Cali Vibes

I do realize that I have a lot of other stories that should be updated but somehow I cannot get over this idea, so here it is, even though this has probably been done numerous times before... Anyway, some new Addek can never hurt!


Chapter One

It had been two years, two years since she had moved away and two years since he had first realized that she hadn't been the one making him unhappy but that she had always been the one who had kept him going. Upon this realization Derek Shepherd's view of himself, his past actions and pretty much the world in general had begun to crumble. He had taken time off work then to do some actual soul searching; something that he probably should have done a long time ago and he would have come to the same realization just that now it was too late. He missed her. He missed her. He missed her. Her - His ex-wife, the woman he had labeled an adulterous bitch and the woman he had been so sure had been responsible for everything that had went wrong in his life. Of course she still was the same woman that had cheated on him with his best friend, but it was now that he realized that wasn't all she was. Derek had known and loved Addison for over fifteen years and when he had found her in bed with his best friend it had been easy to blame her, easy to push all of his feelings for her aside but he had to discover that he had just tried his best to forget how much he loved her. The realization had hit him like a ton of bricks. He loved her. But now she had moved away, had started a new life in California and he knew that there was absolutely no way to get her back anymore. He had ended their marriage; he had tortured her, making her believe that they still had a shot in saving all that was broken. But he had let her down and he knew that he had just wanted to hurt her back because she had hurt him. He had ignored the pain in her eyes, the tears, the way she had flinched whenever he had said something hurtful to her.

But now it was too late. And for the past two years he had walked through life, feeling completely numb. He had broken up with Meredith only weeks after Addison had left Seattle and he hadn't taken anyone else out since then because no one could compare. Derek missed everything about her; the way her eyes lit up when it started to snow, the way she rolled her eyes at him when he made fun of her, the way she'd huff and just pull her hair back in one of those messy buns that he loved so much after she had spent ages trying to tame it. He missed being able to take her hand in his, being able to just pull her close after a long day at work, he missed the excitement on her face when she realized they had a few days off together, he even missed her dragging him shoe shopping.

But none of it mattered anymore because he had let her go, because he had hurt her to the point where she had moved away, trying to forget about all this he had apparently already forgotten about.

Derek didn't know why, after realizing all of that, he had jumped at the chance of leaving rainy Seattle for a medical conference no where other than Los Angeles.

It was a long shot that she would even be there but when he stood in front of one of the big doors downstairs from the conference room and just looked down at the ocean in front of him a familiar voice rang behind him, "Fancy seeing you here, Dr. Shepherd." She came to stand next to him, a soft smile on her face. She didn't seem to mind that he was there, didn't seem bothered to see her ex-husband after two years of no contact. When Derek turned to face her he could have sworn that his heart skipped a beat but he figured that she didn't feel the same way that he did, that she probably had gotten married again, or that she at least was dating someone who knew how incredible she was and who let her know that every day.

"I thought a change of scenery would be good, you know try to see if the slackers in California know anything about medicine." He gave her a grin and smiled when he saw her roll her eyes.

"Of course no one could be as good as the god like Derek Shepherd, you know, I think they stopped practicing medicine in New York all together after you moved to Seattle." He saw the smile on her face and couldn't help the feeling of familiarity overcome him. He had thought he had missed her in Seattle but now he realized that it had been nothing compared to now.

"Very funny, I almost forgot how funny you could be." He just rolled his eyes at her in return, secretly having missed just that sense of humor. "So, I see you went back to the med school hair." He chuckled motioning to her hair that was slightly curly and much longer, just like how it had been when they had first met and throughout most of medical school, before she had started straightening it after being constantly annoyed because it just looked 'so unprofessional', according to her.

Addison raised her eyebrows at him, a slightly amused look on her face by now. "I did, I also added some more colors to my wardrobe."

"I noticed." He nodded his head and looked her up and down again. He had noticed how gorgeous she looked in that dark purple dress and he had briefly wondered how he could ever have forgotten to notice.

"What's with the attentiveness all of the sudden?" Her voice had turned a little colder, her eyes boring into his in a way that Derek knew she wasn't too pleased.

"Nothing, just trying to say you look nice, Addie." He watched her face after having called her by that nickname and her expression had softened.

"Thank you." She gave him one of those smiled that he had always loved. "So have you seen the ultimate perk of California?"

Derek tried his best to hide his smirk as he thought that he probably was looking at it right now and just shook his head.

"Come on, I'll show you." Without turning around she walked down towards the beach, past some colleagues and continued on down the beach a little. She knew that he was following her and had to smile when he came to stand next to her.

"You do know that I have seen a beach before, right?" Derek looked at her, an amused smile on his face. "I'm pretty sure you were even there a few times that happened."

"I meant the sunset." She pointed towards the water and the sun that was beginning to set and was starting to turn the sky into a soft red. "And I do remember, especially the infamous road trip."

Derek turned his head to glance over at her again and only then noticed that she had taken those ridiculously high heels off and was now carrying them. "You make it sound like it wasn't great, some of my favorite memories happened on that road trip." He chuckled and smiled when he saw her laughing as well so he decided to continue, "Like when we were driving through the middle of no where in this unbearable heat and you told me to stop the car when it had started to rain." Addison turned towards him, of course she remembered but still wanted to hear his take on it. "And here I thought, 'oh no, one of those Addison Montgomery freak outs where she tells me how much she hates this unbearable heat and the rain and everything'," he grinned at the slight blush on her cheeks because she knew that she could get like that sometimes, "but then you got out of the car, in those pink gym shorts and tank top and twirled around in the rain."

"Oh, you're making me sound like a mental patient." She chuckled and looked at the ground, missing the smile on his face.

"Nope, that was one of my ultimate favorite moments ever since we met." He saw how she slowly looked up, an intrigued look as to why exactly this was one of his favorite moments, on her face, "are you really wondering why I loved watching you twirl around in the rain?" Derek smiled before adding, "also you were wearing a white tank top…"

"Geez." Now the blush was back and she nudged him softly.

"What?" He had to laugh at the look on his face. "I didn't even mention what happened just a little later on the hood of my car because that also was one of my favorite moments."

"You think about things like that?" Her tone was serious, her voice soft but unsure.

"Yeah…" He answered honestly and looked into her eyes and felt like he was coming home. All those feeling he had been trying to forget about were back and he was sure that they had never even gone away. "Do you?"

His heart dropped slightly when she shook her head and drew in a deep breath. "Derek, I can't think about things like that." She watched his expression and quietly continued, "Because then I'd miss you even more than I already do."


I'm not completely sure whether there should be another chapter to this, or not. I hope you guys liked this and will Review!