Chapter 3- All because of a one night stand
Late that night, Pete heard somebody enter the house. He was staying over at Addison's in case she needed anything after work, considering it was Lucy she was operating on... whatever that meant.
Addison threw all her things onto the couch and went upstairs. It had been a long day. She hoped that Pete wasn't here, but Pete, being Pete, was sitting right there on her bed staring at her.
"Hey Addison are you alright?"
"No."
"Did Lucy die?"
"No. Anyways why do you care? All you seem to talk about is her. It's as if you know her or something."
"I don't care about her I care about you!"
"Yea right, then why did you keep asking about Lucy? Why do you keep asking about Lucy?"
"Addison..."
"Answer the question or don't say ANYTHING!" Addison started to cry.
"Addison why won't you listen to me?"
"Why are you so concerned about my patient? If she even is a patient to you..."
Pete remained quiet.
"Is this a coincidence that Lucy's baby's father was called Pete? And that your ex was called Lucy?"
Addison laughed between sobs. She already knew the answer; she just needed to hear it from him.
"It's just a coincidence right? And don't lie about it it's not going to help."
After a very long pause, Pete finally spoke.
"Addison it's not." Pete said as gently as he could.
"Then I suggest you leave."
"Addison that was a long time ago. I don't care about her anymore."
"Well you've kept it from me long enough you heartless moron."
"Sorry Addison I wanted to tell you but there wasn't time."
"There wasn't time. Riigghht. What about just then? When I asked you? You had to lie. You never wanted to tell me. You said that you'd never lie to me again. You promised. I guess that shows that you can't be trusted."
"I was trying to protect you!"
"Pete you should...go...now..."
"Addison you're not feeling well let me stay for tonight."
"I'm not feeling well because of your stupid baby which no longer is alive, for GOOD! I knew you were an onion. LEAVE OR ELSE I WILL KICK YOU OUT!!!LITERALLY!!!"
"Ok Addison calm down. Call if you need anything..."
"Not going to, so why don't you go and pick up another girl from a bar and get her pregnant?"
Pete wasn't even going to respond to that considering her state right now, so he just left, the same as the other night, and left her alone.
The moment he was gone, her tears started falling. Addison hugged her blanket, and cried until she fell asleep.
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The next day, Addison called in sick, and told Naomi to cancel all her appointments for the day.
"Hello Naomi speaking."
"Hi Nai it's Addison."
"Hey Addison shouldn't you be at work by now? You have a row of patients to see, and also Charlotte King called. She wanted to speak to you."
"I'm not going to be coming in today. Can you please cancel all my patients and tell Charlotte that I don't want to speak to her."
After hearing Addison breathing heavily on the other end of the line, Naomi forgot about the business side of things.
"Addison, what's wrong? Did something happen?"
"How about Lucy was my patient, and mother of Pete's now dead child?"
"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry."
"Pete didn't even seem to care about his own child! And I thought Lucy was a good person!" She sobbed.
"Maybe she is. If Pete wasn't involved in this you wouldn't have thought what you're thinking about her right?"
"Yes but I still hate her!"
"That's what you get for becoming too attached to your patients Addison. Maybe you should go and see a psychiatrist. It sounds like you're going a tad bit loony." Addison jumped at the thought of this.
"Me? See a shrink? You've got to be kidding me. This isn't an important matter anyways. It's not like it's a matter of life and death..."
"In that case you should come in and talk to me or Violet."
"The choices between my bed, you, or some shrink? I pick my bed. Cancel all my patients."
"I'm going to come and see you later. Keep that in..."
Before Naomi could say another word, Addison had already hung up.
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Addison moped around the house all day, then took a walk on the beach. Soon enough, someone was knocking on her door. It was Naomi, as promised.
"Hey. Here as promised!"
"Aren't I glad to see you. More talking just what I need."
"Come on Addison. Just talk to me. You tell me everything remember?"
"What is there to tell?"
"Well, for a start, who was Lucy? Really?"
"Some girl he picked up from a bar, who also happens to be Kevin's girlfriend."
"And you speak of Kevin again. Why does everything come back to him?"
"I don't know." Addison sighed.
"Why do you care about Pete so much anyways? Isn't he just another guy you went out with?"
"No Nai that's what you don't understand. He's different. You know Derek never loved me. He never really cared. Pete cares, and even though I say he doesn't I know he does."
"Really? That still doesn't answer my question about Kevin."
"Kevin and I used to go out, we used to have fun, we used to be...in love, or at least what I thought was."
"You use the words 'used to' a lot."
"Because it's the past. It's over. No more. Gone."
"So you keep saying. Do you still have feelings for Kevin? I mean you two were pretty close before anyone else got in your way."
"No, no, no definitely not....maybe...probably....ok yes I might."
Naomi put on her I knew it face.
"Oh my god I'm falling for a cop, my ex, my enemy, all over again? He's got a girlfriend for god's sake."
"I'm not so sure about that anymore. I heard from somewhere that he was using her."
"What why?"
"Who knows you should ask him."
"Never."
"Then I'm leaving. I have better things to do. I'll leave you to your thinking.
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I'm falling for Kevin again? Maybe it's because Pete wasn't the kind of guy I thought he was. Maybe it's because I was using Pete as a stand-in for Kevin. I'm all confused now...I don't know how I feel anymore! When I was with Kevin, I was happy and hopelessly in love with him. When I caught him with her...I was shattered and determined to hate him' til the end of time. But now I'm soooo confused GOD DAMN IT!!! DAMN, DAMN , DAMN ,DAMN ....DAMN!!!!! Then PETE!!! WHAT RIGHT DOES HE HAVE TO PULL THIS ONE ON ME??? Why am I damned to love two of the biggest bastards in this world????...oh wait, that was Derek and Mark...WHY AM I THINKING ABOUT DEREK AGAIN!!! Damn, Addi, what is wrong wi... why is the room spinning? My stomach...Pete...Kevin... P-P-Pet...Kevin..oww...w....w....
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"Hey Naomi is Addison here?"
Naomi was on her way to get some patient files when Pete's voice stopped her.
"No. What did you do to her? What did you say to her last night?"
"Nothing. I swear. She was the one who kicked me out."
"Ok whatever."
"Ok whatever? That's it? No lecture. Thank God for that."
"You will be getting one just not yet."
"Damn the gods of this universe..."
"Right Pete now out of my way if you please."
"I don't but..."
Bring bring.
"Hello Naomi Bennett."
"Nai..."Addison's weak voice called desperately.
"Addison is everything ok?"
"I have a feeling I just fainted, my lower abdomen is throbbing and I feel like I'm going to..."
Addison threw up all over her freshly laid sheets.
"Oh crap. Am I sick or something?"
"Can you get yourself to the practice?"
"I'll try. I'll go when I feel a little better."
"Addison are you pregnant in any way?"
"I better not be."
"I'll see you later. Take care."
Pete stood their gawking at their last sentences.
"Pregnant?"
"Pete! I thought you had gone. Gosh. You didn't hear that."
"Right...I'll see you later then..."
"Yea."
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A few hours later, Addison staggered into the practice, still clutching her stomach. Violet was first to spot her, closely followed by Pete.
" Addison are you alright?"
"Naomi.........."
"Um...Naomi is seeing a patient. I'll go get her. You can go in my office"
Violet left, leaving Addison with Pete, not a very good idea.
"Addi."
"Don't call me that!"
"We still need to talk."
"No we don't get out of my way."
"You know I didn't care about Lucy. When my wife died, I didn't know what to do, or where to go, so I spent my time in bars."
Addison was pretending to not listen, although you could clearly see that she was hurting a lot inside.
"Lucy was a one-night stand Addison. And only that."
"Then why did you have to keep it from me?" Addison was on the verge of collapsing, tears running down her cheeks.
"Addison you look like you're going to faint why don't you sit down for a minute?"
"No I don't want to sit. I want you out of here."
"No I'm not going."
Addison couldn't stand anymore talk from Pete, so she slapped him, hard, across the cheek.
"What did you do that for?"
"GET OUT!"
"Ok I'm going."
Pete left to go and find someone to calm her down, while Addison was left sitting on the couch in a mess.
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Pete searched the practice for someone who was free, who could help Addison. Luckily, he found the best person possible. Naomi.
"Naomi. NAOMI!"
"What can I help you with Pete?" Naomi spat out.
"Naomi can you go and calm Addison down?"
"And why should I? You break her and you expect me to pick up her pieces and glue her back together again? Because that girl has gone through enough without you putting more pressure on her."
"Nai go in she looks like she was about to faint." Pete urged.
"If you need to know she fainted earlier...ADDISON!! Addison wake up. Addison?"
"Pulse is strong thank god."
Addison started to stir.
"Hey Addison stay down for a while. I think you getting worked up this much isn't good for you."
"Hmm what happened how did I faint?"
"Um..."
Addison, out of the corner of her eye, spotted Pete and started to panic again.
"Pete what's he doing here? I told him to GET OUT!!!"
"Addison, calm down."
Addison was trying to fight Naomi as Naomi tried her best to keep her still.
"Addison if you don't calm down you're going to have to go to hospital."
"Just please get him out and tell him not to talk to me, not yet anyways."
"As long as you stay calm."
"Thank you Naomi. My abdomen hurts so much..."
"Just glad you're ok. I've called an ambulance. They will be here in 2 minutes."
Addison grimaced, and just laid there on the couch.
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The ambulance had come and gone and within 5 minutes, were at the emergency section of St. Ambrose hospital. Addison had now been relieved of her pain and, with Naomi by her side, was ready for whatever scans and tests they were going to do on her.
"I'll be out here waiting for you."Naomi assured Addison.
"Ok."
Naomi turned around, sat down, and the long wait begun. Waiting is very very boring, and since Naomi had come to the hospital with so little preparation, all that was left to do was think.
"She better not be pregnant, better not be pregnant, better have appendicitis, APPENDICTIS that must be what she has!!! OMG I can't believe that I didn't figure this out earlier what kind of friend am I? A horrible one...This better not be too serious. I can't believe I just hoped that she had an inflamed appendix! She needs surgery, she might die! Naomi you're a doctor of course you know she won't die. What if the doctors are new what if they don't know how to do the surgery...Ok Naomi you're getting ahead of yourself. Does Addison even have appendicitis? Oh no what if she's sicker? Oh god..."
"Dr Bennett?"
Naomi didn't hear someone calling for her, so she kept on mumbling, and panicking at something which might not even exist.
"DR BENNETT?"
"Huh what? Oh hi doctor is Addison Ok?"
"Yes she's in room 205. She wants to see you before she goes into surgery."
"Surgery? Why what's wrong with her?"
" She has appendicitis."
"Ok." That was the only thing she could come up with.
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Inside room 205, Addison was being prepped for surgery, a simple procedure.
"Hey Addison how are you feeling?"
"Fine. Look you can go if you want I don't want to keep you here."
"I'm so sorry Addison I should have known."
"It's fine no one could have known. I'm a doctor too you know."
"I still should've suspected something."
"Naomi, I have to go now stop worrying the surgery will be fine."
And fine it was, within an hour Addison was back in her room, where she belonged.
From a distance, Naomi spotted Kevin talking to Addison's doctor.
"Hey Kevin come here."
"Hey Naomi how's it going?"
"Don't upset Addison she's just out of surgery, I don't want you to put any pressure on her."
"Oh I'm sure I won't. Can I go in?" Kevin concluded after flashing a smile at Naomi.
"I'm not sure about that..."
"I swear I won't do anything."
Naomi didn't realise that a fraction of the door was open, and that Addison could hear the commotion outside her room.
"Naomi it's fine you can let him in." Addison called.
"You sure?"
"Positive."
"See I told you." Kevin grinned.
"Remember. Addison."
"Yes madam."
"Idiot." Naomi muttered under her breath.
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"Hi Addison."
"What are you doing here?"
"Nice to see you too."
"Shut up answer my question."
"To see how you were doing with Pete gone and all."
"And how the heck did you hear about that?"
"Lucy told me. I'm so sorry"
"And how did Lucy know?"
"Doesn't matter."
"You're pathetic. Get out of here. You coming in was not ok."
"Come on Addison you know you still feel for me."
"NAOMI GET HIM OUT!!!"
"Kevin get out Addison calm down."
Addison did everything but that.
"Not again I hate them never want to see them again. HATE THEM HATE THEM!!!"
"Blood pressure is rising Addison you have to calm down. Deep breaths come on."
Soon enough the signs of a panic attack had faded and all was back to normal.
"Thank you Nai."
"Whenever you need me."
For the next few days, not one of the top 4 bastards made any contact with Addison, and she recovered in peace. All was good, until the day she had to go back to work.
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A/N You may have noticed that the characters are a tad bit OOC, please bare with me. I am so so sorry for not posting for so long over the holidays my computer decided to crash, and I also had a block. Thanks to quannn for helping me write part of it and to rena for giving me all the weird ideas.