Through Fire and Water
Author: Raindrops on Roses
Rating: G
Category: Vignette, Meredith POV
Spoilers: Heart and Soul
Disclaimers: Neither Meredith (thank God!) nor AJ (drat!) belong to me. Both characters belong to DPB, CBS, Paramount, etc.
Summary: Why did Meredith hesitate when AJ confessed his love for her?
He said he loves me.
AJ Chegwidden said that he loves me.
Wow.
And I love him, too. He is such a wonderful man; kind, caring, compassionate...
You know, I've never met a more... capable... man. He's a lawyer; a Navy admiral; he knows Shakespeare as well as I do...
So when he said that... why did I hesitate? After all, I did make the first overture with my Valentine's Day gift.
We've been... together... for nearly nine months now. But for some reason, there's this occasional feeling of... wrongness. Sometimes I feel like we just don't fit... Other times, I understand him so well, it's scary.
I knew he couldn't be dead. I had faith in him, even when the others
had lost hope.
But... how much of his feelings for me was real, and how much was just gratefulness? He had been out in that storm for hours. He was suffering from hypothermia, broken bones, various other injuries...
No. He would want me to have faith in him, and I will. He meant it. He must have. AJ is not a man to say things he doesn't mean.
And I meant it, too. I love him.
Don't I?
