredith widens her eyes at Bailey "he's good for you... don't let him leave ever" we both chuckle and nod. "I'm sorry Miranda, thank you." I say. She nods "get her home. She needs rest." I nod and walk to the car with Meredith completely skipping over the attendings lounge to get her belongings.

"What do you want to eat?" I ask.

Meredith's POV:
I shrug walking next to Cormac to the car. "Can we get Mexican? I want a burrito." Cormac chuckles opening the door for me as we reach the car. "Yes we can." He says. I slip in the passengers seat. For the first time today I hear silence. Not a single sound or word, no yelling, suction, typing, thank you's, it's quiet. I pull my scrub cap off placing it on my lap, reaching behind my head pulling the end of one of the two Bobby pins that holds my braids in place.

My braids fall to the sides of me. I pull one to the front of my shoulder pulling the elastic holding it in place off of my hair. My fingers work slowly to undo the braid releasing all the tensioned the day as each strand comes looser. I sigh as I get to the hair closer to my scalp and too if my head. The tension almost completely gone. I know damn well what I'm doing to cormac but I don't care. I repeat this with my other braid. Letting my fingers unweave it slowly the pull of the braid loosening with each pull. Once I release the braids fully I run my fingers gently over my scalp fixing the part as I flip and scrunch the waves the delicate weave left. I sigh leaning back on the seat of Cormac's car. "Babe?" He nods with a slightly almost silent hum in response. "I love you... thank you for coming to visit."

AUTHORS NOTE:
Back into the swing of writing. I took a break for school as I had finals recently (today) and needed to focus on studying. This is crazy and written differently than I normally do but I hope you all still enjoyed.
Didn't proofread.