Chapter 42: What Did Addison Say?

"Mer."

"Mmm."

"Mer."

"Mhmm."

"Come on Mer, you're going to be late."

"Five more minutes."

"That's what you said half an hour ago."

"I'm tired!"

"I know babe but you're going to be late if you don't get up now."

"I don't wanna get up!"

Derek had to chuckle now as Meredith pulled the pillow tighter over her head. He gently rubbed her back in soothing circles as he tried again.

"I'm sorry Mer, but you have your doctor appointment first thing this morning… you don't want to miss it."

The pillow was suddenly moved aside and Meredith turned and glared up.

"The only reason you don't want me to miss my damn appointment is because you're hoping Addie's going to give us the green light for sex!"

Derek struggled to hide his surprise. It was scary sometimes how well she read him.

"Uh..what..no… not at all. The baby Mer… I just want to make sure the baby's okay. And you. Of course. Make sure you're okay too."

Meredith rolled her eyes and resumed her position under the pillow.

"Come on Mer…I know it's hard and you're tired. You know, you can take your maternity leave early if you'd like. You don't have to wait until the baby arrives. I hear your boss is an extremely understanding guy. Not to mention handsome and attractive, charming really, one of the nation's leading Neurolo…"

A flying pillow cut Derek off midsentence as he heard a soft giggle escape his fiancée. He tossed it aside and looked down at a grinning Meredith, mischief in his eye.

"Oh, you asked for it."

Meredith opened her mouth to object as Derek's hands found a spot on each side that sent her into immediate hysterics. He tickled as she desperately tried to escape, wiggling, and writhing in torture.

"Stop!...Stop!... Pee…I …need to…pee…NOW!"

Derek sat back to see if she was faking and saw the urgency in her face. With increasing difficulty, she was able to propel her large belly of the bed and waddle into the bathroom, shooting Derek death beams as he laughed out loud at her.

"It's not funny!" She called out from the bathroom.

"Of course not babe!" Derek answered, not bothering to hide his amusement.

"I swear, this baby is sitting on my bladder. I cannot wait until this is over. I just want it out. Now. I think I'm going to tell Addison to just break my waters while she's checking me today."

Derek appeared at the doorway to the bathroom in seconds, evoking a chuckle from Meredith.

"Umm.. are you sure… I don't think… we don't want to rush the baby or anything…" Derek tried, searching her face as she pulled up her pajama bottoms and flushed the toilet.

Meredith shot him a look before turning towards the shower and starting the water.

"And I suppose your hesitancy has nothing to do with the fact that you'll have to wait another six weeks after I give birth before we have sex…. bringing the total time of abstinence to fourteen weeks, plus the month we were apart before." Meredith waved her arm in the air, not bothering to do the added math.

Derek let out a guilty grin and tilted his head to the side. "Can you blame me?"

Meredith sighed but smiled as she slipped off her pajamas and stepped into the warm spray.

"I just don't want you getting your hopes up. I'm fat, tired, and sex doesn't exactly sound all that tempting at the moment. It's just kind of hard to get in the mood when you have a miniature human being doing the hokey pokey inside you all night long. I'd pick an entire night of no heartburn and no trips to the bathroom over a screaming orgasm at the moment… no offense."

She finished lathering her body with the flowery body wash and turned to see if Derek was still listening. She saw he was still in the bathroom, but his eyes were trained on her naked soapy body, the far away look in his eye that she knew too well.

"Derek!" She called getting his attention.

"Oh..uh..Hu?"

Meredith couldn't help but giggle. "You better stop! You're the one who said we're going to be late if we don't hurry. I don't have time to help you out this morning."

Derek feigned a look of hurt. "Oh come on... I promise to be fast. What do you expect, you're standing there rubbing your body and talking about screaming orgasms. I'm only human."

"I'm not so sure about that." Meredith mumbled under her breath as she began to rinse the conditioner out of her hair. "I'd go with a rabbit at the moment."

"What was that?" Derek asked, not hearing what she was saying.

"Nothing." Meredith giggled. "I just don't see how you could be so insatiable. Especially after last night. I did everything I could… I had to look on the internet for that last trick. I didn't know people actually did that."

Derek smiled from the memory. "Ya..that was …" He shook his head. "Stop it! You're making this harder."

"I can see." Meredith grinned stepping out of the shower and taking the large cotton towel Derek offered, her eyes dropping to the bulge in his pants.

"Come on… five minutes…" Derek begged.

Meredith shook her head and laughed. "My appointment is in forty-five minutes. We don't have time. Now be a good boy and make sure Carwyn's ready to go. If you're lucky I'll page you after my appointment and maybe we can meet in an empty on call room. Like the old days."

Derek's defeated look quickly gave way to one of hope. "Deal."

He smiled and kissed her quickly on the lips before turning and hurrying out the door, eager to do as he was told in hopes of the later reward.

Derek sighed, quickly closing his cell phone and returning it to his pocket. Meredith was avoiding him. Her appointment had come and gone and now lunch was long over. Where was she? What had Addison said? And most importantly, had the no sex restriction been lifted?

Derek hurried down the hall and stopped in front of the large white board. Surgery. Meredith was currently scrubbed into a valve replacement with Burke. It was one of the rare afternoons that Burke was on call and not teaching a class.

He sighed again and ran a hand through his hair. The surgery had just started so that meant at least another four hours until she'd be through. Another four hours until he knew his fate.

"I thought you'd be grinning ear to ear by now."

Addison's voice turned Derek around and he looked at her confused.

"Umm…what?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Well, with what I told Meredith this morning, I thought you'd be excited…more than happy to oblige."

Derek folded his arms across his chest and tilted his head suddenly very interested. "Remind me again what you told her."

Addison rolled her eyes. "She was begging me to break her waters or at least strip her membranes, but her cervix is just not ready. She asked if there was anything she could do to hurry labor along and I told her to have sex. Lots and lots of sex. It's natures labor inducer. I thought you'd be thrilled… after the long weeks I made you wait."

Derek grinned and nodded slowly, all the sudden his fiancée's avoidance making perfect since to him.

"Right… she did say that. I remember now." He glanced at his watch before looking back at the board. "If you'll excuse me Addie… I have work to finish so that when my girl gets out of surgery, I won't have any other obligations. "

He smiled and turned, hurrying down the hall to his office, leaving Addison shaking her head behind him.

"I need someone to do a consult on a GSW down in the pit!" Bailey's voice broke through the tired conversation Meredith, Cristina, and Alex were having at the end of the long day.

"I'll do it!" Meredith hopped up. Her feet were swollen, her back ached, and she couldn't ever remember feeling so tired or uncomfortable, but staying busy meant avoiding Derek.

Bailey glared at her. "I was meaning one of the other fools that isn't nine months pregnant ready to pop."

"I'm fine. I can do it... really… no problem… really." Meredith kept trying as Bailey kept up her heated glare.

"Karev… get on this…and tell one of your interns to run the labs."

Meredith sighed and leaned back against the nurses station as Bailey and Alex hurried away.

"What was that about?" Cristina asked skeptically.

"Addison said if I want to have this baby I have to have lots of sex." Meredith answered frowning.

"And that's a problem because…" Cristina raised her eyebrows.

"You don't understand… this body isn't even mine anymore. I'm a freaking elephant and… I don't know. I can't tell Derek. That's for sure. If he knows we can have sex now and that Addison is actually ordering it… I'll never hear the end of it. He'll never let me come up for air."

Cristina made a face.

"What?" Meredith furrowed her brows.

"I was just picturing two elephants…"

"Cristina!" Meredith yelled, stopping her mid-sentence and causing them both to crack up.

Cristina suddenly sobered and looked down at a chart in front of her. Meredith studied her confused a moment before jumping at the unexpected voice behind her.

"Aww there you are!"

Meredith bit her lip. "Oh…hi … Derek…"

"So how was your appointment with Addison this morning? You know I never did get that page you promised. I hope nothings wrong."

Meredith met eyes with Cristina for a moment before turning to face her fiancé.

"Right… about that…um... sorry… I just got really busy today. I scrubbed in on a valve replacement." She smiled proudly, hoping to change the subject.

"I saw. But you didn't answer my question. How'd the appointment go." Derek folded his arms and tilted his head, faking concern.

"It… went …good." Meredith answered simply, her eyes darting up and down the hall for an escape.

"Uh huh." He said nodding his head. "Anything of importance to share."

"Nope, not really." She answered, crossing her arms to match his stance.

"And the no sex thing?" It was taking every ounce of his self-control to not start laughing at Meredith's deer in the headlights look.

She quickly recovered, hoping Derek hadn't noticed and answered cooly. "Ya… about that… Addison said she wanted to check things out again in a couple days before giving us the green light."

"Aha!" Derek shouted pointing at her.

"What?!" Meredith called back surprised.

"You liar! Meredith Grey you are such a liar!"

"What are you talking about!?" Meredith started to panic, and gave Cristina an evil glare when she heard her person start chuckling, obviously amused from the show being put on before her.

"I talked to Addison today…"

Meredith's mouth fell open in shock. "Wh..wh..what? What the hell happened to patient doctor confidentiality?! I'm suing! That's malpractice!"

Derek roared back laughing at Meredith's stammering. "I'm sure she hadn't planned on her patient lying to her fiancé! To his face nonetheless."

"I…wel…its just…she …. and… shit!"

"Mmm hmmm." Derek nodded mockingly. "I don't know whether to be upset or offended. The mother of my children… I thought I knew you so well…but it turns out you are a world class liar."

"I am not!" Meredith nibbled on her bottom lip, struggling for a plan to get out her predicament.

Derek sighed but didn't say anything, opting to tilt his head and frown sadly.

"You know Mer." He said softly. "If you don't want to have sex with me… all you had to do was tell me."

Meredith's heart sunk and all of the sudden all she wanted to do was kiss the frown off his beautiful face.

"I'm so sorry Der. It's not that... at all… I was just…" She sighed when she saw his shoulders slouch forward a bit. She smiled and pulled his stiff body into her small arms, reaching on her tip toes to place a soft kiss on his turned down lips. "Come on Der…" She whispered seductively in his ear. "Let's go home and follow doctor's orders."

Derek faked one more sigh and wrapped his arms around her. "Okay." He said softly, his voice still sounding broken.

Meredith slipped an arm around his waist and led him down the hall, determined to make it up to him for lying.

As they walked away, Derek turned around one last time and met Cristina's fascinated stare. He winked quickly before sobering up and turning back around, letting his tiny fiancée lead the way.