A Fight to Remember

Someone Good, to Keep You Going Pt. 2

**M** rating at the end of this chap!

Meredith:

"So..." Scrubcap man walked beside me as I trotted down the path. "This is where you live?"

I stopped and looked down the path. It was familiar... but was I supposed to turn here? "My house... it's right- it was..."

It's not here.

I was gonna tell you that this here, is our kitchen. And this is our living room. And that's the room where our kids could play.

I had this thing, 'I was gonna build us a house.' But I don't build houses. I'm a surgeon.

And now I'm here, feeling like a lame-ass loser.

"I..." It was right here. But here was an empty field, surrounded by trees. Where was the house?

"Here?" he walked into the field.

But, maybe... I pivoted. Was it that way? "It's here somewhere," I muttered, and stepped off the path.

Years ago:

Derek slept soundly beside me, his casted hand propped up on a pillow. I closed my eyes, exhaled...

Sparks of light flashed. Arizona screamed. "

Keep it together!" Cristina yelled in my face.

Mark gasped and clutched his chest before collapsing to the ground.

Lexie banged the side of the plane and choked up blood.

"Derek? Derek!" I called out, but the whole forest was black and I couldn't see him. I lit a match and stared into the woods. "Derek! Please!" But the wind blew the light out. "No! no, no no! Derek!"

"Derek's dead," A broken Lexie said. "And you're too late to save me..."

"Meredith! Meredith!" the ground was shaking, I blinked but I couldn't see anything.

"Derek!" I shrieked in the darkness. Where was he?

"Meredith! Wake up! You're dreaming!" Derek's voice cut through the forest, like it was coming from the sky... or... I blinked, light flooded my vision...

Derek's concerned face loomed over me. "Hey," his fingers ran through my hair, and he cupped my cheek with his good hand. "It's all right. It was a nightmare. You're okay. We're okay."

I wasn't in the woods. I was home.

"Oh," I panted, leaning into him for heat. "It was so dark... and cold," I shivered.

"Shh," he said, kissing me. "Come here, I'll warm you up."

I turned, and we lay on our sides, facing each other. He kissed me again, and I met his lips with mine before he could pull away. I slipped my hand under his t-shirt to feel his warm chest.

Everybody leaves... everybody dies...

I kissed him harder. I needed him. I trailed kisses down his neck, to his trapezius, where I lingered, as my left hand rested on his inner thigh and stroked.

"Meredith," Derek panted as I tugged at his shirt.

"I need you," I said. I needed him to take me away from this. Make the nightmares stop. Make the cold go away. Keep Lexie's cold dead eyes from staring at me. I almost... I almost lost him in the woods.