A/N: I have to say this, thank you, THANK YOU so much for the reviews, you have no idea how happy that makes me, I'm glad that you like the idea of this story. For those who were asking if all of it was just a dream, you'll see the answer on this chapter. Enjoy it!
We do not get unlimited chances to have the things we want, nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could have changed your life. – Addison Montgomery- Grey's Anatomy 3x25
This was crazy, no this was insane, Derek couldn't think in a reasonable explanation for this that he just saw, he wasn't dreaming, it felt too real to be a dream, it couldn't be actually happening right? He couldn't just wake up one day next to Addison and two children who are calling him daddy, he would know if he had children. He didn't know what to do, because he knew that if he told Addison or whoever what he was going through in this particular morning he would definitely end up in a madhouse, he needed to find out by himself what was going on.
When he finally left the room and went downstairs, he started to admire the house where he was apparently living, he saw the kitchen, from the living room, to make sure Addison and the kids wouldn't see him, but he could see them, Addison was sat in the table next to the little kid who woke him up and there was another little girl, she looked a little more like Addison.
After he saw them having breakfast, he went outside the house, but he realised another thing different, he wasn't living in Seattle anymore, he quickly realised that he was in Los Angeles, the house in front of the beach explained it by itself. He started to walk around the beach, trying to figure it all out, but he couldn't, it was impossible. Suddenly the blackberry on his pocket started to ring. He saw Richard's number on the screen, so he took the call
"Hello?" Derek answered the phone, not knowing the kind of relationship he and Richard had now, probably he was still the Chief of Surgery
"Shep, how is it going?" Richard asked him
"Honestly, I have no idea" Derek answered sincerely
"Come on, Derek, you could sound a little more enthusiastic, yesterday you were telling me there was something missing in your life, and today you wake up with a wife and two beautiful kids"
"Well, it's just that-" Derek stopped, how does Richard knows about this radical change on his life? It's not possible, right? No other person here seems to know what happened. "How do you- How did you have something to do with this?" He asked furious now
"Relax, Derek, I know this whole thing is being very weird to you, but I'll explain it"
"Richard, I need you to tell me what's happening to me? This is not my life!" Derek was desperate, and Richard could hear that
"First, calm down Shep, after all remember that you brought this on your own"
"What did I bring to myself! I didn't do anything!" Derek said yelling, while he was talking to Richard, he realized how crazy and furious he was talking
"I got everything I need, everything I've always wanted" Richard said mocking Derek's words from last night "It sounds familiar to you?" He asked
"I don't understand, is this about the talk we had last night? Can you just tell me what the hell is happening?"
"This is just a glimpse, Derek" Richard said very calm
"A glimpse? A glimpse of what?" Derek said, now yelling
"Oh no, you'd have to figure it out everything by yourself, if I tell you it would kill the fun, right? You have all the time you need, which in your case I'm sure it would be very long" Richard said now smiling, even though Derek couldn't see it
"Fun? Do you think messing up people lives is fun? I am the Chief of Surgery of the Seattle Grace Hospital, today was my first day! And where's Meredith I wanna talk to her, she's my wife! I just want my life back, okay? I need my life back!"
"No, I am the chief of surgery Derek, and Addison is your wife, this is now your life and if I were you I would be home because someone promised to take his kids to school" Richard said now laughing and right after he hung up the phone.
"Richard, Don't- Do not… You did this to me; you can't just leave me like this! Dammit!" When he realised Richard wasn't there anymore he took his phone back to his pocket.
Now, he felt like he was trapped inside of this world and there was nothing he could do about it. What did he have to figure it out by himself? Besides that he was completely insane, there was no other thing that he could think about it.
He decided to go back to his new home, but by the time he got back, Addison wasn't there anymore, everything was quiet, probably while he was outside it got late for taking the kids to school, so Addison probably took them. He was sure that they were good kids; both of them were beautiful, the little moment he saw them he realised that they were the perfect match of Addison and himself, though the little boy looked exactly like him when he was that age.
But he couldn't just pretend to love some kids that he just met, even if they're technically his. And how was he going to pretend he was crazy in love with his ex-wife? He hasn't seen her since she moved out of Seattle. "I can just pretend that I'm in love with Addison. I am not in love with her, right? I can't be still in love with my ex-wife, or wife… Actually I haven't think about it in a long time, though she really looked beautiful this morning… Wait, no, no, I can't- I need to focus here. It can't be possible that I still have feelings for her. Was I denying it this whole damn time?" He thought while he was sat in the couch with both of his hand on his head.
Few minutes later he heard someone in the front door, interrupting his thoughts, he figured it was Addison, so he went to check, but it wasn't his wife, it was Amelia
"Amy? How are you? I've missed you so much!" Derek said, still confused, he went there and hugged his sister and kissed her in the forehead, he hasn't see her in a while, or at least that's what he thought
"Oh God, Addie was right… Look, we have to go to the practice, the patients are waiting for us" Amelia simply said while she took Derek's coat and tried to get him out of the house
"Do we work together in a practice?" Derek asked again, she is his little sister, she wouldn't call him crazy
"Oh my God, Addison told me you had hangover but this is ridiculous… Just to refresh your memory, Doctor Shepherd, we all work in a medical private practice together that you and Addison are running, now before I have to clear anything up for you, let's go!"
"I run a private practice?" He asked Amelia
"Come on, Derek! You can't be serious, instead of asking me the world's stupidest questions, just go to your room, get dress and let's go to work, your wife is already mad at you, so please don't make me want to join her."
Few minutes later Amelia and Derek arrived to the practice, he was just admiring the place where he worked, it looked very nice, apparently he and Addison were doing great, he followed Amelia until the kitchen and he just sat there was Amelia grabbed two cups of coffee and gave one to him, while they were there Violet walked in there, to grab a bottle of water from the refrigerator.
"Oh, hi, Shepherds!" Violet greeted
"Hey Violet" Amelia greeted back
"Oh, hey… uh- Violet" Derek simply said, his first thought was this woman was probably another doctor of the practice.
"What's wrong with him?" Violet asked Amelia, noticing Derek's look on his face, being a shrink, Violet could practically read people by the looks on their faces, she quickly figured that Derek wasn't being him today.
"It's nothing, he has hangover, I think, and he forgot to take Chirs and Katie to school, so Addie is mad at him"
"Amy, please!" Derek said to his sister, he couldn't believe that she was telling all of this to this stranger, or friend, or whatever this woman is, just right after this, to make the moment even more awkward, Sam and Naomi came to the kitchen too, they saw Amelia and Violet laughing, while Derek finished his coffee.
"Sam, Naomi!" Derek greeted, at least they were familiar to him, not just strangers
"Hey" Sam greeted back "What's happening here?" Sam asked trying to know what Amelia and Violet were talking about
"It's nothing" Derek said immediately and left the room, trying to find the office with his name on it.
"Derek has hangover, and he's all lost, luckily he would be back to normal in few minutes" Amelia told Sam
"Oh, that explains why Addison is mad" Naomi told them
"That's weird; we didn't drink that much last night, we just stayed up playing poker until 1am" Sam told them while he sat to eat his cereal.
When Derek finally found the office with the name 'Derek C. Shepherd MD' on it, he noticed that it was just next to Addison's, he looked there and she was with a patient, but she made eye contact with him, he knew they would have to talk at some point of this extremely weird day.
He walked into his office and he immediately loved it, the first thing he saw was his diploma of the Columbia University on the wall, he kept walking until he sat down on the chair behind his desk, then he noticed the pictures on it, he had three on it, the first one, was one of Addison and him, apparently in a restaurant, the picture wasn't that recent, maybe it was about 5 or 6 years, he couldn't exactly say when, but they looked just like those crazy kids who fell in love back in the med school. "Maybe it was before the affairs" he thought, other picture on his desk was one of Addison resting in a hospital bed with a little baby in a pink blanket in her arms and a little boy next to them, he recognized that this boy was the one who woke him up in the morning, and the third one was all the family, him, Addison and the two children, it was a Christmas picture, this last one seemed to be the most recent since the kids looked just like he saw them this morning.
"You seem to have a pretty good life here, don't you?" He said to himself while he was admiring his life with those pictures, that was the way he had imagine his future next to Addison, those pictures was the image he had on his mind since the moment he proposed her, maybe after all this time they were happy. But he knew he couldn't hold on to those pictures he was seeing, he knew that this wasn't his life; this wasn't the life he choose. But he couldn't deny that it seemed very well. The telephone on his office started to sound interrupting his thoughts.
"Dr. Shepherd" He answered
"Hey man, is Mark! How are you?"
"Oh Mark! I'm doing pretty well" Finally, other person familiar to him that could explain another things of his unknown life "How are you?" He added
"Fine, I'm calling to make sure that you and Addie are coming to Seattle by the end of the week, you know that we have doctors on both of your specialties in here, but you two are the best, and I need the best for this patient, we really miss you two around here and since we're all getting together in weekend, it'd be great if you two come, have you decide it yet?" They were going to Seattle? That was really good for Derek; maybe he could get more answers there. Apparently they would have to work together, so he'd get more information
"Oh, I don't really know, I haven't talk to Addison yet, she's kinda mad at me because I-" He couldn't tell him the truth, though he didn't like the fact that everybody thinks that he is drunk, he decided that he was going to stick what everyone was saying "I have a huge hangover from last night and I forgot to take the kids to school, so I haven't actually seen her since this morning"
"Dude, you're in trouble" Apparently in this universe, Mark was still… Mark. He hasn't change. "You'd have to make it up to you, thanks God that's your specialty"
"I guess so" Derek simply said.
"Well, once you talk to her, let me know. Oh, and give my godson and the little girl a big hug from Uncle Mark, okay?"
"Sure I will" Derek was about to finish the call but he decided that if someone could tell him anything without judging him was Mark "Hey man, before you hang up, can I ask you something?" Derek asked, knowing that he was about to say something completely mental.
"Sure man, go ahead"
"When did I exactly move to Los Angeles?"
"Well, when you and Addie found out she was pregnant with Christopher, you two decided to start over with a new life in other city. Dude, that hangover must be killing you"
"Yeah, I know, well thanks for telling me, I'll call you later okay?"
"Sure"
At least now he knows a why they moved if this kid was like 5-years-old that means he was born by the time he and Addison got divorced, maybe she got pregnant back there and they give it a real try, he thought
After talking to Mark, he went to check if Addison was done with the patient, he would probably don't know his own kids, or the people he works with, or he own sister, but he knows Addison, he knows what bothers her and what makes her happy, and if she promised something and he didn't do it, he knew that she wouldn't be so happy about it, even when technically he didn't know about this, she thinks he did, and she deserves an apology.
"May I come in?" He said, standing on Addison's office's door, she just nodded while he sat in the chair in front of Addison's desk. Damn she looks beautiful, how did I let her go? Damn it, not again, I'm not still in love with her
"Sure"
"Look, I know you must be mad at me, but completely-"
"You forgot it, I get it, it's okay, you weren't feeling good" She simply said while she was checking one patient's chart
"So, this is how we work now? I forget something and we just let it go?" He asked her
"Okay, first, you didn't forget something, you forgot a promised that you made last night to your children, and I'm not letting this go, when one of them have to take a parent to school and talk to the class, guess who's going!" She told her husband while she was still checking the chart "Did Amelia take you here to the practice?" She asked
"Uh, yes, we came here and went to the kitchen, I saw Sam and Naomi and another woman with brown hair"
"Violet" She said, completing her husband's sentence "What the hell is happening to you today Derek? You disappeared in the morning, right after you woke-up, you broke a promise to our 5-year-old, you can't even finish a sentence with the name of one of our closest friends? It is just not something that you would do" Derek had no idea what would he actually do in a normal day, he had no idea of anything, he could barely be standing there pretending that there was nothing going on
"You know what, you're were right, I was wrong" Being married with Addison for eleven years taught him that that was Addison's favourite sentence and he learned how to use it "I'm sorry okay, I'll make it up to you" He said smiling and remembering Mark's words. He knew that Addison could never resisted to the way he smiles, and he thought that maybe it wouldn't change
"I hope you're serious"
"Addie, I wanted to tell you that I talked to Mark, he called me before I came here, he wanted to know if we're going to Seattle, to work with a case they have there" He didn't know what they were gonna do there, but he really wanted to go, first to talk to Richard and see how has everything changed in the hospital now that he hasn't been there in a while
"We already talk about this, Derek. Are you sure you wanna go there? It's okay to me. But isn't weird to you? You know what I think about it, but if you're okay, we could talk to Charlotte to take a couple of days off the hospital, and I'm not sure if we should take the kids there if we're gonna be working all day, maybe we could talk to Amelia to take them for the weekend"
Now Derek had more questions to add on his list, why wouldn't he want to go to Seattle? He used to love there. He had become a flannel wearing, wood chopping fisherman, since he started living there. And he couldn't actually just ask Addison who was this 'Charlotte' person, because maybe she could be another friend of them and he doesn't wanna go there again.
"Why do you think it would be weird?" He asked again
"Well, like I said before, I have nothing against it, and it's none of my business, but isn't your ex-girlfriend just got married a couple of months ago? And I know that you said you didn't care about it. But I'm just saying it might be awkward. But if you're okay with it, I'm okay too" Addison simply said, still noticing that Derek wasn't himself today, she stood up "Now if you excuse me I have to get some lab results for my next patient"
Derek didn't know how to react about this, suddenly his- Meredith was married now, with other guy, he was married to Addison and had kids, this day couldn't get any worse for him.
A/N: So, Meredith's married! Who do you think is the lucky guy? Someone from the SGH or a new doctor? What do you think? Review :D
