Don't choke on the bone fragments.

Chapter 3.

Disclaimer: Shonda Rhymes and all the other fabulous writers.

After Addison cleaned herself up, she went to lay down in an on call room. With her eyes open she stared up at the ceiling. Why was her life so similar to a soap opera? She knew it was partly her own fault; she just couldn't keep her voice down when she was upset or angry.

As she was over thinking that day's events, the door opened. She didn't notice someone walking in until two piercing blue eyes looked straight in to her green ones.

"Derek?" Addison started to get up from the bed.

"Addie, Sweetheart, it's all right, just lay down" he looked at her with eyes full of worry and sorrow.

Addison lowered herself back on the bed but her whole body remained tensed. Derek lay down next to her. At first they were just staring in to nowhere, their bodies inches apart but not close enough for physical contact.

After a while Derek pulled her in his arms, his face buried in her flaming red locks.

Addison started crying, Crying became sobbing when he started placing soft kisses on her forehead. She was glad he held her, it was comforting and for the first time since her arrival in Seattle she felt loved.

"I know you miss him Adds" Derek whispered while caressing her cheek. "he was all we ever wanted" he add.

Addison nodded and wiped away her tears. She took a deep shaky breath.

"I loved him so much Derek" she whispered.

"I know Addie, so did I" he rubbed her back in slow soothing circles. "it broke us apart, we got absent, we no longer cared"

Addison shook her head. "I cared, I cared so much for you" she looked at him, eyes still wet from tears now filled with caring and expectation.

Derek remained quiet, then he snorted. "well, yes, and you had a nice way of showing it!"

Addison pulled away. "Don't even start there Derek, by now the whole hospital probably knows about our dead son, our joke of a marriage and the affairs, lets just stay friendly for a little while? Because I need you Derek, you're all I have left" She started crying again.

Derek quickly held her in his arms again. "I need you two Addison, now more then ever"

They lay in silence, just holding one another tightly .

Minutes passed, slowly they drifted off to sleep. Safely dreaming in each others embrace…

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Meredith Grey was having a good day. She assisted on a successful Appendectomy structure this morning and had just finished her second successful surgery for that day. She was now on her way to tell the parents of Mark Sloan's sixteen year old patient that their daughters angioma simplex had been (again successfully) removed without any complications and close to no scarring.

When she finished talking to the parents she went to the nurses station to give Patricia her chard and ask if somebody knew where Dr. Shepherd was. After asking around for a while she found out he went in to an on call room at the third floor.

Approaching the door she smoothed her scrubs, pulled down her hair and liked her lips. She softly opened the door. She started walking towards the bed stopped dead in her tracks while letting out a small gasp.

Derek was a sleep on the bottom bunk, but next to him on the bed, in his arms was his ex-wife, or almost ex-wife, but still. She knew Addison was having a rough day. After the incident in the cafeteria Derek had explained to her a little more about Lars, who was apparently their son. She was ok with him being civil towards Addison but spooning in an on call room was going a bit overboard.

And it wasn't so much the hugging that bothered her, it was the way they hugged, fitting in to each other like a completed puzzle. Her head laying on his chest, his lips touching her forehead, his right hand resting on her lower abdomen, their legs intertwined. As she studied them for a minute, Addison's eyes begun to flutter and she started stretching.

Meredith froze when Addison's emerald eyes locked with hers…

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Addison had been in the middle of something very good and important that she could now no longer remember when she woke up because she was being watched.

"Meredith?" she moved Derek's hand off of her abdomen and unwrapped his arms from hugging her. Slowly she sat up and let her eyes adjust to the light.

Derek started waking up next to her. "Meredith" Addison repeated "it's not what it looks like" she looked at the (still) frozen inter with concerned eyes.

"Mere!" Derek mumbled groggily "let me explain"

Meredith looked At him sceptical "oh, please explain Derek, because I thought you'd already explained it to me this morning! After I found out you not only have a wife but you also have a son!"

Derek sat next to Addison , who was staring out the window at the dark sky in silence.

"had" Derek whispered "we had a son, he was…" Derek began but he was interrupted by Addison "I had a rough day, Derek was just comforting me, nothing happened, we were both tired and we fell asleep" Meredith snorted "of course he was once again comforting you, the only problem is he shouldn't, you're divorced! I'm his girl friend, you" she pointed at Addison "are his EX-wife" Derek cleared his throat "almost ex-wife" he mumbled.

"same thing!" Meredith yelled, she looked at Addison who looked like she was about to cry and spat "You take every chance you get to win him back, don't take me wrong, I'm willing to fight you, but a dead kid? I don't have on so I can't compete here!" Meredith was furious.

Addison and Derek both stared at her, shocked expressions on their faces .

Slowly Addison rose from the bed, she walked to the door without looking back.

The door slammed shut.

And silence remained.