Cali Vibes

Luvaddek: I thought this had been done countless times :D But I'm glad you're reading :)

Addison-fan: Yep, she really is more California now :D But change is good, I guess

LoveLastsForever: Noooo, I am so unbelievably bad at M rated! I might think about it, but omg hard… I think after this there will be two or three more, but that's it.

Guest: Thank you! :) I'm so glad there are some Addek fans left!

NetflixPerson01: I am not sure where this will go :D But there won't be as many chapters, I hope.

Ianuaria: Thank you :) I'm glad this wasn't done as often as I had thought!

Em: I am continuing! :D :D

Chapter 2

Later that night Addison found herself in front of her door, Derek right behind her. If someone would ask her what in the world she was thinking right about now she wouldn't have a sufficient answer, she didn't even know herself why she had brought him here. They had talked on the beach, he had asked her where she lived and she had told him she'd show him since it was just a few minutes away. With Derek everything came natural, it always had and his question had been completely innocent so she had asked him in.

"You know, I never would have thought you'd ever move to California." Derek said as they were both standing on her deck and looked out at the ocean in the dim moonlight.

"I never would have thought I'd ever move to Seattle either." He turned his head slightly to look at her only to see her gaze was still fixed on the ocean. Her voice sounded calm and like she had completely made her peace with everything that had happened in the past. "And I have to tell you, sunshine is much less depressing than endless rain."

"Very true." He admitted with a chuckle. "I've been thinking of moving myself lately."

"Oh?" Now he had her full attention as Addison turned towards him, her eyebrows raised in question. She had always thought he loved Seattle, or at least that certain intern…

"Yeah, it just doesn't feel like home anymore." Derek desperately wanted to tell her that no place could ever feel like home without her but he couldn't. She had moved on, she had gotten her closure and she deserved that, especially after everything he had put her through. Maybe that's what he needed-closure. "I was thinking about moving back to New York."

"I miss New York." Addison said with a sad smile. She missed Derek and all their memories back in New York. But their relationship was over, now all they were was acquaintances that shared a rather tainted history. Nothing more.

"I would have thought you'd miss the snow most of all." He laughed when he saw the look on her face. She had always loved the different seasons; especially the snow and he missed her contagious excitement.

"Well, I figured it wouldn't be as much fun without someone shoveling the driveway and the sidewalk." It really was true, she had always complained until Derek had ended up doing it.

"Since when do you not have someone to shovel your driveway?" Derek had to laugh at that and at the way she now looked at him. "No pun intended, really."

"Oh, excuse me, Dr. Shepherd, but I remember that I was single when we met and once we got divorced…"

"I was single when we met!" Derek defended himself but only earned a snort from her. "I was!"

"You were dating three girls at the same time and they all thought you were exclusive if I remember correctly."

"Like I said, single." He shrugged his shoulders and gave her a smug grin when he thought back to that. Before Addison he had never really been in a steady relationship (with just one woman) and he had never really made an effort but it had all changed with her.

"Remind me why I even went out with you." She rolled her eyes at his smugness. Only a man could be proud of something like that.

"You thought I was charming."

"I thought you were a pig." She told him and saw the smile drop from his face. "Don't look at me like that, I really did. But after you humiliated yourself in front of most people on campus you seemed worthy to go out with." Addison had to laugh when she thought about that. Her and Derek had started out as lab partners and she had made it clear that she really wasn't interested in him (or Mark, for that matter) and when he had asked her why she would never consider dating him a few months later she had told him that it was because he was lying to those poor girls and was leading them on while he wasn't interested in them. He had tried to convince her that it wasn't true, that it would be different but she hadn't believed him so he had gotten up on the table in the middle of lunch to confess that he hadn't been honest, that he was sorry and that he hoped his humiliation would be enough to convince Addison to finally at least go out to dinner with him. While that might not have done the trick, the girl punching him did.

"Come on, did I ever mistreat you?" Derek saw that she raised her eyebrows and figured he should probably rephrase that. "In the beginning…" He clarified and cleared his throat rather awkwardly.

"No." She admitted and gave him a smile, which he returned. "You were great in the beginning. But we probably shouldn't mention the end, for both of our sakes." She laughed, which was probably the last thing he ever would have expected her to do.

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Hours later Addison couldn't bring herself to look at her watch because she knew that if she did she would have to ask him to leave since it was probably way past midnight by now and she really didn't want him to leave just yet. She didn't know whether it was because they were so familiar with each other or maybe because she had missed him so much more than she allowed herself to believe but here they were in her deck chairs, talking about the past, how they spent their free time now and about work.

"Remember when you got us arrested?" Derek asked after a comfortable silence and saw her head shoot up. He grinned because he knew that she was blushing now and would try to defend herself in a second. He couldn't believe how incredibly beautiful she looked in one of those knitted cardigans she had put on earlier.

"I didn't get us arrested, Derek! That was just a mistake, nothing more than that."

"There was a 'no trespassing' sign and you dragged me in there!" He laughed. "Mark even had to bail us out of jail because you wanted to see the very nice view from a forbidden spot."

"There was no sign, Derek! You know there wasn't!" She gave him a look, mostly because she knew that there had been a sign and she had blatantly ignored it because she hadn't expected the police to show up.

"Mhm, you're right." Derek just laughed and shook his head. He had been more than mortified when they had gotten arrested but once he had gotten over his initial shock it had been one of his favorite anecdotes, which had probably made her even madder.

"At least I never dragged you on a camping trip and had you almost mauled by a mountain lion." She gave him a triumphant look and got out of her chair to stand on the end on the porch.

"You wore perfume after I told you not to!" He rolled his eyes and got up as well to stand next to her.

"I am so not getting into this again!" She glared at him and tried to pull her cardigan around her a little tighter. Maybe she had gotten a little too used to the temperatures in LA by now.

"You cold?" He questioned softly and wrapped an arm around her to pull her closer without even thinking about it. Addison's eyes had widened slightly as she stared at him in confusion. He could still read her like an open book and he got how this could be rather confusing right now because she was standing opposite of him and there really wasn't much space between them.

"Derek," she whispered when she saw his gaze flicker between her eyes and lips, "what are you doing?" But she didn't pull away at all and he could have sworn that she had even leaned in a little.

"I don't know." Derek replied in a whisper and he really didn't know what he was doing. All he knew that he had wanted to kiss her from the moment he had first seen her that evening and now that feeling was even stronger. So slowly he leaned in and closed the gap between them before his lips touched hers in a kiss so soft that she knew he was anticipating her to pull away. But instead she rested one of her hands on his shoulder before wrapping it around his neck to pull him into her further. Derek's entire world was spinning when he felt her lips parting right before her tongue slipped into his mouth and when he heard her moaning quietly he thought he was dreaming.

"Derek," she whispered once she had gotten herself to pull away from him, her forehead still resting against his, "you have to go." And with this Addison pulled away, tears beginning to form in her eyes.

"But Addie—" He started but he already knew that he wouldn't be able to finish that sentence.

"I've moved on, I've moved, Derek. We can't do this again because we both know that I'll be the one making all the sacrifices and the one who will get her heart broken again." She told him quietly and looked at the ground.

"I'm sorry, Addie." He whispered as he walked past her and left. He knew that he had caused way too much disruption in her life and he really didn't deserve that but all he wanted was to show her how much he still loved her.

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