"So I talked to Steven today." Derek told Meredith over dinner. They were at a little Italian café they had discovered , having family style spaghetti with Italian sausage.
"Steven?" she asked him, taking a sip of her red wine.
"My lawyer, Steven." He told her with a grin.
"Oh." She said, before taking another sip.
"I signed the papers, and Steven will be filing them this week, once Addison signs. All very amicable. And it will be done and official in ninety days." He sat back with a satisfied smirk.
"The divorce?" she asked him. "Ninety days?"
"Ninety days." He affirmed.
She smiled at him. "So do I offer condolences or congratulations?"
"Clearly you are very funny. Ha ha ha so funny. Does it make you nervous to think I will be single?"
"Nervous? Why would I be nervous. I won't be an adulterous whore anymore. Hmm what could they call me instead, slutty.. no we did that, what do you call a woman who sleeps with a divorced man?"
"What about Dr. Shephard?" he asked her, giving her a dreamy look. He half rose and pulled out a jewelry box.
"Oh my God." Meredith gasped. She stared wide eyed at the box he was starting to open. Derek got up and walked over to her, and kneeled down beside her chair. The box snapped open, and a gigantic diamond ring sat on a bed of velvet. It was a gigantic pear shaped diamond, set in white metal, Meredith guessed maybe platinum.
"Meredith, since the moment I met you, I fell in love with you. And my entire life changed, and I realized that the things I used to think were important meant nothing. All I needed was you and I want the opportunity to spend every single holiday, every single birthday, and every single night with you. I want to see you grow pregnant with our children, and I want to see you reach all your goals and dreams. I want to be the person you turn to whenever you need someone, or want something. And if you would agree to become my wife, I promise I will work every day to be the man you deserve."
Tears were shining in his eyes as he looked at her, and saw that she already had tears slipping down her cheeks. "Derek." She said softly.
"Is that a yes?" he asked her, feeling a little anxious.
She leaned forward and took his face in her hands, and stared into his eyes for a minute, a painful minute where he held his breath and time stopped, before she met his lips with her own and whispered yes against them. They both startled as people began clapping at the tables around them.
Derek stood up and pulled her against him, not caring that they were the dinner entertainment, and picked her up in his arms and swung her around, before setting her down and kissing her deeply. He slid the ring onto her finger, and they both started at in awe, as it overwhelmed her delicate hand. "That's how I'm going to love you, overwhelmingly."
"Will you two want any dessert, or just congratulations and the bill Dr. Shephard?" the waiter asked a minute later, standing off to the side discreetly.
Derek chuckled, "Just the bill please." He looked at Meredith and she nodded, unable to take her eyes off him. He helped her into her coat and she reached up and whispered to him, "You are going to get so lucky tonight."