Spoilers: None
Summary: What happens if Meredith and Derek never were together and neither were him and Addison? Someone finds love...but who? Femslash, stop here if you don't like them. R&R plz.
Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's or anything in this fic besides for the whole idea. If I did then Addison and Meredith would have both left Derek for each other.
A/N: This is my first Grey's fic so bear with me. If it's not that great then let me know, and I'll make some adjustments. Enjoy!
Meredith voiceover: In an instant your life can change. A split-second, in the blink of an eye, what you thought you knew could be forever changed. Sometimes it's for the better and other times it's the worst thing ever. You take the good with the bad and try to survive. So believe that everything happens for a reason because those instances are ones that make or break you. If you ever get a chance, take it and if it changes your life, let it. No one promised it would be easy, they just said it would be worth it.
Meredith Grey walked through the halls of Seattle Grace aimlessly in hopes of finding her friends. She pulled her phone and began to text Cristina to track her down. 'Probably scrubbed in on some heart surgery,' Meredith thought as she pushed the send button on her phone. Just as she began to put her phone away she collided with another person.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry, here let me help you." Meredith began rambling as she attempted to pick up the mess of files and papers that were now strewn across the floor.
"Oh you're fine, I was off in my own little world as well," a tall red-headed woman replied.
"I don't believe we have ever met, I'm Meredith…Meredith Grey." She extended her hand to the woman in front of her before she kneeled to help pick up the mess across the floor.
'In an instant.'
"It's nice to meet you Meredith, I'm Addison Montgomery and I just transferred here." Addison took Meredith's hand.
"Well it's nice to meet you. So I'm assuming you are a surgeon since you have so much paperwork and files." Meredith inquired as she adjusted the pile she had picked up from the collision.
"Yes I am, Neonatal, actually. Are you a surgeon also?"
"I am a surgeon. I'm just an intern though."
"Good, that means we will probably see each other and work together. Listen, I'm sure you get this all of the time, but would you happen to be related to an Ellis Grey?"
"Yes I do get that a lot. She's my mother, but not by choice." She said as she rolled her eyes.
"I assume you don't want to go into much detail about that situation then?" Addison set the stack of files and paperwork down on a nearby table.
"I hope you don't think I'm rude, but I don't really know you that well, otherwise I would tell you about my thoughts on my mother, even though I'm pretty sure it would just bore you. My friends don't even know anything about my mother except that she was a great surgeon." Meredith looks down at the floor avoiding eye contact with the red head. 'She is gorgeous. I hope she would be willing to go out for drinks sometime.'
"We should go out for drinks after this shift if that works for you, because I would love to get to know you Meredith." Addison's pager went off as she finished her statement, "Damn it! I gotta go. Drinks tonight after shift?"
"Yeah, I'll meet you in the lobby around 8, is that good for you?" Meredith wanted to dance and jump around like an idiot when Addison mentioned dinks after their shifts.
"Perfect, I'll see you later!" Addison sped off to where she was being paged.
Later that day, Cristina, Izzie, George, Alex, and Meredith all sat at a table together as they ate their lunch.
"So who's the new person, is she an intern, a resident, or an attending?" Cristina asked the group.
Alex put down his fork, "She's hot is what she is!" He smiled at his own statement.
"Typical Alex answer." Izzie rolled her eyes. "She's an attending, Cristina. She's the Head of the Neonatal wing."
Meredith began to feel uncomfortable while they were talking about Addison, but decided she needed to say something so her friends wouldn't think she was acting weird. "Her name is Addison Montgomery and she just transferred here." Her heart skipped a beat as she thought about how smoothly Addison's name rolled off of her tongue.
"Well don't you just have the 411 on lockdown?" Cristina quipped.
"No, I just ran into her in the hallway and made her drop all of her paperwork and files. I had to stop long enough to help her and she introduced herself. What was I supposed to do, run away after I ran into her?" Meredith began to feel the red creeping onto her face as she felt her friends' eyes upon her. Alex opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by the shrill of Meredith's pager. 'Saved by the freakin' bell' Meredith got up to leave the table. "I gotta go, emergency page." Meredith ran off leaving the others behind.
"Yeah I'm sure it was an 'emergency page'." Cristina used her fingers as quotations to emphasize her sarcasm.
"You know it could have been. There has been a lot going on around Seattle." George defended Meredith's page.
"Yeah Bambi, that's it. Are you blind, did you see the look in her eyes when we brought up Dr. Montgomery?" Cristina laughed.
"You paged me Addis—Dr. Montgomery?" Meredith ran up to Addison who was heading towards the ambulance bay.
"Yes Meredith, we have a patient coming in that is going to need an emergency C-section. You are scrubbing in." Addison began getting ready as she could see the ambulance turn the corner.
Addison and Meredith began walking down the hall after the surgery and Cristina came up to Meredith. "Where the hell have you been? I tried calling you, but you didn't answer."
"I told you that I had an emergency page Cristina. It usually means a surgery is about to happen, you know that." Meredith became annoyed as she knew Cristina knew what emergency pages meant.
"Hello we haven't met, but I am Dr. Addison Montgomery. Dr. Grey here is a fine surgeon and I paged her because I am new here and she was the only one I had met." Addison did not like the tone of voice Cristina was using with Meredith.
"I'm sorry Dr. Montgomery, when Meredith said emergency page, I thought she meant like an emergency page to the on-call room. I apologize for the misunderstanding Mer." Sarcasm dripped from Cristina's lips with every word she spoke. Meredith was mouthing to Cristina, "Stop it!" but was caught by Addison.
"Dr. Grey, is there something wrong?" Addison had a feeling she knew what this was about. She was going to have fun with this.
"Uh…umm…no. I'm fine. I just gotta go…umm, do some charting. Yeah I just remembered I have charts to catch up on. Bye!" Meredith ran to the nearest linen closet embarrassed and angry that Cristina had said what she did in front of Addison. 'Since when do I like women, and since when do I like anyone after only talking to them for only five minutes? Damn it Meredith, how do you get yourself into these situations? Cristina has to know about how I feel about Addison. I haven't told anyone, but she's my person so she can probably read my mind. Damn it!'
Someone started knocking on the closet door. "Mer I know you're in there and I know your little secret, so come out of the closet." There was a little pause, "No pun intended." Cristina smiled at the joke.
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