This is a Dempeo fic. It is not meant to offend anyone or insinuate that Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey are secretly together in real life. They are both very married and I know nothing about their personal lives. I do think that the idea of two people spending that much time togther and having so much chemistry is interesting. It sparks an interesting "what if story" If you find this offensive don't read it. It's rated mature for future chapters. The story picks in the first weeks of filming season two of Grey's Anatomy. I hope you like it!
"It's weird being back," Ellen smiled into the eyes of her co-star.
"It is," he returned her glittering smile. Though they had spent 3 months apart, Patrick and Ellen's Chemistry had not faded.
"Did you actually think that it would be a hit television show? That we would be on a hit television series?" Ellen asked excitedly sitting down on the couch next to Patrick. Patrick couldn't take her eyes off of her, but she felt as if she wasn't listening to her. "After only nine episodes, you were named the sexiest man on television."
"Speaking of, I actually wouldn't be surprised if your bribed them to keep the show running just so you could make out with me," he said kidding, "What did you say something about me being gorgeous, having a great body and damn fine hair? Was that it?" He laughed
"Shut up," she swatted him and then stood up to grab her bottle of water.
"Nu Uh, not until you admit it," Patrick smiled playfully.
"Admit what?" Ellen let her accent slip out a little.
"That you want me," Patrick said cockily.
"What is with you?" Ellen asked shaking her head.
"Ellen Pompeo admit it, you want me," he stood up and walked closer to her.
"You know, all this sexy stuff is getting to your head," she said starting to laugh as he began tickling her side.
"Admit it," he said as she laughed hysterically.
"Fine, fine, I want you, I want you," she said slightly out of breathe, still laughing. She took a second and stepped away from him, "And for the record, Meredith won't be kissing you because you have a wife you didn't tell her about remember?"
"Oh that's right," Patrick recalled enthusiastically.
"Speaking of wives, are we having dinner together tonight?" Ellen asked sipping her water bottle.
"Yeah, I talked to Jill, she thinks it's a great idea," Patrick smiled.
"Good, I told Chris that I'd call him when we leave the set," Ellen explained.
"Sounds Good to me," Patrick said walking toward the door. "It's almost 6:30 so we should head over to the set."
"Right," Ellen said turning and scrambling through her bag, "Patrick, have you seen my…" as she began to ask for it, Patrick handed her, her script. "Oh, thanks," she took it out of his hand. He held the door for her as she stepped down from their trailer. She looked up at him, their eyes twinkled together. "So you think he's really going to leave his wife for her," Ellen asked about their characters as they walked toward the actual set door.
He reached for the door, "If it was me," he spoke softly, "I would." He finished as he held the door for her. She didn't walk through it for a second, she just looked at him. She was mesmerized by his sultry stare.
"When you…" Ellen started to question him and then hesitated. "I mean, when you…" she hesitated again and just walked through the door, "oh never mind."
"Okay then," Patrick said following her inside.
Ellen walked on the set and instantly walked to TR's side, who she was filming her first scene with. Patrick watched her from across the room. He never imagined that they would become such good friends. He thought about the first time he met her. He thought about the audition and how different it felt. Different than any audition he had ever been to before. It was real and exciting. With one kiss of Meredith Grey's lips, he knew that he and Ellen would do great things together.
He must have been contemplating longer than he thought, because before he knew it, his co-star was calling him to join the scene.
"Hey McDreamy," Ellen called with a smile. "Let's go." He returned the smile and joined her on the side of the set.
The first day of filming was even longer than they had anticipated. By the time Ellen got home, it was nearly 10:00 o'clock. "Hey babe," She kissed Chris and then pulled her cell phone out of her bag. She dialed Patrick's number.
"Hey you," he answered.
"Hey," she smiled, even though he could not see her. "we're still doing dinner right?"
"We already ate without you," Patrick said.
"Oh," Ellen said a little depressed.
"Ellen, I'm kidding. Jill is almost done cooking," Patrick laughed.
"ha ha ha your so funny," Ellen said sarcastically. "We'll be there in five minutes. Tell Jill I'm very excited to meet her." Ellen clicked the phone off.
Patrick walked into the kitchen, were Jillian was pulling down wine glasses. "Ellen said she was excited to meet you," Patrick smiled touching his wife's shoulder.
"Oh good," Jillian attempted to smiled. "Here will you open this," Jill said handing Patrick the bottle of wine.
"Yeah," he answered softly as she reached for four glasses. "How long has Tallulah been asleep?" Patrick questioned.
"A couple hours," Jill answered, "she was tired."
Since Grey's Anatomy started filming, Ellen and Patrick had found out a lot about each other, the most ironic thing they found was that they were neighbors. The funny thing was, they had never seen each other before. Not at the park by their house, or the neighborhood grocery store or even the near by parties they had attended, then again they did live in Los Angeles. Land of billions and billions of people.
Though Patrick and Ellen had spent a lot of time together last year and a small amount over the summer hiatus, tonight was the first time Jill would meet Ellen. Jill had made it through the first few episodes of Grey's before she stopped watching. The scene in Shake Your Groove Thing, where Derek had kissed Meredith on the lawn in front of her house, had thrown Jill over the edge. She knew her husband was acting and she knew he was very good at it, but she just couldn't bring herself to watch him kiss another woman like that on the big screen in her living room.
The door bell rang, "Do you want to get it, or should I?" Patrick asked.
"You get it," Jill said, "I'll be there in a sec."
"Okay," Patrick smiled setting the opened bottle of wine on the counter. Patrick walked anxiously to the door, he opened it, and saw Ellen standing there with Chris. He shook Chris' hands first, "You must be Chris," Patrick smiled.
"Yes," Chris nodded. "It's nice to finally meet you."
"You too," Patrick shook his hand firmly. He quickly turned to Ellen and hugged her. "Long time no see," he smiled squeezing her back playfully. Jillian walked into the room, Patrick step away from Ellen. "This is Ellen," Patrick practically glowed as he said it, "and her boyfriend Chris."
"Nice to meet you," Jillian smiled.
"You too," Ellen smiled widely, "Patrick talks so much about you."
"I'm sure he does," Jill said kind of under her breath. Jill shook Chris' hand. "Well dinner is ready in the Kitchen."
Jill and Ellen walked toward the kitchen, Patrick and Chris followed starting a conversation of their own.
"Thank you for having us," Ellen said genuinely.
"Any time, I told Patrick that we should do this a couples nights a week. You guys work such weird hours, it will give us a chance to still act civilzed and all eat together."
"Yeah, that's a great idea. It's so nice to be able to have friends who understand this hectic lifestyle." Ellen smiled.
A little while later they were all sitting around Jillian's dinning room table. They were drinking wine and eating the pasta and sauce that Jillian had prepared.
"Dinner is wonderful Jill," Ellen commented taking a sip of wine.
"Yes, it is" Chris smiled. "It's nice that we live so close to each other."
"I know it is, it's funny that we have never run into each other before," Jill commented. Patrick looked at Ellen and smiled. Ellen immediately started laughing. "What?" Jill asked confused.
"There's just kind of a funny story about that," Patrick laughed.
"What was it like the first week of filming," Ellen asked with a smile.
"First week," Patrick laughed, "try second day of filming."
"Oh my god you're right," Ellen smiled, "Anyway, so I leave the set, it was like 12 am and we had just filmed a scene together so we left at the same time. So he follows me out and I'm not paying attention and then he pulls past me on the highway and I wave,"
"And then I waved back, and I follow her off her exit and," Patrick chimed in.
"At that point I'm like, why is he following me? Did I leave something in the trailer?" Ellen laughs. "So I pick up my cell phone and call him, and I'm like why are you following me?"
"And I was like why are you following me?" Patrick laughs.
"And I was like Patrick you are behind me. How could I be following you? She laughed catching his stare.
"And then she turns down our street and that's when I was like where are you going?" Patrick broke eye contact and looked to Jill, who looked completely bored with the story.
"And I'm like, I'm going home where are you going?" Ellen said.
"And I was like Home and then I watch her pull into her driveway and then I pull into ours and I see her laugh and wave." Patrick laughed.
"You had to be there I guess," Ellen said noticing neither Chris or Jill were laughing.
Ellen and Patrick had done a pretty good job masking their off screen chemistry until that moment. Ellen smiled at Patrick across the table, Patrick returned it with his eyes alone. After a few awkward moments of silence, the table redirected their conversation and Ellen and Patrick once again hid their chemistry.
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