Author: charmedbywits
Title: For The First Time
Rating: K+ to M
Pairing: Addison/Meredith, mentions of Meredith/Derek, Addison/Sam
Summary: (Takes places sometime after season 7 of Grey's Anatomy and Season 4 of Private Practice) Addison returns to Seattle for Sophia's first birthday and ends up discovering her own firsts.
Disclaimer: Shonda Rhimes the ABC network is the proud owner of Grey's Anatomy. I am not making any profit and no copyright infringement intended. I'm just borrowing and playing with them.
A/N: Okay, so, I am posting my first Addison and Meredith fiction, but not it's first time dabbling into the fanfiction world. Over the years, I've become quite the connoisseur in Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. So after finding and reading several stories from a lot of lovely writers, I couldn't resist writing one of my own. I wanted to post this when it was at least almost complete, but the desire won me over and I decided to post sooner rather than later. I can't promise you daily updates or even weekly update but I can promise you to post as often as I can and a guarantee this will one day be finished. I have a lot of other projects I but on the back burner and need to finish before I fully commit myself to this one piece. Once I clear my other many fictions I, hopefully, will have more time to write on this one. Well…here's praying. Oh, and I don't have a beta so all mistakes are mine.
Right, so, on with the story. Hope you enjoy! And Review!
Chapter One: Make A Change For the Better
Addison walked into the bright pink, purple, and yellow decorated living room in the Seattle apartment. In her right hand she carried a medium sized Disney's princess wrapped gift and in her left hand a wine bottle with a red bow taped on it. Stepping inside it was slightly nosy with the background noise of toddler tunes playing and people chattering happily at the joyous occasion.
"Addison!" A cheery voice called to her.
Addison turned around and found a happy and glowing Callie Torres-Robbins. Addison smiled brightly at one of her dear friends and went to hug her, as best as she can, with both hands full.
"Oh my, God. I can't believe you made it. I thought you said you wouldn't be able to make it. You know, with the new Practice starting."
"Well…I couldn't miss my niece's first birthday. That would just by un-auntie like." Addison said, only half lying.
She did want to attend Sophia's first birthday, but that wasn't the only reason. No, that was only half, not even half, about one-fourth of the reason. The real reason was she needed to get away. She needed to leave L.A. for awhile and get her head back on straight. Her rekindled relationship with Sam wasn't what she thought it would be when they got back together. She thought things would turn out for the better, that Sam would change his mind about having a baby with her; since Maya, Dink, and Olivia moved to Columbia, and there was nothing really holding him back anymore. It was a selfish thought, she knew that, but that didn't stop her from wishing and hoping. She had thought having a baby and Sam weren't mutually exclusive but she had been fooling herself. She wanted the whole she-bang, dream, happily ever after, perfecting ending. With the loving, caring, respective partner to come home to, the kids, and the white picket-fenced house, and hell, the dog named Skippy. And she wouldn't be getting that if she put her dreams on hold for Sam, waiting for Sam to come around and love the idea of raising a baby with her. So she did what any self-respecting woman would do: she ended her relationship with Sam and made a change for the better. Three months after their initial, official break up Addison felt like she was drowning under all the tension and changes. The new Practice seemed stabled enough for her to leave, so she did. She left all her patients to one of the new natal surgeons she hired, packed her bags, and left on the next flight to Seattle. That was where she found herself right now.
"I'm glad you can make it, and I know Mark and Arizona and Sophia would appreciate it, too," Callie commented. "Here let me take your gift and then you can see Sophia. You haven't seen her since her birth and she looks completely different from her pictures." Callie took Addison's gift and noticed the wine bottle in her hand. "Oh, there's no alcohol allowed in the party. This is a kids-friendly party."
Addison looked around the spacious apartment and furrowed her brows. "There is no kids here, it's all adults. How is this kid's friendly when there is none?"
"There's Sophia." Callie pointed out. "There's also Mark, and Arizona can be a kid herself. Sometimes I feel like I'm living with three kids instead of one."
"Mark lives with you and Arizona?" Addison question as if it was the most unbelievable thing ever.
"No. God, no. He lives across the hall, but he comes and goes as he pleases. He's a terrific daddy to Sophia. They're so cute together."
Addison felt a tiny ache in her heart at the baby she aborted and the thought of what could have been. She had thought Mark would be a horrible father and wouldn't be able to care for a baby, so she did the only thing she thought was best at the time. There was more to it, but Mark being the father was one reason why.
"Come on. Let's put your gift away so you can see Sophia."
Thirty minutes later Addison was ready to leave. She loved hanging out and catching up with Callie, and spending time with Sophia, but at times she left like the odd one out. There was no one to talk to. Callie was entertaining guest, showing off Sophia, and being the perfect hostess. Mark was being Mark and talking to Derek, and Arizona was talking to Alex about his career in Pediatrics. She had noticed a few changes as she stood in the corner with a glass of punch. She noticed that not once did Mark or Lexie talk. She had thought they reconciled; she was wrong. Instead Lexie was talking to a young girl and a caramel colored man, that she would laugh and kiss at times. A very pregnant Christina and Owen was bickering back an forth. It was amusing to watch them together. They truly did make a lovely couple. Although, those people caught her attention they were not her main focus. She had noticed that not once did Derek or Meredith talk to each other or even looked at each other. Strange. Were they having a fight? Or did something happen? She didn't know, but she was about to find out. Seeing Mark walking down the hall, mostly like to check on Sophia, she took her chance. She found Mark in a pale yellow and light pink room. He was rocking Sophia and feeding her.
"Hey," Addison greeted, walking into the room.
"Hello." Mark drawled out with a twinkle in his bright blue eyes. "What can I do for you, Addison?" the was a seductive note to his voice she caught.
"You can tell me what's wrong with Meredith and Derek?" Addison suggested.
A sad and pensive look came upon Mark's face. "There's no more Meredith and Derek." Addison gasped, Mark continued. "There was some trouble where Meredith messed with Derek's Alzheimer's clinical study and Derek couldn't get over it. They even had to give Zola back to Social Services."
"Who?"
"Meredith and Derek planned on adopting an baby from Africa, they even officially got married, but then news of Meredith's tampering got out and Derek couldn't handle it and left leaving Meredith alone with Zola. Meredith tried to talk to Derek, but he didn't listen and completely shut her out. Meredith had no choice but to hand over Zola to Social Services. She didn't have the strength to raise and care for Zola by herself. I honestly don't think she was ready to raise a baby."
"My, God." Addison started to feel a little faint so she sat down on the glider by Mark's feet. "What happened next?"
"They split up. Derek doesn't trust Meredith and Meredith in return lost all her faith in Derek when he didn't understand her reasoning behind her tampering."
"Why-what did she do?" she stuttered, trying to wrap her head around all this information.
Mark shrugged, "Don't know."
Addison left soon after and returned to her hotel. As she sipped her martini and watch Breakfast At Tiffany's in her lounge wear she thought about all the changes that's been happening in her life: the new practice, her separation from Sam, and Meredith and Derek's separation. Those were that major one and, yet, she couldn't help, but feel that, maybe, all these changes were for the better. She didn't understand it, at least, not right now.
TBC