CPOV

Fortunately, John is free and tells me, that he'll be at my place in an hour. I go to my bathroom and take off the clothes, that I got from Ana. I hold the dress shirt in my hands and feel a wave of nostalgia washing over me. I inhale the smell of the shirt and instantly remember sitting in the park and whispering sweet nothings in her ear just a few hours ago. I ponder if it would make sense to ask Gail to purchase the same detergent. 'Fuck Grey, pull yourself together. She just played you. That wasn't real, not at all!' my inner voice screams at me. So I take a shower and try to take my mind off the events of the past few days. Coming into the main living area, changed and freshened up, Elena is already sitting on the couch with a glass of wine in her hand, and talking on the phone with one of her friends. She hands me a glass too, so I take it and drink a gulp of wine straight away.

Gail occasionally brings little trays with delicious looking appetizers to the dining table. Taylor announces Dr. Flynn, who comes into the main living area shortly after and greets us both, while Gail's serving another little tray with three champagne flutes on it, from which we each take one and clink glasses. I point to the couch and ask John to sit down while I walk over to the dining table and take up a little tray, offering John some appetizers.

"Oh that looks marvelous, thank you!" he says and wants to take one, but Elena screeches again.

"CHRISTIAN!" she blurts out. "Did you see that Dr. Flynn? He's acting like a maid. All day long he's not himself anymore, he's not quite normal!"

I'm feeling caught red-handed because I haven't thought about it but of course, I wanted to pamper my guest. So I put the tray on the couch table and John indulges in some appetizers.

"Christian, what motivated you to rise and get the serving tray?" John asks contemplatively.

"Well, I thought you might be hungry", I try to explain myself.

"That's excellent! Excellent!" John says amazed.

"What's excellent about it?" Elena asks bugged out.

"I was really hungry!" he answers enthusiastically.

"Dr. Flynn, come on, stop joking, I want my fiancé back on track!" Elena counters.

"Well, maybe we should begin with you telling me what actually happened, then." John says calmly.

Elena starts to tell John what happened over the last two weeks.

"After the Leila incident and because of the common stress at GEH, I tried to bring Christian to terms. It took me quite some time to get him to finally agree to a little vacation trip for relaxation on the Grace - on the one condition, that he could combine the trip with some business meetings of course. Among other things, he had a meeting near Aberdeen, at the Grey's Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, so we sailed in the direction of North Bay. In the evening before he disappeared, everything was fine. We had dinner on deck and I went to sleep alone, because Christian wanted to prepare something for this meeting.

When I woke up, the boat was anchored at the open sea. That made me wonder, because Christian planned the meeting for the early morning. I looked for him everywhere on the boat, but I didn't find him anywhere. That was the point where I panicked and sailed the boat to the harbor as planned. Immediately after I checked in at the nearest hotel, I contacted Taylor. Of course, he promptly initiated everything to organize a search party for Christian, but he wasn't able to find a trace.

A few days later, we were afraid that something serious has happened to Christian, but continued trying everything to find him. Therefore, we enlarged the search radius, looking for him even in Portland, but he was nowhere to be found. At the end of the week, I went back to Seattle as planned, so Taylor took command of the search. Well, actually he was in command the whole time. Monday morning I went to Grey House and informed Ros, that Christian extended his business trip. Yesterday, Taylor proclaimed the good news, that he had found him. A town bike from Montesano kidnapped him and enslaved him, just because he lost his memory and grabbed the opportunity, to take advantage of him. So early in the morning, we went over to her house to save him. The further steps have to be discussed later."

I can remember when we were sailing to Aberdeen, but the accident is wiped away.

"Christian, how are you feeling now?" John wants to know while looking at me.

"First of all, I have to get used to my life here once again." I don't want to talk about my time in Montesano, not in front of Elena. However, I should make an appointment, to talk to John in private. "John, I'm a bit tired, today was an exhausting day for me and it's not over yet, because I have to do business, so that tomorrow I can take care of my company again. I would like to come to your practice tomorrow evening after work, to have another session, if it's OK with you", I say and Elena agrees.

"Yes, there's still a fair bit of work to do! Dr. Flynn, I thank you for coming on such a short notice!" she purrs.

"Don't mention it! Christian, we'll see each other tomorrow at 7 p.m. in my office, where we'll talk about your situation in great detail", he explains, says good bye and gets escorted to the elevator by Taylor.

I apologize for the little review problem. I deleted a author's notice back in the days, so some of you weren't able to review chapter 16. But you all solved the problem and now you all should be able to review again :).

And then I obviously have to make something clear: Of course it will be a C&A-HEA, because otherwise, it wouldn't be a HEA, right? Apparently I didn't point that out well. But it will take time - Christian will get rid of Elena starting from chapter 40, sorry!

theamazngspdergrl - Thank you! I'm sorry, it took me so long, but I worked as fast as I could ;)

Pielietje - I hope now, I really manage to update daily!

Akkess - Thank you for your review and your brilliant demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect!

asmith953 - Thank you! I'm glad as well to finally finish this story!

Guest who thinks this is a C&E story - No, I didn't make it clear. But giving the fact, that there are 36 chapters to follow, it's your decision to muster up the patience for the HEA or not.

other Guest - Yeah, Ana and Christian will be together, no worries, but it will take time!

meigs37 - Uuuhhh ... aaahhhh ... THAT will take a loooooong time, but they end up together, I promise!

SdaisyS - Thank you very much for your review! It's good to see that there are people out there who like my story ;) After this chapter Overboard will not be as present as in the first part, which is why it took me so long, because I had to write my own story, but in the end there will be a quote from the movie ;D

sweet15012 - I have to admit, that I'm not a fan of changing POV's, because often they're overstrained. But now it makes sense, because Ana and Christian are in different locations and won't have contact for some chapters ;). As I mentioned, Elena disappears later in the story. And yes, you'll get your C&A-HEA! ;)