Waking Up in Vegas
Chapter Four.
"I'm not pregnant. I can't be." Meredith told Cristina.
"I didn't think I was pregnant, when I was too." Cristina pointed out "And it would explain the abdominal cramps, the fever and the nausea...Is it the vets?"
"Was I this mean to you when you were pregnant?" Meredith snapped
"I thought you said you weren't pregnant." Cristina countered
"She isn't." Bailey said, "We're going to have to run some more tests."
"In that case can I have some morphine?" Meredith pleaded, as Bailey and Cristina shared glances.
Meredith lay in her hospital bed "You're a good friend." She told Cristina who laughed and told her she was high.
"In fact you're my best friend in the whole entire world."
Cristina shook her head "I feel so sorry for you right now." She said as she continued to write Meredith's chart.
"Why because I might die today?"
"This is why I hate stoned people."
"All I'll be remembered for is being the slutty intern who slept with, no, married her boss." Meredith whined.
"Probably but none of that matters because you'll be dead." Cristina told her, she didn't like chatty Meredith very much.
"Dr Grey! You got a fever, high white count and tenderness over McBurney's point, what does the suggest?" Bailey said as she entered the room followed by George.
"Appendicitis." Everybody suggested.
"Exactly. Dr O'Malley, prep Dr Grey for surgery. You're scrubbing in."
"On Meredith's appy?" George asked, Bailey gave him a look that said 'is there another Dr Grey here?"
"I'm I the only one who remembers the last time George scrubbed in on an appy?" Meredith asked "He almost killed the guy. Sorry George."
After Bailey, George and Cristina left, Derek slipped in the room unnoticed, he walked over to the bed, where he saw Meredith staring at him.
"You're complexion is a little flushed." He said as he leaned against the door, he moved over and felt he stomach, "It's very tender." He told her, she smiled at him. "Aren't you glad you have a husband who works in a hospital?"
"You're just one of many men." She told him
"Really how many of us are there?"
"Well there's you and Finn..."
Derek cut her off, "I don't see any practitioners of veterinary medicine by your bedside."
"You would if you turned around." Derek turned around at the unmistakable sound of Finn, who was stood outside Meredith's room holding flowers.
"Finn." Derek said
"Derek." Finn acknowledged.
"Can I say how much it helps I am on drugs right now." Meredith said to nobody in particular.
Derek and Finn were glaring at each other over Meredith's bed when Derek's pager went off.
"If you need to go..." Finn hinted
"No it's fine." Derek said as George walked in.
"All my boys are here!" Meredith looked around the room, "All so handsome, good kissers." George turner red with embarrassment.
"Excuse me?" Finn asked
"She's on drugs." George mumbled
"You two..." Finn asked
"You didn't know?" Derek laughed.
"I can't be here." George said as he turned to leave.
"None of you can be here, this woman is being prepped for surgery." Bailey scolded, George tried to hurry out of the room, "Not you O'Malley!"
"Dr Bailey! All my boys are here!" Meredith exclaimed, "My boyfriend, my...George, and my husband!"
The occupants of the room weren't the only people in the room shocked by Meredith's omission. Following Meredith's recovery, Addison was pacing the hall, it wasn't that she was looking to talk to Meredith about what she'd overheard, it was more that she was trying to think how to avoid Mark and Derek.
"Addison!" Meredith called, she received no answer, "Dr Montgomery!"
"You bellowed, Dr Grey." Addison said as she walked in the room.
"Hi." Meredith said
"You certainly are," She told her as she moved across to the chart and had a look, "but you're not pregnant."
"No. Are you ok?" Meredith asked
"Fine." Addison answered quickly "How are you?" she added as an afterthought.
"I'm trying to choose between two men." Meredith said in way that made Addison look at her funny.
"Ah yes, the boyfriend and the husband. Well good luck with that." Meredith had Derek and whatever the vets name was, she didn't need to listen to this.
However when Meredith asked how she knew Derek was the one, it made her turn around to find Meredith was distracted with how many ways she could say nothing.
"What was I saying?" Meredith asked
"Derek." Addison told her.
She decided telling Meredith, wouldn't hurt. "I didn't know, I just knew he wouldn't hurt me. Not on purpose anyway, not the way I hurt him."
"He hurt me." Meredith interrupted "He got me drunk and married me in Vegas." She said, Addy took a breath, she knew on a subconscious level the husband would be Derek. It didn't make it hurt any less.
"And when he chose you." Meredith added.
"I should've let him go." Addison admitted, in part to herself.
"I don't hate you." Meredith told her, before asking "why don't we talk like this normally?"
"I'm talking to you like this because you won't remember any of it when you wake up." Addison told her before she left.
Derek was walking back to Meredith's room when he bumped into Addison leaving it.
"Were you just talking to Meredith?" Derek asked concerned.
"Yes." Addison turned to leave, when she turned back to Derek "Don't hurt her again."
Derek watched as Addison went down the hallway before going in to the room to talk to his wife.
"You were talking to Addy." He told her
"I was!" Meredith said happily.
"Dr Shepherd, I need to take Meredith to surgery now." George interrupted the moment.
"We'll talk after the surgery ok." Derek told her
"Maybe, I'm divorcing you remember." Meredith told him, he was shocked, earlier she was being nice, flirty and calling him her husband. Now she was telling him she still wants the divorce she asked for in Vegas.
He needed to work harder to get her back.
TBC...
Thanks to youtube for all the dialogue. I'll try and update soon. Oh, for some reason I'm not getting any of my fanfiction emails so, if you have added the story to subscriptions and those who reviewed thanks. I promised myself I was going to start thanking people individually for that, but it's hard now.
