Waking Up in Vegas

Chapter Two

"Oh God." Meredith said as she rolled over her head pounding, then she rolled into something hard. "Oh crap!" She yelled.

"What?" The person said as they woke up.

"Crap!" Meredith said as she recognised the other person.

"Meredith?" Derek asked concerned.

"Crap." She said again, she ripped the bed covers off the bed and covered herself up. "This is..."

"Don't say embarrassing." Derek smiled at her.

"Crap."

"Ivy League education and you can say one word." He laughed at her, she looked at him incredulously, he was laughing at her, at the situation, what was wrong with him.

"This isn't funny Derek." Meredith moved around the room in search of her clothes, when she found a piece of paper. Suddenly a flash back of the night before came to her.

"Addison told me, that the only people who don't know Derek loves Meredith are Meredith and Derek. So I'm going to tell you. Meredith, I love you." They were sat at the bar in New York-New York, Derek had wanted to go, because it was like home. Meredith then found herself kissing Derek sat in the Coyote Ugly bar of a casino in the middle of the desert.

"Crap!" She said louder as she picked up the piece of paper.

"Mer what's this?" He asked as he picked up a box.

Meredith went to the bed, still wrapped in the sheets, and put the piece of paper on the bed in front of Derek, who emptied the box.

"Is that a?" He asked pointing at the paper.

"Yes."

They looked at the contents of the box, they found two pairs of sunglasses, a cd and dvd, with "The Elvis Chapel" written on the boxes.

"Seriously." Meredith said

"Two words now, this is an improvement." Derek laughed.

"Derek this isn't funny. We're married, we can get an annulment right?" She looked at him.

"I don't think we can get an annulment, unless you always sleep naked." Derek told her, suddenly not feeling so happy.

"Ok, divorce, we can get a divorce." Meredith said "Get up, lets go to the county court house get a divorce.

Derek, lost the smile he'd had since, he woke up to find her next to him. "Ok, but we can't go now."

"Why not?" She asked

"Because in an hour, I have to stand up in front of a room full of Neurosurgeons and talk about how I cut out half a girls brain." Meredith stopped dressing briefly, they were in Vegas for a reason.

"After the conference?" She asked.

"After the conference." He said.

They shared a cab to the convention centre. "We're not telling anybody." Meredith said.

"We don't know anybody." He reminded her, then realised she meant they weren't telling anybody in Seattle either.

"She's making a full recovery, and developing at the same rate as any other child her age." Derek finished his speech to applause. By the time Meredith found Derek and they made it the court house, they found they were too late to file that day and they would need to come back the following day.

"We're going to have to file in Seattle." Derek told her on the way back to the hotel "We have to be on a flight by 11:30am tomorrow." Meredith nodded.

As Derek walked her back to her room and before he left her he told her one thing "You need to tell Finn."

Meredith sat on her bed and dialled a number.

"You're phoning me, you're in Vegas why aren't you spending money, drinking, doing Vegas things?" Cristina said down the phone.

"I married Derek."

"You what?" Cristina yelled down the phone, "Sorry." She said clearly to Burke, who had either been sleeping or working next to her.

"We got drunk, found Elvis, woke up married." Meredith said.

"Well at least he's a real doctor."

"But I like Finn." Meredith told her

"Then why don't you just get divorced, come home and pretend it never happened."

"We were going to, but we haven't got time."

"Sucks to be you." There was a beeping sound in the background. "Oooh bloody trauma in the pit, I gotta go."

Meredith sat in her hotel room waiting for Derek to show up so they could go the airport, go home, get divorced.

The elevator moved slowly towards the ground, Derek was stood behind Meredith. She could feel him behind her.

"Is the line still there?" He asked her, she turned to look at him, when she felt his lips crash down on hers.

When he pulled back for air, he looked down at her "I don't want to divorce you Meredith." The elevator dinged signalling its arrival at the lobby.

TBC...