Something's Gotta Give

New Roommate, Lets Celebrate!

Here I am standing outside of a big old house, the Seattle rain coming down fast, completely drenching me from the second I stepped out of the cab. I pull the flyer out of my jacket pocket to double check the address, I look up again and it being the right address I start to walk to the porch, I walk up the steps and over to the door where I stop. I sigh, run a hand through my thick wet hair and knock on the big glass door.

After a minute I see someone coming down the stairs, not able to see what they look like yet, then she comes a little closer and I feel as if someone sucked the air out of my lungs because I stopped breathing. The woman coming to the door was breathtaking, she had a very petite figure, with long dirty blond hair slightly covering her face. I sucked in a deep breath to regain my posture as she opened the door.

She looked at me skeptically not knowing who I was. "Hi I'm Derek, I called earlier and left a message about the flyer." I said handing her the flyer.

"Oh! Right! Derek umm... Shepard right?" I nodded and smiled as she bit her lip. "Well hi Derek I'm Meredith Grey come on in and we can talk about the roommate thing." And she moved aside for me to come in.

As I walked by I noticed a captivating smell coming from her which was making me want to be closer to her just to breath her in. "I'll take your jacket." I hear her say, so I quickly took off my jacket and handed it to her, she put it on a hook and gestured for me to follow her. As I followed her she said, "So did you just move to Seattle?"

"Ya. I've been here before for my job and stuff like that, but this is totally different from New York." I said as I walked beside her.

"New York wow! So what makes someone from New York move to well... Seattle?" She asked as she tilted her head over to look at me.

"Well, one I got a job offer a year ago that happened to be still open, and two I just got out of a really bad divorce where I ended up losing everything and really badly needed a change of scenery."

We walked into the living room and we sat down on the couch. "Oh! Well sorry about the divorce. Do you want something to drink or something." she asked, I could tell she was a little uneasy.

"No I'm fine thanks." I said giving her a reassuring smile hoping it will calm her a little.

"Ok!.. I'm not really good at asking to find out if someone is a good roommate or not because my last roommates were two of my friends from work and I didn't have to ask them anything, so just tell me what your like to live with." She said the last part in a slightly bossy manner which I considered very cute.

I chuckled slightly at her bossy command as I started to tell her. "Ok um I guess I'm good to live with, I can cook almost anything, I always clean up my mess even if I leave it until the next day, I still clean it, I do any laundry that's in the pile, I don't take to long of showers so there's always hot water left, I don't listen to my music loud that's what my iPod is for, I don't regularly hog the remote for the T.V. because there's not much I watch, and when I go shopping I will get anything, but just so you know I do like to eat healthy, and I'm a surgeon so I will be in and out at messed up hours." she looked at me skeptically for a second, so I said, " Is there anything else that you need to know?"

"Umm no I think that about covers it, it seems like you're a perfect roommate, and I'm a surgeon too so that's not a big deal, and for the shopping we each write a list and switch who goes shopping every week." She said giving me the most irresistible smile I have ever seen.

"So does that mean I get to move in?" I asked giving her one of my award winning smiles.

"Yep this means you get to move in and if you move in tomorrow I can help you out cause that's my day off." She said.

"Well I got nothing to do tomorrow and I can't stand staying in a hotel so I am probably going to take you up on that offer." I said.

She started to get up and said "Well since you are moving in I might as well show you around now. So you up for a tour?"

I got up and gestured for her to go as I said "Lead the way." She showed me the entire house, and I must say I would actually like living here it was a really nice old house, one that I wouldn't mind calling home. When we were upstairs she showed me all the bedrooms and told me to pick one not including her room, I ended up picking the room right across from hers, it was the largest out of the two choices and the fact that it was right across from hers didn't hurt. We started walking back down stairs.

"So Meredith are you a good roommate?" I asked deciding it would be fun to tease her.

"What?" She asked confused as we reached the bottom step.

"Well I am moving in and you got to ask me, so I was just wondering what makes you that bad of a roommate that would make two of your friends want to leave this very nice house." I said smirking at her.

"Well if you must know they got lives, George moved in with his girlfriend and Izzy moved to a much smaller apartment because it was much closer to the hospital and she decided it was time to move on or whatever. It wasn't because of me, ok so I don't cook cause I don't know how, and well I only clean when I have absolutely nothing else to do, but I didn't get in there way or anything, I am a great roommate." She said rambling, she's really cute when she's rambling.

"I was just kidding I'm sure you're a fantastic roommate." I said with obvious sarcasm in my voice at the last part, I was enjoying the teasing.

"Well I am!" she stated. "You now you should be nicer I don't have to let you move in." She said smirking at me, it being another feature that is making drawn to her.

"You should defiantly let me move in." I said smirking back, enjoying the game we are playing.

"And why is that?" She said raising her eyebrows at me.

"Because I'm someone that everyone wants as their roommate." I stated.

"Oh really!" she said, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh yes! And one of the thing's I do is treat my new roommates to celebration drinks. But seeing as I'm not your new roommate I see nothing to celebrate." I said teasing again.

"Well seeing as I'm out of alcohol, I changed my mind, you are my new roommate I guess it's only fair that you do take me for celebration drinks, so get your coat, tonight I'm gonna introduce you to Joe." She said while waking over to the coat rack and getting her coat.

"Using me for alcohol already." I said putting my coat.

"Yep! That's all your good for now move your ass." She said, as she was shoving me out the door.

"I am good for other things too, you know." I said smirking at her, as she locked the door.

"I'm sure you are." She said giving me a devilish grin.

We walked over to her car and got in, and I couldn't help but laugh thinking this was a great way to start my new life in Seattle.

Cant say exactly what it was, She's not the usual type.

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Ok this was a completely random thought that just came to me. So Meredith has been living in Seattle for a year and her friends moved out and Derek stayed instead of ran when Addison cheated he tried to work thing out for a while but they ended up getting a divorce and somehow he was the one who got screwed so to start over he moved to Seattle. So tell me what you think. Read and Review Please.