Whoa, Baby!

A Grey's Anatomy fic by Gigi

Chapter 4: Food Fight

A/N: I'm at work. Again. Writing a chapter. Again. Aside from doing AP lit and AP chem summer work, I'm pretty much paid to write fanfiction. Good deal.

"Alex...and...Alex and..." Izzie seemed incapable of forming those last three syllables.

"Alex and Addison?" George finally said.

"What?"

The four interns turned to see a shaken Derek Shepherd standing in the doorway.

Addison was sitting at a table in the cafeteria alone, updating the file of the patient she just operated on, when Derek came storming up to her.

"It's Karev's?" he demanded loudly enough for everybody in the cafeteria to hear. Addison closed her eyes when she noticed heads turning her way.

"Derek, be quiet," she ordered. "People are looking."

"How the hell can I be quiet when you're having Alex Karev's baby?" he yelled out. As soon as the words were out his mouth, people started talking to each other excitedly, and Addison even heard a few gasps. Alex, who had just entered the food court in time to hear Derek's explosion, decided it might be better for him to go eat somewhere else. But Derek saw him first. "Karev! Get your ass over here!" Alex hunched his shoulders slightly at being caught, but obeyed the neurosurgeon, walked over to Addison's table and set down his tray.

"Yes, Dr. Shepherd?" he asked, acting as if he had no idea what was going on.

"You're sleeping with my wife?" Derek exclaimed.

"No," Alex denied. "I'm sleeping with your ex-wife." Derek blushed at his slip, and Addison coughed indignantly. "Sorry. I'm with your ex-wife."

"Since when?"

"For about two months," Alex answered calmly, although he fully expected to be pummeled to the ground any minute now, especially if Sloan had found out as well.

Derek turned his indignant gaze on Addison now. "How pregnant are you?"

Addison suddenly found her hands very interesting. "Two months," she whispered out, her face getting redder by the minute.

"So you screwed my wife, got her pregnant and then decided to be with her?" he rounded on Alex.

"Hey!" Addison fumed. "As difficult as it may be for you to believe, not every man sees me as just a bedwarmer."

Alex rushed to her defense. "I slept with your ex-wife, and when she got pregnant, I didn't even think of running or regret sleeping with her because it would mean I had to stay with her," he said. "I didn't stay with her just because it was the 'right thing to do,' either."

Derek just stood there, breathing as if he had just run a 10K, while the murmur of voices grew louder around them. People were beginning to go back to their own conversations.

Unable to stop herself, Addison eyed her ex-husband curiously and asked, "Why do you care so much?"

All the heat seemed to leave Derek's body when he heard what Addison had asked him. "What?"

"Why do you care so much about Alex being the father that you broke your promise to me to keep the baby thing a secret?" Addison's eyes were hard now. "And why do you now see it appropriate to call me your wife when you never felt that protective of me our entire marriage?"

Silence was his reply. Derek knew there was no way to defend the enormous wave of jealousy that had taken him over and so stayed silent.

Wait.

Jealousy?

8D

Meredith slumped in her chair, chewing her carrot with a vengeance. Christina silently ate her soup, watching her person with caution. George stared at his pasta-like substance. Izzie, however, had no problem talking, her voice colored with disbelief.

"I cannot believe that just happened," she said, poking at her salad. "It was weird enough wrapping my head around the fact that Alex and Dr. Montgomery slept together, but now she's pregnant? It just blows my mind." She stopped talking for a minute, observing her ex-boyfriend sitting and comforting an obviously distressed Dr. Montgomery. "I wonder how the chief took it," she wondered aloud. The other three interns looked at her exasperatedly. "What?"

"You're making idle conversation about how the chief took the news of Alex dating Addison when we just watched my boyfriend repeatedly call Addison his wife and throw a fit over the fact that she was carrying Alex's baby!" Meredith ranted.

Izzie looked down at the table. "I wasn't really surprised by that part," she admitted.

"Why not?" Meredith prodded. "Do you think he regrets leaving his wife for me?"

"No!" Izzie replied quickly. "I just think that they were married for almost twelve years, and he'll always care about her, even if he did neglect to let her know that while they were together."

"So you're taking her side?" Meredith asked incredulously. "You think it was right for her to cheat on him?"

"Do you think it was right for him to cheat on her with you at the prom? When she was trying her hardest to save their marriage?" Izzie countered. She was getting a little tired of Meredith's constant need to be a martyr.

Hurt flashed through Meredith's eyes, but she came up with no answer.

"Don't say that it was wrong for her to cheat to get her husband's attention when you cheated for no reason," Izzie continued. "I am just saying that I sympathize with Dr. Montgomery. She has had to go around this hospital watching her ex-husband constantly devote himself to you ever since the divorce. And while I do think it's weird that she chose my ex-boyfriend, I'm glad that she is finally moving on." Once she finished her little spiel, she picked up her tray and dumped the contents in the trash can. On her way out, she approached Addison and Alex's table. "Hi, Alex, Dr. Montgomery."

"Hello, Dr. Stephens," Addison greeted, obviously confused. "What can I do for you?"

"I just want to say congratulations--to both of you--on the baby," Izzie explained.

"You do?" Alex asked, earning himself a swift kick in the shin under the table from Addison. Izzie tried to hide the giggles that were fighting to bubble out of her.

Turning back to the blonde intern, Addison smiled graciously and accepted her congratulations. "Thank you, Dr. Stephens. That means a lot coming from you."

Izzie could tell what the attending meant and returned her smile. "Izzie, please."

"Then I suppose you can call me Addison outside the hospital," she reciprocated. Looking at her watch, she looked apologetically at both interns and excused herself. "I'm sorry, but I have to check up on a few patients. I'll see you both later."

"Bye," Alex replied, grabbing her wrist as she stood up and bringing her in for a small kiss. "We might as well now the cat's out of the bag."

After the initial shock wore off, the corners of Addison's lips curved upward. "I guess," she agreed, pecking him one last time before straightening. "Bye."

Izzie watched the exchange with a big dopey grin on her face, having the strongest desire to "Aw" at the couple. She repressed the urge to laugh when she saw Alex's eyes follow Addison's ass as she walked away from the table.

"You're completely whipped," she whispered in his ear before leaving the cafeteria for herself.

A/N: So what do you think? Excuse any typos. I typed this up on my phone and emailed it to myself. PLEASE reward my freaky updating spell by reviewing! Maybe it'll prolong the string of updates!