A/N: This is my first attempt at an Addison/Teddy pairing. This little tidbit came to me out of nowhere, and I just couldn't let it sit. My grammar is terrible, so if you see something that needs to be fixed, let me know! I'm not sure where this is going, but I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or Grey's Anatomy. If I did, Lexie wouldn't be dead and Teddy wouldn't be running off to run some hospital.
-Jordyn
Teddy looked at the red haired woman sitting across from her, and tried to remember exactly when her feelings for the woman had started. From the second that their best friends had introduced them, they knew they were instantly going to be friends. But for Teddy it also ran deeper than that, being around Addison made her feel safe, and loved, and every time Addison hugged her it felt like she was coming home. She tried to remember the exact moment that she knew she was in love with Addison Montgomery, but she couldn't pinpoint it. But every moment she spent with Addison made her fall more in love with the red haired beauty.
"Earth to Teddy," Addie said, waving a hand in front of her friends face when it became clear that Teddy hadn't heard a word she'd said for the last twenty minutes. "Anyone home in there?" she asked, tapping Teddy on the head, which made the other woman smile.
"Yeah, sorry," she said, having the grace to look embarrassed. "What did you say?"
Instead of repeating her whole monologue, she just repeated her last question. "Do I have something in my teeth?" Teddy turned her head slightly to the right, trying to figure out where Addison was going with this.
"Uhm, no? Why?" When Addison gave her a half-cocked smile, she knew that she was caught.
"Because you've been staring at me for the last twenty minutes with a dopey smile on your face. So, either I have something in my teeth, or you were off in Teddy land again. So which one is it?" Again, Teddy managed to look sheepish as she dropped her eyes to the plate in front of her.
"I was just thinking," she said, never taking her eyes off the plate, and trying to hide behind her long, blonde hair.
"About?" Addison prodded, trying to get her friend to open up.
"Nothing, and everything," she answered honestly.
"Well whoever it is must be pretty damn special to put that kind of a smile on your face," Addison said, moving her hand slightly closer to Teddy's.
"Yeah," she said, enjoying the almost contact between their hands. "She definitely is." Addison's eyes shot up at the word she. Up until now, they had never discussed their sex lives outside of what each of them knew, so the news threw Addison. She always had her suspicions, but she was waiting until Teddy came to her. Unlike Callie, it didn't take a kick In the pants for her to realize her feelings. Teddy didn't realize what she had said until she saw the emotions racing across her friends face.
"Shit, Addie. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come out to you like this… I didn't want to make you uncomfortable... I just..." Addison put her finger to her friend's lips to stop her rambling, even if she was adorable. She had been spending too much time with Robbins and their daughter.
"Babe, it's okay. I'm not freaked out. Hell, Callie and Zo are my two best friends. It doesn't bother me at all." the term of endearment slipped off her tongue like she used it every day, and as the panic of accidentally outing herself began to subside, a whole new wave of emotions washed over her. Addison had called her babe, and she wasn't running out of the cafe. Quite the opposite actually, Addison slipped out of her side of the booth and into Teddy's to wrap her arms around her friend. Despite the fact that they'd hugged before, something about this hug was different. She just couldn't put her finger on it yet.
"You know that Zo, Callie and I all have to meet her to make sure that she's good for you, right?" Addison said as Teddy laid her head against her shoulder. Something about the slightly intimate gesture just felt right, and Teddy wasn't one to question the opportunity to be close to Addison.
"I think you'd approve," She mumbled. "But it's never going to happen, so there's not actually anything for you to approve of." She almost huffed. There was something weird about talking to Addison about her feelings for her, without actually telling her.
"Why's that?" Addison asked, running her fingers through the blonde's hair, with her other hand slowly drawing circles on Teddy's thigh. She was having a hard time focusing on what Addison said with each pass of her fingers. She forced herself to focus long enough to form a coherent thought.
"Because she's straight." She deadpanned, as if the answer was so obvious, "And she wouldn't want to be with someone like me."
"Theodora Altman!" Teddy winced at the use of her full name, and the way that Addison's voice sounded like she was disciplining a misbehaved child. "Anyone, man or woman would be lucky to be with you. You are an amazing doctor, you're smart and funny and kind, and beautiful beyond belief. You carry yourself with confidence and grace. Your smile can light up a room, and I will always be better because I knew you. So if this woman is dumb enough to not see that in you, then she does not deserve you." As Addison spoke, Teddy could feel herself relaxing into Addison's embrace. She had called her beautiful. Even though she was trying not to get her hopes up, there was a small part of her that wondered what would happen if she just leaned over and kissed the woman who was holding her. The thought seemed to be mutual as each woman unconsciously licked her lips.
Teddy's eyes darted from her mouth to her eyes, looking for silent permission. What she saw there was a mix of desire and something that Teddy could only define as something resembling love. Addison always said more with her eyes than with words, and Teddy took the silent encouragement, and leaned in to close the gap between the two of their lips. A feather light kiss, that's all it took for Teddy to be hooked. The idea of kissing Addison made her giddy, and the taste of her lips was one that she knew she would never grow tired of.
As she leaned in for another kiss, someone clearing their throat beside the booth made both women snap apart, a blush rising in both of their cheeks.
"Sorry if I'm interrupting," Meredith said sheepishly, suddenly finding the floor very interesting. "But Arizona needs Teddy. She's been paging you for almost an hour, and she finally sent me to find you." Teddy just sighed as a new blush began to rise; both at the idea of being caught in such a compromising position with another female doctor, and at the fact that she had turned her pager off for what Teddy considered a date with Addison, and now she was going to have to explain that to Arizona.
"Thank you Grey. Tell Arizona that I'll be right there." Satisfied that her job had been done, Meredith turned on her heels and made her way back out of the coffee shop. Derek was not going to believe this.
After Meredith was out of sight, Teddy dropped her head back against Addison's shoulder and groaned. "I don't want to go," she said quietly. She was afraid that if she moved, Addison would disappear. That everything that had happened between them would just turn out to be one of her extremely realistic dreams.
"You have to," Addison said, lifting her head so their eyes met. "The tiny humans need the Goddess of Cardio to help them. Do you really want to leave this in Christina's hands?" She groaned again.
"Did you have to bring up the tiny humans?" she rolled her eyes as Addison's face beamed.
"Yes, because you are just as much a sucker for them as Karev. Go save your tiny humans. I'm not going anywhere. I promise. We need to talk about this, but it can wait." Teddy just nodded as she lifted herself from against the warmth of Addison. The second she lost contact with her body, it felt like a piece of her was missing. She was in big trouble.
"I'll call you later," she said as she slipped on her jacket. Unsure of where they stood, and if that standing allowed for a goodbye kiss, she settled for a kiss on the top of Addison's head. Addison's face burst into a smile.
"Be a rock star!" she called after the blonde woman. Okay, maybe it wasn't just Teddy that had been spending too much time with the Robbins-Torres clan. She couldn't help but smile at that though. She suddenly realized that for the first time, she could see herself doing that; the domestic life, including a wife and kids. How could one kiss, that shouldn't have happened, turn her entire world upside down?