Chapter 23: Honeymoon to Alaska

"Christina." Meredith said into her phone as she tried to weave through the crowd at the airport, Derek held tightly onto her hand as they made their way from their terminal "Christina can you hear me?"

"Oh my god!" her friend hissed "Where the HELL have you been? And what kind of friend have I not been in which you feel it's ok not to call me after running across the god damn country to stop a wedding!"

"I'm sorry." Meredith apologized with a grin "I've been a little pre-occupied."

"So, I'm guessing you successfully stopped it."

"Yes." Meredith said, "That assumption would be correct."

"So, how are you now?" Christina asked, "And where are you now?"

"I'm in Alaska." Meredith mumbled.

"What?" Christina mumbled "Sorry didn't hear you right, I thought you said that you were in Alaska?"

"I am." Meredith smirked.

"Why in god's name would you go there!"

"Because." Meredith laughed once "It's where Derek wanted to go on our honeymoon."

"Oh well he's…" she mumbled and them gasped "Did you just say OUR honeymoon?"

"Yes." Meredith said, "I'm on my honeymoon."

"Holy shit fucking damn hell bitch!" Christina yelled into the phone; Meredith winced. "I knew you were wanting to stop a wedding, but to hell if I ever would have thought tying the knot was part of the plan. I'm hurt, I can't believe you didn't call me until after I witnessed such a monumental thing."

"You know I would have if I could have." She said, "But it kind of happened fast."

"Are we having regrets."

"Not one."

"Really?"

"Seriously."

"Wow." Christina sang softly "You're growing up…I'm proud, like a proud mama."

"Shut up." Meredith giggled "I gotta go. We're about to get in a car and head up to our cabin, and I promise you won't hear from me until we get to Seattle."

"Seattle!" she heard both beside her and on the phone.

"Crap." She muttered "Apparently we still have some things to talk about too."

"Good luck with that." Christina chuckled "You can always use sex to get your way you know."

"Yeah but then I suffer too." Meredith mumbled "Talk to you later."

"I'll tell Richard you'll be gone a few weeks." She said, "later bitch."

"See ya cunt."

Meredith hung up the phone and put it away in her jacket pocket, then looked forward out the windshield of the car, ignoring Derek's incredulous stare as he waited for her to start the conversation. He cleared his throat a couple of times, trying to get her attention and let out a few heavy sighs, she ignored him still.

"Meredith." He finally said.

"I'm not leaving Seattle." She said, "It's not even a question."

"I have a practice in New York." He said, "I can't just pick up and leave."

"Well I'm not leaving Seattle. I worked very hard to get to the position I'm in, so unless you want a trans-continental marriage, I suggest you start looking at mover prices."

"Meredith, try to be more open minded." He muttered.

"Open minded!" she gasped and whipped her head around, he flinched at the outlasting he knew was coming "Me throwing my hesitancy on marriage out the window wasn't open minded? Me coming up here to the middle of nowhere on our honeymoon isn't open minded. Did you getting it off in the airplane on the flight over here cause too much of a head clear? Do you need some off time to get your thoughts together?"

"Meredith don't be rash." He sighed "I was just simply stating that we need to think about what's the better option for us…not you, not me, but us." He frowned "And what's so wrong with the outdoors?"

"Derek you're a boy, and you like fishing and spending a week in a cabin with wild animals walking around sniffing each other's assholes." She muttered "I was born and raised in upstate New York. I've lived in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and most recently Seattle. Those are all major, MAJOR metropolitan areas. Not to mention I'm a girl!"

"Meaning?"

"Meaning that I like having the smell of Starbucks from down the street to wake me up and get my blood pumping in the morning. I like being able to go down the block to Jimmy Choo and buy godly expensive shoes that I'll never in my lifetime wear. I like getting slutty lingerie that I'll have on my body for a few seconds. I think it's great that you want to go fish or whatever, but to be honest, I'm a girl! The only rod I want to fish with is yours in the sack."

His eyes grew dark instantly, they'd had sex almost non-stop since they got married but he still kept coming back for more, it was like drinking salt water, his thirst was never quenched, always increasing.

"Ok." He mumbled "I get it, you're a girl." He let out a heavy sigh as she crossed her arms and stared out the window "Look, we don't need to be fighting like this after less than 48 hours of marriage."

"Agreed."

"Let's just make the most of this." He said, "And maybe we can go to Anchorage in a few days so you can be a girl."

"I don't want to be a girl on my honeymoon." She scoffed "I want us to make bunnies look celibate."

"Ok." He sighed and ground his teeth "Let's not fight…I love you and I want to have a good time."

"Me too." She mumbled. "I love you too."

He smiled and reached over, putting his arm around her and pulling her head to rest on his shoulder. He placed a soft kiss on the top of her head and sighed with content.

"But I'm still not leaving Seattle."

Do you think that Christina reacted appropriately? Who do you think should move, Derek or Meredith?