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"Good morning, class," The teacher's booming voice echoed through the classroom as he approach the desk in the front, "My name is Richard Webber and I am the Chief of Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital; the Dean asked me to come in today and teach you about some basic Emergency procedures that you will find you will use a lot when working in the medical field; first, before we get to the exercise, I am going to give you five minutes to get to know somebody in this room that you don't already know." He paused and smiled a little bit before continuing, "Remember, this relates to the exercise we are going to do shortly. GO!"
"Hi there, I'm Callie." A voice came from beside Addison causing her to jump, Addison laughed a little before turning to the dark-haired woman that now sat beside her, "I'm Addison."
"Okay, Addison, we are supposed to get to know each other." Callie smiled at her, "So, tell me about Addison."
Okay, this is MED school, so the connection between what we are doing now and the exercise we are doing later has something to do with what we tell them...Addison thought to herself before responding; "My full name is Addison Adrienne Forbes Montgomery, I am twenty two years old, weigh one hundred and thirty two pounds which seems very light for somebody who is five foot ten, however, I have a small frame. I have Taphephobia which is the fear of being buried alive or of being in cemeteries, and I am deathly allergic to certain types of seafood, except shrimp, I really like shrimp." Addison paused and looked at Callie, "What about you?"
"My full name is Calliope Iphegenia Torres; I am twenty two, same as you, I weight about one hundred seventy pounds, I'm really not scared of anything and I am allergic to stupid people." Callie replied causing Addison to laugh, the two of them talked about random stuff going on in their lives until Richard blew a whistle grabbing everybody's attention; "I am going to hand out cards of situations to each and every one of you; you and your partner will take turns being the victims and you will have to figure out how to treat each other! Go!"
Addison looked down at the paper that she was handed, it read; Victim had allergic reaction and is unresponsive, how do you treat the victim? What are they allergic to? Following the teacher's instructions, they exchanged cards; "Okay, this is easy!" Callie exclaimed reading Addison's card, "I would give you a shot of Epinephrine and put you on oxygen until the reaction settles, and, if that didn't work I would give you injections; two Benadryl, another shot of epinephrine and one shot of steroids."
Addison read Callie's card; the victim is overdosing on drugs and you aren't sure what they have taken, what do you do? Addison sighed as she thought over the overdosing lesson that they had learned the other day; "I would take a look at the pills or injections that you took and try to identify the drug, assuming that you would have more on you considering that druggies never leave one place without extra for later, when I know what you took and considering how much you weigh, that would give me the correct amount for the antidote."
That is how the whole rest of the class went on that day; meeting new people and completing more scenarios. However, Addison was glad that she got the chance to meet some new people, she felt like her and Callie had really hit it off and that there was a good chance that they would become friends, she also met another woman in class that day; her name was Naomi, she wasn't sure how that was going to work considering that they had completely opposite personalities. But, none the less, she did like her. They were all sitting in the caferteria after lunch, Derek watched Addison interact with Callie at one of tables not too far away from where him and Mark were sitting; "That was the last time that I am ever going to take advice from you." Derek said, not taking his gaze off of Addison.
"Come on, dude, it works all the time for me!" Mark said defensively, "Who knew that it wouldn't work on 'Golden boy' over there!"
"Act like a jerk, girls love it, she will be in your bed in no time." Derek mocked Mark, glaring at him before stealing a French fry just to get slapped away; "You can't be that mad at me, I was only trying to help."
"None the less, still not going to take advice from you again. That was the biggest mistake that I've made." Derek sighed, pushing the food around on his place, "maybe I should go apologize. Think she'll forgive me?"
"Have you seen her dude? She's gotten 'heartbreaker' written all over her, you can try, but I don't think that it will go well."
"I'm going to go for it." Derek said confidently as he stood up and walked over to where Addison and Callie were sitting, "Hello Callie, Addison."
"What do you want?" Addison growled at him, shooting him a dirty glare as she took a forkful of salad and shoved it into her mouth; "I just wanted to come and apologize for the way I acted yesterday, it was inappropriate and I am very sorry." He finished talking and watched as Addison stood up and turned to face him, he wasn't sure how she was feeling about his apology, but what happened next was very obvious; "You asshole!" She screeched and stabbed him in the leg with her fork before storming out of the cafeteria; "I will deal with you later." Callie growled as she ran after Addison.
"Told you." Mark said in his little kid 'I-told-you-so' voice before helping Derek take the fork out of his leg and stop the bleeding.
"Shut up."
Callie was actually quite surprised as to how fast Addison could run in those heels, seeing her enter the woman's bathroom, she followed her in; "Addison?" She called out as she entered the bathroom, she could hear Addison's sobs come from somewhere, she just couldn't put her finger on it; she saw on the of the bathroom stalls slowly open and she entered it seeing Addison slouched against the wall, heartbreaking sobs flooded the bathroom as she cried. Callie knew that she hadn't known Addison for long, but, one thing she did know was that it would take a lot to make her cry; "Come here." Callie said, crouching down beside Addison and taking her into her arms.
"He's such an asshole."
"Who, Derek? Whatever he did, Mark was probably the reason behind it, Mark is so much hotter when he doesn't say shit."
"I-I went to high school with them, Cal, they never noticed me. I was invisible. I was a fat, invisible geek with braces and it took for me to change into this to get them to notice; I have been in love with Derek for years, but I wanted him to love me, I didn't want to have to change in order for him to notice me." Addison sniffled.
"Listen, I know his family and trust me, his is the golden boy; his is the closest thing to a gentleman anybody can find, but, you haven't really given him a chance to show you that. I've grown up with Derek, and yes, sometimes he can be an ass; but in the end he always comes through." Callie paused and pulled away enough to look into Addison's mascara-streaked-eyes, "He obviously likes you enough to try and make it right, and something tells me that he isn't done trying."
"Okay." Addison sighed, standing up and helping Callie up off of the floor, "Do you have make-up in your dorm that I can use?"
"Yeah, the key is on top of the doorframe."
"Thanks." Addison smiled, "Oh, and can you tell Derek to meet me in Central Park at nine thirty? Stab him again if he's late, got it?"
"Don't you worry; I will do worse than that." Callie shot her a mischievous smile as they exited the bathroom and went their separate ways, Callie passed on the message to Derek along with telling him that he ever dared to hurt Addison again, he would have to deal with her and she would go all Latino on his ass. Knowing for a fact that she was serious about that threat and wouldn't hesitate to follow through with it, he arrived at Central Park five minutes before the agreed time; he waited in his car until he saw Addison's Mercedes pull into the parking lot.
"You said you wanted to meet me here?" His voice echoed across the almost empty parking lot as she stepped out of her vehicle and approached him; "Listen up Shepherd, because I am only going to say this once, I am going to give you a once in a lifetime shot at being with me. And if you dare to mess around again, I swear that I will end it faster than I started it. Understand?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"Oh, I'm not finished yet; also, kissing? Fine, sex? Absolutely not, I will be the judge of when we are ready to take that step, if we will ever be ready. Got it?" She said, closing the gap between them until they were face-to-face. "Are you sure you want to do this, Shepherd? Do you have any idea as to who you are dealing with?"
"Trust me; I know exactly who I'm dealing with." He replied with a cocky smirk before brushing his lips against hers, feeling no hesitation on her part he kissed her again, it was soft and slow; not pushing any boundaries that she wasn't ready to cross yet and still test the waters.
He couldn't believe it.
The time had come.
She was now his.
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