"The heart in pursuit of oneness will find the most inexplicable beauty" - Unknown.
Christi and Alex are now on the cruise and Christi is lying by the side of the pool tanning and Alex is trying to get her to come in as he was leaning on the side of the pool.
"Come on babe."
"No! I'm comfortable. And I'm getting a tan which is friggin impossible to get in Settle. I wanna get as much sun as I can." She says sitting up and looking at him.
She starts laughing as he's pouting at her.
"No Alexander."
"Come on babe please!"
"Alexander Michael Karev!" she said hoping her using his full name would make him get the point.
"Oh that's it Christina Jasmine Sloan!" he said getting out and going over to her and picking her up around her waist and tossing her over his shoulder.
"Alexander Michael Karev don't you dare!" she squeals giggling.
"Too late." He said jumping into the pool with her still over his shoulder.
She surfaces and looks over at a smirking Alex.
"Oh you are so not getting any lovin' tonight." She says.
"I think I am. Because you'll be lovin' me after dinner tonight."
"And what exactly makes you think that?"
"I don't think it. I know it." He said.
"Sure." She said.
"Okay come on we have tickets for the show at three and it's quarter till two. We need to start getting ready."
She nods and gets out and grabs her towel and wraps it around her torso as Alex gets out and wraps his around his waist.
She smiles as they grab their stuff and head back to the room.
When they get to the room Alex opens the door and pushes her up against the door attacking her mouth with his. She wraps her arms around his neck and he slips his arms around her waist and he walks her back toward the bed.
She pulls back when she needs to breathe as he starts to kiss down her neck.
"Aren't we supposed to be getting ready?" she asks breathing heavily as he sucked on her pulse point.
"Yes. But I like this better." He mutters against her neck.
"Remember. No marks. Not yet." She moans softly.
"Yea I know. I just can't leave them where they can be seen. But I can leave them where they won't be see." He growls playfully against her neck.
She giggles. XXXXX
A while later they were getting ready to go to the show.
"After you're little seduction there it's made us run late." She teases.
"Hey I know you enjoyed it."
"Yea I did." She says giggling.
They get to the show and take their seats and the show starts a few minutes later. Christi had her head resting on his shoulder and one of her arms wrapped around his bicep.
After the show ends they head to their dinner reservations at one of the nice restaurants on the ship. They have to wait a while for their table to be ready.
While they do that Alex is talking to the head waiter and their waiter.
"Look I have something really special planned for my girlfriend tonight and I really need this to go on without a hitch. I just need to somehow get this to you when you take the desert order." Alex said holding up the small black velvet box that he's been keeping hidden and he slipped into his pocket as Christi was getting ready.
"Any special message?"
"No, no thank you," Alex said.
"Okay, it'll be a little more, but we'll put it on your bill." the waitress smiled and took the box.
"That's fine. She's completely worth it."
The guy nods as Alex heads back over to Christi.
"What was that about?"
"Nothing. Just a special surprise." He smiles kissing her.
She just smiles and kisses him.
They get seated and enjoyed a nice dinner.
"Can I get you desert?" the girl asks trying to keep a professional look.
"Can I get the black tie mouse cake please?"
"Sure and for you sir?" she asks Alex.
"The same please."
She smiles and nods.
They sit there and talk and when the girl comes over with their deserts and she gives Alex his first then Christi's and she smiles and says, "Enjoy." Then she leaves and Christi goes to take a bite then she notices the little box.
"Uhh I think this is someone else." She said.
"I don't think so."
"Alex really."
"Babe, open it." He said.
She eyes him suspiciously and opens it and then she sees the ring and Alex gets down on one knee and looks at her and takes the box in his right hand and her left hand in his left.
"Christi, you've only been in my life for a short amount of time, but I've fallen in love with you. I know we've had troubles with certain people about accepting our relationship, but who cares? There's even more people who do support us and they matter. They probably all support what I'm doing now too. They're the ones who matter; they will be in our life. But anyway, the people who don't support us are only one challenge we'll have, and hopefully we will last forever, and have more challenges ahead, because that builds a strong relationship, and I want that with you. You're the best thing that's happened to me in a long, long time, and I want you to keep being the best thing. Christi Jasmine Sloan, will you marry me, please?" he says as one of the many cruise line photographers comes over and takes a picture of the scene
"Oh my god. Alex." She said with tears streaming down her face then she finally says, "Yes. Yes I will."
He smiles and takes the ring out and puts it on her hand and he smiles, "Perfect fit." He says smiling and taking her into his arms kissing her and the photographer takes a picture of that as well knowing they would want a picture of that as well. XXXXX
The week was over now and Alex and Christi are back to work. Right now everyone is in the lunch room talking and Christi is talking and moving her hands around as she's part Italian from her mom's side and Italians tend to talk with their hands and it was then Veronica and Lexie notice her left hand and Veronica grabs her hand and yanks her hand over to her.
"HOLY SHIT WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!" she practically squeals looking at the ring along with Lexie.
"On the trip. Oh my god. It was so sweet and romantic. I have the pictures at home I have to bring in tomorrow." She giggles as Lexie grabs her hand to get a better look at her hand as Mark comes up.
"What's with all the girlish screams?" he asks as Christi quickly pulls her hand back and sits on her hand so that Mark didn't see it.
"Your hand will fall asleep like that," Mark says, pointing to her.
"Well," Christi sighed, taking her hand out carefully, trying to hide the ring. There was no hope.
"Are you... Engaged?" Mark asked.
"Yeah," Christi muttered, waiting for an explosion.
"Well," Mark clenched his fists, "Congratulations, and best wishes, sweetie." Mark pulled her into a hug.
"You aren't angry?" Christi asked when they pulled back.
"When you moved out, your words really got to me. I'm sorry for how mean I've been, and I'm sorry for... Well, everything. I love you, and I don't want you thinking otherwise anymore."
"Really?" Christi asked, getting teary eyed, "I love you too," she hugged him tightly.
"You're growing up," he whispered.
"I've been grown, Daddy, you just haven't realized." Christi kissed his cheek.
"Yea, I guess I haven't. I just didn't want you messing up your life and career before they could even begin. But I realized I was being too harsh and that I have been favoring Sloane and not trying to realize how hard you had it growing up with me just coming around when I damn well felt like it."
She smiles and hugs him again.
"So who's the lucky guy?"
"Well uhhh you kinda sorta already know him daddy." She says sheepishly smiling at him.
He looks confused then over at Alex who was trying to slowly escape from the cafeteria.
"Okay, Christi, I warned you of him. However, I see the love in his eyes, and the love in your eyes. I wish you both the best." Mark smiles.
"Thank you,"
"Just don't end up like Izzie," Mark said.
"Mark," Lexie sighed, "She won't get cancer and get kicked out of the program!"
"I think he meant just up leaving him then sending him divorce papers." Derek said.
"Wait who the hell are all of you talking about?" she asks completely lost.
"he didn't tell you?" Mark says.
"He's really….sensitive about talking about his past. I didn't want to push things or it would end up with us fighting. I figured I would let him tell me when he was ready to." She said looking really lost.
"Well, he and his ex, Izzie, took Meredith's and Derek's wdding and got married while she had cancer. She died, then she came back, and then she lost her memory. Then, she got it back, recovered and got back to work. She got fired from surgery, blamed it on Alex and left. She kept coming back, trying to work out the marriage, but ended up sending him divorce papers." Lexie explained.
"Lexie had a part in this too," Meredith came up, "She slept with Alex."
Lexie couched harshly, "sensitive material!" she pointed to Mark.
"Oh, we Greys ruin marriages, nothing to worry about." Meredith scoffed.
"Anyway, Izzie is the one who blamed Alex, and then it all went downhill. That's the short story, I can't explain any further or else someone's gonna cry." Lexie sighed, and looked at Meredith, "I didn't ruin their marriage."
"And Mark and I didn't ruin Derek and Addison's." Meredith said sarcastically and smirked.
"Dirty mistresses, we are," Mark shrugged.
"Oh God," Veronica said, "You guys are adulterous whores too? Oh, hook up with my father, he's a slut."
"That's where you got it." Christi laughed.
"I'm not denying it," she shrugged, "I needed the money." Then Veronica and Christi burst into a fit of giggles. Alex and Jackson came up and looked at them suspiciously.
"We're gonna be late for the ultrasound," Jackson said to Veronica. A round of 'You're pregnant?' was said around the room.
"That I am," Veronica nodded, "Very much so,"
"How could this be?" Mark, who was beginning to think of Veronica as a third daughter, asked.
"Well, Mark," Veroncia said, "When a man and a woman both have strong libidos, they go to their bedroom in Meredith Grey's house, and have a lot of hot," Veronica was cut off by everyone, saying 'hush'.
"We don't need to know about you two doing that." Mark said.
"We can already hear it," Meredith sighed.
"We're vocal," Jackson muttered, "What of it?"
"We aren't afraid to get graphic, but we'll see you later. We're gonna go see our little sea monkey in there!" Veronica says, taking Jackson's hand and leaving.
"So what have you been talking about?" Alex asked Christi.
"Well," Christi said, "My dad gives us his congratulations, and we're on good terms now." she smiled, "And that's it." she said quickly.
"That's it?" he asked, "Well, thanks Mark." Alex said and shook his hand.
"No problem," Mark smiled back.
Christi just hoped that Alex would talk to her about what happened with Izzie. She didn't want to push it but once she had a hold of a little bit of information that she needed to know more of she wouldn't let it go until she got her answers. She was like a dog with a bone.
After lunch they all get back to work and Christi and Alex head up to Peds. He smiles at how her eyes light up every time they get to Peds.
"I have a feeling I'm going to have drag you outta here every day when you get your degree." Alex teased.
"You just might!" she laughs as Dr. Webber comes up and stops them.
"Dr. Karev, Miss. Sloan, I hear you two are engaged."
"We are." Alex said.
"Will this affect your work at all?"
"No sir." They said.
"Then I'm fine with it. If it starts to affect your work, one of you will be transferred to another hospital."
They both nod and they continue on their way to check on a patient.
"You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever" - Unknown.