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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.- Walter Savage Landor

DPOV

Derek was shocked that Addison was here; he had been wishfully thinking that she would just stay in New York, being miserable after destroying their marriage. Seeing her immediately brought back feelings of betrayal, 11 years of marriage thrown away for a one-night-stand with Mark. Derek had always known that Mark was a man-whore, but he was his best friend, he never thought he would betray their brother relationship, or that his wife would betray their vows.

With his anger came guilt, deep regret over leaving his daughter without a word, or a goodbye. He thought time away from New York would help him forget about everything, Meredith had been apart of the healing process, helped him forget about the wife who cheated, the best friend who betrayed him. Derek pulled out his phone looking at the picture of his smiling daughter; he had so many things to deal with right now. He had to fix things with Meredith explain his marriage was over; he needed to talk to the chief.

Before he had time to see the chief his pager went off alerting him to a new emergency patient. Great. He thought annoyed.

Derek rounded the corner hearing Meredith and the other interns talking he paused briefly listening to their conversation.

"Why are you back here tonight, don't you have a date with McDreamy?" The bubbly blond asked Meredith.

"More like McMarried" O'Malley added.

"McWhat?" Izzie all but shouted shocked at the information.

"I came to check on Joe" Meredith said diverting the topic away from Derek, Derek hated seeing her look so heartbroken.

"You think he's gonna be ok?" George asked concerned for the bar owner and friend.

"You think he's gonna need an operation?" Yang added Derek knew she lived and breathed surgery. He decided now to approach the group hoping Meredith will want to scrub in.

"Operation, yes. Ok, hard to tell. Basilar artery's blown up like a balloon. Subarachnoid bleeding. Aneurysm the size of a golf ball" He said presenting the case and alerting the interns to his presence.

O'Malley was first to respond "No way to clip something like that"

"Not without magic fingers" Yang added

"Or a standstill operation" Derek said hoping Meredith would want in.

"You're doing a standstill?" Yang said eagerly, receiving questionable looks from the others "he's doing a standstill operation" she stated justifying her response to the other interns.

"I'd like to try. First I need some additional patient history, overnight labs, and a cerebral angio!" He said trying to hand the chart to Meredith. She gave him a questionable look. If only he could explain to her everything.

"I'm drunk" Meredith states in an annoyed tone before walking away.

"Meredith?" Derek calls out, trying to follow her but the other interns step in his way

"McBastard" Izzie mutters under her breath just load enough for Derek to hear.

To distracted to respond he steps by them placing the case notes on the nearby medical cart. Christina quickly picked up the case report.

"Ahem!" Izzie says looking shocked

"What are you doing?" George asks Cristina with malleus in his voice.

Christina gives them a dah look "Uh..I am on her side, but we're talking a possible standstill here. Recognize."

Derek followed Meredith to the main entrance of the hospital. She was just walking out the main door when Derek managed to catch up with her. Only a few feet a way he yelled out "Meredith! Meredith"

"Go away!" Meredith yelled back as she continued to walk out into the rain.

"Just wait. We should discuss this." Derek tried to convince her to listen. If she heard the story then she'd know.

"Here's a thought. No! Quit following me!" Meredith continued her walk to the car park.

"At least let me explain" Derek said desperately, causing Meredith to pause and face him.

"Explain? You know when you should have explained? The night we met in the bar. Before any of the rest of it. Yeah, that would have been a good time to discuss it."

"Look I know how you feel…." Derek was quickly interrupted by Meredith.

"Do you? Somehow I doubt that. Because if you did, you would shut up, and you would turn around and go back inside, because you would realize that I am this close to getting in my car and running you down in the parking lot!" She all but screamed with the most hateful look in her eye.

Anger overcame Derek this was Addison's fault, she had popped the happy bubble that he had been living in Seattle. He had to see the chief about this.

APOV

I saw Richard sitting up in his hospital bed reading a book, it had been years since I had seen Richard we had exchanged Christmas cards and emails over the years but since he took over as chief at Seattle Grace they hadn't had face to face contact. I knocked on the door causing Richard to quickly look up at me, a smile quickly appeared on his face, one that I reciprocated.

"Addison! Come in, its lovely to see you " He said with a warm smile.

"It's great to see you too, how are you feeling?" I ask as I walked over to the seat next to the hospital bed.

"Oh you know ok considering I've had brain surgery. How about you? How's that baby of yours?"

"Not a baby anymore, she's the best thing I've ever done" I smile thinking about my daughter. "Here she made this for you" I said passing Richard the hand drawn card Grace had made for him, before sitting down.

Richard took the card and smiled "You're right she's not a baby anymore, looks like you got a mini Picasso on your hands"

"Yeah she's in love with drawing at the moment, I swear she already has more artistic skill than me". Richard let out a small chuckle at my comment.

"Now I've organised a consult with the TTTS patient tomorrow, is that ok?"

"Yeah that's fine Richard, but you should be taking it easy and having a break"

"Now you sound like Adele" He grumbled

"Where is that lovely lady of yours?" I noticed a concerned look in Richards's eyes "She knows you're here doesn't she?"

"Well you know how she likes to worry, I'll tell her once I'm fully recovered"

"Your going to be in trouble" hell have no fury like Adele kept in the dark.

"Now come on Addi, she wont find out" Richard says trying to sound confident. I can't help but let out a laugh.

"Richard you know better than me that Adele has a sixth sense for these things" soon we were both in a fit of laughter thinking of the old times. Adele was a motherly figure however when it came to Richard she had a hot and cold switch; there was no question as to who was the boss in the relationship.

I stopped laughing when I saw Derek standing at the door, silently with his arms crossed looking like a petulant child chucking a temper tantrum. I broke the awkward silence that had engulfed the room by clearing my throat. I focused my attention back on Richard "I'll see you tomorrow to report for duty" I smiled before leaving the room not meeting Derek's eyes.

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