Hey guys,

wow so many of you were interested in reading an alternative ending with an Addek-endgame. Since I'm such a big Addek-fan and always had and always will have a really soft spot for them, because I really think they were a really great couple and hated that Shonda NEVER game them a real chance, here's the alternative ending. The beginning is similar to the other ending, but I promise there will be a big different twist. ;)

I hope you'll enjoy it and keep reviewing.

Love Mariella

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All I ask of you - Chapter 2 - Alternative Ending

Addison smiled at him once more and then turned together with him and Camille to the audience to bow. The cheering was quiet loud. They really had done a stunning performance. Only one person wasn't happy at all. Derek Shepherd looked at the stage in anger. How could she sing this song with another guy?! It was their song, he knew she tried to talk to him, to sing it together, because Camille asked her, but he didn't want to, so he pretended he didn't listen, but he never in a million years thought she would sing it with Alex Karev or another guy. He expected her to drop it and tell Camille that she was sorry, but now his wife was standing on the stage with Alex Karev's fingers all over her. What did he think to touch her like this, to hold her close, to sing to her! He was angry and even though he hated to admit it, he was jealous like hell.

Addison, Alex and Camille left the stage together. Addison smiled at them. "Great work guys."

"Yeah, I never disagree with my aunt, especially when she's right." Camille told her and left, because Richard was coming up to her.

Addison turned to Alex. "So Karev, good work, who thought you could sing?!" She told him grinning.

"Yeah, but you weren't too bad yourself." He told her smirking. "So, one question?"

"You did me a huge favor, so I think a question is only fair."

"How comes you can play the piano and sing?" He looked at her curious.

"She played the piano since she was three and had singing lessons for the major of her childhood." Derek Shepherd answered, before Addison could say anything. Alex and Addison turned around to him. "Actually he asked me and not you!" She stated. Derek closed the last space to her. "Addison, a word in private?" He asked her softly.

Addison sighed, but told Alex. "See you later Karev." She then let Derek guide her to an empty patient room. She turned around, after he had closed the door and looked at him bugged. "What the heck Derek?" She told him angry.

"You were singing a love duet with your intern!"

"Yeah, like I told you, Camille asked me to sing it."

"You simply asked your intern to sing a love duet with you?" Derek asked her angry.

"Derek, why are you so angry?" She challenged him.

"Because this was highly inappropriate!"

"You're kidding me, right? Highly inappropriate? This is really funny Derek."

"Actually it is not! You were all over Alex Karev on this stage for everyone to see."

"Derek! That's enough!" She told him quietly. "You have NO right to …"

"No right?! Damn Addison, I'm your HUSBAND, I have EVERY right!"

"Oh my god … you're jealous. Seriously?"

"Addison …"

"No, Derek, you know, now your my husband? That's just great. When you were flirting with Meredith Grey, ignoring me and weren't listening to me, when I told you about Camille's wish, where was my god damn husband then?! You're jealous, but I didn't give you any reason to be, because you were the first choice for this singing part, but you didn't want it, so I searched for another guy to sing it, because I couldn't deny Camille that. I could never deny her anything and especially when I see her lying there like this. She's my god child Derek and this means something to me. I remember times when you cared about her a lot too, when she visited us in New York and you took her to the Rockefeller Center to go ice skating with her, because she said she wanted to do it all the time. You were her uncle Derek, who never let her down and who was just trying to make her as happy as possible, like I did. You could have expected that I would sing the song with or without you! You're so full of yourself Derek. Not everything is about you, not everyone turns around when you walk by. You're a great surgeon, but know what the man I married, my husband he's gone! For years now, I think he died or something and only left a Derek back, who only cares about his carrier and gives a shit about other people!" Addison screamed at him angry.

"Addison …"

"No, don't Addison me! You think you are the only good surgeon out there? I am a world-class neonatal surgeon with board certifications in both Obestrics and Gynaecology and Maternal and Fetal Medicine, people come from all over the world to see me, but I NEVER gave you the feeling that you were nothing and that work was so much more important than you and our marriage! You know what?! I give up, you won. I will sign the divorce papers and you can have everything out of this marriage that you want. I really hope, you're happy now." She told him defeated. When she opened the door, she saw at least half of the hospital standing there, listening to the argument. Addison sighed, great, you what she needed right now. She didn't look at any of them, but simply made her way through the crowd. When she was half through the entrance hall, she heard a voice from behind. "Addison!" She tried to ignore it and simply moved on. "Damn, Addie! Can you just stop for a moment and turn around?"

She sighed. She knew him good enough to know that he probably wasn't going to give up, until she let him say what he wanted to say. So she turned around and looked at Derek through the crowd, who had shifted a bit to the side, to make them space. "Derek, seriously …"

"You don't want to hear it? You don't want that I tell this in front of the whole hospital, because you don't want that they think even more that you are satan? I get it Addie! I'm really sorry that I made the whole hospital think that bad of you. You're not a bad person and in no way like satan. What happened in our marriage … it's just as much my fault. I stopped coming home, I was an ass. Surgery was more important than anything else, it was more important than family, friends or you. I was a terrible husband the last two years. I forgot birthdays, holiday and anniversaries and sent my best friend over to make it up to you. I should have known that this wasn't enough. I promised you to love and cherries you, when we got married and I didn't for a long time. I know it's not making up anything, but I wanted so badly that you're proud of me. I never wanted you to look up at me or anything, but I wanted you … I only wanted to be equal to you."

Addison now had tears in her eyes. "But we always were equals Derek."

Derek smiled at her sadly. "Yeah, maybe but you were always the brilliant one, the one, who stood out in everything she did. You could have gone to Juilliard to study music, but you decided against it and for medicine. You brought Mark and me through med school, your notes and cards were always the best to learn. In internship and residency you outdid everyone. Everyone saw that you would be the best doctor from all of us. When I did one certification you did two and added an fellowship. You're so brilliant Addison and I never wanted you to give the feeling that you were nothing to me, because I was always so proud, I always was the lucky guy, who could be by your side through anything."

"Then why did you stop coming home?"

"I only wanted to care for you. To make enough money to give you everything!"

"Derek, this is stupid. This never was about money!"

"For you it never was … but it became that for me at one point. I don't say that it was good and I really regret that, because I should have known money never was important to you in our marriage. Addison, please, I'm sorry and begging her now, in front of the god damn hospital to give me a chance to become the guy you met in med school, the guy you married before we started internship, the guy who loves you more than anything again."

Addison looked at him for a while and the whole hospital fell in silence, before Addison looked at Derek closely and told him. "I don't know Derek, but if you really want that, maybe you shouldn't give up like in med school. You convinced me back then to go out with you, maybe you manage to convince me now that we really should give our marriage another shot." She then turned around and left the hospital. The whole hospital was dumbfound, only Derek was grinning brightly, because he remembered the time in med school, when he showed up at Addison's door step every day to convince her to go out with him. He asked her every day in another way to go out with him and he was sure, that he could convince her now that they could make their marriage work again. He would show her that he still was the guy she fell in love with.

*** 6 months later ***

Derek was really nervous. The last months had worked out good for him and Addison. She had moved out of the trailer and into an apartment. He didn't want to live separated from her, but he finally agreed, because he wanted to do things on her terms. She wanted to live as far away on the trailer as possible, so Derek always visited her and she had never been back to the trailer since. They went on dates again and Derek started to become the husband he once were again. Without telling Addison he started to built a house on the ground where the trailer stood. He had decorated it, with some help of their decorator back from New York, who knew exactly what kind of style Addison loved for her home. Derek had picked Addison up in the evening, telling her, they would have dinner, but blindfolded her as soon as she got in the car.

"Derek, that's stupid!"

"Oh come on, Addie. It's not that far away anymore."

"Yeah, you said that about half an hour ago!"

Derek laughed. "You're exaggerating, that was maybe 10 minutes ago."

"But it at least feels like half an hour."

He kissed her softly. "We're really almost there and I want to surprise you, so would you please stop mopping around."

Addison sighed dramatically. "Fine, but you know I HATE surprises!"

"I promise, you will love this one."

Short time later they arrived at the ground. Derek took her by the hand and guided her inside the house, into the major bedroom, from which they had a great view all around their land. They sun was had just started to set.

"You ready for your surprise?"

"I'm ready since you put this stupid blindfold onto me."

Derek put the blindfold down and Addison could look around for the first time. She was left speechless for a moment. "Wow, that's … where exactly are we Derek?" She asked him, still lost in the moment, when she looked at him, she saw him kneeling down in front of her. "What …"

"We're at our house, I have let it built over the last months and I really hope you will move in here with me, but when you don't like it, we can live somewhere else or move back to New York, if you want to. I love you Addison and I never want to be a day without you, so I'm asking you to move in with me."

"Derek, that's …"

"That's not all. Addison, I will try the rest of my life to make the last years up to you, so I'm asking you: Addison Adrienne Forbes Montgomery-Shepherd, will you do me the honor to become my wife again? Remarry me."

Addison know had tears in her eyes, she bended down and kissed him. Derek put himself up with her and after a passionate kiss, he pulled apart from her only as much as really necessary, before asking her. "Does this mean yes?"

Addison laughed and Derek thought he had never heard anything more beautiful in years. "Of course you jerk. I'll move in with you and I always was your wife, so of course I'll be your wife again."

Derek grinned at her and he knew he had exactly the same stupid grin on his face, like when she agreed to marry him for the first time. Derek couldn't suppress a groan, when she whispered in his ear. "But before we do anything else, we should definitely christian this room."

Their lips crashed together again and Derek knew he was the most lucky guy in the whole world to have her by her side, to fall down on the bed with her together and he would never trade this for anything in the whole world.


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