Serendipity

Love Me Like You Do

A/N 1: That elevator fic that I promised. My God I don't even know what this is.

A/N 2: Some of the dialogues are HIGHLY inspired from P.S I Love You, but I didn't go back to the movie to copy it word for word, just whatever felt right. So no plagiarism intended.

A/N 3: Okay, this is absolutely an M rated story, so sex ahoy! 

A/N 4: Thank you thank you thank you to all the people who vote, comment and read!

"You're the light, you're the night

You're the color of my blood

You're the cure, you're the pain

You're the only thing I wanna touch

Never knew that it could mean so much, so much"  

January 15, 2016

10:21 p.m.

They were on their way back from Gregory's place and Meryl hadn't said a word throughout the journey. She'd just sat in the passenger's seat drumming her fingers against her purse with a half irritated, half angry look which said 'I can't wait to get out of this car, get home and shut you out of our bedroom.'

The problem was that Don didn't know why, that's what always made it worse. It was always okay when he'd done something stupid and he knew at once and apologized later. The problem with this situation was to face the wrath of the titans twice: once in trying to gauge which stupid thing he'd done/said and then apologizing for it. Phew.

When they were more than halfway back home he attempted courageously, "Are you angry?"

Meryl stared sideways and glared.

"Of course. What a stupid question. Yes. Okay."

Another glare.

"Is it something I did at the party?"

A third glare.

"Okay, you're doing that thing where you wait till we get back home before you start scream--uhhh—talking."

A fourth glare.

"Right. Yes. Okay."

And that was that. Silence ensued until he'd parked their car. As soon as the engine stopped Meryl slammed the door of their old Prius and started making her way towards the elevator without bothering to wait for him.

*******

The elevator doors had almost dinged to a close when he managed to stop it and get in. Meryl rolled her eyes and jabbed at the floor button repeatedly and then leaned against one corner of the elevator warning Don to stay on the other side with one perfect raise of an eyebrow.

The elevator had only ascended to the 1st floor when it suddenly came to an abrupt halt and all the lights went out. A second later a dim yellow, almost fluorescent light came on.

"Urrrrghhhh!" Meryl groaned and jabbed at the unresponsive buttons.

"It'll probably come back in a minute!" Don tried to soothe. She glared at him again and went back to tapping her Louboutin clad foot impatiently.

Even after a good five minutes when the elevator hadn't started working Don switched on the speaker and spoke, "Reynaldo are you there? We're stuck somewhere near the 1st floor."

No response.

He called out again but in vain. Putting off the speaker he said "Don't think he's there! I'll check my phone for signal!"