Title: Life After Grey

Summary: Addison moves to a small sector of New York and opens her own practice after she and Derek get a divorce. However, after her doctor tells her she cannot have children, she decides she wants to foster a child or possibly two. What happens will change her whole life forever. For all of you who love Addison and can see her being an independent woman, this is a great story for you.

(BTW: I know nothing about the whole foster care thing, so bear with me please!)

Rating: PG ( Mild language from time to time )

Chapter One

Addison hated cities, especially after New York City and Seattle. The small suburb of New York she was moving to was so nice, it was literally a breath of fresh air compared to where she had been all her life. And her new practice, it was lovely!

She walked around her house a few times and noted how many bedrooms she had. She had two guest rooms. Two! She frowned at the empty space. It was making her depressed.

She phoned her friend Lilly to go out to lunch and they met up at the cutest little restaurant in town. Addison was getting used to the small town life, and tomorrow would be her first day at her new practice.

"Welcome home!" Lilly smiled warmly at Addison and the two embraced quickly. "How was Seattle?" She asked.

"Wet." Addison replied.

Lilly smiled back at Addison and continued to ask her question after question. "Well, what are you up to here?" Addison finally got around to asking Lilly.

"Well, Tom and I are expecting our first!"

"Congrats!" Addison held up her glass in a toast kind of way to which Lilly smiled.

"Thanks. Why didn't you and Derek ever have children?" Lilly asked.

"Well, the timing was never right." Addison replied first. "And then I found out I could never have children and poor Derek, he really wanted children of his own, so I just added that to all the reasons why we shouldn't be together in the first place." Addison explained.

Lilly only nodded. "I'm sorry."

"Its fine." Addison smiled what she could. "At least I get to help you take care of him or her."

"Yep!" Lilly smiled at her and the two continued to converse. Then, Addison headed back home to finish unpacking and then to get to bed. The next day was going to be her first day at her own practice.

The next day came too quickly it felt like. Addison drove to her new practice feeling confident, ready to start her new life as an MD and as a single woman. The divorce had been final for almost a month now and the wedding ring line on her ring finger was almost all gone. That told her that life had gone on.

She walked into her practice and washed up. She put on her doctors clothes and headed out to the lobby where her first patients were waiting.

She had hired a woman named Mrs. Rosen as her secretary and she had a full day it seemed. She had seen a lot of children that day, it seemed like two things were going around right then, lice and the flu!

As she entered her empty house, she decided on what she wanted to fill it up, children! She wanted to foster children, maybe even adopt a couple. Two would be perfect!

That weekend, Addison decided to head over to the orphan home that was about fifteen minutes away from her house. She walked in, a bit insecure because she had never been a mother before, but trying to remain positive about being allowed to foster children.

"Hello." She said to the woman behind the desk. She was a cheery woman with curly brown hair who was just slightly over weight.

"Hello!" The woman smiled widely at her. "Are you," she looked down at the paper on her desk. "Addison Sheperd?" She asked.

"Yes!" Addison smiled widely at her and the woman nodded.

"There are two girls, sisters, who are waiting to meet you. They have been in the system for awhile, and they refuse to leave each other." The woman explained.

Addison nodded. "I will do my best with them." She replied.

The woman smiled widely at her and nodded. "Well, I will show you to the room that they are in then." She led Addison to a room where two girls sat, one who looked about fourteen or fifteen and the other who looked to be seven or eight. The younger one sat with a doll tightly to her chest and an angry look on her face, but the older one looked happy, even hopeful.

The younger girl had blonde hair and blue eyes and the older one had red hair and almost looked like a little version of Addison. "Hello. I'm Addison, I will be fostering you." She told them.

The older one smiled. "Hi." She gave a little wave, but remained unconvinced that Addison was really as sweet and sincere as she was acting.

The younger one looked up for a moment, to take in Addison and how tall and pretty she was. Then she looked back down at the ground, but her face looked a bit happier.

A lawyer came into the room and had Addison sign some papers. She asked Addison one question in front of the children: "Do you have any children of your own?"

To which Addison replied, "no."

The lawyer smiled. "Good luck." She told Addison, as she packed up everything and left Addison with the two girls.

The older one suddenly beamed. "You don't have any children?"

"No." Addison said again.

"Oh." The girl was suddenly very trusting of Addison, as if they were going to be best friends. "Well, my name is Alyson, but everyone just calls me Ally. And thats my sister Molly."

"Well, its good to meet you both." Addison smiled at them both warmly, trying to feel like she had just done the right thing. Had she?

Ally took her sisters hand and they all walked out to Addison's car. The girls didn't have much in the way of things, only a few outfits and toys. It appeared that Ally didn't wear makeup, but Addison thought she was cute without it.

They headed to their new home, all of them, together. Addison made spaghetti for dinner and then Molly went right to sleep in her new room. "Why was she so tired?" Addison asked Ally.

"Well, today has been rough on both of us. Just last week our host mom kicked us out of that foster home because Molly was driving the other woman's daughter crazy by wanting to play with the other gilrs barbies. Its not Molly's fault she only has one doll. And so we went back into foster care. Where she goes, I go. Family stick together." Ally joined Addison on the couch after they had finished washing dishes. "Your the first foster mom I have had that didn't come with at least two if not three kids." Ally told her.

"Well, kids just weren't in the genes for me." Addison told her.

Ally nodded. "Maybe it was fate." She replied. "Now you have us."

"Yea, I do." Addison replied. "And for that I am very greatful. This house was so empty before." She smiled and looked around. The house even felt full. "So, I have to ask, what about your parents?"

"Parents..." Ally's voice trailed off for a moment. "Well, my mother died in a car crash and I never knew who my father was. Mom didn't talk about him much. Sometimes I think Molly and I might have had different fathers."

Addison nodded. "But there is no chance of someone coming to claim you?" She asked.

"No." Ally looked sad for a moment, and then she looked on the bright side; if Addison wanted to adopt them, she could. "If you ever wanted to adopt us, it shouldn't be a problem." She smiled hopefully at Addison. "Thank you for everything."

"Well, your mine now!" Addison replied. "And I think that with time, we will become a family."

"I hope so." Ally said, her grin widening.

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