Country Kind of Love

JustAnotherIntern14: Well, I like fluff too but I was really starting to run out of ideas...

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Okay, and to the rest, if there are even still readers out there, I really had no idea what to write anymore because I need ideas! So, review! Help!

Chapter 10

"This needs to stop, you guys." Mark threw a strawberry Addison had still had on her plate at her and Derek when they had started kissing in the hospital cafeteria once again.

"Wasting food is not the answer to anyone's problem." She told him before kissing Derek again, mostly to piss Mark off just a little more and it worked because he got up and left. "Sooo, I was thinking that maybe you could take me hiking this weekend?"

"Uhm," Derek put his hand on her forehead.

"Derek, what are you doing?"

"You don't have a fever, but what have you done with my girlfriend? Because I remember this gorgeous woman waltzing in here, spouting that she hated nature, hated flannel, hated Kansas, hated jeans, hated flat shoes," he grinned when he saw that look on her face, "and now here she is, still in her scrubs, which she used to change out of immediately after surgery and then she tops it all of by asking me to go hiking. What have you done to my girlfriend?"

"Your girlfriend?" She tilted her head to the side and smiled happily.

"Would you prefer 'that lady friend of mine that has practically spent the last month at my house' or something like that?"

"Girlfriend sounds very good." She kissed him quickly. "So hiking?"

"And I thought I was going to pass out when you kept wearing jeans outside of work!" He feigned shock.

"Derek, if you don't stop, I'll hurt you." She had to laugh anyway because he really did have a point, maybe she needed to go back to New York for a visit because she was sure her best friend would murder her if she could see her now. "But you've spent the last weeks trying to do everything that you know I like and I don't think I would hate hiking all that much if you were there."

"Even camping?" He raised his eyebrows at her, trying to see if she really was serious.

"Yeah, I think even camping. If there are no bears or mountain lions involved."

"How about me, a lake, a forest, hiking and a tent?"

"One sleeping bag that we could share?" She smiled when she saw him nod. "Then I think I am perfectly fine with this for our weekend plans."

"What about fishing?"

"Oh, yeah, cold, wet and smelly, my three favorite things in Macbeth."

Derek had to laugh at this. "Okay, I guess I was pushing it a little…"

xxx

"You're not really going camping, are you?" Miranda Bailey could barely stop laughing when she sat down on the bench outside of the hospital next to Addison that night.

"I am so glad this makes you so happy, Miranda…"

"You are going camping?" She sat down on the bench when she had somewhat stopped laughing.

"Yes, why does this shock people so much? I could be really outdoorsy for all you know!" Addison gave her friend a look, feeling slightly offended since so far no one had believed that she really was going hiking and camping. Okay, maybe she couldn't really believe it herself.

"Oh, have you met you?!"

"Okay, fine, I am usually not exactly the nature kinda girl but I never wore jeans either so I think that I can totally do this. I got through medical school and doctors without borders which all leads me to believe that I can totally do this. I can. Right?"

"Since you kept repeating that you can totally do this, I'm pretty sure that you can't…" Miranda chuckled because Addison looked more than freaked out now.

"Do you know anything about hiking or camping?"

"Do I look like the camping kind to you?" Miranda raised her eyebrows. "But that boyfriend of yours hasn't been able to once stop smiling all day because you have agreed to go with him."

"Was actually my idea…" Addison muttered. She had been so unbelievably happy with Derek and had gotten caught up in believing that she really would be able to get through hiking and camping without ending up in the hospital or something.

"One question?" Miranda grinned when her friend looked up at her. "Why?"

"Because it made him so happy and he's really cute when he's happy and he's been so wonderful and I'm pretty sure he's even hid all his flannel shirts from me. So I thought I really should do something he would like and he likes camping and hiking."

"Could've just gone to a football game with him…"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't think of that. I am not from here!" She said defensively.

"Obviously not." Miranda laughed. "So you've never been hiking or camping in your entire life?"

"Nope."

"It was nice getting to know you, Addison," Addison gave her friend a look, "what? I would regret not saying goodbye to you!" Miranda got up when she saw Derek approaching. "Have fun."

"Bye Miranda…" Addison sighed and closed her eyes.

"Did I miss something?" Derek smiled at his girlfriend when he came to stand in front of her.

"Nope, but you will get to witness me getting eaten by a bear." She got up and kissed him before linking her arm with his.

"You won't. At least not if you don't wear perfume." He laughed at the look on her face. "I'm just kidding."

"You're a cruel, cruel man, Derek Shepherd." She mumbled as they walked to his car.

xxx

"Don't say a word." Addison muttered when she opened the door for Derek when he came to pick her up for the camping trip Saturday morning.

"Okay, I see you early in the morning all the time and somehow you look a lot more alive and happy then…" This earned him a glare from her while she drank some of her coffee out of her portable cup.

"I dreamt that I was getting eaten by a mountain lion." She got in his car and put her sunglasses on.

"Okay, how much coffee have you had, Anna Wintour?"

"I do not like you in the mornings." Derek only laughed at this and started to drive.

When they had arrived at their destination about an hour later Addison couldn't help but smile at the way both dogs just ran around happily and maybe even because it really was beautiful in the forest where they'd be starting their hike to get to wherever it was Derek wanted to camp.

"Oh, is that a smile I see?" He teased her when they started walking down the trail in the middle of the forest. Even the backpack hadn't wiped her smile away and he really was surprised.

"Maybe but if you tell anybody about this, I'll have to kill you." She chuckled and looked around. "You know, when I came here I really hated it but I have to admit that it's really beautiful here."

"Just wait until you see where I'm taking you because nothing can compare."

And when they arrived about an hour later Addison couldn't stop taking in her beautiful surroundings. Maybe she really had missed out by never going hiking or camping before because the lake and the grove of woods was amazing.

"So, is this better than Central Park, or not?" Derek watched her and already knew that she loved it. "It's even more beautiful when the sun sets."

She turned around, still smiling widely before she kissed him. "This is incredible."

Later that night when they (meaning Derek) had set up the tent and started a small fire so they could cook dinner he was surprised that she hadn't even complained about the canned food, about the mosquitos, or anything.

"Can we go swimming tomorrow?" Addison whispered and turned her head a little to look at him since he was sitting behind her with his arms wrapped around her tightly. She hasn't been able to look at anything but the sunset and how beautiful its reflection was in the water. The sky was deep red and she was sure that she had never seen anything quite like it.

"You're starting to freak me out just a little now." He chuckled when she rolled her eyes. "Because, even though you suggested this, I thought that you would at least pretend not to like it."

"Nope, I really love it here. The incredibly heavy backpacks I could have lived without, but other than that this has been great so far." She took the marshmallow she had been roasting off the stick and gave it to him, smiling when he kissed her once he had eaten it. "Der, you're sticky." She laughed and pushed him back a little.

"Since when do you mind?" He grinned and pulled her closer so he could kiss her again and this time she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back, her fingers running through his dark hair as she moaned against his lips. Slowly she turned around in his arms so that she was now fully facing him and could kiss him more deeply. When they pulled apart, still breathing heavily, a little while later Derek couldn't help but smile at her and at how lucky he was to have her in his life. "Addie," he whispered, continuing when she had opened her eyes, "I'm falling in love with you." Even though he normally felt so at ease around her, now he was afraid of her reaction, because they hadn't been dating for all that long but he just hadn't been able to keep it in any longer.

Addison looked at him, a smile on her lips before she kissed him again. "I'm falling in love with you too," she whispered before leaning in again once she saw the relieved smile on his face.

xxx

On Monday Derek couldn't help but sigh when he was once again at work. Their weekend had been amazing and he really was still surprised that she had liked camping and everything that went with it. When they had gotten back late Sunday night Addison had even told him that they really should go camping again and he started grinning when he thought of everything that had happened that weekend.

"Geez, you look happy." Preston told him when he and Mark had come up behind Derek and put their charts down on the counter in front of them.

"Well, that is because I am happy." Derek smiled and just shrugged his shoulders.

"That means camping went well and you got lucky, I'm guessing." Mark grinned and began to fill out some post op notes.

"Camping went very well and the rest really is none of your business." Derek couldn't help but laugh because his mood was just way too good and he couldn't wait for Addison to finish checking on one of her patients so he could take her to lunch.

"She said earlier that camping really was great. At first I thought she was being sarcastic but what have you done to that woman? When she came here she wanted to scratch your eyes out for coming to work in a flannel shirt and now she enjoys camping and asked when the next college football game was. There's something wrong with that picture." Preston and the other two started laughing. "But really, I'm glad you guys are happy."

"I'd be happy if I got to share a tent with her too…" Mark mumbled and Derek only glared at him but when he was just about to say something someone had come up behind them.

"Excuse me?" The tall, dark haired man said when he came to stand in front of them, "I'm looking for my fiancé and I was told that someone here could help me find her, she's a surgeon here."

"Of course," Derek and the other two turned around to face him, "what's her name?"

"Addison Montgomery." The man gave them a smile and Derek just stared at him in disbelief, he felt as if his entire world had come crashing down.

Like I said, I was running out of fluff ideas so I just thought this would help a little. I'm sorry about this but she did mention that she was engaged once, guess it wasn't too long ago then. Whoops, sorry, Derek… And that after telling her that he's falling in love with her :( Would you like them to work through this or to split up?

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