A/N: Hi guys! Sorry for the delay but my computer has gone on a strike and I'm concerned for the strange noises coming out of it. But, this chapter is a bit longer so... : Enjoy! (Holla to Irma, if she reads this...)
Disclaimer: I don't own this wonderful show or the lovely song.
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/ I don't know how, its become such a problem.
Keep you up all night if I, try to remain calm.
How can they ask, why I feel so angry,
do you see my problem, if I never explain it.
I want the ocean right now, I want the ocean right now.
I get so jealous, that I can't even work.
I get so jealous, that I can't even work./ Tegan and Sara – So Jealous
..:.GA:.
The conference started later that afternoon. The doctors listened for hours at different colleagues with their new miracle procedures. Cristina and Burke acted the perfect students with writing down almost every word said. Meredith and Derek paid fully attention to the speaker but when he or she would pause, they would send each other glances of love.
Sydney was surprisingly not back in her usual preppy self. She blamed it on feeling sick and went to lay down.
Addison was still not talking to Mark and at dinner. Cristina actually bonded with her, mostly because of their "men situation". They created a pact to ignore the men with anything revolving sex.
Callie and George were clinging on to each other, Callie afraid of leaving George alone with Izzie and George afraid of being alone with Izzie.
Alex tried to focus on the information he was getting, ignoring Izzie's grumpy mood completely.
They were up for a good start.
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At dinner, Cristina snatched Meredith from Derek and they and Addison sat down by another table. It was mostly older and more unattractive doctors on the conference and by their table sat most of them. But just before the dinner was served, a male – hot as hell – sat down by the table. All three of the women drooled at the blond God that had a bright, white smile on his face. He seemed to be in a whole other dimension than the boring, grayish doctors.
"Who is he? " Meredith ask them with big eyes.
"I don't know, probably a really hot cardiac." Cristian repliy.
"No... I think he's into plastics. Why else would he look like that?" Addison say matterfactely.
"No.. That's just a gifts from God." Cristina say seriously and Meredith looks at her.
"Cristina, shut your mouth before you get drool in your food."
Cristina quickly shuts her mouth but keeps her eyes at the blond guy. Between stealing glances, she looks at Burke to see if he's watching her. When he continue to speak with the cardiologist beside him, she decide that if her plan could fall through, she would have to set things to action. And now she had found the perfect bait...
"I'm gonna go and talk to him." Cristina suddenly announce to the other women after they were done eating and she was gone before they could stop her.
:;,GA:;:
A little while later, Cristina come back to the women with a pleased smile on her face.
"Guess what people? James, the hot blond, offered us snowboard lessons tomorrow and I said "yes of course we'd come"."
Meredith and Addison stare at Cristina, who keep smiling, before they turned to look at each other. Because of the "Derek thing" and the fact that Addison was Meredith boss didn't make the two such close friend but when it came to men, females had to stick together. Addison had liked Meredith from the start, Meredith being too scared of her to make any contact.
But now when Meredith was with Derek and Addison moved on with Mark – like it was supposed to be – they had actually been able to talk about the two men and even compared the two of them. Being around each other wasn't so terrible any more when most of the tension was gone.
Addison was still a bit annoyed with Mark and wanted to show him that she could also be a flirter. So she agreed with the plan and now both Addison and Cristina looked at Meredith. Cristina and Addison was an awkward pair and Meredith was the link to them. So obviously, both of them pleaded for Meredith to join them on the snow board thing.
"I don't know..." Meredith starts feeling a bit uncomfortable. Sure, James was hot but she wasn't sure what Derek would say.
"Oh come on, are Derek controlling your life now?" Cristina dares, reading Meredith thoughts.
"No." Meredith hurrys to answer. "He's not and just to show you that, I'm going with you. If anything, just to stop the two of you from jumping James."
Cristina smile at how easily it was to lure Meredith into coming along.
,..,..Ga,..,
The following day the doctors had lectures up until lunch. They would have some free time until after dinner and then the last lectures would be held.
At lunch, Meredith sat with Derek and when she stands up to leave him, he asks confused: "Where are you going? I was thinking that after lunch we would go skiing together.."
Meredith frown and feels guilty that she hadn't told him about the snowboarding lesson. He had made plans for her and now she would recklessly ruin them. She opened her mouth to answer, perhaps she was even going to say that she thought that was a good idea and she would go with him instead of Cristina and Addison but just then, Cristina comes up to them and speaks: "Are you ready for me kicking your ass in snowboarding?"
Meredith close her eyes for a moment since she doesn't want to see the look on Derek's face. When she open them, Derek looks straight at Cristina, still with his confused face.
"Are you going snowboarding?" He asks slightly amused and Meredith is about to answer when Cristina interrupt again.
"Yes we are, haven't she told you?" Cristina gave Meredith a meaningful look.
"I... I forgot about it. But yes, that's true. I promised Cristina and Addison that I would go snowboarding with them." Meredith excuse and smile an apologizing smile.
"Oh.. Well then I won't stop you. Go and have fun, I'll see you later." Derek reply and kisses Meredith softly on the lips.
Cristina rolls her eyes at the couple and catch a glimpse of James. "There's James!"
"Hurry up now Mer." She push Meredith eagerly forward and away from Derek, leaving him looking puzzled.
"Is that their instructor?" He thought when he saw the hot, blond man.
--:.,.GA-.-
"God, why did I ever agree on doing this?" Addison asks out loud as she had fallen to the ground for what felt like the billionth time today.
"Do you need a hand?" James comes to stand before her, smiling kindly.
"Oh, that's why." Addison think to answer her question as she gets lost in his smile. Out loud she say: "Yes, I think I do. It's just so hard!"
"Well don't let it get your spirits down. The more you fall the more you learn." James say as he helps her up. "Now, where are the girls?" he ask and peers down the slope.
Meredith and Cristina had accidentally taken off into a black labeled slope instead of the green one and now they sat inside of a small forest, stuck in the deep snow.
"Great Cristina! Fantastic! You tricked me into following you and look where we ended up! In a forest with cold butts." Meredith complain, taking out her frustration on Cristina.
"Hey, who said that we should turn to the left instead of right, huh?" Cristina snaps back.
She starts to unbuckle the straps on her snowboard and shoes. Then she picks up her snowboard and starts plowing through the snow. Meredith quickly does the same.
"Where are you going?" she yells at Cristina's back.
"Come on, I'll show you something fun!" Cristina yells back and continued to head for the slope.
A little while later in the same black labeled slope...
"It's a nice day for skiing." Burke small talks with Derek. "Think you can keep up with me , Shepherd? He yells as he advances, making deep turn-marks in the snow.
Just as he is about to make another fast turn, two fast figures almost collided with him when they flew by him, snow flying everywhere beside them so he couldn't tell who they were. He tries to keep up with them and to his surprize, he sees that it was Cristina and Meredith. They had been sitting on their snowboards. Burke had no idea Cristina snowboarded.
"Did you see that?" Burke asks Derek and points at Meredith and Cristina.
"Yeah. But I thought you stood up when snowboarding." Derek jokes and smiles.
Burke doesn't think the joke was appropriate at all as he see the two women meeting up with Addison and a blond guy. The four of them went to sit in the lift, laughing together as old friends.
"Who's that guy?" Burke says, raising his eyebrows and stares at the blond guys neck.
"I think that's the snowboard teacher." Derek replies nonchalantly and fingeres on his staffs.
"And you're okay with Meredith and Addison taking this course with him? He surely isn't a very good teacher if he let them head for the advanced slopes first." Burke asks really upset and with his eyebrows still raised. His calm self was blown away and now he almost looked jealous.
Derek shrugs, still looking away from Burke. "Cristina probably thought she could handle the challenge." he says and the two men kept quiet for the rest of the lift.
Burke didn't get any calmer by his words and Derek's calmness made Burke feel even more angry at Cristina. He knew she was up to no good...
;:;,GA:;:;:..
The women soon got tired of snowboarding and headed in for a mid snack before continuing the butt bruising.
Cristina made sure James would come along and the four of them took a table close by the doctors eating. Burke and Derek sat down by Mark, two tables away from the women and the two men stared at them. Derek concentrated fully on his warm coffee and creamcake.
"Dude, how can you eat that?" Mark says to Derek as he turn away his attention from the women, disgusted by the natural beauty James and angry at Addison for sitting so close to him.
"What?" Derek askes amused. "How can you keep staring at them. You're so jealous. It's insecurity you know."
"Pff. You're telling me that you're not at all bothered by "Blondie" touching Meredith, all in the name of teaching?" Mark replies before turning his focus back at the women, grimasing when they laugh at some joke James said.
"No... Me and Meredith have a honest relationship and I trust her."
"Pff, right Shep'. Lets see how good that will work our for you. Me, I don't trust Cristina one bit..." Burke says and narrows his eyes.
When the girls headed back for some more practice, the guys followed close behind. Pretending to sunbathe, they followed James every move. Derek rolled their eyes at them but decided it was more fun watching them then skiing alone.
The men laughed at the many falls which gave them angry looks from the women. But the laughing soon stopped when James got more physical with them as they kept falling. He held them by the hips to steady them up.
When James got even more physical and moved closer to their bodies, Burke and Mark stood up. Derek looks up from the magazine he's reading, raising his eyebrows at the two.
"What are you doing?" he asks them tiredly.
"He's going to far. Look, he's got his hands on your girlfriends ass." Mark points out.
At that comment Derek eyes shot straight to Meredith and he saw that Mark was right. James was holding both of his hands on Meredith's lower back, too close to her butt while standing in front of her.
"That's it. I've had it with you two!" Derek stands up and throws his paper on the chair. He walks back into the hotel. Burke and Mark looks after him before settling back down in the chairs and continue staring at the gropie tutor and his students.
;:;.-Ga,.-:
Izzie sits in the womens hotelroom, wrapped in Alex sweater. He had been playing cards with her for an hour. Since he couldn't ski and everyone else had left, he thought it was better to try to cheer up Izzie rather than spending the day alone. After throwing a fit saying she'd rather be alone then spend the day with him, she had broken down and cried. He offered his sweater and Izzie pulled it on, using the sleeves to wipe away the tears and the snot away from her face.
At first, he let her win as he felt pity for her. But then when Izzie started to get cocky he tried to fight her but Izzie kept winning. He wonder why she always seemed to get the good cards when he suddenly notice a heart shaped figure sticking out of Izzie's sleeve.
"You're cheating!" he exclaim and starts pointing a finger at her.
"I'm so not!" Izzie defends herself and tries to cross her arms when an ace of clubs falls out of the other sleeve.
She stares with wide eyes at the card and Alex thinks for a second that she's going to cry again. But then she turns her gaze up at him and starts laughing. Alex was still pissed off by her cheating but when her laughter grew he couldn't contain himself and starts laughing to.
"...and after that I thought that we should go down to the ice-bar to cool off." Callie open the door to the hotelroom and she and George see Izzie and Alex rolling with laughter on the floor, cards flying everywhere.
Alex is the first to shape up since he see Callie staring at him.
"Damn, she's so beautiful." He thinks as he looks at her before looking away, not able to say anything smart.
Izzie too is aware of the couples presence but she doesn't felt like looking at either one of them. So she sits with her back faced to them and pretends to look for the cards.
George stands staring at Izzies back. "Is that Alex sweater she's wearing?" He thinks and suddenly feel annoyed.
"I... can get that thing later. Let's go George." Callie hurries to say and looks at George. He's staring at Izzie's back and she feels annoyed when he doesn't answer.
"George?" she repeats and George snaps out of his thoughts. "Yeah..." He say and Callie shuts the door.
Jealousy is in the air.
