A Love That Knows No Boundaries

16.

Once they arrived at the restaurant, they are shown to their own private booth, Derek noticed the men staring at Meredith, he pulled closer to him, making sure that everyone knew she was with him. Derek held out the chair for Meredith to sit down, before sitting down opposite her, Derek orders a bottle of champagne for them both.

"Champagne, Derek?" Meredith asked.

"We have something to celebrate"

"We do, do we?"

"Of course, you are here with me" Derek says taking her hand over the table, Meredith simply smiled at him, has the waiter brought over the champagne. Meredith looked through the menu, thankful that the menu was in English, when her parents was alive she was fluent in French, but she had no reason to use it since they died. Derek watched her closely, and notice a look of sadness that quickly flashes in her eyes, and than it was gone, has soon as it appeared.

"Are you alright, Mer?" Derek asked with a look of concern.

"Yeah sorry I was just thinking about my parents"

"Do you miss them?"

"I do, very much i would have never gotten involved with Mark, if they were alive. I would have stayed on at Dartmouth and went into med school" Meredith gave him a weak smile.

"What made you change your mind and leave after pre-med?"

"After they died, I realised that I was only going to med school, because that was what they wanted for me, you know who my mom is" Derek nodded. "My dad Thatcher, was the CEO of a major medical research company, which got sold off after they died, i was 19 years old, and i had no interest in the company, so i let my father business partner buy my dad major share, which obviously had me set for life, with my trust fund and inheritance too"

"I take it Mark knows all this"

"No, he doesn't. Obviously he knows about the foundation and the money that is entrusted in there, but he doesn't know about my trust fund. My parent's lawyers was asked by my parents to release it to me when I was 25, but there was a clause, that if there was a reason that they thought I shouldn't be allowed it all, than they would release it to me. I know our lawyers didn't like Mark so they only agreed to let me have 3000 dollars a months."

"I think that was a good thing"

"It was, I don't need all that money, I earn good money has a journalist so it is like pocket money for me, and it let me go on this trip with you and it allows me to have some freedom from Mark "

"Well I am glad about that" Derek told her.

"Me too" Derek leans over the table and kisses her, just has the waiter comes over and takes their orders. Once the waiter has gone, Meredith excuses herself, and goes to the bathroom. She refreshes her makeup, looking at herself in the mirror, she still can't see what Derek see in her's, but she isn't about to deny how he makes her feel, she walked back out and over to their table, just has the waiter brought out their food. They ate their main course in silence, just stealing little glances at each other, they both decline dessert, knowing that they both just wanted to get to get back to the hotel, they both knew what was going to happen this evening, and they didn't want to fight it any longer, it had been 6 months of denial for both of them, Derek paid the bill and caught the next cab back to their hotel.

Once they got onto the elevator, their lips crashed together has soon as the doors closed and they were alone, they had both waited much too long for this. Tonight there would be no regrets; no pulling away, this was actually what they both wanted, what they had waited for. Derek hands wondered under her dress, finding her panty less, he smiled against her lips, losing themselves in each other until the elevator pinged to signal their floor, they pulled away from each other briefly to exit the elevator before crashing against each other, they didn't remember who room they ended up in but they didn't care, in that moment all they wanted was each other they had waited long enough.