'Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end'- Seneca
APOV
I don't know why I asked to work with Meredith, curiosity I guess, she was the woman Derek used to get over me. Meredith follows behind me quietly as we enter Julie's room.
"Define TTTS" I ask Meredith trying to maintain a professional façade.
"Twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Conjoined fetal twins" Meredith answered swiftly.
"Connected by?" I shot off quickly, while checking over Julies chart.
"Blood vessels in the placenta" Meredith answered almost as if it was a question.
"Meaning?" I asked. Meredith pauses unable to think of the answer. After a short pause I decide to put her out of her misery clearly she didn't know "One twin gets too much blood, the other too little, endangering the lives of both. I'd expect you to know that, Grey"
Julie looked nervously at me "They told me there wasn't much chance anything could be done" She said worried about her babies lives.
"TTTS is usually impossible to correct. Unless you happen to be one of a handful of surgeons in the world that knows how to separate fetal blood vessels. Which, luckily for you, I am. So were gonna get you into surgery tomorrow. If you have any questions at all please ask Dr. Grey. From what I have seen, she is one the hospital's most popular interns" I saw wittily, before Meredith and I left the room
"I could've answered your question had you given me the chance" Meredith with an annoyed tone.
"Chin up, Grey. I'm this tough on everyone, not just the women my husband sleeps with. Order an ultrasound for her and pre-op labs in full"
The day had progressed fast; I tried not to think about Derek, which was rather hard especially as I was working with his intern. When Mark and I were together it was like Derek had disappeared from my mind but now here he was, at Seattle Grace Hospital, where I now had a case! Talk about small world. I wanted so much to hate Derek; he was absent as a husband, and as a father. But we had such a long history, filled with beautiful moments. Had I thrown away my marriage all for Mark? Although Mark had shown he could change deep down I knew he would always be the old Mark, the one who flirted with every women in a meter radius. So now here I am thinking about Derek while trying not to think about him. Easy to say it's not going that well.
I took a deep breath trying to put Derek out of my mind. As I rounded the hospital corridor I was stopped by the one and only Derek Sheppard.
"Addison what are you doing?" He asked irritated as usual seems to be his only mood with me now days.
"Working, why?" I asked not sure I wanted the answer.
"No with Meredith, what you did took a lot of nerve" He grumbled ushering me out of the way as doctor Burke passed by.
"Oh come on she came highly recommend!" I retorted
"Right!" sarcasm dripped in his voice
"So you don't recommend her?"
"No I did not say that!"
"Just not for her medical skills" I added wittily.
"Oh would you just stop!" He said agitated
The intern herself interrupted the petty argument. "Doctor Sheppard?" she asked aloud. Causing both Derek and I to respond.
"Labs confirm what look like abnormalities on the ultrasound. I think you should come see for yourself." She told me.
"Fine, lets go" I said shooting one last glare at Derek before heading to the Julies room.
MPOV
There was nothing worse then the zoo on a public holiday, thousands of people crammed together crowding all the exhibits, children running everywhere, crying as they got sick of walking. But Grace wanted to go, so it was the least I could do. Thank god she wasn't one of the bratty children I was use to seeing at shops and places, the type who throw themselves around until they got what they wanted. She was one of the only kids I could stand to be around. I could tell Grace thought of me as a father as scary as that was, I also embraced it, being with Addison and Grace was like having my own family to look after and love, something I hadn't grown up with.
We escaped the chaos of the zoo after a couple of hours and headed to the park.
"Daddy?" Grace asked in a small voice as we walked to the pond.
"Yes Princess?" I answered smiling at her, I'm the first to admit that Grace has me wrapped around her finger.
"When mommy gets back from Sweattle are you going to stay home again?" She asked innocently looking up at me with her big blue eyes. These were the questions I dreaded. While me and Addison were together we lived in complete bliss, one of those picture book happy families, it didn't take long for it to all disintegrate. Grace's family had broken apart twice now and I didn't know whether I could fix it this time. I notice Gracie sucking her fingers something she only does when she's nervous. I stop walking and bend down to be on the same level as Grace.
"Gracie I love you to the moon and back, but mummy and daddy are having a little holiday apart from each other" I try to explain
"But mummy misses you, she's sad and cries, maybe if you come back she'll smile and be happy all the time, and forever."
"Come here kiddo!" I say pulling her into a hug. I knew Addison was upset so it didn't surprise me that Grace had picked up on it, she was a very intuitive child. Every time I tried to talk to Addison she would push me away, no matter what I said or did it never seemed to be right in her book. I couldn't give up on her though, her and Grace were my family I had to try and fix things.
"Ok Gracie, when mummy comes home I'll have a talk to her" I say as I pull back from Grace, her face lit up like a Christmas tree.
"Then can we go on a holiday together?" She says happily
"Haha ok I can ask…where would we go kiddo?"
"To the place where the koala bears are.. Like the ones at the zoo, they are super cuddly"
"Yeah they did look cuddly, now how about we go feed these ducks" I smile as we get to the pond.
*Flashback two and a half months ago*
It was an overcast day at central park, however they had decided to go ahead with their picnic plans. It was a stereotypical picnic set up right down to the red and white checked picnic blanket, they however were not a stereotypical family. They had over come massive hurdles and now were starting to do regular family activities together, Mark was overjoyed it was the family he had never had growing up, the type that cared and loved each other, the type that scared the shit out of him because he never wanted to lose this.
"Its going to rain" Addison said pulling Mark out of his thoughts he saw her looking concerned at the grey clouds.
"Its not going to rain" Mark said packing away the leftover food.
"I'm no weatherman but those clouds look like rain clouds" Addison said with a laugh.
"Why do you hate rain so much? I mean it's the same as a shower, and you do love the showers we take together" He said with a cheeky grin causing Addison to role her eyes at his innuendo.
"Yes but showers have controlled water heat, and its indoors… plus did I mention the warm part?" countered Addison as she drank the remainder of her wine putting the glass into the picnic basket.
"One day I shall take you camping Red! And it will be raining" Mark said jokingly
"I would love to see you try" she teased.
Mark smiled before leaning forward and pulling Addison into a small loving kiss. The lover's moment was interrupted when Grace came back over to where they were sitting.
"Mummy, Daddy that's yucky" she remarked screwing up her face as she approached her parents.
Mark almost laughed at her response "That's right Gracie, which is why you can never ever kiss boys deal"
"Yuck boys are yucky" Grace said as she came and sat on her mothers lap.
"Just give it 10 more years" Addison joked to Mark
"I don't think so" he said quickly "lets go with another 30 years".
Suddenly there were a couple of drops of rain, Addison was instantly displeased hating the feeling of rain. Within a second heavy rain pelted from the sky soaking the entire family, Grace let out a scream at the sudden down pour, Addison jumped up carrying Grace as they ran towards a large tree for shelter. Mark was left to shove the saturated picnic blanket into the basket, before racing over to the tree. The large tree created a sufficient shelter only a few drops getting through the large canopy.
"There's lots and lots and lots of rainnn!" Grace yelled out clapping her hands, drops of water dripping from her soaked brown locks.
Mark laughed at the look in the little girls eyes, one of pure enjoyment, which matched the huge smile she was wearing. He saw Addison chuck him a telling look.
"Okay so you were right it rained" He smiled "At least someone likes the rain" He said motioning to Grace, who was now out of her mother's arms and at the edge of the tree, her hand outstretched as she felt the rain saturating her hand. Addison's face instantly lightened as she laughed at her daughter's love of the rain.
AN: THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS :) I do love hearing what you all have to say :) To be honest I'm not exactly sure what direction this story will go in.. so let me know what you think are you thinking Maddison or Aderek?
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Guest review- Thank you :)
Guest reviewer- Yeah the back story to this (which you'll read more of) is that Grace has grown up with Mark as a father figure, which is why she calls him Daddy, Mark was around Addison and Grace a lot when Derek couldn't be. Derek was busy at work a lot 'sort of like in the show' but still around a bit. Because Addison, Mark and Derek were so close there wasn't really an issue with her calling Mark Daddy, they all thought it was cute, she calls Derek Dad.
Guest reviewer- Glad you thought it was cute :) more Mark and Grace to come! Maybe even baby Grace :P