All Too Well

Sky's still blue

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" I don't know what to do," he sighted, " what do you think I should should do?"
" Be there Nick, be there and in time she will open up, give her time." Cristina smiled.
" But what if it's to late then?"
" Meredith is a fighter, she won't give up again." -

" What do you mean with again?" Now Nick was afraid. " Meredith drowned ones, she gave up that time, but it was a long time ago."
"Yeah she told me about that, I didn't think of it, I, I shouldn't leave her alone should I?"
" What if something like that happens again?"
" I don't believe she's gonna give up Nick, I really don't. But she's going to go really dark and twisty, but she'll come back, she always does." Cristina laid a hand on his shoulder. " It'll be okay..."
He nodded, trying to convince himself she was right.

Cristina left and Nick went upstairs to his girlfriend.
When his stood before the closed door he could hear light sobbing on the other side of the door. Meredith hadn't slept at all yet.
His heart broke by the sight he saw when he walked in the room. She was laying in the bed, her face pressed in the pillows, her whole body shaking.
He walked to the bed and spooned her from behind. She flinched, covering her face with her hands. Nick softly stoked her her hear and pressed kisses in her neck. Then she turned around in his arms and burried her face in his chest, wispering an "I'm sorry" before she finally fell asleep.

A few hours later Nick woke up, Meredith was still sleeping. She looked so cute sleeping in his arms, with the little smile on her face, he hadn't seen that smile in a long time.
For a minute everything was normal and peace full. As long as she was sleeping her worries would be gone, her pain wasn't there. He wished that would always be the case.
Meredith began to wake up, he could tell. She slowly opened her eyes.
He saw the expression on her face changing. She blinked a few times and then began to cry. "Meredith what's wrong?" She looked at him, smiling. " I, I can, I can see you Nick!" She laughed through her tears. " Wha.. what, are you serious?" You can see me?" He looked at her shocked. She nodded, " seriously, not good, only really unclear, but still!"
He hugged her tight, tearing up too. She could see!
" We, we should go see Amelia." He said.
Mer agreed and they got ready to go to the hospital.

Meredith only saw a little bit so she still needed a lot of help. Arm in arm with Nick she walked into the hospital.
Bailey walked up to them. " Hi Miranda" Mer said. " How, how do you know it's me?" She said confused. " Because I see you!" She smiled. " You what!" Miranda exclamated. " We're now going to see Amelia now." Nick explained.
Bailey got paged and Nick and Meredith went to the elevator.

Mer sighed deep, " you okay?" Nick asked. " Yeah, yeah... I just, I haven't been in an elevator since, since the attack." She swallowed away the upcoming tears,and closed her eyes. Nick saw her struggling and put an arm around her waist, holding her a little closer.
The elevator opened and everyone came out. They stepped inside, the doors closed behind them.
"Nick..." She looked really scared. " I'm, I'm scared, it's, it's all coming back to me, the..the attack." She took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. Mer closed her eyes not wanting Nick to see her upcoming tears.
"Meredith, try to stay calm, you can do this, you're going to be okay." She nodded.
Then the elevator shook and stopped going up.
"Wh..what is happening?" Meredith started to panick. "Meredith come sit on the ground, okay, the elevator stopped." Nick sat next to her holder her tight.
"Breath Mer, breath" he said feeling that Meredith was almost hyperventilating. "I'm trying, it's, it's... He isn't here... Right?" "No Meredith he isn't, he isn't her. I'm with you."
She nodded lightly. "Okay, okay..."
The elevator shook again. Meredith screamed.
" Get of me, get of me" she screamed crying.
She ran to the other side of the elevator and crossed her arms before her face. Nick fastly got up fast, slowly walking toward to Mer.
She wasn't here, she was totally panicked and reliving everything all over again. He felt so angry inside, what was wrong with that man for doing this to Meredith.
He slowly grabbed Mer's arms and laid them against his chest. "Meredith, Meredith, it's me, you're okay, he isn't here, you're save.
You're okay.." she flinched, "sshhh, it's okay, it's okay..." Mer burried her face in his chest and cried softly. The elevator shook again and then began to work again, a few seconds later they arrived on the second ground.
" Are you okay Meredith?" Nick asked when they stepped out of the elevator. " Yeah, thank you."

A few minutes later Mer and Nick found Amelia who checked out Meredith brain. The bleading had indeed shrunk so that was a good sign. Amy couldn't really do anything for her but was really happy that her sister was getting her sight back.

- Later in the car back home -

"Mer I have an idea, why don't we go away for the weekend, the kids can stay with Amy and Maggie of with Jo and Alex. You could just relax, get some rest." " I'd like that Nick, I really do." She smiled.

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