Hey guys! I'm back after school testing and a HUGE writers block. I decided that "For the Sake of Faith" is going on hiatus and "The Exploding Man" is coming up soon with some new chapters. Well, for all Private Practice/Grey's Anatomy fans, this is my first ever story that is NOT about Heroes I'm finally branching out, but Heroes is still number one! I wrote this one about my all time favorite character, Addison Montgomery and my second favorite character, Mark Sloan. Here's background info on the story: Addison and Derek were married until she cheated on him with Derek's best friend, Mark. Derek then files for divorce and moves to Seattle to work at Seattle Grace to be head of Neurosurgery. Addison is left heartbroken in New York, and she closes hers and Derek's practice. She, being a world-class obstetrician , pokes around for a job, while finding out weeks later that she's pregnant with Mark's baby. Knowing this, she moves to Los Angeles and joins Naomi and Sam Bennett's practice, Oceanside Wellness Group. Mark, still in New York, tries to look for Addison to try to rekindle their relationship, but is offered a job at Seattle Grace, where he knew Derek's new job was, and he moves there. Addison had her daughter and raises her in Los Angeles happily, and this story takes place one episode before the Private Practice Season 4 Finale, so present time. After her daughter's difficult birth, Addison learned that she cannot have any more children. In this story, Mark is still best friends with Callie Torres, who is in a relationship with Arizona, however, Mark's daughter from a brief relationship, Sloan Riley, and then Mark, Callie, and Arizona's daughter Sofia, doesn't exist. Addison is friends and works with Amelia Shepherd, Derek's sister, but they don't talk about the divorce and Addison made it clear to Amy that Ella was her daughter from a subsequent relationship. Addison and Callie were friends from medical school, but they haven't talked since Addison and Derek's divorce. Addison is a romantic relationship with Sam, but Naomi is still her best friend. Mark is in a relationship with Lexie Gray. I imagine Addison and Mark's daughter, Ella, as Addison said her name would be the episode before the Season 4 Finale, as looking like Abigail Breslin from Little Miss Sunshine, so when she was little. Look her up, and you'll know what I'm talking about. Anyways, enjoy my first ever Private Practice/Grey's Anatomy Fan-Fiction!
~E.L.
6 year-old Ella Grace Montgomery sat on a tan couch in her mother's office, staring at her hot pink converse high tops as she swung her legs up and down. It was about 5pm as she waited for her mother to get out of surgery. Ella liked to come here, however. She liked to daydream, like any little girl would, and she liked to walk around to see the other doctors. Everyone who worked at the Oceanside Wellness Group practice knew Ella, and Ella knew all of the doctors as well. For 6 years old, she was very smart, and she knew what kind of doctor everyone was. Her mother, surgeon Addison Montgomery, was what Ella called a "baby doctor". She made she all the babies in mommy's tummies were okay, and Ella admired her mother's job. She started humming a song that she learned in her first grade classroom to pass time, and she lit up once she saw her mother's friend, Naomi, enter the office, and Ella smiled showing the gap between her front teeth. Naomi smiled at her as she took a seat on the couch next to the energetic little girl.
"Hi there, Ella. You're mom is coming out of surgery soon, you won't have to wait for her much longer." She then pulled out of her purse a small coloring book and a box of crayons and handed them to Ella. "I brought you some stuff to color with while you wait. I have to go now, I just came for a quick visit." Naomi said, standing up and smiling down at her best friend's daughter. Ella stood up as well and hugged Naomi's leg on her way out of Addison's office.
"Thank you, Naomi." Ella said, politely, sitting back on the couch.
"No problem." Naomi left quietly, and once she shut the door behind her, Ella continued singing her song about counting by 5's. In an adorable, high-pitched little girl's voice, she sang as she kneeled down on the floor and colored in her book on top of Addison's coffee table.
Doctors as well as patients passing by Addison's office got to see and hear Ella like this on a daily basis, and this eased some of their everyday stress and pain. Having the innocent 1st grader around everyday made it easier to find peace in the practice, and Ella had the kind of personality that everyone wanted to have around.
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Addison Montgomery stood outside of her office at Oceanside Wellness Group, admiring her young daughter. The 6 year old hadn't seen her, however, this was how Addison liked to view her. Ella, with her mouse brown hair and the same blue eyes as her mother, danced around the office, showing off her purple tights and yellow plaid gingham dress. While she watched Ella, Addison picked up her cell phone buzzing in her red scrub and answered it reluctantly.
"Hello?" A tired Addison said softly.
"Dr. Montgomery? Hi, this is Lucy Fields, obstetrician at Seattle Grace- Mercy West Hospital in Washington. My colleagues say you're the best in the business, and I have a pregnant patient that… we need to save. If we send a jet, would you perform surgery to save a cancerous woman and her premature baby?" Addison stopped to think a little bit. Seattle Grace, as in, Washington? Wasn't that where Derek worked? Addison, who had spent more than a fair share of time getting over her ex-husband, had successfully avoided Derek since she sent in her divorce papers 7 years ago. She did not want to see him again, but part of her world class job was traveling to take on tough surgeries. Addison sighed, looking at her carefree daughter. What about Ella? She would have to come with her, having never left her daughter alone before. Addison having stood outside the office for some time, watching her young daughter. Ella noticed her mother through the window and smiled Addison's favorite grin, with the gap between her two front teeth, the way Addison once had as a child. Addison smiled towards her as she spoke into the phone, realizing she was wasting a lot of this doctor's time.
"Yes, I'll be there within the hour if you send a jet to the Oceanside Wellness Group practice in L.A. I'll be ready in a half-hour." Addison said quickly, watching Ella exit her office and skip towards her.
"Thank you, Dr. Montgomery, I really appreciate it." The doctor said, obviously relieved that Addison would come to her rescue. She sounded young, and Addison guessed she would be pretty. Addison subsequently hung up her phone and dropped it once again into her scrub pocket as she picked up a grinning Ella standing in front of her. Ella wrapped her small arms around Addison's neck as she carried her on her hip.
"Hi, sweetie pie, how was your day today?" Addison asked her little daughter, stroking her long hair as she walked into her office with Ella.
"Good. Today in art we finger painted and I painted the beach at home. Ms. Gunthrie said I did good at it, Momma! Was work fun? Did you save lots of babies today?" She said innocently, throwing questions at her mother as she often did.
"Yes, I saved lots of babies today." Addison said, laughing. She started thinking about Seattle as she brushed some hair that was in Ella's face behind her ear. "What do you say we go on a little vacation? We're going to go on a vacation for Mommy's work for a few days, won't that be nice, Ella?"
Ella smiled her toothy grin at Addison as she let go of her grip and lowered herself down to the ground. "Is it going to be a fun vacation?"
"I'll try to make it as fun as possible, but we have to go on the airplane soon so we have to go home real quick. Okay?" Addison said to Ella, reaching out her hand for her to hold. Ella took it, smiling at her mother as she nodded. They started walking towards to elevator to leave the practice, when Addison bumped into Violet Turner, who looked surprised to see them leaving the practice this early, at only 20 after 5. Before she could say anything, Addison beat her to it. "I'm going to Seattle with Ella. The obstetrician at Seattle Grace needs me to help with a complicated surgery. Tell my patients here to call me in any emergency, I'll be there for a few days." Violet nodded slowly as she smiled at Addison.
"Say hello to everyone in Seattle for me, Addie." Violet said playfully, walking past Addison and Ella towards her own office. Addison turned around to look at her office room briefly before walking into the elevator with a jumpy Ella at her grip. This, was going to be quite a vacation.
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Addison and Ella walked into their home in Los Angeles, that was only about 10 minutes away from the practice. It was a beautiful, multi-million dollar home perfect for Addison and her adventurous 6 year old, and Ella's favorite part was that the beach was their backyard. The other thing was that Sam, Addison's now exclusive boyfriend, lived just next door. On days where the stress became too much for her, Addison went over to Sam's house after Ella was asleep, or Sam would come over to their home. Either way, Addison was grateful that Sam lived so close by. Next to Naomi, Sam was her best friend. Ella liked him too, and he was the closest thing to a dad that she'd ever have. Or maybe that wouldn't be the case. As Ella ran into her own bedroom to grab her personal essentials to take with her on the trip, Addison thought about Derek. She was hoping that she wouldn't run into him at Seattle Grace, because facing him again would break the heart that had taken so long for her to put back together. Ella wasn't Derek's daughter, and Addison knew that. She wished with all her heart that Derek wouldn't see her there, because she was going to Seattle to do her job, not to become a crying mess in front of her ex-husband. Addison knew she had to stay strong, for Ella, for Sam, and for herself.
After Addison had thrown some of her things together, she put them into a suitcase and dragged it into the hallway. She then walked into Ella's room to see her jumping on her bed, and not packing like she should have been.
"Ella, did you pack everything you wanted to bring with you to Seattle? You're going to need some clothes, shoes, and your raincoat because it's rainy in Seattle, and you'll need to get your glasses and your-"
"Momma, where's Seattle?" Ella stopped bouncing for a moment as she sat on her bed and rubbed her eyes. Addison smiled at her. She admired Ella's child-like curiosity, and answered all of the hundreds of questions that her daughter asked her on a daily basis.
"It's a city near the North-West tip of America. In Washington. It rains there a lot, not like here. Where's your suitcase, Ella?" Addison answered, looking around Ella's pink bedroom trying to find her traveling bag.
"Closet, I think." Ella said softly, calming down entirely as she grabbed the beat-up teddy bear on her bed. "Can I bring Little Bear with me?" She asked her mother, hugging her stuffed bear close to her face.
Addison grinned, putting some of Ella's clothes and belongings into a small purple suitcase that she found in her daughter's messy closet. "Of course you can, princess." Just as she threw the last of Ella's things into the suitcase, she heard knocking on the front door. Assuming it was Sam, she spoke quickly to Ella so she could get the door. "That's probably Sam. Ella, honey, roll your suitcase to the hallway, we're going back to Mommy's work to get picked up by the airplane in 5 minutes." Ella nodded, and went to get her suitcase off the floor as Addison walked out of her daughter's room quickly to get the door. Opening the cream white door of her home, she realized her assumptions were right as she saw Sam smiling at her. Almost instantly, she went to hug him as she whispered, "How in the world did I know it was you?"
"Like I've said before, psychic powers." Sam said with a smirk as he kissed Addison on the cheek. Whispering in her ear, he spoke softly, "I saw you and Ella come in. What are you doing back home so early?"
"I got a call from Seattle Grace Mercy West hospital, they want me to perform a surgery there. I'll be there for a few days, so I'm bringing Ella. We're leaving in a couple minutes." Addison said, looking over her shoulder to see Ella rolling her purple suitcase into the hallway, leaning it up against the wall.
"You know, Addison, I could always watch Ella for you if you wanted." Sam said with sweet eyes, looking over to Ella, who was smiling at him and Addison.
"I've never left her alone before, and I don't think I ever could. I know I can trust you, Sam, but I have to bring her with me on this one." She said, wrapping her arms around Sam's neck, whispering. "I've got to go."
Before releasing her hold on Sam, Addison pecked his lips briefly, badly wanting to kiss him better and longer than that, but knowing she couldn't in front of Ella. With that, she let go, and Sam waved goodbye to Ella and opened the front door to leave the house.
"Let me know when you get back." Sam said, seeming to say something else with his eyes as he stared at Addison.
"Will do." Addison replied with a simple smile as Sam walked himself out, closing the door behind him. With that, she turned to face her daughter, who was arranging her dolls and toys in her suitcase. Addison walked to her and hugged Ella from behind, kissing her temple as she stood up from the ground.
"Time to go, baby." Addison said to Ella, who was clutching her small suitcase at her side. She nearly forgot to grab her own suitcase, and seeing Ella with hers reminded Addison to grab it. Before leaving the house, Addison took her bag and turned off the last of the lights.
"I hope this will be a fun trip. I don't like rainy weather." Ella said, looking up at her mother. Addison turned around to look at her home one last time before leaving, and opening the front door once again to go, she replied to her daughter honestly.
"Me either, Ella. Me either."
