"Alex? What are you doing here?" Addison is surprised. She hadn't expected Alex to turn up at the practice.
"I want to talk to you." He answers. "Would you like to have some lunch with me, somewhere downtown?"
"Alex, I..."
"Addison, please. I really need to talk to you."
"Okay, sure. Just let me grab my coat."
Half an hour later they were arriving at some fancy lunchroom somewhere. They were both soaking wet.
"I can't believe you didn't bring an umbrella." Addison said.
"It's LA. It doesn't rain in LA."
"Well, it rains in LA. Look outside. It's raining. It's raining everywhere."
"Wow, you're all bitter and frustrated nowadays. What's LA done to you?"
They sit down somewhere in a corner in the back of the lunchroom, so they won't have to look at the terrible weather outside.
They ordered some food and drinks when a waitress came to their table and then it was silent.
"So you wanted to talk to me. What about?" Addison decides to break the silence.
"Do you like it here?" Alex asks.
"My colleagues are sometimes nice and I have a nice place now, instead of a hotel room. Why?"
"I asked if you like it here."
"Truthful answer?"
"Of course."
"Not much, yet."
"Then come back with me."
"What? You've got to be kidding me."
"Addison, I've made the hugest mistake by lying to you. I've been in love with you since... well, I don't even remember since when. But then Ava heard you telling Torres that you were looking for the barbeque-kind-of-guy and I'm not that person and I didn't want to waste your time, so I said I wasn't interested. But I am. Come back with me." Alex said.
"Alex, I can't..."
"Come back with me, please."
"Alex, you rejected me twice. I can't go back. I can't leave the practice after just a couple of weeks."
"You can. Please Addison, you can have your old job back. You have friends at Seattle Grace, right? You've got everything there."
"I can't go back and face every guy that has divorced me, cheated on me, or rejected me, twice."
"You're facing me already Addison."
"Stop it. I'm not going back." Addison said as she stood up and left the lunchroom angrily.
"Addison, come back!"
Oceanside Wellness Group
Addison arrived back at the practice all confused and upset. Dell was talking to some patients of Pete's, before pointing them to Pete's office.
"Dell, if that guy shows up again, I don't want to talk to him." Addison said as she went into her office.
Naomi saw through the windows of her office that Addison was pretty upset and decided to go and talk to her. She left her own office and knocked on Addison's door. She heard no response, just some crying, so she decided to go in without permission.
"Addison, what happened?" She asked as she closed the door behind her back.
"It's nothing." Addison answered, sniffing.
"Don't lie Addison. I want to know the truth."
"He's here."
"Who's here. Derek? Mark?"
"Alex."
"Who's Alex?"
"An intern. No wait, resident now."
"Yeah and?"
"He wants me to come back."
"And you don't want to. And that bothers you why?"
"I do want to go back. But I can't."
"You do want to go back? You really don't like it here, do you?"
"You and Sam are the only ones around here that respect me just a little bit. The others are all so distant. Like I have the plague or something, well except for Pete, when he's not trying to hit on me."
"That can't be the only reason you want to leave..."
"I'm a surgeon. I cut people open, fix them and then stitch them up and send them home. I miss that. I miss Seattle Grace. I miss being someone to the hospital. I was the best neonatal surgeon west of Manhattan. Now I'm just a plain OB/GYN, nothing more. I want to go back, but I can't."
"Why can't you go back."
"Because of them."
"Them?"
"Derek. Mark. And especially Alex."
"What happened between that intern and you that you can't go back."
It stayed silent for a while.
"Addison, what did he do wrong?"
"We slept together. First I fell in love, then we kissed and he rejected me. Then we had eye-sex all the time and we bonded. Then we had sex and he rejected me. Again."
"Okay. And now he's here and he wants you to come back."
"Yeah. He says he was lying to me all the time. That he didn't want me to waste my time because he wasn't the right one for me."
"So now he's basically saying he loves you back?"
"I guess."
"So do you still love him?"
"I do."
The crying had now stopped.
"So go back with him." Naomi said.
"I can't. I've only been here for a couple of weeks. I can't just leave you and Sam with and empty OB/GYN office."
"It's okay. You don't feel home here. I get that. When you have friends at Seattle Grace and a better paid job, you feel more home there. I don't want you to leave, but if you really don't like it here, you should go and be happy somewhere else."
"You mean it? I'll find you a new OB/GYN."
"It's okay. Go after him."
Addison jumped up and ran out of her office to Dell's desk.
"Dell! Could you call every hotel in the city until you've found the place where a certain Alex Karev is staying?"
Without a coat on Addison ran outside and to the place she's left him. She didn't expect to find him still there, sitting in front of the lunchroom in the pouring rain. Addison sat down next to him.
"Alex."
"Addison."
"Alex, I'm sorry for freaking out like that."
"It's okay. I understand if you don't want to come back with me."
"I am coming back with you. I resigned."
"Seriously?"
Addison pressed her lips on Alex'. He opened his mouth and their tongues found each other. After just a while what seemed hours they broke apart.
"Don't you dare try to reject me now, Karev."
"I wouldn't dare."
Author's Note: So it really was Alex. You didn't think it would be Derek would you? Alright, maybe I was a huge Addek in the beginning, I've seen the light. It's Addison and Alex that belong together. I can't believe Shonda didn't think so. I mean, Alex/Ava is cute, but not as cute as some real good Addisex.
