A/N: I'm sorry for updating late I'll try to update earlier. Thank you for the reviews they're all awesome. :D
I finally know how to code! So no more awkward long paragraphs I finally added hr to cut the scenes; I'll be putting hr on the first chapter too.
Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy. If I did Addek and Maddison will still be on the show. For me after season 3 it went downhill from there.
Seattle Grace Hospital
"Have you heard?" A nurse asks approaching two others in the nurse's station giving one of them charts.
"What?" another asks looking over charts
"Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd took a leave."
"What?! You're kidding. I thought she was working it out with McDreamy." She says slamming the charts down
"Well, He isn't here yet either, maybe they both took a vacation." Says the blode one
"No, I just walked passed the board earlier. He has a surgery in Two hours. His other ones weren't transferred or cancelled."
"Well, Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd's was."
It was a hectic day for Dr. Miranda Bailey as she has just received news of several surgeries being moved around because of the absence of one of the Attendings. Pissed off as she was not even one of her interns were making a noise because of the look she had since she approached them.
As she is handing charts to her interns and assigning them to their doctors,
"O'Malley, you're with Torres. Yang, Burke. Stevens, wit-"
Derek Shepherd, head of neurosurgery, angrily walks in front of her and threateningly asks, "Have you seen my wife?"
"Dr. Shep-" Miranda strats to say in a condescending tone.
Derek cuts her off, his voice between angry and pleading.
"You are a resident I am your attending. Answer my question, Have you or Have you not seen my wife Dr. Bailey?" Derek cuts her off, his voice between angry and pleading.
Bailey takes a deep breath and says, "She took a leave of absence the extent of which I don't know. I was informed of by the chief."
"Thank you." He mutters before running to the Chief's office.
Leaving the interns shocked and Bailey shaking her head.
Chief's Office
"She said your marriage was over, Shep. Addison took a leave for personal reasons." Chief Webber says neutrally.
"My marriage isn't over until those papers are signed and brought to a judge. I need a leave of absence too, Richard." Derek says
"You can't."
"Why not?!" Derek exclaims shocked by the fact that his mentor would not allow him to follow his wife.
Richard only took a deep breath before reasoning out to his former student. "Derek, Addison doesn't need-"
"I took her back. I chose her. We were working it out. W-" Derek says anxiously standing up and starts to pace.
"Were you really?" Richard asks looking Derek in the eye.
"Of course-" Derek answers looking away from Richard.
"Don't lie to me, Shep. I'm Chief of Surgery. I'm busy all the time but even I saw how your eyes still linger. How you reacted with that bomb, is a prime example of that. The way you looked at another woman while your wife was there."
"Richa-" he interrupts sitting back down on his seat
"You weren't working on your marriage, Shep, even I could see how you were still in lo-."
"Just because my wife arrives, it doesn't mean that my love for Meredith fades just like that. I decided to stay and wo-"
"You made your decision to stay with your wife, true; but you did not work on your marriage." Richard says matter of factly.
He looks at his former student, who was slumped on his seat looking depressed.
"I'm willing to give you a few days off but you have to be on hand for emergencies I can't lose anymore attendings. This conversation is done, Shep."
Derek walks out of his office.
Derek is sitting on the floor of the bridge legs stretched out looking at rings against the Seattle view.
This is how Miranda Bailey sees him so she then decides to lean on the bannister beside the handsome neurosurgeon.
"This was bound to happen."
"How can you say that?" he asks still looking at how the diamonds sparkle against the sun
"Do you really want me to answer that question?" she responds
"It wasn't bound to happen. We were meant to be forever. We promised to be together for eternity, possibly even longer."
"Promises are nothing without actions for them to live by."
"What do you mean Dr. Bailey?" Derek asks looking up at her still holding on to the rings.
"You didn't make a decision before when you had time to make it. You chose your wife to buy you time because you couldn't let any of those women go."
"Who do I choose then Dr. Bailey? Because I love my wife but I also love Meredith." Derek reasons to her
"You know the red-head, who gave you back those rings," she said pointing to the rings he kept clutching. "She just made that decision for you." Miranda Bailey then walks in front of him looks at him straight and asks
"Dr. Shepherd, Do you want to move your surgeries?"
"No." He says clutching the rings and putting them in his chest pocket before standing up. "Schedule as many surgeries as you can. And Dr. Bailey I don't want Meredith on my service or my OR until further notice. You can assign her to other neurosurgeons for her OR Rotation."
"Are you sure Dr. Shepherd?"
"My wife needs time. I need to get busy."
"SO were here." Mark says as he and Addison step out of JFK International Airport.
"We're home." Addison says mentally burying the memories of Derek that came up.
"DO you want to go to the Brownstone?" he says anxiously
There was a long pause before Addison asks "Mark?"
"What is it, Addie?" Mark asks worriedly
"I… umm… I know that-" Addison says trying to form the words
"We can get Harvey on your case, you know." He says abruptly
"What?!" she asks shocked.
"Your contract with Seattle Grace."
"No, Richard offered me the a lot and he's an old friend. I'm not going behind his back to break it, even if I want to."
"Then what is it?"
"The divorce. The houses…"
"You want the Brownstone and the Hamptons, right?"
"It's just I don't know what to keep. It's unnecessary, having two dead property but I don't know what to keep."
"Addie, you know you don't need to think of the settlement right?"
"I know, but Mark I don't think I can stay at the Brownstone today."
"Alright, my flat it-"
"I don't think I want to say in your place too." Addison says.
Mark only looks at her shocked and dejected
"We want to take things slow, remember?" Addison says imploringly.
"Oh, yeah." Mark says rubbing his head and relieved that 'going slow' was the reason
"So do you want to stay the Ritz-Carlton or the Warldorf?"
"Ritz-Carlton, its closer to your place right?"
"Yeah, and you said buying that apartment at Langham was a bust." He smiles wide and says jokingly.
"That's one of the only decisions I'm happy with you not following me on."
"How abou-"
"Don't push it, Sloan."
"Want to get breakfast?"
"The usual?"
"Of Course." Addison says smiling widely before inhaling the cold New York air and says
"God, I Miss New York!"
