Counting Stars
Alterus: It won't be Jake! I also liked him on the few episodes of PP I watched :D But I still have to make up my mind about what he will be like.
LoveLastsForever: Oh, I wish I had a guy like Derek is in my stories :D but this update took me so ef'n looooong because I actually re wrote it all. I had two chapters all done but they were like "Oh, you're married, okay, still wanna date?" and just no. So I hope you're still reading :)
Addison-fan: Sorry for the insane wait! I really had to figure out how to do this now… I'm glad you found it funny! I'm need sure if people just like the fluff because I love some comedy...
NetflixPerson01: I was gonna have her say because it's unprofessional at first BUT I thought it would be more fun this way… Sometimes I forget why...
Lena-Prince08: First I was gonna have Der be fine with it all and they dated and what not but it didn't make any sense! So, you're right, he will be a little upset :D but love conquers all, doesn't it?
Guest: Hope you're still reading ;)
luvaddek: Well, I didn't want you guys to get bored with endless romance so we needed some drama...
QUEENADDEK: Neither did I, the previous chapter had a completely different ending up until an hour before I uploaded it :D I think this is more fun though.
ravenbird17: Here is the new update :) I hope you're still reading!
The One Where Kathleen Takes Care Of It
"I can't do this. I'm not that guy and I like you." He sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "I don't do one night stands and, yes, I get that technically this wouldn't be that but," Derek stopped and looked into her eyes, "I'd like nothing more than to date you and do this the right way." He saw her smile but then she looked down and cleared her throat before she got off the counter and smoothed her dress down.
"I can't date you, Derek." She was still not looking at him.
"Give me one good reason."
Addison slowly lifted her gaze so that she was now looking directly into those beautiful blue eyes of his. "Because I'm married."
Derek just stared at her for what felt like eternity until he finally found the ability to speak again. "So what am I then? The guy you just sleep with occasionally?" The look on his face was no longer surprised but rather mad by now and who could really blame him? But before Addison even had the chance to say anything he went on, "And where does that husband of yours think you are right now? Do you think this is in any way normal or okay? Because –"
"Hey, do you mind if I say something now?" She stopped him and continued when she saw him nod his head, his arms crossed in front of his chest, "my husband lives in New York and he also is the reason I left my favourite city and moved to the place where the rain never stops. We're separated but technically still married until he signs the divorce papers. I just thought I should tell you now before—"
"Oh, that's mighty big of you, isn't it?" Derek snorted. Of course, the first woman he really was interested in in forever was married and she thought that she should tell him before what even? Before anything happened?
"I didn't plan on going home with you that night, because even if you might not believe me right now, I've never done that before. I didn't plan on even seeing you again," she sighed when she saw the look on his face before she went on, "and most of all I didn't plan on liking you the way I do."
"So you choose now to tell me that you're married, getting divorced and somehow are actually interested in me and think that this makes everything alright? Because it doesn't. You could have told me because marriage actually means something to some of us." He knew that she probably didn't deserve this but right now he was just not sure she was the same person that he had liked so much. If she hadn't told him about being married then maybe there was more than enough she hadn't told him or that she hadn't been entirely honest about.
"Oh, thank you for that." She whispered and looked down at the ground. "I guess I should go…" There was nothing that she wanted more than him telling her that she shouldn't leave and that she could get a chance to explain everything to him. Addison knew that it was a little late for that but everything between them had happened so fast and she had just blurted it out now before it really was too late. But apparently it already was too late.
"Yeah, you should." He just said and watched her nod slowly before she walked out of the kitchen, leaving a still rather confused Derek behind. She was married. Married. Apparently getting a divorce but did that really make it all alright? Would she really have told him if he hadn't kept asking for a good reason for her not to go out with him? He had to admit that this was by far the best reason anyone had ever given him, if he thought back to high school when he had still been turned down but somehow it had been much easier then.
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"Do you mind telling me what happened between you and my brother last night?" Kathleen sat down next to Addison on an abandoned gurney in a deserted corner of the hospital where they frequently hid from their interns. "Because he's been in the worst mood I've ever seen, or at least the worst mood he's been in ever since finding out that his best friend and I briefly dated…"
"He didn't tell you?" Addison slowly turned her head to look over at her friend. She hadn't gotten any sleep the night before because she had felt so guilty for not telling Derek, for telling him, for putting him in this position and for everything else.
"Nope, said it was nothing. But I'm guessing it has something to do with you."
"Well, I guess I should tell you at some point." She just sighed and tugged a strand of her hair behind her ear after it had fallen from her bun. "He asked me why I wouldn't date him and –"
"Yeah, why don't you, really now, we've all been wondering."
"Oh, I'm getting to that and you won't blame him for never wanting to date me, trust me." By now Kathleen looked thoroughly confused and just waited for Addison to continue. "I'm married and before you get as angry as your brother did, let me explain. I moved here to get away from everything, including my husband but apparently getting divorced isn't all that easy when he refuses to sign those damn papers. I didn't plan on moving here and meeting anyone, sleeping with your brother really wasn't planned and seeing him again wasn't either, I know that doesn't make anything any better but I came here for a fresh start, without men, without complications and drama. Apparently that didn't work."
"So, you came here with the intention of swearing off men and ended up taking my brother back to your hotel room?" Thankfully Kathleen looked a lot more amused than anything else. "Because, in case you didn't know, that's not how that works."
"Ha ha. This really isn't funny because I hurt him and I've never intended on doing that." Addison leaned back against the wall and closed her eyes. Why couldn't anything ever work out when it came to her love life?
"So what's that husband of yours like?"
"He was very charming and handsome and we had reached that age where you just should get married after dating for a while. I mean, no one was getting any younger and all of that." Addison shrugged her shoulders and then saw the look on Kathleen's face. "This may sound stupid now but I thought it would be better than to be alone but alone is exactly how I felt even when he was around. And I'm guessing he felt the same way because he was sleeping with his secretaries and probably any young lawyer his company ever hired."
"And you still married him?!"
"Well, I didn't know that he really did cheat. I mean, I'm not the kind of person who goes through someone else's phone but before I left I walked into his office and then I really did know he was cheating on me and that's when I left. If your husband would cheat on you you'd be mad, heart broken and disappointed but all I could say was 'okay then' and actually felt relieved. That's not how you're supposed to feel…"
"It is if he's just not the right guy…" Kathleen saw her friend nod. "You really said 'okay then'?" Now she had to laugh because it seemed like the oddest thing to say in a situation like that.
"Yep… And he tried to explain. I mean, I felt like he was insulting my intelligence."
Kathleen was still chuckling when Addison rolled her eyes. "What did he say?"
"Oh, that it was a mistake, that it hadn't meant anything, that it had never happened and that it wasn't what it seemed. I mean, what's that even supposed to mean?" Addison had to laugh at the absurdity of it all. "That would be like me telling you that I'm not really sitting here. But I thanked him and left."
"So now he still refuses to sign the divorce papers or did you just leave without even filing?"
"I just left. I also left him the rings and all of that but I had my lawyer drop the papers off and that's what he's been doing for the past months. Once a week, he delivers the papers and I'm still not divorced yet."
"Did you tell my brother all of that?"
"Nope." She sighed sadly when she recalled the end of the previous evening. "We got as far as him telling me that marriage did mean something to some people. I know I've messed this up completely and I can't even blame him for being mad."
"Hmm, and here I thought you weren't interested in him…" Kathleen grinned and nudged her friend slightly because she knew that, at some point, Derek would come around. At least that's what she was hoping on.
"Well, it doesn't really make a difference now, does it?"
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"So we leave you two alone at some point of the evening and for some odd reason you're still in a foul mood." Mark and Preston came to stand next to Derek who was leaning against the big panorama window at Seattle Grace, just blankly staring ahead of him.
"Nothing happened." Was all he said and he really didn't feel like reliving the previous night.
"Obviously, but the question is why. I mean, that woman was totally into you." Preston looked over at Mark, who just nodded. They had been so sure that this would probably just be the perfect woman for Derek but maybe they had been wrong?
"She wasn't. So can we just drop this now? I really have better things to do." And with that he pushed himself off the railing and walked off, leaving his friends slightly surprised because they couldn't all have been that wrong!
"I'll talk to Kathleen later, I'm sure she knows what has happened by now."
"And what if not?"
"Oh, I've known Derek for years," Mark shrugged his shoulders, "at some point he'll get so mad that we're still on this subject that he'll tell us anyway. But I think Kate is the better choice."
"You know that she's married though, right?" Preston chuckled and figured it was saver to just mention that once again.
"You're starting to sound like Shep." Mark rolled his eyes. Of course he knew that Kathleen was married he wasn't the firmest believer in that being all that final, even if she kept telling him, she still was the most fun out of all of Derek's sisters.
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"Just the woman I was looking for!" Mark greeted Kathleen with a grin on his face and a coffee in his hand when she walked out of the hospital at the end of her shift.
"Oh, it never means anything good if you're being nice, Mark. I've known you too long for that. So, what do you want?" Kathleen put her purse down on a bench and raised her eyebrows at her brother's best friend but couldn't help but smile just a little.
"Gee, I thought I have always been very nice," he smirked but quickly continued before she could say anything to the contrary, "but that's not why I'm here. I'm just here to bring you some coffee." He handed her the coffee before taking another big breath. "And also to ask you hat happened to make Der this angry. It's so annoying that even the interns who call him McDreamy won't work with him anymore. He yells at everyone or just doesn't say anything at all. I don't think I've ever seen him this irritated."
"Despite what everyone says, you're really a good best friend. So I'm guessing he didn't tell you what happened either? Because when I asked him for a ride this morning he was thoroughly annoyed and told me to just get a cab. But I've talked to Addison."
"So, what did she say? And do you still need a ride?"
"That would be nice because I still have to go pick up my car but what I meant to say was that nothing happened between them last night. It almost did but he asked her why she wouldn't just date him and she told him that she was married."
"Wait, what?!" Mark stopped dead in his tracks and just stared at Kathleen who had kept walking towards his car. "She's married? And tells him that after already sleeping with him?"
"I don't know why this is shocking to you but yes, she's married but getting divorced. And now he's mad at her, or a least hurt, and mad at the rest of the world because he finally found someone he was even interested in and then this happens."
"So do you think there's anything we could do? Because I'm not sure that the interns will call him McDreamy for much longer if he keeps this up."
"You just drive me home and let me take care of the rest." Kathleen winked at him and got her phone and began texting without telling Mark what she was up to.
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On Saturday night Addison was starting to get a little annoyed when she looked down at her watch and realized that now she had been waiting for almost half an hour. Kathleen had told her to come down to the pier because… Addison didn't even know why exactly but she was starting to get the feeling that she might have been set up when she saw Derek walking towards her. Great. The guy who was everything but interested in ever seeing her, or hearing from her, ever again and now he had seen her too. He probably thought that she knew he was coming here…
"I was actually waiting for your sister…"
"Same here." By now Derek wasn't as upset with her anymore and even somehow happy to see her again, even if he felt like murdering his sister for always meddling in everything.
Okay, so, it wasn't my original chapter because in the first draft he was going to be fine with it all and that just seemed a little too easy.
What do you think will happen? Will he forgive her right away or will he need some time? Or won't it be Addek at all (jk about this one, would never happen…)?
Reviews are love :)
