Do you take thee...?

The Right Choice.

'Derek Christopher Shepherd, do you take thee?' 

I looked to the back of the room at the aisle where I had imagined Meredith not Mei. I looked into the crowd where I saw everyone but Meredith glaring at me, waiting for an answer, then I brought my attention back to the woman stood before me with the most worrisome look across her face. I couldn't. I couldn't do what I was about to do. How could I marry a woman when I was still in love with another? How could I spend the rest of my life with a woman when I imagined myself raising kids with someone else? I managed to mouth to Mei 'I-' before I was interrupted by the words 'No. Wait?' I looked in absolute confusion and disbelief at what I was hearing. I looked at the reactions of everyone surrounding us but only saw the back of heads. These people, my family and friends, were now witnessing the beauty that stood at the end of the room. I followed their eyesight and there she was. The woman I wished for when I blew my candles out. The woman I looked for. The woman I saw at the end of the aisle coming towards me. She only took one step but I knew and she knew, that was enough. I took my last look at the life I was living and finally got to say the words I wanted before Meredith stopped me.

'I'm sorry Jen. I really am.' 

I let go of her hands, looked at the church door which was now empty with Meredith no where to be seen, I didn't blame her to be honest; this wasn't a Meredith Grey thing to do and she definitely would have wanted to get out of the spotlight as soon as possible, and I ran towards the light ready to be with the love of my life. 

MEREDITH'S POV

The traditional church bells, that were only thought of as a nightmare to me, rang consistently for four strokes. Small chatter could be heard throughout the walls of the reception but my pounding heartbeats were probably more audible to the guests. My stomach was in my throat. My palms were dripping with sweat. I wasn't a nervous person but this moment was to decide the rest of my life. To be or not to be. I thought to myself how could Meredith Grey, the daughter of the Ellis Grey, be in this situation. I reached for the doors with a buzz of adrenaline that I was hoping would continue long enough to make me not regret this. The doors swung open and at the end of the room was Derek Christopher Shepherd. There he was, stood at the end of the aisle, holding another woman's hands. I was hopeful for us as I saw the desperate look for me shine across his face as he let go of those hands in which at that time I ran. I couldn't bare to have everyone staring at me again. I had finally bucked up enough courage to do this 'UnGreyly' thing and for the amount of time it took him to realise why I was there, I knew I had had eyes on me for long enough.

Waiting and waiting for Derek to find me stood in this small room that was beside the main reception, I paced up and down with tears filling my eyes and feeling all types of emotions. Happiness, excitement, the feeling of 'what the hell have I just done?', you know, all the feelings you would expect someone to get after they had just broken up a wedding. I placed my head in my hands and crouched to the ground, holding in the vomit that I felt needed to come up, and then I felt two hands wrap around my face and pick me up from the floor. His dreamy eyes reached right into my soul and I could feel the clamminess of his palms across my cheek. I knew he was so nervous because of what we had just done but then he made it very clear to me that we both had the same intentions. He moved one of his hands off my face and gathered me be the waist, pulling me close enough so our lips could eventually lock and never let go. He presented the most passionate, long-awaited, soothing kiss that made a tear roll down my cheek and onto his. We pulled away and chuckled as we rubbed away the tears off our cheeks. He placed his hand on the back of my head, I wrapped mine around his waist securing him and knowing I would never let go and then the words I will never forgot were spoken to me with so much affection and meaning. 

'I want to marry you. I want to have kids with you. I want to build us a house. I want to settle down and grow old with you. I want to die when I'm 110 years old in your arms. I never just wanted those 48 interrupted hours we had. I want a lifetime. I love you Meredith Grey. I've been in love with you for forever.' 

'And I want to spend the rest of my life with you.' 

A/N: You've reached the end and I'm so grateful for everyone who has read this. I've truly enjoyed writing this fan fiction and my love for MerDer has clearly come through in this I hope. I hope everyone who has read. has enjoyed this journey and I really do hope to write a sequel. Please let me know in the comments what you want to see from the sequel and what you thought of this.  Again, thankyou so much for reading. :) xxx

UPDATE : I am writing the sequel to this story and its being published bit by bit. It's called 'What Should Have Been From The Beginning'. So if you enjoyed this, I'm sure you would love the next sequel. There's going to be plenty of wholesome moments and unexpected ones to.