Ok, ladies, I listened to you and yesterday and today I took the time and I edited out what I had to and made the best of it, I got three chapters edited. HOWEVER! Sorry for shouty capitals here, but however, based on the fact it is an original piece, I wasn't wanting to compromise on the story and water it did so the next few chapters will take place in Whistler BC. As well as the Seattle parts too, I know the city better and its a lot better than me dumbing down how awesome Seattle is with minor details, actually that is half of the reasons that some of my stories don't get finished, its because I don't know what I can't write about. So it is a minor switch but one I hope you will enjoy! I don't own Fifty Shade of Grey or characters and I welcome all good and bad reviews.

Chapter 7

When we got to Whistler or was about lunchtime, he rolled down the divider, after I put on my clothes.

"Driver could take us to lunch? Please? Hy's or the keg would be great, the driver tipped his hat and the divider went back up, I curled up in his arms, as he sniffed my hair, "Ana you smell so good, what do you wear?" I looked at him,

"I don't wear anything, other than cheap perfume." He stroked my hair. My head on his chest listening to the rhythm of his heart, l closed my eyes listening to his breathing and his heart. "A woman like you should wear Chanel or Gucci." He kissed my head and held me in his arms. I nodded, I didn't want that, I wanted to be wanted for me, not expensive perfume, or designer shoes, or nice dresses, I wanted him to want me naked, anywhere at any time. "Ana, tell me anything you want, I will take care of you." I opened my eyes to look into his eyes, "Just love me, for me." I whispered to him. "I knew that the moment I met you I would."

The car came to a stop shortly after, the divider rolled down and the driver looked back to us, "we're here sir," Christian nodded to him, "thank you." I looked at Christian, "I don't want to move." He looked at me and smiled, "fine, do you want me to carry you into the restaurant?" I thought about it, the door popped open, I was about to protest as he said: "too late lady, here we go!" He swung his legs out and took me in tow, I made a sound as he spoke as he kept walking to the doors, "what? You didn't want to move so you are in the same spot as before just I'm standing and I'm hungry for something other than your beautiful body." Mortified he said that out loud and in earshot of another couple I buried my face into his neck, inhaling the scent of spicy wood and leather.

The hostess bounced up to the door and held it open for him, not for us but I could see she had a special smile reserved for men like Christian, rich and single, since I was in his arms it looked like she was wanting to be carried to his bed. "Long day?" She asked on a purr, we walked into the darkened restaurant, He nodded as the two beautiful hostesses in skin-tight black dresses, black raven hair, brown eyes, the two women shared a knowing glance as if to say we could be very good to him if he put down the fattie. His grip on me tighten, as he looked the woman straight on he could tell I was uncomfortable, "Ladies, my girlfriend and I have had a long day flying from Vegas so we would love a booth and not a table, please." My head popped up as he said it "girlfriend?" The two girls looked at the sheet to see what was available, the one who helps him smile broadly and took two menus out of the holder. "Absolutely right this way!" She held her arm out to show us the way. "So Vegas," She purred again as if this was the only way to flirt, "where did you stay?" That question was directed towards him, he took note of the fact the hostess was trying to flirt with him and kept his gaze forward she flicked her hair back and looked at him with a sexy look in her eye as if to say I would go with you anywhere. "My best friend Jose was marrying her sister Mia so we were flying there for the wedding and I had a business meeting in New York so while I did that Ana here shopped and lived it up Vegas-style with our friends while I was away and she flew to New York to pick me up and we flew home this afternoon." We got to the booth and he put me down as I sheepishly nodded, and slid into the booth, he soon followed. She smiled and spoke, "well I'm Stacy I will be upfront if you need anything, and your server will be over shortly." I watched as she stalked off to the front again to serve the next couple. I looked at him, "she wants you," I spoke in a quiet tone, he nodded in agreement. "I know, they all do, but here's the thing, I can drive a curvy road better than a straight one," I looked at him as he said it and he looked in my eyes as the hostess came back around, "got it?" I nodded, "yes." I could tell Stacy was disgusted, as Christian leaned in for a kiss, at least which will tell her to back off, he's mine!

As our server came around in a white outfit and a black apron I said: "order for me, I'm good with anything that is put in front of me." He nodded in agreement and he ordered two medium rare steaks, one with fries one with salad, and a bottle of Barossa Valley Shiraz wine. As I sat in awe of a man who told me his life story. It wasn't long before our food was placed before us.

"I was in the army as an air pilot, I also trained in horseback and oh I am an amazing piano player." He said as he sliced and then bit into his steak.

"How about you?" He asked me as I thought about it.

"You know my life story." He learns this all two years ago at the time we were helping Kate and Christian with their wedding, to say the least, we were in each other's faces a lot, sadly Kate tried to get on of her other bridesmaids to distract me away from him, but he picked me then as he picked me now.

"Well half," He said as he popped a forkful of steak into his mouth.

"Fair enough." I thought as I drank my wine. I thought about the most interesting thing about myself nobody would know. I let a giggle, thinking back to the day that boy asked me on the swings if I would marry him, it was pretending but it was sweet and charming. It was in the part of my life I blocked out but to me, I looked at it as if that was the way men acted around women. I shrugged, "ok here it goes!"

"I got married when I was five!" I said giggling, "It was so cute, this blonde hair boy came running up to me and told me I was the prettiest girl in school and gave me a daisy, a red daisy. The next day he got on one knee and asked me to marry him, I said yes, then we got pretend married on his playground swing set at his house. His name was Christian too." I smiled at the memory, he was smiling as I told the story.

"Want to know something funny?" He asked.

"What?" I asked back, he swallowed and stopped eating for a second.

"That little blonde hair boy was me, I was nine you were five, and I kissed you on the swings. I know because my mom has the picture of us kissing in my backyard." My smile faded, over twenty-two-year love story, he waited for me, he wanted me, I swallowed the limp in my throat to hold in the tears, he pulled up to me and kissed me. When we broke free I looked at his eyes "You waited twenty-two years for me?"

"No, I waited twenty years, when my brother told me who you were, and how he found you. I asked about you and he said "yeah she has a sister named Ana" and he showed me a picture of you and I knew. You were my playground wife, and I wanted you then as I do now and forever." He smiled. I turned to him as I pulled myself into his lap, and placed my arms around his neck and kissed him, 20 years, that's how long most couple dream being married and he waited and wanted me, all this time. It was a dream and I had it in my arms.

"Ok let's finish this lunch, then I'll take you home, ok?" I looked into his eyes as I nodded, "the day is early we can spend some time in the village and then go home?"

"As long as I'm with you, I don't care what we do. Both sound good so let's have a walk around." I wanted to be his lap forever, and I wanted him here and now and be close to him forever. Be his everything. He looked at me, "now some things have changed in two years tell me what is your favourite movie?" I thought long and hard for an answer.

"Star Wars and Cinderella," I said smiling. "You? Don't say lord of the rings or us will never work." He smiled,

"No I don't like that elf shit, I do like Star Wars and Indiana Jones, James Bond Series and as well as any horror flick is known to man." I shook my head.

"No?" I shook my head again as my mouth was full of food, and couldn't really talk.

"No scary movies? Maybe one or two on Halloween?" I nodded, "ok, what about holidays?" I swallowed my food and came up with an answer. "Halloween for sure, Christmas, yes, and that's it, you?" "Halloween, Christmas and Valentines."

"Why did you join the army?" I asked him, he pondered for his answer. "I wanted to do something besides what my dad had planned for me, he wanted me to go to school, become a businessman like him, or a lawyer or something in business. I did study in medical while in the Forces, it was boring, I wanted to become a pilot, when I told my dad afterwards, he understood, and patted my back, and said 'son do what makes you happiest, even if it isn't what I saw for you, I love you either way.' I think because I was the oldest it made it hard for him to see me doing anything other than being in the business, before my dad passed I took my dad flying, he loved it, he was laughing when I was telling him how much I had learned, it was even more fun when I walked into the air command center, and I told him I had to get permission, he was looking over the devices that it took to talk to the other pilots, he was in total in his element. I have a picture of my dad and I standing next to the jet I took him flying in." He paused. "After my dad passed, he left Fairchild communications to Elliot and me, Ella was too young to understand, my mom stepped in and is taking over her side it is her choice to step in after mom retires." He paused again, lost in thought, he looked at me and smiled "did I mention my dad bought the first patent for the cell phone?" I shook my head.

"Anyways Elliot was dad's boy and was interested in the business side. I enlisted to be a flightier pilot and I know how to fly most planes off the ground and land them safely." He smiled.

"I am most proud of that. I did a tour of Afghanistan and I enjoyed all the work I did." His smile faded. Christian was lost in thought.

"There are some things in this life you wish were never taken away. I should tell you before you while I was in the forces there was a woman we were engaged and we were being evacuated and a shell went off." He shook his head, I swallowed my steak in my mouth and sat and listened to him. "She never made out, and the next few days after I found out my dad had passed." His eyes watered up and showed tears. I pulled him into a hug.

"Do you miss him? And her?" I asked in his ear. He pulled back a little bit.

"Every day, her not so much, because nobody in the family knew we were engaged." He said in a whisper. He looked down and lost, I pulled his chin back to me but his eyes were almost hollow as I looked into them, I guess this girl meant a lot to him "what made her so special?" I didn't want to know but I had to know.

"She had the same face as you, everything about her reminded me of you" He looked at the glass of wine and took a big gulp of it, to finish it off. Before looking back to me, "Ana you have affected my life nobody has done before, I looked for you in other people, and I looked for you in women and I couldn't find you in only parts." He took my hands in his, "now that I have the real thing I will do anything to keep you in my life." I leaned in to kiss him, it may be a line to get me into bed but he already had me so if it was a pick up line it was too good to be true. "You're laying it on thick if you're trying to get me into bed one more time before you take me home." He smiled then it faded, "it's not a line, it's the truth." He kissed me one more time and I put my head on his shoulder to make every single women in the place jealous of me. The server came around with the bill and seemed unaffected by his looks and his charm on me and placed the bill in front of us. "Whenever you're ready." He took out his wallet and laid three green crisp $100 bills down on the black billfold, "keep the rest." Not even looking at the server or the bill. "Don't you want to know how much lunch was?" I asked. He shook his head, "as far as I know lunch was priceless because I had a beautiful woman beside me to provide me with good company. Why would I want to know the price of my lunch if everything I was looking for in a day out was met with satisfactory?" I nodded he looked at me with a questioning look, "do you want to know?" I shrugged, "I do but I don't, only because Kate never took me to dinner unless I had my own way to pay." He sat back a bit, "well I'm not a asshole, like her, she may have some good points but that is not of her good ones, one she should pay you for the work she does with her child! I would if you were my employee, and" I was becoming frightened by the sound of his voice becoming more angry. He got concerned, he ran his hands up and down my arms, "baby no, please no, it's ok, I don't like your sister and what she and your family does to you, if anything you should be paid to handle they're child." I shook my head.

"I was always lead to believe I was never good enough to get paid, I wanted to so much more in this life, but my family just never saw that. Or at least Elena never did." He shook his head as if not to believe what he heard.

"Does Elena control your or the family money?" He questioned.

"Well no, she controls my money and my dad's money, I think, Kate wanted to use hers for school and so did Mia, my older sister, but that's because they picked powerful careers, Kate is a Vet, and volunteers her time with the animal shelter, and Mia is a Family Doctor, who has a residency in Vancouver Hospital. I wanted to be a freelance photographer and travel to Africa, Dubai, India, Thailand, or China." I smiled as I Remember Mia's postcard came in the mail of all the places she travelled to and how I longed to be with her and have the pictures in my camera come alive. Steal a moment in time, and put it on pause, that's how I felt putting my camera in my hands, my smile faded as I put my camera up on that pawn shop counter. He looked into my tearing up eyes. "I know how you feel, Ana, but if it means I can stop the tears, I will do it, starting with this." He wrote on a slip of paper and slid it over to me, I picked up and on it was a number, his phone number. "Add it to your phone, I have made a new bank account up so I can put money into for you to paid from Fairchild commutations every week, starting with a 1,000.00 a week." I did the math quickly in my head as he was backing up so he could stand up, as he straightened up his sports coat. As he did Stacy walked past with another couple and winked at him, he looked at me, "ready?" I stood and straightened myself out. As Stacy made her way back I looked at Christian, and said out loud to make sure she heard, "you want to pay me 52,000.00 a year to be your girlfriend?" He looked at me as I said it, knowing what I was doing, "Yes Ana I do, it would be a pleasure too." I looked behind me, she not only stopped in her tracks but she actually I think stopped breathing. I smiled as we walked out.

We set out in the village as he looked around at the mountains, "God I love being here" he looked to me, "but you just add more beauty to it!" I smiled as we walked hand in hand walking to the playground where I know my dad or Elena would be if Kate called them to stay one more day, I looked over and saw Elena's raven haircut and my dad's scruffy mop of blonde hair. I turned around in Christian's arms as if trying to walk back, "hey what's going on?" I looked at Christian as he asked, "Elena and my dad are here." He nodded, he looked around. "I have an idea!" I looked at him, I will distract your parents, and you go to the Whistler Adventure. Ready?"

"Wait!" Grabbing his coat. "Go!" He left my side and I walked as fast I could to Whistler Adventure as fast I could I watched from the doors, it didn't look like Elena was pleased he was there, however my dad was warm and friendly with him as if everything was ok, he hugged him and chatted him up, I watched him until he looked at me and locked eyes, smiled then turned back to my dad's questions, I could tell he loved talking to my dad, or he thought he was awesome as most people thought. After about five minutes, Christian waved and gave my dad another hug and waved to Elena knowing she won't be as warm with him. In fact as Christian ran to me she looked up the air and as if she was looking down at her for not marrying her daughter, he ran to me as I hid behind the door they had their attention back to the little boy in his Superman shirt, his brown hair cut since I last I saw him, big smile on his face, bright blue eyes, he was a big boy but it was cause I fed him the right foods and handled everything for that boy. My heart broke a little, thinking that he wasn't mine but I was more of a mother than his real mother.

I looked at Christian who was at the desk looking at the ATV's "what's up?" I asked as he turned to me as I looked at the broad. "I want to take you ATVing." I looked at the riders and looked at my clothes, there wasn't a doubt in my mind I could do it today, I shrugged, "why not!"