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What did she answer... yes or no? At the end of this chapter you'll get the answer... ~mcanna
Chapter 26
Meredith and Derek boarded the plane before the rest of the passengers. A flight attendant took her chair out to the loading area as she got strapped into her first class seat.
"Anything I can get you Dr Shepherd?" a female stewardess leaned over Meredith to give Derek a nice view of her cleavage.
"No thank you, I'm fine"
"We will be serving some drinks and snacks as soon as we are in the air" he got a wide toothy smile with that. Meredith was completely ignored by the stewardess and she steamed when more passengers boarded and Derek and her was left on their own.
"What was that, what a bimbo, did you get a good look at what God did not give her as original body parts?"
"What?" Derek was distracted as he was pulling out a medical journal from his carry-on.
"That bimbo laid it all out for you" Meredith muttered grabbing for a copy of the last Cosmo.
"She did, are you jealous?" he whispered in her ear before nibbling at her earlobe.
"No" she tried to not moan.
"This is a very long flight and you will need to use the restroom right?" his hand was tracing lazy circles along her sides.
"Yes, probably" she grabbed his jaw and locked lips with him.
"And it can't be easy for you to get in there all on your own. You will need some help, right?"
"Hmmhmmm"
"And then we can join the high mile club" his lips were following her jaw sliding down her neck towards the spot that made her wild.
"Not now Derek, we have to wait until we are actually in the air" she giggled and pushed him off.
"But you will need help?" he looked at her with his puppy eyes and a dreamy smile on his lips. He was impossible to refuse. She giggled and kissed him quick on his cheek but let her hand glide down his stomach all the way down to his left knee. She heard him catch his breath when her hand caressed his crotch.
The stewardess came by on one more time.
"Everything OK here Dr Shepherd? Anything you need before take off sir?" she flipped her hair over her shoulder.
"I'm fine thank you"
The stewardess started to walk off when Meredith spoke up.
"I need some extra pillows, a blanket and my footrest turned down, please, and a bottle of water… still water" the woman stared at her and looked at Derek
"Is that right Dr Shepherd?" she asked.
Derek looked at her with curiosity in his face.
"Why are you asking me?"
"I… she… wants stuff"
"And is there a problem with that miss?"
"No…" the stewardess still looked like she didn't understand.
"Listen Miss…" he looked at her name tag "Miss Smith, my girlfriend, Dr Grey is partly paralyzed and uses a wheel-chair but I can assure you that her brain is not in her feet. Now please help her get the things she asked for and ask for her forgiveness for your inexcusable behavior towards her and then please let us be helped by another flight attendant for the remainder of this flight."
The stewardess took off with a rush,
"Thank you my very own podiatrist" Meredith kissed him deeply.
Miss Smith soon came back and almost dumped everything in Meredith's lap before slamming down the footrest. She left without saying one word.
"Is this what you have to stand every time you travel?"
"Yes, you know how people always ask you or expect you to tell them what I want or need when we are out at the mall or in a restaurant. You were the same when you found out that I was on your service that's why I called you podiatrist" she giggled.
Derek blushed when he realized he had had almost the same stupid behavior. He realized that her description was very accurate. People saw her but asked him or the one closest to her, questions they should ask her. Meredith had made a comfortable little nest in her seat and was now scanning her magazine for interesting articles and he looked at her. Even here were she looked this stunning, people still saw here as the wheel-chair chick and her chair wasn't even here.
"Meredith, please forgive me for not seeing you but your chair when we first met. I'm so grateful that you made me see you and made me fall in love with you. "
"I love you my brainless podiatrist and superhero"
Halfway into the flight she needed to use the restroom and Derek carried her there. Usually on longer flights she had to wear a diaper and she hated that. He left her there to tend to her needs before returning after a quick knock on the door and a smirk on his face.
"Do you know that we don't have to sneak to join the high mile club? No one thinks it strange that I'm in here" he chuckled before taking a closer look at her. She was seated on the lid with a seductive smile on her lips. She reached for his belt pulling him closer as he leaned down kissing here deeply. Soon they were lost in their own small heaven.
He cradled her close and they exit the restroom still in a sex haze. The stewardess Miss Smith looked at them with a snotty expression and they could hear her complaints to their new and much nicer steward and his response.
"They took their time in there, doesn't she understand that other passengers might need the restroom and what does he see in her?"
"I think that he sees what a hot babe she is and I believe they used her disability to their advantage and joined the high mile club" the steward chuckled and sent Meredith an appreciative wink and Derek a thumbs up sign. She waved back and Derek smirked before climbing over Meredith into his window seat.
When they left the plane as the last passengers, Meredith in her wheel-chair and Derek pulling their carryon bags behind, the steward bid them a good day but the stewardess was still sulking.
"Miss Smith, you should learn from this and see your passengers instead of their disabilities. I am so grateful that my handicap is on the outside instead of being brainless" Meredith couldn't help herself saying that to the stupid bimbo.
"By the way you should have chosen a lesser cup size if you are not using them as your own personal floating device" Derek added and left the two flight attendants behind, one furious and one laughing.
Two hours later they drove up to a beautiful white house with a wrap around porch. The blue door opened with a large bang and two kids about ten years old came running to greet the car.
"Uncle Derek, uncle Derek is here" they shouted for those inside the house and all of the neighborhood as well.
"Yay" a small dark haired boy dressed as superman bolted down the stairs.
"Is that Ben?" Meredith asked with as smile as Derek's car door was wrenched open.
"Hi everyone, have you missed me?" Derek asked with a huge smile for each and every one of them and let them pull him out of the car. Meredith counted to six children and she saw Mrs. Shepherd and two other women along with a couple of teenagers and a man in his late forties up on the porch. Derek hugged and tickled the kids and they dragged him up on the porch.
"Hello Derek" he was greeted by the grown-ups and a quick 'uncle' from the teens.
"Didn't you forget something, son" Mrs. Shepherd looked sternly at him.
"Why isn't she getting out of the car Uncle Derek?" Ben asked and Derek realized. The car was a rental not her custom built one and she couldn't get out by herself. He felt shame before leaning down to Ben.
"Ben do you remember when we talked about superheroes and I told you about taking out a monster and making someone walk?"
"Yeah" Ben answered and looked back to the car.
"Meredith is the one I did that to. She is now relearning how to walk but she is not there yet. She still needs her wheels. Do you think you can help me open her door and hold her purse as I get her wheels from the trunk."
"Does she really have wheels instead of legs?"
"No silly, wheels it what she calls her wheel-chair. She doesn't walk she uses wheels for now" Derek explained to Ben as they walked down the stairs together. Ben ran to Meredith's door and pulled it up before Derek hadn't even reached the car.
"Hi Miss Meredith, I'm Ben. Uncle Derek told me to help you with your bag and he will get your wheels. Do you really have wheels? Why can't you walk? He said that you are learning to walk. Have you always had wheels? Did it hurt when the monster attacked you? Is the monster dead? Where is the monster now? Can I see it? Did it leave any yucky scarring? Can I see?" Ben talked so fast that Meredith had trouble following.
"Ben, Meredith can answer your questions later. Let me help her get into her wheels."
"Oh, that is a really cool wheel-chair. I have ridden in wheel-chairs at the hospital and they were huge. Your's is small. Is it fast? Can we race? I'll run and you in that."
Meredith started laughing at the charming and curious kid.
"Nice to meet you super-Ben"
"I'm not super-Ben I'm superman… but I am Ben… Uncle Derek, can I be super-Ben the superhero?"
"Of course" Derek said as he lifted Meredith out from the car. He stood there cradling her in his arms and his family was waiting up on the porch. He looked at the porch and realized that Meredith would never get up there by herself. Up on the porch was the swing used on warm evenings looking at the stars.
"John, can you come and bring Meredith's chair up the stairs?" he didn't wait but carried her up the stairs and past his family and put her in the swing.
"We have to find a way for you to get in without using these stairs" he said before kissing her quickly leaving space for his mum and sisters to greet her.
"Welcome Meredith" Mrs. Shepherd leant down and kissed her cheek before giving her a hug.
"Nice being here Mrs. Shepherd. You have a beautiful house."
"Now you stop with the Mrs. Shepherd and call me Carolyn or mum or I won't answer you and I have already thought about the stairs. If you use the door through the garage there are no steps."
"Thank you Mrs… Carolyn, it is very thoughtful of you."
"This is two of Derek's sisters, Kathleen and Nancy. The other two will be here later. John is Kate's husband and Ben whom you already met is her youngest. The rest of the kids we'll sort out later."
"Hi Meredith, nice to finally meet the woman both my brother's speak so much about."
Kate gave her a quick hug.
"Hello Kate, you have an adorable son, super-Ben"
"Thank you, keep thinking that as long as possible. He might be over the top later on."
"Hello Margit" Nancy said.
"Hello Nancy, but please my name is Meredith" Meredith looked at the pretty woman with the hard uninviting eyes. She was really different from her sister, mother and Derek. Nancy had already turned and left.
Derek sat down beside her after bringing their suitcases upstairs.
"Are you OK?"
"Yeah, but Nancy doesn't like me"
"She was/is a very dear friend of Addison and she is always snarky. John came and sat down in a chair across from them and heard the last sentence.
"She hated me when I came around courting Kate and she hasn't stopped yet" he chuckled. "Nice meeting you Meredith and I'm John."
Carolyn brought out some freshly made lemonade and sat down with them. After an hour or so they began smelling the delicious aroma of roasted chicken. Nancy entered the porch and asked John and Derek to help expanding the table and Carolyn walked back inside with the glasses.
"I'll guess you will stay… here" Nancy said and left Meredith alone on the porch after looking at the wheel-chair parked on the other side of the door.
Ben came running up the stairs after a loud signal had been heard.
"Why are you still out here Miss Meredith? Didn't you hear the dinner signal? We have to wash our hands and go sit down." He had almost disappeared through the door before Meredith stopped him.
"Can you help me? I need my wheels and they are over there where I can't reach them."
Ben walked over to the wheel-chair.
"Do you want me to get Uncle Derek?"
"No, just push the chair over here and put the breaks down, please"
After some testing he loosened the breaks, moved the chair to where Meredith wanted it and locked the breaks again before he took a step back.
"Thank you super-Ben and look now" she said and hoisted herself into the chair in a smooth move.
"Wow you made that look really easy! Is it easy? Can I learn to do that? How long have you had the wheels? Can we race after dinner?"
"Let's see how stuffed you get eating dinner and then we decide. I'll promise I'll race you later"
Meredith said and entered the house for the first time. She followed Ben who stepped into a huge mud room beside the kitchen. The two of them washed their hands and moved along past the kitchen into a dining room. The table was huge and Meredith couldn't move behind it and decided that the seat closest to the door would be best. Ben moved the chair away and took a seat beside her.
Derek walked from the kitchen out on the porch to see if Meredith needed any help but she wasn't there. Nancy who had followed him looked around surprised.
"Where is your blonde charity project, Derek?"
"What did you call her?"
"What do you see in her?" Nancy ignored Derek's question.
"My future" he said walking back inside.
"What? You can't be serious. She is paralyzed Derek!"
"About that, she is partly paralyzed and it wouldn't matter for me if she was paralyzed up to her eyebrows, I would still love her."
"Addison said that she is a wanna be riding on her mother's tail and a gold-digger"
"If she is a gold-digger why on earth didn't she accept my PROPOSAL but wanted you to meet her first?"
"Because she wants to know how much you are worth!"
Nancy and Derek was just outside the dining room not seeing all the family starring in silent at them and Meredith who was sitting just inside the door.