A/N: So, here it is, the long awaited new chaptered Meredith/Addison fic! A few things you should know.
Meredith & Derek stayed together after S3 (They are broken up in this but it's a little different)
Set 5 years after Addison's departure, crossovers didn't happen!
Anything you read about places in NYC is all courtesy of Google and/or made up, I've never been, hopefully I will one day! I spent a lot of time just staring at Google Maps when researching!
I think that's it so, I hope you enjoy!
Reviews will make me update faster =D
iam-kelly.
A Lot Can Happen In The City
Part 1: Chapter 1
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It had been 6 long months since Meredith had left Seattle to venture out to New York, she wasn't planning on staying forever, her new contract was for a year but she had the chance to extend it, the Chief had assured her that she always had a spot at Seattle Grace. New York was different, everything was quick, the days, the nights, the city, the flow of patients, she welcomed every second of it. She woke early in her one bedroomed suite at The New York Palace hotel, that was when she appreciated the fact that her mother was a great surgeon because although money was never important to Meredith having someone else do your laundry and cook for you wasn't bad at all. After ordering her usual breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon and having a quick shower Meredith got dressed into her running clothes, throwing her hair back into a loose ponytail and dropping her iPod into her pocket. She gave a small smile to Rosie the cleaning lady as she made her way to the elevator, she stepped out of the hotel greeting the doorman Otis with a cheerful 'Good Morning' before setting off on her run to Central Park. The Chief at Mount Sinai had insisted on her taking the week off, she had run herself ragged working non-stop on a new clinical trial, after it's success she was finally allowed to relax. She started slowly, taking in the New York air, as she reached the park she quickened her pace, she turned her iPod up loud drowning out any surrounding noise, she took it from her pocket to change the album that was playing, as she was staring down she didn't notice the woman standing in the middle of the pathway looking at her phone, Meredith crashed straight into the back of her almost sending them both flying, she quickly straightened herself up "Oh god I am so sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going and…." she stopped when the woman turned slowly around to face her "Addison!"
"Meredith? What the, what the hell are you doing here?"
"I uh, I live here, for now anyway"
"For now?" Addison frowned.
"Yeah, I um, I've been here for about 6 months, just wanted a change of pace, I'm contracted at Mount Sinai for another 6 months and then I can make a choice, stay here or back to Seattle, Richard's keeping a place for me"
"He'll never fill it y'know" Addison smirked "I've been gone for what? 5 years? And he still phones me every 6 months to try and get me back"
"That's what you get for being one of his surrogate daughters" Meredith laughed.
"Yeah" Addison smiled "Do you want to maybe, get coffee?"
"Sure" Meredith smiled softly "You know what, why don't we just go back to my suite, do you have time?"
"Uh, yeah, I have time" Addison replied "Where are you staying?"
"The New York Palace"
"Nice" Addison nodded "You didn't want to get your own place?"
"I thought about it but when I first got here I checked in for a week and I just, didn't leave, it's not like I can't afford it, hello, dead famous Mommy" Meredith laughed.
"You are a very strange person" Addison smirked.
"I'm just high on all the endorphins" Meredith grinned.
"You never struck me as a runner"
"Oh, I wasn't, not until…." Meredith stopped and tried to bite back a laugh.
"What?" Addison laughed nervously.
"Not until you showed up in Seattle" Meredith said with a small smile "Me and Cristina were all dark and twisty because well, Derek had a wife and Burke dumped her not knowing she was actually pregnant at the time so, we jogged, for the endorphins"
"And did it work? The endorphins?"
"Not so much, I just went to Joe's, drank too much tequila and picked up inappropriate men, Derek started that trend" Meredith snorted "I was such a slut"
"Charming" Addison smirked.
"And now, I haven't had sex in a year, god that's depressing, and an inappropriate topic to talk about with your ex-boyfriends ex-wife"
"You didn't make it huh?"
"Nope, we mutually split about 2 and a half years ago, we're still friends, kind of, we've spoken on the phone a few times but mostly about work stuff, its just, there was always something in the way, trust mostly"
"Trust?"
"Yeah, well, after you showed up any trust I had in him just disappeared, it just always felt too good to be true, like at any moment a metaphorical wife would walk in and knock us into Sunday"
"I'm sorry" Addison sighed.
"What for? Wasn't your fault we fell out of love, stuff happens" Meredith shrugged.
"Yeah. Stuff does"
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10 minutes later and they reached the hotel, Meredith led them up to her room, as they entered she kicked off her shoes and slipped her feet into her slippers.
"Have a seat" she said gesturing to the sofa area of the room, she sat down in the seat closest to the phone, Addison took the seat opposite.
"Vanilla Latte?" Meredith asked, Addison smiled and nodded slightly, Meredith picked up the phone and dialed for room service "Hey Freddy how are you?….Good, I'm good, can you send up two Vanilla Lattes, have you made my muffins yet?….Oh good, send some of those up too….thank you….yeah we'll catch up later….bye Freddy"
"You're friends with the room service guy?"
"Yeah" Meredith laughed "That's what you get for living in a hotel"
"Oh, I know" Addison smirked "Back in Seattle my breakfast would be at my door before I'd even ordered it"
"So….I forgot to ask, what are you doing in the city?"
"I might be moving back"
"Might be?"
"LA is getting a bit….boring, I love it for a lot of reasons, there's the sun obviously and my best friend Naomi and sometimes one patient a day is nice because I can go home and put my feet up but sometimes I just want to work 36 hours straight on next to no sleep and drink so much coffee my head buzzes, is that weird?"
"No, totally get it, I'm currently on a forced week off and I'm going a little stir crazy"
"Forced?"
"I've been working on a clinical trial non-stop for 2 months, the Chief told me to 'get my ass into bed before I work myself into a deep dark depressing whole of nothing' he was probably right but it's been 4 days and I'm bored"
"We should do something, I'm here until the end of the week, you free tomorrow night?"
"Yeah, as far as I know"
"Ok, then we're going for cocktails, that bar up on 5th, at about 8?"
"Sounds great" Meredith smiled "If someone had said to me 5 years ago that I'd be going out for cocktails with my ex-boyfriends ex-wife I probably would have laughed in their face"
"Oh. Me too." Addison laughed.
"Come in" Meredith shouted as someone knocked on the door.
"Good morning Meredith" Freddy smiled walking in with the room service trolly.
"You came up here yourself? You hardly ever come up here" Meredith laughed.
"I'm being nosy, you ordered two lattes" Freddy shrugged.
"Right, ok then" Meredith smirked "This is Addison, an old friend, she used to live here in New York, she's thinking of moving back"
"Oh, well, it's nice to meet you Addison" Freddy smiled.
"Nice to meet you too" Addison smiled back.
"Well, I'll leave you too it" said Freddy "Enjoy"
"Thanks Freddy, you'll come up for a chat after your shift?"
"As always, have to fill you in on the latest gossip don't I"
"Oh you so do" Meredith smirked "Give me a hint"
"Maggie from catering has a bun in the oven, and the father is not who it should be"
"Oh my god! It's not David's? Who?"
"I'll tell you that later" he grinned "Have fun!"
"Wait Freddy tell me…." the door slammed shut "Now" Meredith pouted.
"Well, this place is certainly interesting" Addison laughed.
"I tell him Mount Sinai or Seattle Grace gossip and he tells me the stuff from this place" Meredith shrugged.
"And you two aren't…."
"What? God no! He's almost too gay to function, how did you not pick up on that?"
"My gaydar must be broken today" Addison sighed.
Meredith laughed "Have a muffin, they're made especially for me" she grinned.
"Why?" Addison laughed.
"I was feeling homesick and Freddy wanted to do something to cheer me up, so I got Izzie to send me her recipe and they make them for me twice a week, to stop me getting homesick"
"You've got them wrapped around your finger haven't you" she smirked.
"Totally" Meredith laughed.
"What are your plans for the day?"
"Nothing really, just watching crappy daytime TV I guess" Meredith shrugged.
"Want to go out for lunch?"
"Sure, ok" Meredith smiled "Lunch it is"
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Addison and Meredith spent the whole day together, Meredith filled her in on the goings on back in Seattle and Addison talked about her internal dilemmas between New York and LA. The next night they went out for cocktails like planned, not knowing that the alcohol they were consuming would change their lives, possibly forever.
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IMPORTANT, I NEED HELP!
Hello my fantastic readers =D Basically my fanfic brain is not really working these days, especially in regards to Meredith/Addison! So from this point on I'm open to requests, if you have any scenarios, anything at all I'd love to hear them!
I'm looking for Meredith/Addison more than anything but I can do some Mer/Mark, I have alot of Addex one-shots in the works but if there's something you really want me to write then go ahead, suggest away! Oh and I am working on a Meredith/Alex fic so i'd be open to writing some one-shots if any of you want them.
Leave me comments on my fics or PM me! If I write something you've prompted the fic will be dedicated to you!
Thank you all, all my love, Kelly xx
