The healing process|recovery series

Meredith has no intention of being in a relationship. She feels as though she is too complex for someone to be so passionate with but Meredith doesn't understand the true meaning of love, she's confused love for abuse so many times that she believes that she isn't capable of being loved. Frankly, Meredith has no intention of being here long enough to get the chance to experience such desire. She constantly relied on drugs and alcohol to get her through the day to the point where she can't go more than a few hours without downing a bottle of scotch. Meredith knows she has a problem, of course, she won't admit it but she does need help, she needs someone to love her but who would love someone so damaged? This is until maverick, maverick wants someone to love, he wants to be in a relationship and to feel needed, but being in a relationship leaves you vulnerable and it means you have to be open to the person you with, maverick left himself vulnerable once and it left him scarred. how is he meant to be in a relationship if he can't even be intimate to the person he's with. better yet, who would ever understand his trauma, who would truly get what he went through.This is until Meredith.