A/N: Hi, I'm sorry for the delay in this chapter. I was acutually in hospital for a few days so I hope you will all forgive me.

Anyway I hope you enjoy chapter 2. Thank you so much for all your reviews and support. This will be the last chapter before Christmas so I wish you all a very merry happy & healthy Christmas.

Love Chanel xxxx

LET ME HELP YOU

"Addison... Addie... wake up... wake up." Naomi shook Addison as she looked around the room.

All Addison could do was murmur a little and moan before falling straight back to sleep. Naomi could feel Addison breathing but her breaths were shallow, it looked like she was out for the night. Oh God the Children.

Naomi pulled out her cell phone and called the only person she could think of.

"Alex."

"Naomi, what um what... what's wrong?" Alex stammered. He never received calls from Naomi.

"I need your help. Looks like Addie has taken 1 too many pills and instead of half a bottle of wine she has an empty one sitting on the coffee table. She is breathing but I don't know...Should we call an ambulance?" Naomi said in a rush.

"Jesus." Alex muttered under his breath. " No! Don't call an ambulance. I'm on my way." Alex said firmly.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. If she is breathing between us we can sort this out, without the hospital getting involved." Alex said as he rushed out the door.

20 minutes later Alex arrived and lifted Addison into his arms and carried her upstairs to her bedroom. She only stirred briefly and her head fell against Alex's chest. Naomi pulled the covers back and Alex placed her on the bed. He opened her eyes and flashed the light in them, took her blood pressure, checked her pulse and declared that she would be fine.

"She just needs to sleep it off. If we take her to any hospital, it could ruin her career, she has been through enough."

"Addie needs to be strong for the children. I just don't understand why she is doing this." Naomi loved her friend but right now she was really angry with her.

"I do." Alex said quietly. "Look I'll stay here the night with her, make sure she is okay. Do you want to take Jack and Matilda so they don't have to see their mother like this?"

"Yeah. I think that's a good idea."

Naomi woke the children and told them that they were going to have a sleepover at her place. She made it sound really exciting. Matilda was wise beyond her years and asked why her mother wasn't going to say goodbye to them.

"Well mommy is a little sick at the moment and is having a sleep."

"Mommy is always asleep." Matilda said as her bottom lip dropped.

"I know sweetie, but you remember Alex don't you?"

"Yes."

"Well he is a Doctor like mommy and he is going to take excellent care of her."

"I wanna see her. I miss mommy. She is always sleepy." Jack was now getting upset at the prospect of not seeing his mother.

"I wish Daddy was here. He always looked after mommy." Matilda pouted.

Alex could hear all of this and left Addison's side to see if he could put the children at rest. He had had a lot of practice reassuring his sister when he was growing up.

"Hi guys." Alex said brightly.

"Hello Alex." Jack's face lit up. Alex was very cool in Jacks opinion because whenever Alex visited he always played football with him and carried him on his shoulders.

"Hi Alex, I wanna see Mommy." Matilda stated quite matter of fact.

"Well see Mommy has this really bad headache and is sleeping. So Aunt Nae is going to take you to her place for a sleepover. It's going to be really cool." Alex said trying to make it sound great.

"Why?" Matilda asked still sceptical.

"Well because I need to take care of mommy and you can stay up and watch a movie and eat some junk food. It will be so much better than staying here" Alex suggested.

"And you know Maya is home and I'm sure she will paint your fingernails and toenails." Naomi added hoping to sweeten the deal.

"Really?" Matilda idolised Maya so this sold her.

"I don't wanna do that. Can I take my cars?" Jack said.

"Of course you can." Naomi said smiling.

"I wish my daddy was here." Jack added.

"I know you do buddy, but how about tomorrow, I come and pick you up and we can go bike riding." Alex said.

"I still have training wheels."

"That's okay. You might not need them by the end of the day!"

"Alright." Jack reluctantly agreed before a smile spread across his lips.

"Okay kids lets go, we can pick up some popcorn to go with the movie." Naomi said as they began to walk downstairs.

"Alex." Jack whispered.

"Yeah."

"Can you give mommy a kiss for me? She didn't tuck me in tonight and she always kisses me goodnight." Jack whispered.

"Um well...sure I can do that. Why are you whispering?"

"Because Tilda thinks we are too big for kisses from mommy."

"Well that's silly. I promise you Jack I will give mommy a kiss for you."

Jack quickly threw his arms around Alex. Alex was a little taken back, he had always gotten along with the little boy but this...well this just almost took his breath away. This little boy was hurting so badly and Alex wanted nothing more than to help him. After Jack ran down the stairs Matilda was coming out of her bedroom with her favourite doll.

"Hey Alex."

"Yeah Tilda."

"Please take care of my mommy. She is sick. My daddy broke her heart into lots of pieces. That's what I heard the Nanny tell the Pre-school teacher." Matilda said with tears forming in her eyes. She was trying to be so strong. She felt because she was 20 minutes older than her brother she had to be the protector.

"Oh sweetie, your mommy is going to be fine. I'm a pretty good Doctor you know and I'm going to make sure she gets all better."

"Mommy always kisses my forehead when I'm sick. Will you be able to kiss her better." She asked in all seriousness.

"I am going to take care of your mommy and do everything I can."

"Make sure you kiss her forehead. It will help." Matilda said in all seriousness.

"I will do that I promise Tilda."

"Okay." Matilda conceded, before giving Alex a quick hug.

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With the children gone, Alex went back into the bedroom to check on Addison. She was still out cold but he could see her chest rising and falling so he knew at least she was going to be okay. He pulled out a newspaper and read while he sat on the small sofa in the corner of the bedroom, glancing up at Addison occasionally.

A few hours later she began to stir. He moved over to the side of the bed and held her hand.

"Addie, come on now, it's time to wake up. I need you to wake up for me."

"Ke..Kevin." Addison muttered trying to open her eyes.

"Come on that's it you can do it wake up for me." Alex cringed slightly at her mistaking him for Kevin.

Addison finally stirred and opened her eyes and they focused on Alex.

"Alex." She croaked out.

"I'm here. You are going to be okay."

"What, what happened? Children?" She said still trying to wake up.

"They are with Naomi. Do you want to tell me what you were doing?"

"Nothing. I...I just took something to help me sleep."

"Addie..."

"I'm so tired." She said sleepily.

"I know, but I'm not going anywhere and we haven't finished having this conversation."

Addison fell asleep, as did Alex. He curled up on the small sofa and he was going to make her talk at great length in the morning.

Naomi rang at 6.00am the next morning to see how Addison was, who currently was still sleeping. Alex explained that he wanted to talk to her and if she could keep the kids occupied until lunch time that would be great.

"Alex, what are you doing here?" Addison said as she sat up in bed feeling perfectly fine.

"You took an overdose of Valium and washed it down with a bottle of wine. You passed out. Thank God Naomi called in and took the children. She called me to stay with you." Alex wasn't angry but he was not sugar coating anything either.

"What? That's impossible. Where are my children?"

"I said they are with Naomi. Where they will stay until we have a serious talk."

"Alex stop being dramatic I'm fine. It was an accident. I must of taken 1 or 2 too many. It won't happen again. Now thank you for your concern but I'm taking a shower then I'm going to pick up my children."

"No."

"No? You are telling me No?"

"Yes I am. You are not seeing your children until you and I have talked."

"Alex, I appreciate what you did for me, but as you can see I am fine. It won't happen again so if you don't mind I would like you to leave."

"And I said no. You are not going anywhere until you admit you have a problem. I can help. I have a lot of experience with addiction and I am not letting you continue down this path to see your children lose their mother as well."

"Alex I said I'm sorry. I'm not an addict."

"Yes Addison you are. I know it's hard to admit, but you are an addict. I know what it feels like when you are using, how good you feel, how easy it is to function. But that's the thing you aren't functioning really and god knows what could happen."

"Oh since when do you know anything about my pain? About any type of pain. Alex you shut everyone out. You have never been in love. You don't know what it's like for me. If taking some Valium every so often helps me cope who are you to say I shouldn't. You have no idea, so just leave me alone."

Addison was becoming angry and fidgety and Alex knew she was suffering withdrawals. He knew she wanted him out of the house so she could take more pills and "seem" fine.

"No I'm not leaving you alone just so you can take more pills. Look at you, your agitated because you are craving a hit. Well NO! I care about you too much. I will not stand by and watch another person I care about continue to hurt themselves."

"Well I don't care. I asked you to leave so please just go. I lost the love of my life who right now I'm so angry with I want to kill him myself for leaving me alone, leaving me to raise our two beautiful, miracle children alone. You have no idea what that's like." Addison ranted.

"STOP! Just stop. I do know what it's like. I was in love. Izzie. Izzie killed herself, I too began to use drugs to cope, and I too denied I had a problem until a friend forced me to see I had a problem. I do know what it's like to be angry at the person you love. At least Kevin didn't end his life to be with someone else who was already dead. I was ALWAYS second choice. Denny. Denny was Izzie's only love. So DO NOT think for 1 second I don't know how it feels." Alex stopped and could see the tears in Addison's eyes.

"I...I'm so sorry Alex. I don't know what to say. I had no idea, that you and Izzie..."

"There is nothing to say. I'm still dealing with it, but I've stopped using drugs as a crutch. Please Addison let me help you?"

A/N: So thanks for reading. There will be a move back to Seattle very soon!! As usual any feedback is welcome so please be kind and review.