30 Day SongFic Drabble Challenge: Day 9
Fandom:
Grey's Anatomy
Pairing/Character(s):
Addison Montgomery-Shepherd.
Song:"Breakdown,"
by Breaking Benjamin
Song Excerpt:
What I found in this
town
I'm heading for a breakdown
What's that sound, you're
so loud
I'm heading for a breakdown
Drabble:
When Addison came to
Seattle, she had expected a few things to happen: shock from Derek at
seeing her, an ensuing argument or three, and then after some long
conversations, a move back to New York with her husband and a trend
toward everything becoming normal again. So, when she arrived in the
wet city and snooped around a bit, everything she discovered floored
her.
He had found another woman. Derek Shepherd, her brilliant neurosurgeon husband with the thick hair and warm eyes and the rich laugh, was sleeping with another woman! The fact that she had slept with Mark notwithstanding, didn't he hear her when she begged him not to do this, not to leave, not to get so upset without letting her explain; didn't he miss her even a little bit? But then she saw him there, standing with the slutty intern, smiling and laughing and being happy and dammit, that smiling, laughing happiness belonged to her!
It was then that she set her back in a resolute line and strode forward, intent to take her husband back and reclaim everything about him she loved in the first place; slutty intern notwithstanding. As she stood there, smirking at the look of shock covering both their faces as she deliver her stinging, "And you must be the woman who's been screwing my husband," line, Addison was sure that everything was going to go her way, and it felt good.
But now, here they were, who knows how many months later, and all the marriage councilors and hand holding in the world somehow couldn't manage to repair their relationship. Derek was insistent that he couldn't stop talking to Meredith (the slutty intern had a name, now) because he worked with her, and Addison was sure that was just a farce.
Skip forward for a while longer, and suddenly Addison is certain that Seattle is going to be the death of her. Everything she knew, everything that she loved, everything that was her life for eleven years is now suddenly just gone, banished by an act of carnal affection, never to return to her. It was bad enough that everything was collapsing around her, but the fact that her now ex-husband has to be so damned vocal about it isn't helping either. He'd been at her since day one, always talking, always accusing her of something, always blaming it on her, and by now she was so sick of it that she would have given anything to make it end.
Everyone, everything, Derek, Meredith, the smiles, the laughs, the panties in his pocket, it was all just so loud, and Addison needed some quiet. She just needed some peace and quiet. That was all she wanted. So when she got in her cherry red convertible and finally headed down the highway, leaving the screaming accusations and accusatory looked behind, she felt something within her start to weave itself back together. Hopefully, in Los Angeles, things will stay that way, and the new city won't break her down like the last one did.
