Author's Note:
Here's another mini ficlet idea that is more fleshed out on here than in the comments of ThatWinchesterGirl's "I Tried To Hate You (But Somewhere Along The Line I Fell In Love)" on Ao3.
Prompt: "I actually almost added Mer accidentally walking into a person or narrowly avoiding a wall because her brain had just shut down at the news," and subsequently, "Hahaha we could both use Mer walking into a wall because of Addie and make it a new thing xD."
This is the start of this 'thing,'.
Enjoy, and have a good one everyone!
This is set sometime after GA-S2-E8, and also after GA-S3-E17. Spoilers through the third season of Grey's Anatomy.
bobbiejelly
Walking Into Walls On Dry Land
Meredith Grey keeps finding herself walking into walls on dry land when she sees Addison Montgomery around the corner.
Chapter 1: Band-Aid
Meredith Grey keeps finding herself walking into walls on dry land when she sees Addison Montgomery around the corner.
You see, Meredith has narrowly escaped drowning in her bathtub and subsequently Under Elliot Bay… And now she's barely escaping drowning on dry land when she sees the hot redhead.
This time Meredith hits her head and she tells everyone she has a pimple again but she doesn't; it's actually a bruise from her inappropriate collisions caused by her inappropriate feelings for her ex-boyfriend's ex-wife.
Addison even comes to join the two of them to ask her if she's okay when she sees her in the elevator and if Derek hadn't also been there, Meredith didn't know what she would have said or done or confessed.
The last time she had a hello kitty band-aid on her head was when she tried to cover an actual pimple and Addison had looked concerned and waved at her from her car and if there had been a wall around her then she probably would have walked into it.
This time, Addison asks again if she's okay, and Derek says she's fine and she wants to punch him out for answering for her but whatever and she wants to say something but they've reached their floor now and she starts a few times before she gets any coherent syllables out.
Addison gets off the elevator next without looking back and both Derek and Meredith both watch her go. They're probably feeling similar feelings about her but they're neither of them going to admit that to anyone, much less each other right now, and for obvious reasons.
So Meredith sighs and she wishes it had been Derek to have gotten off on the second floor so she could talk to Addison on the way to the third floor instead of doing what she's currently doing now. Which is staring at her feet, and not at Derek or even at Derek's shoes?
When Derek walks away on the third floor, Meredith doesn't walk into anything, walls or anything, while watching him say goodbye.
Meredith rides up to the fourth floor and slides down in the elevator and presses the emergency stop button just by herself and takes a moment to collect herself before she steps off the elevator again.
The next time she sees Addison she ends up hitting a corner. She's lucky she didn't get a concussion. Because then she'd need Derek to examine her and she doesn't want that so she just keeps on walking on past Addison again.
Meredith keeps walking into walls on dry land when she sees Addison around the corner. She often wonders how Addison avoids tripping in her six-inch high heels. She decides never to try that herself because she'll probably fall over for real.
(And hopefully, Addison Montgomery could be there to catch her, but Meredith Grey is not sure she's ready to risk it being someone else just right yet).
***** END OF CHAPTER 1
Author's Note:
Well, folks, here it is :).
Hope you enjoyed this one, the reception for this series has been wonderful, especially for: Sex & Surgery
And also: Fever
Which I probably consider being the best out of them so far anyway. Additionally, I do hope to update Bubble
Take care, and see you around in the comments. I am taking prompt requests for more of these. The only requirement is something about Meredith Grey crushing on Addison Forbes Montgomery! (And also I don't write non-consensual sexual encounters or any kind of dubious consent for these two, as another guideline, but everything else is mostly on the table, the worst I could say is that I'm not comfortable with a prompt which other than those things is unlikely, or that I don't have time to write it… Yet… But I could always surprise you!).
Also, I have not decided whether or not I will continue any of these stories... Let me know if you have one you really want a follow-up to.
Take care!
bobbiejelly