Waking Up in Vegas

by ilikegoo

Slightly AU. Derek divorced Addison, but Meredith chose Finn, the chief sends them to a medical conference in Vegas, now they have to deal with the consequences. Just give it a chance. Sequel on the way.

1. Chapter 1

A/N I'm still writing After the Shooting Stops, but I got this idea in my head after watching Friends and hearing a Katy Perry song whilst stuck in traffic, yesterday. I hope you enjoy this one. Although it's technically AU, all major events from the series do happen.

Waking Up in Vegas

Chapter One

Derek Shepherd was not a happy man, he was sat on an aeroplane next to Meredith Grey. It should've been a two hour and a half hour flight, but after spending two hours sat on the tarmac he'd been sat next to Meredith for over three hours. Last week he wouldn't have minded sitting next to Meredith, he was getting ready to leave Addison and he hoped he could get her away from the vet, but now he was divorced from Addison, but she stayed with the vet. Told him about the prom, he was angry but he forgave her, now he was sat on a aeroplane, on the way to a neurological conference, which the chief decided Meredith could go to. It wasn't that the decision to send Meredith had been to spite him, he'd picked the name out of a hat.

"Derek?" Meredith asked

"Yeah?"

"You haven't said, a word since we got on the plane." She told him.

"I was going over my speech for the conference." He told her

"Can I hear it?"

"No, it's not ready yet."

"What's it about?"

Derek sighed, he was in hell, "Jamie Hays."

"The girl with half a brain?" Meredith asks.

"Yeah."

"Ok, another question." She looked at him, and he looked back at her. "We were friends when you chose Addison over me, but we can't be friends when I choose Finn?"

Derek, thought for a moment "We can be friends."

"Ok then, go back to your speech and I'll go back to my magazine." The rest of the flight passed in a slightly more comfortable silence.

That evening there was a mixer, doctors from all over the country were talking, Meredith found Derek sat at the open bar she sat on the bar stool next to him.

"So is this a good place to hang out?" Meredith asked him.

Derek chuckled, and signalled the bar tender and got a shot of tequila for Meredith.

"You picked Finn."

"I did." Meredith told him after she downed the shot.

"Why?"

"He hasn't lied to me, and he hasn't hurt me." Meredith looked him in the eyes when she said it.

"I'm sorry Meredith, I never meant to hurt you." Meredith nodded in response, he ordered another round of drinks.